
She swapped Capitol Hill for the corner office of marketing, and now she has to make accounting, tax and insurance sound like something worth reading. Here is how a campaign operative became the brand voice of a $2.8 billion firm.

A journalism major who joined Abbott in 1996 now runs marketing, communications, and philanthropy for one of the biggest names in health - and she still argues the only thing that matters is whether you are relevant to the people you are trying to reach.

She was Hillary Clinton's press secretary at 27, built a women's financial business inside Citigroup, and now runs marketing for one of America's largest insurers. The through-line is a stool with four legs and a plate of spaghetti.