A four-sport athlete at Yale, Lisa Brummel was the women’s basketball team’s Most Valuable Player in each of her four seasons in New Haven. She earned a pair of First Team All-Ivy honors on the hardwood, amassing 1,361 career points—seventh on the Bulldog all-time scoring list. She was also a three-time team Most Valuable Player and a First-Team All-Ivy selection in softball and competed on Yale’s volleyball and track & field squads.
 
Brummel graduated with a bachelor’s degree in sociology from Yale University in 1981 and joined Microsoft in 1989 after earning a master’s in business administration at UCLA. She spent 25 years at Microsoft, holding a variety of roles in management and marketing before leading human resources from 2005 through her retirement in 2014.
 
She is a co-owner of the Seattle Storm of the Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA), alongside Microsoft colleague Dawn Trudeau and former Yale rower and 1984 Olympic silver medalist Virginia “Ginny” Gilder. The trio of Seattle businesswomen and civic leaders, all season ticket holders, purchased the Storm in 2008 to keep the team in their hometown. The Storm won their second WNBA title in 2010 and are 1-of-2 clubs that remain undefeated in WNBA Finals.