Speaker's Profile

Bennett Porter currently serves as Chief of Staff at Calm, an app to help you sleep more, stress less and live mindfully.  She is also a Board Member and Advisor to start-ups where she uses her experience in past marketing leadership roles to help companies build new categories.  Prior to her current role, she led marketing at Calm and was the Chief Marketing Officer of energy start-up Booster Energy. She was also the SVP of Marketing Communications at SurveyMonkey and served in various leadership roles at Yahoo!. Porter was at Yahoo! for over a decade during the formative time at the company and the Internet.  She worked  as the VP of Marketing for Yahoo!’s Emerging Markets practice, overseeing the marketing functions in Southeast Asia, South America, India, the Middle East and Africa. She also managed the Yahoo! Buzz Marketing team, developing many of the company's most famous award-winning marketing programs. Prior to that, she worked at Ogilvy and MS&L in New York City. Bennett received a BA in English from The Colorado College and an MS from the SI Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University.