Laurie Van Metre
President, Founding Partner
lvanmetre@fvmadvertising.com | 484-362-1421
It’s our pleasure to introduce you to Laurie Van Metre. In fact, now that you know her, we’re sure you will never forget her. That’s because she is a true original. Laurie is the Van Metre in Fleming & Van Metre Advertising – a key part of the agency’s vision, and a driving force behind its smart, savvy, and simply fun attitude.
What can we say about meetings with Laurie? Around here, we like to believe there’s no such thing as meetings with Laurie – every sit-down feels like you’re chatting over coffee. Spend five minutes in her warm, engaging presence and you’ll laugh so hard, you’ll swear you’re not working. Then before you know it, she’ll hit you with something so spot-on perfect – so dare-we-say profound – that you’ll realize, all along, she was just getting down to the real, nitty-gritty nugget of truth about each one of your challenges and goals. It’s sort of like getting to the Tootsie Roll center of a Tootsie Pop. Except it’s advertising, instead of a Tootsie Pop. But you get the idea.
Laurie holds a degree in Marketing from the University of Delaware. She laughingly describes herself as “tenacious to a fault.” A former windsurfer, she enjoys golf (handicap: “I haven’t broken 100 yet”), gardening, going ‘down the shore’ and home remodeling. But her favorite pastime? That’s easy: Family. When she’s not at work, there’s nothing Laurie enjoys more than spending time with extended family who live in and around Laurie’s native King of Prussia.