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Meet the Acxiom Leadership Team

Meet the Acxiom Leadership Team

Meet the Acxiom Leadership Team

Core Leadership Team

Chad Engelgau
Chief Executive Officer
Chad Engelgau serves as Acxiom’s Chief Executive Officer, providing strategic leadership to the organization, which focuses on helping brands use data, identity and technology solutions to better understand people and create value through every interaction.
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Drew May
Chief Client Officer
Drew May serves as Chief Client Officer at Acxiom. In this client-facing role, Drew provides overall leadership for key areas of sales, including client engagement, growth and strategic directives.
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Mike Woods
Head of Acxiom/IPG Customer Integration
Mike Woods serves as Head of Acxiom/IPG Customer Integration. Mike is responsible for leading strategic sales initiatives, client relationship management and service delivery with IPG agencies and their various clients.
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Mike Menzer
Head of International
Mike Menzer serves as Head of International for Acxiom. His proven track record establishing next-generation marketing solutions, developing and managing a digital-savvy team and driving sustainable year-over-year growth with strategic accounts qualifies Mike for this critical role.
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Chris Lanaux
Chief Technology Officer, Product and Engineering
Chris Lanaux serves as CTO and Head of Product and Engineering at Acxiom. He oversees the technology-related strategies and decisions aligning to the short and long-term strategic goals of the organization.
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David Skinner
Chief Strategy Officer
David Skinner serves as Chief Strategy Officer at Acxiom. In his role, David oversees strategy and innovation of new markets, channels and offerings. As part of the executive team, David provides leadership on strategy and growth for Acxiom’s global business.
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Shea Heath
Chief Operations Officer, Professional and Managed Services
Shea Heath serves as Chief Operations Officer at Acxiom, managing a team of over 1,000 omnichannel data specialists and analytics experts who are focused on delivering strategy and insights across a suite of data-driven implementation, data platform and analytics services.
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Janet Cinfio
Chief Information Officer, IT and Operations
Janet Cinfio serves as Chief Information Officer at Acxiom. She leads the overall information technology strategy for the company as well as directing teams in the specific areas of planning, architecture, enterprise applications, infrastructure, operations, IT security & risk management as well as IT procurement.
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Jed Mole
Chief Marketing Officer
Jed Mole serves as Chief Marketing Officer at Acxiom. In his role, he is responsible for Acxiom’s communications with its various audiences, building the brand and supporting business growth.
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Brett Madison
Chief Financial Officer
Brett Madison serves as Chief Financial Officer at Acxiom. In this position, he manages the company’s overall finances and is responsible for driving the creation of the long-term financial vision and plan for the company.
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Mary Ward
Chief People Officer
Mary Ward serves as Chief People Officer at Acxiom, leading all people initiatives and programs aligned to Acxiom’s core values. Mary is focused on embracing an innovation agenda geared at engaging, building and expanding value across all Acxiom employees.
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Shayne Smith
General Counsel
Shayne D. Smith serves as General Counsel at Acxiom, leading all U.S. and international contract negotiation teams for the company. Since joining Acxiom in 1994, Shayne has been responsible for the negotiation of agreements with clients and partners across all of Acxiom, including supporting operations across APAC, EMEA and the Americas overall.
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Beth-Anne Bygum
Chief Security Officer
Beth-Anne Bygum serves as Chief Security Officer for Acxiom. In this role, Beth-Anne is responsible for all aspects of Acxiom’s global cyber security strategy, enterprise risk management program and information risk governance.
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Global Data Ethics Officers

Jordan Abbott
Chief Data Ethics Officer
Jordan Abbott is Chief Data Ethics Officer of Acxiom. Prior to serving in his current role, Abbott was an information privacy attorney for the company. Abbott advises key stakeholders on legal, data governance and compliance policy as well as handling government relations, where he provides strategic insight on proposed legislation at the state and federal levels.
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Dr. Sachiko Scheuing
European Privacy Officer
Dr. Sachiko Scheuing serves as European Privacy Officer for Acxiom, an IPG company. In her role, Sachiko combines 20 years of theoretical and practice experience in the marketing and advertising industries to manage Acxiom’s government affairs and legal and regulatory compliance across Europe.
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Alex Hazell
Head of UK Privacy and Legal
Alex Hazell serves as Counsel for Acxiom UK, responsible for the legal and privacy affairs of the company’s UK businesses. Alex, a long-standing member of Acxiom’s EU management team, joined Acxiom in 2004 as a transactional and privacy lawyer.
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Dr. JJ Pan
Asia Pacific Privacy Officer
Dr. JJ Pan has overseen Acxiom’s Asia Pacific public policy, data ethics, compliance, data governance programs and fair information practices as APAC Data Ethics Officer since 2012.
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Managing Directors

P. Tate Olinghouse
Managing Director, Financial Services Industry
Tate Olinghouse serves as Industry Managing Director for the financial services industry at Acxiom. Tate and his team manage a portfolio of approximately $200 million that includes 60 clients, many of which are globally recognizable brands. The breadth of solutions managed on behalf of these clients make the financial services vertical Acxiom’s largest industry group.
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Rich Bossbaly
Managing Director, Financial Services Industry
Rich Bossbaly serves as Industry Managing Director for the financial services industry at Acxiom. Rich is responsible for sales and business development strategy of Acxiom’s financial services practice.
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Mike Wagner
Managing Director, Retail/CPG & Emerging Industries
Mike Wagner serves as Industry Managing Director for retail, consumer packaged goods and emerging industries for Acxiom. Mike is responsible for supporting clients and business growth in the retail, consumer packaged goods and emerging industries.
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Clark Wooten
Managing Director, Insurance & Healthcare Industries
Clark Wooten serves as Industry Managing Director for the insurance and healthcare industries at Acxiom. He is responsible for client relationship management and service delivery for Acxiom’s valued insurance clients.
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John Campos
Managing Director, Automotive Industry
John Campos serves as Industry Managing Director for the automotive industry at Acxiom. In this role, John provides global leadership and strategic direction for the Acxiom automotive practice.
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Asya Smith
Managing Director, Government and Public Sector Industry
Asya Smith leads Acxiom’s Government and Public Sector practice. Asya works closely with federal and state agency clients, leveraging Acxiom’s solutions and capabilities to help them solve challenges including citizen outreach and benefits fraud.
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Carsten Diepenbrock
Managing Director, Germany
Carsten Diepenbrock serves as Regional Managing Director, Germany at Acxiom. Overseeing Acxiom’s operation in Germany, Carsten has worked at Acxiom since 2007 in various leadership positions, including EU Head of Analytics.
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Nancy Song
Managing Director, China
Nancy Song serves as Managing Director, Greater China at Acxiom. Nancy leads a team responsible for strategic consulting, partnership management, consumer engagement execution and platform relationships for a wide range of clients in the retail, cosmetics, consumer goods and electronics industries.
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