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## Segment 6 — agentic

## Article 2 — a002

# Michelle Taite

**Michelle Taite** is a co-author of the source article and the **practitioner/CMO voice** of the piece. She is a marketing executive who most recently served as CMO of Intuit Mailchimp, and previously held roles at Intuit QuickBooks, Unilever, and New Balance.

**Role in the source:** Co-author (byline). Brings senior marketing-leadership perspective to the argument that the CMO role is becoming an unintentional bottleneck.

**Attributed contributions to this vault** (co-authored with [[entity-john-winsor]] and [[entity-will-fernandez]]):
- The central thesis and the [[concept-agentic-marketing-organization]] model.
- The [[framework-platform-layers]] and [[framework-five-agentic-workstreams]].
- Claims including [[claim-marketing-bottleneck]], [[claim-localized-ai-gains-insufficient]], and [[claim-technical-skills-secondary]].
- Quotes including [[quote-cmo-bottleneck]] and [[quote-value-shifts-to-judgment]].

**Canonical URL:** linkedin.com/in/michelletaite