Throughout the pandemic, Chipotle’s chief marketing officer Chris Brandt has overseen a number of digital and social efforts that have made headlines – from organizing virtual gatherings with celebrities called Chipotle Together to, more recently, naming a burrito after Miley Cyrus. Brand Innovators caught up with Brandt to discuss how the brand recovered from its crisis, how it weathered 2020 and what’s in store for 2021.

Want to get a peek at the beer & spirits trends that will likely define the new year ahead in 2021? Swing by the Brooklyn apartment of Jay Sethi.As CMO of Diageo Beer Co. Sethi has a front seat to the legacy of beverage marketing, overseeing brand messaging for a portfolio that includes Guinness, Harp Lager, Smirnoff Ice and Smirnoff Sparkling Seltzer.

Brand Innovators caught up with Penny Baldwin, chief marketing officer at Qualcomm to learn more about how the brand adapted to COVID-19, how they are telling their 5G story, what key trends she expects to see next year.

 If Greg Revelle, chief marketing officer at Kohl’s, could sum up the solutions to the many challenges facing retail marketers in 2020 with one word, it would be “listening.”

Tyrrell Schmidt has been with financial firm TD Bank Group in Toronto for nearly six years, but she’s only been the CMO of TD Bank, the U.S. operation, since September. Taking the top marketing role at a financial institution at a time when millions of Americans are in financial ruin is no small undertaking.

Kate Jhaveri was just past the six-month mark in her new chief marketing officer role at the National Basketball Association when the league paused its season on March 11 due to Covid-19.