People of Marketing by Planable

Join us today as Xenia Muntean, Planable Co-founder and CEO, explores the career of Michaela Kron, Lead PR & Social Media Manager @ Duolingo, the most popular language-learning platform and most downloaded education app worldwide, with over 300 million total learners. As part of Duolingo's in-house PR team, she manages media relations and leads social media strategy for Duolingo. Before joining Duolingo in October 2016, Michaela led PR for CommonBond, a financial technology startup in New York City. She received a Bachelor of Science degree in Media, Culture, and Communication from New York University.

Let's give a warm welcome to Michael Heaven, founding partner at Social Chain, a global social advertising agency, and currently Media Director at Offbeat Media Group. At Social Chain, Michael led Social Chain's US media network where he focused on helping clients to deliver campaigns that harness the power of digital and social media with platform-native creativity to create memorable and engaging activations. Michael also mentors marketers taking their first steps in the industry, consults with fast-growth startups, and provides pro bono advice to non-profits in childhood education and mental health.

In today's episode of People of Marketing, Xenia Muntean, CEO of Planable, interviewes Meng Li, Vice President of Marketing at Native. Meng has extensive experience in the personal care industry, having served as Director of Retail Sales and Channel Marketing at Kinsa, Business Manager at Method Products PBC, and Associate Brand Manager at Johnson & Johnson.

For today’s episode, Xenia, Planable CEO and host of People of Marketing, had a chat with Emily Sechrist, Global Head of Social Strategy at intel. A tenacious marketer and communicator with a passion to analyze and solve complex problems, Emily leads the global social media strategy for Intel's B2B business groups. She has an affinity toward B2B markets and telling the world about the ways their services and solutions touch people's lives.

Our guest today is Amelia Torode, the co-founder of The Fawnbrake Collective. She launched it as an antidote to large ad agencies, it's a new Operating System for brands, a new approach. Amelia has spent 20 years in London and New York working for agencies such as Ogilvy Interactive, MindShare, VCCP, Naked Communications, and TBWA. She began her career as one of the first WPP Marketing Fellows and has built deep expertise in technology.