Kapila Anand

Current public company boards: Elanco Animal Health, Omega Healthcare Investors

Prior public company boards: Extended Stay America

Executive Experience: Kapila Kapur Anand has served as a member of the Elanco Board of Directors since September 218.

Kapila is a retired KPMG partner who currently serves as a senior adviser to KPMG. During her tenure as a senior partner, Anand held a variety of leadership roles, including serving as an audit signing partner through the evolution of Sarbanes Oxley legislation, an advisory partner building new businesses, an audit committee liaison partner and as a KPMG LLP board member.

During her career, she served as KPMG’s national partner-in-charge, leading public policy business initiatives responsible for coordinating the US firm’s strategy and response to public policy changes that impact the firm‘s clients. Additionally, she was named the national segment leader for travel, leisure, and policy. She has experience building private equity and regulatory businesses and was responsible for architecting and executing strategy in those roles. She was also the architect of KPMG’s inaugural public policy business strategy, which gave her experience across industries with regulatory challenges.

Additional information: Kapila has extensive governance experience through corporate board roles, as well as serving as global chair and lead director of the WomenCorporateDirectors (WCD) organization. She received her bachelors of science in accounting and MBA at Michigan State University.