Annette Nazareth is a Senior Counsel of Davis Polk & Wardwell. She also currently serves as the Operating Lead of a private-sector led international Taskforce on Scaling Voluntary Carbon Markets. Until recently Ms. Nazareth headed the Trading and Markets practice in Davis Polk’s Financial Institutions Group, which is one of … Read more
Industry Experience: Financial Services
Karen Ostad
Karen Ostad is an internationally recognized leader in structuring and implementing business reorganizations, mergers and acquisitions, primarily involving financially distressed or emerging markets companies. Her experience is global (including Europe, China, Japan, India, and South America) and she has led transactions in many industries including insurance, banking and other financial … Read more
Kelly McNamara Corley
Kelly McNamara Corley served as Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary of Discover Financial Services, a leading consumer credit, payments and online banking company from 2007 to 2019. Ms. McNamara Corley’s responsibilities included serving on the firm’s 10 person Executive Committee responsible for management and strategic direction of … Read more
Jean Molino
Jean Molino is a skilled executive and people leader with over 30 years of global business, risk management, corporate governance, and legal experience. At McKinsey & Company, Jean is an ex-officio member of the Risk, Audit, and Governance Committee of the Board of Directors, served as a trustee for McKinsey’s … Read more
Chérie R. Kiser
Chérie Kiser chairs Cahill’s communications practice group and is the managing partner of Cahill’s Washington, D.C. office.
For more than three decades, Chérie has been at the legal forefront of the dramatic growth and technological innovation that have taken place in the voice, video, Internet, and data communications markets. She … Read more
Susan S. Lanigan
Susan Lanigan has over thirty years of professional experience as a senior executive of three publicly-traded retail companies, as a current member of the boards of directors of two publicly-traded companies, and as a former member of the board of a private ESOP-owned consumer products company.
Since June of 2016, … Read more
Allison Leopold Tilley
Allison Leopold Tilley is named one of the top “Women Leaders in Tech Law” by The Recorder for six consecutive years and hailed as the Technology “Dealmaker of the Year” by The Deal. Based in Silicon Valley, Allison advises technology companies, including on their formation, venture capital financings, multibillion-dollar M&As, … Read more
Stephanie Lucie
Stephanie Lucie is a highly accomplished executive with more than 30 years of legal and business experience, with significant M&A experience. She is a former senior vice president, chief legal officer, chief compliance officer, corporate secretary, and head of human resources. She has advised numerous boards of directors of both … Read more
Vivian A. Maese
An award-winning senior executive and FinTech attorney, Vivian’s creative power has positioned her at
the crossroads of frontier technologies and the financial services industry. Pioneering the tech-driven
changes at Wall Street’s iconic Salomon Brothers on the famous Fulcrum Project that transformed
trading technologies on Wall Street, she foresaw the interplay … Read more
Lorraine McGowen
Lorraine McGowen is a senior bankruptcy lawyer and a well-known leader of the international dialogue on diversity in the legal profession. A partner in the global law firm of Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, she served two terms on the firm’s 11-member Board, and before that was the practice group leader … Read more