James Nixon

James Nixon is an accomplished Digital Business Executive with more than 15 years of success with Marriott International, CNN Digital, The New York Times Company, Deloitte Consulting, American Express, and Microsoft Corporation.

Throughout his career, Mr. Nixon has been recognized for driving change, innovation, and transformation across organizations that have resulted in dramatic improvements in revenue, profit, and market share.

Mr. Nixon’s professional experience started in 1998 when he held a variety of consulting, product management, and development roles with Microsoft Corporation. He was instrumental in leading the design and delivery of the patented e*BISS SEED 2002 platform that was integrated into core MS BizTalk server and other MS Office applications.

Following that success, in 2005 Mr. Nixon joined Deloitte Consulting as a Senior Consultant. His results included defining Cincinnati Bell’s product growth strategy that was forecasted to deliver millions in revenue, creating the plan and strategy to implement an enterprise Process Excellence Program for Deloitte & Touche, and designing the business growth strategy and 5-year roadmap process for newly divested Embarq organization by Sprint Nextel.

In 2007, Mr. Nixon was chosen as Strategic Planning Manager for The New York Times Company. He held a pivotal role in creating the digital strategy and roadmap for NYTimes.com’s pay wall that rebalanced the product portfolio and was forecasted in delivering substantial incremental revenue within 3 years.

Mr. Nixon then joined CNN Digital as a Senior Director of Global Product Strategy, Audience Development, and Partnerships. During his tenure at CNN Digital, he conceptualized, developed business case, established, launched, and grew the CNN Games business to achieve several million dollars in revenue within the 1st year.

Currently, Mr. Nixon is the Senior Director of International Digital Strategy for Marriott International. In this role, he oversees the international digital strategy, implementation and operations and is driving a major transformation of the international business to align people, processes, and technologies with strategic goals. He is leading efforts to develop new online and mobile product solutions to maximize revenue and customer experience across the international markets.

Mr. Nixon holds a MBA in International Strategy from Cornell University, Johnson Graduat