Margery Brown, chief operating officer, Greater Phoenix Economic Council (GPEC)

Brown is COO of GPEC and executive director of the Partnership for Economic Innovation, the organization responsible for positioning Greater Phoenix as a global hub for innovation. Brown serves as the chairman of the board for the Arizona Health Facilities Authority, and is on the boards of the Arizona Voices Institute, Arizona School for the Arts and the Healthcare Transitional Funding Corporation.

Advice: “Go out of your way to support other women.”

Surprising fact: “In my 30s, I had a motorcycle named Buttercup.”

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