WHERE AMBITION AND EXCLUSIVITY MEET
The Wall Street Journal CEO Council connects the world’s most ambitious and influential business leaders to discuss the issues shaping the future.
Our members lead companies that collectively employ more than 6 million people, generate $2.5 trillion + in annual revenue and represent 21 countries in a wide cross section of industries.
CEO Council member benefits include attendance at the landmark annual meeting in Washington, D.C. as well as an ever evolving roster of events across the U.S., Europe and Asia, giving members a formative voice in the global agenda.
CURRENT MEMBERS
Nick Akins
Chairman, President and CEO
American Electric Power
Nick Akins is chairman, president and chief executive officer of American Electric Power. He is AEP’s 11th chairman, 10th president and sixth CEO in the company’s more than 100-year history. He is a member of AEP’s board of directors and is the only management representative on the board.
Akins rose through the ranks at both AEP and the former Central and South West Corp. (CSW), which merged with AEP in 2000. Akins began his career in 1982 as an electrical engineer before moving up to positions of increasing responsibility. Prior to being elected president of AEP in December 2010, he served as executive vice president – Generation from 2006 through 2010 with responsibility for all generation activities of AEP’s approximately 38,000 MW of generation resources.
Previously, he served as president and chief operating officer for Southwestern Electric Power Company, and held other leadership roles in Energy Marketing Services, Transmission, External Affairs and Industry Restructuring.
A native of Louisiana, Akins received his bachelor’s degree in 1982 in electric engineering from Louisiana Tech University in Ruston and a master’s degree in electrical engineering in 1986 from Louisiana Tech. Additional training includes executive management programs at Louisiana State University, the University of Idaho and the Reactor Technology Course for Utility Executives at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is a registered professional engineer in Texas.
Akins is a former chairman of the Board of Directors of both the Edison Electric Institute (EEI) and the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), and currently serves on both boards. He is a member of the Executive Committee of the Business Roundtable (BRT) and was appointed chair of the BRT’s Energy and Environment Committee. Additionally, he is a member of the boards of the Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI), Global Sustainable Electricity Partnership (GSEP), The Columbus Partnership, Columbus Downtown Development Corporation, Nuclear Electric Insurance Limited (NEIL), Fifth Third Bancorp, OhioHealth and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum.
Luis Manuel Conceicao do Amaral
Management Board President
Eurocash Group
In 1989 Luis joined Nissan Portugal as a Marketing Director, in 1994 he became a Board Member, responsible for sale, marketing and logistics. Luis was also a member of Nissan advertising group in Europe.
In 1995 Luis came to Poland as a CEO of Jeronimo Martins Poland. He was developing the company until 1999, when it reached a turnover of over 1 billion EUR. In July 1999 he was promoted to the position of a Member of Jeronimo Martins Holding Executive Committee in Lisbon.
In July 2000 Luis Amaral moved to South America, where as a Partner in the Antfactory Investment Fund, he activated his funds on the markets of Brazil, Mexico and Argentina. In 2001 Luis Amaral joined the LAEPBrasil Investment Fund specializing in distressed assets, holding the position of a Senior Partner.
In 2003 Luis made a MBO of Eurocash from Jeronimo Martins and in 2005 Eurocash entered Warsaw Stock Exchange. Eurocash started to take over various companies such as Delikatesy Centrum and KDWT in 2006, McLane Poland and PayUp in 2008, Batna in 2009, Premium Distributors in 2010, PolCater and Tradis Distribution Group in 2011, 75% stake in Kolporter FMCG and 51% stake in Inmedio in 2014, 44% stake in Frisco.pl in 2015 and recently 50% stake in Firma Rogala in 2016. These takeovers allowed Eurocash to become a market leader of FMCG wholesale distribution in Poland with over 14 000 stores in Franchise systems, sales of app. 4.8 billion EUR, 12 000 employees and market capitalization app. 1.3 billion EUR.
Mukesh D. Ambani
Chairman and Managing Director
Reliance Industries Limited
Mukesh Ambani joined Reliance in 1981 and became its Chairman and Managing Director in 2002. An extreme innovator and believer in game-changing businesses of the future, Ambani is known for challenging conventional wisdom and spotting opportunities quickly. For his vision and leadership in ushering the telecom revolution, Ambani was awarded the ‘World Communication Award for the Most Influential Person in Telecommunications’ by Total Telecom and ‘Telecom Man of the Year’ by the Voice and Data magazine.
From path-breaking initiatives in oil and gas exploration to production, Ambani led Reliance’s foray into new frontiers and, thereby, helped it to discover India’s largest natural gas field, KG-D6. He sees a huge opportunity in transforming the agriculture sector through Reliance’s retail business, which has a unique value and supply chain model – famously referred to as the ‘farm-to-fork’ model. His vision of reinventing education, finance, retail, healthcare through innovations deployed over 4G will usher in the digital revolution in the country and beyond.
Sustained value creation over the past 10 years under Ambani’s leadership
Turnover 370% | Net Profit 200% | Exports 800% | Net Worth 450% | Market Cap 250%
Johan C. Aurik
Managing Partner and Chairman of the Board
A.T. Kearney
Mitch Barns
CEO
Nielsen
Since joining Nielsen in 1997, Mitch has lived and worked on three continents and has held leadership roles all across Nielsen’s business, spanning information and insights and the company’s segments of Watch and Buy.
Throughout 2013, Mitch served as President, Global Client Service, overseeing $5.5 billion in revenue and leading the efforts of Nielsen’s Watch and Buy client service teams worldwide to bring innovative solutions to clients.
George S. Barrett
Chairman and CEO
Cardinal Health, Inc.
George S. Barrett is chairman and chief executive officer of Cardinal Health, a company ranked number 21 on the Fortune 500 and dedicated to improving the cost-effectiveness of health care.Barrett has refocused Cardinal Health on its essential role in supporting hospitals, pharmacies and alternative sites of care in their efforts to improve the quality and safety of patient care, while reducing costs and improving efficiency. The tagline – Essential to care – embodies the company’s strategy and the culture of the organization.
Barrett has been chairman and CEO of Cardinal Health since 2009. He joined the company in 2008 as vice chairman. From 2005 to end-2007, Barrett served as president and CEO of North America for Teva Pharmaceutical Industries. During 2007, he also served as corporate executive vice president for Global Pharmaceutical Markets. He held the position of president of Teva USA from 1999 to end- 2004. Prior to joining Teva, Barrett held various positions with Alpharma Inc., serving as president of US Pharmaceuticals from 1994 to 1997, and president of NMC Laboratories, prior to its acquisition by Alpharma in 1990.
Barrett serves on the board of directors of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, Nationwide Children’s Hospital and the board of trustees of the Corporation of Brown University. He is a member of the Healthcare Leadership Council and vice chair of the board of trustees of The Conference Board. He is also a member of the Business Roundtable, The Business Council and The Columbus Partnership. Barrett also serves on the board of directors of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Barrett earned his Bachelor of Arts degree from Brown University and a Master of Business Administration from New York University. He also holds an Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from Long Island University’s Arnold & Marie Schwartz College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences.
John F. Barrett
Chairman, President and CEO
Western & Southern Financial Group
Western & Southern is one of the strongest life insurance groups in the world. Under Barrett’s leadership, Western & Southern has grown from a $5 billion Midwestern life insurance company into a highly respected national financial services enterprise.
Barrett is a recognized leader in the business community and financial services industry. He serves on the boards of directors of Cintas Corporation and Convergys Corporation.
Dominic Barton
Global Managing Director
McKinsey & Company, Inc.
Dominic is an active participant in international fora including Davos, the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, Les Rencontres Économiques d’Aix-en-Provence, the Asia Business Council and the China Development Forum. He has authored more than 80 articles on the role of business in society, leadership, financial services, Asia, history and the issues and opportunities facing markets worldwide. Dominic is a co-author, with Roberto Newell and Greg Wilson, of Dangerous Markets: Managing in Financial Crises (Wiley & Sons, 2002) and China Vignettes: An Inside Look at China(Talisman, 2007).
Dominic leads McKinsey’s work on the future of capitalism, long-term value-creation and the role of business leadership in society. This is a set of research initiatives and projects to convene organisations and leaders for constructive action. One such project was a task force on Inclusive Capitalism, which Dominic co-led with Lady Lynn Forester de Rothschild (sponsored by the Henry Jackson Society, a London-based think tank). The task force – comprised of business and public leaders in the US and UK – developed approaches for engaging and scaling business actions to address issues that create both social and economic value.
Patrick Bass
CEO
thyssenkrupp North America, Inc.
Patrick Bass was named CEO of thyssenkrupp North America, Inc., in October 2014 and began his tenure January 2015. He is responsible for facilitating growth in the United States, Canada and Mexico by spearheading greater coordination and collaboration among thyssenkrupp’s operating companies. As the leader of thyssenkrupp’s largest regional headquarters, Bass provides strategic direction and services for all thyssenkrupp companies in North America and helps identify new markets and growth opportunities in the region. In his role, Bass oversees a region with approximately 20,500 employees and €9 billion in sales in fiscal year 2014/2015 (approximately $11.4 billion).
Bass began his career with thyssenkrupp in 1999 as a Mechanical Engineer at thyssenkrupp Elevator Corp. in Horn Lake, Mississippi. Within thyssenkrupp’s Elevator business, he has held numerous roles of increasing responsibility, from research to manufacturing to a global role in product strategy and Research & Development.
Bass has served as the lead engineer for a number of industry-leading projects such as the design of the elevators and escalators in One World Trade Center as well as development of the preventative maintenance, cloud-based solution used in the industry-leading partnership with Microsoft.
In 2013, he was named Executive Vice President, Research & Development, and moved to thyssenkrupp’s Elevator Technology global headquarters in Essen, Germany. While in this role, Bass oversaw product design and the product portfolio strategy for the global Elevator business.
Bass received his BS in engineering from Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, with further studies in systems engineering research at Northampton University in Northampton, England.
Inga Beale
CEO
Lloyd's
Inga Beale DBE joined Lloyd’s as the Chief Executive Officer in 2014. Prior to Lloyd’s, Inga was the Group Chief Executive Officer at Canopius, a prominent Lloyd’s managing agent, from 2012–2013.
Inga joined Zurich Insurance Group in 2008 as a member of the Group Management Board in Zurich before becoming Global Chief Underwriting Officer in 2009.
In 2006, Inga was appointed Group Chief Executive Officer of Converium (now part of the SCOR Group) after 14 years at GE Insurance Solutions. Inga held various underwriting management roles across the globe at GE before becoming President of GE Frankona and Head of Continental Europe, Middle East and Africa for GE Insurance Solutions based in Germany.
Inga began her career at the Prudential Assurance Company in London in 1982 and trained as an international treaty reinsurance underwriter.
Inga is an external Board member to the Government’s Financial Services Trade and Investment Board and in 2016 joined the Board of the Chartered Insurance Institute, as well as the Mayor’s Business Advisory Board.
Brendan Bechtel
CEO
Bechtel Group, Inc.
Before being elected to CEO, Brendan was Bechtel’s president & chief operating officer from 2014-2016. Previously, he served in executive management and operations roles, including president of the company’s Oil, Gas & Chemicals (OG&C) business unit, general manager of the OG&C Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) business line, and senior project manager for the Queensland Curtis LNG project, the first of Bechtel’s four LNG megaprojects in Australia.
Brendan first began working for the company during summer breaks in high school. After joining the company full-time, he took on roles of increasing responsibility in field construction, project management, and executive leadership. Brendan is the 5th generation of the Bechtel family to lead the company.
Brendan graduated with a bachelor’s degree in geography from Middlebury College in Vermont. He also earned dual master’s degrees at Stanford University in business and construction engineering and management.
Brendan currently serves on the board of trustees for the National Geographic Society, in addition to the board of Governors for the National Geographic Society’s Education Foundation, both in Washington, DC. Brendan is also a member of the Business Roundtable, and its infrastructure committee.
Swan Gin Beh, M.D.
Chairman
Singapore Economic Development Board (EDB)
Dr Beh was appointed Chairman of the Singapore Economic Development Board (EDB) on 1 December 2014. He also chairs the Boards of Directors of EDB Investments and EDBI.
Dr Beh was Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Law from 1 July 2012 to 30 November 2014.
Prior to the Ministry of Law, he had been Managing Director of EDB from 1 August 2008 to 30 June 2012. He joined EDB in November 1992 and held various portfolios over the years including leadership roles in the development of Singapore’s Biomedical Sciences industry cluster, as well as overseas assignments in EDB’s North American operations.
In 2006 and 2007, Dr Beh also held concurrent appointments as the Executive Director of the Biomedical Research Council at the Agency for Science, Technology & Research, as well as the Director of the Ministry of Trade & Industry’s Energy Planning Division.
Dr Beh is a medical doctor by training and graduated from the National University of Singapore. He is also a Sloan Fellow with a Master of Science in Management from Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business, and completed the Advanced Management Programme at the Harvard Business School.
He is a Board Director for Singapore Technologies Engineering Ltd and chairs the Board of Singapore Technologies Electronics Limited. He is also a Board Director for Ascendas-Singbridge Pte Ltd, LucasFilm Animation Pte Ltd, Human Capital Leadership Institute, Singapore Innovate Pte Ltd and Temasek Foundation Connects. He is a member of the Advisory Board for the University of St Gallen, and also a member of the Young Presidents’ Organisation.
Marc Benioff
Chairman and CEO
Salesforce
Marc Benioff is chairman and CEO of Salesforce. A pioneer of cloud computing, Benioff founded the company in 1999 with a vision to create a new kind of enterprise software company, with a new technology model based in the cloud, a new pay-as-you-go business model and a new integrated corporate philanthropy model. Under his leadership, Salesforce has grown from a groundbreaking idea into a Fortune 500 company, the fastest-growing top ten software company in the world and the largest CRM company.
Jeffrey L. Bewkes
Chairman and CEO
Time Warner Inc.
Jeff Bewkes is chairman and CEO of Time Warner Inc. He was elected chairman of the board of directors in January 2009, having served on the board since January 2007. He was elected CEO of the company in January 2008. Prior to being named chairman and CEO, Mr. Bewkes served as Time Warner’s president and COO from 2005 to 2007 and as chairman of the entertainment and networks group from 2002 to 2005. Before joining the corporate management of Time Warner, Mr. Bewkesserved as chairman and CEO of HBO since 1995. Mr. Bewkesserves on the boards of Yale University, Museum of the Moving Image, the Partnership for New York City and on the advisory boards for Stanford Graduate School of Business, Yale School of Management, the American Museum of Natural History, The Creative Coalition and The Paley Center for Media. Mr. Bewkeshas a BA from Yale University and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Aneel Bhusri
Co-Founder and CEO
Workday
Richard J. Bielen
President and Chief Operating Officer
Protective Life Corporation
On July 1, 2017, Rich Bielen became the 7th CEO in the 110 year history of Protective Life. He joined Protective Life in 1991 with responsibility for the company’s securities portfolio and became Chief Investment Officer and Treasurer in 2002. He became Vice Chairman and Chief Financial Officer in 2007. In January, 2016, Mr. Bielen was named President and Chief Operating Officer. Mr. Bielen began his career at Arthur Andersen and Co. in 1983 and left as a Senior Accountant in 1986. He then joined Oppenheimer & Co., Inc. as a sales analyst focused primarily on new product development, eventually earning the position of Senior Vice President. He has over 30 years of experience in the financial services industry. Mr. Bielen is a Certified Public Accountant and serves on the boards of The United Way of Central Alabama, The Alabama Trust Fund, and Children’s of Alabama. He earned a Master of Business Administration and a Bachelor of Science degree from New York University.
Bilal Ekşi
Deputy Chairman and CEO
Turkish Airlines
Born in 1968 in Rize, Bilal Ekşi graduated from Yıldız Technical University, the Department of Electronics and Communications Engineering in 1989. Starting his career in 1989, Mr. Ekşi worked as an Electronics and Communications Engineer at Turkish State Railways and thereafter, he was assigned to the position of Workshop Manager at Istanbul Ulasim A.S., and he played an active role in realization of significant transport projects.
As the Head of Overhaul Workshops at Turkish Airlines Inc., Mr Ekşi carried out the duty of maintenance of aircraft engines, landing gears and all components between 2003 and 2005. In 2005, he has been assigned as the Chief Ground Operations Officer at Turkish Airlines Inc. Mr. EKŞİ accomplished significant projects, particularly in improvement of the on-time departure performance during his tenure.
Having served as the Chief Production Officer at Turkish Technic in 2008 and 2009; and as the General Manager of Cyprus Turkish Airlines as part of the reorganization of Cyprus Turkish Airlines in 2010; and as the Executive Vice President at “Turkish Engine Center (TEC)”, established by the Joint Venture of Pratt Whitney, the American Engine manufacturer, and Turkish Technic Inc. between 2010 – 2011; Mr. Ekşi was assigned as the Director General of Civil Aviation in April 2011.
During his tenure as the Director General of Civil Aviation, Turkey has been reelected as a member of Council of International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) 66 years later its pervious membership and has become one of the 36 members in ICAO’s decision-making platform.
On 21st of October, 2016, Mr. Ekşi has been assigned as Chief Executive Officer and Deputy Chairman of the Board and Executive Committee of Turkish Airlines Inc.
Ståle Bjørnstad
CEO
Cxense
Jean-Laurent Bonnafé
Director and CEO
BNP Paribas
In 1993 he joined BNP as a Senior Investment Banker. In 1997 he was appointed Head of Strategy and Development. Following the BNP merger with Paribas in the year 2000, he led the post-merger integration process.
In 2002 Mr Bonnafé was appointed Head of the BNP Paribas Group’s French Retail Banking division, becoming a member of the Group Executive Committee. In 2006, when BNL was merged into the BNP Paribas Group, he was appointed BNL Managing Director. In 2008, he became BNP Paribas Chief Operating Officer and assumed responsibility for the Retail Banking activities of the entire Group.
On 14 May 2009, Mr Bonnafé was appointed Chief Executive Officer of Fortis Bank, remaining in this post until 1 February 2011 with a primary mission to ensure the smooth integration of Fortis Retail Banking activities into the Group.
At the Annual General Meeting held on 12 May 2010, he was elected a Member of the BNP Paribas Group Board of Directors.
On 1 December 2011 the Board of Directors appointed Mr Bonnafé Group Chief Executive Officer. In addition, he currently sits on the Board of Directors of BNL, BNP Paribas Fortis and Carrefour.
Jean-Laurent Bonnafé graduated in Engineering from leading French higher education establishment École Polytechnique and the École des Mines.
Benjamin A. Breier
President and CEO
Kindred Healthcare, Inc.
Kindred operates a diverse blend of health care service businesses including transitional care hospitals (LTACH’s), inpatient rehabilitation hospitals, skilled nursing facilities, home healthcare and hospice services and contract rehabilitation sites in almost 2,700 locations across the United States. Kindred was named one of Fortune magazine’s Most Admired Healthcare Companies in 2016, the seventh time it has made the list.
