Biography
Nichelle Maynard-Elliott is an accomplished dealmaker and advisor to boards and senior management with 25+ years of extensive financial and legal experience in M&A, business development and strategic alliances. Maynard-Elliott served as an independent director of Element Solutions Inc. (NYSE: ESI) from 2018 to 2024. In 2019, she became a member of the Compensation and Audit Committees. From 2021 to 2024, she served as Audit Committee Chairperson. In May 2021, Maynard-Elliott joined the board of Xerox Holdings Corp. (NYSE: XRX) and sits on the Audit Committee. In 2022 she was appointed Chairperson of the Compensation Committee. In June 2021, Maynard-Elliott was appointed trustee of The Advisors’ Inner Circle Fund III and affiliated its funds. She currently chairs the Nominating and Governance Committee. In July 2021, Maynard-Elliott was elected to the board of Lucid Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: LCID) where she serves on the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee.
In August 2020, Maynard-Elliott was named to Transaction Advisors’ M&A Leadership Council, an M&A thought leader roundtable addressing the execution of complex corporate transactions. Maynard-Elliott was named one of 2021’s Most Influential Black Directors by Savoy and a 2023 Director to Watch by Directors & Boards.
Former civic commitments include appointment (June 2020 – June 2021) as co-chair of the Council on Race & Equity for the Town of New Castle, New York, where she and her co-chair oversaw 100+ community volunteers committed to achieving, sustaining and upholding racial equity in education, outreach, housing and planning, business and commerce and town planning.
Maynard-Elliott received a Juris Doctor from Columbia University School of Law and a BA in Economics from Brown University.
Maynard-Elliott serves on numerous not-for-profit boards for her church and denomination and is the founder/director of the gospel choir, Bronx Bethany’s Chosen.
Maynard-Elliott and her husband live in Mount Kisco, NY. Their son and daughter attend NYU Tisch School of the Arts and Brown University, respectively.
