Marysharon Owens
Board Director
Head of Global Creative Studio at Illumina
Marysharon Owens serves on the Board of Directors of WIN: Women in Innovation. Marysharon leads business transformation for ventures of varying sizes and maturity; leveraging strategic frameworks most effective for the context: brand, creative, digital and infrastructure.
Marysharon’s experience incorporating digital across strategy, technology, marketing and engineering gives her a unique perspective on how to bring people together with diverse leadership styles and competing motivations to create something new.
Prior to founding Mshare Consulting and standing up the Global Creative Studio at Illumina, a market leader in genomics sequencing, Marysharon led clients from Fortune 50 companies and early-stage ventures to leverage brand as a lens for corporate strategy as Executive Director of Business Transformation Consulting at R/GA.
Preceding R/GA, Marysharon built an inHouse creative agency as Senior Vice President of Global Marketing at Bank of America, led customer experience as Global Director of Digital Business & Branding Strategy at Smiths Group, plc and advanced business results across all media channels as Managing Account Director and Creative Strategist at Target Corporation.
Previous to Target, Marysharon led Product Management and Professional Services for startup initiatives at American Well, a venture-backed Healthcare technology startup, and Microsoft’s New England Research and Development (N.E.R.D) Center in Cambridge, MA.
Marysharon received her Master of Applied Positive Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania and BSBA in Business Administration from Northeastern University.
Marysharon is bi-coastal, working between New York, NY and San Diego, CA.