With 12 years of general counsel experience under her belt, Rena Reiss is no stranger to crisis.

In her five years as executive vice president and general counsel of Bethesda, Maryland-based Marriott International, where she leads a legal team of 120, Reiss has weathered a global pandemic, labor shortages, the death of a CEO, and a series of high-profile data breaches that exposed the personal information of some 500 million guests worldwide.