MICHELLE S. RILEY, Secretary

Michelle S. Riley is General Counsel & Chief Compliance Officer—Americas of Bregal Investments, a private equity group headquartered in New York and London. Prior to joining Bregal, Michelle was Vice President and Co-General Counsel of ICON Capital Corp., a global asset manager and specialty finance company based in New York. Before joining ICON, Michelle spent eight years as a mergers & acquisitions attorney at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP, and Debevoise & Plimpton LLP. She also spent a year serving as In-House Counsel to a 2004 U.S. Presidential Primary Campaign. Michelle has served on the national board of directors and executive committee of Lambda Legal since 2019 and is currently Vice Chairman of the Board. Michelle is a Broadway theatre producer and a two-time Tony Winner for 2018 Best Musical Revival Once on this Island and 2019 Best Musical Hadestown.  She produced Funny Girl, Fat Ham and New York, New York on Broadway and also produced Be More Chill on and off Broadway and Broadway Bounty Hunter off Broadway. Michelle received her JD from Yale Law School, where she was Editor-in-Chief of the Yale Journal on Regulation. She also holds a BA in Political Communication from The George Washington University and an MA in Politics, Philosophy and Economics from Oxford University, where she was a Shapiro Scholar. Michelle splits her time between NYC, Harlem, Netherlands, and West Palm Beach, Florida, where she lives with her partner Susanne Kandel.