Marta Tellado joined Consumer Reports in the fall of 2014 as President and CEO following more than 25 years of experience helping to drive philanthropic and public service organizations.
With a mission of working with consumers to create a fairer, safer, and healthier world, Consumer Reports has built a reputation for rigorous testing, impartial analysis, and consumer-first policy action over its 80-year history.
Prior to leading Consumer Reports, Marta served as Vice President for Global Communications for the Ford Foundation in New York, where she was also a board officer.
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New Ratings Bring Accountability to P2P Payment Services
Consumer Reports is introducing a new type of rating of P2P payment services that allows consumers to compare them based on how responsibly they handle user data.
Craig Newmark and Marta Tellado on Shifting Power Back to Consumers
How Do We Know Our Technology is Safe? Craigslist founder Craig Newmark has funded a large new effort at CR to assess and monitor the tools of digital life, just as in the past for cars and washing machines. The goal: shift power back to the hands of consumers.
Who Can You Trust in an Age of Transparency?
Session Description: The landscape of marketing and innovation is transformed because consumers now have a voice. The full transcript can be found below with a PDF version available here. Who Can You Trust in an Age of Transparency? (Transcription by RA Fisher Ink) Kampel: Marta Tellado is the CEO of Consumer Reports and Tim Baxter is […]
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Should Data Ownership be a Civil Right?
Session Description: Every time we engage with a connected device, we’re generating data and value. More often than not that value does not accrue to ourselves. As data becomes the most valuable asset we have, why don’t we have ownership or control? Could we make it happen? The full transcript is also available here as a downloadable PDF. […]
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Techonomy 22
Innovation and technology have the power to save us – if we act rapidly in multiple realms. We face daunting dilemmas – the climate crisis, war, a continuing global pandemic, refugees, and gyrating economies. But there is hope.
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Techonomy 19
The theme for Techonomy 2019 in Half Moon Bay, California was “Reset and Restore: Governing Tech, Retrieving Ethics, and Acting on Climate.” We are in a unique period when corporate responsibility and big-picture thinking is absolutely essential.
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Techonomy 17
“The idea that fake news on Facebook…influenced the election in any way, I think is a pretty crazy idea,” said Mark Zuckerberg onstage at Techonomy 2016. He has subsequently recanted.
