Holly Januszkiewicz attended kindergarten at the Hudson Falls Maple Street School, graduating from the Hudson Falls High School in 1974. The fourth of five children of Marjorie (“Matka”) and Tadeusz (“Tati”) Januszkiewicz, she was challenged to keep up with the academic, artistic, musical, and social activist interests of her parents and the many talents of her siblings, Elizabeth, Joan, Aldona and Edmund (Andy). An honors graduate of S.U.N.Y. Purchase, she received her J.D. summa cum laude from New York Law School, where she served as Executive Editor of the Law Review and met her husband, Robert S. Gregory. Together they have one son, Thaddeus Robert Gregory. Holly maintains close ties to New York Law School; she was elected to the Board of Trustees in 2009.
After clerking for the Honorable Roger J. Miner, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, Holly joined the international law firm of Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP. As a partner specializing in corporate governance, she advises boards of directors on the full range of governance issues, including fiduciary duties, risk oversight, executive compensation, and shareholder initiatives. She has worked on corporate governance policy matters for the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development, the World Bank, the European Commission, and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, and lectures and writes extensively on corporate governance topics. She is the Chair of a Task Force of the American Bar Association’s Business Law Section on the Delineation of Governance Roles and Responsibilities, which issued its Report to Congress and the SEC in August 2009. She was named by her peers to the first International Who’s Who of Corporate Governance Lawyers in 2002 and to all subsequent editions and was listed among the “100 Most Influential Players in Corporate Governance” (the Directorship 100) by Directorship Magazine in 2007 and again in 2008.
Holly provides pro bono counsel to Planned Parenthood Federation of America, the New York City Opera, the Brooklyn Public Library, the International Corporate Governance Network and the New York Junior League, and is actively involved in the National Association of Corporate Directors as faculty for board education programs and as a frequent member of various NACD Blue Ribbon Commissions.
Holly is an aspiring mandolin player (bluegrass) and jewelry designer.