Giovanni Rodriguez is a noted innovator, author, and public speaker on organizational leadership and marketing. He is co-founder and chairman of The Reimagine Group — where he plays a senior advisory role – and is Chief Marketing Officer at BroadVision (Nasdaq: BVSN), one of the world’s leading innovators in enterprising social networking.

A pioneer in post-Web 2.0 communications, Giovanni has advised and consulted for numerous B2B leaders such as The New York Stock Exchange, SAP, Alcatel-Lucent, and Verizon Business, as well as leading consumer brands such as General Mills, Unilever, Best Buy, and the Automobile Association of America (AAA). He is also known for his work in positioning technology companies in transition, including FAST Search and Transfer (now Microsoft), Ribbit (now British Telecom), JAJAH (now Telefonica), and VMware, where he worked with the team that led the company’s entry into the enterprise software market. Most recently, he was co-founder and managing partner of The Conversation Group (TCG), a global consultancy advising companies on social technologies and business innovation. Before TCG, he was a principal at Eastwick Communications, a Silicon Valley public relations agency with a strong legacy in marketing B2B technology companies.

Rodriguez is a trustee at the Museum of Craft and Folk Art, a founding fellow at the Society of New Communications Research (SNCR), and a board member at Latinos for Social Media (LatISM). He is a graduate of Princeton University.