Kim Yapchai is an accomplished C-suite leader with almost 30 years of experience in multinational public companies where she spent ~10 years working with Boards of Directors and committees. She has an extensive background in ESG, risk, compliance, and legal. Her industry experience includes consumer and commercial financing; consumer products … Read more
Class Year: 2022
Sally A. Thurston
Sally A. Thurston is a strategic business partner who recently retired from global law firm Skadden Arps. Ms. Thurston was a results-oriented tax advisor to Fortune 500 companies on multi-billion dollar transactions for 35 years and is an expert on combinations between US and foreign multinationals, cross-border structures and post-acquisition … Read more
Vanessa Allen Sutherland
Vanessa L. Allen Sutherland, Executive Vice President, Legal and Government Affairs, General Counsel, and Corporate Secretary of Fortune 50 Phillips 66 (NYSE: PSX), is a seasoned executive and former U.S. Senate-confirmed political appointee with 25 years of private and public sector experience, focusing on helping publicly traded companies increase their … Read more
Mary Smith
Mary Smith is an independent board member, former CEO of a $6 billion national healthcare organization and C-suite executive with 25+ years of business experience. Mary currently serves on the board of PTC Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ: PTCT), a global biopharmaceutical company focused on the discovery, development and commercialization of … Read more
Jennifer W. Pileggi
Jennifer is an accomplished and seasoned former C-Suite executive with more than 30 years of global business and legal experience. She has served as a trusted and strategic advisor to boards of directors and executive management of public and private companies ranging in size from $100M/500 employees to $5B/25,000+ employees. … Read more
Sue Meng
Sue Meng is a corporate partner at Debevoise & Plimpton LLP. Her practice focuses on advising public companies, boards of directors and special committees in connection with mergers and acquisitions, strategic investments and other significant corporate matters.
Ms. Meng was selected as Dealmaker of the Year by The American Lawyer … Read more
Monica Karuturi
Monica Karuturi is Executive Vice President and General Counsel of CenterPoint Energy, Inc., a public electric and gas utility with electric transmission and distribution, power generation and natural gas distribution operations that serve more than seven million metered customers in a multi-state footprint. As a member of the company’s Executive … Read more
Laura Heltebran
A seasoned C-suite executive and international leader, Laura Heltebran has 30 years of global experience in technology, outsourcing, hospitality, franchising, travel and aviation. She is a highly collaborative and trusted business advisor to Fortune 500 public companies with worldwide operations as well as smaller entrepreneurial companies. She has spent years … Read more
Phyllis P. Harris
Phyllis Perrin Harris is a seasoned and multifaceted C-suite business executive with over 25 years of proven leadership in the corporate, federal regulatory and nonprofit sectors providing strategic direction, forward thinking, and continuous improvement to drive value to the organization’s bottom line.
Ms. Harris has deep experience in environmental, societal … Read more
Noni L. Ellison
An experienced public company executive, with sophisticated transactional experience, the aptitude for assessing risk, and extensive management and international business experience gained through stints living and working in the UK, Ghana, and China. Broad commercial and boardroom experience covering compliance, regulatory affairs, M&A, corporate finance, intellectual property transfers and corporate … Read more