Matrice ellis kirk biography
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Matrice Ellis-Kirk Biography
Matrice Ellis-Kirk is managing partner of Diversity & Inclusion Advisory Services. She recently completed several North America corporate roles where she streamlined internal processes. Her current search work focuses on the CEO and board, consumer retail and private equity. She is a member of the World Economic Forums Global Council on Womens Empowerment.
Matrice is active within the business and civic communities serving on a number of boards, including UT Southwestern Medical Foundation, The Dallas Center for the Performing Arts Foundation, Inc., and the University of Pennsylvania Board of Visitors. She has served on a number of boards for public companies including Chancellor Media and ACE Cash Express.
Prior to joining Heidrick & Struggles, Matrice spent several years with another international recruiting firm based in Chicago. There she conducted senior level assignments for business-to-consumer companies. She also has experience a
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Matrice Ellis-Kirk
CEO & Founder, Ellis Kirk Group
Experience and Expertise
She has over 20 years’ experience in the executive search industry with deep knowledge in governance. Before founding Ellis Kirk Group, Matrice led board and CEO assignments at two large global search firms and a boutique search firm. She began her search career in the Consumer Goods and Services and Private Equity Practices, as well as the Financial Officers Practice. Her early career was as an officer in commercial banking at MBank, the vice president of the Office of Management and Budget at Dallas Area Rapid Transit, and leading the Dallas office of investment banking firm Apex Securities.
Outside the Company
Matrice graduated from the University of Pennsylvania. She and her husband, Ron, are empty nesters mostly living in Dallas, Texas. Her interests span the arts, education, and transportation. Matrice is the chair emeritus and life board member of the AT&T Performing Arts C
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Matrice Ellis-Kirk
Matrice Ellis-Kirk’s commitment to public service has been cultivated by a determination for inclusion and making Dallas a better place to work, play, and live for everyone. Her 40-year civic efforts span from the Arts District to Southern Dallas. As board chair of AT&T Performing Arts Center, she helped resolve a debt crisis that threatened the institution’s future and helped establish the Moody Fund for the Arts. Ellis-Kirk’s work in South Dallas includes major capital campaigns for Fair Park, the Women’s Museum and presently, Fair Park First. As chair of the DFW Airport Board of Directors, she provided leadership through a crucial period when travel and tourism were negatively impacted by the pandemic. Currently, Ellis-Kirk is one of the co-chairs of an $85M fundraising campaign that will transform Fair Park and South Dallas and is supporting the nonprofit Forest Forward to revive the historic Forest Theater to transform it into an