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NEW YORK, USA // Grace Kao is Head of Global Business Marketing for Spotify. With over 20 years of marketing and advertising experience, Grace helps brands around the world connect with Spotify’s over 615 million monthly listeners in meaningful and effective ways. She has led award-winning campaigns for iconic brands such as Pepsi, PlayStation, Crate&Barrel, Apple. Most recently, she led Spotify Advertising’s ‘Spreadbeats’ campaign, which was one of the most awarded across multiple categories at Cannes. Grace was also named on Adweek’s Top 50 Indispensable Business Leaders. Before joining Spotify, she served as Head of Global Business Marketing for Instagram across businesses and creators.

Grace has a master’s degree in Communications from Stanford University and resides in San Francisco, California with her husband and two children.