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Lucy Fato

Board of Directors Member

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Lucy Fato has been a member of the Nardello & Co. advisory board since December 2017, shortly after she stepped down as head of the Americas and general counsel to the firm.

Prior to her current role as general counsel of specialty insurer Vantage Risk, Lucy was general counsel at Seaport Entertainment Group. For six months, she was vice chair of AIG where, for the six years prior to that, she oversaw the global legal, compliance, regulatory, communications and government affairs functions as executive vice president, general counsel, and global head of communications and government affairs. In 2014 and 2015, Lucy was executive vice president and general counsel of McGraw Hill Financial, now S&P Global, and, for nine years prior to that, was vice president, deputy general counsel and corporate secretary at Marsh McLennan. Lucy began her career in 1991 at Davis Polk & Wardwell, where she spent fourteen years, including five as a partner in the capital markets group.

Lucy currently serves on the US Board of Managers of Kroll Bond Rating Agency, the Advisory Board of the Harvard Law School Center on the Legal Profession, and on the Board of Directors of the Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation.

For two years, she was named by Ethisphere Magazine as one of the “Attorneys Who Matter,” and for four years was named by the National Association of Corporate Directors as one of the 100 Most Influential People in the Boardroom. In 2023, she was named a Legend in the Law by the Burton Awards.

Lucy is a frequent speaker on topics such as risk and crisis management and communications, corporate governance, and legal, compliance and regulatory best practices. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Pittsburgh with a BA in business and economics, and received her JD from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. She serves on the Board of Visitors of both schools.

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