Thomas is a marketing executive whose career spans the public and private sectors and across categories from tourism and tech to consumer hardware and packaged goods. Thomas was most recently the Chief Marketing Officer at Chobani and before that the Global CMO at Uber where he led a marketing and brand turnaround. Named to Forbes Top Most Entrepreneurial CMOs, Thomas brings an “outside in” mindset to lead change for brands and businesses.
Prior to Uber, Thomas spent a decade at Google in marketing leadership roles that included Global Vice President of Hardware Marketing at Google where he launched the Google Pixel, as well as founding and leading the Google Brand Studio where he named Alphabet and launched the Google Store. He was also the first CMO for the State of New York revitalizing the famed “I LOVE NY” campaign and a former management consultant at both McKinsey and Interbrand.
Thomas earned a master’s in public policy at Harvard University and a BA in political science at Stanford University. He grew up in Brooklyn NY, the grandchild of Italian immigrants and the first to go to college. Thomas recently returned to NYC with his partner Brian and their lab Bruno.
