The Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority welcomes Kim Clark Pakstys and Paul F. Sheridan Jr. for six-year terms as new members of its board of directors. Both are appointees of Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin.

Kim Clark Pakstys is a managing director in CohnReznick’s global consulting practice specializing in business and finance transformation. She leads the firm’s national finance transformation practice.

Prior to joining CohnReznick LLP, she founded a strategic advisory firm serving venture capital and private equity-backed firms, the Fortune 100, federal agencies, universities and federally funded research institutes.  

She has also held executive leadership roles at different high-tech and consulting companies. In these positions, she formulated and executed growth strategies and built scalable businesses providing transformation, restructuring and integration services. Her experience includes information technology, utilities, aerospace and defense, industrials, consumer products, nonprofits and universities.  

Clark Pakstys holds a master’s degree from the School of Business at Marymount University and a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from The Fisher School at The Ohio State University.  

Paul F. Sheridan Jr. is a corporate lawyer and a partner in the Washington, D.C. office of Latham & Watkins LLP, representing companies and private equity firms. He serves as the law firm’s global chair of private capital, which includes the firm’s private equity, direct lending, restructuring, real estate, energy, infrastructure, fund formation and structured credit practices, having previously served multiple terms on the firm’s executive committee.  Before joining the law firm, Sheridan served as a law clerk to Judge James C. Cacheris, Chief Judge of the US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia.

Sheridan serves as a trustee at the Potomac School in McLean, VA, and as pro bono counsel to the Center for a New American Security, a bipartisan national security think tank.  He is a member of The Economic Club of Washington, and a past member of the Young President’s Organization (YPO).

Sheridan graduated from Harvard College and received a law degree from the University of Virginia.