Gayemarie Brown is the CEO and Founder of Wintam Place Consulting who works as a strategist for organizations looking build new products or services through disruptive technologies either organically or through M&A. The former National Innovation Leader for Deloitte Canada she has more than 25 years of experience leading Innovation and transformation. She is an advocate of applying entrepreneurship, an innovator’s mindset, and start-up approaches to accelerate time to market for organizations of all sizes. Using innovation principles such as disruption, design thinking, rapid ideation/lean start-up, ecosystems, crowdsourcing and open innovation she accelerates growth for companies, creates new products or new markets. She has delivered results for Fortune 500 companies and start-ups in financial services, software/high-tech, media and telecommunications companies globally.
Gayemarie is a strategic visionary who can translate an organization’s ambitions into practical plans through M&A, adopting new organization models or implementing digital solutions. She is a sought-after speaker and strategist on the subject of Artificial Intelligence, Future Acceleration, Digital Transformation and Disruption having spoken at conferences or leadership forums globally. She is also listed as one of the top female futurists in the world by Forbes. Her clients include some of the largest companies in the world including Venture Capital firms wanting to identify, accelerate and grow high-impact companies in AI or robotics. She was invited to participate in a think-tank for the Government of Canada on the impact of humanoids, artificial intelligence, and technologies like block chain on the future of companies, government systems and health care organizations.