Laura Graham

With 30 years of experience in marketing communications, Laura Graham is skilled in marketing strategy, brand development and corporate messaging. She was immersed in advertising/PR from an early age through her family’s ad agency in operation for 40 years. After a short time in public relations at Lane Marketing Group, Inc., Laura joined BANK IV/Fourth Financial where she became Assistant Vice President, Advertising Manager for the bank’s network of more than 100 locations with $8 billion in assets. After the company was acquired by Bank of America in 1997, Laura moved to $3 billion INTRUST Bank where she served as Vice President, Director of Marketing until 2005. In 2007, Laura became a founding team member for CrossFirst Bank, a de novo bank that grew to $3.5 billion in assets in Kansas City, Wichita, Oklahoma City, Tulsa and Dallas. As Director, Marketing & Brand Management, she created the bank’s name and developed its exclusive brand identity program over an 11-year time span. Laura’s inspired by this opportunity to build a national brand around “doing good in uncommon ways.”