Profile
Ms. Duganier is currently a member of the Board of Directors of two publicly-traded companies and three private companies, having served on eight for-profit boards in diversified industries during her board tenure. Her current boards include MRC Global (NYSE: MRC), a leading global distributor of pipe, valve and fitting products and services to energy and industrial markets where she chairs the Audit Committee and is a member of the Governance Committee and CEO Succession Committee; Texas Pacific Land Corporation (NYSE: TPL), one of the largest landowners in Texas, where she chairs the Compensation Committee and is a member of the Audit Committee; McDermott International, a multi-national engineering, procurement, construction and installation company where she chairs the Audit Committee and is a member of the Risk Committee; Pattern Energy, one of the world’s largest private renewable energy companies where she chairs the Audit Committee; and West Monroe Partners, a national business and technology consulting firm where she is the Lead Independent Director and chairs the Nominating and Governance Committee.
Ms. Duganier is a former director of three previously publicly-traded companies that were sold during her board tenures; HCC Insurance Holdings (NYSE: HCC), an international specialty insurance group sold to Tokio Marine Holdings; Buckeye Partners (NYSE: BPL), an operator of a diversified network of integrated assets providing midstream energy logistics solutions sold to IFM Global Infrastructure Fund, and Noble Energy (NASDAQ: NBL), an independent oil and gas exploration and production company sold to Chevron Corporation. Ms. Duganier previously chaired the Audit Committee of Buckeye Partners and sat on the Compensation Committee; she was a member of the Enterprise Risk Oversight Committee and Compensation Committee for HCC, and she was a member of the Audit Committee and Nominating and Governance Committee for Noble Energy. She is a National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD) Leadership Fellow and received the CERT Certificate in Cybersecurity Oversight, issued by Carnegie Mellon University. She is a licensed Certified Public Accountant.
Barbara’s most recent corporate experience was with Accenture. Between 2004 and 2013, she was a senior leader with Accenture’s Outsourcing business, which accounted for ~50% of corporate revenues, and of the Resources Operating Group serving energy and natural resources companies. Her executive roles included Chief Strategy Officer and Global Growth and Offering Development Lead, amongst others. Her most tenured corporate experience was with Arthur Andersen, where for 23 years Barbara served in C-suite and increasingly responsible business leadership roles. She was in audit for a decade and financial consulting for over a decade. Barbara served as Andersen’s Global CFO during the challenging last two years of the company’s history. She was chosen Global CFO after being one of eight finalists in an intensive Global CEO selection process. Prior, she was Partner-in-Charge (P&L) of the Southwest Region Business Consulting Practice and earlier still, was Partner-in-Charge of the US Strategy, Finance and Economic Consulting Business.
Barbara completed IMD’s Leadership Program in 2008, received her CPA in Texas in 1981 and earned her BBA in Accounting in 1979 from John Carroll University, where she serves on the Board of Directors. She is the Chairman of the Board of Directors of NACD Texas TriCities, having served previously as its President. Barbara is a frequent lecturer and panelist on leadership and governance topics and is a 2020 NACD Directorship 100 Honoree.