Susan S. LaniganSusan 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, Ms. Lanigan has served on the board of Kirkland’s Inc., a retailer of home décor, including furniture, accessories and gifts. She is chair of the compensation committee and a member of the nominating and governance committee.
She has served since 2017 on the board of Simmons First National Corporation, a financial holding company, with over $20 billion in assets, offering services through locations in seven states. She is chair of the nominating and governance committee and a member of the executive, compensation, risk, and compliance committees.
She served on the board of Vi-Jon, Inc., from January, 2020, through December, 2022. Vi-Jon is an employee-owned private label product manufacturer in the health and beauty industry. She was chair of the nominating and governance committee and a member of the compensation committee.
In 2014, Ms. Lanigan was appointed by the Governor of Tennessee to the Tennessee Education Lottery Commission. She became chair of the Commission in 2015. The Tennessee lottery is a multi-billion-dollar education lottery corporation. She retired from this position in May of 2021.
Susan Lanigan retired in 2018 as Executive Vice President and General Counsel of Chico’s FAS, a temporary position she assumed in 2016 to assist in a proxy contest. Before that, she was Executive Vice President and General Counsel of Dollar General Corporation. She retired from Dollar General in 2013, after 11 years with the company.
During her retail career, Ms. Lanigan managed significant stock and asset acquisitions, a leveraged buyout, and subsequent public offerings, she successfully defended a proxy challenge, and managed an SEC investigation and settlement. She was responsible for day-to-day SEC, legal and board compliance.
Prior to joining Dollar General, Ms. Lanigan served as Senior Vice President and General Counsel of Zale Corporation. Ms. Lanigan started her career as a litigation attorney for Troutman Sanders, LLP in Atlanta, GA. She graduated magna cum laude from the University of Georgia School of Law, and cum laude from University of Georgia.
Marguerite Woung-ChapmanMarguerite Woung-Chapman is an independent corporate director and experienced C-Suite leader.
Since May 2020, Ms. Woung-Chapman has served as a director of the General Partner of Summit Midstream Partners, LP (NYSE:SMLP), a limited partnership focused on developing, owning and operating midstream energy infrastructure assets located in unconventional resource basins in the continental United States. She is the chair of the Nominating, Governance and Sustainability Committee of SMLP’s General Partner and is also a member of its Compensation Committee.
Ms. Woung-Chapman also serves as a director of Chord Energy Corporation (NASDAQ: CHRD), an independent exploration and production company that acquires, exploits, develops and explores for crude oil, natural gas and natural gas liquids in the Williston Basin in the United States. Chord Energy was formed through the combination of Oasis Petroleum, Inc. and Whiting Petroleum Corporation. Ms. Woung-Chapman previously served on the Board of Directors for Oasis starting in 2021. She is the chair of Chord’s Nominating and Governance Committee and is a member of the Compensation and Human Resources Committee.
On August 1, 2023, Texas Pacific Land Corporation (NYSE: TPL) announced that Ms. Woung-Chapman will be an independent director nominee for election to its board of directors at TPL’s 2023 Annual Meeting of Stockholders.
Ms. Woung-Chapman was previously the Chair of the Board of Directors and President of the Council for the Girl Scouts of San Jacinto Council before her term ended May 31, 2023. Ms. Woung-Chapman’s relationship with the Girl Scouts, the pre-eminent leadership development organization for girls, is longstanding - first through her daughter and then through her own commitment as an adult member to building girls of courage, confidence and character who make the world a better place.
Ms. Woung-Chapman retired from Energy XXI Gulf Coast, Inc. (EGC), upon its acquisition by Cox Oil, LLC, as Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary. Capitalizing on her more than two decades of experience in the energy industry and her leadership position on EGC’s Executive Committee, Ms. Woung-Chapman was key to execution of several transformative initiatives for this NASDAQ-listed independent offshore exploration and production company culminating in the take-private merger transaction with Cox Oil in October 2018. Prior to joining EGC, she was Senior Vice President of Land Administration/CAD, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary of EP Energy Corporation – then an independent oil and natural gas producer. Ms. Woung-Chapman was a member of the executive committee responsible for EP Energy’s strategic direction and management.
Ms. Woung-Chapman served as Vice President – Legal Shared Services and Corporate Secretary of El Paso Corporation prior to assuming her role at EP Energy. El Paso was formerly a NYSE-listed, Fortune 100 international energy company until its merger with Kinder Morgan. At El Paso, Ms. Woung-Chapman had overall responsibility for corporate law, litigation, environmental law and employment law matters. She was also the chief governance advisor to the Board of Directors of El Paso as well as for the Board of Directors of its NYSE-listed master limited partnership, El Paso Pipeline Partners, L.P. Prior to entering into the energy industry, Ms. Woung-Chapman started her career as an attorney at the former law firm of Arter & Hadden.
Ms. Woung-Chapman received her J.D. degree from Georgetown University Law Center and her B.S. degree from Georgetown University.
Barbara Finigan FitzgeraldBarbara 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 Hasbro, Inc., a $5B publicly traded toy developer and manufacturer, supported the Company’s growth blueprint as Hasbro embraced digital innovation, intellectual property reimagination, geographic expansion, and content development. Barbara regularly advised colleagues on the Hasbro executive team and the Company’s Board of Directors on global strategies and risk across all business units.
Career History:
Hasbro operates all over the world, with major offices in the U.S., Latin America, Asia Pacific, and Europe. As the Company’s Chief Legal Officer, she managed a department of 130 professionals globally, assumed leadership of the Corporate Social Responsibility and Ethical Sourcing functions, and managed an annual budget of over $40 million.
Barbara advised on Hasbro’s global merger and acquisition activities across multiple industries. In addition, she led Hasbro’s compliance team focused on growth while maintaining an ethical supply chain and working environment. Barbara also supported the opening of new business channels including e-commerce and direct-to-consumer and led the Company’s Diversity and Inclusion efforts.
Barbara currently serves as a strategic advisor to Lansdowne Labs LLC, a company commercializing health care innovation created at MIT’s Langer Lab, and is a director of Boston-based Norfolk & Dedham Group, a regional mutual insurance company. Barbara is a past director of the Toy Association of North America, the industry's 1000-member trade association.
Board Experience: Barbara worked closely with the Board of Directors and all committees of Hasbro on governance issues, including managing public board transformation and succession planning, an adverse compensation vote, shareholder activists, and merger and acquisition initiatives.
Audit Committee: Significant SEC regulatory experience including all public disclosure activity. Current member of Norfolk & Dedham Group Audit Committee. Past Chair of Toy Association Audit Committee.
Nominating, Governance, and Social Responsibility Committees: Current member Norfolk & Dedham Group Governance and Compensation Committee. Expertise in board transformation, shareholder engagement, and corporate ethics.
Cyber Security and Data Privacy Committee: Created Cyber Security and Data Privacy Committee at Hasbro. Expertise in current cyber security risk and director oversight.
Compensation Committee: Worked to successfully reverse adverse executive compensation vote by Hasbro’s shareholders. Expertise in current executive compensation approaches to attract and retain outstanding talent.
Non-Profits: Barbara Currently serves as Chair of the Board of Catholic Memorial High School and as a director of the Three Point Foundation, both in Boston, MA.