Kate is Vice President, Associate General Counsel and Corporate Secretary at Bristol-Myers Squibb Company. She leads the Corporate Governance and Securities practice group within the Law Department, which has responsibility for matters involving the Board of Directors, corporate governance, securities law and disclosure, executive compensation, stockholder services, subsidiary management, corporate financing transactions, and related matters. Kate joined Bristol-Myers Squibb in August 2005 in the Office of the Corporate Secretary and has held positions of increasing responsibility since then. She became head of the Corporate Governance and Securities group in 2011 and was named Corporate Secretary in 2015.
Before joining BMS, Kate was an associate at Davis Polk & Wardwell. She is an active member of the Stockholder Relations Society and the Society for Corporate Governance for which she is currently the New York Chapter’s President and a member of the Board of Directors.
Kate earned a B.A. from Yale University and a J.D. from Columbia Law School.