Bio Details

Mrs. Young has significant governance, legal, and financial experience. Her prior service as General Counsel, and later Chief Executive Officer, of The Phoenix Companies, Inc. exposed her to a number of areas, including mergers and acquisitions, risk management, and financial reporting. Mrs. Young’s leadership skills and broad corporate governance experience concerning board composition and succession planning are useful in her service as Non-Executive Chair and a member of both the Nominating and Corporate Responsibility Committee and the Audit Committee. In 2021, Mrs. Young was one of four recipients of the Financial Times ODX Outstanding Director Award. Mrs. Young was named to the National Association of Corporate Directors (“NACD”) Directorship 100 for 2015, and she has been an NACD Board Leadership Fellow since 2013. Mrs. Young is NACD Directorship Certified™, completed the NACD Cyber-Risk Oversight Program, and earned a CERT Certificate in Cybersecurity Oversight conferred by Carnegie Mellon University. She was also a 2012 Advanced Leadership Fellow at Harvard University.

Mrs. Young serves as a director of Aegon Ltd. (multinational life insurance, pension, and asset management company), and serves as Chair of the Compensation and Human Resources Committee, a member of the Risk Committee, and a member of the Nomination and Governance Committee of Aegon. She is a director of USAA, and serves as Vice Chair of the Audit Committee, a member of the Nominating and Governance Committee, and a member of the Compensation and Workforce Committee of USAA. Mrs. Young is a director and Chair of the Compensation Committee, and member of the Nominating and Governance Committee of the NACD, and a board member of Spahn & Rose Lumber Co. She is also a trustee of Saint James School in Saint James, Maryland.