{"id":18472,"date":"2025-10-01T00:30:58","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T00:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/2025\/10\/01\/acc-welcomes-business-leader-to-executive-team\/"},"modified":"2025-10-01T00:30:58","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T00:30:58","slug":"acc-welcomes-business-leader-to-executive-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/2025\/10\/01\/acc-welcomes-business-leader-to-executive-team\/","title":{"rendered":"ACC Welcomes Business Leader to Executive Team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/>The Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) is welcoming a new leader to its team focused on marketing and branding.<\/p>\n<p>Sources report that Marques Zak, who has been leading multicultural marketing efforts at American Express, will be named the ACC&#8217;s first chief marketing and brand officer. The official announcement is anticipated to be made on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>In his new role, Zak will be responsible for shaping the ACC&#8217;s brand strategy, which includes plans for digital outreach, social media, and live events. He will work closely with Commissioner Jim Phillips and will be part of the conference\u2019s executive team.<\/p>\n<p>Zak&#8217;s career at American Express saw him create the company&#8217;s first major multicultural marketing initiative. He has also held high-level roles at PepsiCo and started his professional path as a consultant at Deloitte, concentrating on mergers and acquisitions.<\/p>\n<p>He graduated from Morehouse College, where he was the captain of the track and field team, and later earned an MBA from Cornell University.<\/p>\n<p>The ACC enlisted the help of DHR Global for the search that led to Zak\u2019s appointment.<br \/>\n<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) is welcoming a new leader to its team focused on marketing and branding. Sources report that Marques Zak, who has been leading multicultural marketing efforts at American Express, will be named the ACC&#8217;s first chief marketing and brand officer. The official announcement is anticipated to be made on Wednesday. In<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rank_math_lock_modified_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[22894,22892,22893],"class_list":["post-18472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business-news","tag-acc","tag-college-basketball","tag-college-football"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18472\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}