Gretchen Garrigues in

Gretchen Garrigues

Pioneer · DISC type DIS
Senior Advisor - CMO at Sovereign Advisory Inc.
📍 New York City Metropolitan Area, United States

Gretchen is a Fortune 500 Global Chief Marketing Officer with over 20 years of experience in financial services at firms like Manulife, Fiserv, and GE Capital. She specializes in transforming marketing functions into AI-driven growth engines. Colleagues describe her as a transformative, strategic, and inspirational leader. She holds an MBA from the Wisconsin School of Business.

Having lived and worked in Europe for ten years, Gretchen has a global perspective. This experience is complemented by her dual citizenship in the U. S. and France.

Unique fact: Gretchen is a dual U. S. and French citizen and speaks fluent French.

Read the full overview →
Experience
29 Years
Current Role
Senior Advisor - CMO
Job Level
Leadership
Location
New York City Metropolitan Area, United States
Personality Overview

How Gretchen shows up

Dynamic But Sincere
Driven But Considerate
Decisive But Friendly

They combine a unique set of diverse traits where they are fast and friendly but can slow down to be thorough when needed If they are convinced, they can become very strong champions for your product They have the unique ability to win both love and respect from their team (or outsiders)

Priorities

Topics Gretchen cares about

AI in Marketing
A core focus of her career is transforming legacy marketing functions into modern, AI-enabled growth engines to drive revenue.
Global Brand Transformation
She has led major brand transformations, including launching a new global brand to power a $3B IPO at First Data and an award-winning brand refresh at Manulife.
+5 more topics Login to view topics
Career

Work history

4-2025
Senior Advisor - CMO
Sovereign Advisory Inc.
2023 - 2025
Global CMO - Global Chief Marketing & Communications Officer
SimCorp
2019 - 2023
Global CMO - Global Chief Marketing & Communications Officer
Global Growth Marketing
2016 - 2019
Executive Vice President, Global Chief Marketing, Communications & Customer Experience Officer (CMO)
Manulife
2014 - 2016
Global CMO - Chief Marketing Officer
First Data Corporation
In the press

Media appearances

Gretchen Garrigues joins SimCorp as new CMO. Featured in SimCorp
See now
Education
Master of Business Administration - MBA
Wisconsin School of Business
Bachelor of Arts - BA
University of Virginia
Social presence
in
Behavioral profile

DISC profile (public)

D

Dominance (D)

Dominance (D) reflects how goal and task oriented a person is, and their ability to accomplish results irrespective of how demanding the circumstances might be. Those scoring high tend to be motivated by winning, competition, and success.

More profiles

Discover additional public profiles from our index.

Peter Kuhn
Peter Kuhn
Chief Solutions Officer
OLIVER Agency
KR
Kênia R. Castro
Especialista em Processos
Caixa Vida e Previdência
 Randy Kuhn
Randy Kuhn
Real Estate Professional
RFK Construction LLC
 Carolanne Fuchs
Carolanne Fuchs
Manager Product Management and Digital Operations
Joybird
Unlock the full playbookSee exactly how to sell to Gretchen. Free, 10 seconds.