Dee Poku

Dee Poku is the founder and CEO of The WIE Suite, a private membership community for women in leadership. Its mission is to redefine the way women leaders achieve success for themselves and for their companies by providing the community and tools for them to succeed at the highest levels. The WIE Suite also accelerates growth for companies by helping them attract, retain and grow talent.

A former Hollywood studio executive, Dee’s background includes senior marketing roles at Paramount Pictures and Focus Features (a division of Universal Pictures). She oversaw the international campaigns on numerous award-winning films including Al Gore’s ‘An Inconvenient Truth’, the Coen brothers’ ‘No Country For Old Men’ & ‘O Brother Where Art Thou’, Sofia Coppola’s ‘Lost in Translation’, Alejandro González Iñárritu’s ‘Babel’ & ’21 Grams’, and Ang Lee’s ‘Brokeback Mountain’.

Dee was named one of Marie Claire’s 50 women changing the world among other accolades. She serves on the Board of Directors of the Gotham Institute, the British Academy of Film & Television (BAFTA) and the Brooklyn Bridge Conservancy and was previously on the Credit Suisse New Markets Women’s Advisory Board.

She is also an advisor to various startups including Girl Gaze, Paint Box, Female Founders Collective and The Wonder, and serves as a contributor to Forbes Women.