Denise L. Bennett

Award Winning Entertainment Marketing Executive

Public Speaker

Diversity & Inclusion Champion

Non-Profit Board Leader

Professor

Contact:

DLBennett1908@gmail.com

ABOUT

At 20 years of media & entertainment marketing experience, Denise is a seasoned professional. She is currently the Vice President of Brand Strategy at iHeartMedia, specializing in multicultural marketing partnerships. She is also a professor at Fordham University Gabelli School of Business, where she teaches Advanced Business Communications at the graduate level.

Her most recent post was as a senior member of the WarnerMedia Entertainment Content Partnerships team and served as the NYC Chair of the Black Professionals at WarnerMedia Business Resource Group. Denise has held marketing roles at NBCUniversal, the NBA, and TV One’s “One Solution” portfolio team, developing award winning marketing solutions across TV One, Radio One, Reach Media, and Interactive One.

She started as an intern at Viacom's VH1 Save The Music and spent almost 9 years in various consumer and integrated marketing roles throughout the company including Noggin/The N, Comedy Central, and MTV/MTV2.

Denise has a BS in Music Business from Indiana State University and an MBA with a dual concentration in Marketing and Media & Communications from Fordham University Gabelli School of Business. She was in the 1st class of the Management Leadership for Tomorrow (MLT) MBA Prep class and has served as the President of the Fordham Black & Hispanic MBA Association and VP of the Fordham Media & Entertainment Alliance. She has served as the NY Chapter President of NAMIC (National Association of Multi-ethnicity in Communications) and in 2019, she completed the NAMIC Executive Leadership Development Program (ELDP) at the University of Virginia Darden School of Business.

She has been recognized as a 2019 40 Under 40 Honoree from The Network Journal, a 2020 Council of Urban Professionals (CUP) Technology Catalyst, and the 2021 Trailblazer Award from Black Women in Media.

Outside of her professional responsibilities, Denise is a classically trained pianist, an avid world traveler, and a proud & active member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc.