Suzanna Keith

 As Founder & CEO of Hello Career Guru, Suzanna brings extensive experience as a senior marketing, sales, & innovation executive with a proven history of driving revenue.  She provides strong leadership skills & deep brand-building experience from Fortune 500 companies, Y Combinator startups & not for profits. Suzanna is a visionary in identifying & leveraging cutting edge insights & innovations to launch new brands. Her expertise includes successfully leading multifunctional project management teams for brand innovation, content creation & advertising, promotion & event marketing, & financial management.

After an esteemed career in brand marketing at Bayer, Revlon & Combe Inc., she served in senior marketing & sales roles:

• Founder/President, Twig Inc: started a not for profit (501c3) fundraising for the local EMS
• Founder/CEO, SKConcepts: built a marketing innovation & social media consultancy with clients: Avon, Boehringer-Ingelheim, Clairol, Dannon, Estee Lauder,  L’Oreal, Just Ask a Woman, Pepsi, Pfizer, Redken, & Revlon
• Founder/Influencer, Techandtravelmom.com: published over 150 blogs: female thought leadership, tech innovation (Verizon), sports & travel while developing a social media community and local TV show: 11k+ Twitter followers (Named a woman to watch 2015) & 6k+ followers on other key platforms
• Deputy Mayor (Elected: Rye City Council): sponsored critical pedestrian safety, & first-ever environmental sustainability legislation (plastic bag ban) while overseeing financial budgets and creating the City “not for profit council”; Ran for county legislature
• EVP & senior sales roles in digital & social media: The Online Mom, Blissful Media, Buzzstarter, & Zoom Media. Closed sales with AMEX, AMC Network, Coca-Cola, Dr. Scholl’s, Sun Products, Under Armour, USTA, USA Networks, WWE, & P&G
• Co-Founder Women In Innovation: Women in Innovation is a community focused on elevating women who are pushing the boundaries of innovation in Westchester County, New York, and Fairfield County, Connecticut. We bring together women accelerating the pace of change across industries including, Technology, Digital Media, Advertising, Marketing, IT, Venture Capital, Entrepreneurship, Engineering and Science, Bio-Tech and Pharma. Our goal is to: – Empower women in innovation by hosting events that feature top speakers and great networking opportunities. – Educate women with the latest innovation & technology trends so they can stay at the forefront of change in their fields. Join: here
• Founder All Raise: All Raise is comprisedof a group of 170+ female founders and 30+ female VCs joining forces to increase the number of women who raise money to start companies. All Raise is on a mission to accelerate the success of female founders by offering access to 1:1 mentoring and community.
• Senior marketing & sales roles: The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society: sports e-commerce, email marketing & digital advertising

Originally from Bristol, TN, Suzanna graduated from Bryn Mawr College and received her MBA in marketing from New York University.