Avanade: Driving customer-led growth in an AI world

RQI: From trusted adviser to B2B growth partner

How do you turn a legacy brand into a modern customer growth engine? In this episode, Meta Karagianni talks with RQI Partners' SVP of Marketing, Russell Griffin, about aligning sales and marketing around the most critical customer relationships, using insight to shape joined-up strategies, and rebalancing from deal‑by‑deal selling to co-ordinated interventions to move buying group momentum and drive retention, expansion, and advocacy.

Resetting the modern B2B growth agenda

How do you drive growth when buying is more complex, AI is changing how customers research, and speed matters more than ever? In this episode, host Meta Karagianni talks with former Thomson Reuters CMO, David Carrel, about co-creating a sharper growth vision, simplifying goals, redesigning teams to stay closer to customers, and building the skills and mindsets to win the deals that matter.

Avanade: Driving customer-led growth in an AI world

How do you move from "more campaigns" to a truly customer-led growth system? In this episode, Avanade Chief Growth Officer Ruth Rowan joins host Alisha Lyndon to share how she's aligning marketing, sales, partners and CX around the accounts that matter most – and using tech, data and AI to make it work in practice. Ruth opens up about the hard trade-offs, the impact Avanade is seeing, and her practical advice for CMOs and CGOs leading the next wave of B2B growth.

Actian: Turning insights into client-led growth

What does it take to lead a marketing function at the center of data-driven transformation, AI disruption, and rapidly shifting buyer expectations? In this episode, Jennifer Jackson outlines how Actian is reshaping marketing to meet the demands of a new era.

Ep. 78 FM: Rewriting the ABM playbook

What does it take to build a client-centric growth engine in an industry where marketing has long been seen as a support act? Harsha Chachadi shares how FM is rewriting the rules with ABM – one account at a time.