Prior to joining Kindred, Mr. Breier served as Concentra, Inc.’s Senior Vice President of Operations and Vice President of Operations. Before joining Concentra, Mr. Breier served as Director of Operations at Premier Practice Management, Inc. He joined Premier as Chief Operating Officer in January 1997 and became Chief Executive Officer in June 1998. Premier Practice Management was a subsidiary of Premier, Inc., the largest hospital group purchasing alliance in the United States.
Mr. Breier received his bachelor’s in economics from the Wharton School of Business at The University of Pennsylvania and holds an MBA and MHA from the University of Miami, (Fla.)
Mr. Breier currently serves on the Board of Directors of Kindred Healthcare, and the Federation of American Hospitals. Mr. Breier is a member of the Business Roundtable and the Wall Street Journal CEO Council.
In 2015 and 2016, Modern Healthcare magazine named Mr. Breier one of the 100 Most Influential People in Healthcare and in September 2010, Mr. Breier was also named byModern Healthcare magazine to the 2010 “Up & Comers” list, which recognizes rising young leaders aged 40 and under who are making a difference in healthcare. In March 2015, Louisville Business First named Mr. Breier the Health Care Leader of the Year.
Vincent Brun
President
Vacheron Constantin
The French-born Mr. Brun graduated with a Master’s Degree from the French Business School of Lyon.
He currently resides in Manhattan with his wife and two children.
Gregory W. Cappelli
CEO
Apollo Education Group, Inc.
Mr. Cappelli received his Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Indiana University and his Master of Business Administration from the Brennan School of Business at Dominican University. Mr. Cappelli serves on the Board of Governors of the Boys and Girls Clubs of America and the board of trustees for Dominican University. He is a past long-time board member of Everybody Wins!, New York.
Lloyd Carney
CEO
Brocade
Before joining Brocade, Lloyd was CEO and member of the board of directors at Xsigo Systems, a technology leader in the data center virtualization market with solutions for cloud computing and software-defined networking. Previous to that, he was CEO of Micromuse, Inc., a networking management software company which became an integral part of the IBM Tivoli framework. Lloyd also has extensive experience in the IP networking industry. He served as the chief operating officer at Juniper Networks where he oversaw the engineering, product management, and manufacturing divisions. Lloyd also served as president of the core IP, wireless Internet, and the enterprise divisions at Nortel Networks, which generated multi-billion dollars in revenue. Before this, he was the executive vice president and general manager of the Enterprise Business Unit at Bay Networks.
Lloyd holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering Technology and an Honorary PhD from the Wentworth Institute of Technology. He also earned a Master of Science degree in Applied Business Management from Lesley College in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Gregory C. Case
President and CEO
Aon plc
As CEO, Case directs the efforts of more than 65,000 colleagues in more than 120 countries. He has focused the organization on a three-part strategy for building Aon centered around providing distinctive value for clients, attracting the best talent and achieving operational excellence. Since joining the firm in April 2005, he has traveled worldwide meeting with clients and colleagues communicating and sharpening a shared vision for Aon.
Case has nearly two decades of experience in the insurance and financial services industries. Before joining Aon, he served on the governing Shareholders’ Council at McKinsey & Company, a leading international management consultant, and led their Global Insurance and Financial Services Practice. Prior to McKinsey, he worked for the investment banking firm of Piper, Jaffray and Hopwood and at the Federal Reserve Bank.
Case holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and graduated summa cum laude from Kansas State University. He serves on the boards of Discover Financial Services, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital, Field Museum of Natural History, CEO’s Against Cancer and St. John’s University School of Risk Management, where he was named the 2008 Insurance Executive of the Year.
Dominic Casserley
CEO
Willis Group Holdings Public Limited Company
Casserley’s career at McKinsey focused on two areas: serving the needs of a client base that comprised leading financial services companies around the world, and helping to build and manage the firm. He was a member of McKinsey’s Global Board from 1999 to 2012.
He has consulted with the world’s leading financial institutions to address their strategic and operational issues and deal with the opportunities and challenges of deregulation, globalization and new technology. At the time of his departure, he led the firm’s Corporate & Investment banking practice globally.
Casserley has authored two books on financial services, advised business leaders on the former UK Prime Minister’s Business Council for Britain and served on the UK’s Confederation of British Industry (CBI) CEO Climate Change Taskforce and the Lord Davies review on increasing the number of women on corporate boards. He also worked on the U.S. Presidential Task Force on Market Mechanisms in 1987 (The Brady Commission) during the Administration of Ronald Reagan.
Married with three children, Casserley is a 1979 graduate of Cambridge University. He is also Chairman of the UK Charities Aid Foundation and a member of the board of the National Theatre in London.
Anil Chakravarthy
CEO
Informatica
Anil Chakravarthy is the chief executive officer of Informatica. Previously, Anil was the executive vice president and chief product officer responsible for product development, product management and product marketing.
Prior to Informatica, for nearly a decade, Anil held leadership roles at Symantec Corporation. Most recently Anil was the executive vice president of Information Security at Symantec, responsible for overseeing engineering, product management and operations for an extensive product portfolio including Data Loss Prevention, E-Mail and Web Security (on-premise and cloud), Managed Services, Trust Services and Authentication. Previously at Symantec, Anil led multiple product groups including Endpoint Protection, Mobile Security and Management, Encryption, Storage and High-Availability and India Product Operations as well as Enterprise Global Consulting.
Prior to Symantec, Anil led product management for enterprise security services at VeriSign. Chakravarthy began his career at McKinsey & Company, where he rose to become the co-leader of the E-Business Practice in the Business Technology Office.
Anil received a Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science and Engineering from the Institute of Technology, Varanasi, India. Additionally, Chakravarthy received his Master of Science and Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
William C. Cobb
President and CEO
H&R; Block, Inc.
Since Cobb took over as CEO, he has brought a renewed focus to the company anchored in a set of values summed up as “we do the right thing.” For H&R Block that means: we believe in our people, we take care of our clients and we deliver for our shareholders. For the largest branded tax preparation company in the United States with international business in Canada, Australia and India, Cobb has clarified its purpose: to look at its clients’ lives through the lens of taxes and find ways to help.
Cobb, who brought to his role experience in the retail, digital and consumer-brand space, has driven success throughout the company by focusing the organization on its core expertise – tax preparation. His Tax Plus strategy combines tax preparation services with products adjacent to the tax event, such as the H&R Block Emerald Prepaid MasterCard®, an award winning general purpose reloadable debit card, and Tax Identity Shield®, a product designed to protect consumers from tax identity theft. In addition, under Cobb’s leadership, the company has returned a substantial amount of capital to shareholders, having repurchased approximately 30% of shares outstanding and increased the quarterly dividend by over 45% since Fiscal Year 2012.
Prior to joining H&R Block, Cobb was President of eBay U.S. Marketplaces, the company’s flagship division from 2004 to 2008. Under his management, the eBay division traded $25 billion in goods and services, and reached a record $2.6 billion in revenue. In addition to eBay’s U.S. performance, Cobb was responsible for affiliated businesses such as, StubHub, Shopping.com and Rent.com. Cobb led eBay’s International division from 2002 to 2004. He started with eBay in 2000 as the head of eBay’s Global Marketing, where he developed the company’s first brand campaign and the largest Internet marketing function on the Web.
From 1987 until 2000, Cobb occupied several senior-level positions at PepsiCo and YUM! Brands, including Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer of International Marketing for YUM!, and Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer of Pizza Hut U.S.
Cobb earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania Wharton School of Business and a Masters of Business Administration degree from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.
Andrew Collins
President and CEO
Sentient Jet
As the President and CEO of Sentient Jet, Collins is responsible for a $200MM topline business that has seen aggressive growth over the last four years. Under his leadership the company has been able to re-position its brand, grow sales an additional $100MM and move topline revenues 40%. The company is EBITDA positive and is partnered exclusively with some of the world’s strong luxury brands and events.
Like Uber, Airbnb, WeWork, and a number of other strong “asset-light” companies, Sentient Jet has become a global leader in private aviation by leveraging heavily screened and certified luxury excess capacity in the Private Jet industry. This has been achieved through a unique implementation of aircraft auditing, technology, and data management. What makes the company unique is that Sentient Jet pursued this model long before many of the other asset-light models had been developed in both technology and consumer services. The company is the innovator and inventor of the Jet Card model of flying.
In 2015 and 2016 Collins spearheaded a significant Digital and Technology Transformation at Sentient Jet. This included the creation of retail, consumer “touch points” online and through mobile applications as well as a brand new supply-side platform for driving further efficiencies in flight time procurement.
Collins has been featured in a number of media outlets as well as public speaking forums. Coverage and visibility includes CNN, CNBC, Forbes, Fox Business News, NBC, the Wall Street Journal and Worth Magazine. In addition, in 2016, Sentient Jet and Collins are featured in a case study for Harvard Business School entitled “Sentient Jet: The Uber of Private Jets”.
Sentient Jet has developed premiere exclusive partnerships with such leading, world class brands and events as Aspen/Snowmass, the Breeders’ Cup, Dean & Deluca, and YPO/WPO. In 2016 Sentient Jet became the first official private aviation partner ever for the Kentucky Derby and Churchill Downs.
With extensive additional experience in software and Internet-related technologies, Collins has helped lead, establish or improve upon a number of prominent, venture-backed technology enterprises.
Collins resides in Needham, Massachusetts with his wife and two children. He received his BA from Union College of Schenectady, NY and a Master’s Degree from the Sloan School of Management at MIT. He is a member of the Young Presidents’ Organization (YPO).
Steven Collis
President and CEO
AmerisourceBergen Corporation
Collis has a deep knowledge of the healthcare distribution and services market and understands the competitive nature of the pharmaceutical distribution business.
He is currently a director of Thoratec Corporation and holds a bachelor of commerce with honors in accounting and a bachelor of commerce with distinction from the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa.
Roger W. Crandall
Chairman, President and CEO
Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company
Francisco D'Souza
CEO
Cognizant Technology Solutions
Bal G. Das
Chairman
BGD Holdings, LLC
Mr. Das received his post-graduate degree (Master’s in Law (LLM)) from Columbia University Law School, New York.
Jose Robert Delgado
Founder and Group Chairman
Founder and Group Chairman of Transnational Diversified Group (TDG)
Jose Roberto Delgado is the Founder and Group Chairman of Transnational Diversified Group (TDG), a diverse business group engaged in industries like Shipping and Logistics, Ship Management, Travel Services, Information Technology Services; as well as Securities Trading, Real Estate Development, Renewable Energy, etc.
Throughout its 40-year history, TDG has grown from a single shipping agency to a diverse group of over 30 companies in various industries. From 16 employees in 1976, TDG now has more than 18,000 employees. TDG is the chosen and trusted partner of well-respected global corporations such as the NYK Line Group (Japan), Asiana Airlines (Korea), American Express Global Business Travel, Vroon B.V. (Netherlands), Yusen Logistics (Japan), All Nippon Airways (Japan), Disney Cruise Line (USA), ePerformax Contact Centers (USA), Nippon Container Terminal (Japan), Uyeno Transtech Ltd. (Japan) and others. TDG’s companies are market leaders in their respective industries.
Mr. Delgado graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Ateneo de Manila University and completed his Masters of Business Administration in Stanford University. He went on to complete the Owner/President Management Program in Harvard Business School.
Douglas DeVos
President
Amway
DeVos has worked with Van Andel to build enthusiasm for the Amway business and help it grow to become the world’s largest direct selling company*. The results of their ability to foster entrepreneurs around the world are reflected in the company’s record sales growth.
DeVos, who joined the company in 1986, also has served in various leadership positions in Europe, the Americas and Asia.
Currently, DeVos chairs the Executive Committee for the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia. He is also involved in numerous business and civic organizations, including the World Federation of Direct Selling Associations, Business Leaders for Michigan, West Michigan Policy Forum, Gerald R. Ford Foundation, Economic Club of Grand Rapids, Keystone Community Church and The Right Place, a regional economic development organization in West Michigan.
He has been inducted into the U.S. Direct Selling Association Hall of Fame and recognized with the Direct Selling Education Foundation’s Circle of Honor award. DeVos earned a bachelor’s degree in management from Purdue University, where he also played football. He is a member of the Global Strategic Advisory Council for Purdue’s Krannert School of Management.
Craig Donohue
Executive Chairman
Options Clearing Corporation
Mr. Donohue joined OCC as Executive Chairman in January 2014 with the goal to lead transformational change across the organization in light of OCC’s designation as a Systemically Important Financial Market Utility (SIFMU) by the Financial Stability Oversight Council. His three-part strategy is focused on: 1) enhancing OCC’s resiliency to systemic risk; 2) strengthening OCC’s capital structure to ensure loss absorption and recovery capabilities, and; 3) reinvigorating OCC’s leadership team to create a more engaged organization. Mr. Donohue is very active in building and strengthening relationships with market participants such as owner and participant exchanges, clearing member firms, and public customers, as well as with lawmakers, regulators and policymakers. He also plays a leadership role in promoting the importance of the listed options market to the U.S. and global economy through the Options Industry Council.
Prior to joining OCC, Mr. Donohue spent more than two decades in global financial markets, most recently as Chief Executive Officer of CME Group from January 2004 until May 2012. During that time, Mr. Donohue led the successful completion of more than $20 billion in mergers and acquisitions, including CME’s historic merger with the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) in 2007 and the acquisition of both the New York Mercantile Exchange and the Commodity Exchange Inc. (NYMEX and COMEX) in 2008.
In 2010, Mr. Donohue was selected as one of the world’s 50 best-performing CEOs by the Harvard Business Review. He is also the subject of a Harvard Business School case study published in 2011 for his excellence in strategy formulation and execution. In 2009, Mr. Donohue was named toInstitutional Investor Magazine’s Power 50 list of the World’s Most Influential People in Finance and was also recognized as The International Executive of the Year by the Executives’ Club of Chicago.
Michael J. Dowling
President and CEO
Northwell Health
Prior to becoming president and CEO in 2002, Mr. Dowling was the health system’s executive vice president and chief operating officer. Before joining Northwell Health in 1995, he was a senior vice president at Empire Blue Cross/Blue Shield.
Mr. Dowling served in New York State government for 12 years, including seven years as state director of Health, Education and Human Services and deputy secretary to the governor. He was also commissioner of the New York State Department of Social Services.
Amy Schabacker Dufrane
CEO
HR Certification Institute
Amy Schabacker Dufrane, Ed.D., SPHR, CAE is CEO of the HR Certification Institute, where she focuses on developing collaborative long-term partnerships with individuals and organizations looking to create and deliver change around human capital. Before joining HRCI, she spent more than 25 years in progressive organizations continuously innovating human capital. Dufrane is an adjunct faculty member at the Marymount University. She also serves on the advisory board of Columbia Lighthouse for the Blind, ANSI’s WorkCred initiative, and the Northern California Human Resources Association. Dufrane holds the HR Certification Institute designation of Senior Professional in Human Resources (SPHR) and the Center for Association Leadership certification the Certified Association Executive (CAE). She also holds a doctorate from the George Washington University; an MBA and MA from Marymount University; and a BS from Hood College.
Colin Dyer
President and CEO
JLL, Inc.
Since Mr. Dyer joined JLL in 2004, the firm’s revenues have more than tripled through organic growth, over 50 strategic acquisitions across the globe, and the addition of 100 offices and 25 new countries to its geographic footprint.
Education and Affiliations
Mr. Dyer holds an MBA from INSEAD in Fontainebleau, France, and a BSc in Mechanical Engineering from Imperial College in London. He is a member of The Chicago Club, the Economic Club of Chicago and is a member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors. He is on the Board of Directors of The Executives’ Club of Chicago.
Richard Edelman
President and CEO
Edelman
Richard Edelman is the president and CEO of Edelman, a leading communications marketing firm.
The firm was named “PR Agency of the Decade” by both Advertising Age and The Holmes Report.
Richard has extensive experience in marketing and reputation management, having led assignments with major corporations, NGOs and family businesses in over 25 industries around the world.
Richard topped PRWeek’s list of most powerful executives (2013), was recognized as the third highest rated CEO by Glassdoor (2014) and was inducted in the Arthur W. Page Society’s Hall of Fame (2014). He is regarded as an industry thought leader and has posted weekly to his blog since 2004. Richard is consistently mentioned as one of the top 25 foremost experts on corporate trust.
He serves on the Board of Directors of the Ad Council, the Atlantic Council, the Children’s Aid Society and the 9/11 Museum. He is a member of the World Economic Forum and PR Seminar.
Richard has a Bachelor of Arts degree from Harvard College and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.
Robert B. Engel
CEO
CoBank
Prior to joining CoBank in 2000, Mr. Engel was chief banking officer at HSBC Bank USA in New York. He has more than 30 years of banking experience and eight years of public accounting experience, including an agribusiness specialization, with the firms of KPMG and Deloitte & Touche. During his tenure at HSBC, he served in a variety of management and credit positions, including chief credit officer, before being named chief banking officer.
Mr. Engel earned a bachelor’s degree in accounting from Niagara University in Niagara Falls, New York, where he was designated magna cum laude and later received an honorary doctorate. He is a member of the board of directors for the Federal Farm Credit Banks Funding Corporation and is also a member of the Farm Credit System Presidents Planning and Business Practices Committees. In addition, he serves on the board of trustees for Niagara University and as the chairman of the board of trustees for Regis University. He also serves as the chairman of the Graduate Institute of Cooperative Leadership and on the Executive Council of the National Council of Farmer Cooperatives. He is a recipient of the Ellis Island Medal of Honor.
Jacques Esculier
Chairman and CEO
WABCO Holdings Inc.
Before then he held leadership roles of increasing responsibilities in the aerospace industry with Honeywell International, Allied Signal, and Mooney Airplane Corporation in the United States.
WABCO (NYSE: WBC) is a leading global supplier of technologies and services that improve the safety, efficiency and connectivity of commercial vehicles. WABCO is regularly recognized among “the best of the best” companies. Forbes named WABCO “America’s Best-Managed Capital Goods Company.” For four consecutive years, Institutional Investor named WABCO among the “Top 3” in its sector for “Best CEO.” WABCO’s 2015 Annual Report is available at www.ar.wabco-auto.com. For more information, visit www.wabco-auto.com. Esculier is based in Brussels, Belgium.
John Ferriola
Chairman, President and CEO
Nucor Corp
Mr. Ferriola joined Nucor Corporation in 1991 as Manager of Maintenance and Engineering at the Jewett, Texas bar mill. In 1995, he was named General Manager of Nucor’s Grapeland, Texas joist fabrication division. Later the same year, he was named Vice President and General Manager of Nucor’s Norfolk, Nebraska bar mill. From 1998 to the end of 2001, he served as Vice President and General Manager of the Crawfordsville, Indiana sheet mill.
In January 2002, John was appointed as Executive Vice President and in September 2007 was named Chief Operation Officer of Steel Making Operations. He became President and Chief Operating Officer and a member of the Board of Directors in January 2011. On November 16, 2012, Nucor announced that its Board of Directors had elected John to the position of Chief Executive Officer and President, effective January 1, 2013.
