Paula B. Pretlow

Paula B. Pretlow has built a career helping company leaders maximize shareholder and stakeholder value – negotiating hundreds of millions in revenue across her career. She is a former senior vice president of The Capital Group, a $2.6 trillion privately held investment management firm. While there, she headed the firm’s public fund business development and client relationship group and was also responsible for large client relationships.

In addition to ADL, Pretlow is a trustee of The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation, where she serves as board chair; Northwestern University; and The Kresge Foundation. In the corporate sector, she serves as an independent director of Greenlight Financial Technology, a pre-IPO company.

She holds a Bachelor of Arts in political science from Northwestern University and a Master of Business Administration in finance and economics from the University’s Kellogg School of Management. She is a 2017 fellow of Stanford University’s Distinguished Careers Institute and has co-taught design thinking at the University’s Hasso Plattner Institute of Design (the “d.school”) and guest lectures at the Graduate School of Business.

Pretlow has been recognized with numerous awards, including The Women’s Legal Defense & Education Fund’s Aiming High Award; The National Council of Jewish Women’s Outstanding Humanitarian Award; and the Northwestern|Kellogg Alumni Award. She has been a featured speaker at JFNA’s General Assembly and at JFN conferences. Other speaking appearances include Northwestern’s Weinberg College of Arts & Sciences convocation; and Groundbreakers: Women in Leadership Summit, where she shared the stage with Gloria Steinem and Ali Wentworth.

Pretlow continues to write stories about her life and finds great joy in spending time with family and traveling the world.