Stacey Cost brings proven executive marketing experience, having held responsibility for brand strategy, advertising, research, sales support, creative services, and digital marketing across six diverse industries. Her experience ranges from Fortune 100 companies to startups.

Industry Expertise:

• Healthcare

• Retail and Consumer Packaged Goods

• Financial Services

• Mobile Telecommunications

• Technology/Dot-com

• Extensive startup and enterprise experience

Entrepreneurial Success: Co-founded Swan Interactive Media (1994-1997) with Mark Swanson, pioneering multimedia internet-based technology that helped BellSouth Mobility's national accounts team gain competitive advantage, generating new accounts and revenue before merging with iXL in 1997.

Stacey Cost is working to elevate New Mexico's business presence through New Mexico Venture Studios—a concept she believes creates meaningful impact for founders, businesses, and the state as a whole. Her approach combines research, teamwork, collaboration, mentoring, technology, and creativity — with occasional lucky breaks that never hurt.

When she's not working, Stacey enjoys dry humor, reading, dogs, brainstorming sessions, following her curiosity, thinking quickly, authenticity, team players, integrity, and laughing so hard she cries.