In addition to leading Nucor Corporation, John currently serves on the Board of Directors for two Nucor joint ventures: Nucor-Yamato Steel Company and NuMit LLC.
Andreas Fibig
Chairman and CEO
International Flavors & Fragrances Inc.
In 2014, Mr. Fibig was appointed Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of International Flavors & Fragrances (IFF), based in New York. He is the chief executive responsible for IFF’s worldwide operations, representing approximately $3 billion in annual revenues, and more than 6,600 employees. He has been a member of the IFF Board of Directors since 2011.
Prior to joining IFF, Mr. Fibig was President and Chair of the Board of Management of Bayer Healthcare Pharmaceuticals (BHP). During his tenure at BHP, the company launched multiple new medicines to help patients with serious unmet medical needs, while controlling costs, enhancing business development and marketing capabilities, and accelerating growth to industry leading rates.
Previously, Mr. Fibig was Senior Vice President/General Manager, responsible for Pfizer’s central nervous system, neurology and pain management operations in the United States. Previously, he served as Pfizer’s President for Latin America/Africa/Middle East, and as Regional President for Latin America. Before his move to Pfizer, he had been President and Country Manager for Pharmacia in Germany, after rising through a series of progressively more senior roles, in Europe and internationally, for Pharmacia, Boehringer Ingelheim and Schering.
Among the hallmarks of Mr. Fibig’s career are emphases on long-term planning, innovation across all functional areas, and the establishment of strong, mutually-beneficial partnerships with customers and stakeholders. He has a record of generating successful results in both highly-competitive developed markets and emerging growth markets. He has consistently devoted major investment and interest to people development, making the recognition, reward and promotion of talent a top priority and a critical success factor among his teams.
Mr. Fibig graduated with a degree in Marketing and Business Management from Berlin’s University of Economics. Fluent in English and German, Mr. Fibig lives with his wife, and two children in Westchester County, New York.
Daniel L. Florness
President and CEO
Fastenal Company
As CFO, Dan played a central role in setting and executing company strategy, including the development of growth and profit drivers. From 2002 to 2015 he simultaneously served in an executive vice president role, most recently leading Fastenal’s National Accounts sales division, which represents more than 40% of the company’s overall business.
Based on Fastenal’s exemplary finance operations and the high regard for his work within the financial community, in 2012 Dan was recognized as one of the nation’s ten best CFOs by The Wall Street Journal and ‘CFO of the Year’ by the Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal.
Prior to joining Fastenal, Dan spent ten years with the public accounting firm of KPMG, LLP (previously KPMG Peat Marwick), where he audited companies engaged in distribution, retailing, manufacturing and construction, and later focused on developing and teaching courses related to these industries.
John D. Forsyth
Chairman and CEO
Wellmark, Inc.
Forsyth joined Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield as CEO in 1996 and was named chairman of the company in 2000. During his tenure, he has repositioned Wellmark as a health improvement company dedicated to serving the people of Iowa and South Dakota. The company has also achieved exceptional operating efficiencies and results, and membership has more than doubled under his leadership.
Believing that the extensive health care data maintained by Wellmark can be a powerful catalyst for action to improve community health, Forsyth has transformed the company’s sharing of appropriate information with community leaders, policymakers, customers and others. Complementing this approach, the company is currently on a journey to build a sustainable health care system by reducing the rate of increase in medical expenses and reducing the average rate increase to the level of the Consumer Price Index (CPI).
Before joining Wellmark, Forsyth served in a variety of executive roles throughout a 26-year career with the University of Michigan. In 1985, he was named president and CEO of the University of Michigan Health System, one of the largest and most prestigious health systems in the nation.
Eric Foss
CEO
Aramark Corporation
Under Foss’ leadership, the company is poised for sustainable growth through driving new business generation and geographic expansion while improving profitability by establishing a repeatable business model through the global enterprise. Since Foss was named President and CEO in 2012, Aramark has recorded consistent growth in sales, new business and adjusted net income and operating margins. He also led the company’s successful return to the New York Stock Exchange in December 2013. Aramark is recognized among the “Most Admired Companies” by FORTUNE and the “World’s Most Ethical Companies” by the Ethisphere Institute. In February 2015, Foss was elected Chairman of the Aramark Board of Directors, assuming the new title of Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer.
Prior to joining Aramark, Foss served as Chairman and CEO of Pepsi Bottling Group (PBG), the world’s largest bottler of Pepsi-Cola beverages which manufactured, sold and distributed products in the U.S. and six other countries. Foss was named CEO and elected to the PBG Board of Directors in 2006 and elevated to PBG’s Chairman in 2008. He participated in the successful process of taking PBG public in 1999. Foss oversaw PBG’s acquisition by PepsiCo in 2010, which brought outstanding value to PBG shareholders, and then led the integration of the business within the corporation serving as Chief Executive Officer of PepsiCo’s Pepsi Beverages Company.
Throughout his career with Aramark, PBG and PepsiCo, Foss has established a strong track record of generating profitable growth through integrated strategies and consistent execution that meets or exceeds financial commitments. Foss has led global teams to successfully build leading brands through a ‘frontline first’ mindset while achieving broad-based productivity gains.
Simon Freakley
CEO
AlixPartners
Adena Friedman
President and CEO
Nasdaq
Adena Friedman assumed the role of President and Chief Executive Officer of Nasdaq on January 1, 2017 and is a member of the Board of Directors. Ms. Friedman brings more than 20 years of industry leadership and expertise and is credited with significant contributions that shaped Nasdaq’s strategic transformation to a leading global exchange and technology solutions company with operations on six continents.
Prior to her appointment as Chief Executive Officer, Ms. Friedman served as President and Chief Operating Officer of Nasdaq throughout 2016 and was responsible for overseeing all of the company’s business segments with a focus on driving efficiency, product development, growth and expansion.
Ms. Friedman rejoined Nasdaq in 2014 as President to oversee the technology, information, and corporate businesses that comprised over two-thirds of Nasdaq’s revenues. Prior to her return, she served as Chief Financial Officer and Managing Director of The Carlyle Group from March 2011 to June 2014, and played a significant role in taking the company public in December 2012.
Before Carlyle, Ms. Friedman was a key member of Nasdaq’s management team for over a decade, serving in a variety of roles including head of the company’s data products business, head of corporate strategy, as well its Chief Financial Officer. She played an instrumental role in the company’s acquisition strategy, overseeing the acquisitions of INET, OMX, and the Philadelphia and Boston Exchanges. She originally joined Nasdaq in 1993.
She has been outspoken on the topic of women in leadership and is an avid supporter of mentoring and career opportunities for women in the financial services industry. She is also an advocate for financial literacy and education and has served on the Board of the Greater Washington, D.C. Chapter of Junior Achievement, a non-profit that supports youth in their journey to financial independence.
Ms. Friedman earned an M.B.A. from Owen Graduate School of Management, Vanderbilt University, in Nashville, Tennessee. She holds a B.A. in political science from Williams College in Massachusetts.
Mark P. Frissora
President and CEO
Caesars Entertainment
Mark P. Frissora is the Chief Executive Officer and President of Caesars Entertainment. Frissora has 38 years of business experience that spans all levels of management and functional roles. Frissora joined Caesars in 2015 and served between 2000-2014 as Chairman and CE of two Fortune 500 companies.
Prior to his July 2015 appointment as Caesars’ CEO, he started his career working in various management positions for General Electric, Philips Lighting Company, and Aeroquip-Vickers. He served as the CEO of Tenneco from 2000 until 2006, and from 1999 to 2006, Tenneco’s revenue rose 39 percent to $4.4 billion. Frissora subsequently served as CEO of The Hertz Corporation from 2006 until September 2014, also serving as the company’s chairman from January 1, 2007 until he stepped down in September 2014. While with Hertz, Frissora was named one of Business Travel News’ Most Influential Business Travel Executives of 2012. Additionally, he has been a member of The Business Roundtable, McKinsey’s CEO Advisory Council, and the G100. He has also been actively involved in philanthropic activities and in 2012 he was awarded the Oliver R. Grace Award for Distinguished Service in Advancing Cancer Research.
Mr. Frissora holds a B.A. degree from The Ohio State University and has completed executive development programs at Babson College and the Thunderbird International School of Management. He is a Director of Delphi Automotive plc and is also a member of the American Gaming Association. He previously served as a Director of Walgreens Boots Alliance.
Mark Ganz
President and CEO
Cambia Health Solutions
As President and CEO of Cambia Health Solutions for the last 14 years, Mark Ganz has guided the company along a path of reshaping health care to be more empathetic, transparent, and economically sustainable. Mark serves on the board of directors for several organizations including America’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP), the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association, and Prime Therapeutics. He is the recipient of several awards for his lifetime achievements including “Healthcare Leader of the Year” by the Portland Business Journal in 2014. Mark earned both his undergraduate and law degrees from Georgetown University in Washington, D.C.
Robert C. Garrett
Co-CEO
Hackensack Meridian Health
Robert C. Garrett, a nationally-renowned healthcare leader and sought-after industry expert, is the co-CEO of Hackensack Meridian Health Network, one of the largest, most comprehensive health networks in New Jersey.Mr. Garrett began his time with Hackensack University Medical Center in 1981 as a resident, and served as president and CEO of the Hackensack University Health Network from 2009 through July 2016, at which time he assumed his current position as co-CEO of Hackensack Meridian Health. In the face of healthcare reform, Mr. Garrett optimally positioned HackensackUHN and HackensackUMC for success through a series of acquisitions, mergers, partnerships and affiliations.
In July 2016, HackensackUHN merged with Meridian Health to merge; creating one of the largest healthcare systems in New Jersey with 13 hospitals throughout Bergen, Essex, Hudson, Middlesex, Monmouth and Ocean counties, known as Hackensack Meridian Health. The network has a total of more than 4,000 beds; a network of physician practices with a medical team of more than 6,000 credentialed members; more than 120 facilities; and approximately 28,000 members.
In June 2015, HackensackUHN and Seton Hall University signed a definitive agreement to form a new, four-year school of medicine—the only private school of medicine in the state. In July 2016, Hackensack Meridian Health and Seton Hall University signed an agreement with the real estate development firm Prism Capital Partners to lease buildings on the former Hoffmann-La Roche biomedical campus located in Nutley and Clifton, NJ. The 25-year-lease of the campus is set to begin in early October 2016.
Richard Gelfond
CEO
IMAX Corporation
Eli Gelman
President and CEO
Amdocs Limited
Eli Gelman has been a director of Amdocs since 2002. On November 15, 2010, Mr. Gelman became the President and Chief Executive Officer of Amdocs Management Limited, our wholly-owned subsidiary. Since January 2010, Mr. Gelman has served as a director of Retalix, a publicly-held global software company, and from January 2010 to December 2010, he also served as the Chairman of Retalix. From April 2008 to December 2010, Mr. Gelman devoted his time to charitable matters focused on youth education. He served as Executive Vice President of Amdocs Management Limited from October 2002 until April 2008 and as our Chief Operating Officer from October 2006 until April 2008. Prior to October 2002, he was a Senior Vice President, where he headed our U.S. sales and marketing operations and helped spearhead our entry into the customer care and billing systems market. Before that, Mr. Gelman was an account manager for our major European and North American installations, and has led several major software development projects. Before joining Amdocs, Mr. Gelman was involved in the development of real-time software systems for communications networks. Mr. Gelman’s qualifications to serve on our board of directors include his more than two decades of service to Amdocs and its customers, including as our Chief Operating Officer. With more than 28 years of experience in the software industry, he possesses a vast institutional knowledge and strategic understanding of our organization and industry.
Pat Gelsinger
CEO
VMware, Inc.
Prior to EMC, Gelsinger spent 30 years in numerous technical, management and executive roles at Intel, where he began his career. He led Intel’s Digital Enterprise Group, the company’s largest business unit and responsible for enterprise products including the Xeon and Itanium processors, as senior vice president and co-general manager, and he also led the Desktop Products Group responsible for desktop processors, chipsets and motherboards for consumer and commercial customers. Gelsinger was Intel’s first CTO, and as the head of Intel Labs he led many of the company’s research initiatives. He was also the architect of the original 80486 processor and a design engineer on the 80386 and 80286 processor design teams.
Gelsinger holds six patents in the areas of VLSI design, computer architecture and communications, is a well-known speaker on technology trends, and has received a variety of industry awards. He earned an associate’s degree from Lincoln Technical Institute in 1979, a bachelor’s degree from Santa Clara University in 1983 (magna cum laude) and a master’s degree from Stanford University in 1985, all in electrical engineering. In 2008 he was named a Fellow of the IEEE and awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Letters in 2008 from William Jessup University.
Eric Gernath
CEO
SUEZ North America
Eric Gernath is Chief Executive Officer of SUEZ North America, based in Paramus, New Jersey. He is also a member of the company’s Strategic and Financial Board of Directors, and a member of the SUEZ Global Executive Management Committee. Eric joined SUEZ North America in September 2015 after eight years as Chief Executive Officer with SUEZ in Australia and New Zealand. Under his leadership, business in Australia grew significantly with revenues more than tripling to $1.5 billion though strategic acquisitions and investment in infrastructure. Eric also served as Chairman of the Board of SITA-Resource Company, a leading manufacturer of alternative fuels. Since joining SUEZ North America, Eric has spearheaded major initiatives related to safety culture, operational excellence, customer centricity and business growth. Under Eric’s leadership, SUEZ experienced record growth in North America in 2015. Eric possesses significant worldwide leadership experience in the water, waste and resource recovery sectors. Since joining the SUEZ group in 1991, Eric has managed and transformed businesses across five international markets. He has held senior management positions in France, China, Taiwan, Australia and the United States. He has an Engineering degree in Project Management from Institut de Pétroléochimie et de Synthèse Organique Industrielle de Marseillesa and a Chemical Engineering degree from Institut National Supérieur de Chimie Industrielle de Rouen. He also received a degree from Lycée Alain Fournier. Eric is also a graduate of Australian Institute of Company Directors, a school committed to excellence and making a positive impact on society and the economy through governance education, director development and advocacy.
Seifi Ghasemi
Chairman, President and CEO
Air Products & Chemicals, Inc.
Seifi Ghasemi became chairman, president and chief executive officer of Air Products in July 2014. In this role, he is focused on setting the strategy and policies of the company, developing leadership, and meeting shareholder commitments. Mr. Ghasemi also serves as chairman of Versum Materials, Inc., the former Electronic Materials business of Air Products that was spun-off from the company on October 1, 2016.
Prior to joining Air Products, from 2001-2014, Mr. Ghasemi served as chairman and chief executive officer of Rockwood Holdings, a global leader in inorganic specialty chemicals and advanced materials that was acquired by Albemarle Corporation in January 2015. From 1997-2001, he held leadership roles at GKN, a global industrial company, including positions as director of the Main Board of GKN, plc, and chairman and chief executive officer of GKN Sinter Metals, Inc. and Hoeganes Corporation. Earlier in his career, Mr. Ghasemi spent nearly 20 years with The BOC Group (the industrial gas company which is now part of Linde AG) in positions including director of the Main Board of BOC Group, plc; president of BOC Gases Americas; and chairman and chief executive officer of BOC Process Plants, Ltd. and Cryostar.
Mr. Ghasemi earned his undergraduate degree from Abadan Institute of Technology and holds an M.S. degree in mechanical engineering from Stanford University.
Susan Gilchrist
Group Chief Executive
Brunswick Group
Susan Gilchrist is Group Chief Executive of Brunswick Group, based in London. She leads the firm’s operations across 23 offices in 14 countries and remains actively involved advising clients on critical communications strategies and issues. Her work reflects the international scope and breadth of the firm’s offering and has included counseling clients on major crises, mergers and acquisitions, and ongoing corporate reputation building efforts. She has also held senior leadership positions with the firm in Europe and the United States, having served previously as US Managing Partner and Senior Partner for Brunswick’s London office.
Susan is regularly ranked among leaders in the field of communications and is frequently asked to speak at conferences and events. In 2015 she was appointed to the Board of the Arthur W. Page Society, has been included on PR Week’s Power List multiple times and is among Business Insider’s “25 Most Influential People in PR”. She has also served as a judge for the annual PR Week Awards in the US. Susan’s recent speaking engagements have included the Milken Institute Global Conference, Fortune’s Most Powerful Women (MPW) Summit, both in London and the US, the FT’s Business of Luxury Summit, and DLDwomen13, which is part of the global Digital Life Design community focused on convening leaders in innovation, digitization, science and culture.
Prior to joining Brunswick in 1995, Susan was the retail correspondent at The Times and worked as a management consultant at Bain & Company. She is a Founding Supporter in the US of the 30% Club, the group devoted to increasing gender balance across organizations and particularly in boardrooms. She is also Chairman of London’s Southbank Centre, the UK’s largest arts center. In 2014 she was awarded a fellowship by her alma mater, King’s College, London, and she has completed studies in leadership at Harvard Business School.
Daniel S. Glaser
President and CEO
Marsh & McLennan Companies
Alex Gorsky
Chairman and CEO
Johnson & Johnson
Alex Gorsky is Chairman of the Board and CEO of Johnson & Johnson. Johnson & Johnson is the world’s largest healthcare company, with its broad base extending from pharmaceuticals to medical devices to consumer products.
As chief executive, Mr. Gorsky has put the patient and consumer at the center of every strategy and rededicated the Company to Our Credo. Written over 70 years ago, this document defines the responsibilities and commitments of the Corporation, and is considered a model of corporate responsibility globally.
Alex is a member of the Board of Directors of IBM, the Congressional Medal of Honor Board of Directors and recently elected as a member of the Board of the National Academy Foundation. He was recently given the Joseph Wharton Leadership Award, as well as an Honorary Doctorate from Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia.
After graduation from the United States Military Academy, Alex served six years in the United States Army and later earned an EMBA from the University of Pennsylvania Wharton School.
CP Gurnani
Managing Director and CEO
Tech Mahindra
An accomplished business leader with extensive experience in international business development, start-ups and turnarounds, joint ventures, mergers and acquisitions, CP led Tech Mahindra’s transformation journey, and one of the biggest turnarounds of Indian Corporate History – the acquisition and merger of Satyam. His inimitable style of leadership, combined with his sharp focus on customer experience has helped Tech Mahindra emerge as one of the leading digital IT solution providers of India.
In a career spanning 32 years, CP has held several leading positions with HCL Hewlett Packard Limited, Perot Systems (India) Limited and HCL Corporation Ltd. An outstanding people’s manager, CP has an entrepreneurial style of management that is a blend of enthusiasm and dynamism. He tends to focus on people’s strengths to bring out the best in them. ‘Work hard and play hard’ is his motto and he applies it to all aspects of his life with complete passion.
A chemical engineering graduate from the National Institute of Technology, Rourkela, he is a distinguished and active alumnus of the Institute.
