Andrew Essex

Brand Director in Residence Dow Jones; Founding CEO Droga5, Former CEO Tribeca Film Festival, Senior Advisor TCS, Glasswing Ventures, McKinsey; Board of Directors Finance of America, +Pool; Angel Investor, etc

📍 New York City Metropolitan Area, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 4 investments📅 16 years investing🗓 Last invested Jun 2022𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
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Board Member
Jun 2022
We are the Marketing + Media Alliance (MMA)— the global industry body for Chief Marketing Officers and their teams, dedicated to advancing marketers’ ability to create value. We unite the world’s leading CMOs to tackle the biggest challenges and opportunities shaping the future of marketing, brands, and business. With 800+ corporate members representing hundreds of thousands of marketers, MMA drives collaboration across marketing’s full ecosystem — brands, media companies, platforms, MarTech, AdTech, consultancies, and agencies — to make marketing more impactful, accountable, and predictive. For CMOs and by CMOs. MMA is an alliance that turns research & science into results. Through our proprietary Think Tanks and Labs, we create groundbreaking, evidence-based models that transform how marketing drives growth and enterprise value. Our four global Think Tanks include: • MATT: Measurement & Attribution • MOSTT: Marketing Organization Strategy • ALTT: AI Leadership • DATT: Data & Customer Experience MMA’s multi-year, multi-million-dollar research labs have redefined marketing science — from quantifying long-term brand contribution to creating the world’s first financial model linking marketing investment directly to company valuation. Marketers applying MMA frameworks have seen enterprise value gains of more than +10%. Our membership includes leading brands such as AT&T, Bank of America, Campbell’s, CVS Health, Ford, General Motors, Google, McDonald’s, Meta, Samsung, Target, The Walt Disney Company, Uber, Unilever, Visa, Walmart, Yahoo, and others. We share, discuss, and scale what works through world-class experiences — including POSSIBLE in Miami, the CMO & CEO Summit (NPS of 86%), and 60+ events globally. MMA has operations in 16 countries in APAC, Europe, MEA, LATAM, and North America. Founded in 03 as the Mobile Marketing Association, MMA expanded its mission in 18 and formally became MMA Global, Inc. in 22. Join the Alliance: mmaglobal.com
Board Member
Nov 2010
+ POOL is working to provide free and safe access to the rivers around NYC for swimming. The organization was born out of + POOL, an idea for a water-filtering, floating swimming pool with four pool arms (kids pool, lap pool, lounge pool and sports pool) forming a plus-shape. The pool was designed to filter 1 million gallons of river water a day through the walls of the pool and protect swimmers from currents to provide safe access to urban waters cut off from the public. Since its founding, the organization has led a grassroots advocacy effort to push for safe and increased access to the waters around NYC for swimming, promote healthful recreation and advance environmental justice, while also supporting equitable access to swim education, a lack of which disproportionately impacts minority and low-income communities.
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2023
Senior Managing Partner
Aug 2023
Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) is the technology partner of choice for industry leading organizations worldwide. Since its inception in 1968, TCS has upheld the highest standards of innovation, engineering excellence, and customer service. It has set an aspiration to become the worlds largest AI-led technology services company and is enabling its clients to transform themselves across the full AI stack, from infrastructure to intelligence. Rooted in the heritage of the Tata Group, TCS is focused on creating long term value for its clients, its investors, its employees, and the community at large. With a highly skilled workforce spread across 55 countries and 202 service delivery centers across the world, the company has been recognized as a top employer in six continents. With the ability to rapidly apply and scale new technologies, the company has built long term partnerships with its clients – helping them emerge as perpetually adaptive enterprises. Many of these relationships have endured into decades and navigated every technology cycle, from mainframes in the 1970s to artificial intelligence today. TCS sponsors 14 of the world’s most prestigious marathons and endurance events, including the TCS New York City Marathon, TCS London Marathon and TCS Sydney Marathon with a focus on promoting health, sustainability, and community empowerment. Caution against fraudulent job offers: TCS doesn’t charge any fee throughout the recruitment process. Refer here: https://www.tcs.com/careers/india/recruitment-fraud-alert
2022
Board Member
Jun 2022
We are the Marketing + Media Alliance (MMA)— the global industry body for Chief Marketing Officers and their teams, dedicated to advancing marketers’ ability to create value. We unite the world’s leading CMOs to tackle the biggest challenges and opportunities shaping the future of marketing, brands, and business. With 800+ corporate members representing hundreds of thousands of marketers, MMA drives collaboration across marketing’s full ecosystem — brands, media companies, platforms, MarTech, AdTech, consultancies, and agencies — to make marketing more impactful, accountable, and predictive. For CMOs and by CMOs. MMA is an alliance that turns research & science into results. Through our proprietary Think Tanks and Labs, we create groundbreaking, evidence-based models that transform how marketing drives growth and enterprise value. Our four global Think Tanks include: • MATT: Measurement & Attribution • MOSTT: Marketing Organization Strategy • ALTT: AI Leadership • DATT: Data & Customer Experience MMA’s multi-year, multi-million-dollar research labs have redefined marketing science — from quantifying long-term brand contribution to creating the world’s first financial model linking marketing investment directly to company valuation. Marketers applying MMA frameworks have seen enterprise value gains of more than +10%. Our membership includes leading brands such as AT&T, Bank of America, Campbell’s, CVS Health, Ford, General Motors, Google, McDonald’s, Meta, Samsung, Target, The Walt Disney Company, Uber, Unilever, Visa, Walmart, Yahoo, and others. We share, discuss, and scale what works through world-class experiences — including POSSIBLE in Miami, the CMO & CEO Summit (NPS of 86%), and 60+ events globally. MMA has operations in 16 countries in APAC, Europe, MEA, LATAM, and North America. Founded in 03 as the Mobile Marketing Association, MMA expanded its mission in 18 and formally became MMA Global, Inc. in 22. Join the Alliance: mmaglobal.com
2020
Advisor
Oct 2020
Glasswing Ventures is an early stage venture capital firm investing in the next generation of AI and frontier technology startups that are enabling the rise of the intelligent enterprise. We are laser-focused on funding exceptional entrepreneurs who are leading the AI revolution, capitalizing on the intellectual might and talent from the premier academic institutions on the East Coast, and fostering growth for our ecosystem. Whether we are helping our portfolio companies build the best teams, acquire their first customers or brainstorm about strategic opportunities, or scale their operations, we are there for our founders and CEOs in the good times and the bad times on their journey to success. www.Glasswing.vc // Where Ideas Take Flight
2018
IPIC
Board Member
Nov 2018
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