MELISSA BROTZ

Senior Vice President, Global Marketing and External Affairs

Melissa is Abbott’s Senior Vice President, Global Marketing and External Affairs, serving as Abbott’s chief marketing, communications, and sustainability officer. She also serves as President of the Abbott Fund, Abbott’s philanthropic foundation.

 

Melissa was appointed to her current role in November 2024. She served as Vice President, Global Marketing and External Affairs beginning in September 2018. She joined Abbott in 1996, after several years with leading public relations agencies, and rose through a series of positions in its pharmaceuticals business and corporate office.

 

Melissa is a member of the Arthur W. Page Society, the Public Relations Society of America, the Association of National Advertisers Global CMO Growth Council, and the Medill School of Journalism Board of Advisers at Northwestern University, where she earned a bachelor’s degree in journalism.