Maria Markusen is a seasoned executive operator, investor, and board director with more than 25 years of experience leading growth, transformation, and strategic transactions across healthcare, consumer goods, retail, logistics, and manufacturing. She held C-suite roles including CFO, COO, CMO, CSO, and President, in both public and private companies and has partnered with founders, boards, and private equity investors to scale businesses and drive value creation.
Maria has raised over $200 million in debt and equity and led more than 100 transactions, including mergers, acquisitions, exits, recapitalizations and post-merger integrations. With experience in public, ESOP, private equity-backed, and founder-led organizations, she focuses on lower and middle-market companies, aligning leadership teams, transforming companies, strengthening operations, and translating strategy into disciplined execution to accelerate sustainable growth and drive financial outcomes.
