Nathan Fagre is an experienced chief legal officer and C-suite executive with broad public and private company experience. His career includes 25 years of serving as the chief legal officer and corporate secretary at various companies, with broad industry experience across the life sciences, branded consumer products, energy, media, and e-commerce sectors. In addition, Mr. Fagre has served on the boards of directors of numerous corporate and non-profit entities.

Mr. Fagre’s areas of expertise include: managing global legal and regulatory affairs for U.S. corporations; corporate mergers, acquisitions and dispositions; commercial negotiations with U.S. and international counterparties; international business transactions; corporate governance and regulatory compliance; and public and private capital raising transactions and U.S. securities laws. He has managed in-house legal departments ranging from global departments with offices in Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America, to small departments supporting startups in the United States and the United Kingdom.

His chief legal officer experience includes: SVP and General Counsel at Spectrum Brands Holdings, a global consumer products company and a Fortune 500 company during his tenure; SVP and General Counsel of ValueVision Media (ShopNBC), an e-commerce and live media retailer backed by NBC and GE Capital; SVP and General Counsel of Occidental Oil and Gas Corporation, a global energy company; General Counsel of Faraday Grid Ltd., a U.K. technology startup in the electrical grid sector; and EVP and General Counsel of Entrinsic Bioscience, a life-sciences company in consumer health and wellness.

Mr. Fagre has extensive board experience including currently serving as an independent director of Home Medical Equipment Specialists, LLC; as a director and Chair of the Governance Committee of the Association of Marshall Scholars; and as a director of 352 Ingredients LLC, a life-sciences startup. Previously, his service included board member and Chairperson of the Board of the Electronic Retailing Association, a national industry association; board member and Chair of the Governance Committee of the Clean Lakes Alliance; board member of Ralph Lauren Media, LLC, an e-commerce company; and board member of Vanyonganneft LLC, a joint venture between a Russian and a U.S. energy company.

He is a graduate of Harvard Law School (magna cum laude) and Harvard College (summa cum laude) and also earned an M.Phil. degree at Oxford University where he was a Marshall Scholar. Mr. Fagre has mentored many junior in-house lawyers and has been a frequent speaker on corporate governance issues at legal conferences.