Success Stories

More than 40% of DirectWomen’s alumnae have been elected to serve on at least one corporate board. DirectWomen alumnae who currently serve on corporate boards include:

SUCCESS STORIES

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,

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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

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Suzanne Rich Folsom

Suzanne Rich Folsom is an accomplished board member and results-oriented C-Suite leader with broad global experience and a successful track record of driving transformation at

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Laura Franco

A C-Suite executive, Laura Franco brings more than 25 years of public company experience including mergers and acquisitions, international expansions, corporate governance, and SEC and

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Kathleen M. Franklin

Ms. Franklin is the Global Ethics and Compliance Strategy Leader for the Sony Group companies where she is responsible for promoting a culture of ethics

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Elisa D. Garcia

Elisa D. Garcia C. is an accomplished corporate executive and attorney with over 30 years of experience advising management and boards of directors on legal,

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Cynthia Gibson

Cynthia Gibson is an experienced C-suite executive, independent director and an audit committee financial expert. Her M&A background includes global acquisitions, joint ventures and divestitures.

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Deborah A. Golden

Deborah A. Golden is an independent board director, corporate advisor and senior executive with over 25 years of experience leading businesses.  She currently serves on

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Maria C. Green

Maria Green retired as senior vice president and general counsel of Ingersoll Rand plc (IR) on June 28, 2019. She joined IR in November 2015,

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Ann Harlan

Ann Harlan has extensive business and legal experience in consumer products and manufacturing business segments and has a reputation as a trusted advisor in the

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Susan Harte

Susan Harte is an independent member of the Board of Directors, Audit Committee and Chair of the ESG Committee of SusGlobal (“SNRG”), an industrial, environmental

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Peggy A. Heeg

Peggy Heeg is an experienced corporate director and business leader who has served in executive and board leadership positions for numerous public and private companies.

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Carrie Hightman

Ms. Hightman is an experienced director and executive and has held a broad range of leadership roles in highly regarded companies such as NiSource, AT&T,

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Stephanie C. Hildebrandt

Stephanie Hildebrandt is Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary of Archrock, Inc., (NYSE:AROC) the leading provider of natural gas contract compression services to customers

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Diane C. Honda

Diane Honda is a public board director and CXO who accelerates growth for mid to large technology companies by creating the people, operational, and governance

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