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). She is an independent director of Xerox Corporation and Lucid Group, Inc., and serves as 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 and director of the gospel choir, Bronx Bethany’s Chosen. Maynard-Elliott was named a 2022 “Directors to Watch” by Directors & Boards; a 2024 “100 Black Board Members Making a Difference” by Board Recruitment; and a 2024 “Most Influential Black Directors” by Savoy.