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Mike Santoro

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Board Member at Walker Sands
📍 Greater Chicago Area, United States

Mike Santoro is the former CEO of Walker Sands, an award-winning B2B marketing agency, where he now serves as a Board Member. He is also the Managing Partner at Bell Pioneer, providing executive coaching and strategic advisory to professional services firms. People who have worked with him and his teams often describe them as smart, creative, and detail-oriented.

Deeply committed to philanthropy, Mike co-founded the Little Giraffe Foundation, a non-profit dedicated to funding neonatal research and supporting families with premature babies in the NICU. He also founded the Chicago Marketing Leaders meetup, a community for local professionals to connect and share insights.

He started the Little Giraffe Foundation after he and his wife lost one of their premature twin daughters.

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Experience
18 Years
Current Role
Board Member
Job Level
Leadership
Location
Greater Chicago Area, United States
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Leadership Coaching
His current role at Bell Pioneer is focused on providing executive coaching and strategic workshops to help leaders and their organizations grow.
B2B Marketing
As the former President and CEO, he spent 16 years scaling Walker Sands into a nationally recognized B2B marketing and PR agency.
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Career

Work history

1-2024
Board Member
Walker Sands
1-2021 - 1-2024
CEO
Walker Sands
9-2008 - 1-2021
President
Walker Sands
1-2025
Managing Partner
Bell Pioneer
3-2011
Co Founder and Board Member
Little Giraffe Foundation
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Education
1999 - 2003
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University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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