Kathleen M. Franklin is the Global Ethics and Compliance Strategy Leader for the Sony Group companies where she is responsible for designing an efficient and effective ethics & compliance program to maintain Sony’s ethical culture. She also acts as the Chief Compliance Officer for Sony Corporation of America, Sony’s U.S. holding company based in in New York.

Prior to joining Sony, Kathleen was a Partner and Co-Chair of the Corporate Governance Group for Boies, Schiller and Flexner, LLP where she served as a strategic advisor to public and private companies on a wide range of issues related to mergers and acquisitions, executive compensation, corporate governance, and crisis management.

Kathleen is also an independent director of Bank OZK (NASDAQ: OZK), a banking corporation with total assets of $36 billion as of July 2024. She currently serves as a member of the board’s Risk Committee. She has also served on its Compensation and Nominating and Governance Committees.

Kathleen graduated magna cum laude from Siena College, Loudonville, New York, where she received a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration. She graduated magna cum laude from Albany Law School of Union University and earned an LLM in Taxation from New York University School of Law.