Kay Tidwell joined Hudson Pacific in 2010 and serves as Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Chief Risk Officer. She is responsible for the company’s corporate legal function, overseeing corporate governance matters, SEC and NYSE compliance, insurance and litigation, as well as managing outside counsel.

Prior to Hudson Pacific, Tidwell was an attorney at Latham & Watkins LLP, where she began her legal career in the Los Angeles office, advising on a wide variety of corporate and securities matters, including Hudson Pacific’s IPO. Tidwell also worked as the US associate in the German offices of Latham & Watkins.

Tidwell has also worked in the legal department of Deutsche Bank in Germany and served as a US legal advisor to the German Federal Ministry of Justice as a Robert Bosch Foundation Fellow. Tidwell serves on the board of directors of RF Industries, Ltd. (NASDAQ:RFIL), a national manufacturer and marketer of interconnect products and systems, and is a member of its compensation committee and chair of its nominating and corporate governance committee. She also serves on the board of Elemental Music, a nonprofit providing after-school music ensembles for elementary, middle and high school students. Tidwell is a member of the Women’s Leadership Council of Los Angeles and has served as the Chairperson of the Nareit Corporate Governance Council.

She received a Bachelor of Arts degree in English, magna cum laude, from Yale College. She also earned a Juris Doctor degree from Yale Law School.