Elizabeth H. Ronn

Elizabeth Hodge Ronn of Palo Alto, Calif., is an alumna of LSU, where she earned a bachelor’s degree with honors in economics. She also holds an MBA from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business. Ronn is a partner at Innovation Portfolio Partners, a Silicon Valley-based firm that helps CEOs and the top management of Fortune 500 companies find and develop new-to-the-world products and services. She co-founded VC-backed Butterfly Health Inc., which introduced Butterfly body liners nationally in September 2013 and sold to Domtar in 2015.

Ronn is the former vice president of marketing at the Procter & Gamble Co. (P&G). She joined P&G out of the Stanford Graduate School of Business in 1984 and retired in January 2009. While at P&G, she was responsible for the marketing of over half the brands at P&G, representing $45 billion in sales, and led the team that restructured P&G to ensure brand franchise managers led the marketing of global brands.

In 1999, Ronn was named to the inaugural class of Harley Procter Marketers, recognized as the best long-term business-building marketers in P&G who have achieved sustained, outstanding brand building results.

Ronn currently serves on the Board of Directors of Health2047, Inc; she is chair of the Governance Council of WANDA (Women’s Achievement Network and Development Alliance), a non-profit helping single moms in Silicon Valley break the cycle of poverty; is on the Ogden Honors College Advisory Board at LSU and the Board of the LSU Foundation; is on the Board of the Stanford Red Barn; is a volunteer teacher at Sequoia High School, Redwood City, California, in the Future Profits program; and she advises several startup firms in marketing and strategic positioning. She previously served on the Board of Trustees for the San Francisco Art Institute.

Ronn is married to Karl P. Ronn and has two children.