Liliana gil valletta biography

Liliana Gil Valletta is an award-winning entrepreneur, cultural intelligence® expert, and television business commentator, known for her ability to leverage the power of data and culture for business growth. As an immigrant from Colombia, who moved to the U.S. at the age of 17 without speaking English, she exemplifies the American Dream, transitioning from a corporate executive to a successful entrepreneur. After a notable corporate career, including a decade at Johnson & Johnson where she served as Global Director of Marketing Services in the Pharma sector, pioneered enterprise-wide multicultural marketing strategies, and co-founded the Hispanic employee group “HOLA”, Valletta established the marketing agency CIEN+ and the market research tech CulturIntel. Her firms, operating in the U.S. and Latin America, offer A.I.-powered research, strategy consulting, and marketing solutions, assisting leaders to engage inclusively with diverse market segments. Her clientele includes major corporations such as Google, Kellogg’s, Kroger, Nestlé, and PepsiCo.

Valletta frequently appears as an independent TV commentator on networks like Fox News, Fox Business, and CNN en Español. She serves as an independent director on the board of Zumiez (NASDAQ: ZUMZ) and holds positions at several other organizations, including The National YMCA USA, and as Chairwoman of the FRIENDS of the National American Latino Museum. Additionally, she is a member of The World Economic Forum as a selected Young Global Leader. Her accolades include the 2022 Pinnacle Award by Medical Media & Marketing (MM&M), 2022/2021 Top 100 Most Influential Latinas by Latino Leaders Magazine, 2021 Top 10 Pioneering Women in Business, and U.S. Hispanic Businessperson of the Year by the U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce.

Valletta is a vocal advocate for cultural intelligence® as a catalyst for business and economic development, equity, and inclusion, collaborating on initi

Lili is an award-winning entrepreneur, recognized cultural intelligence™ expert, A.I. tech innovator, and World Economic Forum Young Global Leader. She came to the U.S. at the age of 17 without speaking English after leaving her entire family behind in her native country of Colombia. After a successful corporate career, including a 10-year tenure at Johnson & Johnson where she pioneered various diversity strategies, Lili co-founded CIEN+ and CulturIntel.

Her firm is globally recognized as a leader in big data analytics, business, and marketing strategies to help global corporations successfully turn cultural trends and inclusion into profits.

She is a regular TV commentator seen on Fox News, Fox Business and CNN en Español, and has been featured by Forbes, CNN Money, The Huffington Post, The NY Daily News, and MM&M. She is also the recipient of numerous awards, including the 2018 U.S. Hispanic Businessperson of the Year by the U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, 2018 New York Women of Excellence, PR Week's Top 50 Most Influential in Healthcare, among others.

For her commitment to advancing minority and women business issues, she has advised initiatives at the United Nations and the White House and she currently serves as a board member of the Harvard Women's Leadership Board, National Board of Directors of the YMCA USA, mentor to the Stanford Latino Entrepreneur Leaders Program, and was appointed by New York’s Governor Andrew Cuomo to join the New York State Council on Women and Girls and by Mayor Bill de Blasio to join the NYC Tech Leadership Council.

An immigrant from Colombia, Lili is an award-winning entrepreneur, World Economic Forum Young Global Leader and a weekly TV contributor to various networks like Fox News, Fox Business, CNN en Español, among others. She is the cofounder and CEO of CIEN+ a firm that helps business leaders and Fortune 500 companies unlock the power of today’s diverse marketplace with research, big data analytics, creativity and purpose. She is also the creator of Dreamers Ventures, a product innovation accelerator bringing together a best-in-class alliance of business experts to search, mentor and launch products created by minorities and women in partnership with HSN. Prior to launching her company, she had a 10-year career at Johnson & Johnson where she was one of the youngest executives, pioneered diversity and multicultural marketing initiatives and co-founded the Hispanic Employee Resource Group HOLA. Her breakthrough work at J&J inspired her to launch her company and empower more organizations to transform from the inside-out and successfully turn cultural trends into profits. In 2015, she launched CulturIntel™, a unique proprietary methodology that uses big data analytics and artificial intelligence tools mine digital discussions, segment and discover cross-cultural intelligence. CulturIntel™ has informed unique insights reported by various academic and news organizations including equal pay and health-disparities data published by Harvard University and supporting political insights on Fox News, among others. CulturIntel™ has been recognized as a Game Changer of 2016 by MM&M, Top Innovator by PM360 and has been used by numerous private and public organizations to uncover insights and make quicker and smarter decision across diverse segments. For her commitment to diversity and minority issues, Lili has been featured by Forbes, CNN Money, The Huffington Post among others. She is also the recipient of many industry awards including Top 40 Under 40 by PODER M