Our guest today is David Franzen-Rodriguez, vice president of marketing at Everyware. David is an award winning, Forbes published marketer and sales strategist. In his career, as both a business owner and CMO, he has led transformative change in both scaled businesses and start-ups that are at inflection points in their growth. Discussing his career on the Destination CMO podcast, David explains why he considers himself a brand marketer in the broader sense, because of his keen focus on changing established behaviors and ways of thinking. He also shares his expertise in leveraging data, analysis, storytelling and pattern recognition, working across multiple industries, from fintech, healthcare, consumer goods to logistics and finance. David also shares the most important qualities a CMO has to have to succeed, and the qualities he specifically looks for in a company before working with them.