TRACEY G. RIESE

Tracey Riese founded T.G. Riese & Associates in 1994 after 15 years on both the agency and client sides of the business.

Prior to starting T.G. Riese & Associates, Tracey was Senior Vice President, Corporate and Marketing Communications Worldwide at Revlon. Before that she had held senior corporate and marketing communications positions at RJR Nabisco, and Chemical Bank. In these positions, she led corporate branding, leadership positioning, internal communications, culture change initiatives and community relations/cultural affairs programs.

She began her career in marketing and communications at Young & Rubicam and Burson-Marsteller, where she held progressively senior client management positions managing cross-disciplinary account teams for such clients as AT&T, Merrill Lynch, Johnson & Johnson, Time Inc., Herman Miller and Cointreau Liqueurs. Before joining the agency, she had helped launch the corporate art advisory business at Sotheby's.

Outside of TG Riese & Associates, Tracey is a managing director of angel investor group Golden Seeds. She also runs an annual seminar on Leadership Communication for rabbinical students at Jewish Theological Seminary, and is a guest lecturer on Branding at NYU's school of professional studies.

She is also actively engaged in philanthropic leadership. She currently serves on the Executive Committee of the Boards of A Better Chance and el Museo del Barrio, as well as serving as a trustee of Hunter College Foundation. Previously she served on the boards of the Brooklyn Museum and Goddard College.

Her work has received several industry and agency awards. She holds a B.A. from Sarah Lawrence College.