Susan, a Senior Advisor at the KPMG Board Leadership Center, is a leading voice in board governance, and is a frequent writer and speaker on board oversight of topics including strategy, innovation, technology, risk, DEI, climate change, leadership, and culture. Susan has extensive experience enabling sustainable global growth and protecting long-term value of some of the world’s most famous and best-loved brands as a lawyer and former Fortune 500 executive in the branded consumer products industry leading a portfolio including legal matters, ethics and compliance, crisis management, global security, and board governance at Nabisco, Kraft, and Hershey. She was honored to be named to NACD’s Directorship 100 list for governance in 2020 and 2023.

As a champion of board diversity, Susan chairs the board of The 30% Coalition, a national forum where members representing over $8 trillion in assets under management collaborate to enhance gender, racial, and ethnic diversity in senior leadership and boardrooms. She leads KPMG’s alliances with membership groups including LCDA (Latino Corporate Directors Association), Ascend/Pinnacle, and Quorum/Out Leadership, as well as programs designed to build diverse board pipelines in collaboration with others including HITEC (the Hispanic IT Executive Council), LCDA and Quorum. She has led global Thought Leadership Commissions for Women Corporate Directors on topics including visionary boards, board diversity, and board decision-making.

She has served as a director on numerous nonprofit boards, ranging in size and scope from an educational tech start-up to the national Council of Better Business Bureaus, an umbrella organization linking to more than 100 local and national organizations devoted to instilling marketplace trust among their more than 250,000 member businesses, charities, and advertising agencies. She currently serves on the boards of Latino Corporate Directors Education Foundation and the Institute for Mindful Leadership in addition to the 30% Coalition. Susan received her law degree from Columbia University, where she was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar and an Editor of the Columbia Law Review, and her bachelor’s degree in liberal arts from Sarah Lawrence College.