Ms. Shea became a director of Assured Guaranty Ltd. in May 2021.

Ms. Shea has had a 35 year career in U.S. public finance in which she has served as both a municipal advisor and investment banker working with state and local governments, not for profits and universities, in their issuance of municipal bonds. Ms. Shea has served as the Managing Member of Columbia Capital Management, a national municipal advisory firm, since September 2013 and retired in April 2021. Prior to her tenure at Columbia Capital Management, Ms. Shea was an investment banker with several Wall Street firms, including serving as National Head of Public Finance at a division of ABN AMRO for five years.

Ms. Shea is an independent director and Audit Committee chair of the Professional Diversity Network. Additionally she serves on several not–for–profit boards, including the Joffrey Ballet of Chicago and the Milken Institute Center for Financial Markets Public Finance Advisory Council. Ms. Shea was a founding member of Women in Public Finance, a women’s professional organization founded in 1996, and has been designated a Board Leadership Fellow by the National Association of Corporate Directors.