Chris is a senior executive with over 30 years of legal and business experience and a proven track record of guiding international public companies and their boards through both transformational and turbulent change. Leveraging her more than 25 years of boardroom experience as chief legal officer and corporate secretary at Fortune 100, ASX Top 20, and other global public companies, Chris has helped corporate boards navigate through some of their most consequential decisions, including strategic alternative reviews, sales of the business, CEO transitions, and responses to global operational crises. Her skills across multiple functions and industries, including technology, gaming, and telecommunications, coupled with her expertise in regulatory matters and crisis management, well round her as a corporate fiduciary in volatile times.
From February 2020 to February 2025, Ms. Hill served as Chief Legal Officer of Aristocrat Leisure Limited (ASX: ALL), a Sydney-based, ASX Top 20 game content and technology company and mobile games publisher licensed in more than 300 jurisdictions and operating in over 90 countries. During her tenure and frequent travels to Australia, she served as Chair of management’s Enterprise Governance Committee and implemented governance, risk management, and strategic frameworks that underpinned the board’s fiduciary duties and empowered the company to achieve its five-year strategy¾more than doubling its market capitalization ($13.4 billion to $29.8 billion) and increasing its global revenues by more than 50% ($3.0 billion to $4.6 billion)¾notwithstanding the COVID-19 pandemic and wars in Ukraine and Israel, where the company has significant operations requiring the relocation of thousands of employees and their families. She also transformed and upleveled a team of more than 100 legal, governance, and compliance professionals and overhauled outdated global processes and technologies to accelerate the company’s strategy.
Prior to joining Aristocrat, Chris spent over seven years (2011 to 2019) at The Dun and Bradstreet Corporation (NYSE: DNB), a global business information and analytics company operating in over 190 jurisdictions, with nearly 6,000 employees and $2.3 billion of annual revenues in 2019. Her tenure as D&B’s Chief Legal Officer & Head of Global Corporate Citizenship was bookended by navigating the board through two CEO transitions as well as shepherding the company’s $6.9 billion going-private transaction in 2019. Additionally, she spent significant time in China leading a six-year FCPA matter that culminated in a favorable settlement of civil US enforcement actions, permanent closure of the Chinese business, and criminal prosecution in China of the subsidiary and local leaders. She also spearheaded responses to several high-profile cybersecurity incidents, modernized D&B’s supply chain organization, launched the company’s formal ESG program, and successfully marshalled the company’s government relations rebuttal to hostile regulatory campaigns in Washington, DC and Beijing.
Ms. Hill sharpened her government relations and crisis management skills during her time at the US Department of the Treasury’s Office of Financial Stability in 2009 and 2010. As the top SES Oversight Liaison and Reporting Executive for the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP), she led a 30+ person team charged with driving greater transparency on various TARP programs intended to stabilize the US economy during the Global Financial Crisis. Chris and her team were charged with responding to inquiries from politicians, global media, and various TARP oversight bodies to drive greater transparency over TARP initiatives. To fulfill these responsibilities, Chris was required to find common ground among competing stakeholders, weigh potential risks and opportunities, and make informed decisions with imperfect information in a high-stakes, ever-changing environment¾skills that have served her in both the boardroom and her business roles.
Earlier in her career, Chris served as the VP, Corporate Governance and Ethics & Corporate Secretary of Sprint Nextel Corporation, a then–Fortune 100 company where she was a direct report of the CEO and actively partnered with the board in responding to a range of shareholder activism, from private investment funds to public pension funds and labor unions. In each instance, the board successfully negotiated favorable outcomes, avoiding contested public campaigns, negative publicity, and business disruptions. Chris began her career in 1986 as an M&A lawyer at Jones Day before joining Honda of America Mfg., Inc. in 1992, where she structured and negotiated complex transactions for Honda’s manufacturing operations in the US.
Ms. Hill received her J.D. (With Honors) from The Ohio State University, Moritz College of Law, and her B.A. (Summa Cum Laude) from The Ohio State University.