Mary Ann CLoyd

business executive

New York, NY | PathNorth member since 2021

Mary Ann Cloyd is an experienced director currently serving on the boards of Fresh Del Monte Produce Inc. (NYSE: FDP), Bellerophon Therapeutics (NASDAQ: BLPH), Ekso Bionics (NASDAQ: EKSO), Angel Pond Holdings Corporation (NYSE: POND), and NCMIC Group, Inc., a mutual insurance and financial services company based in Des Moines, Iowa. At FDP she chairs the Audit and is a member of the Governance Committee; at BLPH she chairs the Audit and Governance Committees; at EKSO she chairs the Governance Committee and is a member of the Audit and Compensation Committees. She also chairs NCMIC’s Audit and Finance Committee. At POND, a recently listed SPAC, she chairs the Audit and Governance Committees and also serves on the Compensation Committee.

Mary Ann was a senior Partner with PwC until her retirement in June 2015. Between 2004 and 2013 she served on both PwC's Global and US Boards of Partners and Principals. On the US Board Mary Ann chaired the Risk Management, Ethics & Compliance Committee and the Partner Admissions Committee.  She was also on the Management Executive Compensation Committee, Finance and People Committees.  On the Global Board she served on the Risk and Operations Committee and the Clients Committee.

During her 25 years as a PwC partner, Mary Ann served in many leadership positions. From 2011 until her retirement she was the Leader of PwC's Center for Board Governance with overall responsibility for the firm’s external governance related activities, including publishing thought leadership to support boards of directors, CEO’s and other senior executives. Prior to that she was Leader of the Southern California, Phoenix and Las Vegas tax practice and a member of that region’s management team responsible for all lines of service.  Mary Ann was a highly respected partner, externally and internally. She served on high profile internal firm committees to select the US CEO, revise the firm’s partner compensation system, and assess and make strategy recommendations in response to a changing regulatory environment. Externally she was a respected client service professional serving multinational corporate clients in a variety of industries.

Active in professional and community organizations, Mary Ann is on the Board of Directors of the Geffen Playhouse and was recently elected Vice Chair, the Caltech Associates Board and the UCLA Iris Cantor Women's Center Advisory Board, which she chaired for four years. She has previously served on the boards of the PricewaterhouseCoopers Charitable Foundation, Inc., including serving as President for many years, the California Chamber of Commerce, Junior Achievement of Southern California, the American Red Cross of Greater Los Angeles, the Baylor Business School Advisory Board, and as a member of the United Way of Southern California Women Leaders' Steering Committee.

Mary Ann graduated Summa Cum Laude from Baylor University with a Bachelor of Business Administration.