Cynthia Slowik
Innovation Brand Marketing Director | Ecosystem Development, | Ex-Verizon, Ex-Ogilvy, Ex-Havas | New Ventures | New Product Development
- Role
- B2b Marketing Manager at Bionews, Inc.
- Location
- Brooklyn, NY, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Cynthia Slowik
I am a forward-thinking strategy and cross-function innovation executive who lives at the intersection of culture, technology, and innovation. at Verizon, I led multiple programming activities across the 5G labs, including ecosystem building, executing special immersive spatial events, cross-collaborating with various community industry partners, and planning activations that drove new business, pipeline development, thought leadership, and co-creation opportunities.In this group, I have worked on all stages of innovation, from ideation to deployment, and was responsible for creating momentum and alignment cross-functionally and with the leadership team. Check out some of the immersive digital event productions here: Represented the 5G Lab at industry events, speaking on 5G and emerging technology panel talks • Conceptualized and championed partnership ideas, structure, milestones, and executed technical projects in a meticulous and disciplined fashion to track progress and ensure goals were achieved• Spearheaded experimental immersive virtual events across six different VR and 2.5D virtual reality platforms (BlueJeans, AltspaceVR, RecRoom, Spatial, Mozilla Hubs, Topia, and PixelCanvas) • Created direct/indirect revenue opportunities through partnerships with strategic brands, developed programming to accelerate conversations with independent software vendors (ISVs), and built a developer community of 6K developers from scratch • Successfully deepened Verizon’s relationships with ISV partners and individual developers creating a developer relationship pipeline, leveraging partner ecosystem to drive legitimacy • Led, executed and moderated over 82+ virtual, hybrid, and in-person activations/events to amplify the 5G thought leadership and workstreams as a way to educate the various industries •. Supported innovation workshops with C-Suite executives, partners, and Fortune top 50 brands to showcase 5G use cases, and identify industry pain points and opportunities to co-create w/ 5GI am passionate about ecosystem partnerships, empowering creativity and sharing best practices as a mentor for incubators and accelerators.
Experience
B2b Marketing Manager
Feb 2026 — Present
Education
Northeastern University
Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA), Marketing/Finance
2000 — 2005
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