PARTNERSHIP GAINS NEW BOARD MEMBER

The Stamford Partnership”™s  newest board member is Lisa Lanspery, senior vice president of external communications at Synchrony, a Fortune 200 consumer finance company. With more than two decades of expertise in corporate communications, Lanspery has a range of experience in public relations, issues management, storytelling and brand positioning. 

Prior to joining Synchrony, she was vice president of communications at IBM, where she led a global team of internal, external, executive and social media leaders to help tell the company”™s $16 billion cloud and systems hardware story. Lanspery also held public relations roles at GE and at barnesandnoble.com, where she took the company through an initial public offering. She also worked in New York City at Burson-Marsteller (now BCW), one of the world”™s largest communications agencies. She started her career working for President Clinton at the White House.

Lanspery holds a bachelor”™s degree in journalism from Ohio University. She is also a member of the Communications Week Advisory Board for Ragan Communications, a member of the Financial Narrative and a member of the Public Relations Society of America.