EXCLUSIVE: Religion of Sports has hired Ben Whitla to be its CMO. ROS, the production company co-founded by Gotham Chopra, Tom Brady, and Michael Strahan, brings Whitla over from Grubhub.
He served as head of brand and creative for the food delivery service. Prior to joining Grubhub, Whitla was VP of Client Experience at Known, where he guided the marketing and branding for the first all civilian mission to space, Inspiration4.
That partnership with SpaceX and St. Jude Children’s Hospital sent four civilians into space, an event chronicled in a Netflix docu series.
He also Tiktok’s first national marketing campaign, and the rebranding of Rockefeller Center. Before that, he was a founding member of CNN’s Great Big Story, whose campaigns won numerous awards including the Cannes Lions.
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