James Hagedorn
Chairman and CEO
The Scotts Miracle-Gro Company
Jim was named chairman of the Board of Directors in January 2003 and chief executive officer in May 2001. He served as president from May 2001 to December 2005 and from November 2006 to October 2008.
Jim was named senior vice president, Consumer Gardens Group, in 1995, the year Scotts merged with Stern’s Miracle-Gro Products, Inc. At Miracle-Gro, Jim had served as executive vice president and was a major architect of Miracle-Gro’s success both in the U.S. and in the UK. He was instrumental in the effective integration of the two businesses and served as head of the Company’s North America business.
He is a graduate of The Harvard Business School Advanced Management Program and holds a degree in aeronautical science from Embry Riddle Aeronautical University, where he is a member of the Board of Trustees.
Jim is member of the board of trustees at Embry Riddle Aeronautical University. In addition, he is associate trustee of the North Shore Hospital in Manhasset, N.Y.; chairman of the board for the Farms for City Kids Foundation, Inc. in Reading, Vt.; board member for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Foundation; and trustee at the Intrepid Foundation. Jim also served as co-chairman of the National Fund for the U.S. Botanic Garden in Washington, D.C.
Jim served in the United States Air Force for seven years, where he was a captain and an accomplished F-16 fighter pilot.
Jim continues to be passionate about flying, spending time with his new grandson, and he is rarely seen without one of his beloved German Shepherds, Max and Scout, in the office or in the air.
Tom Hayes
President and CEO
Tyson
A consumer products veteran with more than 30 years of experience, Tom Hayes leads 114,000 team members globally. Appointed to his role as CEO in 2016, Tom heads up one of the world’s largest food companies with leading brands that include Tyson®, Jimmy Dean®, Hillshire Farm®, Sara Lee®, Ball Park®, Wright®, Aidells®, ibp® and State Fair®. Prior to his current role, Tom led all operations and commercial functions as President of Tyson Foods. He previously held positions in the company as chief commercial officer, overseeing all North American sales, as well as president of foodservice. Tom came to Tyson Foods with the acquisition of The Hillshire Brands Company in 2014, where he held the position of chief supply chain officer responsible for operations, including procurement, manufacturing, food safety and quality, engineering and logistics. Previously, Tom was senior vice president and chief supply chain officer for Sara Lee North America, responsible for the company’s North American Retail and Foodservice businesses’ supply chain activities. Prior to this role, Tom was president of Sara Lee Foodservice. Before joining Sara Lee in 2006, Tom served as group vice president of US Foodservice, Inc., where he oversaw the turnaround needs of broad line distribution facilities in the Northeast. Tom has also held general management, sales and marketing roles at ConAgra Foods, The Fort James Corporation, Stella Foods and Kraft Foods. Tom is currently on the executive board of directors of the North American Meat Institute (NAMI) and the Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA). He has also served on the board of directors for the International Foodservice Manufacturers Association (IFMA). Tom earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in psychology from the University of New Hampshire and a Master of Business Administration degree from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management.
Gregory J. Hayes
Chairman and CEO
United Technologies Corp.
Hayes previously served for more than six years as the company’s Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. In this position, he played a critical strategic and operational role in reshaping the company’s portfolio to focus on its core aerospace and building systems businesses. During this time, UTC successfully acquired and integrated Goodrich Corporation and acquired a majority interest in the International Aero Engines (IAE) program, streamlined its Carrier business and fire and security portfolio, and divested more than $8 billion of non-core businesses.
Hayes came to UTC through the 1999 merger with Sundstrand Corporation, where he served in a number of leadership positions, and became UTC’s Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer in 2008. In this role, he also had responsibility for UTC’s Corporate Strategy group.
Hayes earned a bachelor’s degree in economics from Purdue University in 1982 and is a Certified Public Accountant. He also serves on the Board of Directors for Nucor Corporation (NYSE: NUE), the largest steel producer in the United States.
Tom Hayes
President
Tyson Foods, Inc.
Prior to his current position, Tom was chief commercial officer for Tyson Foods, overseeing all North American sales in addition to the foodservice prepared foods P&L. He also previously served as president of foodservice. Tom came to Tyson with acquisition of The Hillshire Brands Company, where he held the position of chief supply chain officer responsible for operations including procurement, manufacturing, food safety and quality, engineering and logistics.
Previously, Tom was senior vice president and chief supply chain officer for Sara Lee North America, responsible for the company’s North American Retail and Foodservice businesses’ supply chain activities. Prior to this role, Tom was president of Sara Lee Foodservice. Before joining Sara Lee in 2006, Tom served as group vice president of US Foodservice, Inc., where he oversaw the turnaround needs of broad line distribution facilities in the Northeast. A 29-year veteran of the consumer products industry, Tom has held general management, sales and marketing roles at ConAgra Foods, The Fort James Corporation, Stella Foods and Kraft Foods.
Tom has served on the executive committee of the board of the North American Meat Institute (NAMI) and the board of directors for the International Foodservice Manufacturers Association (IFMA). Tom earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in psychology from the University of New Hampshire and a Master of Business Administration degree from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management.
James B. Hebenstreit
Chairman and CEO
Bartlett and Company
Previously, with Commerce Bancshares (CBSH) for five years: Chief Financial Officer of Commerce and president of venture capital affiliate. And a director of Commerce now for over 25 years (currently Lead Director and Chairman of the Governance Committee, member of the Executive Committee and the Audit Committee). Earlier, with Butler Manufacturing Company for nine years: as Treasurer; later, president of startup subsidiary producing heat exchangers for solar energy applications. Served on several other business boards, primarily manufacturing companies.
Raised in Kansas City, MO; attended KCMO public schools. Graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Business School. Three years in the Navy (LT), Washington, DC. Presently, a Trustee of U.S. Navy Postgraduate School Foundation in Monterey, CA.
Lance Hockridge
Managing Director and CEO
Aurizon Holdings Limited
in a decade. He has guided the transition to private ownership and Aurizon’s listing as a top 50 ASX company after 145 years as a government owned and operated railway.
Lance has more than 30 years’ experience in the transportation and heavy industrial sectors in Australia and the United States with BHP and BlueScope Steel. At BHP Billiton Limited, Lance was a member of the leadership team that led BlueScope Steel’s successful demerger from BHP and subsequent listing on the ASX.
In 2005 Lance was appointed President of BlueScope Steel’s North American operations where he led a major turnaround in safety, production and financial performance.
From 2007 until 2010, he was Chief Executive Officer of QR Limited which was split to form Aurizon and the passenger-focussed Queensland Rail that has remained in government ownership.
David Holmberg
President and CEO
Highmark Health
Mr. Holmberg joined Highmark Inc. in 2007, serving in a series of executive positions. Most recently he was president, Diversified Businesses for Highmark Inc., where he was responsible for businesses representing more than $3.5 billion in revenue. He has also served as chief executive officer for HVHC Inc. and chief executive officer and chairman for HM Insurance Group, United Concordia Dental and San Antonio, Texas-based Visionworks, formerly Eye Care Centers of America (ECCA).
Mr. Holmberg is active in his community and supports several causes. He serves on the board of directors of the Allegheny Conference on Community Development and supports the Wounded Warriors Family Center, Children’s Medical Center of Dallas and the United Way. He is a Distinguished Alumni of the University of Texas at Dallas School of Management and a member of the University of Texas at Dallas School of Management Advisory Board.
Lisa A. Hook
President and CEO
Neustar
Mark S. Hoplamazian
President and CEO
Hyatt Hotels Corporation
Jo Ann C. Jenkins
CEO
AARP
Jo Ann C. Jenkins is CEO of AARP where she has established a new strategic direction and operating structure for AARP Foundation, focusing on change in four critical areas – hunger, income, housing, and isolation. She created Drive to End Hunger, a multi-year, nationwide campaign which has donated over 36 million meals and provides support to over 100 anti-hunger organizations across the country.
Ms. Jenkins began her career with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, later moving to the US. Department of Transportation and U.S. Department of Agriculture in a variety of leadership roles with increasing responsibility. Interlaced with her public service, she served in several private consulting firms, advising major corporations in their development and implementation of diversity and organizational strategy. In 1994 she was asked to join the Library of Congress as Chief of Staff, becoming its Chief Operating Officer in 2007. She led the development and launch of innovative initiatives that transformed the Library’s workforce into “knowledge navigators,” created the Library of Congress Experience, an interactive pathway offering access to the Library’s incomparable collections, and built strong, mutually-supportive relationships with private sector sponsors.
Today, Jenkins leads the world’s largest non-profit, nonpartisan membership organization, harnessing the power and passion of almost 2,000 staff members, 60,000 volunteers and numerous strategic partners.
Jo Ann Jenkins has held a variety of board and advisory positions including AARP Services, AARP Funds, Congressional Hunger Center, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, U.S. Small Business Administration Council on Underserved Communities, Living Cities, and Caring for Military Families. With expertise in talent and leadership development, organizational restructure, public affairs, philanthropy and marketing, she has been recognized as “Non-Profit Influencer of the Year” (2015), one of “ Washington’s Most Influential People” (2015 and 2016), “Non-Profit Times’ Power and Influence Top 50” (2013, 2014, 2015 and 2016), Peace Corps Director’s Award (2014) and Malcolm Baldrige Fellow (2013). Most recently she is the best-selling author of the book, “Disrupt Aging: A Bold New Path to Living Your Best Life at Every Age.”
After earning her Bachelor of Science degree from Spring Hill College in Mobile, AL, she graduated from the Stanford Graduate School of Business Executive Program. Jenkins also holds an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from both Spring Hill College and Washington College.
Donald L. Jernigan
President and CEO
Adventist Health System
Prior to his 2006 appointment to Adventist Health System as President/CEO, Dr. Jernigan served as President/CEO of Florida Hospital in Orlando for seven years. From 1992-1996, he served as executive vice president of Adventist Health System.
Dr. Jernigan has served as president of two other Adventist Health System hospitals, including Tennessee Christian Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee (1987-1992), and Metroplex Hospital in Killeen, Texas (1983-1985).
With a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Physical Chemistry in 1972 from Baylor University and a Bachelor of Science degree in chemistry from the University of Texas – Arlington in 1967, Dr. Jernigan served in higher education in the positions of professor, chemistry department chairman, vice president for academic affairs and executive vice president. Jernigan also served on active duty as an officer in the United States Navy.
John D. Johns
Chairman, President and CEO
Protective Life Corporation
Throughout his career, Mr. Johns has been actively engaged in community and philanthropic service. He has served as the Chairman of the Business Council of Alabama, the Birmingham Business Alliance, the McWane Science Center, the Greater Alabama Council, Boy Scouts of America and other community organizations. He is currently a member of the Board of Trustees of the University of Alabama System, and the corporate boards of Genuine Parts Corporation, Regions Financial Corporation and Alabama Power Company. He also currently serves as Chairman of the American Council of Life Insurers and serves on the Executive Committee of the Financial Services Roundtable in Washington, D.C.
Mr. Johns was awarded a B.A. degree from the University of Alabama in 1974. He also received a J.D. degree from Harvard Law School and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School, both in 1978.
Alan Joyce
CEO
Qantas Group
Alan Joyce has been Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director of the Qantas Group since November 2008.
In his time as CEO, he has overseen the biggest transformation of Qantas since it was privatised in 1995, including the turnaround and renewed growth of Qantas International, the expansion of Qantas and Jetstar throughout Asia, the diversification of the Qantas Loyalty business with new ventures, the renewal of the Group’s fleet with more than 150 new aircraft, and ongoing investment in lounges, technology and training. This transformation drove Qantas to the best financial performance in its 96-year history in 2016, together with record customer satisfaction and employee engagement.
Mr Joyce previously served as founding CEO of Jetstar for five years from October 2003, establishing its operations in Australia and Asia. Prior to his appointment at Jetstar, he spent over 15 years in key positions at Qantas, Ansett and Aer Lingus.
Between July 2012 and June 2013, Mr Joyce was Chairman of the International Air Transport Association.
He was named “Airline CEO of the Year” by CAPA Centre for Aviation in 2015 and has been recognised as one of the world’s most influential gay business leaders for two years running in the OUTstanding / Financial Times list of “Top 100 Leading LGBT Executives”. He is a Director of the Business Council of Australia and a member of the Male Champions of Change, among other roles in business and the community.
Thomas P. Joyce, Jr.
President and CEO
Danaher Corporation
Mr. Joyce has more than 20 years of Danaher leadership experience. Prior to his appointment as President and Chief Executive Officer, he served as Executive Vice President of Danaher Corporation, responsible for Danaher’s Water Quality platform and Life Sciences & Diagnostics segment. In this role, Mr. Joyce increased Danaher’s Water Quality revenue by over $1.5 billion and led the company’s major acquisitions of Beckman Coulter and AB SCIEX. Throughout his tenure, Mr. Joyce has also played a key role in developing and evolving the Danaher Business System, Danaher’s common operating philosophy.
Mr. Joyce began his Danaher career in 1989 as a Project Manager in the Danaher Tool Group, and later transitioned into a manufacturing role. In 1995, Mr. Joyce became President of Delta Consolidated Industries. Following this assignment, he became President of Hach Company, the world leader in analytical instrumentation for drinking water and wastewater applications in 2001. In 2002, Mr. Joyce became a Group Executive and Corporate Officer with Danaher Corporation, which led to his transition to Executive Vice President in 2006.
Prior to joining Danaher, Mr. Joyce worked as a management consultant at Andersen Consulting, where he worked with a large number of manufacturing businesses to implement lean tools and optimize transactional processes.
Rana Kapoor
Managing Director and CEO
YES BANK
Rana Kapoor received an Honorary Fellowship from All India Management Association (AIMA), Doctorate in Science (Honoris Causa) from G.B. Pant University of Agriculture & Technology, India’s foremost and oldest Agri University, for his contribution to the Food & Agribusiness sector in INDIA. He holds an MBA degree from Rutgers’ University in New Jersey, U.S.A. (1980), and a Bachelor’s degree in Economics (Honours) from theUniversity of Delhi (1977). He has also received the prestigious President’s Medal from Rutgers University.
In a span of 12 years, YES BANK has received significant national and global recognitions and accolades including the prestigious Bank of the Year, India Award 2015 from The Banker magazine, UK, IMC RBNQA Business Excellence Award, 2013, Best Midsized Bank for 2015, 2013, 2012, 2010, 2009 & 2008 in the Business Today-KPMG Best Banks Annual Survey. YES BANK was awarded the Best Bank (Mid-Size) by Businessworld
Rana Kapoor was recently felicitated as ‘The Leading Banker of the Decade’ by The Indian Chamber of Commerce (ICC). In May 2016, he was recognized by the London Business School India Business Forum for Exemplary Contribution to Innovation and Entrepreneurship, he was also adjudged the CEO of the Year at the Legal Era Awards and Best CSR Leadership Award (Gold) at the 8th Annual Global CSR Summit and Awards in Bali. He was also felicitated by the Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai for his exemplary contribution to fostering Entrepreneurship in India and by the Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode for his Exemplary Contribution to Financial Services. He was also felicitated by The Institute of Rural Management Anand (IRMA) for his “Exemplary Contribution to Agribusiness in Emerging Economies”. Mr. Kapoor was honored by the Goa Chamber of Commerce and Industry Outstanding contribution to the Growth and Welfare of the State of Goa. He was also honored for‘Contribution towards promoting India-Canada bilateral relations’ by The High Commission of Canada & The Indo-Canadian Business Chamber (ICBC). Mr. Kapoor was also presented the first ever ‘C Rangarajan Award for Excellence in Banking’ at the 38th SKOCH Summit. Mr. Kapoor was felicitated for Lifetime Contribution for Promotion of Indian Tourism by the Pacific Asian Travel Writers Association, ITB Berlin. Mr. Kapoor received the ‘Best Business Innovator’ award at the Asia Business Leadership Forum. He was recognized as ‘Visionary Business and Banking Leader’by NAREDCO, MCHI- CREDAI and FHRAI for his extraordinary contributions to Housing & Construction, Urban Infrastructure, Tourism and Hospitality sectors among others in 2014. He had earlier received The Asian Banker CEO Leadership Achievement Award for India, 2013. He has also received the 2013 Godfrey Phillips ‘National Special Social Award’ for actively driving the vision of Responsible Banking. He was acknowledged as the BS Banker of the Year 2011 by Business Standard, and received the Entrepreneur of the Year award at the Asia Pacific Entrepreneurship Awards 2011.Mr. Kapoor received the Indian Business Leader of the Year award at the FICCI-Horasis Global Indian Business Meeting 2010 in Spain,and was awarded the Start-up Entrepreneur of the Year 2005 at the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Awards.
Alex Karp
CEO
Palantir
Alex Karp is co-founder and CEO of Palantir. He has a Ph.D. from the University of Frankfurt and a Law Degree from Stanford. He resides in Palo Alto and is a practitioner of Chen-style Tai Chi.
Michael J. Kasbar
Chairman, President and CEO
World Fuel Services Corporation
Kasbar assumed his current role in 2012. Previously, he served as President and Chief Operating Officer, responsible for driving the company’s acquisition strategy and quest for operational excellence.
He joined World Fuel Services in 1995 as Director and Chief Executive Officer of the marine segment. Prior to joining the company, Kasbar and his partner, Paul Stebbins, co-founded Trans-Tec Services, Inc., a global marine fuel services company acquired by World Fuel Services in 1995.
Kasbar began his career in the energy industry in 1978 as a marine fuel broker in New York.
Kasbar received a bachelor’s degree in environmental science from the State University of New York at Plattsburgh. He currently serves as a member of the Business Roundtable.
Margaret Keane
President and CEO
Synchrony Financial
As President and Chief Executive Officer of Synchrony Financial, Margaret Keane brings with her a passion for emerging technology and employee development, both of which have solidified her reputation as a leader in the field. Margaret led the Retail Card platform at GE Capital as President and CEO beginning in 2004, later expanding her responsibilities to become President and CEO of GE’s North American retail finance business in 2011. In her 18 years at GE Capital, she held additional leadership roles spanning consumer finance, vendor financial services, operations and quality. She began her career at Citibank, where she provided leadership in Sales, Marketing and Operations over the course of 16 years. As a leader, Margaret is also known for championing her employees, having initiated several development programs at GE Capital and serving on the cabinet of the GE Women’s Network. She expanded the business focus on e-commerce and mobile capabilities, developing new tools for business clients and consumers alike. Margaret has been named one of American Banker’s “Top 25 Most Powerful Women in Finance” for 10 consecutive years, and named to Fortune’s “Businessperson of the Year” list in 2016 and Fortune’s “Most Powerful Women” list in 2016 and 2015. She serves on the Board of Directors for the Financial Services Roundtable and is also a member of the St. John’s University Board of Trustees, the National Multiple Sclerosis Society (CT Chapter) Board of Trustees and the buildOn National Board of Directors. Margaret earned an MBA in Marketing and a Bachelor’s degree in Government and Politics from St. John’s University.
Declan Kelly
Chairman and CEO
Teneo Holdings
Prior to Teneo, Mr. Kelly served as the U.S. Economic Envoy to Northern Ireland at the U.S. Department of State. Mr. Kelly was appointed Economic Envoy by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in September, 2009.
