JOHN AIELLO  

Co-Founder and CEO, The SAVO Group

John oversees marketing, sales, services and operations at SAVO and is the firm’s chief evangelist for the concept of marketing and sales collaboration around revenue generation.

Throughout his career, John has brought his distinct passion for market-driven, results-oriented solutions to marketing and sales challenges for a wide range of organizations, from startup to Fortune 500, not-for-profit to publicly-traded. Prior to founding SAVO in 1999, he served as Director of Recruitment and Retention for a Chicago-area private high school, Brand Manager for the Miller Brewing Company, and Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Sundance Homes, a publicly traded homebuilder in the Midwest. John holds a BA from the University of Illinois and an MBA from Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management, and is a frequent speaker for the American Marketing Association and numerous other marketing and sales-related organizations. In addition, John is currently a Board Member for the Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce and serves as a Trustee at The Adler Planetarium.