Dara serves as the Chief Marketing Officer at Autodesk, where she leads Autodesk's global e-commerce business–including the product, commercial, and customer experience teams that bring it to life. She sets the strategy to market the product portfolio, oversees the company’s marketing, brand, communications, demand generation, digital, and education business teams; and leads Autodesk for Small Business.
A proven business leader with expertise in building and leading high performing global commercial, marketing, and communications organizations for B2B and consumer Fortune 500 companies, Dara was previously the Global Head of Marketing, Communications & Membership at Peloton, CMO of Carbon, and the CMO of GE Business Innovations & GE Ventures. Earlier in her career, she led growth and marketing efforts at Apple and Goldman Sachs.
Dara has been recognized by Forbes as one of the World's Most Influential CMOs and was the first Black executive inducted into the Forbes CMO Hall of Fame. She has also been named by CNBC as a Changemaker transforming business, by Business Insider as one of the world's most innovative CMOs, and by Adweek as a Brand Genius.
Dara serves on the board of Robinhood and on the Board of Visitors for Howard University's College of Engineering and Architecture. She graduated cum laude from Harvard University with highest honors in the field and earned her MBA from Stanford University.
