Maggie Gunther is the Vice President of Marketing & Communications for the Greater Fort Lauderdale Alliance, Broward County’s official public/private partnership for economic development. In this role she and her team are responsible for using a variety of communications channels and strategies to tell the story of Broward County as a business destination of choice. She is accredited in public relations by PRSA and holds a Bachelor’s degree in Journalism with honors from the University of Central Florida and an MBA from Florida Atlantic University.

Maggie is the 2026 Chair of Fort Lauderdale’s Tower Forum nonpartisan discussion group, a member and past chair of the Board of Directors for Emerge Broward, which supports Broward County’s largest young professionals’ organization and a member of the Executive Committee for the Historic Stranahan House Museum. She’s an active volunteer and steering committee member for Walk Like MADD and a member of Leadership Florida and the Broward Center for the Performing Arts’ Ghost Light Society.

In 2016, she was named 40 Under 40 by the South Florida Business Journal. In 2019 she was named 40 Under 40 in Economic Development by the IEDC.  In 2015, she was honored by Leadership Broward Foundation at its annual Fun Lunch. In 2014, she was the winner of the Economic Development category for South Florida Business & Wealth’s inaugural Up & Comer Awards. She is a graduate of Leadership Florida’s Connect Class 6 and served as the Class Chair for Class 10.