Giovanni Rodriguez

Giovanni Rodriguez, CEO and Co-founder of SocialxDesign – Award-winning consultant, strategist and thought leader on marketing, organizational design, and social technology – and a Founding Fellow of the Society for New Communications Research. In prior roles, he has served as a Senior Member of the social-technology team at Deloitte Consulting, Chief Marketing Officer for a publicly traded company, and managing partner of The Conversation Group (TCG), one of the first social-technology consulting firms. Known for his groundbreaking work in large-scale communications campaigns and social technology, Rodriguez has advised organizations as diverse as The New York Stock Exchange, NBC, Unilever, the Democratic National Committee, and The White House. He is a regular Contributor for Forbes, a Columnist for ClickZ (the “Marketing to Latinos” column), and the Author of an upcoming book on how social engagement is helping to remake the way government services are delivered (O’Reilly Media, Winter 2012). Politic 365 recently named Rodriguez a “game changer” for his work in multicultural media. He is a graduate of Princeton University and an MSc candidate at the University of London.