Kimberly Blackwell

With over 20 years experience in CPG, Kimberly Blackwell is heralded as one of the country’s top executives in new media, marketing and advertising. A disruptor of sorts, Kimberly is a technical, strategic and a creative consultant and trusted advisor to the C-Suite of publicly and privately held companies in areas of brand, culture and change management, organizational effectiveness, crisis management and planning, digital transformation and inclusion through channels of media, high tech and experiential. As CEO of the omni- channel brand agency, PMM, Kimberly’s been called a powerhouse. As curator of consumer connections, her brand is brand – engagement, communications, commerce and culture.

No stranger to the White House, boardrooms, lecture circuit or a whiteboard challenge, Kimberly has earned a reputation as a trusted business counselor. Representing the Fortune 1 as well as Fortune 500 multibillion-dollar interests of global corporations that sectors include retail, automotive, insurance and financial services, beauty, shipping and logistics along with government agencies. Kimberly has developed a reputation of industry expertise, business value and end-user engagement effective in both B-to-C and B-to-B business solutions.

With experience in start up to scale for consumer product goods companies, Kimberly is a founding member and serves as a founding investor and advisory member to the recently listed Legacy Acquisition Corp (NYSE: LGC.U). With an experienced lens and entrepreneurial spirit, Kimberly contributed and led areas of the company’s $300M+ IPO, M&A target transactions and integrations. Kimberly’s career reflects a demonstrated track record leading successful large-scale transformation initiatives, optimizing financial management of P&L, managing across deal lifecycle, budgeting and planning, risk management, adapting to changing markets, emerging markets and global business environments.

As a global public speaker, thought leader, and subject matter expert in areas of entrepreneurship, wealth  creation, technology, new media, crisis and culture, Kimberly has appeared in Fortune magazine, contributed on HuffPost Live, featured in Inc. magazine and captured on the covers of business trades. As an industry expert, she’s been saluted among leaders of the smartest companies as a Business First C-Suite Award honoree, celebrated in the midst of the nation’s “Most Powerful Women in Business” by Black Enterprise, named PR News’ “Top Women in PR”, and honored as an EBONY POWER 100. In 2019, Kimberly received national recognitions as a “Woman of Power” by both the National Urban League and the National Action Network.

Widely regarded for commercial innovation, business intuitiveness, measured impact and trajectory of the multimillion-dollar female business enterprise, Kimberly has served in both the Obama and Trump administrations as one of the country’s eight female CEOs, on the National Women’s Business Council (NWBC). NWBC is a non-partisan federal advisory council serving as a source of independent counsel to the President of the United States, Congress, and the SBA on economic issues related to access to capital, access to market and job creation for female-owned and led corporations.

Kimberly is a member of the Executive Leadership Council (ELC), a network of the nation’s most influential African- American executives. She also is a member of the Women Presidents’ Organization (WPO), and lifetime member of the National Black MBA Association® (NBMBAA). In 2019, Kimberly was named by GUCCI Inc., to their Changemakers Council. In 2020, Kimberly was presented with pristine honor of 2020 Entrepreneur of the Year by NBMBAA.

Kimberly leads from governance positions, with over ten years of board experience currently serving as a board member and trustee for OWNABLE, a FinTech corporation, Chamber of Commerce (Columbus, Ohio) as well as The Executive Leadership Council (ELC). Blackwell has served as Chair the American Heart Association Great Rivers, “Go Red for Women” campaign and is a former trustee and executive committee member of the Columbus YWCA and Vice-Chair of Columbus Urban League. Across board roles and duties, Kimberly has served often as lead member of nominating and governance, diversity and inclusion, organizational strategy, marketing/program development committees.

Kimberly has also completed executive leadership trainings at Dartmouth, Northwestern and Harvard Universities. She is also a certified diversity professional of Cornell University. Kimberly holds a bachelor’s degree from Syracuse University. She has earned a master’s degree from Xavier University (Ohio), where Kimberly, while running PMM, also once served as an adjunct professor for nearly ten years.