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Meet the Acxiom Leadership Team

Core Leadership Team

Dennis D. Self
Chief Executive Officer
Dennis Self serves as Chief Executive Officer at Acxiom. In his role, Dennis provides strategic leadership to the teams that serve Acxiom’s clients, including marketing, sales and account management, partnerships, product management and client services.
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Chad Engelgau
Chief Strategy & Marketing Officer
Chad Engelgau serves as Chief Strategy and Marketing Officer at Acxiom. As a member of the executive team, Chad focuses on Acxiom’s global strategies along with market messaging. He oversees brand management, product marketing, thought leadership, marketing communications, and campaign execution.
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Drew May
Chief Customer Officer and Industry Managing Director, Retail/CPG & Emerging Markets
Drew May serves as Chief Customer 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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Chandos Quill
Chief Alliance Officer
Chandos Quill serves as Chief Alliance Officer at Acxiom, bringing nearly 20 years of experience in the marketing services space. Since joining Acxiom in 2016, Chandos has helped develop and implement a global data expansion strategy focused on both global client and partnership growth.
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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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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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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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Jordan Abbott
Chief Data Ethics Officer
Jordan Abbott serves as Chief Data Ethics Officer for Acxiom with overall responsibility for ensuring the ethical sourcing and use of consumer data. Jordan directs the enterprise data governance, protection and privacy program for the company and establishes the corporate policies, procedures and strategy practices for the collection and use of digital, offline, mobile, social media and other forms of data.
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Industry Leaders

Drew May
Chief Customer Officer and Industry Managing Director, Retail/CPG & Emerging Markets
Drew May serves as Chief Customer 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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P. Tate Olinghouse
Industry Managing Director, Financial Services
Prior to assuming this role, Tate served as Vice President of Financial Services at Acxiom. The hallmark of Tate’s client-centric teams is engaging with accounts in noticeably strategic and creative means to fuel their business and marketing operations.
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Mike Menzer
Industry Managing Director, Financial Services
Mike Menzer serves as Industry Managing Director for the financial services industry at Acxiom. Mike supports one of Acxiom’s most strategic enterprise clients, responsible for client satisfaction, growth and retention.
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Rich Bossbaly
Industry Managing Director, Financial Services
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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Clark Wooten
Industry Managing Director, Insurance and Healthcare
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
Industry Managing Director, Automotive
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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Regional Leaders

Christian Peck
Regional Managing Director, UK
Christian Peck serves as General Manager and Vice President, UK at Acxiom. Overseeing Acxiom UK’s operation, Christian is focused on empowering his clients to succeed in today’s rapidly changing, customer-centric world.
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Carsten Diepenbrock
Regional 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
Regional Managing Director, Greater 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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