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Joana Araujo

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Division Vice President Global Strategic Marketing at Abbott
📍 Greater Chicago Area, United States

Joana is a global marketing and commercial executive at Abbott, serving as the Acting BU CMO for Transfusion Medicine. She specializes in building brand credibility and demand in regulated healthcare, uniting upstream strategy with go-to-market activation. She holds an Executive MBA from IESE and completed the CMO program at Kellogg.

She is deeply curious about people, cultures, and how different generations build their sense of self and connect with brands. This curiosity extends to her academic interests, having authored a publication on organizational communication and its social impact in a consumer-driven society.

She led the creation of the "We Give Blood Drive, " a first-of-its-kind campaign with the Big Ten Conference that inspired over 20, 000 blood donations.

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Experience
23 Years
Current Role
Division Vice President Global Strategic Marketing
Job Level
Senior
Location
Greater Chicago Area, United States
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Digital Health Innovation
Drives the integration of emerging technologies like AI and mixed reality into healthcare to solve real-world human problems at scale.
Purpose-Driven Marketing
Focuses on creating marketing that matters, moving beyond awareness to inspire human action and create a positive cultural impact, as seen in her award-winning blood drive campaign.
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Career

Work history

4-2026
Division Vice President Global Strategic Marketing
Abbott
12-2020
Global Marketing Head (Acting BU CMO) - Abbott Transfusion Medicine - IESE EMBA & Kellogg
Abbott
5-2018 - 12-2020
Marketing Director for Latin America and Canada & IESE Business School Executive MBA 2014
Abbott
4-2017 - 4-2018
Marketing Director at Abbott Diagnostics for Brazil & IESE Business School Executive MBA 2014
Abbott
5-2015 - 4-2017
Head of Marketing at Abbott Diagnostics & IESE Business School Executive MBA 2014
Abbott
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Education
2-2025 - 2-2025
CMO Accelerator Program
Northwestern University - Medill
6-2022 - 7-2023
CMO - Chief Marketing Officer Program
Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management
9-2025 - 9-2025
Women Leadership
University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business
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