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Uwe Ellinghaus hates clichés. As CMO of Cadillac, his main directive is to avoid them: no ads with SUVs zooming down a mountain, or a litany of hot features. Some of Cadillac's latest ads don't even show a car. When your sales lag far behind your competitors, you have the freedom to do something drastic, and Ellinghaus, who joined Cadillac as marketing chief in 2014 after a stint as evp of marketing and sales at Montblanc and 15 years as a marketing exec at BMW, relishes that freedom.

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