Kirti Naik Biography

Kirti Naik is an award-winning marketer with over 25+ years of experience across manufacturing, entertainment, luxury, financial services and fintech. Kirti currently leads global brand experience at the formidable Neuberger Berman driving transformational change across brand, digital marketing, social media, advertising and sponsorships across 26 countries.

 

Formerly she served as Global CMO at SMC Blockchain Org., a seed funded startup that develops tools to make the future of blockchain scalable, secured, reliable & efficient. In a short time period at BNY Mellon Wealth Management, Kirti drove transformation through marketing to impact the firm’s growth strategy across UHNW, Institutional and Nextgen audiences and further proliferate the Active Wealth platform. Kirti focused on digitizing and driving premium client experiences through advanced analytics-driven marketing applications in collaboration across BNY Mellon Wealth Management, the larger enterprise and external partners. She altered the wealth management client experience by launching digital experiences like the Active Wealth Accelerator and portraying clients in 'Do Well Better' in an authentic and creative way.

 

Years prior, Kirti served as CMO at Prometheum, a blockchain securities alternative trading platform where she set the foundational marketing infrastructure and brand. She also held the position of Global Head of Brand & Marketing Intelligence at Russell Investments, where she led the business and digital transformation for Omni-channel marketing across 22 markets globally. Kirti launched an award-winning retail platform ‘RISE’ aimed at providing solutions to investment problems.

 

For several years prior, Kirti was the Global Head of Brand & Advertising at OppenheimerFunds (now Invesco) where she led a wide variety of brand, advertising, sponsorship and product platforms. Kirti launched many notable, business impacting and award-winning initiatives – ‘Invest in a Beautiful World’, ‘Challenge the Index’ and ‘Globalize Your Thinking’. Previously, Kirti worked at Citibank North America, where she held positions driving cross-sell and acquisition efforts, online advertising and other client focused strategic marketing.

 

Kirti serves as Advisory Board Member for CMO Council as well as serves as Board Director for the Financial Communications Society leading their Marketing & Advertising committee, with a focus on children’s charities. Kirti is also Founder, Co-CEO and Host of a unique entertainment brand, Got Spice? Show that canvases topics across love, life, and work. 

 

Decorated with accolades, she and her work has been honored by ThinkAdvisor Luminaries, FCS Portfolio Awards and Global Family Wealth. In her former years she’s been awarded as FinNext Leader in Finance, Transform U.S./Europe, FCS Portfolio Awards, Mutual Fund Industry Awards, MFEA, 20 Rising Stars in Financial Marketing from the Gramercy Institute, Brand Innovators 40 Under 40, Advertising Working Mother of the Year 2012 (SheRunsIt) and many more.

 

Kirti has an MBA from Columbia Business School.