Chad Engelgau serves as Acxiom’s Chief Executive Officer, providing strategic leadership to the organization, which focuses on helping brands use data, identity and technology solutions to better understand people and create value through every interaction. Previously, Chad served as Global Chief Data Strategist at Kinesso, the data intelligence unit that is part of IPG, Acxiom’s parent company.  Chad joined Kinesso after spending 13 years at Acxiom, where he held a variety of key leadership roles, including leading data and identity product management as well as marketing and strategy development.

Before joining Acxiom, Chad spent nine years at Dell Inc., rising from product engineering manager to corporate strategist for the Texas-based technology company. Prior to his years at Dell, Chad held various product management, marketing and engineering roles at other enterprise companies.