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United States 2019

Nancy Laben

Chief legal officer, executive vice president | Booz Allen Hamilton

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Nancy Laben

Chief legal officer, executive vice president | Booz Allen Hamilton

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Nancy Laben is a highly distinguished in-house lawyer with extensive Fortune 500 and private company expertise in developing, managing and overseeing risk mitigation, litigation, corporate and legal programmes. She was hired by Booz Allen Hamilton in 2013 as executive vice president, chief legal officer and corporate secretary to reshape its legal department and position the multibillion-dollar Fortune company for a critical phase of strategic growth called Vision 2020. ‘My role was essential to helping the company position for where the business was going, especially its transformation from a pure-play management consulting firm to a technology-first market leader’, she highlights. Laben also explains the positive impact of her and her restructured team’s impact: ‘When I came to Booz Allen I understood the leadership vision of where the business needed to be and have led the creation of a team that skates to where the puck will be, not where the puck is. I have become a trusted advisor to the business and to leadership, as have most members of my team. Since my arrival five years ago, the business has grown from $5.76bn to $6.2bn in revenue. Our integrated team contributes greatly to that growth’. One of her proudest achievements at Booz Allen is standing up a dedicated Booz Allen philanthropic organisation to the leadership team. The company launched, with Laben as a co-founding board member, the Booz Allen Foundation with a $5m initial pledge supporting the Foundation’s mission to “Empower People to Change the World”. Prior to Booz Allen, Laben was general counsel at AECOM Technologies from 2010 to 2013, responsible for all legal support and led a team of 55 attorneys as well as contract advisors and outside counsel. Before that she was deputy general counsel at Accenture, holding senior positions supporting the company’s US, Europe, and Asia business during her 11 year association with the company. She highlights opening and growing Accenture’s legal practice in Asia Pacific, then EMEA as another career highlight: ‘I loved the challenge of building and growing successful offices abroad. I spent part of my childhood, and then university years, in Japan, so I really embrace international cultures. This experience gave me an opportunity to understand how to make teams work well together in very different environments, cultures and circumstances. This opportunity taught me that my real passion is developing other lawyers and professionals and helping them achieve their career aspirations’.

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