Mary Stutts

Mary Stutts brings twenty-five years of experience leading the strategic integration of corporate branding, health equity and digital innovation for biopharma, healthcare and media companies including Genentech, Bayer, Bristol Myers Squibb, UnitedHealth Group, Kaiser Permanente, Stanford Healthcare and Comcast NBCUniversal. She excels in leading strategic transformations in the face of rapid technology and market changes and executing multi-faceted campaigns in dynamic, high stakes competitive environments.
 
Mary has a successful track record integrating inclusion and health equity into product marketing communications from early research to blockbuster status for brands including Genentech’s Avastin, Rituxan, Xolair and Lucentis during a pivotal period of the company’s history when revenue and profit grew five-fold. Her unique approach integrates the ecosystem of diversity, equity and inclusion into the entire ecosystem of organizations’ operations, research, development, commercialization and external social impact with Real Chemistry’s customized digital analytics and data intelligence to create meaningful metrics that track and validate progress.
 
As the former Chief Inclusion, Diversity & Health Equity Officer at Stanford Health Care, Mary brings deep understanding and experience executing the strategic business case for maximizing inclusion and health equity as key growth levers and brand enhancers. Her role at Stanford was commissioned by the SHC Board of Directors and she worked directly with the Board and executive committee to build the program while curating a one-of-a-kind Inclusive Leadership Program for Stanford's leaders. The program has been recognized for its approach to developing executives and board members capable of leading and growing while transforming to address racial injustice and inequity amongst all stakeholders including employees, patients and communities.
 
Mary earned a master’s degree in Health Administration at the University of Southern California and is also a graduate of the Executive Program on Strategy and Organization at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business.