Paula Lovell

About Paula Lovell

Founder, CEO, Board Director & Corporate Crisis Executive helping launch start-ups, grow revenues, take a company public or guide businesses through critical issues. Advisor to CEOs and Corporate Boards on reputation management and managing communications during mergers & acquisitions, IPOs, product recalls, fraud & abuse accusations, bankruptcies and closures, workforce reductions and sensitive regulatory issues. Worked closely with external counsel to prepare internal and public communications regarding settlements with the Department of Justice, Office of Inspector General, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, The Joint Commission, and numerous state attorneys general and departments of health. CAREER SUCCESSES Served as first female Board Chair of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta Led national expansion of award-winning public relations firm, selling in 2015 Advised hundreds of healthcare organizations across the US, the UK and Israel Board Director for $1.5 billion global transportation and logistics company Provided oversight and governance on 20+ nonprofit boards Business acumen and a vast network of healthcare industry leaders produced lucrative strategic alliances between healthcare organizations and helped protect shareholder and constituent interests for more than 30 years. Specialties: strategic advisor, mergers, acquisitions & divestitures, crisis & change management, labor & union issues, restructurings & bankruptcies, fraud & abuse / noncompliance, IPOs, strategic planning, P&L management

Experience

1. Board Director

   Averitt

   May 2002 — Present

Education

• Vanderbilt University

  BA, English, Speech

  1969 — 1973