

As the world changed and the company changed, Rishad re-invented both himself and the company. Rishad has spent his entire 37-year career at this one company in a wide spectrum of roles spanning advertising, media, strategy, digital and data.

He’s also the Chief Growth Officer of Publicis Groupe, an 80,000-person marketing company.

His parents loved books and reading as he did, and he always wanted to write one, and he finally has. Rishad Tobaccowala is the author of Restoring the Soul of Business: Staying Human in the Age of Data. He immigrated to Chicago in 1980 with a BS in Mathematics to follow in the footsteps of his father by getting an MBA at the University of Chicago. Growing up, Rishad could be found in a book store reading books. Rishad was born in Bombay, India, and has one sister who lives in California. He now teaches others to combine their emotional intelligence with their data intelligence and to focus beyond the short-term tendencies that many businesses fall victim to. Rishad Tobaccowala stepped back from the brink of data overload by developing practical tools and frameworks that assisted his organization to properly put data in its place.
