Alexia J. Maas
Co-Founder and Executive Director
Alexia's unique background and skill sets lend themselves perfectly to this role. Not only is she an experienced international lawyer & business leader, with a career spanning 30 years, she also used to be a professional ballet dancer. She began her professional training with The Scottish Ballet and then Elmhurst Ballet School, in England, before eventually enjoying a professional career as a Soloist with what was then known as the San Francisco Theater Ballet and later with Peninsula Ballet Theater. She has a deep-rooted passion for all things ballet and has first-hand insight into the art of ballet, the career of ballet and the joys and struggles that both entail.
Alexia has enjoyed a very successful career as a global & international corporate lawyer resulting in a wide range of key strengths going far beyond every day legal practice including business leadership, strategic management and financial planning; all balanced by a curious mind and constant desire to learn that often leads her to find innovative ways of achieving an organization’s objectives. She now provides consulting services to companies and nonprofit organizations like Triad Ballet. (see www.stratevix.com)
Alexia’s path crossed with Founder, Natalya Davison, and Co-Founder Lynn Angermeier, back in 2018 when she stepped back into the studio as a returning adult student. Since then, she has personally experienced the sheer genius of Natalya’s teaching and also witnessed the huge potential of the amateur company that was already in existence. As the relationship between the three Founders grew closer, Alexia stepped forward in a spirit of philanthropy to support the organization and help raise its profile in the local community. It was a natural choice to bring Alexia into the fold and she continues to be instrumental in her leadership and helping to find ways for Triad International Ballet (and the whole social enterprise with Triad Ballet School and Artistic Motion School of Arts) to realize its full potential.