In his role as Economic Envoy, Mr. Kelly is recognized as having helped bring significant investment to the region from U.S. corporations. He also played a significant role in supporting the efforts that led to the historic devolution of policing and justice powers to the Northern Ireland Assembly, giving Northern Ireland fully devolved political governance for the first time in its modern history.
Prior to his government service Mr. Kelly served as Executive Vice President and Chief Integration Officer of FTI Consulting (FTI), one of the world’s leading international consulting companies. In his role at FTI, then a 3,500 person business with a market capitalization in excess of $2 billion, Mr. Kelly was responsible for the operational integration of the company’s various businesses in more than 20 countries around the world. He also had responsibility for corporate strategy, global business development, global client management and all of the company’s marketing and communications functions.
Christopher J. Klein
CEO
Fortune Brands Home & Security, Inc.
Chris joined Fortune Brands in April 2003 as Senior Vice President – Strategy and Corporate Development. Chris managed all merger and acquisition activity, corporate strategy development, capital allocation and human resources. During this period Chris worked with the CEO and the Board to refine the company’s strategy and reshaped the portfolio of businesses by leading 18 acquisitions and divestitures totaling over $10 billion.
Prior to joining Fortune Brands, Chris held key strategy and operating positions at Bank One Corporation, as an Executive Vice President. He also spent eight years at the consulting firm McKinsey & Company, where he was a Principle in the Firm’s Chicago office and counseled clients on strategy, branding, distribution and merger integration issues. Prior to McKinsey, Chris spent his early career in commercial banking.
Chris graduated from the University of Iowa with a Bachelor of Business Administration and earned his Masters of Management, with distinction, from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management.
Sarah Krevans
President and CEO
Sutter Health
As a young adult, Ms. Krevans held entry-level jobs in care facilities for frail older people and patients with severe mental illness—experiences that profoundly influenced her career choices. Believing the American health system was in disrepair, she embarked on a path in health care administration, earning master’s degrees in business administration and public health from the University of California, Berkeley, after receiving a bachelor’s degree from Boston University.
At 29, she was appointed acting director of Medicaid, health planning and licensure programs for the state of Maine after serving as deputy director of the state’s Bureau of Medical Services.
Ms. Krevans returned to California in 1987 to join Kaiser Permanente, where she held increasingly responsible positions, including senior vice president and area manager of Kaiser’s Valley Service Area. In this role, she oversaw health plan and hospital operations across a six-county area with more than a half-million members.
Mary Laschinger
Chairman of the Board and CEO
Veritiv Corporation
Previously, Ms. Laschinger served as Senior Vice President of International Paper Company from 2007 to June 2014, and as President of the xpedx distribution business from January 2010 to June 2014. Ms. Laschinger also served as President of the Europe, Middle East, Africa and Russia business at International Paper; Vice President and General Manager of International Paper’s Wood Products and Pulp businesses, as well as in other senior management roles in sales, marketing, manufacturing and supply chain at International Paper.
Prior to joining International Paper in 1992, Ms. Laschinger held various positions in product management and distribution at James River Corporation and Kimberly-Clark Corporation. Ms. Laschinger is a member of the Board of Directors for Kellogg Company, where she serves on the Compensation & Development and Nominating & Governance Committees. She also serves on the Executive Committee of the Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce, and is a former lead Director of Ilim Group, Russia’s largest pulp and paper company.
Ms. Laschinger holds a bachelor’s degree in business from the University of Wisconsin and an MBA from the University of Connecticut. Ms. Laschinger has also completed postgraduate studies in executive management at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.
Donald H. Layton
CEO and Director
Freddie Mac
Layton has nearly 40 years of experience in financial services and as a corporate leader. He worked for nearly 30 years at JPMorgan Chase and its predecessors, starting as a trainee and rising to vice chairman and member of the three-person Office of the Chairman. In his career at JPMorgan Chase, Layton’s responsibilities spanned capital markets and investment banking, consumer banking, and operating services. More recently, from 2007 to 2009 he served as chairman and then CEO of E*TRADE Financial, which he successfully shepherded through the financial crisis.
Layton has been a member of the boards of several financial services firms and a senior adviser to a financial industry association.
Richard I. Lesser
President and CEO
The Boston Consulting Group
Rich Lesser has served as president and chief executive officer of The Boston Consulting Group since January 2013. Rich has also served on BCG’s Executive Committee since 2006.
In his role, Rich has continued BCG’s global expansion, including the opening of eight new offices since early 2013 and enhancement of new capabilities in large-scale change, big data, and digital transformation (BCG now has 85 offices in 48 countries). In January 2014, under Rich’s leadership, BCG launched BCG Digital Ventures, an innovation, product development, and commercialization business that partners with clients to rapidly create and advance digital products and platforms.
Previously, Rich served as BCG’s chairman for North and South America from 2009 to 2012 and as head of the New York Metro office system from 2000 to 2009. He is also a member of the BCG Henderson Institute’s Innovation Sounding Board, which is dedicated to supporting, inspiring, and guiding upstream innovation at BCG.
Since joining BCG in 1988, Rich’s client work has focused on innovation, strategy, and large-scale transformation in the health care and consumer sectors. This includes major successes in redirecting corporate and business unit objectives, improving R&D effectiveness, streamlining organizations, boosting productivity, and managing postmerger integration.
Rich frequently speaks on emerging markets, digital transformation, and the global economy at international executive gatherings, including the World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland. He is a member of several leading organizations, such as the World Economic Forum’s International Business Council, the Wall Street Journal CEO Council, and the Business Roundtable.
In 2013, Rich coedited the BCG book Own the Future: 50 Ways to Win from The Boston Consulting Group, in celebration of BCG’s 50th anniversary.
Prior to joining BCG, Rich worked in product development at Procter & Gamble.
William Lewis
CEO
Dow Jones & Company
William Lewis was appointed Chief Executive Officer of Dow Jones and Publisher of The Wall Street Journal in May 2014. He previously served as Chief Creative Officer for News Corp, the parent company of Dow Jones, where he was responsible for the company’s creative strategy and developing new commercial opportunities.
Prior to joining News Corp, Mr. Lewis served as Editor-in-Chief of Telegraph Media Group, which he joined in 2005. Under his editorship, The Daily Telegraph was named UK Newspaper of the Year in the 2010 British Press Awards. This followed the paper’s exposure of the parliamentary expenses scandal. Mr. Lewis was also named Journalist of the Year. Mr. Lewis led the team that designed and ran The Telegraph’s acclaimed newsroom, organizing the paper’s move from its previous premises.
In 1990, Mr. Lewis graduated from Bristol University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Politics & Economics and completed a postgraduate degree in Periodical Journalism at City University the following year.
In July 2010, he was awarded an Honorary Degree of Doctor of Laws from Bristol University and in September 2010 was made Doctor of Letters by the University of Lincoln.
Robert A. Livingston
President and CEO
Dover Corporation
He joined Dover in 1983 when the company acquired K&L Microwave, Inc., where he was serving as Vice President of Finance. Mr. Livingston advanced throughout the Company to positions in finance and operations across Dover’s diversified businesses, including as an operating company president and as segment Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Livingston was elected to his current position in and to the Dover Corporation Board of Directors in 2008.
Mr. Livingston‘s passion for leadership development led to his creating the Dover Executive Leverage and Leadership Academy, a key internal program focused on growing and advancing management talent within Dover.
Mr. Livingston serves on the board of directors of the Museum of Science & Industry, Northwestern Memorial HealthCare, National Association of Manufacturers, Chicago Council of Global Affairs and the Executives Club. He is active in the Economic Club as board member and vice chair of programs and The Commercial Club’s Civic Committee.
George Logothetis
Chairman and CEO
Libra Group
George joined his family’s shipping company in 1993, becoming CEO in 1994 at the age of 19. In the ensuing years he presided over the company’s transformation from three to 55 vessels before creating the Libra Group in 2003.
The group’s educational and philanthropic initiatives include the Hellenic Entrepreneurship Award – a $10 million commitment to provide funding and mentoring for start-up businesses in Greece, and the Libra Internship Program, supporting over 100 young people annually.
George and his wife, Nitzia, founded the Seleni Institute, a New York-based non-profit that addresses women’s maternal mental health. They live in New York and have three children.
Peter S. Lowy
Co-CEO
Westfield Corporation
Peter Lowy is an executive Director of Westfield Corporation and currently serves as Co-Chief Executive Officer. He holds a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of NSW. Prior to joining Westfield in 1983, Mr Lowy worked in investment banking both in London and New York. Mr. Lowy serves as Chairman of the Homeland Security Advisory Council for Los Angeles county; he also serves on the RAND Corporation Executive Committee and Board of Trustees, the Executive Committee of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and is a Director of the Lowy Institute for International Policy. Prior to the establishment of Westfield Corporation, Mr Lowy was the Joint Managing Director of the Westfield Group from 1997.
Rob Lynch
Interim President and CEO
VSP Global
Rob Lynch is the interim president and CEO of VSP Global. Rob joined VSP as president and CEO in 2006 and remained in the role until 2015 when he retired but continued as a member of the VSP Global Board of Directors. In early 2017, upon the departure of his successor, Rob returned to the role of president and CEO, serving as an interim leader until a replacement is hired. During his initial tenure with VSP, Rob led the global expansion of the company, which resulted in a $4 billion multi-faceted enterprise that operates in 100 countries on six continents and consists of five complementary businesses. These businesses include not-for-profit VSP Vision Care, the largest vision benefits and services company with 84 million members globally and a network of 38,000 eye doctors in several countries including the U.S., Australia, and Ireland; Marchon Eyewear Inc., one of the world’s largest manufacturers and distributors of quality eyewear and sun wear; Eyefinity, an industry leader in practice management and EHR software solutions; VSP Optics, creator of custom lens solutions and a lab network that spans the country; and VSP Omni-Channel Solutions, which focuses on business practices that enhance the consumer experience, strengthening the connection between patients and their independent eye doctors. Rob was, and is, responsible for driving and overseeing the VSP Global vision to provide affordable, accessible, high-quality eye care to the world. Prior to joining VSP, Rob worked in the insurance industry, in human resources consulting and the employee benefits industry. Rob joined VSP from Buck Consultants, an ACS Company, where he was Managing Director and Chief Operating Officer. A champion of greater access to eye care, Rob advocates for healthcare reform issues and meets regularly with state and federal elected officials and government appointees to help shape and influence public policy as it relates to eye care and health. He received the 2011 Most Influential in Specialty Health Award by the National Association of Specialty Health Organizations and was named 2012 Businessman of the Year by the Sacramento Metro Chamber. Rob was also the founding chairman of the Greater Sacramento Area Economic Council.
ELIE MAALOUF
CEO, The Americas
IHG
Elie Maalouf is CEO of The Americas at InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG). He is based at IHG’s regional headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia. Elie leads the management, growth and profitability of the company’s largest operating region. IHG has a broad portfolio of hotel brands including InterContinental® Hotels & Resorts, Kimpton® Hotels & Restaurants, HUALUXE® Hotels and Resorts, Crowne Plaza® Hotels & Resorts, Hotel Indigo®, EVEN® Hotels, Holiday Inn® Hotels & Resorts, Holiday Inn Express®, Staybridge Suites® and Candlewood Suites®. Elie is responsible for overseeing more than 3,900 hotels and resorts, spanning the United States, Canada, Mexico, Central and South America and the Caribbean. Prior to joining IHG, Elie was Senior Advisor with McKinsey & Company from 2012 to 2014. Previously, Elie was with HMSHost Corporation for nearly 15 years, most recently as President and CEO. Before HMSHost, Elie spent eight years at Weyerhaeuser Real Estate Company. Elie is a member of the Global Advisory Council at the University of Virginia Darden School of Business and a member of the Atlanta Committee for Progress. He is active in organizations that support and promote the travel and hospitality industries as a member of the American Hotel & Lodging Association Board Executive Committee and the U.S. Travel Association CEO Roundtable. He was also appointed to the Investment Advisory Council of the U.S. Department of Commerce. Elie holds an MBA from the University of Virginia Darden School of Business and a bachelor’s degree in engineering from Virginia Tech.
William Mansfield
President and CEO
MUFG Securities Americas Inc.
Prior to MUFG, Mr. Mansfield held leadership positions at Rabobank International, where he was Head of Global Financial Markets (GFM) Americas and CEO of Rabo Securities USA, Inc. In these roles Mr. Mansfield was also a member of the Global Management Team for GFM and a member of the North American Management Team for Rabobank International. He has over 30 years’ experience across a number of multi-national financial institutions.
A graduate of University of Missouri-Columbia, Mr. Mansfield holds series 7, 24 79 and 63 securities licenses.
Gracia C. Martore
President and CEO
TEGNA
Martore joined Gannett in 1985 as assistant treasurer. She became a vice president in the Treasury group in 1993 and added investor relations duties in 1995. She was named treasurer and vice president, investor relations in 1998. She was promoted to senior vice president of finance in addition to her treasurer’s responsibilities in 2001. In 2003, Martore became senior vice president and chief financial officer and was appointed to Gannett’s Management Committee. In 2005, Martore became executive vice president and CFO. In 2010, she was named president and chief operating officer and was named president and Chief Executive Officer on Oct. 6, 2011. Prior to joining Gannett, she worked for 12 years in the banking industry.
Martore has won numerous business and industry honors for her leadership. In 2012, 2013 and 2014, she was named one of the “50 Most Powerful Women in Business” by Fortune Magazine. Following her selection as Gannett’s CEO in 2011, Martore was cited by Forbes in a review of the world’s most powerful women and, in 2012, she was named to Forbes’ “100 Most Powerful Women” list. Martore also was named on Variety’s Women’s Impact List 2013 and one of Washington’s 100 Most Powerful Women by Washingtonian Magazine. Institutional Investor magazine named Martore one of the best CFOs in America and ranked her the Best CFO in America in the publishing and advertising agencies category for three years in a row (2004-2006). The Washington Post also named Martore one of the top 10 female executives at major companies in the Washington region. In 2006 she was named CFO of the Year by Virginia Business.
Martore serves on the board of directors of TEGNA Inc., The Associated Press, FM Global and WestRock Company. In October 2014, she was elected to the Board of Trustees for The Paley Center for Media.
Martore is a graduate of Wellesley College with a double major in history and political science. While there, she was named a Wellesley Scholar for academic excellence.
MARUYAMA MASAHIRO
President and CEO
The Mainichi Newspapers
Masahiro Maruyama assumed the position of Chief Executive Officer and President of The Mainichi Newspapers in June 2016. Founded in 1872, The Mainichi Shimbun is the longest-running newspaper in Japan, marking its 145th anniversary on February 21, 2017. Moreover, The Mainichi Shimbun has received Japan’s most prestigious newspaper prize, The Japan Newspaper Publishers & Editors Association (NSK) Award, 28 times, a record surpassed by none other in the industry. The newspaper is also the only Japanese media outlet to have been awarded the U.S. Pulitzer Prize. After graduating from Waseda University, Maruyama joined The Mainichi Newspapers in April 1979. He had a long stint as a correspondent, starting his career at the Niigata Bureau. Upon returning to Tokyo, he joined the Political News Department, where his friendly and forthright personality won over the most difficult-to-please of politicians, enabling him to scoop his rivals time and again. In 2006, he assumed the position of Managing Editor, Political News Department, where he forged long-standing relationships with a host of politicians, primarily members of the governing Liberal Democratic Party. In addition to such frontline roles, he has also engaged in a wide range of administrative tasks in support of management, including around procurement and property, contract management, real estate business, public relations, and labor/general affairs. Prior to stepping up as President, he took on broad-themed future-shaping challenges in his role as Managing Director for editorial affairs, in which he aspired to integrate conventional and digital media, and as Managing Director for Olympics/Paralympics, in which he worked on a range of initiatives aimed at achieving a cohesive society in 2020. Since taking office as President, he has advocated courageous reforms through a hands-on approach, visiting different organizations within the company to motivate and encourage employees through face-to-face conversations.
Michael J. Massey
President and CEO
PetSmart, Inc.
Michael J. Massey is president and chief executive officer of PetSmart, a position he has held since March 2015. Mr. Massey also serves on the Board of Directors of Office Depot.
Prior to his most recent appointment, Mr. Massey served as chief executive officer and president of Collective Brands, Inc. from June 2011 to October 2012, as general counsel and secretary from March 2003 to October 2012 and as senior vice president from March 2003 to June 2011.
From 1996 to 2003, Mr. Massey served as chairman of Payless ShoeSource’s international joint ventures, as well as other executive roles at Collective Brands. Prior to Collective Brands, Inc., he was at The May Department Stores Company from 1990 to 1996.
Mr. Massey has been married to his wife, Lori, for more than 25 years and is the father of three children. Additionally, he is a pet parent to three dogs: Rocky “The Wonderdog,” a Bichon Frisé; Darby, a Shih-Poo; and a Golden Retriever named Daisy.
Mr. Massey graduated from Indiana University Bloomington with a Bachelor of Arts in History and French. He received his Doctor of Law from Washington University School of Law in St. Louis.
Timothy J. Mayopoulos
President and CEO
Fannie Mae
Timothy J. Mayopoulos is Fannie Mae’s President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO), and a member of the company’s Board of Directors.
Mr. Mayopoulos joined Fannie Mae shortly after it was placed in conservatorship during the financial crisis, and he has played an integral role in the successful recovery of the company. As President and CEO, Mr. Mayopoulos is focused on sustaining Fannie Mae’s efforts to support the U.S. mortgage market and on driving the company’s contributions to creating a better housing finance system for the future. Under his leadership, Fannie Mae has made great strides in transferring credit risk to private capital to better protect taxpayers. Fannie Mae is committed to serving its customers and the market with solutions that promote sustainable homeownership. The company is creating new tools – and enhancing its existing foundational resources – to support lenders. Fannie Mae has also continued to play a major role in providing mortgage credit, assisting troubled homeowners, building a strong new book of business, and paying taxpayers for their investment in the company. As of September 30, 2016, Fannie Mae has paid dividends of $151.4 billion to the U.S. Treasury on its investment in the company.
Mr. Mayopoulos brings more than 25 years of experience to his leadership post. He joined Fannie Mae in April 2009 as Executive Vice President, General Counsel, and Corporate Secretary, and in 2010 he was appointed Chief Administrative Officer. Prior to joining Fannie Mae, Mr. Mayopoulos was Executive Vice President and General Counsel of Bank of America Corporation. Previously, he served in senior management roles at Deutsche Bank AG, Credit Suisse First Boston, and Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette, Inc. He is a graduate of Cornell University and the New York University School of Law. Mr. Mayopoulos serves on the Board of Directors of Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), a technology and engineering company based in McLean, Virginia.
John McAvoy
Chairman and CEO
Con Edison, Inc.
Mr. McAvoy joined Con Edison in 1980, and has served in positions of increasing responsibility. In his last post, he served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Orange and Rockland Utilities, Inc., a Consolidated Edison, Inc. subsidiary that operates utility companies in New York and New Jersey.
