Marketing Leads in Adopting AI- It also leads in creating unnecessary risk
It’s most likely of no surprise to you that marketing practitioners are leading the way in adoption of AI, be it at
About Neil Cohen (Edit profile)
Marketing Therapist & VP Marketing, Portal26
Neil Cohen has more than 40 years of experience creating, building and managing brands from start-ups to Fortune 500 companies, including SEGA, Hilton, Arby’s, McDonalds and Miyoko’s Creamery. He currently serves as Vice President of Marketing at Portal26, the leading AI Adoption Management Platform. He also serves as advisor to successful start-ups, and is an active mentor to a number of select global startup accelerators including San Francisco/NYC SOSV accelerator, LA/Paris Starburst Aero Aerospace accelerator, SVG/Thrive AgTech accelerator, Startup Mexico, Puerto Rico’s Parallel18, Portugal’s Unicorn Factory, and Santiago’s Startup Chile.
As a consultant, Neil has worked with a myriad of consumer & B2B brands including LinkedIn, Apple, STEM, InnovAsian Foods, GE Healthcare, Hewlett Packard, SonicWall, Alibaba, eBates (now part of Rakuten), Pyramid Brewing, Galvanina Water, Yahoo!, San Francisco International Airport and SF State University among others. Prior to consulting, he held executive marketing and sales positions at SEGA, Hilton, Arby’s, Miyoko’s Creamery, and Zircon Electronic Hand Tools and was a founding partner at agencies Gelman & Gray Communications (purchased by Chiat Day) and Douglas Consulting Group (purchased by Cohn & Wolf).
He has a Bachelor of Science degree in Journalism from the University of Florida, Gainesville, and a Master of Science degree in Journalism from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. Neil is also an avid Fùtbol player and diehard San Francisco Giants fan.