Maria Schroeder

Ms. Schroeder has been a key Financial Executive at a number of public and privately-held companies including CST Brands, KCI and Brain Sentinel, where she recently served as Chief Financial Officer. Prior to Brain Sentinel, Ms. Schroeder served as Vice President, Global Tax of CST Brands, a Fortune 250 retail Oil and Gas company. Prior to that, she served as Vice President and Treasurer & Head of Tax at Kinetic Concepts, Inc. (“KCI”) a $1.5 billion MedTech company, which was recently purchased by 3M for $6.7 billion. At KCI, she held key roles in a number of strategic transactions, including two leveraged buyouts and an initial public offering. Ms. Schroeder began her career at Ernst & Whinney before joining Deloitte Haskins & Sells. Ms. Schroeder is an alumnus of San Antonio Leadership, a premier leadership program of the San Antonio Chamber of Commerce and has served on the Audit Committee for The University of Texas at San Antonio, as Treasurer of Girls, Inc. of San Antonio and as a board member of KLRN, San Antonio’s public television station. Ms. Schroeder is a Certified Public Accountant and Chartered Global Management Accountant with a B.B.A. in Accounting from the University of Texas at San Antonio.