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Remi Kent

CMO / Progressive Insurance

Remi is currently the CMO of Progressive Insurance, where she leads the company's brand and marketing strategy, marketing research, insights, analytics, consumer and customer marketing, internal and external communications, digital and mass advertising, and Ninety6, the company's in-house agency.

Prior to Progressive, she served as the Global CMO for the 3M Consumer Business Group, leading the company's global integrated marketing, e-commerce, and consumer insights and analytics. As Global Business Director, she led two of 3M's most iconic brands—Post-it® and Scotch™—restoring meaningful innovation and growth to both brands.

Remi joined 3M after a long-standing career with Procter & Gamble, where she led billion-dollar businesses with global leadership experience in P&L ownership, brand building, strategy, and successful new product launches.

Throughout her career, she has received numerous accolades for her leadership in business and marketing, including the likes of Ad Age Leading Women, Twin Cities Women in Business Award, 100 Most Influential Black Leaders, She Runs It Quantum Leap Award, Influential Marketing Leaders Changing the Industry, Diversity Woman Magazine’s Elite 100, Advertising Week's 2022 Future is Female Award, and most recently Adweek's Inaugural Marketing Vanguard Award, a 2023 Cannes Gold Lion and Reuters Trailblazing Women award.

Remi earned her MBA from Florida A&M University and serves as a board member of the MMA. She is also a founding member of BECA (Black Executive CMO Alliance) and actively leads and participates in various actions to help promote diversity and dismantle racism in her work and community.

She enjoys life with her teenage son, along with traveling, reading, fashion and beauty, and volunteering.