Nygina Mills

Nygina Mills is an award-winning board director, senior executive, and strategic leader with success advancing breakthrough opportunities for Fortune 500 companies, federal agencies, and Am Law 200 firms. Nygina has guided organizations to avert billions in risk exposure; stewarded $2.4T AUM; and negotiated and executed $500B+ in transaction impact, including M&A, IPOs, Private Equity, Venture Capital, and Small Business Investment Companies. NACD.DC. Ranked in the Top 1% by the American Bar Association Foundation. Valuable contributor to Audit, Nominating/Governance and Risk Committees. Nygina has advised Fortune 100 companies at the intersection of risk management, regulatory compliance, and commercial strategy. Her broad-based regulatory footprint includes numerous F100 and BGOV200’s companies, including General Dynamics, Boeing, L3Harris, Dell, Northrop Grumman, and Oracle, Raytheon. Notably, as a regulator, Nygina Mills guided a Fortune 25 company to resolve a significant safety hazard with the US Department of Transportation. Her strategic direction enabled the company to avert significant reputational, regulatory, and financial exposure and build a launchpad for growth. Committed to building cultures grounded in accountability, integrity, and trust as an innovative, results driven business partner. Strong EQ with learning agility to build relationships. Her strategic direction enabled the company to avert significant reputational, regulatory, and financial exposure and build a launchpad for growth.

 

Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS). As its law firm outside counsel, led a team of 500+ FTEs spanning North America, Europe, and APAC serving Fortune 100, $1.18T (AUM) MS, including structuring transactions, informing corporate governance, and laying the groundwork for success in key markets. Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT). As Regulator of LMT, during tenure with Defense Contract Audit Agency, strengthened audit controls and systems, bolstered IP and software data rights legal and policy framework, and led key dispute resolution, bi-partisan settlement. 

 

Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC). As NOC’s Regulator during tenure with Defense Contract Management Agency provided strategic counsel related to $19B+ in open contracts. An innovator, lateral thinker, and cyber change agent, Nygina leads paradigm-shifting transformations that allow businesses to scale. As Director of Strategic Initiatives Directorate of the U.S. Department of Education, she led its innovation engine, Idea Lab. Nygina also served as an executive of a global finance organization where she collaborated with stakeholders producing 5000+ audit reports annually, examined $300B+ in payment/budget spend per fiscal year, and optimized expenditure across 9000+ corporate providers worldwide. Nygina translates complex regulations, laws, statutes, and policies into common sense concepts that anchor boards’ governance. She has served as the American Bar Association’s Vice-Chair, Public Contract Law Accounting Cost and Pricing Committee, and was the Vice Chair, Commercial Products and Services Committee. She has served as a trusted expert instrumental in shaping federal, state, and local policy regulating companies’ products and services. 

 

Nygina Mills graduated from Harvard Law School and Harvard Business School. She holds a Master of Laws degree from Georgetown University Law Center in Securities, International Business and Economic Law. Nygina graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Occidental College in Los Angeles. Outside of the boardroom, Nygina volunteers with both the Harvard Law School and Harvard Business School Alumni Associations and is an active investor and advisor with the Harvard Business School Alumni Angels. Nygina enjoys analyzing geopolitical trends that impact business results. Coming from a family of physicians, her personal passions include health, wellness, and fitness.