brandy maranian
Board President
Brandy is a current Colorado resident and part time instructor at Colorado State University. She is a former Army Officer and C-suite executive for numerous public companies across multiple industries (Medical, Industrial, and Consumer). Brandy’s passion for helping veterans transition to new professions drew her to the Colorado Veterans Project. Throughout her corporate career Brandy has championed veteran hiring within her organizations, companies, and network.
In her last corporate supply chain role Brandy led a team of over 7000 employees as President, Global Operations (Interim) for Smith + Nephew, a $5+B global medical device company. She successfully led the Supply Chain organization through the Covid pandemic balancing employee constraints, inventory variability, and unprecedented supply continuity challenges.
Prior to Smith + Nephew Brandy was instrumental in transforming procurement and logistics organizations for many of the companies she worked for (Honeywell, Kraft Foods, CareFusion and Abbott). She is recently retired and is ready to make an impact for the veteran community.
Brandy has a B.S. degree in general engineering from the United States Military Academy at West Point and an MBA from Boston University. She currently resides in Colorado with her husband and 3 adult children.