Elaine Leavenworth

Elaine Leavenworth retired as the Senior Vice President, Chief Marketing and External Affairs Officer at Abbott in August of 2018. She was appointed to that role in December 2014 after serving in a wide variety of leadership roles, spanning multiple businesses, corporate functions and geographies. Elaine’s career has been about building. Building new initiatives and enterprises for companies and the people they serve around the world. This has included working with start-ups and established organizations, governments and not for profits. For over 25 years, this work was done as a part of Abbott. Over this time, she held various management positions of increasing responsibility in Abbott’s Nutrition, International, Health Systems and Government Affairs Divisions. Prior to joining Abbott, she was a principal with Louden & Company, where she focused on marketing and strategy assignments for health care providers, suppliers, investors and associations. Elaine also held marketing positions at G.D. Searle & Co. And American Hospital Supply Corporation. Elaine takes Abbott’s mission of helping people live their best lives to heart, and so gives her time to many organizations that help people in her communities. She serves on the board of trustees of the Goodman Theater, the Board of Advisors of the Duke Global Health Institute, the Board of Directors of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and the Women’s Advisory Board of the Girl Scout Council of the Nation’s Capital. She is a member of the Economic Club of Chicago, The Chicago Network (where she served previously on the board of directors), and the Women’s Forum of Washington, D.C. During her time at Abbott, she was President of the Abbott Fund, Abbott’s philanthropic foundation, and also served on the board of the Clara Abbott Foundation from 2005 to 2014. She holds a B.A. In health policy from Duke University and an M.B.A. From Northwestern University.