Susan Lichtman advises Fortune 500 and high-growth private equity-backed companies on leadership development and selection. She specializes in recruiting chief legal officers / general counsels, as well as chief financial officers and their direct reports. She co-leads the Americas Legal, Regulatory, and Compliance Practice at Russell Reynolds Associates. Based in Atlanta, Susan has an extensive track record of building teams for new office launches and growing sales practices, along with organizational design, and performance management. Susan developed her legal expertise working with Axiom, the category creator of alternative legal services, for more than a decade. Her roles at the company included starting the Atlanta office and running the North American Consumer & Services Practice with a team of more than 20 corporate employees and 200 lawyers. Axiom's PE investors included JPMorgan Partners, where Susan started her private equity career, and the company was successfully sold to Permira in 2019. She developed her financial and investment expertise having previously worked as an investment professional in the private equity industry for nearly a decade, across a range of venture-stage, growth-stage and public companies. “If you don’t ask the question, you’ll never know the answer.” ~ Inspired by my father at a young age and a mantra I’ve lived by on a daily basis since childhood. Susan received her BS in Commerce (Finance) from the University of Virginia and her MBA from the Harvard Business School.