Prior to his leadership of Orange & Rockland Utilities, Inc., Mr. McAvoy served as Senior Vice President of Central Operations. His responsibilities included oversight of the electric transmission system, more than 100 substations in and around New York City, the company’s primary control center, engineering and construction activities, electric and steam generating plants, and the world’s largest steam system.
Mr. McAvoy serves on the board of directors of Consolidated Edison Inc., the American Gas Association, Edison Electric Institute, the Partnership for New York City, The New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA), and The Mayor’s Fund to Advance New York City. He also serves on the board of trustees of the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum.
Terry D. McCallister
Chairman and CEO
WGL Holdings, Inc. and Washington Gas
Daniel J. McCarthy
President and CEO
Frontier Communications
He earned a Bachelor’s degree from the State University of New York Maritime College at Fort Schuyler and an M.B.A. from the University of Phoenix.
Mr. McCarthy serves as a Trustee of The Committee for Economic Development of the Conference Board and of Sacred Heart University in Fairfield, Connecticut. He is a member of the Board of Directors of Danbury Hospital and a member of the Business Roundtable.
Mr. McCarthy is a member of the Board of Directors of Constellation Brands, Inc.
Bill McDermott
CEO
SAP SE
Under Bill’s leadership, in 2014 SAP unveiled a strategy to help businesses of all sizes “Run simple.” The company has placed an unrivaled focus on delivering a beautiful user experience and has built the industry’s most comprehensive portfolio of solutions in the SAP Cloud powered by SAP HANA.
A personal champion of customer centricity, Bill and former Co-CEO Jim Hagemann Snabe are credited with leading the reinvention of SAP in the era of mobility, cloud computing, advanced analytics, next-generation business applications and in-memory technology. Since 2010, this innovation-led strategy has resulted in expansive increases in customers, total revenue, market value and profitable growth. With a 99% approval rating from employees, Bill and Jim were ranked #2 on Glassdoor.com’s listing of the world’s top 50 CEOs in 2013.
Bill has more than three decades of experience in business technology. He joined SAP in 2002 to lead the business in North America and has steadily risen to his current role as chief executive officer. Before joining SAP he served in senior executive roles with Siebel Systems and Gartner, Inc. He launched his business career at Xerox Corporation, where he rose to become the company’s youngest corporate officer and division president.
Karl McDonnell
CEO
Strayer Education, Inc.
Karl joined Strayer Education in 2006 as Chief Operating Officer before taking on the larger role of CEO in May of 2013. Prior to his role at Strayer, Karl served as Vice President of the Investment Banking Division at Goldman, Sachs & Co. and held senior management positions with several Fortune 100 companies, including The Walt Disney Company. He holds a bachelor’s degree in political science and American history from Virginia Wesleyan College and an MBA from Duke University.
Tom McGee
President and CEO
ICSC
Tom McGee is the President and CEO of ICSC. ICSC serves the global retail real estate industry by providing its 70,000+ member network in over 100 countries with invaluable resources, connections and industry insights, while actively working together to shape public policy. Tom believes that retail real estate is central to economic development and opportunity and plays an integral role in the economic, social and civic vibrancy of communities across the globe. Prior to joining ICSC, McGee served as Vice Chairman of Deloitte, LLP, one of the largest professional services firms in the United States. During his 26 years with Deloitte, Tom held major global and U.S. leadership roles, including, among others, Vice Chairman, Deputy CEO, National Managing Partner of M&A Services and Global Chief of Staff. He has also been a member of Deloitte’s Global and US Executive and Operational Leadership Committees. A noted business speaker, Tom has significant media experience, with frequent appearances on CNBC, Bloomberg and Fox Business and is frequently quoted in national media outlets including The Wall Street Journal, USA Today and CFO Magazine. He also authors monthly posts for Forbes.com. Tom is a member of the Wall Street Journal CEO Council, as well as the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Committee of 100 and the Leadership Board for its Center for Capital Markets Competitiveness. He is also active in numerous civic, charitable, and academic organizations. He is the Chairman of Covenant House International, and member of the board of the New York Catholic Foundation and Oak Knoll School, as well as the Finance Council of the Archdiocese of New York, and the Board of Regents of Loyola Marymount University, his alma mater.
Jim McGrann
President and CEO
VSP Global
A catalyst for change within VSP, McGrann has led key company initiatives, expanding insurance offerings to new international markets, and increasing revenue. During his more than three years as president of VSP Vision Care, the nation’s largest vision insurance provider, McGrann oversaw the growth of membership from 56 million to 75 million. McGrann focused on leveraging technology to support business operations, including: web-based sales force automation, SAP implementation, development of a centralized European Distribution Center and implementing IT governance and program management best practices. Before serving as president, McGrann was Chief Technology Officer for VSP Global and CEO of Eyefinity.
As VSP’s new leader, McGrann will usher the company into a new era, reimagining how eye care and eyewear are delivered to serve the needs of people around the world.
Richard P. McKenney
President and CEO
Unum Group
McKenney served as executive vice president and chief financial officer for Unum Group from 2009 to 2015, where he was responsible for overall financial management of the company, including financial reporting, treasury and capital management, strategic planning and mergers and acquisitions, investments, financial planning, investor relations, and enterprise risk management. He became president in April 2015 and assumed the role of CEO in May of the same year.
He also chaired Unum’s Operating Committee, which oversees the company’s business operations throughout the U.S. and U.K.
Prior to joining Unum in 2009, McKenney was executive vice president and chief financial officer of Sun Life Financial, Inc., an international financial services company based in Toronto.
In 2004 he became CFO of Genworth Financial as part of the team that launched its initial public offering from GE.
Manoj Menda
Corporate Chairman
RMZ Corp
Manoj Menda is the firm’s Co-Owner, Co-Founder and Corporate Chairman. He oversees the company’s activities, including strategy development, capital allocation, portfolio management and growth, as well as partnership development. He serves on the Investment and Advisory Committees of all RMZ private fund programs.
Founder and Trustee of RMZ Foundation whose vision is to actively contribute to the social and economic development of the communities in which we operate.
Manoj Menda is an Industry Partner at World Economic Forum playing an active role in the South Asian Regional Business Council, GAC on Shaping the Future of Urban Development and Services as well as the Council on Shaping the Future of Construction. He is also a member of Global Real Estate Institute and is on the board of India Advisory Council.
Larry Merlo
President and CEO
CVS Health
Larry Merlo is President and Chief Executive Officer of CVS Health, a pharmacy innovation company that is at the forefront of a changing health care environment. The company, with net annual revenues of $153 billion, touches more than 100 million people each year through its unique combination of assets, including 9,600 retail pharmacies, more than 1,100 walk-in medical clinics, a leading pharmacy benefits manager with nearly 80 million plan members, a comprehensive provider of pharmacy services to long-term care facilities, and expanding specialty pharmacy services.
Under Merlo’s leadership, the company is transforming health care by delivering breakthrough products and services that enable people, businesses and communities to manage health in more affordable, effective ways. As part of this deep commitment to public health, in 2014 the company announced the landmark decision to be the first major retail pharmacy to eliminate tobacco sales in all of its stores. To reflect this broader health care commitment, the company subsequently changed its corporate name to CVS Health.
Merlo, a pharmacist by education, joined CVS Pharmacy in 1990 through the company’s acquisition of Peoples Drug. Prior to assuming the role of President and CEO in 2011, Merlo held positions of increasing responsibility, most recently President of CVS Pharmacy. Under his leadership, the company completed some of the most successful acquisitions in the history of retail pharmacy and delivered significant organic growth in major markets across the country.
Merlo currently serves on the Board of the National Association of Chain Drug Stores (NACDS) and the University of Pittsburgh’s Board of Trustees. He is also a member of the Business Roundtable.
He is a graduate of the University of Pittsburgh School of Pharmacy.
Shunichi Miyanaga
President and CEO
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
Shunichi Miyanaga is the President and CEO of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI), one of the largest manufacturing and engineering companies in the world, with over 80,000 employees worldwide, consolidated sales of around 38 billion U.S. dollars, and businesses ranging from commercial aviation and transportation to gas turbines and power plants, and from industrial machinery and infrastructure to integrated defense and space systems.
Mr. Miyanaga began his career with MHI in 1972. During over forty years with the company, he has held numerous management roles and has spent his career promoting global marketing, engineering, and manufacturing efficiencies and customer-focused service strategies.
Between 2000 and 2006, Mr. Miyanaga served as President and CEO of Mitsubishi-Hitachi Metals Machinery, Inc., where he led the successful integration of two organizations and helped to fully realize the synergies and advantages of the joint venture.
Mr. Miyanaga has been a member of the MHI Board of Directors since 2008, and in 2011, he was appointed Senior Executive Vice President and Head of the Presidential Administration Office. During this time, he led various management reforms and also spearheaded a business integration initiative which resulted in the formation of Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems, Ltd.
Mr. Miyanaga was named President and CEO of MHI on April 1, 2013. He has been serving as a non-executive board member of Mitsubishi Motors Corporation since June 2014. Since June 2, 2015, he has also assumed vice chairmanship of the Japan Business Federation (“Keidanren”).
Mr. Miyanaga was born in 1948 in Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan. He holds a degree from the Faculty of Law of the University of Tokyo and an MBA degree from the graduate business program at the University of Chicago (now the Booth School of Business). Mr. Miyanaga and his wife have two daughters.
Alex Molinaroli
Chairman, President and CEO
Johnson Controls, Inc.
He joined the company in 1983 and prior to his current position, he served as president of the Power Solutions business, a role he held from 2007-2013. Molinaroli was elected a corporate officer in 2004 and held positions of increasing levels of responsibility in a wide range of areas within the Building Efficiency business.
Molinaroli earned a Bachelor of Science in computer and electrical engineering from the University of South Carolina and a Master of Business Administration from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.
He serves on the Board of Regents for the Milwaukee School of Engineering and is a Board member of Interstate Batteries. He is a founding member of the Electrification Coalition.
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Steve Mollenkopf
CEO
Qualcomm Incorporated
Steve Mollenkopf is chief executive officer of Qualcomm Incorporated. Mollenkopf began his Qualcomm career as an engineer and, for more than 20 years, has helped define and implement Qualcomm’s strategy and technologies. He also serves on the company’s board of directors.
Mollenkopf oversaw Qualcomm’s investment in technologies that propelled smartphones into the mainstream. During his tenure as president and chief operating officer, Qualcomm became a leader in mobile technology, including computing, graphics and multimedia. The Company also extended its 3G and 4G modem leadership position.
Prior to his role as president and COO, Mollenkopf led the Company’s chipset business, overseeing the launch of 4G technology. He helped make Qualcomm the world’s largest mobile chipset supplier and a global leader in LTE technology. He guided QCT through the worldwide expansion of Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) technology; the introduction of Wideband Code Division Multiple Access (W-CDMA) technology; the launch of 4G/LTE systems; and drove Qualcomm’s technology leadership position in smartphones.
He also spearheaded the Company’s largest acquisition, the $3.1 billion purchase of chipmaker Atheros. The deal helped expand Qualcomm’s business far beyond smartphones, and accelerated the adoption of Qualcomm’s technologies and platforms in new segments.
Mollenkopf is a published IEEE author and holds seven patents in areas such as power estimation and measurement, multi-standard transmitters, and wireless communication transceiver technology. Mollenkopf serves as chairman of the Global Semiconductor Alliance and as a member of the Board of Directors for the Semiconductor Industry Association.
He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering from Virginia Tech and a Master of Science degree in electrical engineering from the University of Michigan.
Matt Moynahan
CEO
Forcepoint
Matt Moynahan is the chief executive officer for Forcepoint. He joined in 2016, bringing more than twenty years of security, cloud services and technology industry leadership, ranging from product development to sales to general management. Throughout his career, Moynahan has been steeped in nearly every facet of security, including digital rights management, encryption, application security, network security, web and email security, and insider threat.
Under Moynahan’s leadership, Forcepoint launched a bold new approach to cybersecurity, centered upon enabling customers to focus on what matters most: understanding people’s behaviors and intent as they interact with critical data and IP wherever it resides. Moynahan also championed Forcepoint’s acquisition of the Skyfence CASB (cloud application security broker) business, furthering the company’s ability to protect data anywhere, including within cloud applications.
Before joining Forcepoint, he held a series of senior leadership positions, most recently as president of Arbor Networks. During his tenure, Arbor Networks gained a leading share in the distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) market, launched the world’s foremost cloud-based DDoS service and successfully moved into the Advanced Threat Detection (ATD) market. Prior to Arbor Networks, he was the founding president and CEO of Veracode, the leading cloud-based application security services provider acquired by Computer Associates in March 2016. Previous to Veracode, Moynahan served as vice president of Symantec’s Client & Host Security and Consumer Products & Solutions divisions, leading the latter to $2 billion in annual revenue.
Moynahan holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from Williams College and a Master of Business Administration degree from Harvard Business School. He currently serves on the board of directors of Care to Compete, a nonprofit organization supporting athletes with brain damage and chronic traumatic encephalopathy, and is a member of the Big Brothers Big Sisters program.
Deanna M. Mulligan
President and CEO
The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America
Ms. Mulligan was named Chief Executive Officer in July 2011 and previously served as President and Chief Operating Officer since 2010. She joined Guardian in 2008 as Executive Vice President in charge of the company’s Individual Life & Disability business. In this role, she was responsible for developing and leading Guardian’s product and business strategy to drive the company’s continued growth in these markets.
Ms. Mulligan’s background is in both strategy consulting and operational management. She founded DMM Management Solutions, LLC, a life insurance consultancy, and was a Principal at McKinsey and Company. While at McKinsey she also served as co-leader of the North American Life Insurance Practice and was a member of the firm’s Organizational Performance Practice. Ms. Mulligan has held senior positions at AXA Financial, New York Life Insurance Company, and ChannelPoint, a technology enterprise, throughout her career.
Active across the industry and in the community, she currently serves as a Director on the Boards of the American Council of Life Insurers (ACLI) and Arch Capital Group Ltd., a Bermuda public limited liability company. She is also a Board member of the Partnership for New York City and Committee Encouraging Corporate Philanthropy (CECP). In March 2014, she was appointed a member of the President’s Advisory Council on Financial Capability for Young Americans.
In 2013, FORTUNE named her one of the “50 Most Powerful Women in Business” and Crain’s New York Business recognized her as one of “The 50 Most Powerful Women in New York.”
She graduated from the University of Nebraska with High Distinction and holds an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Oscar Munoz
CEO
United Airlines
this position deep and broad experience in both the transportation
industry and large consumer brands.
Previously, Oscar served as president and chief operating officer of
CSX Corporation, a premier freight transportation company. He also
served as a director at CSX. During his tenure, CSX transformed itself
into an industry leader in customer focus, reliability and financial
performance. CSX was named one of Institutional Investor’s Most
Honored Companies for a decade of excellent financial performance,
including increasing its operating income by nearly 600%.
Additionally, Oscar served in various financial and strategic capacities at
some of the world’s most recognized consumer brands, including AT&T,
Coca-Cola Enterprises, and PepsiCo. Before joining CSX, Oscar held
the position of chief financial officer and vice president of consumer
services at AT&T Corporation. Prior to joining AT&T, he served as
senior vice president of finance and administration for U.S. West,
regional vice president of finance and administration for Coca-Cola
Enterprises and held various financial positions at PepsiCo.
Oscar has served on the board of directors for United Continental
Holdings, Inc. since 2010 and served on the board of directors of
Continental Airlines, Inc. since 2004. He is active in several industry
coalitions and philanthropic and educational organizations including the
University of North Florida’s Board of Trustees and the PAFA advisory
board of Vanderbilt University.
Oscar graduated from the University of Southern California with a B.S.
in business administration, and he received an MBA from Pepperdine
University. He has been named one of the “100 Most Inf
Rupert Murdoch
Executive Chairman
21st Century Fox and News Corp
In 1954 Mr. Murdoch took control of News Limited. Since then Mr. Murdoch drove the expansion and development of the company by acquiring and launching media properties around the world.
Mr. Murdoch has been awarded the Companion of the Order of Australia (A.C.) for services to the media and to newspaper publishing.
Eileen K. Murray
Co-CEO
Bridgewater Associates
Eileen joined Morgan Stanley in 1984, serving as Controller, Treasurer, and Chief Operating Officer for the Institutional Securities Group. In 2002 she joined Credit Suisse, becoming the first female member of its Executive Board. In 2005 she returned to Morgan Stanley as Executive and Management Committee member. She joined Bridgewater in 2009.
Eileen was elected a Governor of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) in 2016. In 2013, The Hedge Fund Journal named her one of its “50 Leading Women in Hedge Funds.” She is on the board of the Irish Arts Center and has been on the boards of the YMCA of Greater New York, Argonne National Laboratory, OMEGO, Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation and of Manhattan College, her alma mater, which awarded her an Honorary Doctorate in 2015.
Albert H. Nahmad
Chairman of the Board, President and CEO
Watsco, Inc.
Albert H. Nahmad Chairman of the Board, President and Chief Executive Officer Watsco, Inc. Albert H. Nahmad has served as Watsco’s Chairman of the Board, President and Chief Executive Officer since December 1973. At the beginning of Mr. Nahmad’s tenure, Watsco was an HVAC manufacturer with revenues of $5 million and a market capitalization of less than $5 million. Under his strategic leadership, Watsco has become the largest distributor of air conditioning, heating and refrigeration products in the HVAC/R distribution industry with revenues of over $4.25 billion and a market capitalization of more than $5.0 billion.
Mr. Nahmad has helped Watsco build its success with a conservative, long-term growth strategy and an entrepreneurial spirit. The Company is now the industry leader and operates from more than 570 locations in the United States, Canada, Mexico and Puerto Rico, with additional market coverage on an export basis to Latin America and the Caribbean.
Watsco is the only publicly-traded distributor in its industry. The Company’s Common stock is traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol WSO.
Watsco is part of the “Fortune 1000” list of the largest American companies and the “Forbes Platinum 400” list of America’s best big companies. The Company was included on Forbes’ list of “100 Most Trustworthy Companies” in 2010 for having the most transparent and conservative accounting practices and most prudent management.
In recent years Mr. Nahmad has focused the Company on the movement toward reducing energy consumption and its environmental impact. Watsco offers consumers the greatest opportunity to conserve energy by providing energy-efficient and environmentally friendly solutions that improve indoor living and working environments.
Mr. Nahmad holds an M.S. in Industrial Administration from Purdue University and a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of New Mexico. He maintains an active role in a number of charitable organizations in South Florida.
Pierre Nanterme
Chairman and CEO
Accenture
Prior to becoming CEO in January 2011, Mr. Nanterme was group chief executive of Accenture’s Financial Services operating group. He has also served as Accenture’s chief leadership officer and as Accenture’s country managing director for France.
Mr. Nanterme represents Accenture in a number of external venues including the World Economic Forum’s International Business Council and its IT Governors Steering Committee, the Wall Street Journal’s CEO Council and the B20 Summit.
