Explore every episode of the podcast Women Governance Trailblazers

In this episode of Women Governance Trailblazers, We talk with Lily Yan Hughes, Chair of DirectWomen, which is an organization dedicated to increasing the representation of women lawyers on corporate boards, and she has served on the board of that organization since 2021. Lily is currently Assistant Dean at Syracuse University College of Law. Lily is also a leader with NAPABA, a national organization with over 80,000 members representing the interests of Asian Pacific American lawyers, judges, law students, and law professors.  She Chairs the Best Under 40 Award Selection Committee and also Chairs the NAPABA In-House Counsel Summit with programming for the highly selected Pipeliners program, targeting those AAPHI in-house counsels qualified to be the next Fortune 1000 General Counsel. Over the course of her career, she has led complex, international legal functions at Arrow Electronics and Public Storage, and held a number of leadership roles at Ingram Micro, where she worked in-house for almost 18 years. Lily has also spent time in private practice, and she served on the global board of the Association of Corporate Counsel for three years and served on the Executive Committee for two years. Lily previously served as an independent director, Chair of the Nominating Committee, and a member of the Compensation and Audit Committees at NUBURU, Inc., which is an NYSE American-listed company pioneering a new type of laser for metal processing, 3D printing, and more. 

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In this episode, we talk with Karen Boykin-Towns, the Vice Chair of the NAACP’s National Board of Directors. She now serves as Founder and President/CEO of Encore Strategies LLC, a boutique consultancy focusing on integrating business and public affairs initiatives. A distinguished strategist, global business, and civic leader, Boykin-Towns previously contributed her expertise across government, the nonprofit sector, and Pfizer, a Fortune 50 global biopharmaceutical company, while also championing civil rights and social justice issues. At Pfizer, Ms. Boykin-Towns served as the first Chief Diversity Officer in 2008 and concluded her time there as Vice President of Corporate Affairs for their $34 billion Innovative Medicines business.  Ms. Boykin-Towns continues to serve on several boards and in other leadership roles in addition to her role with the NAACP. 

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In this episode, we talk with Susanna Morgan, a board member at a public company, Payoneer, a private company, Mixpanel (backed by Andreesen Horowitz) and a founding member of Guilds by FirstMark, a private community for C-Level executives at leading venture-backed companies from around the world, about her journey and insights.

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In this episode, we talk with Cassidy Donohue, a math and econ major who pivoted into governance and is now a Product Manager at Troop. Troop is blazing a trail with AI-enabled services for investors, including through proxy advice and engagement recommendations.

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In this episode, we talk with Maryrose Sylvester, who has significant experience as an executive and as an independent director and board committee member. Maryrose currently serves on the boards of Vontier, Flex, Waste Management, and Harley-Davidson. Among other roles, Maryrose spent more than 30 years at General Electric in various leadership positions, including as President and CEO of GE Current, President and CEO of GE Lighting, and President and CEO of GE Intelligent Platforms, which focused on industrial automation. She shares some valuable lessons and provides advice for women/aspiring women in the boardroom, including tips for effective communication and collaboration.

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In this episode, we talk with Allison Herren Lee's and hear her perspectives from her experience as a former Acting Chair and Commissioner at the Securities & Exchange Commissioner, and currently a Senior Research Fellow at NYU Law and Of Counsel to Kohn, Kohn & Colapinto, where her focus includes ESG, Governance and audit, securities law and representing whistleblowers.  Allison is also a Director at the International Foundation for Valuing Impacts and a member of the Board at Persefoni AI, Inc., in addition to being a member of Persefoni’s Sustainability Advisory Board. 

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In this episode, we talk with Allison O'Neil, Partner and Co-Chair of the White Collar and Internal Investigations Practice at Locke Lord, where she is also a member of the Firm's Executive Committee. We talk with Allison about how she helps companies and individuals navigate regulatory and internal investigations, litigation and enforcement matters, compliance issues, and crisis management situations. 

