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Bonin Bough
Board Director, Philip Morris International | Co-Founder, Group Black Holdings | Marketing Innovator Behind Oreo, PepsiCo & Mondelēz | Advertising Hall of Achievement
Bonin Bough is one of the most decorated marketing executives of his generation — the youngest-ever C-suite leader at a Fortune 50 company, inductee into the Advertising Hall of Achievement, and the architect of digital transformations at Mondelēz, PepsiCo, and SheaMoisture. Now a board director at Philip Morris International and co-founder of Group Black Holdings, he brings unmatched energy and real-world business results to every stage.
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Bonin Bough biography
Bonin Bough is one of the most electrifying figures in American business — a marketing visionary, serial entrepreneur, and board director who became one of the youngest C-suite executives in the history of the Fortune 50 and has since built a career defined by measurable transformation at scale. As a board director at Philip Morris International (NYSE: PM), where he sits on the Audit & Risk and Science & Technology Committees, and as co-founder of Group Black Holdings and its AI-powered media venture Portrait Media Group, Bough continues to shape where business, media, and technology are heading next.
Marketing speaker Bonin Bough built his reputation through a decade of transformations at some of the world’s most recognizable consumer brands. As Chief Media and eCommerce Officer at Mondelēz International, he managed over $3 billion in annual media spend and shifted the company’s digital investment from 3% to more than 32% — driving substantial revenue gains in the process. He also grew Mondelēz’s eCommerce business from $65 million to $265 million in just 18 months. Before that, as Chief Digital Officer at PepsiCo, he led pioneering digital and social campaigns for Gatorade, Frito-Lay, and Pepsi that set new industry benchmarks for real-time marketing. And as Chief Growth and Marketing Officer at Sundial Brands (SheaMoisture), he delivered 50% revenue growth in a single year — culminating in the brand’s $1 billion acquisition by Unilever.
His record of impact has earned him some of the industry’s highest honors: induction into the Advertising Hall of Achievement, placement on Fortune’s “40 Under 40,” Fast Company’s 100 Most Creative People in Business, Ebony’s Power 100, and The Internationalist’s Internationalists of the Year. His book Txt Me: Your Phone Has Changed Your Life. Let’s Talk About It explored the transformative power of mobile technology on human behavior and business — years before it became the industry’s central conversation. He is the co-founder of Lockstep Ventures, a VC firm committed to closing the racial wealth gap through targeted investment in health, education, and justice.
Entrepreneur, Investor, and Builder at the Frontier of Media
Bough’s entrepreneurial instincts were evident long before his corporate career: he founded a teen magazine for New York City public-school students at age 12, was doing professional graphic design work and junior partnership at an accounting firm by ninth grade, and has never stopped building since. His growth accelerator Bonin Ventures applies Fortune 50 methodology to high-potential startups. In 2025, he co-launched Portrait Media Group — an AI-powered media company designed to reach the next generation of consumers based on values, behaviors, and mindset rather than demographics alone — positioning Group Black Holdings at the forefront of a new era in targeted media. He holds a BA from Hartwick College and is a sought-after speaker at events ranging from CES and Advertising Week to Amazon Ads Immersion Day and the Milken Institute Global Conference.
As a speaker, Bonin Bough is in a category of his own: high-energy, deeply experienced, and relentlessly practical. He speaks on digital transformation and growth hacking, the future of marketing and media, building brands that connect with diverse and next-generation audiences, and the entrepreneurial mindset that turns big ideas into billion-dollar outcomes. Audiences leave not just inspired but equipped — with frameworks, tools, and a renewed sense of what is actually possible for their organizations.
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Bonin Bough Keynote Topics
The most transformative companies of the past two decades were not built by playing by the rules — they were built by people willing to hack them. In this high-energy keynote, Bonin Bough introduces the concept of the "hackonomy": a new business paradigm in which the mindset and methods of the hacker — challenging assumptions, moving fast, combining resources in unexpected ways — are applied to corporate strategy, marketing, and organizational design. Drawing on his own experience scaling billion-dollar brands and launching ventures from scratch, Bough demonstrates how hack-thinking has already disrupted industries from aviation to advertising, and gives audiences a concrete framework for unleashing it in their own organizations. Whether you lead a startup or a global enterprise, this talk will fundamentally change how you think about growth.
