Victoria Clarke

Torie Clarke’s career spans leadership roles across the media, defense, technology and manufacturing sectors in public and private arenas. Throughout those roles, she emphasized collaboration with operational leaders to ensure that public affairs, brand strategy and business execution work in concert to achieve measurable results. She applied this model at the U.S. Department of Defense, ComcastNBC Universal, SAP and 3M, aligning enterprise-wide efforts to deliver cohesive strategies that support performance and business expansion. As assistant secretary of defense for public affairs, she directed global communications for the Department of Defense during periods of war and historic transformation. In the private sector, she has advised Fortune 100 companies and boards on reputation, policy and strategy as executive vice president and chief public affairs officer at 3M, head of global corporate affairs at SAP and senior advisor at Comcast. Torie is also the author of “Lipstick on a Pig: Winning In the No-Spin Era by Someone Who Knows the Game and A Survivor’s Guide to Washington.”