Phil Rubin
Founder
Phil is a customer- and stakeholder-focused strategic growth leader, investor and trusted advisor with more than 30 years experience driving growth for leading global brands. He is a strong advocate for stakeholder capitalism and the belief that profitable business can be a force for good.
Prior to GSM, he led Global Insights and Strategic Partnerships for Bond, a Toronto-based loyalty and customer marketing firm focused on connecting brands and people. Phil joined Bond in February 2020 after it acquired rDialogue, the firm he founded in 2006. rDialogue, a leading independent customer loyalty firm, worked with clients including Activision, Adidas, Allergan, American Express, Boehringer Ingelheim, Brooks Brothers, Citigroup, Disney, Estee Lauder, Kimpton Hotels & Restaurants (now IHG), Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group, Nike, Nordstrom, PGA of America, Panera, Pittsburgh Steelers, sweetgreen, UPS and Williams-Sonoma.
Recognized as an industry thought leader, Phil is a keynote speaker for events across North America, Europe and Asia. His comments have been quoted in The Wall Street Journal, Forbes and numerous trade publications over the years. He is a charter Certified Loyalty Marketing Professional (CLMP) and a member of The Loyalty Academy Board of Regents.
He earned an M.B.A. with a concentration in marketing and strategy from the A. B. Freeman School at Tulane University and a B.S. in Finance from L.S.U. As a result of his non-profit work, he was nominated by the Arthur M. Blank Foundation to participate in a Babson College Executive Education program for Entrepreneurship in the Social Sector.
In addition to his passion for loyalty and technology, Phil’s experience also includes non-profit board leadership roles for global, national, regional and local organizations. Those include being a past board chair for ADL (Southeast) and a National Commissioner. He also served as Vice-Chair for Atlanta’s Beltline Partnership, supporting one of the largest urban redevelopment initiatives in the U.S., and as a member of the board and executive committee for The Weber School.
Amy Aronoff Blumkin
Amy Aronoff Blumkin has a blended background of corporate and mission-focused marketing and communications work. Combining her professional and non-profit board activities, Amy knows how to nurture a brand, create campaigns that deliver and deeply connect with stakeholders. Over four years, Amy led Anti-Defamation League's (ADL) Brand and Marketing department through a rebrand and brought integrated, strategic, and proactive thinking to the marketing function. Under her leadership, ADL also relaunched its annual summit on Antisemitism and Hate, Never Is Now, and achieved record attendance and awareness; the 2019 in-person event featured Sacha Baron Cohen in a keynote address that went viral achieving over 2.5MM views.
Prior to ADL, Amy had one of the most incredible professional opportunities a marketer could have - she was chosen as the CMO of the NY/NJ Super Bowl Host Committee – in charge of marketing the first ever outdoor, cold-weather Super Bowl hosted in the nation. Widely recognized as a huge success (even the weather cooperated), her team delivered a ground-breaking mobile tour and award-winning events, digital communications, and social media.
Beginning marketing career at American Express in New York City, Amy then spent nearly a decade in leading national marketing at Walt Disney World, in Orlando, Florida. For the last three years, Amy has been working as an interim executive, aiding mission based organizations through important marketing and operational transitions.
Amy is a proud graduate of the University of Vermont and holds an MBA from the Harvard Business School.