Gayle Fuguitt

Gayle Fuguitt is the current Director at Minnesota Opera. Prior to that, they served as the Chief of Customer Insight and Innovation at Foursquare from December 2016 to September 2019. Her responsibilities included leading customer connections and productizing technology into real time decision making and insight solutions for marketers, advertisers, ad agencies, and publishers. Gayle also helped the Foursquare team build meaningful products to drive growth and deliver better business decisions for customers.

Before their time at Foursquare, Gayle was the CEO and President of Advertising Research Foundation from March 2013 to October 2016. As CEO, they were responsible for modernizing, quantifying, and simplifying growth opportunities and outcomes for the organization's 400+ member companies and affiliates. This included advertisers, networks, advertising agencies, and research and consulting suppliers.

Gayle has also previously worked at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts.

Gayle Fuguitt has an MBA in marketing research from the Wisconsin School of Business and a BS in economics and industrial relations from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.