Shirley is a retired senior vice president from Transamerica Corporation. Her career has included business positions at Transamerica and General Motors Corporation, co-founding of a financial services advisory company and a partner in a major international law firm. Shirley’s 30 years of working experience resulted in her achieving skills in … Read more
Area of Expertise: M&A
Kathleen F. Burke
Kathleen F. Burke is Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary of MKS Instruments, Inc. (NASDAQ: MKSI). She is a key strategic advisor to the Board of Directors of MKS, with extensive experience in corporate governance, mergers and acquisitions, and risk management in a global market. As a member of … Read more
Janet L. Carrig
Janet Carrig served as Senior Vice President, Legal, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary of ConocoPhillips from August 2007 through September 2018. She is an experienced executive who has worked extensively in both the energy and consumer products industries, and managed every staff function except finance.
As General Counsel, Carrig had … Read more
Sheila C. Cheston
Sheila C. Cheston is Corporate Vice President and General Counsel of Northrop Grumman Corporation, a global security company with approximately 100,000 employees worldwide and a market cap of approximately $75 billion. She has over 30 years of experience in senior executive positions spanning multinational corporations, the federal government and law … Read more
Shauna Clark
Shauna Johnson Clark runs one of the world’s five largest combined global law firms and manages its US operations. A born leader, she has long managed many aspects of her law firm, including serving as: a Global Executive Committee Member; a US Management Committee Member; the US Head of Employment … Read more
Susan H. Alexander
Susan H. Alexander is Executive Vice President, Chief Legal Officer, and Corporate Secretary of Biogen. Biogen is a global Fortune 500 global biotechnology company focused on discovering, developing, and marketing therapies for the treatment of neurological disorders and other serious diseases. Ms. Alexander is a member of the executive team … Read more
DeLisa Alexander
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An accomplished executive leader and board director, DeLisa Alexander brings more than 25 years of unique experience in open leadership, with notable contributions across board governance, shareholder value creation, culture building and legal management. The majority of DeLisa’s career focused on scaling, evolving and leading employee experience at the … Read more
Marcia E. Backus
Marcia E. Backus is Senior Vice President, General Counsel, Corporate Secretary and Chief Compliance Officer at Occidental Petroleum Corporation, where she is responsible for the company’s global Law and Compliance department. Marcia is an experienced executive with a breadth of experience on challenging corporate issues, who integrates business, financial and
Valerie Banner
Valerie L. Banner is a member of the Board of Directors and Nominating Committee of Main Street Capital Corporation (NYSE:MAIN), an investment firm providing debt and equity capital to lower middle market and middle market companies, and a member of the Advisory Board of the KBH Energy Center in Austin, … Read more
Roya Behnia
Roya Behnia is Executive Vice President, Chief Legal Officer and Corporate Affairs of JELD-WEN, Inc. (NYSE: JELD), a global building products company with over $4.7 billion in revenues and over 24,000 employees. She guides the company and its board in all complex and sensitive strategic matters, including CEO transition, transformational … Read more