A senior finance executive with experience leading large global public companies as well as privately held businesses. Natalie has over twelve years of experience serving as a board director in highly visible regulatory and investor environments. She has successfully led boards through their most important challenges and opportunities while strengthening governance practices. She has served as a high-impact, transformational leader to boards and CEOs in multiple industries including consumer products, manufacturing, distribution, financial services and technology with significant international, M&A and private equity experience. She leverages technology and digital analytics to mitigate earnings volatility and enhance the financial performance of an enterprise.

Natalie Laackman is the CFO of MedSpeed, a privately held healthcare logistics company that works with healthcare leaders to integrate the system-wide movement of physical materials. She leads this mid-size business through its accelerated growth while building the foundation of finance, analytics, technology, fleet management and supply chain functions. With over 30 years of experience, Natalie has been in CFO and General Management roles at Sodexo, Shamrock Foods, The Kellogg Company, ConAgra and Kraft Foods.

Natalie holds an MBA from Northwestern University and earned Master’s and Bachelors’ degrees in Accounting from Northern Illinois University. She is a Certified Public Accountant. Natalie was a Director of the AgriBank Board of Directors, a $110B asset-based bank, for 8 years until 2021. At AgriBank, she served as the Chairperson of the Audit Committee, for 5 years, and Chairperson of the Compensation Committee, for 2 years. She has been an Ambassador Director and Governing member of the Board of Directors of the Chicago Zoological Society/Brookfield Zoo since 2010. From 2013 to 2015, she served as a Director on the Board of the International Food Manufacturers’ Association (IFMA) and a Trustee of the Educational Foundation. Natalie was a director on the board of Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Business alumni association for eight years.