As CMO, Stella Goulet leads Avanade’s marketing strategy and award-winning global marketing team. She is responsible for guiding the company’s image, brand and marketing organization through a period of significant change as companies digitally transform. She is Avanade’s first CMO and a member of its executive leadership team. Stella focuses on topics such as client and employee experience, the CMO-CIO relationship, digital marketing, and the role of analytics and artificial intelligence in marketing. She chairs Avanade’s Corporate Citizenship Council. A strong proponent of diversity in the IT industry, Stella is also executive sponsor of Avanade’s Prism Employee Resource Group (LGBT+ inclusion), and is involved in activities designed to encourage girls and young women to consider careers in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM).