Mary Pat Blake

Mary Pat Blake serves as a board director and consultant to CEOs on strategy, sales, marketing, brand development, new products, and new ventures. She has 30+ years of experience in consumer products, Internet services, and cable TV industries and is a 3-time entrepreneur. Blake was Chief Marketing Officer for Charter Communications, a Top 4 broadband company. When Charter was sold in 1998 for $4.5B to Paul Allen, co-founder of Microsoft, she helped mastermind and manage the dramatic growth of Charter including 13 acquisitions and the second largest IPO in U.S. history at the time. Prior to Charter, Blake worked with General Mills and PepsiCo in marketing and finance. She earned an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BS in Business from Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota, Summa cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa. Blake serves on the Board of Overseers at the Carlson School.