Rector Group

Mary Leith

Partner, The Rector Group

A seasoned executive with more than twenty years of experience, Mary is an astute leader with expertise in the conceptual design and execution of strategic planning, executive coaching, corporate communications, marketing, media and philanthropy programs for Fortune 100 and non-profit organizations.

Mary’s success influencing the opinion of industry, government and consumer markets is due to her strong and varied management background across several different industries. Before joining The Rector Group, Mary was Managing Director of MCL Medical Technologies and served as a strategic advisor to CEO’s and senior executives on highly visible, sensitive and complex matters. Prior to that, she served as President, The Sunoco Foundation & Manager, Public Affairs for Sunoco, Inc., one of the largest independent refiner-marketers of petroleum and petrochemical products in the United States. During her tenure, Mary established and built the company’s first charitable giving program which promoted educational and economic opportunities, energy conservation, and the advancement of scientific and technological discoveries. 

Previously, she held senior leadership positions with Allstate Insurance, the American Cancer Society, United Paramount Network and Paramount Stations Group.    

Mary holds a B.A. from the University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill.

Bruce Rector 

Founder and Partner, The Rector Group

With a background in engineering and finance, Bruce Rector possesses a broad range of professional skills and experience.  He has worked with large and small companies across a broad spectrum of industries, including software and other technologies, healthcare, biotech, distribution, electric utilities, and consumer product manufacturing.  

A seasoned executive with a proven track record providing expertise in corporate restructuring, governance, strategy, and financing. He is responsible for the success of large, and small corporations as well guiding entrepreneurs in building a new business. Much of his activity has involved restructuring, capital raising, and board-level advisory.

Leading the development and execution of company strategy with a long-term view to creating shareholder value and ensuring a robust outcome for shareholders, his skill set has helped organizations achieve stability and leadership positions. Bruce is intensely focused on protecting and strengthening the company and is known for establishing an excellent communication channel with ownership, executive teams, shareholders and potential investors.

Highly qualified to support all aspects of the company from managing the business portfolio to managing the company’s financial affairs including crisis management.

Bruce is a graduate of the University of Virginia with a degree in electrical engineering, and an MBA from the Wharton School.

Todd Thibodeaux

Partner, The Rector Group

With over 25 years of experience as both a sales executive and business development leadership in innovative security, identity and authentication followed by several tech startups focused on disruptive technologies.With Todd has held senior management positions in sales, sales leadership and business development at industry leading technology companies Citrix, SecureAuth, RiskIQ managing CXO relationships and enterprise opportunities with Qualcomm, Samsung, Royal Dutch Shell, Northrup Grumman, Raytheon, The Federal Reserve Bank, CitiGroupCiti Group, British Telecom, ING, Banco Popular and State Farm. 

In addition, was instrumental in building the successful exit strategies for the sale of Protocom to ActivIdentity and then the sale of Actividentity to HID.  

Todd has driven and been responsible for driving Global growth of organizations and most recently works as a consultant across industry providing due diligence and advice to high-net-worth individuals and potential investment opportunities with his rare ability to act as a trusted Advisor to his clients to intuitively understands how to align, drive and close new opportunities.

Todd is known not for working “outside the box”, but rather for helping clients and partners “redefine the box”. He has lived and worked in Argentina, UK, Saudi Arabia, and the Far East.