Named by Business Week as one of "The World's Most Influential Headhunters," Janice is Co-CEO of Chadick Ellig. With over 20 years of experience as a senior-level corporate executive, Janice focuses her search practice on the recruitment of senior level executives and board directors, with a focus on diversity. Janice's corporate experience includes Pfizer, Citibank and Ambac Financial Group which she helped take public after a spin-off from Citibank in 1991. As a member of the Executive Committee at Ambac, she was responsible for Marketing, Human Resources and Administration.

Janice has co-authored two books: Driving The Career Highway, 20 Road Signs You Can't Afford To Miss (2007) and What Every Successful Woman Knows: 12 Breakthrough Strategies to Get the Power and Ignite Your Career (2001), acknowledged by Business Week as "the best of its genre." In October 2008, Janice co-authored an article for Directors & Boards titled, "Getting from a good to a great board."

Janice recently appeared on CNBC's "The Strategy Session" to discuss board director recruitment and innovative ideas for corporations to build more effective boards through gender diversity. She is a frequent speaker at company and association sponsored symposiums on women's initiatives and career management issues and has appeared on network television and been quoted extensively. For the past four years, she has moderated a panel at the University of Wisconsin's Directors Institute on "Building Stronger Corporate Boards."

In recognition for her many philanthropic activities, in 2008 Janice received the Association of Executive Search Consultants (AESC) Eleanor Raynolds Award for Volunteerism. Recognized as one of 2007's "21 Leaders for the 21st Century" by Women's eNews, she was also a recipient of the Channel 21 Award In Excellence for her contribution to "Excellence in the Economic Development for Women."

Janice is President of the New York Women's Forum, Executive Committee and Board Director for the University of Iowa Foundation.  She serves on the Simmons College, School of Management Advisory Board, the White House Project Advisory Council, the Business Committee of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Economic Club of NY and is a Past Chair and current Director of the YMCA Board of Greater New York. A native New Yorker, Janice resides in New York City with her husband, Bruce Ellig.