Leah Caruso is a Principal, Chief Experience Officer and Chief Marketing Officer of Knapp Capital Management, where she leads brand strategy, experiential design, placemaking and market positioning across the platform's portfolio. Her career is defined by an ability to operate at the intersection of culture, brand and large-scale urban development delivering environments that perform operationally while resonating as destinations.

Prior to joining KCM, Caruso led Events and Brand Partnerships at the third largest hotel owner operator in the United States, directing experiential programming and activations across a portfolio of properties including TWA Hotel and The High Line Hotel. Before that, she spent three years at Hudson Yards New York, where she led all events, activations and cultural programming across the 12 million square foot, $20 billion Phase 1 campus. She executed partnerships with Fortune 100 companies including VISA, Microsoft, Netflix, Tiffany & Co. and Veuve Clicquot.

Previously, with Westfield World Trade Center, Caruso developed pre-opening, opening and post-opening brand strategies for the $4 billion Oculus and produced the first event ever held in the building in partnership with CFDA and Vogue Fashion Fund, establishing the cultural identity of one of the most visited destinations in New York City. Prior to her work in large-scale development, Caruso led marketing and brand strategy at Fifth & Pacific, working alongside Tim Gunn, Chief Creative Officer, building multi-platform strategies that fundamentally changed how women engage with fashion at retail.