Joy Brown

BOARD DIRECTOR, TRACTOR SUPPLY COMPANY, HURON CONSULTING

Joy Brown is a technology executive with a successful track record guiding Fortune 100 global organizations through innovative digital transformation in a world where data and AI are key drivers of achieving B2B and B2C growth. Delivering value to consumers, achieving key business results, increasing shareholder value, establishing consumer focused 360 degree leading edge capabilities and attaining corporate performance objectives.

Most recently, Joy was the Chief Data Officer for Verizon Media where she transformed the ecosystem from legacy to consumer 1st. Guiding strategy design, and implementation of the enterprise technology platforms, digital platforms and data ecosystem transformation. Resulting in an integrated ecosystem, with enterprise Machine Learning and AI. Driving growth of the advertising, e-commerce, digital display, AVOD, TVOD, SVOD, DOOH, CTV and media platform businesses. She partnered with the leadership team on divestiture activities. She and her team provided engineering and data science expertise to global partnerships, leveraging 5G and augmented reality and virtual reality(ex. NFL & Verizon). Paving the way for NFT, Crypto, Web3 and Metaverse solutions.

Previusly, Joy led Capital One’s credit card Global Data, Analytics and Machine Learning function helping the company make better credit decisions, optimize operations and increase customer engagement. Earlier in her career, she spent time at UnitedHealth Group, Vanguard, and had her formative experiences at General Electric.

Joy has both public and private board of director experience. She is a member of the board at Tractor Supply where she serves on the audit committee. Tractor Supply is a $10B retailer with nearly 2,000 stores which operate primarily in rural areas of the country. Joy is also a member of the board of directors at the Peter Paul Development Center in Richmond, VA. She is an active member of the Greycroft Venture Capital Technology Council.

Joy has an undergraduate degree in Information Systems and Data Engineering from Virginia Commonwealth University and an MBA from Saint Joseph’s University. She resides in Northern Virginia with her family.