Barbara G. Novick
Co-Founder, Former Vice Chairman and Senior Advisor, BlackRock Inc.
Barbara G. Novick joined Intel Corporation’s board of directors in December 2022. Novick is an independent director.
She co-founded BlackRock Inc. in 1988 and continued as its vice chairman until February 2021, when she transitioned to senior advisor. From 1988 to 2009, Novick headed the Global Account Management Group at BlackRock and oversaw global business development, marketing and client service across equity, fixed income, liquidity, alternative investment and real estate products for institutional and individual investors and their intermediaries worldwide. In 2009, she established BlackRock’s Global Government Relations and Public Policy Group to provide a voice for investors, which she headed until 2021; and from 2018 to 2020, she additionally oversaw BlackRock’s Global Investment Stewardship team.
Novick has served since 2021 on the private company board of directors of New York Life Insurance Co., a mutual insurance company. She also serves on the boards of the Peterson Institute for International Economics, 100 Women in Finance, Committee on Capital Markets Regulation, and on the advisory boards of GrowthCurve Capital, a private equity firm, the Millstein Center for Global Markets and Corporate Ownership, and the Center for Financial Stability.
Novick earned a Bachelor of Arts, cum laude, in economics from Cornell University. She has authored numerous articles on asset management and public policy issues and over her career received numerous awards and accolades, including Barron’s 100 Most Influential Women in U.S. Finance in 2020 and Fixed Income Analysts Society’s (FIASI) Hall of Fame in 2023.