Mr. Nanterme joined Accenture in 1983 and became a partner in 1993. He holds a master of science degree in management from ESSEC Business School (École Supérieure des Sciences Économiques et Commerciales) in Paris.
Christopher J. Nassetta
President and CEO
Hilton Worldwide
Previously, Mr. Nassetta was President and Chief Executive Officer of Host Hotels & Resorts, Inc., a position he held since 2000. He joined Host Hotels & Resorts, Inc. in 1995 as Executive Vice President and was elected Chief Operating Officer in 1997.
Before joining Host Hotels & Resorts, Inc., Mr. Nassetta co-founded Bailey Capital Corporation in 1991, where he was responsible for the operations of the real estate investment and advisory firm. Prior to founding Bailey Capital Corporation, he spent seven years at The Oliver Carr Company, ultimately serving as Chief Development Officer. In this role, he was responsible for all development and related activities for one of the largest commercial real estate companies in the mid-Atlantic region.
Mr. Nassetta graduated from the University of Virginia McIntire School of Commerce with a degree in finance. He currently serves on the McIntire School of Commerce Advisory Board.
C.L. Max Nikias
President
University of Southern California
During his tenure as president, USC is emerging as a global research university with an undisputed academically-elite status, due to a number of strategic initiatives that include: recruiting a cadre of transformative, world-class faculty and accelerating the expansion of the university’s academic medical enterprise; broadening USC’s international presence; dramatically improving the breadth and quality of its outstanding student body; improving the university’s infrastructure, including the development of the USC Village; and aggressively advancing the largest fundraising campaign in the history of higher education.
Dr. Nikias writes and speaks frequently about a range of nationally significant topics, including the value of—and access to—higher education; the current state and future of online education; the continued importance of the arts and humanities; the art of leadership through the classics; and the role of elite research universities, particularly as economic drivers.
Dr. Nikias is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a charter fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI), an associate member of the Academy of Athens, and a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Among numerous other honors, he has received the IEEE Simon Ramo Medal, an Academic Leadership Award from Carnegie Corporation of New York, the Ellis Island Medal of Honor, the Woodrow Wilson Award for Public Service, UNICEF’s Spirit of Compassion Award, the State University of New York at Buffalo’s Distinguished Alumni Award, and honorary doctorates from his alma mater, the National Technical University of Athens; Hebrew Union College – Jewish Institute of Religion; University of Cyprus; University of Crete; and University of Piraeus.
As president, Dr. Nikias announced a $6 billion fundraising campaign, which—at the time of its launch—was the largest in the history of higher education. USC’s campaign has already surpassed the $5.4 billion mark. Five of its gifts exceeded $100 million, 33 exceeded $25 million, and 64 percent of the total money raised came from non-alumni of the university. In the past four years, USC has consistently ranked in the top three among universities, along with Stanford and Harvard, in cash charitable donations. In recognition of the campaign’s success, The Chronicle of Higher Education has called Dr. Nikias a “prodigious fundraiser.”
Under Dr. Nikias’ leadership, the university is advancing a major capital construction program that already includes Wallis Annenberg Hall, the Michelson Center for Convergent Bioscience, Dauterive Hall, Fertitta Hall, the Kaufman International Dance Center, the McKay Center, Uytengsu Aquatics Center, the Engemann Student Health Center, a new Cinematic Arts building, and the University Club at Stoops, as well as the Soto Building, Currie Residential Hall, and Norris Consultation Center on the Health Sciences Campus, and beautification projects for both of USC’s campuses. In addition, construction has continued apace on the USC Village, a 1.3 million square-foot center of student residential colleges that is entirely reimagining the university’s landscape.
In recognition of his efforts to renew USC’s athletics heritage, The New York Times selected Dr. Nikias as one of a small number of national figures “who make sports’ little corner of the world a better place.”
Dr. Nikias is recognized internationally for his pioneering research on digital signal processing, digital media systems, and biomedicine. The U.S. Department of Defense has adopted a number of his innovations and patents in sonar, radar, and communication systems. He has authored more than 275 journal articles and conference papers, three textbooks, and eight patents, and has mentored more than 30 Ph.D. and postdoctoral scholars. Three of his publications received prestigious best papers awards.
Dr. Nikias received a diploma from the National Technical University of Athens, also known as National Metsovion Polytechnic, the oldest and most prestigious higher education institution of Greece, and later earned his M.S. and Ph.D. from the State University of New York at Buffalo. His wife, Niki C. Nikias, received a bachelor’s degree in accounting from the Athens University of Economics and Business in Greece and a master’s degree in business administration with a specialization in finance from the State University of New York at Buffalo. The USC Alumni Association named Dr. and Mrs. Nikias honorary alumni of USC. They have two daughters, both of whom are graduates of USC.
Raymond Nolte
Chief Investment Officer and Managing Partner
SkyBridge
Ray Nolte is the chief investment officer and managing partner of SkyBridge. He is also Chairman of the Manager Selection and Portfolio Allocation Committees. Prior to SkyBridge’s acquisition of the Hedge Fund Management Group of Citigroup Alternative Investment, LLC (CAI) in June 2010, Mr. Nolte served as chief executive officer and chief investment officer of the Group as well as chairman of its Investment Committee. Earlier, Mr. Nolte worked at Deutsche Bank, where he served as the global head and CIO of the DB Absolute Return Strategies (ARS) Fund of Funds business, chairman of its investment committee and vice chairman of DB ARS and head of the Single Manager Hedge Fund business. Mr. Nolte started his career at Bankers Trust Company in 1983 and was named head of Global Portfolio Management in 1994. He launched the bank’s Fund of Funds group in 1996. Mr. Nolte received his B.B.A. in Finance from George Washington University.
Indra K. Nooyi
Chairman and CEO
PepsiCo
Indra Nooyi is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of PepsiCo. In its global food and beverage portfolio, PepsiCo has 22 brands that generate more than $1 billion each in annual retail sales. PepsiCo’s main businesses include Quaker, Tropicana, Gatorade, Frito-Lay and Pepsi-Cola. With more than $63 billion in annual net revenue, PepsiCo makes hundreds of enjoyable foods and beverages that are loved throughout the world.
Mrs. Nooyi is the chief architect of Performance with Purpose, PepsiCo’s promise to do what’s right for the business by doing what’s right for people and the planet. It’s the company’s commitment to sustained growth with a focus on Performance, Human, Environmental and Talent Sustainability.
Mrs. Nooyi was named President and CEO on October 1, 2006 and assumed the role of Chairman on May 2, 2007. She has directed the company’s global strategy for more than a decade and led its restructuring, including the divestiture of its restaurants into the successful YUM! Brands, Inc., the acquisition of Tropicana and the merger with Quaker Oats that brought the vital Quaker and Gatorade businesses to PepsiCo, the merger with PepsiCo’s anchor bottlers, and the acquisition of Wimm-Bill-Dann, the largest international acquisition in PepsiCo’s history.
Prior to becoming CEO, Mrs. Nooyi served as President and Chief Financial Officer beginning in 2001, when she was also named to PepsiCo’s Board of Directors. In this position, she was responsible for PepsiCo’s corporate functions, including finance, strategy, business process optimization, corporate platforms and innovation, procurement, investor relations and information technology. Between February 2000 and April 2001, Mrs. Nooyi was Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of PepsiCo. Mrs. Nooyi also served as PepsiCo’s Senior Vice President, Corporate Strategy and Development from 1996 until 2000, and as PepsiCo’s Senior Vice President, Strategic Planning from 1994 until 1996.
Before joining PepsiCo in 1994, Mrs. Nooyi spent four years as Senior Vice President of Strategy and Strategic Marketing for Asea Brown Boveri, a Zurich-based industrials company. She was part of the top management team responsible for the company’s U.S. business as well as its worldwide industrial businesses, representing about $10 billion of ABB’s $30 billion in global sales.
Between 1986 and 1990, Mrs. Nooyi worked for Motorola, where she was Vice President and Director of Corporate Strategy and Planning, having joined the company as the business development executive for its automotive and industrial electronic group. Prior to Motorola, she spent six years directing international corporate strategy projects at The Boston Consulting Group. Her clients ranged from textiles and consumer goods companies to retailers and specialty chemicals producers. Mrs. Nooyi began her career in India, where she held product manager positions at Johnson & Johnson and at Mettur Beardsell, Ltd., a textile firm.
In addition to being a member of the PepsiCo Board of Directors, Mrs. Nooyi serves as a member of the boards of U.S.-India Business Council, The Consumer Goods Forum, Catalyst, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts and Tsinghua University. She is also a member of the Foundation Board of the World Economic Forum, the American Academy of Arts & Sciences and was appointed to the U.S.-India CEO Forum by the Obama Administration.
She holds a B.S. from Madras Christian College, an M.B.A. from the Indian Institute of Management in Calcutta and a Master of Public and Private Management from Yale University. Mrs. Nooyi is married and has two daughters
Gary Norcross
President and CEO
FIS
John Noseworthy
President and CEO
Mayo Clinic
Dr. John H. Noseworthy is president and chief executive officer of Mayo Clinic, a not-for-profit organization operating in six states that is dedicated to medical care, research and education. Every year, more than a million people from all 50 states and nearly 150 countries come to Mayo Clinic for care. Prior to his current appointment, Dr. Noseworthy served as chair of Mayo Clinic’s Department of Neurology, medical director of the Department of Development, and vice chair of the Mayo Clinic Rochester Executive Board. During his tenure as CEO, Dr. Noseworthy and his leadership team have created a strategic plan designed to ensure that Mayo Clinic remains a trusted resource for patients amid a rapidly changing health care environment – extending Mayo’s mission to new populations, providing care through more efficient delivery models, and increasing the personalization and immediacy of health care for all people. Examples of new initiatives include a proton beam cancer therapy program with two treatment centers – one in Phoenix and one in Rochester, Minn. – and development of a Mayo Clinic-affiliate network of high-quality medical practices throughout the country. Dr. Noseworthy is a professor in the Department of Neurology. He specializes in multiple sclerosis and has spent more than two decades designing and conducting controlled clinical trials with generous support from the Medical Research Council of Canada, the Multiple Sclerosis Society of Canada, the National Multiple Sclerosis Society (USA) and the National Institutes of Health. Dr. Noseworthy also is the author of more than 150 research papers, chapters, editorials and several books, including the three-volume textbook Neurological Therapeutics: Principles and Practice now in its second edition. He also served as editor-in-chief for Neurology, the official journal of the American Academy of Neurology. Born in Melrose, Mass., Dr. Noseworthy received the M.D. degree from Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. He completed his neurology training at Dalhousie University and the University of Western Ontario, and a research fellowship at Harvard Medical School. He joined Mayo Clinic in 1990. He has received the Alumnus of the Year award from Dalhousie University (2005) and an honorary director of science degree from the University of Western Ontario (2012). He is a Health Governor of the World Economic Forum.
James Park
Co-Founder and CEO
Fitbit
Christina Paxson
President
Brown University
President Paxson worked with students, faculty and staff to develop Building on Distinction, a 10-year strategic plan launched in 2014 that is shaping the growth and progress of a University committed to addressing the defining challenges of the 21st century.
Key priorities of her presidency include cultivating collaboration and entrepreneurship among teacher-scholars and students; creating engaged learning programs that integrate teaching with community-based research and real-world experiences; and expanding financial aid.
In the fourth year of her presidency, President Paxson led a campus-wide effort to create more just, diverse and inclusive communities in support of Brown’s mission, releasing Pathways to Diversity and Inclusion: An Action Plan for Brown University in February 2016.
Prior to her appointment at Brown, President Paxson was dean of the Woodrow Wilson School of International and Public Affairs and the Hughes Rogers Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at Princeton University.
A nationally recognized leader in higher education, respected economist and public health expert, President Paxson is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. In January 2016, the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston named Paxson to its board of directors. President Paxson is a 1982 honors graduate of Swarthmore College, and earned her graduate degrees in economics at Columbia University (M.A., 1985; Ph.D., 1987).
Paul Perreault
CEO and Managing Director
CSL Limited
Before serving as CEO & Managing Director, Mr. Perreault’s most recent role was President of CSL Behring. He was responsible for overseeing operations in more than 25 countries, including major manufacturing sites in the United States, Switzerland, Germany and Australia, and an extensive network of plasma collection centers throughout North America and Europe.
Prior to becoming President of CSL Behring, Mr. Perreault was Executive Vice President, Worldwide Commercial Operations with responsibility for all commercial and business development activities globally. He joined CSL Behring in 2004 when CSL Limited acquired Aventis Behring.
Mr. Perreault held several executive positions at Aventis Behring including Vice President and General Manager of Plasma Operations at Aventis Bio-Services, and Vice President and General Manager for Aventis Behring Hospital Products in North America and Puerto Rico. Prior to this, he spent 16 years in key senior roles at Wyeth-Ayerst Laboratories, now owned by Pfizer. Mr. Perreault has more than 30 years’ experience in the global healthcare industry.
Mr. Perreault holds a bachelor’s degree in psychology from the University of Central Florida and completed advanced business management training at the Kellogg and Wharton schools of business. He is also a member of The Wall Street Journal Council.
The CSL Limited group of companies is comprised of CSL Behring, CSL Plasma and, Seqirus.
Stefano Pessina
Executive Vice Chairman and CEO
Walgreens Boots Alliance
Born in Italy, Stefano graduated in nuclear engineering from the Milan Polytechnic, before starting his career in academia and later enlisting with market research firm ACNielsen in Milan. In the mid-1970’s, he joined his family’s local pharmaceutical wholesale business. Stefano re-structured the family company and then acquired a number of other small pharmaceutical wholesale businesses to create Alleanza Farmaceutica in 1977, which later became Alleanza Salute Italia. By 1985, he was overseeing Italy’s leading pharmaceutical wholesaler.
In 1988, Stefano expanded his business into several Southern European countries through mergers, acquisitions and partnerships. The Alliance Santé Group was born in 1991 through these acquisitions and an innovative merger with some French wholesalers. This was to be the springboard for further international expansion.
In 1998, Alliance Santé merged with the UK business UniChem to form the Alliance UniChem Plc, of which Stefano was Chief Executive Officer until 2004, before taking on the role of Executive Deputy Chairman. In just a few years, he developed Alliance UniChem from a primarily pharmaceutical wholesaler with a presence in a few countries into a pan-European leader with two core businesses, pharmaceutical wholesale and retail pharmacy with a presence in more than 12 countries.
In 2006, Stefano orchestrated the merger of Alliance UniChem Plc with Boots Group PLC to form Alliance Boots plc. In 2007, he created AB Acquisitions Limited (a company jointly controlled by Stefano Pessina and certain funds advised by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts) and subsequently acquired and privatized Alliance Boots plc.
In August 2012, Alliance Boots announced that it had entered into a strategic partnership with Walgreens, one of the largest drugstore chains in the USA. At this time, Walgreens acquired a 45 percent equity stake in Alliance Boots.
Subsequently in December 2014, Alliance Boots and Walgreens fully merged to create Walgreens Boots Alliance. The new Company brings together two leading companies with iconic brands, complementary geographic footprints, shared values and a heritage of trusted health care services through pharmaceutical wholesaling and community pharmacy care, dating back more than 100 years.
Walgreens Boots Alliance employs more than 370,000* people and has a presence in more than 25* countries; it is the largest retail pharmacy, health and daily living destination in the USA and Europe. Including its equity method investments, Walgreens Boots Alliance is a global leader in pharmacy-led, health and wellbeing retail with over 13,100* stores in 11* countries. The Company includes one of the largest global pharmaceutical wholesale and distribution networks with over 350* distribution centers delivering to more than 200,000** pharmacies, doctors, health centers and hospitals each year in 19* countries. Its portfolio of retail and business brands includes Walgreens, Duane Reade, Boots and Alliance Healthcare, as well as increasingly global health and beauty product brands such as No7, Botanics, Liz Earle and Soap & Glory.
In October 2015, the Company announced the acquisition of Rite Aid, the third biggest pharmacy chain in the USA, with 4,600 pharmacies and 89,000 employees. The acquisition for US$ 17.2 billion, through an all-cash transaction, is currently undergoing the required stages of approval from regulatory authorities.
Walgreens Boots Alliance has an innovative long term partnership with AmerisourceBergen, one of the largest global pharmaceutical sourcing and distribution services companies in which Walgreens Boots Alliance owns 23.9%. This relationship enables the two companies to benefit from greater scale and global opportunities.
Stefano serves on the Board of Directors of Walgreens Boots Alliance, as well as on the Board of Directors of Galenica (a Swiss pharmaceuticals and logistics group) and the Consumer Goods Forum (a global, parity-based industry network). He is also the largest shareholder of Walgreens Boots Alliance. Stefano is recognized as a driving force in the healthcare industry and has received a number of awards and distinctions for his contribution to the sector.
* As at 31 August 2015 (without subsequent adjustment for business acquisitions or dispositions), including equity method investments
**For 12 months ended 31 August 2015 (without subsequent adjustment for business acquisitions or dispositions), including equity method investments.
Douglas L. Peterson
President and CEO
S&P; Global
Previously, Mr. Peterson was the Chief Operating Officer of Citibank, N.A., Citigroup’s principal banking entity that operates in more than 100 countries. Mr. Peterson was with Citigroup for 26 years, during which time he transformed businesses and drove performance in investment and corporate banking, brokerage, asset management, private equity, and retail banking. His prior roles include CEO of Citigroup Japan, Country Manager for Costa Rica and Uruguay, and Chief Auditor of Citigroup.
Mr. Peterson is co-chairman of the World Economic Forum’s Global Strategic Infrastructure Initiative. He serves on the Boards of Directors of McGraw Hill Financial, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation’s Systemic Resolution Advisory Committee, the Institute of International Finance’s Market Monitoring Group, the Boards of Advisors of Wharton Financial Institutions Center, the Partnership for New York City and the Kravis Leadership Institute, and the Boards of Trustees of Claremont McKenna College and the Paul Taylor Dance Company.
Mr. Peterson received an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and an undergraduate degree in mathematics and history at Claremont McKenna College.
C. Michael Petters
President and CEO
Huntington Ingalls Industries, Inc.
Petters assumed this role on March 31, 2011, when Northrop Grumman Shipbuilding began operating as the newly formed and publicly owned Huntington Ingalls Industries in a spin-off from Northrop Grumman Corp. He is also a member of the HII board of directors.
Petters is responsible for leading the design, construction and overhaul of conventionally powered surface combatants, amphibious and auxiliary ships, and nuclear-powered submarines and aircraft carriers, as well as business opportunities in adjacent markets. Prior to this appointment and since 2008, Petters served as president of Northrop Grumman Shipbuilding. Previous to this, he served as president of Northrop Grumman’s Newport News sector.
Petters joined Newport News Shipbuilding in 1987 in the Los Angeles-class submarine construction division. He held a number of increasingly responsible positions throughout the organization, including production supervisor for submarines, marketing manager for submarines and carriers, vice president of aircraft carrier programs, vice president of contracts and pricing, and vice president of human resources.
