Beth is a well-known governance and risk expert who represents board Audit and Special Committees in high-profile crises involving multiple stakeholders, and counsels public company boards on governance and mitigation of legal and regulatory risk. Given her recognized expertise and communications skills, Beth is a sought-after speaker for director education programs at Harvard and NACD.  Beth is also a respected business community leader who understands the intersection of business, law, and policy.

Beth advises boards on a wide range of issues facing corporate boards today.  Her core competencies include M&A strategy and implementation, activist investor challenges, ESG governance and risk issues, and executive compensation; and she is qualified to serve on public company audit committees.  Beth handles board risk issues and dynamics across a spectrum of industries, with a particular focus on high tech companies and heavily-regulated industries such as financial services, insurance, banking, and gaming.

Beth is an experienced executive and respected business leader, who takes on the tough challenges and guides difficult decisions in a way that builds consensus.  Beth is a senior executive in the law firm of Foley & Lardner, one of the country’s top 50 law firms, currently serving as Vice Chair of the ESG Practice.  She formerly served as Chair of the Securities Enforcement & Litigation Group and Vice Chair of the Litigation Department.  In those roles, Beth has led all aspects of one of the firm’s most profitable practices, and shared P&L and talent acquisition responsibility for a department with $300+MM in revenues.  Beth led the firm’s litigation lateral partner and strategic acquisitions efforts which contributed to double-digit annual growth in the department, and helped lead Foley’s acquisition and post-acquisition integration of a major law firm.

Beth has been deeply engaged in the New England business, legal, political and civic communities for over 30 years. She currently serves as an independent board member, appointed by Massachusetts Governor Healey, for the Massachusetts Technology Park Corporation, the quasi-public agency which oversees the Commonwealth’s investments in the tech innovation sector.  Beth also served as the Governor-appointed independent board member for the Massachusetts Lottery ($4B+ quasi-public agency with over 500 union and non-union employees), where she led the multi-year transformation of the Lottery’s compliance, governance and compensation oversight processes.

In addition to her service on quasi-public and non-profit boards and numerous business groups, Beth has chaired or served on the finance and economic development transition committees for many statewide and federal elected officials.  Her other key civic positions include:

• Chair and former President, NACD-New England, 2016-present
• Co-Chair, Boston Bar Association Task Force on Corporate Governance
• President, Women’s Bar Association of Massachusetts

Beth received her J.D. and B.A. from the University of Chicago, where she graduated with highest honors in her college class and was a Rhodes Scholar nominee.

Prior to joining Foley & Lardner over a decade ago, Beth was a securities litigation partner at Bingham McCutchen and at Mintz Levin; and prior to that she clerked for the federal judge who handled the Ivan Boesky and Michael Milken insider trading and securities fraud matters.

Selected Awards/Recognition

• “Most Influential Bostonians,” Boston Magazine (2023, 2024)
• “Most Powerful Boston Businesspeople,” Boston Business Journal
• Inaugural class of the Massachusetts Lawyers’ Hall of Fame, Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly
• Chambers USA, Securities Litigation Massachusetts (multiple years)
• Lelia J. Robinson Award, Women’s Bar Association of Massachusetts (highest WBA honor)