Laura Desmond has served as Chief Executive Officer at Smartly.io, an advertising technology company, since September 2022, and as Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Eagle Vista Partners since March 2017. She served as Chief Revenue Officer of Publicis Groupe from December 2016 to December 2017 and as Global Chief Executive Officer of Starcom MediaVest Group from 2008 to December 2016, having earlier led MediaVest and other Publicis units. She holds a B.B.A. in Marketing from the University of Iowa.