Joanne Conforti, an advertising executive who split her time between Manhattan and East Hampton, died at New York Presbyterian-Weill Cornell Medical Center in Manhattan on Oct. 8. She was 75 and had Lewy body dementia.
Ms. Conforti worked at Bozell, Jacobs, Kenyon & Eckhardt Advertising for 27 years, rising through the ranks to become executive vice president, worldwide human resources director. She sat on the company’s board of directors, and when it was acquired by Interpublic, she transferred to Draft/FCB Worldwide, assuming the same title for the next eight years.
She first bought a house on Woodbine Drive in Springs, and in 2000 moved to Cedar Trail in Northwest Woods. “East Hampton was Joanne’s ‘happy place,’ ” her family wrote. She and her husband, the late Salvatore Gulla, had a large circle of friends and loved to entertain at their house. They were members of the Green Hollow Tennis Club and then the Amagansett East Side Tennis Club. Her husband died in 2018.
Ms. Conforti was born on April 17, 1944, in Brooklyn, to Ralph Conforti and the former Josephine Amico.
In East Hampton, she was a member of Most Holy Trinity Catholic Church. Her ashes were buried at the church cemetery in a graveside service on Saturday that followed a memorial service at the Frank E. Campbell funeral home in Manhattan.
Donations in her memory have been suggested to the Lewy Body Dementia Resource Center, 750 West Broadway, Suite 2R, Long Beach 11561, or online at lbdny.org.
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This has been updated to correct the date of Mr. Gulla's death.