Heidi W. Hardin

Heidi W. Hardin is executive vice president and general counsel at MFS Investment Management® (MFS®). She leads the Legal, Compliance and Enterprise Risk Management departments and is a member of the firm's Management Committee. Heidi joined MFS in 2017 from Harris Associates, where she had been the general counsel since 2015. She spent the prior 16 years at Janus Capital Group Inc., holding multiple senior legal roles, most recently senior vice president and general counsel of Janus Capital Management LLC, the firm's global asset management business. Earlier in her career she was a vice president, senior legal counsel and chief compliance officer for Liberty Funds Group and a litigation associate at Beeler Schad & Diamond P.C. She began her career in the financial services industry in 1993. Heidi earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from DePauw University and a Juris Doctor degree from Chicago- Kent College of Law. She is a member of the board of directors of ICI Mutual Insurance Company and the Advisory Board of Posse Boston. She holds Series 7, 24 and 63 licenses from the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA).