Dawna Stone
Chief Executive Officer @Abbott World Marathon Majors
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WORK HISTORY
Chief Executive Officer @Abbott World Marathon Majors
St Petersburg, FL, US
The Abbott World Marathon Majors (AbbottWMM) is a series of seven of the largest and most renowned marathons in the world - B.A.A. Boston Marathon, Bank of America Chicago Marathon, BMW BERLIN-MARATHON, TCS London Marathon, TCS New York City Marathon, TCS Sydney Marathon and Tokyo Marathon. As CEO, I am responsible for driving organizational growth and advancing the AbbottWMM’s vision to inspire the world through marathons. Together with the team, I focus on a range of programs that enhance the brand’s ability to inspire marathon runners, including the Six Star Finishers program, the Global Run Club, and the AbbottWMM Wanda Age Group World Championships.
EDUCATION
UCLA Anderson School of Management
MBA, Marketing/Finance
University of California, Berkeley
Bachelor of Science (BS), Business
SKILLS
ABOUT DAWNA STONE
Dawna Stone is a successful C-level executive, entrepreneur, author, motivational speaker and TV and radio personality. Dawna is the author of several best-selling books including \"The Healthy You Diet” cookbook and “Winning Nice: How to Succeed in Business Without Waging War,” with a foreword by Steve Forbes. In addition to being a Wall Street analyst, Chief Marketing Officer of a $700 million company and President of a sports nutrition company, Dawna launched and sold two companies. Dawna was Co-Founder and President of The Women’s Half Marathon series, the nation’s largest women’s running series and Women\'s Running magazine. The award-winning periodical boasted an international distribution and top tier advertisers including Ford, Toyota, Coca-Cola, Disney, Kraft, L ’Oreal, Nike, etc. She sold both businesses in 2012.In 2005, Dawna appeared on and won NBC’s The Apprentice: Martha Stewart. She spent the following year working closely with Martha Stewart developing a variety of projects for Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia including Body+Soul magazine (now Whole Living). Prior to launching her award winning national magazine, Dawna was a financial analyst for Wall Street investment bank Morgan Stanley, a consultant for Deloitte Consulting, president of PR*Nutrition, senior vice president of operations at Active.com and chief marketing officer for a $700 million dollar publicly traded company. Dawna has appeared on The Today Show, MARTHA, MSNBC and morning news programs on all four of the big networks—NBC, CBS, ABC and Fox. She also hosted her own show on Sirius Satellite Radio called “Health and Fitness Talk with Dawna Stone.” Dawna earned her B.S. from UC, Berkeley, and her MBA from UCLA\'s Anderson School. She is an avid runner and Ironman triathlete. She lives in St. Petersburg, FL with her daughter, son, and two fun-loving puppies.
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