DALLAS -- During a news conference announcing her hire as the Mavericks' interim CEO, Cynthia Marshall outlined three primary areas of focus in her plan to address the franchise's issues: an independent investigation, cultural transformation and operational effectiveness.
Marshall, the former chief diversity officer and vice president of human resources at AT&T, was recruited by Mavs owner Mark Cuban in the wake of Sports Illustrated's investigative story last week exposing rampant sexual harassment allegations against former team president and CEO Terdema Ussery and two domestic violence incidents involving former team website writer Earl K. Sneed.
"I really want to see us as a model of how to respond to this," said Marshall, who described herself as "disgusted" while reading the Sports Illustrated story.