Nancy Calderon

Director, WCD Foundation and Northern Technologies International
Breakfast Panel: My Journey to the Boardroom

Nancy Calderon is a board director and audit committee member of Northern Technologies International Corporation (Nasdaq: NTIC). NTIC is a global leading developer of corrosion inhibiting products and services, as well as bio-based and biodegradable polymer resin compounds.

Nancy retired as KPMG’s Global Lead Partner for IBM, responsible for building and managing the firm’s global relationship with the company. In this position, she managed a global team of 500 partners and professionals in more than 50 countries providing a range of services to this Fortune 50 company and its customers.

She was a board member of KPMG’s Global Delivery Center Ltd., the firm’s operating arm in India, and is a senior advisor to KPMG’s Board Leadership Center.

Prior to assuming this role, Nancy was chief administrative officer, KPMG Americas Region, and U.S. national partner in charge, operations. She was responsible for developing and executing many of the firm’s Operations strategies and key infrastructure initiatives, ranging from Information Technology and Finance & Accounting to Procurement, Real Estate, and Enterprise Risk. During the Financial Crisis she implemented a strategy that reduced the operational cost of the firm by $500 million. Her direct reports included the chief financial officer and chief information officer, and the heads of Real Estate, Global Outsourcing and Procurement.

Nancy had over 30 years’ experience with KPMG, having held a variety of operational, client service, and leadership positions in the firm. Before her Global Lead Partner role, Nancy sat on a number of KPMG committees including Americas Region Management Committee, Enterprise Risk Management, Privacy, Social Media, and Knowledge Management.

Nancy also serves on WomenCorporateDirectors Foundation board and the Greater New York YMCA board, chairing the Audit Committees as well as the CEO Search Committees. She is a member of The International and New York Women’s Forum.

Nancy has been honored as a “Woman Worth Watching” and a Supplier Diversity Leader by Profiles in Diversity Journal. Nancy was honored as the NYC YMCA’s Volunteer of the Year and a recipient of the American Woman’s Society of CPA’s Women of Courage Award.

Nancy co-authored a book with Susan Stautberg, “Women on Board – insider secrets to getting onto a board and succeeding as a director.”