[1] She was hired by then-Secretary of State Rex Tillerson as what Bloomberg News called the "redesign chief" of a department restructuring.

[3][4][5] Before working for the State Department, Beams was chief executive officer at Voya Financial and interim CEO at the New England Aquarium.

[2][6] During the 1990s she worked in mutual fund marketing for multiple firms, including Scudder, Stevens, and Clark and Fleet Financial Group.

[7] Beams earned her Bachelor of Arts in English from Boston College and her Master of Business Administration from Columbia University.

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