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Claudia Gioia
CEO & President
Hill + Knowlton Strategies

MIAMI, USA // In 2015, Claudia joined Hill + Knowlton Strategies as President and CEO overseeing all markets in Latin America and Caribbean. Currently, her team of almost 300+ professionals services 130+ clients in the whole region. Claudia is an expert in integrated communications and digital media with more than 20 years of experience. She led programs for key companies such as Ford, HP, Intel, Sony, A. T. Kearney, Danone, Goodyear, Unilever, J&J, Clorox, Walmart, HBO and FedEx among others covering all industry areas. Her areas of expertise are B2B and B2C communications, corporate positioning, issues management, branding, CSR and digital media.  Before successfully leading Burson-Marsteller Miami’s operation for 3 years, she performed as the Regional Practice Chair for the Innovation and Technology Practice managing clients such as PlayStation, Qualcomm, Cisco, AT&T, Nextel, SAP, and Symantec. She was honored to lead teams who helped her won several awards, including the Eikon Award, the top 40 Sabre Award for the Best Latin American Campaign, the WWPed Cream Award Consumer Marketing in 2013 and the Corporate International Award. In her career she was recognized with the Achievement Award, the Regional Client Leader Award, a Gold Performance Award, the Hall of Fame Award and the Client Service Leadership Award in 2014 for her work for her client Ford in Latin America.