John Parker is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Executive Education and Senior Academic Director at Kellogg, teaching Digital Marketing and other customer-related topics. He is currently leading a new initiative to develop and implement Kellogg ExecEd's digital distance learning strategy, beginning with a series to keep Kellogg alumni at the leading edge of marketing thinking through live Telepresence sessions with leading faculty. John also leads many of Kellogg’s relationships in Latin America.
Previously he was CMO for Zurich Insurance, where he designed and built a best-in-class marketing function in North America. John spent the early years of his career as a partner at McKinsey, where he was a co-leader of the insurance practice. He has an MS from the Sloan School of Management at MIT, and a BA in Economics Magna Cum Laude from Harvard.