Full Name
Bahigh Acuna
Job Title
Executive Vice President / General Manager of Marilyn
Company
The Mars Agency
Speaker Bio
Bahigh Acuna has played an important role in scaling businesses to global powerhouses across a range of industries such as e-commerce, delivery tech, enterprise software, media streaming, and genetics. He is a business leader with 15+ years of experience structuring and leading cross-functional teams across North America, Europe, Asia, and Latin America, and is now leading tech innovation at The Mars Agency.
Acuna hails from Amazon, where as leader of corporate business development he spent the last two years strategizing, negotiating, and managing some of the ecommerce giant’s most complex, high-impact partnerships. Prior to Amazon, he helped home delivery service Postmates steer through the pandemic by focusing on growth and strategy before its 2020 acquisition by Uber. Acuna also led Ancestry’s international expansion strategy, and spearheaded Spotify’s launch in Latin America helping position these companies into the cultural mainstream. Before that, he led new market operations for worldwide employment service Monster.
Bahigh has received various accolades and awards throughout his career, he was named an extraordinary talent by GQ, and a transformational figure by Universal Mx. His views have been quoted and his work has been covered by The Wall Street Journal, Billboard, NBC, CNN, PR Week, and other major international publications.
Acuna hails from Amazon, where as leader of corporate business development he spent the last two years strategizing, negotiating, and managing some of the ecommerce giant’s most complex, high-impact partnerships. Prior to Amazon, he helped home delivery service Postmates steer through the pandemic by focusing on growth and strategy before its 2020 acquisition by Uber. Acuna also led Ancestry’s international expansion strategy, and spearheaded Spotify’s launch in Latin America helping position these companies into the cultural mainstream. Before that, he led new market operations for worldwide employment service Monster.
Bahigh has received various accolades and awards throughout his career, he was named an extraordinary talent by GQ, and a transformational figure by Universal Mx. His views have been quoted and his work has been covered by The Wall Street Journal, Billboard, NBC, CNN, PR Week, and other major international publications.
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