Maud Daudon

Maud Daudon is the Executive Leader of Career Connect Washington, which successfully passed legislation and state funding in spring of 2019 to implement the 10-year strategic plan for building a statewide career-connected learning and apprenticeship system in Washington state. She is working with business leaders, national experts, labor leaders, educators, parents and students to utilize state and private resources to enable every Washington student an opportunity to have multiple pathways to college level learning and career including though work based learning experiences, such as apprenticeship. Daudon is under contract with the governor’s office, funded by seven philanthropic partners. Prior to this, Maud completed a six-year tenure as the President and CEO of the Seattle Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce in February, 2018. During her leadership, Maud focused on the region’s global competitiveness helping to secure a statewide transportation package, passage of Sound Transit 3, the creation of a regional partnership focused on retaining, growing and connecting residents to the regions’ middle-income pathway jobs and the 100% Talent initiative focused on gender pay equity which included the creation of the statewide paid sick and family leave bill. Prior to this, Maud was the President and CEO of Seattle Northwest Securities, a regional investment banking firm serving clients in seven western states which followed four years of service in Seattle city government as Deputy Mayor. Maud earned a BA from Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts and an MBA from the Yale School of Organization and Management. She serves on the executive committee of the Nature Conservancy, as trustee and past chair of the Bullitt Foundation, as a member of the Virginia Mason systems health care board and the United Way of King County Board of Directors.