Mary Ma '15
When Mary Ma ’15 graduated from Millbrook, she had no idea she’d end up helping revolutionize warehouse logistics with autonomous drones. In fact, at Barnard College, she majored in art history.
After college, Mary stayed in New York, exploring career paths and spending time with her partner, Jackie Wu, who in 2020 was launching a startup, Corvus Robotics. During the early days of the company, which also coincided with the COVID pandemic, Mary taught herself web development and dove into the world of drone engineering through hands-on learning and research and development on the tech side.
Fast forward a few years, and Corvus is now a growing startup—still under 50 employees—developing fully autonomous drones that perform cycle counting in warehouses. This once manual, dangerous job (often requiring employees to ride scissor lifts 40 feet in the air) is now done by AI-powered drones, designed from the ground up by the Corvus team.
At Corvus, Mary’s title is production lead, but she has worn many hats: recruiter, head of manufacturing, booth staffer at trade shows, and product ambassador. “We’re still a small team, so if something comes up or somebody needs a hand, I jump in,” she says. “I would call myself kind of a jack—or I guess ‘Jill’—of all trades.”
Today, based in the Bay Area, Mary remains driven by the potential of mission-driven innovation. “We’re focused on growth and providing real value,” she says. “We want to make a positive contribution to one of the backbones of the world—the supply chain.”
CLICK HERE TO READ THE COMPLETE ARTICLE ABOUT MARY PUBLISHED IN THE SUMMER 2025 MILLBROOK MAGAZINE
After college, Mary stayed in New York, exploring career paths and spending time with her partner, Jackie Wu, who in 2020 was launching a startup, Corvus Robotics. During the early days of the company, which also coincided with the COVID pandemic, Mary taught herself web development and dove into the world of drone engineering through hands-on learning and research and development on the tech side.
Fast forward a few years, and Corvus is now a growing startup—still under 50 employees—developing fully autonomous drones that perform cycle counting in warehouses. This once manual, dangerous job (often requiring employees to ride scissor lifts 40 feet in the air) is now done by AI-powered drones, designed from the ground up by the Corvus team.
At Corvus, Mary’s title is production lead, but she has worn many hats: recruiter, head of manufacturing, booth staffer at trade shows, and product ambassador. “We’re still a small team, so if something comes up or somebody needs a hand, I jump in,” she says. “I would call myself kind of a jack—or I guess ‘Jill’—of all trades.”
Today, based in the Bay Area, Mary remains driven by the potential of mission-driven innovation. “We’re focused on growth and providing real value,” she says. “We want to make a positive contribution to one of the backbones of the world—the supply chain.”
CLICK HERE TO READ THE COMPLETE ARTICLE ABOUT MARY PUBLISHED IN THE SUMMER 2025 MILLBROOK MAGAZINE
