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Anne Devereux-Mills (born March 2, 1962) is an American businesswoman, speaker, and entrepreneur. Anne Devereux-Mills spent the first 25 years of her career building and leading advertising agencies in New York City. She is now the Chief Instigator (and Founder) of Parlay House, a 1000+ member organization in San Francisco that champions and inspires women to connect and make meaningful change for themselves and for others.

Early life
Anne Devereux-Mills was born in Seattle, Washington, the daughter of Gene Bruce Brandzel and Elizabeth Ettenheim Brandzel and sister to Rachel Brandzel Weil and Susan Brandzel. She attended John Muir Elementary School, Eckstein Middle School and the Lakeside School. Devereux-Mills left Seattle in 1980 to attend Wellesley College in Boston, Massachusetts where she became President of the Senior Class and an active member of College Government.

Career
Devereux-Mills began her career in the Political Risk Department of Marsh and McLennan in New York City, but after just a few years, realized that her strengths lay elsewhere. Parlaying her skills in communications and client management through a series of career experiments, she found herself in the field of advertising where she specialized in healthcare. Once landing in a field that combined her strengths and her passions, she quickly climbed the corporate ladder, helping found the first Direct-to-consumer advertising agency for healthcare brands, called Consumer Healthworks, part of WPP. A few years later, she moved to Omnicom Group, building a DTC practice for Harrison and Star where she went on to become President, then to Merkley and Partners where she was CEO of the Healthcare Division. From Merkley, she moved to BBDO where she was CEO of BBDO World Health as well as Managing Director and Chief Integration Officer. She then transitioned to TBWA\Chiat\Day as CEO of the global healthcare practice as well as Chairman and CEO of LLNS.

Devereux-Mills left the field of Advertising in 2009 to have cancer surgery, and moved to San Francisco where she founded Parlay House, a salon-style gathering for women that now has a national presence and thousands of members who come together to connect about what they care about rather than what they “do”.

She is an active mentor of the SHE-CAN organization which takes high-performing women from post-genocide countries and helps them gain an American education so that they can then return to their countries and become the next generation of leaders.

Devereux-Mills was one of the first supporting members of the iHUG Foundation which helps break the cycle of poverty for children in Kabalagala, Uganda by augmenting education with nutrition, healthcare and support services.

Devereux-Mills is one of a handful of women who is Chairman of the Board of a Public Company in her role at Marchex in Seattle, Washington. Marchex is a leader in mobile marketing and call analytics. She is also on the Board of Lantern, a company that is bringing Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to people through mobile technology, thereby expanding access to clinical help and reducing the cost of care.

Combining her career success, her interest in creating opportunities to connect and empower women as well as her natural leadership skills, Devereux-Mills is now an acclaimed public speaker, focusing on issues of female empowerment, reframing reciprocity, and creating a new version of feminism that can address the issues so prevalent in our society.

Honours, decorations, awards and distinctions
Devereux-Mills has received many honors during her career, including Working Mother of the Year from the She Runs It (formerly Advertising Women of New York), Leading Women in Technology from the All-Stars Foundation, Activist of the Year from Project Kesher., and her documentary The Return was a 2017 Emmy-Nomination.

Recorded Talks

 * The Guild: "Reframing Reciprocity", 2017
 * Watermark: "[Doing Well By Doing Good]", 2016
 * The Battery: "Small Actions Have Ripple Effects in Social Justice Reform", 2016
 * SHE-CAN: "Pulling Women Forward SHE-CAN: Revolution 2.0", 2015

Podcasts

 * Satellite Radio Tastemakers, November 2017
 * Wharton Business Radio Highlights: "Anne Devereux-Mills on Parley House and Lantern Sirius", April 2017
 * Mastery with Michael Gervais: "[[Anne Devereux-Mills on Leadership, Philanthropy, and Parenting]]", January 2017
 * Leading with Style:: "Anne Devereux-Mills'', 2016