A highly respected marketing maven, Martino has excelled in creating successful promotional, marketing and branding strategies for a wealth of high-profile clientele, as well as creating numerous independent ventures focused on lifestyle centric endeavors such as the arts, culinary masters, education and Philanthropy. Her diversified clientele list spans several market sectors from professional organizations, to gaming resorts, residential/commercial real estate, medical, financial and retail markets. Martino has guided her team of creative designers, marketing strategists and writers to achieve hundreds of awards for her company and clients.
She is Founder/President of BRAND, LTD., a diversity-certified full-service advertising agency, providing integrated marketing solutions that emotionally connect with its client’s customers to create a true “branded” experience with its product or service offering.
Martino is also the co-founder and president of The Odyssey Lifestyle, producer of wine, food and lifestyle events. In 2000, Odyssey Las Vegas, the first-ever gourmet food, fine wine and arts four-day event was created to promote the city’s burgeoning culinary scene. Eight years later, the popular Odyssey Las Vegas event has expanded into Odyssey Travel with its gourmet food, wine and arts transported to a luxury cruise experience across the European waterways. To date, Odyssey Lifestyle has raised over $750,000 for many worthwhile non-profit organizations.
In 2005, Martino, together with her husband Mark V. Martino, co-founded The Odyssey Foundation, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that provides scholarships to students enrolled at Le Cordon Bleu College of Culinary Arts Las Vegas.
Among the many accolades, Martino has won over 50 national American Corporate Identity Awards of Excellence, 15 Addy Awards including Best of Show, 12 Addy Awards of Excellence, 4 Pinnacle Awards of Excellence, an Award of Merit from PRSA and was featured in the Big Book of Design for Business and Web sites; she is included in the Nationwide Register’s Who’s Who in Executives and Businesses in 2000-2001 and 2002-2003 editions, and one of the 2002 Distinguished Women in Southern Nevada.
A graduate of Montana State University, Martino currently resides in Las Vegas, NV.
