Kelly Bennett

Kelly Bennett serves as an advisor to Spotify's CEO, Daniel Ek. He is the former CMO of Netflix, where served for seven years, and where he helped to lead the company's transformational growth from a technology company to a global entertainment provider of significant scale. He stepped down from Netflix in 2019, and in addition to his advisory role at Spotify, he also serves in an advisory capacity at Microsoft, Ancestry.com, and Zalando SE.

Bennett started at Netflix as CMO in August 2012 after nine years at Warner Bros., where he most recently was VP of interactive, worldwide marketing, where he led international digital campaigns for the studio’s movies. Before that, Bennett ran digital marketing for Warner Bros. Pictures in Europe, the Middle East and Africa and worked in promotion and business development at the company.

Prior to joining Warner Bros. in 2003, he held executive positions at Dow Jones International and Ignition Media and was a partner in online marketing agency Cimex Media. The Canada native holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration from Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, British Columbia.