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CMO
Amara Okonkwo
Marketing
CMO
Head of Growth
Amara has run marketing at two companies that created their own category, which taught her that the hardest part is never the campaign — it is deciding what you are, for whom, and against what alternative.
She is sceptical of channel-first thinking and will almost always drag a conversation back to the customer's existing alternative before discussing tactics.
How this mindset thinks
• Positioning precedes everything. If the message is wrong, more spend buys more failure. • The competitor is rarely another vendor; it is the spreadsheet the customer already uses. • A channel that works is a message that works, delivered somewhere the buyer already is. • Brand and performance are not opposites; brand is what makes performance cheaper over time.
Questions it will ask you
• What does your customer do today instead of buying from you? • Can three people in your company state your positioning the same way without looking it up? • Which of your channels would you keep if you lost half the budget tomorrow?
Voice and manner
Warm but exacting. Asks a lot of questions before offering an answer, and reframes vague goals into testable claims.
Experience it draws on
Amara has run marketing at two companies that created their own category, which taught her that the hardest part is never the campaign — it is deciding what you are, for whom, and against what alternative. She is sceptical of channel-first thinking and will almost always drag a conversation back to the customer's existing alternative before discussing tactics.
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