The College’s David Orser Executive Speakers Forum is named for David B. Orser, a 1966 MSU graduate who started funding the program in 1988 in order to inspire MSU business students to pursue careers as innovative, responsible, and ethical business leaders.

These events are FREE and open to the public!

Upcoming Orser Executive Speakers Forum:

 

Heidi Browning

Heidi Browning

FALL 2024

Wednesday, September 18

Public Presentation: 5:30 pm
Location: SUB Ballroom A

MSU Calendar: https://www.montana.edu/calendar/events/50803

 
About the Presentation:

Titled, "From Montana to the NHL: A Journey of Innovation, Evolution, and Leadership," Browning will share her remarkable career trajectory as the NHL's Chief Marketing Officer. She will share her perspective from a Montana upbringing to leading a major sports league's marketing efforts as well as dive into the transformative impact of digital marketing, social media, data analytics, active listening as a brand, and thinking outside the box.

About the Speaker:

Heidi Browning serves as Senior EVP, Chief Marketing Officer of the National Hockey League. With three decades of marketing experience, Browning brings a valuable mix of client, agency, and media owner perspective to the NHL. Heidi is known as a passionate pioneer in digital, mobile, and social marketing and continues to drive thought leadership and innovation within the industry. Inspired by the intersection of media, technology, and culture, she harnesses generational trends in consumer and brand engagement to drive business results. Heidi represents the “voice of the fan” and is responsible for executing the League's growth marketing strategy with a focus on digital fan engagement, social media, data, and innovation. She has been recognized as one of the “Most Powerful Women in Sports” by Ad Week, “Top 100 People of Power and Influence” by Hockey News, Notable Woman in Sports by Crains, a Game Changer by Sports Business Journal, and one of the World’s Most Influential CMOs by Forbes.

Prior to joining the NHL, Heidi served as SVP, Strategic Solutions, at Pandora. Her team was responsible for marketing audio products and marketing experiences that create value for fans, bands, and brands. Leveraging Pandora’s passionate fans, first party data, and personalization, Heidi’s team launched live music and content pairing Fortune 500 clients with emerging and iconic artists. She was recognized as one of the “Top Women in Music” by Billboard.

As Senior Vice President of Client Solutions for Fox Interactive Media/MySpace, Heidi evangelized the value of social media in the marketing mix and positioned brand communities as a new way to build audience, create engagement and establish a two-way dialogue between consumers and brands. She led the first in-depth consumer segmentation and ROI study for social media - Never Ending Friending, A Journey Into Social Networking, which quantified the impact of The Momentum Effect. 

Browning is a respected thought leader in the industry and is a featured speaker at industry conferences including TEDx Women, Youth Marketing Summit, Hashtag Sports, Cannes Lions, SXSW, Forrester, Adweek, and CES.  She serves as a board member for Ad Council, the American Advertising Federation and Sports Innovation Lab Women’s Executive Network.

Heidi holds a B.A. from the University of Colorado, Boulder in International Relations. She currently resides in New York, NY and San Francisco, CA.

Past Speakers (listed chronologically, oldest to newest):

Arthur Peterson                            
David Oreck, chairman of Oreck Corporation
Joseph T. Wells, chairman and founder of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners
Gerald Searfoss
John Goodrich
J. Luther King
Sam McDonald
James Alderson
Martin White
Paul A. Stewart, manager of global business development for a division of Eli Lilly
Christopher Disher, vice president for Booz Allen Hamilton
Dana Lasher, owner of Get Ready Girls, Inc.
Jonathan Howlett, worldwide director of advertising for BBC Global Channels
Mary Perry, president of the promotion agency division of Ryan Partnership
Delmar Jones, president of Cindel Group, Inc. and owner of Jonesy's Classic Cleaners
Lyle Knight, president and CEO of First Interstate BancSystem, Inc.
Investment Panel (4 speakers)
Andrew Field, founder and president of PrintingForLess.com
Alan Rypinski, serial entrepreneur and the founder of ArmorAll
Ian B. Davidson, chairman of Davidson Companies and Davidson & Co.
Jeff Sundheim, account director at Google
Stu Bohart, President of Liquid Markets at Fortress Investment Group
Richard Broome, former member of the White House crisis management team
Richard "Bob" Chickering, serial entrepreneur and business executive
M.H. Elovitz, director of the Centre for Strategic Geopolitics
Ashley Jablow, challenge and client lead for OpenIDEO
Kristy Young, digital product management executive and managing partner for blaZe interactive, LLC
Marty McVey, president of McVey & Associates, LLC
Gerald Grinstein, strategic director of Madrona Venture Group and past CEO of Delta Air Lines
Tim Solso, General Motors' board director and past chairman and CEO of Cummins Inc.
Lachlan Perks, past chief operating officer of Eclipse, Inc.
Nicole Jones, senior law enforcement and security counsel at Google
Rich Barton, former Microsoft executive and a founder of the online companies Expedia, Zillow, and Glassdoor
David B. Orser, a former president of Occidental International Oil and the founder of this event series
Vu Le, a writer, speaker, blogger and executive director of Rainier Valley Corps
Behrooz Abdi, a technology entrepreneur and investor
Ben Deuling, owner of SporeAttic and Zariah Tolman, founder & executive director of Positivity Outward
Dave Stephenson, CFO and head of Employee Experience at Airbnb
Ray Sedey, Chairman & CEO of McCarthy Holdings, Inc.
Karen Rose, Managing Director of Commercial Leasing for One World Trade Center