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Liza Wright
Governance Committee Chair

 

Biography:

Liza is a Founding Partner of Lochlin Partners, an executive search firm based in Washington D.C. She has over 15 years of experience in the executive search industry and most recently served at the highest levels of government, working at the White House as the Assistant to the President and Director of Presidential Personnel. As the senior personnel advisor to the President, Ms. Wright met with the President regularly to recommend individuals to fill over 5,000 presidential appointments, including Cabinet Secretaries, Ambassadors and other key positions in Cabinet-level departments and U.S. regulatory agencies. Before joining the White House senior staff, Ms. Wright spent almost a decade as a Principal with one of the largest international executive search firms, Heidrick & Struggles. Her search practice focused on senior level searches in the technology and professional services sectors. She successfully completed searches for CEO’s, board members, presidents and other functional vice presidents. She placed these executives in start-up firms, small and medium-sized public and private firms, major Fortune 100 corporations and leading not-for-profit entities. Prior to her experience in the executive search industry, Liza was an executive recruiter for Capital One Financial Corporation. Liza holds a Bachelor’s degree in biology from James Madison University. She and her husband and their two daughters reside in Great Falls, Virginia. Liza was first appointed to the Make-A-Wish National Board in January 2006. She has served as a member of the Governance Committee since then, and in October 2009, she was selected by the Board to be Chairman of that committee.