Christine is a seasoned Fortune 100 executive with CEO experience and deep expertise in the transportation, logistics, supply chain and e-commerce areas. She has lived, worked and led teams in Europe and Asia in addition to North America.
Christine is currently Interim Chief Executive Officer of Foremost Group, a privately owned international shipping company. She assumed this role in February 2024. The eco-friendly, modern fleet is approximately 5 million metric tons deadweight, transporting more than 20 million tons of goods annually and chartered to blue chip companies such as Bunge, Cargill, Louis-Dreyfus, MOL and NYK who together with each of their Fortune 500 clients and other leading international companies determine which dry-bulk products Foremost vessels transport. She has been responsible for all operations, finances and general health and strength of the company, including all employees worldwide. Prior to stepping in as Interim CEO, Christine had been General Counsel of Foremost Group. As General Counsel, she has been instrumental in quadrupling the number of assets and tripling the number of employees by setting strategy, managing risk and problem solving; she is responsible for all legal, compliance and regulatory matters.
Christine has extensive corporate and commercial law experience having worked in senior legal positions for three Fortune 200 companies: GE, Federal Express and Ultramar Corporation. At Ultramar, she worked on Board matters as well as all corporate public company matters. She gained additional significant global experience when she worked with FedEx, Managing Director/Regional General Counsel, initially in Hong Kong (where FedEx executed its first ever joint venture) and subsequently in the United Kingdom. She was actively involved in a diverse array of governmental affairs, compliance, regulatory and legal matters and was awarded FedEx’s Five Star Award, bestowed upon less than 0.25 of FedEx’s top performing employees (approximately 295,000 at the time). Upon repatriation, Christine joined GE and worked on a broad range of transportation transactions before becoming General Counsel at Foremost Group.
Christine has extensive nonprofit Board experience including serving as Vice Chair of the Board of Trustees for her alma mater Colgate University, a leading liberal arts university with an undergraduate population of over 3300 students and an annual operating budget of nearly $300mn. She holds a BA from Colgate and a JD from Columbia University, School of Law. She is conversational in Mandarin Chinese and is a dual US/UK citizen.