Mary Blake

Mary Blake, Angel investor in Minneapolis is an active investor based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. This profile covers what Mary Blake backs, at which stage, and how founders can reach out in 2026.

Ms. Mary Blake serves as Board Member at Compaction Technologies. Ms. Blake is the Advisor at Piiku. She has above 20 years as a COO, CMO, and Management Consultant. She served as Chief Marketing Officer for Charter Communications during its high-growth phase, company sale, and IPO. She served General Mills and PepsiCo providing strategy, marketing, product development, and finance. She advises C-level executives and serves on the Board Directors of technology and consumer products firms. She has 30+ years of experience in consumer products, Internet services, and cable TV industries and is a 3-time entrepreneur. Ms. 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.