Ms. Whelley has been a non-executive member of the Board since October 2021. Ms. Whelley founded EGW Advisors, LLC in January 2019 through which she provides coaching to C-suite executives in the areas of leadership and executive team effectiveness, strategic plan and performance alignment and cultural transformation. She retired from the XL Group, a commercial (re)insurance company, in January 2019, having served as Chief Human Resources Officer, where she was responsible for leading all aspects of Human Resources including leadership development and succession planning, compensation and benefits, diversity and inclusion, cultural transformation and colleague engagement. Prior to joining XL Group in 2012, Ms. Whelley spent five years as Chief Human Resources Officer for the Hartford Financial Services Group, and before that, was at General Electric Company for 17 years where she was a Company officer and held a number of Human Resources leadership roles, including Executive Vice President Human Resources for NBC Universal. Ms. Whelley has expertise in the areas of organizational transformation, executive development and succession planning, leadership effectiveness, acquisition integration and executive compensation. She is a member of the SUNY Research Foundation Board of Directors where she serves as Vice Chair of the Board. Ms. Whelley graduated from SUNY Potsdam with a BA in Sociology and earned an MA from Bowling Green State University. She was selected as a director due to her experience in management, executive development and human resources.