AnnaMaria DeSalva is an accomplished chairman, CEO, and public company board leader with a record of value creation across Fortune 100 corporations, global consultancies, and complex governance environments. As a senior executive at Pfizer and DuPont, she played principal roles in some of the most consequential corporate transformations in science- and technology-driven industries. Most recently, DeSalva served as global chairman of the Burson Group. Previously, she was global chairman and CEO of Hill & Knowlton, where she led the firm’s profitable transformation, international expansion, and global rebranding. A former vice chairman of the board of XPO Logistics, she chaired the nominating, governance and sustainability committee and led investor engagement during a period of outsized value creation and structural change. DeSalva is a frequent speaker on transformation, strategy, risk, and resilience.