Marie helped found and launch P3 Consulting in 2010. Previously, she spent two years as Director of Government Relations for the Tennessee Chapter of The Nature Conservancy. As a director, Marie gained unique insight into legislative and regulatory affairs impacting environmental and business interests in Tennessee and at the federal level.

Prior to her work at The Nature Conservancy, Marie was asked by Governor Phil Bredesen to serve as the Executive Director of the Heritage Conservation Trust Fund, a state entity created to conserve the state’s natural resources through strategic partnerships with business, landowners, non-profit organizations and government agencies. In its first three years, the Heritage Conservation Trust Fund leveraged $30 million in state funding to spur more than $100 million in conservation projects.

As a policy advisor in the Bredesen Administration from 2003 – 2007, Marie helped design the legislation creating the Tennessee Heritage Conservation Trust Fund. She also worked on a broad base of policy issues, including the research and development of the core proposal serving as the basis for the Voluntary Pre-K for Tennessee legislation – the passage of which she assisted in, as well.

Born and raised in Nashville, Marie is a Summa Cum Laude graduate of the University of the South.