In a world of constant disruption, incremental improvement is not a growth strategy — it is a slow decline. Bonin Bough has spent his career proving that real growth happens when Fortune 50 rigor meets startup speed, and in this keynote he shares exactly how. From growing Mondelēz's eCommerce revenue fourfold in 18 months to taking SheaMoisture from growth-stage brand to $1 billion Unilever acquisition in a single year, Bough's track record is built on a repeatable model that works across industries and company sizes. He shares the frameworks, habits, and mindset shifts that separate organizations that achieve breakthrough results from those that produce better-than-average ones — and makes the case that the best time to start is always right now.
The rules of marketing are being rewritten — not by agencies or algorithms alone, but by a generation of consumers who are more values-driven, culturally aware, and media-savvy than any that came before them. In this forward-looking keynote, Bonin Bough draws on his work co-founding Group Black Holdings and Portrait Media Group to explore what it will take for brands to remain relevant in a media landscape transformed by AI, fragmented audiences, and a fundamental shift in what consumers expect from the companies they support. He covers the death of demographic targeting, the rise of values-based audience strategy, and how AI is giving marketers tools that, used well, can create genuine connection at scale — and, used poorly, will accelerate the erosion of brand trust.
What happens when you apply the marketing playbook of a global Fortune 50 brand to a small business with a fraction of the resources? In this keynote rooted in his experience hosting CNBC's "Cleveland Hustles," Bonin Bough shares the growth principles he has seen work in boardrooms and on Main Street alike. He explores how the fundamentals of great branding, customer engagement, and digital leverage translate across every scale of organization — and gives entrepreneurs and business leaders the tools to accelerate their growth by borrowing from the best of what the world's biggest brands have learned. Practical, energetic, and immediately applicable.
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FAQs on Booking Bonin Bough
Why Bonin Bough?
Booking Bonin Bough means bringing one of the most decorated and energetic marketing minds in American business to your stage. He is not a theorist — he is the executive who grew Mondelēz's eCommerce business from $65M to $265M in 18 months, shifted $3 billion in media spend toward digital, and delivered a 50% revenue surge at SheaMoisture that led to a $1 billion Unilever acquisition. He is one of the youngest-ever C-suite leaders at a Fortune 50, an inductee into the Advertising Hall of Achievement, and a sitting board director at Philip Morris International. Bough's keynotes are consistently ranked among the highest-energy and most actionable of any conference he appears at — combining the credibility of a proven operator with the stage presence of a natural entertainer. Contact Aurum Speakers Bureau to check his availability and speaking fees.
What makes Bonin Bough's approach to marketing different?
Bough's defining philosophy is that growth is not a department — it is a mindset that must run through every layer of an organization. His approach, shaped by over a decade scaling some of the world's most-loved consumer brands, blends digital-first thinking, real-time cultural responsiveness, and a relentless focus on measurable business outcomes over vanity metrics. He pioneered the use of social and mobile media as genuine business levers at a time when most Fortune 50 companies were still treating digital as an experiment, and he has consistently applied that same bias for action in entrepreneurial environments, from Bonin Ventures to Group Black Holdings.
What is Group Black Holdings and Portrait Media Group?
Group Black Holdings is the evolved entity of Group Black, the media collective Bonin Bough co-founded in 2021 to channel advertising dollars toward diverse-owned media. In 2025, the company launched Portrait Media Group, an AI-powered media company that targets what Bough calls "Gen Next" — a values-driven audience defined by mindset and behavior rather than demographics alone. It represents Bough's continued commitment to reshaping who owns and benefits from the media economy, now expanded beyond a racial equity lens to encompass the broader cultural and technological shift in how the next generation of consumers engages with content and brands.
What topics does marketing speaker Bonin Bough cover?
Bonin Bough speaks on digital transformation and growth hacking, the future of marketing, media, and e-commerce, building brands that resonate with diverse and next-generation audiences, the intersection of AI and marketing strategy, entrepreneurship and business model reinvention, and the leadership mindset that drives outsized results in large organizations and startups alike. His keynotes are regularly booked for marketing summits, innovation conferences, sales kick-offs, and leadership retreats where organizations need a speaker who can combine strategic depth with genuine inspiration. To book Bonin Bough for your next event, contact Aurum Speakers Bureau.
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