Gabrielle Sulzberger

Gabrielle Sulzberger is a seasoned financial executive with extensive experience assisting public and privately held companies in healthcare and life sciences, financial services, fintech, and consumer retail. She 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 also considered an expert with regards to sustainability.

Ms. Sulzberger is a Partner at Centerbridge Partners, where she focuses on both the health care and financial services/fintech sectors. She 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 her current boards and Whole Foods, Ms. Sulzberger has served on seven other public company boards: Cerevel Therapeutics (audit committee chair), Warby Parker (governance committee chair), Teva Pharmaceuticals, Brixmor Property Group (governance committee chair), Stage Stores, IndyMac Bank, and Bright Horizons. She has served on numerous private company boards, and is a Senior Advisor at Teneo.

She is also Chairman of the Board of Sesame Street Workshop, and a Trustee of the Ford Foundation, where she chairs the finance committee, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where she is chair of the diversity committee. 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.