Kristina Fink is the Corporate Secretary and Chief Governance Officer at the American Express Company. Kristina is an advisor and resource to the American Express Board of Directors and to senior management, providing strategic advice and counsel on board responsibilities and corporate governance matters. Kristina leads a team that provides governance support to the American Express National Bank and its committees, as well as American Express’s global subsidiaries. In addition, Kristina conducts governance focused engagement with the Company’s investors and drafts and oversees the annual proxy statement process. Kristina is a member of the leadership team of the General Counsel’s Organization as well as the company’s ESG Steering Committee. Kristina joined the company in June 2017 and was promoted to Corporate Secretary and Chief Governance Officer in December 2021.

Kristina is the Secretary and Treasurer of the Shareholders Relations Society, a member of the Advisory Board as well as the immediate past President of the New York Chapter of the Society of Corporate Governance Professionals, a member of the Harvard Law School Corporate Governance Roundtable Advisory Council and an active participant in several other governance groups and forums.

Kristina joined American Express from The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America in June 2017 where she was Assistant Corporate Secretary supporting the Board of Directors, for three years. Before joining Guardian, Kristina was a senior associate at Clifford Chance US LP for six years where she was part of the Capital Markets group and provided corporate governance advice to clients and worked on company periodic reports and securities offerings. She began her legal career at Bear Stearns as an in-house securities lawyer where she worked for five years.

Kristina grew up in Westchester County, NY and graduated from Tulane University cum laude majoring in History and graduated from Brooklyn Law School where she served as an Articles Editor of The Journal of Law and Policy.