Mary Dickinson has 20 years of experience in building businesses, investment and restructuring in the entertainment and sports sectors.  She restructured and ran micro-cap media companies Teton Gravity Research (TGR). With extreme sports film production company TGR, she restructured debt with: banks, talent, and industry suppliers;  secured  representation with leading talent agency CAA; cut a mass market distribution DVD deal, developed multi-platform revenue streams; produced two NBC Primetime pilots with Ben Silverman’s television production company Reveille  (producers of Biggest Loser, The Office, Ugly Betty); hired Aura 360 to secure and structure TGR's deal Jeep World of Adventure Sports TV series on NBC.

After TGR, Dickinson was lead financial and business development consultant to RedBone Films, producer of Stephanie Daley,  a Sundance award winner . During the dot-com era, she raised $8.5 million from notable angel investors and was named a Silicon Alley Woman of the Year.

Dickinson started her career on U.S. Senator Daniel P. Moynihan's staff. She was then agent to Indianapolis 500 champion Arie Luyendyck.  Dickinson received her AB  in European Studies from Smith College where she also earned 12 varsity letters.