• by Steve McClellan  @mp_mcclellan, August 9, 2021

VaynerX has appointed Vanessa Vining as its first Chief Diversity Officer. 

In this role, Vining will report to Chairman of VaynerX and CEO of VaynerMedia, Gary Vaynerchuk, and will lead the diversity, equity and inclusion efforts globally across the group of companies. 

Vining was most recently Senior Director, Cross-Cultural Strategy and Head of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at Hearts & Science, the Omnicom Group media agency. 

At Hearts & Sciences, she spearheaded the agency’s first DE&I Champions Committee “Change of Hearts” and was an OPEN Sponsor for Omnicom’s first Black Employee Resource Group “Black Together.”