Donovan Neale-MayDonovan Neale-May
Executive Director
CMO Council

Neale-May is president of GlobalFluency, Inc., the leader in Intelligent Market Engagement ® , with 70 offices in 40 countries. Collectively, GlobalFluency member firms have annual billings of $50 million and employ 450 professionals servicing scores of clients across the Americas, Europe, Asia-Pacific, Africa and the Middle East. He has been managing and running his respected marketing and perception management business since 1987, operating from Silicon Valley and New York offices.

Neale-May is the founder and executive director of the Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) Council (www.cmocouncil.org), a global affinity network of over 3,500 senior marketing and branding executives, who control more than $100 billion in annual marketing spend. Neale-May is also the executive director of the Business Performance Management (BPM) Forum (www.bpmforum.org), an influential group of C-level executives driving financial accountability, operational visibility and compliance in global corporations with combined annual revenues of more than $600 billion. Neale-May serves on the board of directors for Travelzoo (Nasdaq: TZOO), PlayRugby USA, and the Rhodes University Trust (USA). A South African national, Neale-May played rugby at a provincial level in South Africa and then coached and played professionally for three years in Italy.

Previously, Neale-May held senior positions with marketing, promotions and public relations agencies in Silicon Valley, New York, London and Los Angeles. For five years, he ran Ogilvy & Mather’s West Coast PR operations and was instrumental in managing communications during the critical formative years of Dell Computer in the mid-eighties. He has represented many other major technology, professional service and consumer electronics brands such as Sun Microsystems, Fujitsu, HP, IBM, Hyperion, Cognos, WebMethods, FileNet, CA, Symantec, McAfee, Panasonic, Amdahl, Informix, Logitech, Transmeta, Borland, SCO, Seagate, AT&T, GTE, EDS, Deloitte, Ernst & Young, A.T. Kearney, BearingPoint, Electronic Arts, Activision, and Atari.

During his 30 years as an international marketing and brand strategist, Neale-May has consulted with over 300 leading multi-nationals, new venture starts and emerging growth companies. An expert on integrated multi-level marketing, Neale-May has designed innovative, award-winning programs for many prominent international consumer brands and holding companies. Among these have been Avis, Nestle, Del Monte, Samsonite, Subaru, Kraft General Foods, Lipton Foods, Kawasaki, Colgate, Lever, Seagrams, Chiquita, Polaroid, Cendant, and Nutrasweet.

About the CMO Council
The Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) Council is dedicated to high-level knowledge exchange, thought leadership and personal relationship building among senior marketing and brand decision-makers across a wide-range of global industries. The CMO Council's 3,500 members control more than $100 billion in aggregated annual marketing expenditures. Companies represented on the CMO Council have combined annual revenue of over $600 billion. Visit the CMO Council web site to find out about the initiatives geared to address executive marketers' challenges at www.cmocouncil.org.