Maria is currently Senior Partner, Executive Director of Digital Innovation at Ogilvy. She consults across the Ogilvy group on emerging communication platforms such as broadband, mobile marketing, gaming, digital out-of-home, community marketing and advanced TV.
Prior to joining Ogilvy, Maria was VP - Director of Interactive Services at Draft where she oversaw clients such as Verizon/Verizon Wireless, Unilever, Jose Cuervo International and Johnson & Johnson. Her client-side experience includes brand management at Kraft where she worked on several brands under the Maxwell House portfolio.
Maria is a Board Member of the Mobile Marketing Association (MMA) as well a founding member of the AAAA's Mobile Committee and an Advisory Board Member of the Direct Marketing Association’s (DMA) mobile committee She has received over thirty-five industry awards including three Echo awards and seven Caples. She has been featured in many leading industry publications including Fast Company (May ’08) and AdAge (Sept. '08) and authored a chapter (p. 353-358) in Mobile Advertising: Supercharge Your Brand In The Exploding Wireless Market (published by Wiley).
She is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton Business School and an adjunct professor of marketing at NYU’s Stern Business School where she teaches a course in integrated marketing communications.
