Amy Rencher is the Senior Vice President, Small Business at the Michigan Economic Development Corporation, where she leads a $300M portfolio of State and Federally funded initiatives to serve small businesses in collaboration with hundreds of partners across Michigan, driving economic competitiveness through entrepreneurial ecosystem building, supply chain resiliency, systems and technology adoption, as well as access to capital initiatives. Her career spans the public and private sectors, including leading teams through two back-to-back award-winning global product launches at General Motors. Previously, she spent nearly a decade working with partners in Detroit and Southeast Michigan to help build a leading national entrepreneurial ecosystem. Notably, she served seven years in progressive leadership roles at TechTown Detroit where she developed nationally recognized strategic partnerships and programming for main street businesses and tech startups. She is an alumna of the Detroit Revitalization Fellowship and served as an AmeriCorps Member in Detroit and Boston. She holds a BA from Kalamazoo College and an MBA from Michigan State University.
