Heather Russell

Heather Russell is an accomplished legal executive with more than 20 years of diverse experience across the global financial services sector including leadership roles at Fifth Third Bank, Bank of New York Mellon and Bank of America. Ms. Russell brings terrific expertise and skills that are highly relevant to TransUnion, including consumer financial services, data privacy and security, regulatory compliance, mergers and acquisitions, and FinTech. Ms. Russell will be responsible for all legal, government relations, corporate governance and compliance, and consumer privacy functions of TransUnion and its subsidiaries, reporting to me and serving on TransUnion’s Executive Committee.

For more information, read TransUnion’s press release: https://newsroom.transunion.com/heather-russell-joins-transunion-as-chief-legal-officer/

Prior to joining TransUnion, Ms. Russell was a partner in Buckley Sandler’s New York and Washington, DC offices and led the firm’s Financial Institutions Regulation, Supervision & Technology (FIRST) practice. Previously Ms. Russell was executive vice president, chief legal officer & corporate secretary for Fifth Third Bancorp, the 12th largest U.S. bank. Before that, she was global chief regulatory counsel at BNY Mellon, where she created and led the company's global Office of Public Policy and Regulatory Affairs, managing the bank's relationships with its regulators in 100 countries. Ms. Russell also spent five years with Bank of America and before this practiced law for eight years at Skadden in its Washington and London offices, focusing on bank regulatory, consumer financial services, international corporate finance, and mergers and acquisitions. Ms. Russell is an adjunct professor at Boston University School of Law, where she teaches courses on fintech and the Future of Banking. Ms. Russell received her bachelor's from the College of William & Mary and graduated cum laude from American University Washington College of Law.