Brook Cunningham is Senior Vice President, Chief Strategy Officer of Corteva Agriscience, a role she assumed in December 2022.
Brook is responsible for leading enterprise strategy, mergers and acquisitions, economic and competitive intelligence, sustainability strategy and strategic enablement. She also oversees Corteva’s investment steering committee.
Prior to joining Corteva, Brook served in the investment banking division of Lazard, most recently as Managing Director and Head of Global Agribusiness and Nutrition. She joined Lazard in New York in 2010, later moving to Chicago in 2012 where she served in a series of progressive leadership roles in the company’s Midwest U.S. business and founded the Global Agribusiness and Nutrition practice.
At Lazard, Brook advised companies across industries on matters involving corporate strategy, mergers and acquisitions, business separations, strategic investments, corporate finance, capital formation and shareholder engagement. Cunningham was also Co-head of Lazard’s Americas Women in Banking Network.
Previously, Brook served in the mergers and acquisitions group at Lehman Brothers and, subsequently, Barclays Capital in New York from 2007 to 2010. During her early career, she served in a series of progressive roles at Marsh & McLennan, where she advised corporate and university clients on risk management issues.
Brook holds a Master of Business Administration degree from the Stephen M. Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from the University of Michigan.