April 24, 2026
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Cornell Tech, New York City
About Speaker

Leigh Gallagher
Senior Managing Director
Teneo
Leigh Gallagher is Senior Managing Director at Teneo and a veteran business journalist and communications executive. At Teneo, the global CEO advisory firm, she advises companies on corporate and financial strategic communications. She was previously Director of External Affairs at Google, where she led a team focused on high-level media engagement across Google’s leadership team. Leigh spent the bulk of her career as a business journalist, including more than a decade at Fortune, where she was Editor-at-Large, leader of the Most Powerful Women Summit and other key franchises, and a regular on-air commentator on CNBC, MSNBC, NPR and other outlets. She is the author of two acclaimed books, The Airbnb Story and The End of the Suburbs. Leigh is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and lives in New York.