Lisa Caputo is the executive vice president and chief marketing and communications officer for The Travelers Companies, Inc. She joined Travelers on June 1, 2011. At Travelers, she is a member of the Management and Operating Committees and the Travelers Foundation Board. She leads the company's marketing, research, branding, corporate communications, customer experience and creative services functions and works closely with investor relations and government relations. Previously she was executive vice president of global marketing and corporate affairs for Citigroup. She was the founder, chairman and CEO of Citi's Women & Co. business from January 2000 until 2010. She was a member of Citi's senior leadership committee and is the co-head of Citi's Women's Initiative.

Caputo is also a television commentator and public speaker on current events and politics. She spent over ten years in the public sector, serving as Deputy Assistant to President Clinton and Press Secretary to First Lady Hillary Clinton through President Clinton's first term in office.

Education

Caputo graduated magna cum laude from Brown University with degrees in Political Science and French,

Business career

The Travelers Companies, Inc.

Since joining The Travelers Companies, Inc. in 2011 as its executive vice president and Chief Marketing and Communications Officer, Caputo has overseen the company's marketing, research, branding, creative services, corporate communications and customer experience, strategies and operations. She is a member of the Travelers Foundation Board and is a senior member of their executive management team, serving on their Management and Operating Committees.

Citigroup Global Consumer Group

Previously, Caputo was Senior Managing Director, Business Operations and Planning, Citi's Global Consumer Group. In this role, Caputo oversaw community relations, public affairs, internal communications, executive communications and the Office of Financial Education for the Global Consumer Group. Additionally, she served as Chief of Staff to the Global Consumer Group CEO, where she worked with senior managers to develop and implement strategies to expand the business and coordinate business activities across the Global Consumer Group as well as across other Citi businesses. At the request of the Citi CEO, Caputo also developed a strategic plan and organizational structure for the Citi Foundation to focus the company's philanthropic giving.

CBS Corporation

Caputo joined Disney after serving as Vice President of Corporate Communications for the CBS Corporation from 1996 to 1998. At CBS, she helped oversee a department which handled issues relating to CBS management, business operations and program publicity. She was also responsible for media relations, special projects and public affairs objectives in all aspects of CBS, and managed the CBS/TIME millennium symposium project, which resulted in the production of a series of nationally broadcast television shows. She has been an NBC and MSNBC political analyst for the past presidential election cycles and was a contributing editor to George magazine. She also served as a co-host of CNN's Crossfire and CNBC and MSNBC's Equal Time. at the age of 27. and is a board member of the following organizations: The J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Program, WNET Channel 13, New Visions for Public Schools, the Creative Coalition. She is a member of the Reuters Editorial Advisory Board, the advisory council on Media Relations for Brown University, the board of advisors of Northwestern University's Medill School, the New York Restoration Project Chairman's Council, the New York Presbyterian Sloane Hospital Advisory Committee. Caputo is a member of the Brookings Institution's Public Sector Leadership Initiative Advisory Board, the Council on Foreign Relations, the Economic Club of New York and the Financial Women's Association.

Awards and honors

Caputo has been selected as the AWNY Advertising Woman of the Year and one of Ad Age's Advertising Women to Watch. She is a NYWICI Matrix Winner for outstanding achievements in the communications industry Caputo was selected as a Young Global Leader of The World Economic Forum. She was named one of "New York's Rising Stars: 40 under 40" by Crain's New York Business. She was named by Crain's New York Business as one of the six New York women who are emerging as influential. She was also named by Crain's New York Business as one of New York's most connected New Yorkers.

In December 2010, she was named a 2011 winner of the NCAA Silver Anniversary Award, given annually to six former NCAA student-athletes for distinguished career accomplishment on the 25th anniversary of their college graduation. Among her fellow honorees from that class were former NFL and Major League Baseball player Bo Jackson and current New York Yankees manager Joe Girardi.

In December 2016, Caputo was inducted into PRWeek's Hall of Fame in recognition of her "outstanding contribution to the development of the communications industry".

Personal life

Caputo lives in New York with her husband and two children.

References

  • Women & Co.