Kathy Hopinkah Hannan is a senior C-Suite executive, corporate advisor, independent board director and strategist with 30+ years of experience leading significant operations and high priority initiatives. Kathy is also an Audit Committee financial expert (as defined under the Securities and Exchange Commission Rules regarding the provisions of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act), is certified in Cybersecurity Oversight and is NACD Director Certified. She has extensive governance experience through her public and private company board roles as well as her past nonprofit and NGO roles including her service as the Chairman of the Board for the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI) and the Girl Scouts of the USA (GSUSA).

Board Experience
• Annaly Capital Management, Inc. (NYSE, NLY) Board of Directors serving as the Chair of the Audit Committee and member of the Compensation and the Nominating and Governance Committees
• Otis Worldwide Corporation. (NYSE, OTIS) Board of Directors serving as a member of the Audit and Nominating and Governance Committees
• Carpenter Technology Corporation. (NYSE, CRS) Board of Directors serving as a member of the Strategy and Audit & Finance Committees
• Gingko Bioworks Holdings, Inc. (NYSE, DNA) Board of Directors
• The Conference Board, Board of Trustees
• Smithsonian NMAI Board of Trustees serving as the Chairman of the Board
• Former member of the Board of Directors of Blue Trail Software Holding, Inc. (Private)
• Former Chairman of the Board of Directors and National President, of GSUSA
• Former member of the Board of Governors and Secretary of Chicago Metropolitan Planning Council
• Former member of the Board of Trustees for the KPMG Foundation
• Former Chairman of the KPMG Women and Diversity Advisory Boards
• Former member of the Advisory Board of the Women Corporate Directors (WCD) Foundation
• Former member of the Board of Directors of the Adler Planetarium
• Former member of the Board of Directors and Audit Committee, Northwestern Medical Faculty Foundation
• Former member of the Board of Regents and Audit Committee, Loras College

Professional Experience
Dr. Hannan, is a retired National Managing partner and former Vice Chairman of KPMG LLP. As a Global Lead partner with the vision, strong business judgement, and proven financial acumen in managing large and complex business units with full P&L accountability, Kathy held significant national and global leadership roles within the firm. Her executive leadership roles include her appointment to the firm’s U.S. and America’s Management Committees. As Vice Chairman of Human Resources, she was responsible for the North American workforce, including the architect of all human capital strategies including the development of KPMG recruitment, retention, development and reward initiatives and programs. In this role she served on the U.S. Operations, Pension, Independence and Global HR Steering Committees. During her tenure, she also founded the firms’ Women Advisory and Diversity Advisory Boards.

Kathy served as a Senior Advisor to the Board Leadership Center and as the National Leader for Total Impact Strategy - the Role of Corporations in Society, a partnership with Harvard Business School focusing on ESG governance matters. Earlier, Dr. Hannan was a National Managing Partner providing strategic direction to leverage an inclusive and engaged culture as a competitive advantage. In this role, she also developed the firm’s enterprise sustainability and corporate responsibility strategies and oversaw its execution. Her leadership roles in the Tax Practice culminated with her appointment to the national tax leadership team as Managing Partner Tax Services Midwest Region responsible for the P&L, risk management, sales and marketing and overall operations. Dr. Hannan directed partners and professionals providing corporate, individual, state, local, international, and expatriate tax services to the capital markets as well as M&A and economic valuation services. Following a period of intense regulatory and industry scrutiny, Dr. Hannan’s leadership and change management orientation was leveraged to comprehensively rebuild select functional disciplines that strengthened the tax practice going forward. Kathy also previously served as the Partner-in-Charge of the Midwest International Tax Services and Chicago Office Tax practices.

Dr. Hannan is Native American and a member of the Ho-Chunk Nation. As a result of her leadership experience, she served as a commissioner for the Tribal Employment Rights Office and was a presidential appointee to the National Advisory Council on Indian Education. She also served as a member of the Committee to establish the Board of Directors for the Ho-Chunk Tribe’s corporation under Section 17 of the IRA (Indian Reorganization Act). She was named the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian in 2021.

Awards and Recognition
• Directors to Watch Honoree, Directors and Boards
• Woman CPA of the Year, American Woman’s Society of Certified Public Accountants
• Outstanding Business Leaders Award, YWCA of Metropolitan Chicago
• Women to Watch, Illinois CPA Society
• Athena International Award
• Women of Achievement Award, Anti-Defamation League
• Most Powerful and Influential Women Award, Illinois Diversity Council
• Distinguished Alumni Award, Loras College
• Distinguished Alumni Award, Benedictine University

Education, Certifications and Professional Associations
• PhD, Benedictine University
• CERT Certificate in Cybersecurity Oversight, Carnegie Mellon University
• NACD Directorship Certified
• Certificate in Sustainable Business Strategy, Harvard Business School Online
• Graduate, Chicago Management Institute, University of Chicago, Booth School of Business
• Business & the Environment, Institute for Sustainability Leadership, University of Cambridge
• BA, Accounting and Political Science, Loras College
• Graduate, Institute of Comparative Political and Economic Systems, Georgetown University
• Illinois Certified Public Accountant
• American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, member
• New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants, member
• National Association of Corporate Directors, member
• Women Corporate Directors, member
• Higher Learning Commission, Institutional Actions Council, member
• Commercial Club of Chicago, member