Members Only: Russell Findlay, Global Chief Marketing Officer, Hiscox

Russell Findlay is the Chief Marketing Officer of international specialist insurer Hiscox. Besides being CMO, he is the President of the Hiscox Foundation USA, the company’s non-profit charitable organization. Prior to Hiscox, he was the CMO of Major League Soccer and a marketing executive for PepsiCo, where he launched the Sierra Mist and PepsiMax brands. Mr. Findlay started his career at Unilever where he was their global expert in e-commerce prior to roles in brand management. He is an award winning marketer having won EFFIE’s, ACE Awards, and Financial  Communications  Society Awards among others. Mr. Findlay has been named one of the most influential marketers in the world by The Internationalist.  In 2018, Findlay and his team won Marketer of the Year from the Association of National Advertisers, the world’s largest marketing industry trade group. Outside of work, Mr. Findlay volunteers his time giving back to the marketing community. He is on the following Boards: Board of Directors of the Association of National Advertisers, Americas governing body for the advertising community, as well as being Chairman of their Sponsorship and Events Committee; A member of the National Advertising Review Board, the group which acts as the arbiter for companies disputing competitors advertising; Board of the Business Marketing Association of New York. Mr. Findlay is also a sought after speaker on the topics of marketing, advertising and branding. He has lectured at Harvard Business School, the Wharton School of Business, the Kellogg School of Business and Yale school of Business, among others. Outside of work, Mr. Findlay owns a real estate development firm, runs his family’s 501c-3 non-profit foundation which provides college scholarships to underprivileged students and is a maple syrup producer.