Corporate Governance

Gail B. Harris is our lead director and serves as chair of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee and as a member of the Audit Committee. Ms. Harris previously served on the board of Seacor Holdings Inc., where she was a member of the Audit Committee and Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee, and on the board of Cigna Life Insurance Co. of New York, where she was the lead director and chair of the Outside Directors/Audit Committee. In addition, Ms. Harris serves on the boards of several private companies. She is the chair of the Dean’s Advisory Council of Stanford Law School and a member of the Advisory Council of the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University. She is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Ms. Harris previously was a trustee on the Stanford University Board of Trustees, where she chaired the Special Committee on Investment Responsibility and sat on the Finance and Audit committees. Ms. Harris is president emeritus and a current board member of New York Cares, the largest nonprofit for volunteering in New York City. Ms. Harris began her legal career at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP in 1977 and was a partner in the firm’s corporate department from 1984 to 1998. She was of counsel to Simpson Thacher through June 2011 and has extensive experience advising boards of directors and representing clients on general corporate and securities work, joint ventures, partnerships, acquisitions and dispositions. Ms. Harris earned an A.B. with distinction from Stanford University and a J.D. from Stanford Law School.