Originally hailing from a cornfield outside Chicago, Terra is an English qualified solicitor, currently residing in North London. Terra is General Counsel for EMEA/AP & Industrial with Hexcel Corporation, a global leader in advanced composite technology for the commercial aerospace, space and defence, and industrial markets. Terra started her career in private practice at Ince & Co in 2006 before moving in-house to DNV GL Group in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in 2012. Returning to London in 2016, Terra took on a EMEA Regional role with DNV GL, while concurrently managing the global Contract Advisor function and being the Group Legal responsible lawyer for the Energy business. After seven years with DNV GL, Terra moved to Hexcel in September 2019 as Regional General Counsel EMEA/AP and has been promoted in January 2021 to her current role.
Terra is deeply in love with combining creative strategy with practical problem-solving to make the next step happen before it needs to and helping architect and lead policy and process change.