Mary Ann Brennan is a Global Marketing, Sales and Supply Chain leader with over 26 years’ experience within the Retail, Telecommunications, Non-Profit, Entertainment, Financial Services and CPG industries.

At Mattel, the world’s largest toy company, Mary Ann currently serves as the Senior Director of Global Indirect Procurement managing nearly $1B in spend. She is based out of the Mattel Headquarters in El Segundo, CA managing a global team. During her tenure, she has partnered with executives of leading Fortune 500 companies to develop successful and sustainable relationships and is responsible for building leading edge indirect procurement teams contributing to more than $300MM in efficiencies. As a marketer, Mary Ann worked on brands such as Time Warner/Six Flags, Countrywide/Bank of America, and Wells Fargo and as a procurement professional she now works on brands such as Barbie, Hot Wheels, American Girl, and Fisher Price.

Mary Ann earned her Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Southern California (USC) Marshall School of Business with a dual emphasis in Marketing and Finance.  She is an active member of several trade, education and nonprofit organizations such as:

- The CMO Collective
- The Association of National Advertisers (ANA)
- The World Federation of Advertisers (WFA)
-  Founder of Marketing Me, her growing mentorship program
- Current West Coast Chair, ANA’s Advertising Financial Management Committee (AFM)
-  2013 host ANA’s AFM Conference
-  Past Chair ANA Mentorship program
- Current Executive Committee Member, USC Alumni Association Board of Governors
- Current board member, University of San Diego Supply Chain Management Institute

Her current passion involves designing an online certification course which is based off of a recent US Copyright that she authored and published via the ANA and HispanicAd.com titled “Has Indirect Procurement Earned a Seat at the Curriculum Table?”. The online certification courses will become available starting Fall 2017 at via two universities to start; USC and USD.