Driving marketing innovation is CMO Beth Comstock and Global Executive Director of Digital, Advertising and Design Linda Boff.

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The survey supports this notion, as we have seen highly respected senior marketers like Bill McDonald of Capital One and Beth Comstock of General Electric continue to thrive even in difficult times.

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Beth Comstock has Jeff Immelt at GE.

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