Jan Babiak

Independent Board Member and Audit Committee Chair, NACD Nashville Chapter

Jan Babiak has served corporate boards in five countries. Her current boards include chairing the audit committees for Bank of Montreal, with assets of over $1.5 trillion, and for Boldyn Networks, a privately owned global shared network infrastructure provider headquartered in London and backed by the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board. Previously, she chaired the audit committee for Walgreens Boots Alliance, a Fortune 50 global pharmacy, until its 2025 sale to private equity, and she served as lead director and on the nominations and the compensation committees for Euromoney, a UK-based FTSE 250. She also served as lead director of GHD, an employee-owned engineering firm headquartered in Australia, for nine years until she termed off in 2025. Before her portfolio career, Babiak spent 28 years with EY—the last 20 of which she was London-based—holding executive board and global client-facing leadership roles in cybersecurity and technology security services, climate change and sustainability services, and regulatory and public policy.

NACD Directorship magazine named Babiak “one of the most influential people in the boardroom community.” Agenda, a Financial Times board member publication, included her in their “International 100: Top Board Candidates with Global Skills” and the Confederation of British Industry named her as their inaugural First Woman of Technology. Babiak served nine years on the council of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales.