Maggie Lower is a seasoned modern marketer with more than two decades of executive leadership experience. Most recently, as CMO at Hootsuite, Lower drove global brand success with a multi-award winning global rebrand. She has also led marketing, sales and customer teams at leading brands including Cision, TrueBlue, Aon Hewitt, and Bank of America. As Board Director at Grindr, she was part of the team that helped to take Grindr public on the New York Stock Exchange in 2022. Lower mentors in the U.S. Marketing Academy, fostering diverse talent and LGBTQ+ leadership. She has also been honored as one of AdWeek’s 20 Global PrideStars and is a member of the McKinsey Alliance, an LGBTQ+ executive forum. Lower was recently recognized for the sixth consecutive year by Involve and YouTube on their Outstanding Top 100 LGBT+ Global Executives List, honoring LGBTQ+ executives, future leaders, and allies across global organizations for their work in driving global change; this is her third year in a row in the Top 20. Lower received a BA in History from Hamilton College and an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.