Kathryn Komsa is Vice President, Chief Diversity Officer at Marsh and McLennan Companies, a global professional services firm. In this role, created in January 2009, she is responsible for setting and implementing the Company’s enterprise-wide diversity and inclusion strategy, facilitating the Diversity Council comprised of business leaders from across the company, developing and implementing a diversity communication and education strategy, coordinating the work of employee resource groups, and determining measures to track progress.

Prior to her current role she held Senior HR Business Partner and Learning and Development roles at Marsh & McLennan, Bankers Trust (now Deutsche Bank) and Chemical Bank (now JPMorganChase).

Kathryn is a member of the board of the New York City YWCA, serving as Steering Committee Co-Chair for their Annual Salute to Women Leaders since 2008. She has been a contributor to and quoted in articles on diversity and inclusion, a speaker at diversity events, and was named one of Black Enterprise’s Top Executives in Diversity (2011).

Kathryn holds an M.A. in English from NYU, and an M.B.A. in Management from NYU’s Stern School of Business. She and her husband recently established a foundation in partnership with Paterson Habitat for Humanity.