Catherine Malloy Cummings serves as the Chief Human Resources Officer for Elementum. She has been involved in human resources, internal communications, and corporate strategy since 1997. Before joining the firm, Catherine served as the founder and CEO of SparkWorks Talent, a boutique human capital consulting firm, after having spent 20 years in executive-level HR, corporate strategy, and internal communications roles for companies of all sizes, including the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago and IMC Financial Markets. Catherine earned her MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, holds an MS in Human Resources from Loyola University Chicago, and is a graduate of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with a BA in Political Science.