Taryn Crouthers is the CEO of Big Spaceship, MSQ Partners' award-winning creative agency. A passionate leader, Taryn has spent her decades-long career inspiring teams to create work that moves both people and business. Along the way, she has earned recognitions including Campaign U.S. Inspiring Women (2026), Campaign U.S. 40 Over 40 (2025), Ad Age Leading Women (2024), Cynopsis Corporate Visionary, and Cynopsis Top Women in Digital.

Her expertise spans advertising, media, and entertainment, as well as the distribution and commercialization that scale those sectors. As President of social-first global media company ATTN:, Taryn helped lead the company from pre-revenue through its $100M acquisition by Blackstone. In partnership with The Female Quotient, she co-founded the Women in AI Summit for the Creative Community and launched the Women in AI Creative Cohort, which selects 15 top global executives for a six-month AI mentorship program.

An entrepreneur at heart and a nationally recognized voice on the future of creativity and AI integration, Taryn brings a founder's mindset to scaling creative businesses and developing new revenue models. She has appeared on stages at Cannes Lions, CES, POSSIBLE, Advertising Week New York, and Social Media Week, as well as contributed to juries for Young Lions, The One Show, ADC, Webby Awards, and other prestigious industry competitions. A member of the Miami Ad School Advisory Board, Taryn also actively invests in emerging creative and technology-driven companies.