Larraine Segil is a seasoned Entrepreneurial Executive and an experienced public and private Corporate Board Director with general Management experience. She is Founder, Chair and CEO of the non-profit public charity, The Exceptional Women Alliance Foundation, a proprietary, metrics driven, software based, executive coaching & mentoring collaborative, enabling high potential women to reach the C-level in over 30 different industries. Ms. Segil was formerly an Owner and Director of Vantage Partners LLC, which evolved out of the Harvard Project on Negotiation. It’s Partners/Directors have authored many books including Getting to Yes and Difficult Conversations. Ms. Segil has served Global 100 and Fortune 500 companies, assisting them to create and manage their critical business relationships with suppliers, customers, alliances, joint ventures or channel partners. She is former CEO/Co-founder of several entrepreneurial companies which include Advanced Materials, a privately held company providing products and services to aerospace and electronics manufacturers worldwide; as well as the privately held chain, Airport Urgent Care, providing free standing ambulatory health care clinics at airports within the Southwestern region of the United States. Ms. Segil has also served on the Tropical Diseases Special Advisory Group on Alliances (SAAG), in Kuwait and Geneva for UNICEF/UNDP/World Bank/World Health Organization (WHO) from 2009-2012.Additionally, Ms. Segil has taught a two-day program on Global Alliances for Executive Education for over twenty-four years at The California Institute of Technology (Caltech).Ms. Segil is a licensed attorney admitted to practice in both the State of California and the United States Supreme Court.

Larraine Segil

Larraine SegilMs. Segil’s roles also include serving on the FAST COMPANY Impact Council, the National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD) Pacific Southwest as Chair of Nominating and Governance. She is on the International Advisory Board for APCO Worldwide since 2009, Member of the Board at Pepperdine, Graziadio School of Business, and Board Emerita at UCLA, Anderson School of Business. She has served on the Board of Frontier Communications (NASDAQ:FTR) from 2005-2017, Audit, Nominating/Governance, Compensation, and Retirement committees. She served as Chairman of the Board at Kandela, Inc. until the company was sold in April 2019. Ms. Segil served on the Board of Vanir Construction Management’s Audit and Nominating committees until April 2018; as Nom and Gov and Comp Chair of Calprivate Bank, Vice Chair of Alliance Strategies a global company and as a member of the Board of Trustees for Southwestern School of Law from 2008-2019. Larraine is the past Chair of the Committee of 200 Foundation and the Vice Chair of the C200 Governing Board; she has served on the Pepperdine Graziadio Business School Board.

Larraine Segil is currently the Chair and CEO of the Exceptional Women Alliance Foundation, aimed at changing women’s lives through a proprietary, metrics-based mentoring program. The program selects high level women from multiple industries and provides mentorship, guidance, and both professional and personal advice to propel them to sustainable success, known as the Exceptional Women Alliance (EWA). Ms. Segil  has held adjunct professor positions at Southwestern Law School and Pepperdine School of Law Straus Center for Conflict Resolution.

Born in South Africa, Ms. Segil immigrated to the USA in 1974. She was formerly CEO of an advanced materials company providing products and services to aerospace and electronics manufacturers worldwide. She co-founded a California Thrift and Loan Company as well as a series of free standing ambulatory care clinics providing medical services, and previously practiced international corporate law.

 Ms. Segil has been a regular commentator for CNN and CNBC and presents keynotes on domestic and global alliances, mergers, and critical customer supplier, channel, and outsourcing relationships. Ms. Segil is the author of numerous books, including: Intelligent Business Alliances, Fast Alliances: Power Your E-Business, Dynamic Leader, Adaptive Organization: Ten Essential Traits for Managers, and Partnering –The New Face of Leadership. Her latest book, Measuring the Value of Partnering, is the first on Alliance Metrics. She authored a novel, ‘Belonging’, published by Penguin Books and is presently running a family-held, small agricultural holding company, Little Farm Company, and has written two E-Cookbooks. She is also a composer of music and lyrics and has two children’s CD’s and a CD of adult songs launching 2011 under the label ROCKIN’ GRANDMA (www.rockingrandmamusic.com).

 Larraine has created three endowment funds for scholarships for women managers in strategic alliances – one at the joint JDMBA program at the Peter Drucker School of Management and Southwestern School of Law, and the other for Pepperdine Business School Presidential Key Executive MBA Program and another at her high school in South Africa, sponsoring two female students, paying for their 9th-12th grade private school education, and then enabling one of the young women to attend the University of Cape Town, becoming an Actuary. 

Larraine Segil with Steve Forbes Keynoting in Nanjing. Larraine has been a frequent speaker in China since 1989 at the invitation of the Ministry of Science and Technology
Larraine Segil, LIVE AT THE IMPROV on February 24 2002 as a standup comic in order to prove that anyone can learn to be funny… – great reviews!