Mary Ann Brennan Procurement SME | Ex-Marketer | AI Adopter | Value Creator | Board Member Northwestern University Kellogg, MBA USC Marshall School of Business Alumna Mattel, Adidas, Wells Fargo, Bank of America Alpha St8 Consulting, Principal Consultant Mary Ann is currently focused on a consulting partnership with Amazon and another partner building a new AI production platform from strategy inception to storyboard, pitch, production and post production. She is an AI Strategist and adopter of its use in commercial business practices. Before seeking her Executive MBA from Kellogg, with a focus on AI from a product and strategic integration perspective, she led indirect procurement for companies such as Adidas and Mattel, building partnerships for value generation globally, building and reforming tech stacks, yielding more than $400MM+ in value generation and efficiencies. She previously had a career leading marketing, and small business operations for Fortune 500s such as Bank of America, Wells Fargo and a small ad agency. She brings a unique perspective having been client side marketing, procurement, agency side and now serving as a consultant. Having worked closely with CEOs, other key C-Suite executives and all levels of management negotiating multimillion global currency deals while developing a deep network, becoming a trusted partner, reliable resource and utility player she values bringing ingenuity and valuing to relationships as her day to day focus. She has worked across entertainment, toy, retail, adtech and tech, agriculture, telecommunications, CPG, and nonprofit. Ask Her About: anything procurement, tech in Asia vs the US, working with Kanye West and how she used AI to redesign her second home. Connect with her @https://www.linkedin.com/in/maryabrennan