Profile

Nichelle Maynard-Elliott, Founder and CEO of Dunamis Transaction Advisors LLC, is an accomplished dealmaker and advisor to boards and senior management with over 25 years of extensive financial and legal experience in M&A, business development and strategic alliances. Maynard-Elliott is the former Head of M&A, Americas and Asia Pacific for Praxair, Inc. (now Linde plc), an independent director of Xerox and Lucid Group, and an independent private mutual fund trustee. Maynard-Elliott also 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 holds a J.D. from Columbia University School of Law and a B.A. in Economics from Brown University.

Maynard-Elliott was named a 2023 Director to Watch by Directors & Boards, one of BoardProspects 2024 100 Black Board Members Making a Difference and one of 2024’s Most Influential Black Directors by Savoy.

Maynard-Elliott and her husband live in Mount Kisco, NY. Their son is an aspiring actor/playright and 2024 graduate of NYU Tisch School of the Arts and their daughter is an economics major and senior at Brown University.