Joe Gallo

Joseph Gallo is a strategic communications leader with over 20 years of experience adapting to the evolving media landscape. Currently Director of Communications at PayPal, he leads the crypto and advertising divisions, where he develops integrated strategies that reach targeted audiences to increase awareness and consideration. 

Throughout his career, Joe has specialized in building communications programs that seamlessly integrate earned, paid, internal, social, and owned channels. His approach emphasizes strategic storytelling that adapts to changing audience expectations while ensuring organizational alignment across teams and touchpoints. These strategies span traditional and emerging channels, leveraging podcasts, newsletters, video content and traditional media to create meet specific audience segments where they are consuming media.

Prior to PayPal, he held leadership positions at IBM, Weber Shandwick, Nokia, and Ketchum, among others, where he consistently delivered measurable business impact through audience-first, reputation-led strategies.