Maggie Benkert is a Board and CEO Search and Assessment Professional at Russell Reynolds Associates in New York. Since 2017, she has specialized in identifying high-quality talent for boards of directors across the healthcare, financial services, consumer, and industrial sectors. Her expertise includes initial board build outs, long-term director succession planning, and proactive external talent benchmarking for CEO and CFO roles. A two-time RRA award winner, she was recognized in 2021 for her global contributions to advisory work and in 2020 for excellence in delivery. Prior to this, she executed proxy solicitation campaigns at Laurel Hill Advisory Group and identified strategic business investments as a Summer Associate at Omnicom. Maggie also spent three years at Cambridge Associates, rising to the rank of Assistant Manager while overseeing investment performance reporting and client data teams. Earlier in her career, she held roles at The Conference Board and Vishay Intertechnology, Inc. Maggie holds a BA in Economics from Haverford College and an MBA in Strategy & Management from Columbia Business School.