The Marketing Share: What leaders need to know to run marketing
The Marketing Share: What leaders need to know to run marketing
Alec Cheung & Barb VanSomeren
How Great CMOs Lead Marketing Today with Karl Van den Bergh (Ep. 61)
48 minutes Posted Apr 21, 2026 at 9:00 am.
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What does it actually take to succeed as a CMO today? In this episode of The Marketing Share, Alec Cheung and Barb VanSomeren continue with the Marketing Leader Series, and this time they are joined by Karl Van Den Bergh, CMO at Illumio, about the reality behind one of the most complex roles in the C-suite. Karl’s path into marketing wasn’t traditional. From physics and computer science to product, strategy, and eventually the CMO seat, his perspective challenges how most people think about...