Heather J. Russell

Heather J. Russell is Executive Vice President, Chief Legal Officer of TransUnion. Ms. Russell is an accomplished legal executive with more than 25 years of diverse experience across the global financial services and technology sectors. She is responsible for legal, risk, compliance, government and regulatory relations, corporate governance, consumer privacy, business continuity and sustainability functions for TransUnion and its subsidiaries around the world. Prior to joining the Company in 2018, Heather served as: Executive Vice President, Chief Legal Officer and Corporate Secretary at Fifth Third Bank; Managing Director and Global Head of Public Policy and Regulatory Affairs at Bank of New York Mellon; and as Senior Vice President and Associate General Counsel at Bank of America. She also spent eight years at Skadden in Washington, D.C. and London focused on bank regulatory issues, financial services, corporate finance, and mergers and acquisitions.
Heather earned her B.A. from the College of William & Mary and her J.D. with honors from American University’s Washington College of Law, where she received the Outstanding Graduate Award. She serves on the board of directors of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the world’s largest business organization. She is also on the boards of Illinois Legal Aid – where she serves on the Fund Development Committee – and the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, where she serves on the Executive Committee and chairs both the Nominating and Governance Committee and the Council’s CEO Search Committee. Heather is also an active member of the Economic Club of Chicago and Pitch Your Peers Chicago.
Heather lives on the North Shore with her husband, Tim Mayopoulos. She is the proud mother of Spencer and Milly and stepmother to Gus and Katie.