Meet Michele
Michele is a multi-faceted branding, marketing communications and PR executive with experience creating and executing marketing and communications strategy in both B2C and B2B environments and across digital and traditional channels.
Michele’s experience in the fashion, luxury goods, travel/hospitality, B2B tech industries and supporting non-profit organizations has provided her with a broad bandwidth of know-how and global connections. She has successfully built mar-comm and PR departments for both startups and well-established companies and is widely respected across these industries for her accomplishments.
Michele has held Director and VP-level Marketing & PR roles at well-known, blue-chip heritage brands such as Panerai North America, Judith Leiber, Porsche Design and Cole Haan. She has also created merchandising programs for Condé Nast’s entire portfolio of magazines and was handpicked to run the North American Office of Baselworld, the world’s largest watch and jewelry show.
Giving BACK
Michele is committed to Diversity, Equity & Inclusion initiatives in the workplace and supporting community-improvement programs. She is an active volunteer for several non-profit organizations including the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Center and the Preservation Society of Newport County in Newport, RI. She has earned an advanced certification in Diversity & Inclusion at Work from Cornell University.
In 2011, along with her twin sister, Michele co-founded Sailing Heals, a MA-based non-profit organization that provides ‘spirit-lifting days at sea’ for those individuals and families dealing with a serious health setback like cancer. To date, the MA-based organization has taken more than 5,000 cancer patients and their caregivers out for healing sails and much-needed camaraderie.
