Patti Russell

Patti Russell is a seasoned legal and compliance executive and adviser to senior leaders and boards of directors. Prior to her retirement in 2017, Ms. Russell served as Senior Vice President and Chief Ethics and Compliance Officer (CECO) at Becton Dickinson and Company (BD), a global Fortune 300 medical technology and life sciences company. She has extensive experience in building, leading and directing strategy for global compliance and ethics programs; employment, commercial and regulatory law; litigation and mediation; investigations; corporate governance; training; and crisis management.

Ms. Russell is currently President of P. E. Russell, LLC, providing advisory, legal and mediation services on a variety of compliance, employment, regulatory, litigation, business and ethics matters, including pharmaceutical compliance, investigations, employment disputes, transactions, clinical trials, sales practices, governance and business strategy. She also recently served as interim general counsel for an emerging subsidiary at a biotech company. Ms. Russell is a civil mediator in New Jersey and New York, and an adjunct faculty member of Rutgers Business School.

As CECO at BD, Ms. Russell successfully designed, built and led the worldwide ethics and compliance program, including ethics, training and communications, governance, healthcare compliance, investigations, risk assessment and management, anti-corruption, business transparency and privacy. She concurrently served as VP and Associate General Counsel, directing global administrative strategies for the law department and providing counsel on various topics to business leaders. Previously, until 2009, Ms. Russell served as Chief Employment Counsel, responsible for all human resource and employment matters worldwide.

Ms. Russell serves on several boards and committees, including the boards of trustees of The Raptor Trust in New Jersey and the Act Now Foundation – Alzheimer’s Resource Center of New Jersey, the advisory board of Rutgers Law School Center for Corporate Law and Governance, the board of the Dispute Resolution Section of the New Jersey State Bar Association, and the bioethics committee of Overlook Medical Center, Atlantic Health Systems.

Ms. Russell received a B.S. degree in public policy from Cornell University, and a J.D. degree from New York University School of Law.