Ms. Babiak spent 28 years with Ernst & Young with the last 20 based in London before starting her ’portfolio board career’. At EY, her roles included board level and global P&L leadership roles over Technology Security & Risk Services; Regulatory & Public Policy; and Climate Change & Sustainability and related ESG reporting while serving on the firm’s most prestigious clients in financial services, technology, energy, media, transportation, retail, health care and other sectors.

In 2012, she joined the boards of Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc and the Bank of Montreal and chairs the audit committee of both. In late 2017, she joined the board of Euromoney Institutional Investors plc, a UK-based FTSE 250 company, where she is the Senior Independent Director. Jan also serves on private PE-backed and employee-owned company boards. Her prior public board service includes the Royal Mail during its successful IPO from full UK government ownership directly into the FTSE 100. From 2010 until its sale in August 2012, she was an independent board member and Audit Committee Chair for Logica plc, a then UK headquartered FTSE 250 publicly traded technology company.

She was lead author of a then definitive book on board level oversight of IT and cybersecurity ’Defending the Digital Frontier: Practical Security for Management’ and is published on sustainability/ESG, cyber security, governance, technology, digital transformation, and diversity. She is a U.S.-qualified Certified Public Accountant (CPA), Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA), and Certified Information Security Manager (CISM). She is also a Chartered Accountant (FCA) and a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW), of which she served as a Council Member from 2011 until she reached the term limit in 2019.