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40%

40% -- share of new cmos with mba for Newly hired CMOs (2024)

Name: Share Of New Cmos With Mba Statistics
Creator: Lighthouse Intelligence
Published: 2026-10-04

2024 · n=310 · CMO Ladder

Nearly 40% of newly hired CMOs in 2024 hold an MBA, up from 32.4% in 2023.

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40%

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Percentage

Data Vintage

2024

Entity

Newly hired CMOs

Sample Size

310

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CMO Ladder Primary Tier A

https://newsletter.cmoladder.com/p/cmo-moves-mid-jan-update ↗

Confidence: 32/100 Vintage: 2024 Channel: Deep Crawl

Source Article

CMO Moves Mid-Jan Update

What does it take to land a CMO gig? That’s exactly what we set out to uncover in our freshly released CMO Moves report. We dissected 310 global CMO appointments from 2024, stacked them up against 2023, and—spoiler alert—some fascinating trends emerged. Let’s dive in: Tech Still Reigns, But Retail’s…

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CMO Ladder · Original study ↗

Methodology

Up from 32.4% in 2023

Methodology documented

Segmentation

Industrymarketing RoleCMO Channelemail

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Newly hired CMOs: 40% share of new cmos with mba. Source: CMO Ladder (2024). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/cmo-mba-share-2024

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