Melanie Margolin

Chief People Officer

Inovalon

Dec 2025 - Current (9 months)

Executive Leadership Team member who leads the People and Culture function including People Business Partners, Talent Development & Inclusion, Talent Acquisition, Technology, Systems and Operations, and Total Rewards.

Chief Administrative and Legal Officer

Clarivate

Jan 2024 - Apr 2025 (1 year 4 months)

♦ Promoted to Chief Legal and Administrative Officer which expanded role to include Legal, Risk, Compliance, People Team, Communications and Brand, and Real Estate and Facilities Teams.

Chief Legal Officer

Clarivate

Jan 2023 - Jan 2024 (1 year 1 month)

♦ Executed business-first reorganization of global Legal, Risk Compliance team (100 professionals). ♦ Implemented Best-in-Class corporate governance processes, proxy statement, quarterly and annual filings, Board meetings, press releases, Board materials, delegations of authority, and resolutions; created cross-functional partnerships. ♦ Contributed to Executive Leadership Team with "Road to Yes" mentality and business-first viewpoint. ♦ Developed critical relationships with Board of Directors. ♦ Created an M&A function to drive best practices, allocate strategic and operational work, integrate execution while aligning with corporate development on all acquisitions, dispositions and portfolio review. ♦ Served as advisor and guide fo

Chief Legal Officer

Thumbtack

Jan 2020 - Jan 2023 (3 years 1 month)

♦ Served as a key leader to cross-functional partners on all companywide risk related and strategic initiatives. ♦ Served as Interim CHRO and COO. ♦ Developed legal function operational plan and strategic roadmap for supporting business and functional partners. ♦ Led and closed the largest round of company funding it it's 14- year history securing $235M of private investor fundraising. ♦ Developed and worked on cross functional corporate-wide IPO readiness roadmap. ♦ Designed best practice process for corporate Board work, introduced Audit and Compensation Committees, led search for additional independent director and collaboratively led the newly formed Nominating and Governance Committee with the newly appointed independent director. ♦ Bu

Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary

Wabash National

Jan 2018 - Jan 2020 (2 years 1 month)

I was recruited by the CEO to serve as one of six executive officers on the leadership team and lead all legal and compliance matters for a $2.3B logistics, transportation, distribution publicly traded corporation. ♦ Served as key contributor on corporate-wide strategy focused on improving functional performance, business development, growth, risk mitigation, forecasting/execution, and overall results. ♦ Ascertained key opportunities for business transformation, devised strategic initiatives, and aligned business objectives as key executive advisor and counsel. ♦ Developed corporate governance best practice initiatives as corporate secretary. ♦ Initiated and led executive level programs for top 40 corporate leaders to promote risk mi

Deputy General Counsel

Cummins Inc

Jan 2015 - Jan 2018 (3 years 1 month)

For this additional role, I was engaged as a direct report to business unit President to serve as leadership team member and general counsel to corporation’s largest business segment and critical area business organization. ♦ Managed a team of 8 global lawyers and led worldwide legal, regulatory and compliance issues for business unit. Included LTA's, joint venture formations and dissolutions, product or project management review boards, customer relationship disputes, regulatory compliance, government, or judicial inquiries, and all proactive risk mitigation training initiatives. ♦ At the request of the COO, I led cross-functional team responsible for enterprise-wide regulatory issues regarding emissions compliance, global guidelines,

Assistant General Counsel Global Litigation

Cummins Inc

Jan 2013 - Jan 2018 (5 years 1 month)

Hired as a direct report to General Counsel, to develop and execute global litigation strategy for $24B annual revenue publicly traded global power company that serves customers in 190 countries and had 54K worldwide employees ♦ Led a high-performing team of 8 attorneys and paralegals focused on global litigation for products liability and commercial disputes, federal investigations, warranty, labor/employment, tax, intellectual property, regulatory, emissions, and various other active cases and pre-suit claims. ♦ Improved and executed process to set legal accruals and release of all contingent liability reserves in collaboration with Office of the Controller, external auditors (PWC), and internal Board of Directors’ Audit Committee. ♦

Associate through Equity Partner in Commercial Litigation and Products Liability

Frost Brown Todd

Jan 2000 - Jan 2013 (13 years 1 month)

Trusted AmLaw150 outside legal advisor for national litigation and outside counsel matters to publicly traded companies in the medical device, financial services, transportation and manufacturing industries ♦ Led nationwide litigation client service teams in state/federal court proceedings related to all types of litigation ♦ Served as national non-compete counsel for prominent publicly traded medical device company ♦ Advised and equipped in-house counsel and corporate executives with legal guidance on setting reserves, risk analysis, press exposure, mandatory reporting, and corporate compliance issues ♦ Proactively mitigated specific product, business or corporate trends that could impede corporate-wide strategic goals ♦ Served as fi

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Alholm Monahan Klauke Hay Oldenburg

Nov 1998 - Feb 2000 (1 year 4 months)

Staff Counsel and Law Clerk

Chicago Housing Authority

Oct 1995 - Nov 1998 (3 years 2 months)

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