MEET CARRIE MAYS
🚀AN AMPLIFIER OF INNOVATION 🚀
★ A Marketing Strategist that knows People and Profit 🚀
Professional profile
Carrie Mays is a creative marketing strategist, AI innovator, venture ecosystem builder, and award-winning public speaker featured in The Boston Globe, WBZ, NBC, WGBH, the Boston Business Journal and more. She is a four-time Harvard speaker, was the keynote speaker at the Presidential John F. Kennedy Museum, and is a former Miss America contestant.
Through her strategic leadership work, she has also worked with prestigious institutions such as Harvard, John Hancock, the Aspen Institute, Fidelity Investments, State Street and more. Carrie currently serves as President and Founder of AI Futurism at the Venture Development Center through the University of Massachusetts Boston, a premier startup incubator whose companies have attracted more than $1.5 billion in investment. As President, she leads creative AI initiatives, community-driven technology experiences, and innovation programs that connect investors, founders, students and industry leaders at the intersection of business and AI.
Due to her work, she has received the outstanding Leadership Award from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, has been recognized by the Mayor of Boston and honored with citations from the Boston City Council. Across her work, Carrie specializes in bringing people, ideas, institutions, and emerging technologies together to build strategic experiences that move communities and industries forward. She knows how to move people and profit. You can best find her on Linkedin at Carrie Mays.
Speaking & Moderating
From keynotes on leadership to venture capital summits, Carrie turns complex ideas into energizing, audience-first moments. Her work spans AI, marketing successful campaigns, Gen Z, motivational inspiration and the future of innovation.
Creative Marketing & Strategy
Carrie has produced, marketed, and coordinated sold-out experiences for 1,000–5,000 attendees, shaping strategy, partnerships, programming, and on-site execution from the first idea to the final applause.
AI & Innovation
Carrie leads practical, community-driven AI programming that connects emerging talent, founders, and industry leaders through hackathons, technology events, and scalable learning experiences.
Acting & Film
Carrie is an actress, writer, and executive producer. As an actress she has been in movies that have premiered in AMC theaters and has been acting on paramount theater stages for over 10 years in all sold-out shows.
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Carrie Mays as a Grammy Week and BET Casting Call Finalist on the Red Carpet. Carrie Mays as a local winning titleholder queen in the Miss America pageant.
Media & Press
From press interviews and television appearances to red carpets and public stages, Carrie meets every audience with clarity, charisma, and purpose.
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Content
Carrie brings ideas to life through conversations, fun commentary, and compelling storytelling as a creative marketing strategist in content creation.
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Her skills include GTM Strategy, Product Positioning & Messaging, B2B Demand Generation, Content Creation, Customer Discovery, Sales Enablement, Field Marketing, Strategic Partnerships, Events & Ecosystem Building.
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