Berenice Nuss

Berenice Nuss is the current General Counsel at Neat Loans. Berenice has served in this role for 1 year and 3 months. Prior to their current position, they were with HSS for 3 years and 7 months, where they held various positions, including Senior Vice President, General Counsel & Corporate Secretary, Vice President of Legal and Risk Management, and Sr. Director of Risk Management. In these roles, they served on the executive team driving risk-conscious enterprise growth and planning for the company’s security services portfolio of healthcare, aviation, and government clients nationwide. Her tenure included advising the board and c-suite around legal risk and long-term planning, as well as advising operations on a wide-variety of legal matters; evolving the company’s compliance culture, as well as financial controls, governance, and fraud prevention strategies; enhancing and streamlining the legal department’s responsiveness and cost-effectiveness; and structuring and negotiating joint ventures, customer contracts, and strategic partnerships.

Before their time at HSS, Berenice Nuss was with Acquiom as an Associate Director. In this role, they were responsible for M&A due diligence and terms oversight with financial institutions, institutional and individual stockholders, and VC funds; corporate transactions and governance advising for board members, shareholders, and founders; and international tax compliance and enterprise risk advising. During their time with the company, they helped interpret and define evolving FATCA-related tax compliance during a period of hypergrowth, enabling hundreds-of-billions in organic and inorganic growth.

Berenice Nuss graduated from Duke University with a Doctor of Law degree in 2007 and from the University of Maryland College Park with a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism in 2002.