David Rogers
Executive Director
Center on Global Brand Leadership
Columbia Business School
David directs the Center on Global Brand Leadership, the leading global forum on branding issues for researchers and executives. He is the host of the center’s BRITE conference, a global series of conferences and CMO summits on branding, innovation, and technology.
David blogs at http://www.briteblog.net and is the author of articles and case studies on marketing and digital media. He is the co-author, with Bernd Schmitt, of the book "There's No Business That's Not Show Business: Marketing in an Experience Culture," and co-editor of the "Handbook on Brand and Experience Management" (Elgar, 2008). David has advised and developed marketing and digital media strategies for clients in consumer packaged goods, electronics, pharmaceutical, food & beverage, IT, telecom, hospitality, non-profit, and media industries.
He teaches in Columbia Business School’s Executive Education and MBA program and speaks at conferences worldwide on the ways that digital media and innovation are transforming communications and branding. He has appeared on CNNfn, national radio, and in various international business magazines. Rogers is also a composer and musician whose music ("Rhythmically vital!" - The New York Times) is heard from jazz clubs to Carnegie Hall.
Matthew Quint
Assistant Director
Center on Global Brand Leadership
Columbia Business School
Matthew works with the Center's sponsors and partners and with the faculty and staff of Columbia Business School to coordinate research and conference activities. In concert with the executive director and faculty director, he develops and implements the Center's overall communications strategy as well as specific special projects and events.
In addition, he is the author of the Center's newsletter BRITE Ideas and is responsible for maintaining and editing all of the Center's websites.
Prior to working at Columbia University, Matthew spent 10 years as a strategic adviser on nuclear science policy with the Embassy of Australia in Washington, DC.
Matthew is presently a master of science candidate in strategic communications at Columbia University.
