Magrino Leadership
Mary Ogushwitz
Executive Vice President
Seventeen years building media narratives for the names that define food, drink, and consumer culture. The strategist behind Martha Stewart magazine covers, Adweek-winning spirits campaigns, and everything in between.
Mary Ogushwitz has spent seventeen years at the intersection of culture, commerce, and conversation. She is the kind of communications strategist who moves between a Martha Stewart cover shoot and an Adweek Award campaign without losing the thread of either, because the thread, for Mary, is always the same: find the story that makes people care, then put it exactly where they will find it.
Her client roster at Magrino has spanned the breadth of the food and beverage world, from the institutional (The James Beard Foundation, America’s Test Kitchen) to the iconic (Martha Stewart, illy, Hendrick’s Gin, Glenfiddich) to the fast-moving (poppi, Lyre’s, TOST). She has worked with chef and media personalities, emerging consumer brands, and global spirits portfolios, consistently delivering the kind of coverage that shapes how a brand is understood in culture, not just consumed.
17+
years in media relations,
communications, and integrated marketing
In 2021, Mary took a deliberate detour into the corporate side. As Public Relations Director for the Home & Outdoor Division of Helen of Troy, she oversaw OXO and Hydro Flask, then expanded into Marketing Communications Director for OXO, leading full-funnel integrated planning across PR, content, influencer programs, paid and organic social, affiliate marketing, and paid media. It was a complete view of the brand communications ecosystem, and she brought every bit of it back to Magrino when she returned in 2023.
Something You Might Not Know
Classically trained singer. Has performed at Carnegie Hall.
The best PR does not feel like PR. It feels like something worth talking about.
Mary Ogushwitz — Executive Vice President
Outside the Office
Food, live music,
and the outdoors.
Mary attends more than 25 concerts a year, follows Yankees baseball and the Philadelphia Eagles with equal devotion, and takes any opportunity to get outside the city. She lives in New York with her husband and son.
Present & Past
Selected Clients
America’s Test Kitchen, SusieCakes, Lyre’s, illy, Made by Dentists, Sur La Table, Erin & Ben Napier, Martha Stewart, Eden Grinshpan, poppi, TOST, TalkShopLive, Pebble Beach Food & Wine, William Grant & Sons (Hendrick’s Gin, Tullamore D.E.W., The Balvenie, Glenfiddich), The James Beard Foundation, STK