Masters in Marketing Honorees

The Masters in Marketing Award and speaker series honors each year a leading marketing executive for delivering exceptional performance and making invaluable contributions to business and marketing education.  Multiple acceptance presentations of honorees have been streamed around the world and serve to reinforce the image of a dynamic, forward-looking department.

Heidi Browning

Heidi Browning

2019 Honoree

  • Chief Marketing Officer, National Hockey League (NHL)
  • Recognized innovation thought leader inside the sports industry
  • Before NHL, SVP Strategic Solutions, Pandora
  • 2019 Forbes Most Influential CMOs

Chris Bruzzo

Chris Bruzzo

2018 Honoree

  • Chief Marketing Officer, Electronic Arts
  • Executive Director of SomosEA (Latinx employee resource group)
  • Award-winning loyalty and personalization programs, Starbucks
  • Creation of Amazon Wish Lists and gift registry services, Amazon

USF Masters in Marketing Honoree Karen Walker

Karen Walker

2017 Honoree

  • SVP and Chief Marketing Officer, Cisco Systems
  • Before CISCO, VP Marketing, HP
  • Board of Directors, The Association of National Advertisers
  • 2017 Forbes Top 10 Most Influential CMOs

Richelle Parham

Richelle Parham

2016 Honoree

  • Chief Marketing Officer, eBay and Visa International
  • Board of Directors, Scripps Network
  • Advisor, Girls Who Code

John Durham

John Durham

2015 Honoree

  • Chief Executive Officer, Catalyst S+F
  • Founder, sfBIG

Victor Nichols

Victor Nichols

2014 Honoree

  • Chief Executive Officer, Valassis and Experian NA
  • Executive and sales experience at Wells Fargo, Florsheim, and IBM