BRITE ’23 SPEAKERS: LAUREL ROSSI

LAUREL ROSSI

Chief Marketing Officer, Infillion

Laurel Rossi is a strategic, creative and operational leader with global experience developing new economy businesses, building brands, energizing teams and harnessing insights and relationships to generate profitable revenue. She is Chief Marketing Officer and a member of the C-suite at Infillion and an advisor to boards of directors on marketing strategy, DE&I, business development, digital and performance marketing. Prior to Infillion, Laurel served as the head of business development at OMD and Organic, part of Omnicom, and founded digital agency StrategyFarm, which she later sold to Havas in 2009. Laurel began her career as a brand manager at Revlon and Citigroup. Laurel is also an award-winning creative business leader working on transformational business strategies for brands including Verizon, CVS, Cleveland Clinic, Amgen, Pepsi, and AT&T.

Laurel’s most satisfying work over the course of her career has been her deep devotion to leading diversity initiatives at Interpublic where she was a founding member of the Women’s Leadership Network, her work at The ADVERTISING Club of New York, where she also served as board chair and started the Women’s Masterclass and Fellowship program that invests in and mentors mid-level women of color. Laurel is deeply devoted to Creative Spirit an organization she co-founded in 2017, that advocates for economic security for people with disabilities by matching them with fair wage, integrated positions at the best companies in the world. Creative Spirit’s work has expanded to include training for companies who want to include individuals with disabilities in their DE&I efforts and representation of people with disabilities in media, music, advertising and film.

Laurel lives in New York with her beloved daughter Mia, husband Joseph and her 10-pound yorkie Galinda. The best part of her day is spent volunteering, running and having fun with her daughter who is off to Syracuse University this year—whom she already misses dearly.