Leslie Berland

Leslie Berland is the CMO of Verizon, as of December 2023. She was formerly the CMO of Peloton and Twitter.

She was also Head of People at Twitter. Prior to that she spent over a decade in executive roles at AmEx establishing the financial service company’s initial social media strategies. (She also had executive PR roles at Ketchum and GCI Health. She is on the board of directors of the Ad Council.

Forbes ranked Berland #3 in their World's Most Influential CMOs list. Fast Company ranked Berland sixth in their 100 Most Creative People in Business for persuading AmEx leadership to prioritize social media platforms. She was featured in Advertising Age's Creativity 50 list. In 2018, she was appointed to the National Board of Directors at Make a Wish Foundation