Laura L. Evanson became Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer of Graco in January 2024. From January 2023 to December 2024 she served as Executive Vice President, Marketing, and from September 2021 to December 2022 she served as Vice President of Marketing for the Lubrication Equipment Division and Vice President of Marketing for South and Central America.
From 2017 to September 2021 she was Director of Marketing for the Lubrication Equipment Division, having earlier served as a Senior Global Marketing Manager for the Lubrication Equipment Division from 2015 to 2017 and as a Senior Global Product Marketing Manager for the Lubrication Equipment Division from 2010 to 2015. Before that she worked in various Product Marketing and Channel Marketing roles for the Lubrication Equipment Division and Industrial Products Division. She joined the Company in 2008.
Ms. Evanson holds a Master of Business Administration and a Bachelor of Science in Business from St. Cloud State University.