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In this episode, we talk with Abby Adlerman, CEO and founder of Boardspan, about what drove her to build an integrated platform designed to transform the way boards approach their governance responsibilities, strategies and execution as well as her role advising both public and private boards on a wide variety of corporate governance matters.

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In this episode, we talk with Cigdem Oktem, leader of EY’s Center for Board Matters in the US Central Region about her role as advisor to both public and private boards on a wide variety of corporate governance matters as well as what she has found to be effective methods of knowledge sharing or influencing board behavior.

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In this episode, we talk with Anat Alon-Beck, an Associate Professor of Law at the Case Western Reserve School of Law about corporate governance and responsible sustainable business models. Anat has published research on a variety of high-profile corporate governance and securities law issues and is also widely read through her Forbes column and other media commentary.

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Corporate governance insights from Amy Simmerman, a partner at Wilson Sonsini, leading their Delaware office and governance practice and also a member of the firm’s board of directors. We cover a broad spectrum of topics, including what boards can/should consider in the current environment and the need to keep abreast of Delaware law even if you are not incorporated in Delaware.

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Hear insights from Dawn Belt, a partner in Fenwick’s corporate group and co-leader of the firm’s Startup & Venture Capital Practice Area. Dawn is a recognized leader in the areas of technology law, securities and corporate governance and frequently speaks on those topics as well as the importance of women taking more leadership positions at top technology companies. 

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Hear insights from Maria Doughty who is President & CEO of The Women's Network, with a mission of empowering women, which is also a passion of Maria's.

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Hear insights from Kelly Malafis who is a founding partner at Compensation Advisory Partners focusing on compensation strategy development, evaluating the pay and performance relationship for senior executives and compensation program governance among other areas.

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Learn from Christina Bresani's journey as managing director and head of Corporate Advisory at William Blair, including her role as advisor to companies on governance and ESG matters and her involvement with William Blair's diversity efforts.

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Learn from Betsy Atkin's journey as a three-time CEO, serial entrepreneur, board member on 38 companies,  participant in 17 IPOs, frequent contributor on CNBC, Bloomberg and Yahoo Finance  in addition to being an author with her most recent book “Be Board Ready: The Secrets to Landing a Board Seat and Being a Great Director”.

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Hear Kris Veaco's journey to founding Veaco Group, corporate governance advisory firm and we specialize in board evaluations and assessments of board and director effectiveness.

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Hear Laura Zizzo's journey that led her to co-found Manifest Climate, the leading global Climate Risk Planning solution designed to support organizations with climate-related insights, analytics and recommendations.

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Hear Sara Jensen's journey to her current role as Assistant Corporate Secretary for Co-Op Solutions.

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Hear Rachel Kahn-Troster's journey to her current role as Executive Vice President at the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility

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Hear Sarah Fortt's journey as Co-Chair of Latham & Watkin's Environmental, Social and Governance Practice.

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Hear Laura Wanlass' journey as Head of Global Corporate Governance & ESG Advisory Consulting at Aon

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Hear Alicia Syrett's journey to founder and CEO of Pantegrion Capital, an angel investment vehicle focused on seed and early stage investments, serving as a public company director, being a recurring panelist on CNBC and MSNBC and founder of Madam Chair, providing a collaboration opportunities for female chairs of publicly-traded companies.

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Hear Beverly Behan's journey to Founder of Board Advisor and author several governance books, including Becoming a Boardroom Star.

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Hear Patricia Lenkov's journey to Founder and President of Agility Executive Search, a New York based executive search firm and author of the newly released book, Time’s Up: Why Boards Need to Get Diverse Now.

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Hear Rhonda Brauer's journey to founding RLB Governance and being a trailblazer in ESG strategy.

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Hear Ning Chiu's journey to becoming Partner at Davis Polk and being a trailblazer in the remote workforce.

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Hear Marian Macindoe's journey to becoming Head of ESG Strategy & Engagement at Uber Technologies.

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Listen to Ginny Fogg's journey as the recently retired General Counsel of Norfolk Southern.

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Listen to Michelle Leder's  journey to founding footnoted*, a financial news site vital to investors and hedge funds, which reports on details from companies’ SEC filings. 

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