Connie chairs the Audit and sits on the Governance Committees of Comfort Systems USA (NYSE: FIX) and Sensata Technologies (NYSE: ST) and previously ShoreTel (NASDAQ: SHOR), where she chaired the Audit Committee. She was recently on the boards of Cyrcadia Health (embedded medical devices), BayCare Health Systems, and IVIS Technologies. Six years ago, she joined the Board of the V Foundation for Cancer Research and serves on its Executive Committee.
Connie served on the 18-member elected Board of U.S. Partners and Principals for PricewaterhouseCoopers, PwC, ($7B in revenues) for a four-year term prior to her formal retirement. Concurrently, Connie was the U.S.Tax Strategy Leader for the Firm and on the seven-member leadership team. She was responsible for short term and long term strategies as well as input for overall operations for this $2B business. Earlier in her PwC career, she was West Region Tax Managing Partner where she was the equivalent of CEO for the $300M unit, managing the coordination of all tax compliance and consulting advice provided by the Firm for clients throughout the West.
Connie has over 30 years experience and has worked with a variety of public and privately held companies advising on financial strategies, global corporate structuring, due diligence projects, employee benefit plans, corporate mergers and acquisitions, stock options, and executive compensation programs. She served as the primary tax advisor on numerous initial public offerings and other SEC filings. During her years as an advisor, Connie developed deep expertise in the technology, healthcare, life sciences, manufacturing, retail, real estate, and extractive industries. She rendered financial advice to over 300 clients including Sega, Hyundai, Vulcan Capital, Frank Russell Company, Micron Technology, Sun Microsystems, and Barrick Gold Corporation.
Prior to joining PricewaterhouseCoopers, Connie was a tax specialist with the Internal Revenue Service. She holds a B.A. degree from Florida State University and a M.S. degree in Taxation from Golden Gate University. In 2013 and 2016, she completed the Directors College programs at Stanford Law School.
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