Owner, Cloud Nine Quilts; Liaison, Mansfield Foundation Board of Directors

Absarokee, MT

Mary Byron is the owner of Cloud Nine Quilts in Absarokee, MT where she helps her customers create beautiful fabric gifts for their loved ones and their homes. Prior to this, she was a partner in the Technology Division at Goldman, Sachs where she worked for 25 years. Mary started her career as a network engineer and held many roles within the Technology Division including CIO for the Asia Pacific Region based in Tokyo, CTO and Head of Technology for the Corporate Functions including Risk, Finance, Operations and Human Resources. She is an active volunteer and serves as Chair of the Board of Directors of the Auburn Theological Seminary, Treasurer of the Board of the Maureen and Mike Mansfield Foundation, Chair of the Global board for Room to Read and Chair of the UUA Audit Committee. She recently completed a 3 year term on the Commission on Institutional Change focused on how to dismantle white supremacy culture in our Unitarian Universalist faith. The guide is available here: Widening the Circle of Concern. Mary enjoys hiking anywhere in Montana with a particular fondness for the Absaroka Beartooth Wilderness and Yellowstone National Park.