Gabrielle Sulzberger is a seasoned financial executive with over 30 years of experience assisting public and privately held companies in consumer products, retail, financial services and life sciences.  Gaby has helped companies globally navigate disruption and transformation, execute major M&A transactions, and engage with shareholder activists. She brings deep corporate governance expertise through her work with public and private company boards, and has helped numerous companies as they transitioned from private to publicly listed. Given her decades of experience in social impact investing and governance, she is considered an expert with regards to sustainability and ESG matters.

Ms. Sulzberger is a Partner at Centerbridge Partners, where she focuses on both the health care and financial services sectors.   She is also a Senior Advisor at Teneo, where she supports the firm’s global ESG practice.  Gaby has over 20 years of private equity industry experience, and also has served as CFO of several public and private companies, including Gluecode Software, a venture-backed open source software company which was sold to IBM, and Crown Services, a California based consolidation of commercial contractors.

Ms. Sulzberger has extensive public and private company board experience in a broad range of industries, and currently serves on the board of Mastercard, Eli Lilly, and two private company boards, Acorns and AUX Money.  Ms. Sulzberger served as Chairman of the board of Whole Foods through the company’s sale to Amazon, and over her 15 years of service chaired both the audit committee and governance committee.  In addition to Whole Foods, Ms. Sulzberger has served on numerous other public company boards:  Cerevel Therapeutics (audit committee chair), Warby Parker (governance committee chair), Brixmor Property Group (governance committee chair), Teva Pharmaceuticals, Stage Stores, IndyMac Bank, Bright Horizons, Justworks, and numerous other private company boards. 

Gaby is Chairman of the board of Sesame Street Workshop, and a Trustee of the Ford Foundation, where she chairs the finance committee, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where she is chair of the diversity committee, and she is a Co-Founder of the Black Trustee Alliance.  Ms. Sulzberger received her B.A. from the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. She received her M.B.A. from Harvard Business School and J.D. from Harvard Law School and is a member of the Massachusetts Bar, and a Henry Crown Fellow of the Aspen Institute.