Briana Brownell

Briana is the founder and CEO of Pure Strategy, Inc. She has a Master of Arts in Economics from Carleton University and a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics from the University of Saskatchewan. Briana currently serves on the board of League Data and has served on the boards for AI Governance and Safety Canada, Saskatoon Opera, and the Marketing Research and Intelligence Association. She holds the Innovation Governance Program (iGP) Level 3 designation. Briana won the Woman in AI Trailblazer Award for North America in 2025 and was named as VentureBeat’s AI Entrepreneur of the Year in 2021. Briana was elected to the Sandbox Board of Directors on June 25, 2020.