Sekou White
Advance Your Career with a Former VP of Marketing at IBM & Meta
Studied at NYU Stern School of Business
Hiring Manager at Turing
Available Thursday
Starting at 6:00 PM UTC
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Sekou's Offerings
Custom hourly · $150/hr
Get help with Career Planning, General Exploration, and .
Sekou’s Career Coaching Qualifications
Experience level: Director
Welcome to my profile! With over two decades of experience in marketing and brand strategy, I've held leadership roles at top companies like IBM, Meta, and Activision Blizzard. As a VP of Partnerships at a leading AI company, I drive global marketing initiatives and strategic partnerships. My extensive background includes transforming brands and scaling marketing functions, which equips me to guide you in your career development journey. Additionally, my role as an MBA Admissions Consultant and Adjunct Professor at NYU has allowed me to mentor numerous individuals, helping them achieve their professional goals. Let's connect and create a tailored plan to elevate your career to new heights!
Sekou can help with:
Career Planning
General Exploration
Interview Prep
Leadership
Resume Review
Salary Negotiation
About Sekou
I’m a marketing executive, educator, and longtime MBA admissions coach. I grew up in Providence, Rhode Island, in a family of educators, which gave me an early appreciation for learning, mentorship, and helping people reach their potential. After earning my undergraduate degree from Boston University, I began my career in technology consulting before deciding I wanted to move closer to the intersection of business, creativity, and culture. That led me to NYU Stern for my MBA and ultimately to a career in marketing. Over the past 20+ years, I’ve held leadership roles at companies including Microsoft, Meta, IBM, Turing, and A.Team, working across consumer technology, enterprise software, and AI. Alongside my corporate career, I’ve taught marketing at the university level for more than a decade and spent 10 years coaching MBA applicants with Veritas Prep. The common thread across all of it is something I genuinely enjoy: helping people take complex ideas, experiences, and ambitions and turn them into a clear, compelling story.
Why do I coach?
Coaching matters to me because education and mentorship have been part of my life for as long as I can remember. Both of my parents were educators, and throughout my own career I’ve benefited from people who helped me recognize possibilities I might not have seen on my own. I’ve also made several meaningful career transitions myself, from technology consulting to business school, from B2C to B2B marketing, and eventually into senior leadership. Those experiences taught me how important it is to understand not only what you’ve accomplished, but how the individual pieces of your story connect. That’s what I enjoy most about MBA coaching. Applicants often come in with strong experiences but struggle to see what makes their story distinctive. I enjoy helping them find that thread, challenge their assumptions, sharpen their thinking, and ultimately present an application that feels authentic to who they are and where they want to go. For me, the most rewarding part is seeing someone gain clarity and confidence in their own story, not simply helping them complete an application.
Work Experience
VP Partnerships
A
September 2025 - Present
Hiring Manager
Lead global marketing and partnerships for A.Team, an enterprise AI company helping Fortune 500 organizations build production-ready intelligence systems. Own brand positioning, GTM strategy, demand generation, ABM, executive events, content, partnerships, sales enablement, and website strategy across AI Solutions and Team Augmentation business units.
Brand Marketing - Global
Turing
May 2022 - September 2025
Hiring Manager
Led Turing’s evolution from a talent-matching platform to a strategic AI Training and Human-in-the-loop (HITL) brand. Built and scaled global brand, creative, content, social, PR, and partner marketing functions, while leading brand strategy, digital campaigns, and market-facing narrative.
VP of Marketing
Turing
October 2021 - May 2022
Hiring Manager
Built developer marketing as a new function at Turing, with a focus on global acquisition, engagement, content strategy, and digital growth. Led campaigns, regional playbooks, content systems, and cross-functional operating models to strengthen Turing’s reach with technical audiences.
Worldwide Developer Marketing
IBM
August 2019 - October 2021
Hiring Manager
Led developer marketing for IBM Cloud, modernizing digital, content, community, email, SEO, and event strategy. Partnered with product and developer relations teams to sharpen messaging, improve engagement, and connect developer marketing more directly to cloud adoption.
Developer Marketing Manager
Meta (Facebook)
March 2016 - August 2019
Adjunct Professor
NYU School of Professional Studies
January 2016 - December 2024
Director, Brand Marketing
Undertone
August 2013 - February 2016
Hiring Manager
MBA Admissions Consultant
Veritas Prep
March 2012 - March 2022
Director, Product Marketing
CBS
May 2011 - September 2012
Hiring Manager
Global Brand Manager
Activision Blizzard
December 2009 - December 2010
Senior Product Marketing Manager
Xbox
August 2007 - December 2009
Consultant
IBM
October 2000 - July 2005
Sekou was also given offers to work at
Electronic Arts
Salesforce
LG Electronics
Innovid
Education
NYU Stern School of Business
MBA, Business Administration and Management, Marketing
Boston University Questrom School of Business
BA, Economics
Activities and societies: NSBE, Inroads, Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Inc., Sigma Chapter