Jane Sherburne

Principal, Sherburne LLC

Jane C. Sherburne has served as a member of our board of directors since the closing of the Business Combination in June 2021. Ms. Sherburne is Principal of Sherburne PLLC. Ms. Sherburne has over 30 years of legal experience, and served on PWP’s Advisory Committee from 2015 until PWP’s Advisory Committee disbanded on March 1, 2019. Over the past 14 years, Ms. Sherburne has served as General Counsel to several financial institutions, including BNY Mellon, Wachovia and Citi Global Consumer Group. From July 2001 to December 2006, Ms. Sherburne was Deputy General Counsel of Citigroup, Inc. Until July 2001, Ms. Sherburne was a litigation partner at the Washington DC law firm of Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering, having joined the firm in 1984. Ms. Sherburne interrupted her private practice from 1994 to 1997, she served as Special Counsel to the President in the Clinton White House. Ms. Sherburne serves as an independent director on the boards of HSBC USA, HSBC Bank USA, HSBC Finance Corporation and HSBC North America, all of which are indirect wholly-owned subsidiaries of HSBC Holdings plc, and on the board of Teledyne Technologies, Inc. Ms. Sherburne is Chair of the Board of the National Women’s Law Center, Chair of the Board of Negotiations Strategies Institute, a member of the Executive Committee of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, a member of the Committee for Economic Development, and a member of the American Law Institute. Ms. Sherburne earned a Bachelor of Arts and Master of Social Work from the University of Minnesota and a Juris Doctor from Georgetown University Law Center. We believe that Ms. Sherburne is qualified to serve on our board of directors due to her extensive legal and governance experience.

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