Elisa Camahort Page

TL;DR: Known as the co-founder and COO of scrappy start-up-turned-global women's media company BlogHer, Inc., Elisa is not an author, advisor, and advocate, consulting with entrepreneurs, thought leaders, and organizations to make their vision a reality. To take their big ideas and bring them to life. To help them reach their next level.

Expertise: Start-up/Community Growth, Consumer Research, Diversity & Inclusion, Marketing, including PR, Events, Social, Content Strategy

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In 2005, after almost a decade in tech, including being one of the earliest practitioners to help organizations bring marketing and social media together, Elisa co-founded BlogHer and served as BlogHer's COO until the company was acquired in 2014 by SheKnows Media, where Elisa eventually served as Chief Community Officer until 2017. As COO, Elisa worked across every business function including sales and service, marketing, content programming, and G&A. She most notably ran BlogHer's conference line of business and owned PR and social media strategy, including conducting and presenting consumer research that validated the market BlogHer created and presaged industry changes.

BlogHer was a movement that created a market, ultimately becoming a national women's media brand with 100 million web users, thousands of conference attendees, and >$30 million in annual revenue. At the forefront of the social web revolution, BlogHer built value for women online and modeled how to build community, grow a business, support diversity in words and action, and defend transparency and civility as content, community, and commerce collide online.

As a consultant and coach, Elisa works with leaders at every level to assess opportunity, prioritize objectives, build strategies, plan action, and transform how to align and communicate core values. Elisa absorbs nuanced value propositions, market trends, and data to transform ideas into assets and crossroads into confident pivots and next level achievement.

As a speaker, Elisa has delivered keynote presentations and conducted high-profile interviews across the globe to audiences numbering in the thousands. A sampling of speaking engagements include: United States of Women, DENT, TEDx, DLD Women, Blackberry Live, SXSW, Women's Leadership Summit, and many BlogHer Conferences, where Elisa interviewed luminaries, such as Martha Stewart, Gwyneth Paltrow, Tig Notaro, Kim Kardashian West, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Luvvie Ajayi, Gale Ann Hurd, Caterina Fake, David Lebovitz, and Guy Kawasaki. C

Elisa is a Founding Fellow of the Society for New Communications Research and serves on numerous boards, including for the NanoSTEAM Foundation, The What, Hack the Hood, Our Hen House, and has been on the SXSW Interactive programming committee twelve years.

Elisa has been named a Social Media Legend by the C-Suite Network, a Top Woman in Media by Folio, one of the Alliance of Women in Media's Sixty@60 honorees, an NCWIT Hero by NCWIT, and was honored with a 2018 Purpose Award by Egami Consulting.

The BlogHer founding team was named among the Most Powerful Women Entrepreneurs by Fortune, the Most Powerful People in New Media by Forbes, the Most Influential Women in Technology by Fast Company, the Winning Women Class of 2011 by Ernst & Young, and the Most Influential Women in Bay Area Business by the San Francisco Business Journal. In addition, they were awarded the Social Impact Award by the Anita Borg Institute and the Iris Awards Vanguard Award by Mom 2.0 Summit.