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Charisse R. Lillie

Director
Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company, PECO, and Independence Health Group, Inc.
Charisse Ranielle Lillie is a businesswoman, attorney and lecturer on issues of diversity, corporate social responsibility and corporate governance. She is the CEO of CRLCONSULTING LLC after retiring from Comcast Corporation in January of 2017. She joined Comcast after thirteen years (1992-2005) at Ballard Spahr, LLP, where she was a partner in the Litigation Department and served as Chair of The Litigation Department from 2002 to 2005; During her years at Comcast, she served in several roles, including Senior Vice President of Human Resources of Comcast Cable and Vice President of Human Resources of Comcast Corporation, and President of the Comcast Foundation and Vice President of Community Investment of Comcast Corporation. She was also actively involved in the diversity initiatives at Comcast. Ms. Lillie has extensive legal experience as a Trial Attorney in the U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division and as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the E.D. PA. She is a former City Solicitor (City Attorney) of the City of Philadelphia and has served on many civic commissions. She is a member of the Executive Leadership Council, The Pennsylvania Women’s Forum, The Forum of Executive Women and Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc Ms. Lillie is a member of the Boards of Directors of the Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company, PECO, an Exelon Company, and Independence Health Group, Inc., parent company of Independence Blue Cross and AmeriHealth Caritas. She also serves on the Regional Advisory Board of PNC Bank, PA/SNJ/DE and the corporate Advisory Board of KnectIQ, Inc. She is a former Board Member and Board Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia. The Houston, Texas native received her B.A., cum laude, from Wesleyan University. She holds a J.D. from the Temple Beasley School of Law and an LL.M. from Yale Law School.

SESSIONS

Group Discussion: The Fuzzy Line Between the Board and Management Speaker

The pandemic has increased the workload of many board members, and liability issues exposed by Caremark, the rising costs of D&O insurance (if you can even get it) have made board service ever more perilous.  Is this the end of noses in, fingers out for the board?  Does the board need to be more activist with the CEO and senior management going forward?