Margaret Egan was selected as Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary of Hyatt Hotels Corporation in January 2018. In this role, she is responsible for Hyatt’s legal and compliance services and oversees a team of legal professionals who support Hyatt’s operations in over 70 countries around the world. Margaret also is the Executive Sponsor of World of Care, which brings Hyatt’s purpose of care to life through the advancement of care across the planet, people and responsible business. Margaret served as interim General Counsel and Secretary of the Company from October 2017 to January 2018, and previously served as Senior Vice President and Associate General Counsel at Hyatt from March 2013 to January 2018 overseeing the Company’s global legal transactions teams. From October 2003 to March 2013, Margaret held a series of increasingly responsible positions at Hyatt supporting litigation, operations and transactional matters.
Prior to entering the hospitality industry, Margaret practiced law in the commercial litigation practice group of DLA Piper in Chicago, Illinois from 1996 to 2000 and again from 2002 to 2003. She also held a position as Attorney Advisor with the United States Department of Justice in London, United Kingdom from January 2001 to January 2002, in which she managed European-based litigation matters to which the United States was a party.
Margaret received her B.A from the University of Notre Dame, and her J.D. from Notre Dame Law School. Since 2014, she has served on the Board of Sarah’s Circle, an organization dedicated to ending homelessness for women in Chicago. Margaret is a recipient of the ADL Midwest’s 2021 Women of Achievement Award and is a member of the ADL Midwest Board of Directors.
Nadine Jones was selected as the Senior Vice-President & General Counsel of Kuehne + Nagel, Inc. She graduated from Howard University School of law in 2003. After graduation, she joined Arnold & Porter LLP’s Washington, D.C. office where she practiced in the area of regulatory compliance for nine years. Ms. Jones left the law firm briefly to serve as Counsel on the Antitrust Modernization Commission (“AMC”), a bipartisan commission created by Congress and the White House. Ms. Jones left the firm to join Kuehne + Nagel Inc., New Jersey-based multibillion-dollar company as Vice President of Compliance for North America, and then after 5 years joined the General Counsel’s office as Corporate Counsel. In June 2020, Nadine was placed on a paid sabbatical from Kuehne + Nagel to co-found along with two other Howard Law alumni an organization called The Initiative: Advancing the Blue & Black Partnership (“The Initiative”). The Initiative was established to end systemic police violence and implement a collaborative approach to building healthy, scalable, community policing models. Nadine partnered with members from both the Blue and Black communities to champion the organization’s mission to partners and stakeholders.
On April 1, 2022, Nadine became the first woman and person of color to serve as SVP General Counsel and Board Member of Kuehne + Nagel Inc.