Maria E. Wynne currently serves as a board member and membership committee chair of the National Association of Corporate Directors’ Chicago chapter. Most recently, from 2014 to 2023, Ms. Wynne led a transformation as CEO of Leadership Greater Chicago, a civic leadership development organization. From 2008 to 2013, Ms. Wynne served as CEO for Girl Scouts of Greater Chicago and Northwest Indiana, where she helmed a merger consolidating seven independently operated entities into the largest council in the nation. She has also served as a former technology and marketing executive at Microsoft (2003-2008) and Xerox (1998-2003), leading national sales and marketing organizations and significant P&Ls. She has served as president of Goodman Theatre’s board of trustees (2020-2023) and as board treasurer for P33 (2020- present), an organization focused on steering Chicago to prominence as a tier-one technology city. She is also a multi-year member of The Economic Club of Chicago, The Chicago Network, The Chicago Club, and The Commercial Club of Chicago. Ms. Wynne is the recipient of the Latino Leaders Magazine’s 2022 Maestro of Entrepreneurship Award and has been honored by Crain’s Chicago Business multiple times, including as one of their 2019 Notable Women Executives of Color and in 2019’s Who’s Who in Chicago Business. She was also selected by Chicago United to join their 2023 Business Leaders of Color cohort and co-chaired Mayor Lightfoot’s transition committee. She earned her MBA from Northern Illinois University and her bachelor’s degree from North Central College and has continued her executive education at Harvard Business School, Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management, and the Center for Creative Leadership.