Maria F. Abernethy
Deloitte

Maria is a Director at Deloitte Services LP and has 24 years of sales and marketing experience with a wide array of companies – from Internet upstarts to telecommunications providers to financial services firms and investment houses. She is highly experienced in anticipating shifting customer needs and market conditions and identifying promising new service opportunities.

She currently leads marketing for Deloitte Financial Advisory Services LLP nationally, responsible for driving eminence, brand and relationships. Maria started at Deloitte leading marketing efforts for Deloitte Tax LLP, focusing on its core business. While in this role she launched a nationwide client awareness campaign that brought Deloitte Tax LLP recognition as one of the marketplace’s top tax practices.

Previously, she served four years as vice president of sales and marketing for a leading national telecommunications provider. Prior to that, she worked as director of corporate communications for an online supermarket. Maria, who holds a B.S.B.A. in marketing from Suffolk University, began her career in marketing rising through the ranks of a major investment house in various capacities.

In addition to serving on the CWE board and actively participating in the nationally recognized Women’s Initiative for Deloitte, Maria has also served on a number of committees for the Legal Marketing Association, judged the American Marketing Association’s Houston offices Marketer of the Year Award, and presented on the topic “Carrying on the Client Conversation” for the Professional Services Forum.

Why CWE? I support CWE because I believe that every woman should have the opportunity to be economically self-sufficient. I believe in the empowerment, freedom of choice, and opportunities this self sufficiency provides to not only the individual but to her family as well. Strong independent women create strong families, communities and businesses. Growing up I was surrounded by independent, supportive, self-sufficient women who instilled in me this ideal. I now strive to “pay-it-forward” by supporting other women in pursuit of their dreams and living life to their full potential.