Kris Pederson is EY’s Americas Corporate Governance leader with 25 years of management consulting, auditing/financial analysis, and board of director experience. She currently focuses on the board agenda and serves on the firm’s Long-term Value Steerco. Her focus areas include value identification/measurement, shareholder activism, and linkages of value to investor communications and governance. She previously led EY’s Strategy and Customer consulting practices for Advisory Americas and co-founded EY’s Purpose Led Transformation practice. Pederson also spent time at IBM, PwC, and Gemini Consulting in strategy leadership roles. She has vast experience at the board level previously serving as a corporate director for Great Western Bank and is currently an Advisory Board member for the NFL’s Alumni Board, NACD Colorado, and the Harvard Business School Women’s Advisory Board. Pederson was awarded Consulting Magazine’s Lifetime Achievement Award in 2016 and honored as a Top 25 Consultant in 2007. She received an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BA from UCLA.