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
Area of Expertise: M&A
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
Sherry F. Bellamy
Sherry F. Bellamy is Counsel with the law firm of Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP in Washington D.C. Ms. Bellamy helps clients navigate the regulatory landscape and conduct internal investigations. She has particularly deep experience in the telecommunications and energy industries.
Sherry retired in 2009 as vice president and … Read more
Laurel G. Bellows
Laurel Bellows, managing principal of The Bellows Law Group, P.C., is a preeminent business lawyer, counseling senior executives and corporations on employment, severance and change in control agreements, internal investigations and business disputes. Corporations and executives rely on the firm to craft national and international executive relocation programs.
Laurel created … Read more
The Hon. Carolyn Berger
Carolyn Berger has served on the Delaware Supreme Court and the Court of Chancery for more than 25 years. The Court of Chancery is the trial court nationally recognized for its resolution of corporate matters. During her tenure on that court, Justice Berger appraised the value of numerous public companies, … Read more
April Miller Boise
April Miller Boise is executive vice president and chief legal officer at Intel Corporation. She leads Intel’s global corporate affairs, policy, integrity, trade, and legal team, and acts as a strategic adviser to the Intel executive leadership team and board of directors.
Miller Boise has more than 30 years’ of … Read more
Angelee F. Bouchard
Angelee Bouchard is the former Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary of Health Net, Inc. (NYSE: HNT), a California-based Fortune 500 health insurance company that delivers managed health care services to approximately 6 million individuals through group, individual, Medicare, Medicaid, U.S. Department of Defense and Veterans affairs programs. … Read more
Linda L. Addison
Linda Addison is an experienced independent director and chief executive, currently building out her board portfolio with private and PE-backed
companies. She is Lead Independent Director of Globe Life Inc. (NYSE: GL), an S&P 500 company, and a board member of Lexitas, an Apax Partners
private equity portfolio company. She … Read more
Katherine Adkins
As a C-suite executive, board, and audit committee member, Katherine Adkins brings 30 years of experience in the highly dynamic and changing worlds of the automotive, financial services, and fintech. Adkins currently serves as Chief Legal Officer for Affirm Holdings, Inc. and had previously served as a senior executive with … Read more