Contributors
Arlinda Mezini
Arlinda is CEC's resident expert on global communications and corporate social responsibility. Having joined CEB in 2005, she previously worked in CEB’s financial services practice and focused on retail and commercial banking issues. Arlinda is a true globetrotter – a native of Tirana, Albania, she lived in Washington DC for several years, and now calls London her home. When not pondering CSR issues, you can find her indulging her passion for travel through weekend trips around Europe, practicing her language skills, or just exploring London on foot.
Aditya Sikand
Aditya is a research analyst based out of the India office. He focuses on our Sales, Marketing, and Communications Practice's global initiative by incorporating a more global approach to research and insight generation. When he’s not researching, Aditya enjoys travelling to his favorite destination (Goa) for some fun in the sun.
Aseem Tuli
Aseem is a research analyst with the Marketing Leadership Council. He has been involved in social media projects across the Practice, exploring innovative uses of social media in sales, marketing, and communications. When he’s not social-networking, Aseem is likes travelling by the countryside, exploring local culture and enjoying regional cuisine.
Chris Winning
As the CEC’s new Executive Advisor for members in EMEA, Chris dedicates his time to guiding members through their challenges with the most appropriate CEC research, insights and best practices leveraging his experience as a communicator from 10 years working in broadcast journalism . Right now, Chris is Europe-trotting, listening a lot to our members and also teaching them how to build a change-ready organization and how to use social media in a strategic way. That is by day. By night (or early morning), London-based Chris can be found in the gym, in the theatre, cinema, bar or even the occasional club.
Dana Clifford
Trying to benchmark your team? Dana can help with a diagnostic for that. Looking to improve the communications skills of your managers? Dana can build you a training for that. Trying to improve your online newsroom or better differentiate your brand? Dana can show you the step-by-step process for that. When not being CEC’s nimble analyst, Dana enjoys any and everything active and outdoorsy (it’s the Colorado native in her), indulging in the DC restaurant scene with good friends, and succumbing to her travel bug on the weekends.
Dorian Cundick
In her role as an executive advisor, Dorian applies the Council's analysis and insight in helping communications executives address their most critical challenges. Among those challenges: strategic planning, growing the value of the function, social media, cultivating an engaged and strategically aligned workforce, reputation management, crisis communications, and building the corporate brand. Dorian joined the Corporate Executive Board in 2007, bringing with her more than a decade of professional experience in communications as a journalist, instructor, researcher, and documentary producer and videographer. Since joining CEB, she has presented at hundreds of conferences across the U.S., Europe, and South Africa.
Daniel O'Keeffe O'Donovan
Dan is CEC’s champion Research Analyst, currently seeking to build out the council's work in the Media Relations space. When he’s not speaking to members in the hunt for best practices, Dan loves sport - especially football, boxing, yoga and cycling... When not working up a sweat, other hobbies include cooking, reading, and travelling. He has just bought his first guitar, and irritates everyone in ear's-range with his inexpert strummings...
Saurav Das
Saurav is a research analyst with our Sales, Marketing and Communications practice, based out of the India office. His focus area of work is around global marketing initiatives and communications planning. In his spare time, he likes to travel, catch up on Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett and expand his movie collection.
Dean Vitte
Dean joins the CEC as the advisory specialist for our European members, with a knack for bringing the CEC research to life in a consultative and ‘more entertaining’ way. Between a year studying at ‘La Sorbonne’ in Paris through a degree from the University of College London- Biomedical Sciences with Pharmacology, Dean loves interacting and communicating with people of various fields and backgrounds—whether that is in French, medical, or now business terms. Being an avid Tottenham Hotspurs fan (it’s football, not soccer!), a host of music jam sessions, and a lover of spicy foods keeps Dean’s weekends in London busy and flavorful.
Eric Braun
Eric Braun is a Managing Director at the Corporate Executive Board, responsible for guiding research and content development in the areas of Sales, Marketing and Communications. He has published numerous studies on topics ranging from customer-orientation to reputation management and has counseled executives at Fortune 500 and FTSE 100 companies. Prior, Eric led the Communications Executive Council from its inception. He has also led research for CIOs and Heads of Corporate Strategy.
Jonathan Grieb
Jonathan's passion for Communications stems from his unique accent that consistently confounds audiences he addresses on topics like social media, employee engagement, and corporate branding. When not extolling the virtues of "communicators as enablers," Jonathan enjoys talking about the weather in Chicago, Thanksgiving, and squash. His other favorite blogs pale in comparison to the CEC Insider but (fwiw) include Gizmodo, The Bleacher Report, and Jerks in Your Area.
