Mary Wells

Mary Wells, legendary entrepreneur, broke the glass ceiling back in the Seventies when she founded the ad and marketing agency, Wells Rich Greene. She was so far ahead of her time that the idea of a woman succeeding in a man’s world didn’t even have a name. But Mary gave a ...

Mary Wells, legendary entrepreneur, broke the glass ceiling back in the Seventies when she founded the ad and marketing agency, Wells Rich Greene. She was so far ahead of her time that the idea of a woman succeeding in a man’s world didn’t even have a name. But Mary gave a name to everything.

Her agency created the “I Love New York” campaign and Alka Seltzer’s “Plop Plop Fizz Fizz.”It was Mary who famously painted the Braniff airplanes in bright colors, there by smashing the competition.

She was the first female CEO to take a company public and on to the New York Stock Exchange. She is in the Advertising Hall of Fame and The One Club's Creative Hall of Fame. Ad Age said: “She is advertising’s most widely publicized symbol of glamour, success, wealth, brains and beauty.”

She is the widow of Harding Lawrence. With her family, she has lived and worked in New York, Dallas, London, Cap Ferrat France, Mexico and Brazil. Her home is now on the island of Mustique and she travels in her glamorous Feadship “Strangelove.” She wrote a memoir, A Big Life -- In Advertising, and is busy on another book, develops real estate and helps women with problems to overcome them. She sees this website as a rare and exciting place to meet and talk to women who know the answers…“a place to turn up the heat and the savvy in your life and to accelerate your successes.”