Nichelle Maynard-Elliott

Nichelle Maynard-Elliott has served as an independent director of Element Solutions Inc., a $4.3 billion global specialty chemicals firm, since 2018 and has served as a member of its compensation and audit committees since 2019. Ms. Maynard-Elliott was formerly Executive Director, Mergers & Acquisitions, for Praxair, Inc., a worldwide industrial gases company, from July 2011 to May 2019, where among other things, she advised Praxair on its $90 billion merger in 2018 with the Linde Group. She was responsible for evaluating and negotiating global acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures, and other business combinations. Ms. Maynard-Elliott joined Praxair in 2003 as Senior Counsel responsible for mergers and acquisitions and commercial transactions for Praxair’s U.S. packaged gases and healthcare businesses, and then served as Assistant General Counsel of Praxair from 2007 to 2011 before transitioning to the business side. Prior to Praxair, Ms. Maynard-Elliott served as an associate at the law firms of Kelley Drye & Warren from 1999 to 2003, Pryor Cashman from 1996 to 1999 and Weil, Gotshal & Manges from 1994 to 1996.

With over 25 years of extensive financial and legal experience in mergers and acquisitions, business development and strategic alliances, Ms. Maynard-Elliott has a proven track record of creating shareholder value and this makes her a valuable addition to the Board. In addition, Ms. Maynard-Elliott has led the charge in influencing and developing diversity and inclusion cultures in traditionally white male-dominated environments.