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CEO of Ingenuity, Lecturer at Stanford Graduate School of Business, and Director at Hut 8 and Innovate Corp

Amy Wilkinson is founder and CEO of Ingenuity and a faculty member at Stanford Graduate School of Business where she focuses on high-scale entrepreneurship. She is a trailblazing leader shaping new, technology-enabled business models that deliver growth at scale. Working with her colleagues at Ingenuity, Amy engages at the highest levels of corporate, private equity, venture capital, and startups worldwide to bring diverse stakeholders together and drive transformational change. She brings a wealth of experience to her clients that include Google, Salesforce, Cisco, Roche, Genentech, Edwards Lifesciences, Hearst, and Porsche, among others.

Amy also serves as an independent board director of high-performance computing and digital assets company HUT 8 (NASDAQ: HUT) and life sciences, infrastructure, and broadband spectrum conglomerate Innovate (NYSE: VATE). In addition, she is an advisor to agentic AI platform Votal AI, and cybersecurity solutions company ColorTokens.

Amy 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 the youngest ever Chief of Protocol for the U.S. Embassy in Mexico.

Amy is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a sought-after keynote speaker and commentator on entrepreneurship, innovation, and international business. She is an ‘Expert on Innovation’ for the World Economic Forum and an ‘Expert on Leadership and Small Business’ for the “Wall Street Journal.” Amy earned her BA, MA, and MBA from Stanford University and held a 5-year research appointment as a Senior Fellow at Harvard University.

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