Jen Grant, CMO of Looker on The Importance of The Human Touch in Marketing

Advertising Influencers: Conversations with Marketing Thought Leaders

Jen Grant is the CMO at Looker, a leading business intelligence company, valued at $850 million as of March 2017. Prior to Looker, Jen spent the last 15 years building powerhouse brands from the ground-up. As the first executive marketing hire at Box, she oversaw its growth from a small “consumer back-up” start-up to an industry-leading enterprise content collaboration company used by the majority of the Fortune 500. After Box, Jen spent a few years advising Homebrew’s portfolio, on the board of directors of nonprofit K-12 Team, and led the rebranding of Elastic as CMO. Prior to Box, Grant spent 4 years at Google leading the Google Apps EDU, Gmail and Book Search marketing teams. The topics discussed in this episode include the importance of face to face opportunities, why the human touch is essential across you marketing channels, and knowing how to communicate the omni-channel nature of your marketing channels to business stakeholders.