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Laurel Richie

 Independent Board Director

Ms. Richie serves as an independent director at Bright Horizons, Hasbro, Seat Geek and Synchrony Financial, and as an executive mentor with The ExCo Group, advising Fortune 500 c-suite executives on matters of strategy, personal leadership, and corporate culture.

Ms. Richie served as President of the Women’s National Basketball Association LLC from 2011 to 2015. Prior to that, she served as a brand consultant for Teach For America and Chief Marketing Officer of Girl Scouts of the United States of America. The bulk of her career was spent at Ogilvy & Mather, where she held various leadership positions including Senior Partner and Executive Group Director and member of the Operating and Diversity Advisory Boards.

Ms. Richie has been recognized as one of the 25 Most Influential Women in Business by The Network Journal, one of the Most Influential African Americans in Sports by Black Enterprise, and one of the Most Influential Black Corporate Directors by Savoy magazine. She is the recipient of numerous awards including Sports Business Journal’s Game Changer Award and Ebony magazine’s Outstanding Women in Marketing and Communications Award.

A proud alumna of Dartmouth College, Ms. Richie was Chair of the Board of Trustees from 2017 to 2021 and currently serves as chair of the Hopkins Center for the Arts Advisory board and trustee of Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital and Dartmouth-Hitchcock Clinic.