Eric Mower Advertising Forum Speaker – Rishad Tobaccowala

BusinessWeek named Rashid Tobaccowala as one of the top business leaders for his pioneering innovation, while TIME magazine dubbed him one of five “Marketing Innovators.” He is one of only 300 people elected to the Advertising Hall of Fame since 1948. Tobaccowala is the author of “Restoring the Soul of Business: Staying Human in The Age of Data” which helps people think, feel and see differently about how to grow their companies, their teams and themselves to remain relevant in transformational time.

He’s also the author of “Rethinking Work” which helps people thrive amidst the seismic changes that will occur at work due a combination of changing demographics, new mindsets, the rise of distributed work and the spread of artificial intelligence. Tobaccowala is the host of the “What Next?” podcast and publishes a thought letter, “The Future Does Not Fit into the Containers of the Past,” read by 30,000 people every week.

Tobaccowala remains a senior advisor to the Publicis Groupe where he has spent his entire 37 year career, most recently serving as the chief growth officer and chief strategist of the 100,000+ person firm. Prior to those roles, he was the chairman of Digitas and Razorfish. Tobaccowala serves as a board director or advisor to a host of firms including LoopMe, Journey, Growth Catalyst Partners, Dumbstruck, Shift Paradigm, Quilt. Ai and Qualsights. He is also the chairman of the Tobaccowala Foundation which helps over 10,000+ people in India. He has an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School and a B.S. in mathematics from the University of Bombay.