Kate

Shattuck

Managing Partner, Korn Ferry

Ms. Shattuck is a Managing Partner at Korn Ferry.  She is a core member of CEO Succession and Global Co-Leader of the firm’s Impact Investing & Sustainability practice.

She is a core member of Korn Ferry’s CEO Succession and Global Financial Markets Practices with expertise in building and developing effective leadership teams at the C-suite, board and senior executive levels. She is an expert at the intersection of profit and purpose, bringing a demonstrable track record partnering with organizations that are both results and values-driven.  Her experience includes Public Pension Funds, Consumer Banking, Asset Management and Family Offices.  She works closely with the firm's Chief Financial Officers and Nonprofit & Philanthropy Practice. 

She has executed recent search assignments for chief executive officers, chief financial officers, chief investment officers, and investment team members. Her clients have included Prudential, Vanguard, the World Bank, Ford Foundation, the Ohio Teachers Pension Fund, the John Templeton Foundation, LISC, Upper Manhattan Empowerment Zone, the GIIN, Capricorn Investment Group, the Drawdown Fund, KKR, Kohlberg & Co, Platinum Equity Partners, Paine Schwartz Partners, Detroit Land Bank and the Detroit Economic Growth Corporation as well as many pension funds, banks and credit unions. 

Prior to joining Korn Ferry, she worked as chief operations officer and corporate senior vice president at the PenFed Foundation, leading a micro-credit fund, housing assistance, grants and programs for economically disadvantaged veterans. She served at Morgan Creek Capital and Morgan Stanley in business development roles. 

She is a United States Army veteran with company command leadership and experience globally in Kuwait, Bosnia and South Korea.

Ms. Shattuck holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and an MPA from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. She earned a Bachelor of Science degree from The United States Military Academy at West Point.  She serves as a Board Member of Citizen & Northern Bank (Nasdaq: CZNC), the Robert Packer Hospital and the Avalon Action Alliance.  She served West Point as a volunteer for over fifteen years, culminating in service as a Director for the West Point Association of Graduates, with service as Chair, Ethics Committee and Vice-Chair, Finance Committee.

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