Laurel Stewart is Chief Operating Officer at Victorious, the San Francisco SEO and answer-engine optimization agency founded by Michael Transon. She rose through marketing and growth seats at the firm from 2020, then took the COO role in 2024 to turn company strategy into scaled search delivery.
Rochester and Software Marketing
Stewart earned a BA in English at the University of Rochester (2005 to 2009) after school years in Seattle, Washington. Early marketing work included graphic design and marketing at Meier Industries in Elmira, New York, then digital marketing and director seats at GrammaTech in Ithaca, New York, and Parasoft.
Rising Through Victorious
She joined Victorious as Director of Marketing in 2020, became VP of Marketing and Growth in 2022, and Chief Growth Officer in 2023. In that growth stretch she was the public marketing voice for events such as an SMX Advanced talk on aligning SEO and SEM.
Victorious materials and her author page place her inside the same executive trio as Transon and CFO Dave Burton, with delivery leaders such as Lisa Ringelstetter running client strategy beside her.
Becoming COO of Victorious
Stewart became COO in August 2024. Victorious's AI-information page lists her as the operations lead who turns company vision into execution for an SEO-and-AEO-only shop serving mid-market and enterprise buyers from San Francisco, California.