Juliette Pryor is a public company corporate director and a skilled public and private company c-suite executive with 25+ years of business experience. She has deep boardroom experience providing key leadership in IPOs, multi-billion-dollar mergers, acquisitions and divestitures, corporate restructurings, and entity transformations. Juliette serves as a director of Genuine Parts Company, a Fortune 200 global service organization engaged in the distribution of automotive and industrial parts, and serves as chair of its Nominations and Governance Committee.
Juliette is EVP, Chief Legal Officer and Corporate Secretary of The Lowe’s Companies (NYSE: LOW), a Fortune 50 home improvement retailer with retail and distribution operations in all 50 U.S. states, and approximately 300,000 employees. Juliette is responsible for the company’s legal, compliance, sustainability, enterprise risk management, external affairs and government affairs functions. Juliette’s board contributions include lead responsibility for the board governance process and board refreshment.
From June 2020 until May 2023, Juliette served as EVP, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary of Albertsons Companies (NYSE: ACI), a Fortune 100 grocery retailer with retail, pharmacy, manufacturing, and distribution operations in 34 states, and approximately 300,000 employees. As a member of the executive leadership team, Juliette was responsible for the company’s legal, compliance and government affairs functions. Juliette had lead responsibility for the transformation of the corporate board from a controlled company board to a fully independent Board.
From 2016 to June 2020, Juliette served as General Counsel and Corporate Secretary for Cox Enterprises, a $20 billion, family-owned conglomerate with significant digital and traditional operations in the communications, media and automotive sectors.
Juliette previously served as a c-suite officer of US Foods, Inc. (NYSE: USFI), the second largest
foodservice distributor in the United States. Juliette joined US Foods in 2005 as part of a turnaround leadership team and was tasked with rebuilding the Company’s compliance and enterprise risk management programs, and leading efforts to repair relationships with key government customers and oversight agencies. In 2007, Juliette was a strategic lead for the team that took the company private, and seven years later she co-led the team that took the company public after being held by private equity. Over the course of her eleven-year tenure, Juliette led the legal, compliance, enterprise risk management, workforce safety, food safety, governance, government affairs and public policy functions and held interim lead responsibility for human resources and corporate communications.
Before US Foods, Juliette served as General Counsel for telecom start up e.spire Communications, and led the organization through its NASDAQ delisting and Chapter 11 reorganization that ended with all telecom assets being sold through an orderly wind down. Earlier in her career she was in private practice with Skadden Arps, and in house counsel with IBM Corporation.
Juliette is a frequently sought-after speaker on leadership, strategy, crisis response, governance, and compliance. She is an experienced nonprofit board member, including with Fisk University and the National Women’s Law Center.