Vice President, Brand Strategy,
Anthem Worldwide, San Francisco
Kathy Oneto is an experienced brand marketer with over fifteen years of marketing and general business management experience. At Anthem, Kathy has led strategic engagements with clients such as Avery, Chevron, Diamond Foods, Peet’s Coffee & Tea, PetSmart, Safeway, and Seagate.
Prior to Anthem, Kathy was co-founder and Vice President of Marketing at Attune Foods where she was responsible for defining the brand strategy and business proposition and instrumental in bringing the business to life. She leveraged her prior consumer packaged goods experience at Clorox in base brand management, new product development, and retailer marketing. Earlier in her career, Kathy worked at Young & Rubicam and Burson-Marsteller, supporting senior leadership.
Kathy graduated from the University of Virginia with a BS in Commerce and has an MBA from UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business.
With fewer new brands being created by large CPG companies, more companies are extending traditionally gender focused brands or product offerings to appeal to the other 50 percent, be it men or women.
Anthem's expert Kathy Oneto forecasts that 2012 is the year of Movement and Progress across a number of dimensions.
In today’s tough marketplace, we are seeing more and more brands trying to grow through stretching their equities, sometimes pushing the envelope and challenging consumers’ perceptions of what the brand is all about.
Love Starbucks or hate Starbucks, the company has done many things right in managing its business and brand over its history, and especially since the downturn in 2008.
“For an average consumer the value of branding is down to making the right choice”

Sara Jones, Creative Director at brand development and packaging design agency Anthem Worldwide, shares her round up of the top five print innovations, which have the potential to create real standout, as long as they’re used to enhance –- rather than ‘be’ -- the brand idea.
If you had to choose the ultimate business super power, what would it be? Big budgets, global reach, an innovation pipeline full to bursting, a PR machine capable of generating positive press 24/7? Without hesitation, I answered “agility.”
Cheryl Swanson, Head of Toniq, once again explores the consumer trends for different age groups in the USA.
Before we had Apple Macs, Photoshop and a myriad of other programmes, design centered on tradition and craftsmanship, on the physical and the tactile. Yet now, we see the worlds of digital design and physical craftsmanship joining to create new expressions and celebrations of the power of making.
There’s a natural relationship between the style of our daily surroundings and how we feel. A great space can make us feel better, more hopeful and even more productive. And we often use our own space to express a vision of ourselves.

