Amy Wilkinson is founder and CEO of Ingenuity and a faculty member at Stanford Graduate School of Business. She is a trailblazing innovation expert shaping new, technology-enabled business models that deliver growth at scale. Through her work at the highest levels of corporate, private equity, venture capital, and startups worldwide, she brings diverse stakeholders together to drive transformational change and deliver results. As a former White House trade advisor, Amy is also an expert on the increasingly turbulent impact of policymaking on companies’ global supply chains, profits, and competitiveness. Amy’s global perspective, strong financial acumen, and exceptional business judgement are hallmarks of her career.

As CEO of Ingenuity, Amy provides corporate C-suites with the tools to capture growth with start-up like agility. Ingenuity was launched in 2017 to help Fortune 500 companies identify growth opportunities and drive cutting edge results in the dynamic marketplace. Amy brings a wealth of experience to her clients that include Google, Salesforce, Cisco, Roche, Genentech, Edwards Lifesciences, Hearst, and Porsche, among others.  

Based on her extensive experience with high growth ventures, Amy serves as an Independent Director of high-performance computing and digital assets company HUT8 (NASDAQ: HUT). She also serves as an Independent Director of Innovate (NYSE: VATE), a conglomerate of best-in-class assets in life sciences, infrastructure, and broadcast spectrum. Previously, Amy served as inaugural Board Chair of Europe’s fastest growing consumer tech company Grover, which provides an online platform for renting tech products through subscriptions. Amy has a unique ability to streamline complexity and quickly identify critical issues that require board level attention.

Amy’s business background is multipronged. She is the global best-selling author of The Creators Code: The Six Essential Skills of Extraordinary Entrepreneurs (Simon & Schuster, 2016).  Based on interviews with the top 200 entrepreneurs in the U.S., she distilled the mindset and skill set required to create and scale a breakout business. Previously, she served as a White House Fellow and Senior Trade Advisor to the Cabinet-ranked United States Trade Representative, and as a strategy consultant at McKinsey & Company, and a mergers and acquisitions banker at J.P. Morgan. She also founded and led cross-border export business Alegre. Amy began her career as Chief of Protocol for the U.S. Embassy in Mexico.

In recognition of her leadership and expertise, Amy has been an ‘Expert on Innovation’ for the World Economic Forum since 2016, and an ‘Expert on Leadership and Small Business’ for the Wall Street Journal since 2015. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a sought-after keynote speaker and commentator, who is at the forefront of shaping national conversations on innovation, international business, and global economics. 

Amy earned her BA, MA, and MBA from Stanford University and held a 5-year research appointment as a Senior Fellow at Harvard University from 2009 to 2015.