Catherine Kemnitz is Executive Vice President, Chief Legal Officer and Chief Strategy and Development Officer at Axiom, the global leader in high-caliber, on-demand legal talent. Throughout her 9-year tenure at Axiom in senior U.S. and international roles, Ms. Kemnitz has brought her extensive experience to bear across a range of legal, strategic, commercial, corporate, development, and operations roles. Prior to joining Axiom, Ms. Kemnitz held Corporate Development and Strategy roles at Thomson Reuters. Ms. Kemnitz started her career and spent 8 years as an associate in Capital Markets at Shearman & Sterling representing large public issuers and underwriters in a wide range of complex domestic and international corporate finance transactions.