Board of Directors

Denise is a senior marketing and communications executive with over 25 years of experience leading public, private, and non-profit entities to long term value creation. Best known for her ground-breaking work as Chief Marketing Officer at NASDAQ and President of NASDAQ Financial Products, Ms. Stires’s career offers a demonstrated track record of transforming businesses across multiple sectors, navigating complex and dynamic competitive environments, and leading the development of innovative strategies to deliver profitable growth. Her accomplishments have been described as masterclasses in effective marketing and organizational leadership, from forging the most successful worldwide sponsorship in the history of Mars Incorporated, to conveying the brand power of a major investment bank into the online sphere, to spearheading the marketing initiatives that pulled NASDAQ out of crisis, saving the institution and propelling it into the most successful period in its history. Her works have won major industry awards and several are now studied as cases at preeminent business schools. She also sails nearly every day when the water is soft.