Anne B Devereux-Mills

Anne Devereux-Mills joined Stanford University as the Executive Director of Healthy Body Image Programs in July 2012, and subsequently, as Chief Strategy Officer, helped create ThriveOn, a digital start-up which will support the project. A leader in healthcare marketing, Anne was previously the Chairman and CEO of LLNS, TBWA\WorldHealth (and their worldwide marketing network) after her successful roles as Chief Integration Officer at BBDO and Managing Director of their highly successful healthcare unit. Earlier in her career, Anne was President and founder of Consumer Healthworks, which then became Merkley Newman Harty Healthworks, one of the first agencies to specialize in direct-to-consumer advertising for healthcare brands. In addition to her work at Stanford, Anne also focuses her time on projects which empower people both individually and collectively. She founded Parlay House in 2012, a salon-style gathering of over 100 women who come together in the Bay area to connect, learn and grow. An activist on issues related to social justice, Anne was also a key member of the team that helped pass California’s Proposition 36 which will bring fair sentencing to thousands of non-violent inmates as part of California’s Three Strikes reform. She also helped found the iHUG Foundation, a not-for-profit school in Uganda supporting some of that nation’s most needy children. A Wellesley College graduate, Anne is the proud mother of two daughters, Lauren and Ciara. In her spare time she can be found at the gym, in a kayak or traveling the world with her fiancee, David Mills. Anne is a Board Director of Marchex and National Home Health Care Corp, as well as Chairman of the Advisory Board of #waywire. She is a 2003 Henry Crown Fellow of the Aspen Institute and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network.