M&A

Ashley C. Gould

Ashley C. Gould has over two decades of professional experience, during which she has been a member of executive teams of private and public companies in the technology and life sciences fields, advisor to emerging companies as well as investment funds and a member of not-for-profit boards.

As a trusted … Read more

Laurel Grammig

Laurel Grammig is Vice President, Secretary, and Chief Corporate Counsel of Brown & Brown, Inc., a public, highly decentralized insurance intermediary organization, where she is part of the Senior Leadership team. Since 1994, when she joined as Vice President, Secretary and General Counsel, the company’s annual revenues have grown from … Read more

Alyce C. Halchak

Alyce is a highly-experienced and sought-after business counselor and advisor to companies and boards of directors with a principal focus in the areas of mergers and acquisitions, financial analysis, governance, internal investigations, tax, and executive compensation.  She has led teams of lawyers and business executives in multi-party acquisitions, and is … Read more

Emily D. Dickinson

Emily D. Dickinson is the Retired Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary of PetSmart, Inc. She was a member of PetSmart’s senior management team, reporting directly to the CEO and participating in the development and support of the company’s strategic initiatives. The over $5 billion publicly traded company is … Read more

Sarah C. Dodds-Brown

Sarah Dodds-Brown currently serves as Executive Vice President & Deputy General Counsel of American Express.  She has held a variety of roles over the course of her 18-year career with American Express and is an highly adaptable enterprise leader who fosters connection and collaboration across divisions and bridges issues relating … Read more

Deneen Donnley

Known as a strategic, resourceful, and collaborative leader with a passion for diversity, equity, and inclusion and a wealth of experience as a legal and business leader in fast-paced, dynamic, and highly regulated businesses. Deneen has worked for several Fortune 500 companies with a focus on financial services. She has … Read more

Tracey Edwards

Tracey Edwards has held multiple global leadership roles during her 30+ years at Deloitte.  She created, grew, and/or reinvented many different businesses and served on the Board of Directors and the Global, Finance, and Risk Committees at Deloitte.

Ms. Edwards managed several complex international business units during her career at … Read more

Ulrika Ekman

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 … Read more

Kimberly T. Ellwanger

Kimberly Ellwanger serves as a board member of Heritage Bank, a full-service commercial bank headquartered in Olympia, WA, with 67 branches in Washington and Oregon, and Heritage Financial Corporation (NASDAQ: HFWA), the approximately $3.4 billion parent company of the Bank. She has also served as a senior executive of Microsoft … Read more

Barbara Finigan Fitzgerald

Barbara Finigan is a corporate director, strategic advisor and retired C-Suite executive, with extensive corporate governance, global business and legal expertise.

Barbara’s collaborative leadership at Hasbro, Inc., a $5B publicly traded toy developer and manufacturer, supported the Company’s growth blueprint as Hasbro embraced digital innovation, intellectual property reimagination, geographic expansion … Read more