Cynt Marshall

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Cynt Marshall
Dallas Mavericks
Position
Chief Executive Officer
LeagueNBA
Personal information
Born (1959-12-15) December 15, 1959 (age 64)
Richmond, California
Career information
CollegeUniversity of California, Berkeley

Cynthia Marshall (born December 15, 1959) is

workplace culture and encouraging diversity, equity and inclusion.[2]

Early life and education

Marshall moved from Birmingham, Alabama to California when she was three months old. Marshall was raised in Richmond, California with three siblings.[3] She describes her childhood as being painful growing up in public housing projects with a family struggling to pay the bills. When she was 11 years old, Marshall witnessed her father shoot a man in the head in self-defense.

Back in 1975, as a young

domestic abuse from her father. She attempted to protect her mother from the violence, and in doing so, her father ended up breaking her nose. Her mother, Carolyn Gardener, was a high school executive administrator and resource librarian.[4]

Marshall's mother was instrumental in her academic upbringing, she would put "a math book in one hand and the Bible in the other."

cheerleader.[2]

After graduating from UC Berkeley at 21, she took on a job as a supervisor at AT&T.[2] Marshall worked in executive roles at AT&T for 36 years, where she focused on improving diversity and workplace behavior. She retired in 2017, and founded the consulting firm Managing Resources.[8] While at AT&T she became the first African American head of the North Carolina Chamber of Commerce.[9]

Dallas Mavericks

Business of Sports.[11]

Personal life

Marshall prefers to be called "Cynt" as she acquired the nickname with her high school track team — "Cynt the Sprint."

During her marriage to

colon cancer.[12]

References

  1. ^ Medina, Mark. "Meet Cynt Marshall: From one of Berkeley's first Black cheerleaders to the first Black woman CEO in NBA". USA TODAY. Retrieved 2021-04-21.
  2. ^ a b c d e f Scipioni, Jade (2020-02-21). "From the first black cheerleader at Berkeley to making history as Mavericks CEO: How Cynt Marshall did it". CNBC. Retrieved 2021-04-21.
  3. ^ "Cynthia Marshall, NBA's first Black female CEO, helps transform culture of the Dallas Maverick franchise". The Official Home of the Dallas Mavericks. 2021-02-04. Retrieved 2021-04-21.
  4. ^ "Meet the Dallas 500: Cynt Marshall, CEO of the Dallas Mavericks". D Magazine. Retrieved 2021-04-21.
  5. ^ Scipioni, Jade (2020-02-21). "From the first black cheerleader at Berkeley to making history as Mavericks CEO: How Cynt Marshall did it". CNBC. Retrieved 2023-11-06.
  6. ^ "Delta Gamma Blog - Delta Gamma". www.deltagamma.org. Retrieved 2021-04-21.
  7. ^ "Cynthia Marshall, CEO Dallas Mavericks". Cheetah Digital. Retrieved 2021-04-21.
  8. ^ Medina, Mark. "Meet Cynt Marshall: From one of Berkeley's first Black cheerleaders to the first Black woman CEO in NBA". USA TODAY. Retrieved 2022-01-14.
  9. ^ "How Cynt Marshall's Faith and Strength Guides Her". SLAM. 2022-03-25. Retrieved 2022-08-25.
  10. ^ "How I Built Resilience: Cynt Marshall of Dallas Mavericks : How I Built This with Guy Raz". NPR.org. Retrieved 2021-04-21.
  11. ^ "The 21 Most Powerful Women in the Business of Sports". Worth. 2019-09-17. Retrieved 2022-01-14.
  12. ^ a b c "How the Dallas Mavericks CEO Took on Toxic Culture". Time. 2022-09-11. Retrieved 2023-11-06.
  13. ^ Hall, Cheryl (2022-09-09). "Mavericks CEO Cynt Marshall's new book explains what makes her tick". The Dallas Morning News. Retrieved 2022-09-12.
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