Speaker

Rani Doyle

Rani Doyle is managing director in the EY Center for Board Matters. She has extensive experience working with executive management and boards at public and private companies on a wide range of corporate governance and business matters.

For more than 15 years, Ms. Doyle has focused on helping companies and their boards to develop, maintain, and implement governance and compliance standards. She assists with matters relating to: 

• Board and committee governance, organization and operations 

• Corporate governance philosophy, frameworks and practices 

• Director onboarding, orientation and training 

• Development, implementation and reporting of board evaluation processes and results 

• Company and stakeholder engagement and communications 

As part of her role at EY, she was part of the EY team contributing to the Embankment Project for Inclusive Capital (EPIC), focusing on the corporate governance aspect of long-term value creation. She also leads a new and growing network of F100 Corporate Secretaries.

Ms. Doyle has two decades of experience in advising on a wide range of public company business matters, including corporate strategic and risk matters, public offerings, private and offshore offerings, other capital markets transactions, and SEC disclosures and investor-focused communications.

Prior to joining EY, she was a partner with Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP in Washington, DC. Before that, she was Managing Director, Co-General Counsel and Assistant Corporate Secretary at Och-Ziff Capital Management Group, where she helped lead the company’s 2007 IPO. 

Ms. Doyle began her career with the US Securities and Exchange Commission in the Division of Corporation Finance’s Office of Telecommunications and Computers and later served as special counsel in the Office of International Corporate Finance. While at the SEC, she worked on several major rule-making initiatives that continue in some force today and is a recipient of the SEC’s Capital Markets Award.