Cindy Gallop

Cindy has over 30 years in brand-building, marketing and advertising — she started up the US office of ad agency Bartle Bogle Hegarty in New York in 1998.

She is the founder and CEO of IfWeRanTheWorld, co-action software launched in beta at TED 2010 and subsequently written up and taught as a Harvard Business School case study, which enables brands to implement the business model of the future — Shared Values + Shared Action = Shared Profit (financial and social).

She is also the founder of MakeLoveNotPorn — a social sextech platform designed to promote good sexual behavior and good sexual values, which she launched at TED 2009, and for which she has just raised $3million to build out mlnp.tv as ‘the Social Sex Revolution’.

She acts as board advisor to a number of tech ventures and works as a personal brand/life/executive coach and a consultant on brand and business innovation for companies around the world. Cindy is also one of three Campaign Review Committee chairs for the AdCouncil in the US.

Business Insider named her one of 15 Most Important Marketing Strategy Thinkers Today, alongside Malcolm Gladwell and Seth Godin. Campaign named her a highly compelling and inspirational speaker on the future of advertising and marketing. Her talks have been tweeted as: ‘The most brilliant speech on the future of advertising ever’ and ‘There must be a DeLorean parked outside, because Cindy Gallop is from the FUTURE!’.

Cindy is an outspoken advocate of diversity and inclusion in advertising, tech and business — she was Jury President at Cannes Lions 2015 for the inaugural Glass Lion awards, proposed by Sheryl Sandberg to celebrate advertising that shatters gender stereotypes in advertising, and in 2017 was turned by digital agency R/GA into a chatbot for Equal Pay Day that helps women ask for a raise. She has partnered with AARP on their DistrupAging initiative to challenge and change ageism. Cindy has published “Make Love Not Porn: Technology’s Hardcore Impact on Human Behavior” in TED’s line of TEDBooks.