Pat Russo

Current public company boards: General Motors Co, Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co, KKR & Co Inc., Merck & Co Inc.

Executive experience: Pat Russo serves as the chair of board of directors at Hewlett Packard Enterprise. She previously served as chief executive officer of Alcatel-Lucent, a communications company, from 26 to 28; and as chair of Lucent Technologies Inc., a communications company, from 23 to 26 and chief executive officer and president of Lucent from 22 to 26.

Pat is also a director of General Motors Company, an automotive company; Merck & Co., Inc., a pharmaceuticals company; and KKR Management LLC, the managing partner of KKR & Co., L.P. Pat previously served as the lead independent director of Hewlett-Packard Company (now HP Inc.), an information technology company from 214 to 215, and as a director of Alcoa Inc., a metals and manufacturing company, and Schering-Plough Corporation from 1995 until its merger with Merck in 29.

Pat brings to the Hewlett Packard Enterpise board of directors extensive global business experience, a broad understanding of the technology industry, strong management skills and operational expertise through her positions with Alcatel-Lucent and Lucent Technologies. In those positions, she dealt with a wide range of issues including mergers and acquisitions and business restructurings as she led Lucent’s recovery through a severe industry downturn and later a merger with Alcatel. Pat also brings to the board of directors public company governance experience as a member of boards and board committees of other public companies.