Success Stories
  • April Miller BoiseApril Miller Boise
    April Miller Boise is executive vice president and chief legal officer at Intel Corporation. She leads Intel’s global legal, trade and government affairs team, and acts as a strategic adviser to the Intel executive leadership team and board of directors. Miller Boise has more than 25 years’ of experience serving in various executive leadership roles, including general counsel and head of global mergers and acquisitions. Earlier in her career, Miller Boise practiced on Wall Street and later led the largest office of an AmLaw 200 law firm as managing partner and was a member of the firm’s executive committee. She has worked with companies across industries including semiconductors, aerospace, electrical products and services, financial services, commercial transportation, automotive, mining, and oil and gas. Miller Boise holds a Juris Doctor from the University of Chicago Law School and a Bachelor of Business Administration from the University of Michigan Business School. She is a member of the board of directors of Trane Technologies (NYSE: TT).
  • Melanie TrentMelanie Trent
    Melanie Trent is an experienced independent board member and senior executive who has worked extensively in the energy industry. Ms. Trent serves on the Board of Directors of Diamondback Energy, Inc. (NASDAQ:FANG), an independent oil and natural gas company focused on the acquisition, development, exploration and exploitation of unconventional, onshore oil and natural gas reserves in the Permian Basin in West Texas.  She is Lead Director and serves on the Audit, Compensation and Nominating Committees and chairs the Safety, Sustainability & Corporate Responsibility Committee. Ms. Trent also serves on the Board of Arcosa, Inc. (NYSE:ACA), a company focused on construction, energy and transportation products and services.  Arcosa was spun-off from Trinity Industries (NYSE:TRN) in November 2018.  She chairs the Governance & Sustainability Committee. Ms. Trent also serves on the Board of Hyliion (NYSE:HYLN), a company whose mission is to reduce the carbon intensity and GHG emissions of Class 8 commercial trucks by being a leading provider of electrified powertrain solutions. Ms. Trent served on the Board of Noble Corp (NYSE:NE) from its emergence from bankruptcy in February 2021 until a merger with Maersk Drilling in October 2022.  Noble is a leading offshore drilling contractor for the oil and gas industry.  She chaired the Compensation Committee and was a member of the Governance & Sustainability Committee. Ms. Trent served on the Board of Frank’s International N.V. from January 2019 until its merger with Expro, completed in October 2021.  She served on the Audit Committee and chaired the Nominating and Governance Committee. Ms. Trent previously served as Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Chief Administrative Officer of Rowan Companies plc (a global offshore drilling contractor active in the Middle East, United Kingdom, Norway, Gulf of Mexico and Trinidad, which is now part of Valaris plc.), Ms. Trent used her wealth of experience as a member of the Company’s senior executive leadership team, evaluating and determining corporate strategy, mergers, acquisitions and joint venture opportunities, and other business initiatives. Ms. Trent serves on the Board of the Houston Endowment, a private foundation that partners with others in the nonprofit, public and private sectors to improve quality of life for the residents of greater Houston. She also chairs the Investment Committee of the Endowment.  She also is the Chair of the Board of YES Prep Public Schools, an open enrollment public charter school serving students in Houston’s most underserved communities.  She also co-chairs the Houston Chapter of Women Corporate Directors. She previously served on the Board of New Hope Housing, Inc., on the Audit Committee and Compensation Committee of the Memorial Hermann Hospital System, and on the Board and Executive Committee of Hermann Park Conservancy.
  • Juliette PryorJuliette Pryor
    Juliette Pryor is a public company corporate director and a skilled public and private company c-suite executive with 25+ years of business experience. She has deep experience in the board room of multiple corporations, providing key leadership in IPOs, multi-billion-dollar divestitures and acquisitions, corporate restructurings, and entity transformations. Juliette has lived in Brazil, speaks fluent Portuguese, and is proficient in Spanish. Juliette serves as a director of Genuine Parts Company, a Fortune 200 global service organization engaged in the distribution of automotive and industrial parts. Juliette is EVP, General Counsel, and Corporate Secretary of Albertsons Companies (NYSE: 55) a grocery retailer with retail, pharmacy, manufacturing, and distribution operations in 34 states, and approximately 300,000 employees. As a member of the executive leadership team of this newly public company, Juliette is responsible for all the company’s legal, compliance, and government affairs functions.  Juliette’s board contributions include lead responsibility for the transformation of the corporate board from a controlled company board to a fully independent board, oversight for the board governance process, setting of board agendas, and framing policies for board tenure, composition, and recruiting. From 2016 to June 2020, Juliette served as General Counsel and Corporate Secretary for Cox Enterprises, a $20 billion, family-owned conglomerate with significant digital and traditional operations in the communications, media, and automotive sectors (Autotrader, Kelly Blue Book, wholesale automotive auctions, etc.). Juliette previously served as a c-suite officer of US Foods, Inc. (NYSE: 133), the second-largest foodservice distribution and supply chain company in the United States. Juliette joined US Foods in 2005 as part of a turnaround leadership team and was tasked with rebuilding the Company’s compliance and enterprise risk management programs and leading efforts to repair relationships with key government customers and oversight agencies.  In 2007, Juliette was a strategic lead for the team that took the company private, and seven years later she co-led the team that took the company public after being held by private equity. Over the course of her 11-year tenure, Juliette led the legal, compliance, enterprise risk management, workforce safety, food safety, governance, government affairs, and public policy functions. At different points during her tenure, Juliette also held interim lead responsibility for human resources, diversity and inclusion, and corporate communications. Before US Foods, Juliette served as General Counsel for telecom start-up e.spire Communications, and remained on that leadership team throughout its NASDAQ delisting and Chapter 11 reorganization, and led the organization through its restructuring process that ended with all telecom assets being sold through an orderly wind down. Earlier in her career, she was in private practice with Skadden Arps, advising global clients on complex, international commercial transactions, in the energy, media, and telecom sectors. Juliette is a frequently sought-after speaker on leadership, strategy, governance, and compliance. She is an experienced nonprofit board member, including Fisk University, Georgetown Law Center, and Equal Justice Works. Juliette has received many prestigious awards and recognitions over her career such as her recent inclusion in Black Enterprise 300 Most Powerful Executives in Corporate America (2019).