Katherine A. Lehman

Partner, Palladium Equity Partners

Katherine A. Lehman is the current Chair of Stella-Jones Inc. (TSX: SJ), a Montréal based, industrial business and has been a Partner at the New York-based private equity firm Palladium Equity Partners, LLC since 2022. She leads the Palladium Heritage strategy, which invests in industrial and business services companies.

Experience, Qualifications, Attributes, and Skills

Prior to Palladium, Ms. Lehman was Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Hilltop Private Capital, LLC. She has garnered more than 20 years of experience in private equity executive roles and Board memberships, including at more than 20 public and private, profit and not-for-profit entities. Included in Ms. Lehman’s prior Board roles are serving on the Board of a private company in a niche education and training area and serving on the Board of Navient (NASDAQ: NAVI) from 2014 to 2022, with roles as Chair of the Risk Committee and service on the Compensation and Personnel Committee and the Governance Committee.

Ms. Lehman is a graduate of the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania (B.S. in Economics) and of Columbia Business School (M.B.A).