The trade’s high CMOs make the most of their visibility and voice to drive their enterprise, proving themselves indispensable to their CEOs, colleagues, groups, and boards.
Through creativity, charisma, and unrelenting work ethic, these chief entrepreneurs are setting the usual of efficient management and paving the best way for the subsequent technology. They are the Marketing Vanguard, and we’re proud to announce, as a part of ADWEEK’s general Marketing Vanguard program, the fourth annual Marketing Vanguard Awards.
We may also be honoring CEOs who graduated from CMO roles—chief executives who perceive, help, and drive the advertising agenda at their corporations—having had that remit beforehand of their careers.
In May, we are going to reveal and honor 15 advertising leaders on the Marketing Vanguard Summit in Chicago, who show that they constantly do the next:
- Advocate for the advertising follow.
- Position advertising as a progress driver within the group.
- Use their visibility and voice to develop the enterprise.
- Can quantify the worth of promoting within the group.
Each nominee should additionally submit the title of a so-called subsequent chief on their workforce to be featured within the ultimate record alongside them—somebody who’s the CMO’s right-hand individual, their ride-or-die, or their crucial collaborator. Please observe that entries is not going to be thought of with out this.
There isn’t any entry price and the deadline to submit is Friday, February 13, 2026.
Please use the nomination kind under to submit your entry and get in touch with awards@adweek.com when you have any questions or want to request a ultimate extension.