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Carla Hassan (also known as, Carla Zakhem-Hassan) is an American business executive.

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Carla Zakhem-Hassan is a Lebanese war refugee. [1] [2] She received a bachelor's degree from the University of Colorado and an MBA from the Thunderbird School of Global Management. [3] In 2021, Hassan was named [4] Chief Marketing Officer for JPMorgan Chase & Co. [5] Prior to joining JPMorgan Chase, Hassan was named the chief marketing officer at Citigroup in 2020, having joined the company in 2018. [6] [7] Prior to that, in 2017, Hassan was the Executive Vice President and Global Chief Marketing Officer at Toys "R" Us. [3] [8] In 2016, she was the Senior Vice President of Global Brand Management of the Global Beverage Group at PepsiCo. [9] During her thirteen years at Pepsi, she also served as Chief Marketing Officer out of the Dubai office. [10]

A champion of equality, on International Day of the Girl Child 2019, Hassan's Citi team launched "It’s About Time,” which was later selected by GWI as campaign of the month. [11] Hassan's Citi team worked in partnership with The Female Quotient to launch the Advancing Equality Calculator, a free tool to help organizations of all sizes calculate their raw wage gap and join the movement for pay parity. [12]

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