Stacy Sanford
Co-founder — the CMO chair: strategy, positioning, business architecture, client leadership- META — EXECUTIVE CONSULTANT, SUPPLIER DIVERSITY
- PHOBIO — CHIEF MARKETING OFFICER
- THE HOME DEPOT — EMBEDDED CONSULTANT
- SPLENDA — BRAND RESCUE TO 30%+ SHARE
- FOUNDER — HOSE WATER SUPPLY CO.
- CHARLESTON
Thirty-five years in, Stacy still opens with the same question: what is this business actually for? Most companies can't answer it. That's usually the whole problem.
She has run marketing from every seat. Agency side, as VP and client partner managing nine people directly and thirty indirectly — with campaigns for Nike, Coca-Cola, Visa, and Orkin on the reel, including the Orkin work that lifted sales 60% year over year while the main competitor's awareness fell 28%. Client side, as Chief Marketing Officer at Phobio, where she rebuilt the customer experience, took the review rating from 2.1 stars to 4.0 in four months, and lifted sales 30% by finding where the experience was leaking.
Consultant side, she was embedded inside The Home Depot, where she overhauled a program across 2,000 stores and seven departments and launched Home Depot Home Services' first-ever referral program. At Splenda, she pulled the stevia line back from discontinuation to a 30%+ market share. At Meta, she built the brand and marketing playbook the Supplier Diversity team ran on — which is where she met Elizabeth.
Then she stopped advising and built one. Hose Water Supply Co. went from an idea to a launched e-commerce brand in four months — her own positioning, her own product, her own storefront.
At hi! she holds the CMO chair: strategy, positioning, business architecture, and the client relationship. In practice, she is the person who gets a business to stop guessing what it's for.