Cynthia Marshall Net Worth 2026: Dallas Mavericks CEO

No reputable outlet publishes a net worth estimate for Cynthia "Cynt" Marshall, so this page does not give one. The $1.74 million figure shown here before had no traceable source and has been removed. Her wealth comes from three places the record does support: a 36-year executive career at AT&T, nearly seven seasons as CEO of the Dallas Mavericks from 2018 to 2024, and, since then, corporate board seats, a consulting firm and book deals.

What is Cynthia Marshall's net worth?

There is no figure from Forbes, Bloomberg or Celebrity Net Worth. The Mavericks are a private franchise and never disclosed her salary, and we found no published figure for her AT&T pay either. Any exact number you see on profile sites is a guess.

What can be said is that she held senior roles for four decades. At AT&T she rose to senior vice president of human resources and chief diversity officer (UC Berkeley Haas). At the Mavericks she was the NBA's first Black female CEO. Today she sits on the boards of Yahoo, the fintech company Chime, the manufacturer JELD-WEN, and Project Level, an investment platform for professional women's sports (D Magazine). Directors of listed companies are normally paid in cash and stock, which adds to her income, but we did not find a published total.

Cynthia Marshall's salary and income

An earlier version of this page gave her yearly income as $400,000, or about $33,000 a month. That figure had no source and has been removed. Her Mavericks salary was never reported by a reputable outlet.

Her current income streams, as described in 2026 coverage, are:

• Board fees: director seats at Yahoo, Chime, JELD-WEN and Project Level (D Magazine).
• Consulting: her firm, Marshalling Resources, which she founded between leaving AT&T and joining the Mavericks and which focuses on leadership and culture work (UC Berkeley Haas).
• Books and speaking: her 2022 memoir You've Been Chosen: Thriving Through the Unexpected, published by Random House, a signed deal for a second book on leadership, and a busy speaking schedule at universities and business events.
• Mavericks consulting: D Magazine reports she stayed on as a consultant to the team after stepping down as CEO.

Early life and family

Wikipedia gives her birth date as December 15, 1959, and says her family moved from Birmingham, Alabama, to California when she was three months old. She grew up with three siblings in Richmond, California, in public housing, in a family that struggled with money (Wikipedia). Her mother, Carolyn Gardener, worked as a high school administrator and librarian and pushed her hard at school. The older claim on this page that her father was a businessman is not supported by any source we found and has been removed.

She picked up the nickname "Cynt" from her high school track team, where teammates called her "Cynt the Sprint."

Cynthia Marshall's husband

The previous version of this page answered a question about her "wife." That was wrong: Marshall is married to Kenneth "Kenny" Marshall (Wikipedia). The couple tried for about ten years to have children; in her memoir she writes about several miscarriages and the loss of a newborn daughter. They went on to adopt four children, two sons and two daughters, through the child welfare system, which is why she now champions Dallas CASA, a group that supports foster children (D Magazine).

Education

Marshall attended Kennedy High School in Richmond and won a full scholarship to the University of California, Berkeley. She graduated in 1981 with degrees in business administration and human resources management, the first in her family to finish college (UC Berkeley Haas). At Berkeley she became the school's first Black cheerleader and the first Black member of its Delta Gamma sorority chapter. Wikipedia says she holds four honorary doctorates.

Career timeline

What she did at the Dallas Mavericks

Cuban called her in 2018, a year after she had retired from AT&T, when the franchise was dealing with the fallout of a Sports Illustrated report on nearly two decades of workplace misconduct. She told D Magazine she knew little about the business of basketball at the time (D Magazine).

Her approach started with one-on-one meetings with every employee, guided by what she calls her "three Ls": listen to, learn from and love the people (UC Berkeley Haas). According to Wikipedia, there were no women or people of color on the leadership team when she arrived, and women later made up half of it. The team won the NBA's Inclusion Leadership Award twice under her. On the business side, Wikipedia credits her with a TV deal that let millions of Texans watch games free over the air and with overseeing $30 million in upgrades to the American Airlines Center.

She also led the team through the COVID-19 period, when games were played without fans. In 2021 Forbes named her one of the world's most inspiring female leaders.

Recent changes (2025-2026)

Marshall left the CEO job at the end of 2024. In April 2026 Axios reported that she runs a leadership consulting firm, serves on the Dallas Regional Chamber board, and joined Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson's delegation to New York to promote the city as a financial center. She told Axios the one job that would pull her back full time is a college presidency (Axios).

D Magazine reported in May 2026 that she has signed for a second book, with the working title People First, expected in 2027 or 2028, with a third book about motherhood planned. In February 2026 she spoke at Berkeley's Dean's Speaker Series.

Age and height

Using Wikipedia's birth date of December 15, 1959, Marshall is 66 as of September 2026. Her height is not publicly documented; we removed the unsourced figure from the older version of this page.

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Why there is no reliable figure

Net worth estimates for executives usually start from disclosed pay and stock holdings. Neither of Marshall's two main employers published her pay: the Mavericks are private, and no AT&T pay figure for her has been reported. Her board fees and book advances are also not public as totals. With no reputable estimate available, the honest answer is that she has had a long, well-paid executive career and several current income streams, but no published number for her wealth. We also removed the empty contact and phone section from the old page; she can be reached through her consulting firm.