Bobbie Carlton

Founder, Innovation Women

Boston

Bobbie Carlton, founder of Carlton PR & Marketing, Innovation Nights and Innovation Women, is an award-winning marketing, PR and social media professional. In 2008, she started her own company…the first one. Carlton PR & Marketing is a boutique agency servicing a wide variety of technology startups and small companies.

Innovation Women is an online "visibility bureau" helping drive visibility for entrepreneurial, technical and innovative women through speaking engagements. Mass Innovation Nights (MIN) is a social media powered new product showcase. MIN has launched more than 1000 new products which have received a combined $2.1+ billion in funding.

In 2010 she was called one of the "Ten Bostonians who have done the most for the startup community", and in 2011 she was a recipient of a Mass High Tech All-star award. In 2015 she was named a Boston Business Journal Woman to Watch. In 2017 she was named a PR Gamechanger by PR News.

Carlton has more than 30 years of experience in public relations and marketing, including stints as the head of global PR for large public companies like Cognos and PTC, the head of marketing for a girl brand focused on positive role models for tweens, and work with various agencies in the Boston market.

Follow Bobbie on Twitter as @BobbieC or @WomenInno