CLAUDIA TOUSSAINT IS SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT, GENERAL COUN-sel and corporate secretary at Xylem Inc., based in Rye Brook, New York.

Toussaint graduated from UCLA and from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law. She also studied law for two years in Germany. She started her career at Morrison & Foerster, then worked at Sprint and eventually became a general counsel at a spin-off. She was also the general counsel at Barnes Group, and in 2014 became Xylem’s general counsel.