Marie Ffolkes

Marie Ffolkes is Managing Partner at GenNx360 Capital Partners ("GenNx360"), a private equity buyout firm investing in middle market businesses, where she is involved in all aspects of the investment process including sourcing, due diligence and execution of post-closing growth and operating initiatives.  Prior to GenNx360 Marie founded and led a tech-driven startup, Axxelist, Inc, (a Techstars VC company) to digitally transform and streamline the residential rental process through a SaaS platform. 

Previously, she served as Chief Executive Officer and Board member of TriMark USA, a $2.4B PE sponsored company (Blackstone (NYSE: BX) and Centerbridge Partners), which provides design services, equipment, and supplies to the food services industry.  She serves on the Boards of two publicly traded companies: Valero Energy Corporation (NYSE: VLO ~$151B) and Masco Corporation (NYSE: MAS ~$8B).  She chairs the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee and serves on the Compensation Committee, the Sustainability Committee and has served on the Audit Committee for 4+ years. 

Previously, Marie spent five years as President Americas, Air Products & Chemicals (NYSE: APD $12.7B) where she was responsible for the largest and most profitable P&L ($4B) growing EBITDA by +1700bps.  She rose through roles in P&L, operations, pricing, and finance holding executive and senior management positions at Tenneco for over four years, Johnson Controls International plc for nearly a decade, and GE Healthcare / GE Capital for close to a decade.  Marie has global and cultural experiences through working and living in China, South Korea, Brazil, Japan, Europe and the U.S.

Ms. Ffolkes has extensive experience in building, scaling and driving revenue and profit growth in multi-billion operations and international markets across engineering, automation, production and operations in various sectors such as energy, industrial gases, automotive, electronics, power solutions, and JIT manufacturing. 

She earned an MBA from Columbia Business School with distinction and a B.S. from City University of New York, graduating magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa and Golden Key National Honor Society.  She graduated GE’s Financial Management Program and is a certified Six Sigma Black Belt.

Ms. Ffolkes is recognized by Fortune Magazine, Black Enterprise Magazine, WomenInc. and Savoy Magazines as one of the Most Powerful Women in Corporate America and as one of the Most Powerful Board Members in Fortune 500 for the past 5 years.  

Financial, M&A, Carve-Out and Strategy

Led and grew global P&L 17+ years through organic and acquisitions

Operations and Supply Chain 

Deep expertise in operations, procurement, and systems

Industrial, Manufacturing and Distribution

Built plants and grew to scale exceeding customer expectations

Governance and Risk Management

Independent director on Audit, Nom & Gov Chair, and compensation committees

Cyber, ERP, Data and Emerging Technologies     

Enterprise cybersecurity preparedness and managing technology risk

Reputational, Ethics, Integrity and ESG Matters