Kathleen Ventrella

Kathleen serves as the Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer of ImpactWayv, overseeing integrated marketing strategy development and implementation for the ImpactWayv™ Social Impact Technology Platform. In addition, through ImpactWayv’s Social Impact Services Platform, Kathleen has helped to develop a marketing and fundraising campaign for the Lieber Institute for Brain Development. In her previous role as an independent consultant at Changing The World, Kathleen managed consulting engagements with major clients like Harry Winston, Bally, and Xylem, Inc. Prior to that, Kathleen was a Director of Partner Management at (Product) RED where she managed existing partner relationships and developed strategies and proposals for potential new corporate partners.

Having started her career as an advertising executive, Kathleen understands the corporate sector, and has over 20 years of broad management experience. Kathleen developed integrated communications plans for national and global brands from strategy development through plan execution. Her accounts have ranged from Philips Electronics, to Hasbro Toys, to Estee Lauder cosmetics.

Kathleen recently co-founded SuccessReady, an organization that provides financially in-need college students with free-professional attire, interview preparation, and career mentoring. She is on the Leadership Council of Cordaid, a global humanitarian organization, and is an Advisory Board member of the iF Foundation, an agricultural initiative in Haiti. Kathleen lives in Rye, NY with her husband and two teenage children.