Lily Yan Hughes is a former global C-Suite executive with extensive industry experience across highly regulated financial services companies and banks, real estate operations and development, retail, ecommerce, distribution and logistics, technology, global supply chain operations, asset management, and agriculture through management of her family farm in Upstate New York. She brings deep experience with founder-led companies and significant international experience at five public companies, including two Fortune 500, one S&P 500, and one European public company. Ms. Hughes is a recognized expert in corporate governance, executive compensation, SEC/NYSE regulations, capital markets, corporate finance, global M&A, global trade compliance, ESG, enterprise risk, compliance, and internal audit. She is qualified to serve and chair Governance and Compensation Committees and serve on Audit Committees.

Ms. Hughes currently serves as Assistant Dean at Syracuse University College of Law, overseeing strategy and operations for the Admissions/Financial Aid, Career Services, Strategic Marketing & Communications and SU Abroad Offices. She has been appointed by the Chancellor as a member of the University Leadership Team.

Previously, Ms. Hughes served as Senior Vice President, Chief Legal Officer and Corporate Secretary of Arrow Electronics, Inc., where she was responsible for the 120+ member global legal, compliance and trade compliance organizations based in North America, Europe, Asia, and Latin America. With 2020 sales of nearly $29 billion and more than 19,000 employees worldwide, Arrow is a Fortune 110 global provider of products, services, and solutions to industrial and commercial users of electronic components and enterprise computing solutions. During her tenure on the Executive Team, she guided Arrow through high-profile geo-political matters, including navigating sensitive discussions with different government regulators and significant business partners. Ms. Hughes transformed the legal and compliance teams into a highly motivated and effective “One Arrow” global team focused on excellence and delivery of services as trusted business advisors.

Prior to joining Arrow, Ms. Hughes served as Senior Vice President, Chief Legal Officer and Corporate Secretary of Public Storage (NYSE: PSA), an S&P 500 and FT Global 500 company with a market cap of nearly $45 billion at that time. She provided leadership and oversight for all legal and internal audit matters, including board, corporate securities, governance, capital markets, litigation, employment, real estate, compliance, operations, intellectual property, M&A, business continuity, enterprise risk management, government affairs, investor relations, and external communications. Public Storage is a consumer-facing, service-oriented and data-driven real estate operating and development company that faces significant competition. The company had to transform how it drove consumer traffic into 2,700+ brick-and-mortar stores across 38 states to sell moving supplies and rent self-storage spaces. While Ms. Hughes served as CLO of Public Storage, she also served as General Counsel of PS Business Parks (NYSE: PSB) and advised a separate board of directors and executive team. PSB was an affiliated public company owned 42% by Public Storage with a market cap of $4.5+ billion at the time. She also provided legal oversight to the General Counsel and legal team of another affiliated company based in Europe, Shurgard, which she helped to spin-off in a successful IPO and listing on the Euronext Brussels Exchange.

Prior to joining Public Storage in January 2015, Ms. Hughes served in roles of increasing responsibility for almost 18 years in the legal department of Ingram Micro Inc., an Orange County-based former Fortune 100 and the world’s largest wholesale information technology and mobile devices distributor with $47 billion+ in annual sales, over 20,000 employees, and serving customers in 160 countries. Her last role was Vice President and Associate General Counsel, Corporate, M&A and Finance, the second-ranking corporate lawyer of the company, with primary legal responsibilities for board matters, securities, governance, treasury, tax, strategic partnerships, and executive compensation matters, and as global legal lead on all mergers and acquisitions and finance transactions in the Americas, Europe, Asia and the Middle East.

Before joining Public Storage, Ms. Hughes was a Corporate and Securities Partner with the AMLaw 200 national law firm of Manatt, Phelps & Phillips focused on serving the financial services industry, including national and state community banks. She began her legal career as a corporate and securities lawyer focused on banking and capital restructuring.

Ms. Hughes currently serves as an independent director of Allbirds, Inc. (Nasdaq: BIRD), a position she has held since October 2025. She chairs the Special Committee to oversee a review of strategic options for the company, chairs the Sustainability, Nomination, and Governance Committee, and serves on the Management Compensation and Leadership Committee. She previously served as an independent director of NUBURU, Inc. (NYSE American: BURU) from January 2023 to October 2024, where she chaired the Nominating & Corporate Governance Committee and served as a member of both the Compensation Committee and the Audit Committee. NUBURU is a Colorado-based start-up that uses ground-breaking technology to transform a new class of high-power, high-performance blue lasers to enable radical gains in speed and quality for metal processing, new designs for conventional laser-metal machining and additive manufacturing (3D printing), and other manufacturing applications not possible with infrared lasers.

Ms. Hughes also serves as Chair and a member of the Audit Committee of the Board of Directors of DirectWomen, a non-profit with a mission focused on increasing the representation of women lawyers in the corporate boardroom. She recently led the Board in the review and adoption of a new three-year strategic plan. Previously, she served on the Global Board of Directors of the Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC), with oversight on management to serve 43,000+ in-house counsel members working in 80+ countries. Ms. Hughes also served as President and on the Board of ACC Southern California Chapter, one of the largest chapters. She served as a member of the Audit Committee and the Program Committee of the national American Heart Association based in Dallas, Texas, and was Chairman of the Board for one of the largest American Heart Association affiliates in Southern California.

Ms. Hughes was selected to be included in the 2021 Agenda Diversity 100, a directory of board-ready director candidates. The directory was curated by a selection committee consisting of board directors, investors and other corporate governance experts, and each honoree was vetted by a team of independent journalists. Agenda is the Financial Times’ publication for corporate board members. Ms. Hughes has been recognized by numerous publications and organizations, including being honored in 2021 and 2020 as a Power 50 Leader (C-Suite Women) by the National Diversity Council, being selected to participate in the prestigious DirectWomen Board Institute in 2019, being honored as National General Counsel of the Year by the National Women in the Law Awards in 2018, and in 2017 as the Public Company General Counsel of the Year by the Los Angeles Business Journal. She serves as Chair of the Best Under 40 Award Committee and the In-House Counsel Summit of NAPABA, the nation’s largest Asian Pacific American membership organization representing the interests of 60,000 attorneys, judges, law professors, and law students. In November 2025, she received the Daniel K. Inouye Trailblazer Award, NAPABA’s lifetime achievement award and highest honor, in recognition of outstanding leadership and demonstrated vision, courage and tenacity and substantial and lasting contributions to the legal profession.

Ms. Hughes earned her Juris Doctor from University of California Berkeley School of Law and her undergraduate degree from University of California, Berkeley, after beginning her college studies at Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts. She was born and raised in Hong Kong and immigrated to the United States when she was 11. She speaks conversational Cantonese and has completed 13 half-marathons.