Jeff Schott
Jeff is research consultant with the Communications Executive Council with previous experience working for a CEC member organization. Having researched topics such as organizational agility and crisis communications, Jeff recently turned his attention to reputation management. A native of the Washington D.C. area, Jeff enjoys baseball games at Nationals Park, exploring the city via public transportation, and weekend runs along the Rock Creek Parkway.
Joanna Wohlmuth
Joanna is a research analyst with CEC’s Washington-based team. She is thrilled to be learning all she can about communications and to be doing lots of researching, thinking, and writing. As any Los Angeles-native should be, she is constantly excited about life in a real city with real public transportation. And don’t worry, she has plenty of winter clothes after four years in Rhode Island. She loves cooking and is optimistic that she will find other, more athletic hobbies after officially retiring from a decade-long water polo career.
Kayleigh O’Keefe
Kayleigh is a Renaissance analyst who likes to dip her toes into a variety of CEC projects. At the moment, she is psyched to share insights learned from this year's study on "Building a Change Ready Organization". In her free time, Kayleigh enjoys 6-miler Saturday Soul Searching Strolls around D.C. where she explores the National Gallery of Art, sips divine coffee at Sidamo, attends D.C. United soccer games, and ponders internal social media while listening to carefully crafted iPod play lists. If you’re planning a trip to the nation’s capital, she’s happy to share her rigorous walking itineraries.
Latika Mahajan
Latika is a senior research analyst with our India-based team. She is currently involved in new media projects across the sales, marketing and communications practice. A theater buff, she polishes her communication and acting skills by observing human behavior and communication styles. If she is not enacting a situation somewhere, then you might catch her planning trips across Asia to collect fodder for acting and magnets for her fridge!
Latika Raman
As a digital content analyst for the Sales, Marketing and Communications practice, Latika specializes in helping research teams communicate their insights in the digital space. She holds a degree in Literature and a diploma in Journalism. She loves learning new words and Dictionary.com is at the top of her favorites’ list. She loves buying gifts for her family and watching romantic comedies.
Marika Krausova
Marika is a senior research analyst on the CEC team. Her specialization is in quantitative data analysis, and she lives and breathes for surveys and data sets. She is also currently aspiring to become CEC’s resident expert on member diagnostics and econometric modeling mastermind. You are bound to notice that her blogs will be containing lots of numbers and statistical information. When she’s not running regressions, she spends her time spoiling her English Shepherd rotten, and coordinating dog adoption events for a dog rescue non-profit.
Neha Ahuja
Neha is an Analyst with the Sales, Marketing and Communications practice in our India office. She works across topics in sales and marketing and has explored issues around sales metrics and global marketing campaigns.
Vanessa North
As CEC’s research director, Vanessa likes to think Big Thoughts about the future of the Communications function. At the moment, she’s preoccupied by the role of social media in shaping stakeholder opinions and the related opportunities for Comms to create business value. Whenever possible, Vanessa likes to take her musings to far-flung parts of the globe and is always looking for the next adventure. In her London home base, she satisfies her wanderlust with a lot of trips to the theatre, talks, gigs, and pottering in flea markets.
Peter Cornbrooks
As an Advisory Specialist with the CEC, Peter’s role is to help apply insights from the Council's research to members’ critical business challenges. Peter can help orient you to CEC’s resources on topics from internal communications, stakeholder engagement, and social media strategy. Hailing from the “Land of Pleasant Living” (Baltimore, Maryland), you will find Peter at his happiest in the summertime with a bushel of hard crabs, and about 6 hours to spend with friends.
Priyanka Kaushal
Priyanka is an Analyst with our Sales, Marketing and Communications practice, based out of the India office. She works on topic areas ranging from proactive customer service to contact center technologies. Outside the office, Priyanka likes to travel to new places, discover new restaurants and write silly limericks.
Rick DeLisi
Rick has spent the past five years traveling the globe to facilitate live meetings and interactive seminars in the US, Canada, UK, Europe, Australia and South Africa. (His travel schedule is so extreme, he literally puts the “freak” in frequent flyer!). Prior to becoming an Executive Advisor, he worked for more than 10 years in the airline and hospitality industries—specializing in customer communications and media relations.
Scott Christofferson
Scott oversees the Communications Executive Council and the Market Research Executive Board. He divides his time between new research initiatives and engaging our member executives in group meetings and one-on-one discussions. Outside of work, he is devoted to his wife and three young children. Prior to joining the Corporate Executive Board, Scott spent 8 years as a consultant with McKinsey & Company and 2 years in Africa with the U.S. Peace Corps.
Vineet Arora
Vineet is a senior analyst with our Sales, Marketing and Communications practice, based out of the India office. He has worked on a wide variety of topics that include new product development, open innovation, social media, marketing campaigns, and communications planning. In his spare time, Vineet likes surfing the internet and exploring new places.
