Susanna Elliott
Susanna Elliott
Chief Marketing and Communications Officer
Susanna Elliott leads Alltech’s global marketing team to advance the company’s purpose of Working Together for a Planet of Plenty® through data-driven insights and the generation of rich resources and inspiration relevant to agriculture’s opportunities. Most recently, this has included the creation of the company’s first full-length documentary, World Without Cows, which she helped produce.
Previously, Elliott served as chief of staff and director of communications, working closely with Alltech president and CEO Dr. Mark Lyons and the executive team to support the business through the global challenges of 2020-2023. The position afforded her unique visibility of the entire business, a perspective that now informs her leadership of the global marketing and communications strategy.
Elliott specializes in reputation management, corporate and executive communications, and editorial strategy. She has managed communications during some of Alltech’s most significant moments, including when 20 mergers and acquisitions vaulted the company from $500 million to $2 billion in the span of a few short years, and when the company founder, Dr. Pearse Lyons, unexpectedly passed away in 2018.
She was the public relations manager for Alltech’s title sponsorship investment in the Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games™ 2010 and helped the animal nutrition brand introduce itself on a global stage, working with more than 1,100 media from 60 countries on-site during the 16-day Games to secure Alltech’s first network and mainstream media interviews. She also crafted the communications strategy for Alltech’s unique global partnership for the Games with 67 companies in 38 countries.
She is active in supporting the agri-food industry, serving on the American Feed Industry Association Board of Directors executive committee, the IFEEDER board of trustees and as the chair of the CLEAR Center’s advisory council at the University of California, Davis. Elliott is a graduate of Alltech’s Mini-MBA executive management program and has received certification from the Institute for Crisis Management. She received a bachelor’s degree in public relations from Asbury University and served as an assistant to the governor of Kentucky prior to joining the Alltech team in 2008.
