10-15-2023 Women to Watch - Flipbook - Page 14
KIM HAIRSTON
Sharon Markley Schreiber
Chief operating officer, Greater Baltimore Committee
“A bridge wasn’t built to carry all the cars it’s ever going to
carry at one time,” Sharon Markley Schreiber, 53, often tells her
team. “So you carry the car that’s going over the bridge in the
best way possible.”
That’s Schreiber’s philosophy as an operations person. It’s
easy to get overwhelmed, especially during a frenzied merger
like the one she led last spring between the Greater Baltimore
Committee and the Economic Alliance of Greater Baltimore.
Schreiber, the alliance’s former chief operating officer, stays
clear-eyed about the bigger picture.
The Greater Baltimore Committee relaunched this year
with Schreiber, who had been serving as interim COO, as the
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permanent chief operations officer. Her team’s work centers on
improving the business environment, economy and quality of
life for residents in Baltimore and seven surrounding counties.
A former interior designer and graduate of the Maryland
Institute College of Art, Schreiber prides herself on finding
creative solutions for complex problems.
“How do we move our citizens and tourists, people that we
want to come to Baltimore, in and out of the city and just not
through the city?” she asked. “We don’t want people to get off
I-95 and zoom past the city without engaging with it.”
— Lilly Price