David Edelman

David Edelman

Partner & Global Co-Leader, McKinsey Digital

David Edelman

For more than 20 years, David has specialized in helping marketing executives manage the strategy, organization, and infrastructure transformations required to become “digitally adroit” leaders in their markets and industries. As co-leader of the Digital Marketing Strategy group, David has helped CMOs and other executives across industries understand the implications of the evolving digital environment and implement the deep changes needed to enable digital strategies.

His recent experience includes: transforming marketing strategy and operations to exploit new digital capabilities for multiple clients; developing new digitally based lines of business in financial services;  realigning go-to-market channel approach for B2B service providers; and designing the organization for a balanced local/global digital marketing process in consumer products.

David was previously at Digitas, where he helped clients craft their digital marketing strategies and worked alongside the agency’s creative and technology teams on implementation. He also oversaw all of the agency’s media and CRM analytics services, helping them add cross-channel and advanced targeting capabilities. Before that, as a partner with The Boston Consulting Group, he pioneered early work at the intersection of marketing and database technology, developing their “Segment of One Marketing” strategy service line, and then led development of the E-Commerce practice.

A frequent contributor to leading publications, and a Top 5 LinkedIn Influencer, David has also spoken or participated in panels at many top CMO and industry gatherings. He is also on the advisory board of the Yellowbrick Foundation.

Sessions

  • Thursday, February 13, 2014 11:00am - 11:45am

    On-Demand Marketing

    Today's consumers want it now, they want it tailored to them, and they want it to be simple. For many businesses, delivering a digital experience that accomplishes this is about much more than a cool app or user interface design.  It is about deeply rethinking how one uses data to transform the experience someone has with your brand. Leaders are designing customer interactions in ways that allow them to better discover a customer's needs at a given moment, and then they align a wide range of processes to deliver the right experience.  Cutting across channels, linking functional groups, and breaking through the tech constraints of their legacy systems are challenges every company face; however, there are lessons we can learn from the pioneers.  Based on McKinsey's work with global clients across many sectors, David Edelman, Partner & global co-leader, McKinsey Digital, will share the best practices in driving the transformations needed in operations, organization, and tech infrastructure to deliver On-Demand.