Ulrika Ekman, 62, is an experienced board member with broad expertise in global financial and professional services. Ms. Ekman currently serves as an independent member of the Board of Directors of Société Générale, a global French bank (PARIS: GLE), where she is a member of the Risk Committee, the US Risk Committee and Audit and Internal Control Committee. Until its recent sale to Mizuho, Ms. Ekman also served as an independent member of the Board of Directors of Greenhill & Co., a global investment bank (NYSE: GHL) where she chaired the Nominating and Governance Committee and served on the Compensation Committee. Her board experience comprises an extensive range of governance, strategic, risk and financial issues, as well as succession planning and crisis management.

Until her retirement in 2012, Ms. Ekman held various senior roles at Greenhill & Co., a leading independent investment bank which provides financial advisory services for mergers, acquisition, restructurings, financings and capital raising to corporations, institutions and governments from its multiple offices across five continents.

Ms. Ekman’s tenure at Greenhill coincided with the firm’s rapid growth and initial expansion. Ms. Ekman focused on establishing Greenhill’s premier brand as a trusted advisor in a highly competitive international market and was intimately involved in various strategic initiatives to build the advisory and asset management businesses of the firm, including financings in both public and private equity markets, acquisitions, and international expansion. Ms. Ekman also advised the Greenhill Board of Directors on governance and strategic issues.

Prior to joining Greenhill, Ms. Ekman was a partner in the corporate department of Davis Polk LLP, a premier Wall Street law firm, where she represented clients in complex domestic and cross-border transactions across a broad range of industries, including mergers, acquisitions, spin-offs, divestitures, and reorganizations.

Ms. Ekman’s charitable activities have included serving on the Board of Trustees of The Indian Mountain School in Lakeville, Connecticut (where she also served on the Strategic Planning, Diversity and Inclusion and the Finance Committees) and the Board of Trustees of St. Luke’s School in New York City (where she also served as Treasurer and was a member of the Executive and Finance Committees, overseeing a pivotal strategic study).

Ms. Ekman received her law degree from New York University School of Law, where she was awarded the Order of the Coif. Ms. Ekman also holds an M.A. in history from New York University and a B.S. of Foreign Service from Georgetown University, cum laude. Ms. Ekman, a native of Sweden, speaks five languages and resides in Connecticut.