Claudia Ross is the Principal and CEO of Cross Marketing, a public relations and marketing company in San Francisco with representation in Los Angeles and partners in each major market nationwide. She has served as a Marketing Instructor at the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising, has been invited to speak at UC Berkeley and University of San Francisco's Marketing and Business Schools for her expertise in strategic marketing, and has been featured in 2009 book Y In the Workplace and on national Blogtalk Radio. From 1997 to 2006, Ross was the Northwest Advertising Director for both Harper's Bazaar and Marie Claire magazines, where she worked with a variety of fashion, beauty and non-endemic accounts providing sales and marketing partnerships to companies such as Nike and Gap Inc. In 2005, Claudia Castillo Ross founded Cross Marketing in San Francisco, dedicated to pursuing a cross between marketing and philanthropy.
As Chairman of the Board for Raphael House and a partner for several non-profit organizations, Ross has been active in the community and served as Chair for several large-scale fundraising programs. She is committed to growing her marketing company by providing multi- platform marketing and public relations services for clients such as CHANEL, Louis Vuitton, Saks Fifth Avenue, Banana Republic, Restoration Hardware, John Varvatos, and Goyard, as well as a variety of non-profit organizations in the Bay Area. Ross is the national "Style Expert" for Judith Ripka, and has appeared on national television shows such as the E! Red Carpet Pre-Show for the 2008 Emmy’s and the 2009 SAG Awards, and on Lifetime’s BLUSH series.
Claudia Castillo Ross has been named one of the top three PR women in San Francisco by San Francisco Magazine in its July 2006 Best of the Bay issue. She was recently featured on ABC 7's View from the Bay as a philanthropist and "Party Planner Extraordinaire" and in W Magazine's January 2010 issue as their Guest Style Guru.
Claudia Castillo Ross has lived in Europe, Latin America and most recently, in the Bay Area with her husband and two sons.
