Managing Director

Margaret Anderson

Margaret Anderson is a Managing Director at The Alexander Group, bringing more than three decades of leadership, strategy and advisory experience across health care, life sciences, public policy, professional services and not-for-profit organizations.

She works with senior executives, boards and organizations to broaden the firm’s relationships and to identify and develop executive search and advisory opportunities. Having coached executives and served on not-for-profit CEO search committees herself, Ms. Anderson brings firsthand insight into the challenges boards face when selecting their next leader.

Prior to joining The Alexander Group, Ms. Anderson spent nearly a decade as a Managing Director at Deloitte Consulting, where she worked with federal health, not-for-profit and life sciences organizations and served as Chief Marketing Officer for Deloitte’s Federal Health Sector.

Before Deloitte, she was Executive Director of FasterCures, a Center of the Milken Institute, where she led the organization’s strategy, thought leadership and programs and represented FasterCures on numerous boards and advisory groups. She also served as a Board member and as Acting President and Chief Executive Officer of the Melanoma Research Alliance.

Ms. Anderson is the founder of Golden Road, LLC, through which she advises and coaches accomplished leaders navigating career and organizational transitions. She is currently a UC Berkeley School of Public Health Impact Fellow, focusing on the economic impact of paid family leave, and is writing a book on the arc of a woman’s career.