"I want to do something where my skills would be useful, maybe chief marketing officer for America."
After turning down an offer to be chief marketing officer at Excite@home, he decided to go into business for himself.
Jessie has been part of Wipro for four and half years as chief marketing officer.
She previously served as chief marketing officer for Yahoo!
The deal is the first to be brokered since he hired a chief marketing officer for the city in April.
In the years before the birth of her first son, she was a marketing officer for a financial institution.
He then worked as a marketing officer and advertising account executive.
She will also continue as chief marketing officer.
It found that when a chief executive earned a median salary of $139,000, the top marketing officer received $90,000, or about 65 percent as much.
But while many marketing officers are hired to make rapid changes, they have also found the job hard to keep.