leesa d’alto

Leesa D’Alto has spent nearly 20 years driving corporate communications and media relations strategies as well as social media marketing campaigns for some of the biggest brands and companies. Most recently, Leesa led corporate media relations for Kyndryl, the IBM spin-off, as well as built and scaled the media relations program for the Amazon AI team. Prior to that, she led executive communications for Meta’s CTO, Andrew Bosworth, and was part of the team that rebranded the company from Facebook to Meta.

She also developed and spearheaded the global communications program for IBM’s Blockchain & AI Applications division and served as Managing Director at Moxie Communications Group, where she oversaw media relations and social media for clients such as Casper, Trivago, Evernote, MasterClass, Jetty, and Dollar Shave Club, having launched many of these before they were household names.

Leesa previously worked at Brew Media Relations, where she played an integral role in the development and execution of technology and business media relations for companies including One Kings Lane, SmartThings, Oracle, BaubleBar, Wealthfront, and Maker Studios. She began her career at Rogers & Cowan, working for some of the industry’s top music publicists supporting Elton John, Cyndi Lauper, Motley Crue, among others.