Tom Noble '86 MBA '88
Department Head, MINI Marketing USA, BMW Group
Tom brings close to a decade of experience with the BMW Group, and more than twenty-five years of experience marketing global brands such as Nike and Adidas. Noble replaces Tom Salkowsky, who recently stepped into his role as Department Head of Key Account Management with the global MINI organization in Munich. Noble joins the MINI USA team from his current role as General Manager of Sales, BMW Group Australia, located in Melbourne. In his new role, Noble will work with the MINI USA team to deliver exciting, brand building, and showroom traffic-driving marketing campaigns. He will be responsible for leading the MINI brand positioning, developing long term strategies, and executing all consumer communications and content. Noble began his career at BMW Group in December of 2005 as General Manager of Marketing at BMW Australia and held that role until mid-2011 when the sales responsibility was incorporated into his portfolio. Noble spent much of his career on the agency side, including Saatchi and Saatchi in New York and Wieden & Kennedy in Portland, Oregon, and Amsterdam supporting the global Nike account and D’Arcy in Melbourne. Noble moved to Germany and became the Global Brand Manager for Adidas. He next moved on to head up the marketing program for the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. Later he became Brand Marketing Manager at the Australian Football League. Noble is a native of Long Island, New York, and has a BBA and MBA from the Raymond A. Mason School of Business at William & Mary in Williamsburg, VA.
