Challis lowe: director, seaway bank & trust.

Challis Lowe is a top human resources executive and seasoned corporate board director with more than 20 years of senior management experience within global public companies and with the nation's largest tax-exempt health care system.

She is a highly skilled business partner and board director with expertise in the areas of strategy development, corporate governance as both a board director and as a company executive, director recruiting, CEO succession, CEO transitions, executive compensation strategies, M&A due diligence and integration, CD&A, and proxy development. Lowe provides strategic counsel to the CEOs and boards she has served and has established herself as a partner leading cultural, operational, and organizational change. She has developed and provides oversight on key corporate structures and processes that facilitate turnaround, transformation, improved business operations, and revenue growth.

For the past decade, Lowe has worked for multibillion-dollar organizations where she has been a vital executive team member for companies experiencing either rapid growth where her expertise in governance, formalized strategies, and best practices has been critical to ongoing growth and returns or in leading national and global turnaround initiatives that have repositioned these organizations to achieve improved performance and returns for shareholders. During this same time, and while serving on corporate boards, she and her fellow directors recommended and oversaw several significant events, including the development and execution of a CEO succession plan, the negotiation of CEO compensation, and the successful sale of a $14 billion U.S. bank to an...