A native of Florida, Petters earned a bachelor’s degree in physics from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1982, served aboard the nuclear-powered submarine USS George Bancroft and spent five years in the U.S. Naval Reserve. In 1993, he earned a master’s degree in business administration from the College of William and Mary.
Petters serves on the Commonwealth of Virginia’s Advisory Council on Revenue Estimates and is vice chairman of the Virginia Business Council. He also serves on the board of directors for the U.S. Naval Academy Foundation and the National Bureau of Asian Research; on the board of trustees of the Naval Aviation Museum Foundation; on the distinguished advisory board for the Dolphin Scholarship Foundation; and on the advisory council for the Naval Historical Foundation.
Huntington Ingalls Industries designs, builds and maintains nuclear and non-nuclear ships for the U.S. Navy and Coast Guard and provides after-market services for military ships around the globe. For more than a century, HII has built more ships in more ship classes than any other U.S. naval shipbuilder at its Newport News Shipbuilding and Ingalls Shipbuilding divisions. Employing more than 38,000 in Virginia, Mississippi, Louisiana and California, HII also provides a wide variety of products and services to the commercial energy industry and other government customers, including the Department of Energy. For more information, visit: www.huntingtoningalls.com.
Nicholas T. Pinchuk
Chairman and CEO
Snap-on Incorporated
Mr. Pinchuk was named president and chief operating officer in April 2007, when he was also appointed to Snap-on’s board. He was elected chief executive officer in December 2007 and subsequently chairman in April 2009. He joined Snap-on in 2002 as senior vice president and president of Snap-on’s Worldwide Commercial and Industrial Group.
Before Snap-on, Mr. Pinchuk was president, global refrigeration operations, a multi-billion dollar business unit of Carrier Corporation, a subsidiary of United Technologies Corporation. Prior to that, he served in executive, operational, planning and financial capacities within Carrier and United Technologies, including: president, Asia-Pacific air conditioning operations; global vice president, strategic planning; and chief financial officer, Carrier International Corporation. Before joining United Technologies, he was with the Ford Motor Company, where he held various financial and engineering positions. He also served in Vietnam as an officer in the United States Army.
Mr. Pinchuk received an M.B.A. from Harvard, and master and bachelor of science degrees in engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He currently serves on the board of directors of Columbus McKinnon Corporation; on the Senior Advisory Board, Syracuse University School of Management; on the board of directors for the National Association of Manufacturers; on the Board of Trustees of the Manufacturer’s Alliance for Productivity and Innovation; on the Board of Trustees of Carthage College; and a member of the Advisory Board for Skills for America’s Future.
Snap-on Incorporated is a leading global innovator, manufacturer and marketer of tools, equipment, diagnostics, repair information and systems solutions for professional users. Products and services include hand and power tools, tool storage, diagnostics software, information and management systems, shop equipment and other solutions for vehicle dealerships and repair centers, as well as customers in critical industries, including government, aviation, natural resources and power generation. Products and services are sold through the company’s franchisee, company-direct, distributor and Internet channels. Founded in 1920, Snap-on is a $2.9 billion, S&P 500 company headquartered in Kenosha, Wisconsin.
Anne R. Pramaggiore
President and CEO
ComEd
Pramaggiore joined ComEd in 1998 to work on the company’s transition to competitive energy markets under the Illinois Consumer Choice Law of 1997. In her role as ComEd’s lead lawyer and as head of Regulatory Policy, she led major policy work around the restructuring of the Illinois electric industry.
In 2009, Pramaggiore was appointed as ComEd’s COO and became responsible for overseeing day-to-day operations on the electric grid and in customer operations. In that role, she led the company’s effort to set the legislative framework for ComEd’s smart grid build-out, a leading model nationally for modernizing one of the largest utility systems in the country.
Pramaggiore was promoted to her current position in February 2012. She is the first female to hold the post of president and CEO at the electric utility.
Pramaggiore serves as a board member of Chicago Federal Reserve Board, Motorola Solutions, Inc., Babcock and Wilcox Enterprises and several civic and community organizations.
She is a 1989 graduate of DePaul University School of Law and served as editor-in-chief of the school’s Law Review. She has a bachelor’s degree in Communications and Theater from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.
Anthony Pratt
Executive Chairman
Visy Industries
Pratt Industries employs 4000 people in the USA and a further 5500 in Australasia. Group sales exceed $US3 billion. Pratt has been named Australia’s leading company for environmental performance four times since 2000.
Anthony graduated from Monash University, Melbourne, with a Bachelor of Economics (Hons) in 1983. After graduation he joined the consulting firm of McKinsey & Co, before joining Visy.
In 1991 he moved to the United States to spearhead the family’s business expansion into America, where he built Pratt Industries USA into a billion-dollar company which now employs more US citizens than any other Australian company.
In 2007 he made a commitment at President Clinton’s Global Initiative in New York City to invest $1 billion in clean energy and recycling infrastructure over the next 10 years.
Anthony is firmly committed to environmental causes, and he and the company have been honored by environmental leaders such as former Vice President Al Gore, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, Ted Turner, the Climate Group and Global Green for spreading the word that recycling is an important weapon against climate change.
Anthony also sits on the National Board of the Muhammad Ali Museum and Education Center in Louisville, Kentucky, and is active in numerous charity organizations throughout the US and Australia.
Lawrence B. Prior III
President and CEO
CSRA
Lawrence B. Prior III is President and Chief Executive Officer of CSRA, a leading next-gen IT professional services provider for the federal government. Larry has a deep passion for serving the federal government and is committed to helping them solve their most critical challenges using modern and forward-looking technology. With more than 30 years of public and private sector experience, Larry uses his extensive background in the intelligence, security, technology and defense markets to cast the strategic direction for CSRA.
Larry has held executive leadership positions at ManTech International, SAIC, LightPointe Communications, High Technology Solutions, the County of San Diego and TRW. Earlier in his career, he served on the staff of the House Committee on Intelligence. He also served as an intelligence officer in the U.S. Marine Corps, gaining extensive Russian expertise.
Larry serves on the Board of Directors for the National Defense Industrial Association, Professional Services Council, AFCEA, and the National Intelligence University Foundation.
Joel Quadracci
Chairman, President and CEO
Quad/Graphics
In addition to Quad, Joel also serves on the boards of: Pixability, Inc.; Wisconsin’s Children’s Hospital and Health System; Milwaukee Art Museum; Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce; Skidmore College; and Amazon Center for Environmental Education and Research.
Joel also is a member of the Greater Milwaukee Committee, a private-sector civic organization whose mission is to contribute to the cultural and economic base of the Milwaukee metropolitan area; and The Milwaukee 7, a regional economic development initiative.
A graduate of Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, New York, Joel holds a bachelor’s degree in philosophy.
Thomas Quinlan III
Chairman and CEO
LSC Communications
Thomas Quinlan is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Chicago-based R.R. Donnelley & Sons Company, the largest provider of printing and communication business services in the world, with over 65,000 employees, annual revenues of over $10 billion, and more than 600 locations around the globe.
Mr. Quinlan, 53, joined RR Donnelley in February, 2004, and in 2006 became Group President, Global Services and Chief Financial Officer. From 2004 to 2006, he served RR Donnelley as Executive Vice President, Operations, with primary responsibility for the integration of RR Donnelley and Moore Wallace. Previously, at Moore Wallace from 2000 to 2004, Mr. Quinlan served variously as Executive Vice President, Operations; Executive Vice President, Business Integration; Executive Vice President, Office of the Chief Executive and Treasurer. From 1994 until 1999, at World Color Press, Inc., Mr. Quinlan served in various finance capacities, including as Senior Vice President and Treasurer. He has previous finance experience at Walter Industries, Marsh & McLennan and Kidder Peabody.
Mr. Quinlan holds an MBA in finance from St. John’s University, which recognized him with its Outstanding Alumni Achievement Medal in 2010, and a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from Pace University, which conferred upon him an honorary doctorate in Commercial Science and presented him with its 46th Leaders in Management Award in 2009. The Advisory Board of New York University’s Graphic Communications Management and Technology Program chose Mr. Quinlan to receive its 2011 Prism Award, which recognizes distinguished leadership in the graphic communications media industry.
Mr. Quinlan is active in supporting organizations that focus on literacy, health and development and serves on the Board of Trustees for Pace University, YMCA of Greater New York, and Curry College. In 2011 Mr. Quinlan received AJC’s National Human Relations Award, which honors professional and philanthropic leadership.
Karan Rai
Founder and CEO
ASGARD Partners & Co.
Karan Rai is founder and Chief Executive Officer of ASGARD Partners & Co. ASGARD is an advisory & Investment firm focused on middle market companies. Mr. Rai manages the firm, chairs the investment committee, and oversees all phases of the firm’s growth strategy.
Mr. Rai also currently serves as the Chief Executive Officer of Theodor Wille Intertrade (TWI). TWI is a multinational company that provides a range of supply chain solutions for U.S. Government agencies and the prime contractors who support them. Previously, He was the President of ADS, Inc., a leading provider of logistics and supply chain solutions, serving all branches of the Department of Defense and certain Federal Agencies. At ADS, Mr. Rai led the company’s turnaround efforts and helped grow ADS into a $1.5+ billion dollar global organization.
Prior to joining ADS, Mr Rai was with JPMorgan’s Investment Banking Group in New York, where he originated and structured over 50 deals during his tenure. He earned an MBA with a concentration in Finance and Strategy from Yale University’s School of Management.
Karan resides in Manhattan with his wife and his two sons. He is an avid aviator and an instrument rated pilot with over 500 hours of flight time.
Shri D Rajkumar
Chairman and Managing Director
Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd
An Engineer from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Madras and a Post Graduate Diploma in Business Management (PGDM) from the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Bangalore, Shri. Rajkumar took over the reins of Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd, a Fortune Global 500 Company with a significant presence in the entire hydrocarbon value chain, as Chairman & Managing Director in October 2016.
As Managing Director of Bharat PetroResources Ltd. (BPRL), a wholly owned subsidiary of BPCL, Shri Rajkumar propelled BPRL into a fully recognised Exploration & Production Company of international standards. He has been a force to reckon with in the Upstream Business, spearheading BPCL’s foray into exploration and production of oil and gas since 2006. The phenomenal growth and development of BPRL bears testimony to the stellar role that he has played in enhancing the net worth of the Company. BPRL, today has world class discoveries in Mozambique and Brazil, and with the acquisition of Russian assets, the company has been transformed into a revenue generating entity, creating significant value for BPCL.
During his illustrious career spanning over 3 decades, Mr. Rajkumar has held a number of responsible positions in Engineering & Projects in several capacities across India. Among his noteworthy achievements was his pivotal role in the design and implementation of two major cross-country pipelines of BPCL – the Mumbai-Manmad Pipeline and the Cochin-Coimbatore-Karur Pipeline. He also enjoyed a stint as the Managing Director of Petronet CCK Ltd.
A perfectionist to the core, Shri Rajkumar has close to 15 years of Board experience. He serves on a number of Government Committees, and Joint Working Groups established by the Government. He was also a member of a Committee on the Indian National Standards which set up standards and guidelines for engineering practices.
Nitin Rakesh
Executive Director and CEO
Mphasis
Nitin Rakesh is a pioneer financial technologist and people leader with an unfailing ability to combine technology prowess with exceptional business insights. His entrepreneurial spirit, coupled with his trademark customer-first and lean startup philosophy, has led to the development and launch of disruptive new service offerings, consistent upgradation and accelerated growth trajectory of all the organizations he has served.
In the first 100 days of taking on the mantle as the CEO of Mphasis, Nitin has launched Mphasis X2C2 TM formula for success, (shift anything to cloud and power everything with cognitive); driving five dimensions of business value with an integrated consumer-centric Front to Back Digital Transformation, enabling Business Operations and Technology Transformation.
Prior to joining Mphasis, Nitin was the Chief Executive Officer and President of Syntel (a NASDAQ listed IT Services Company); where he established a track record of delivering profitable growth at industry leading operating margins. In the very first year as CEO, Nitin led the company to a 14 per cent annual revenue increase, accompanied by expanded geographic reach. He also developed and launched new service offerings such as, Syntel’s innovative SyntBots automation platform. This award-winning automation solution effectively positioned Syntel as a disruptive challenger in the industry.
Nitin was elevated to being a CEO after serving as President, Americas for Syntel, where he headed I Business Development and North American operations. During this time, extended the company’s footprint| to Europe, including setting up centers in Scotland and Poland. This was his second four year run with ‘Syntel (2012 to 2016), the first being between 2002 to 2008. During his first innings, Nitin developed and | launched Syntel’s Knowledge Process Outsourcing (KPO) offerings. He also charted a strategy that ‘propelled SynteI’s KPO practice as the company’s fastest-growing business unit, and quickly growing to account for 25% of SynteI’s overall revenue. From Vice President and Head of Syntel’s KPO operations, he was elevated to CEO of Syntel’s joint venture, State Street Syntel Services, where he led its India operations, until 2008.
He then moved to head Motilal Oswal Asset Management Company as CEO and Managing Director; where he piloted Exchange Traded Fund (EFT) in India. This was recognized as the “Most Innovative ETF, Asia Pacific” at the 2011 ETF Awards in New York, and the “Most Innovative Mutual Fund, India” in 2010 at the Crisil – S&P Mutual Fund Awards.
Nitin is also on the advisory board or council at various institutions such as:
- US – India Business Council (USIBC) driving financial services council and business relations between US and India
- NASSCOM IT Services Council, as the Council Chair, chartered to future proof IT services industry • Knowledge @Wharton, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania advisory board, driving digital transformation discussions at grass root level
- The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) CEO Council, to debate and formulate strategies to address the biggest issues facing global business and leadership
- Forbes Technology Council (FTC) as an industry expert and practitioner to advise Forbes‘ readers globally on current as well as future technologies and trends.
Nitin holds a Bachelor’s degree in Engineering (Computer Science) from Delhi Institute of Technology, Delhi University and has received his Master’s in Management from Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies, Mumbai and is also an alumni of Harvard Business School’s CEO Workshop.
Punit Renjen
CEO
Deloitte, Global
Punit was named the CEO of Deloitte Global in June 2015. Deloitte operates in 150 countries, with more than 244,000 professionals. He is also a member of the Deloitte Global Board of Directors.
Punit most recently served as chairman for Deloitte LLP (US member firm) from 2011-2015. Outside of Deloitte, Punit is a member of the boards of directors at United Way Worldwide (chairman), U.S.-India Business Council (vice chairman), and Japan Society; and is a founding member of the Lincoln Center India Advisory Council. Punit often comments on the attributes of exceptional organizations, including the importance of a well-articulated and lived culture of purpose, and the role of business as a steward of public trust.
Punit was born and raised in India. He earned a master’s degree in management at Willamette University and now serves on its board of trustees. He is married and has a son.
Solange Maria Pinto Ribeiro
President and CEO
Neoenergia
She has over than 32 years of experience in the power industry and has been working at Neoenergia since 2004. She implemented and directed the Regulatory and Environmental area of the Group until September 2012, when she became the President.
Solange held high leadership positions in large companies, such as Chesf and Eletropaulo. In the latter, she occupied the Vice-Presidency of Regulatory Affairs and Energy Business. She has also served as a consultant for National Economic Research Associates (Nera), in Washington.
She is currently a member of the board of Directors of the National System Operator – ONS and board member of all related companies, amongst them, Coelba, Celpe and Cosern, as well as a member of the Advisory Board of ABDIB – Brazilian Association of Infrastructure and Base Industries.
She was a member of the Director of ABRADEE Council and APINE, the AcendeBrasil Institute / Brazilian Chamber of Investors in Electric Power – CBIEE, Executive Board of the Wholesale Energy Market (COEX) and the Administrative Council of ASMAE
Graduated in Electrical Engineering in the Federal University of Pernambuco, Solange holds a master degree in the same area at PUC-Rio and has been visiting researcher at Imperial College of Science Technology and Medicine in London.
Gina Rinehart
Executive Chairman
Hancock Prospecting Group, S. Kidman & Co. and Roy Hill
Gina Rinehart is Executive Chairman of the Hancock Prospecting Group, S. Kidman and Co and Roy Hill, and founder and chairman of ANDEV.
Since taking up the reins of the Hancock Group in 1992, when the company was in very real difficulties, Mrs Rinehart has overseen the very considerable expansion of Hancock’s mining and agricultural businesses.
The mega USD$10 billion Roy Hill Project is ramping up to be Australia’s single largest iron ore mine producing 55 million tonnes of ore per annum.
Roy Hill secured the world’s largest debt funding package for a mainly Greenfields land-based mining project and marked the largest ever commercial deal between Australia and South Korea.
Mrs Rinehart is also responsible for developing the Hope Downs iron ore project along with more recently partner Rio Tinto, and is pursuing the construction of a fourth major iron ore joint venture mine at Hope Downs.
In the agricultural arena, Hancock is the third largest producer of cattle in Australia with a total herd size reaching approximately 300,000 and is one of Australia’s largest private landholders with landholdings greater than the size of Ireland.
Hancock’s status as a major agricultural player was added to with the joint-venture acquisition of the iconic S. Kidman and Co pastoral company with a minority Chinese partner. Plus her partnership interest in the multi award winning Bannister Downs Dairy, which has won approximately 250 awards.
In recent years, Mrs Rinehart has introduced game-changing technology to the Hancock Group including its stations, which are now being copied on the Kidman stations.
The Hancock Group also owns one of Australia’s largest Fullblood Wagyu beef studs.
In addition to winning numerous awards such as CEO Magazine’s Chairman of the Year and CEO of the Year Award, and many lifetime and overseas awards, Mrs Rinehart is the single largest private supporter of the Australian Olympic Team and serves as Patron of the Olympic swimming, synchronised swimming, rowing and volleyball teams.
She is also a major contributor to women’s health causes, having started Australia’s then first breast cancer foundation, and continues to support cancer related philanthropy and other worthwhile charitable causes.
Timothy M. Ring
Chairman and CEOC
R Bard Inc.
Prior to joining Bard, he worked for Abbott Laboratories for nearly 10 years, most recently as Director of Personnel for the Hospital Products Division. During 1990, he was General Manager for Abbott’s Australian, New Zealand, and Indonesian operations, residing in Sydney. From 1987 to 1989, he was Director of Personnel for Pacific/Asia/Africa and Europe. In 1984 to 1986, he was also Director of Personnel for Latin America & South East Asia. He started at Abbott in 1983 as Assistant Personnel Manager for the Pharmaceutical Division.
Prior to joining Abbott, Tim was employed by The General Motors Corporation and holds a B.S. in Industrial and Labor Relations from Cornell University.
Mr. Ring is a member of the Executive Committee. He is also a director of Quest Diagnostics Incorporated, a trustee for the New Jersey Health Foundation (NJHF) and the former Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the HealthCare Institute of New Jersey (HINJ). Mr. Ring also currently serves on the Cornell University Council and is a member of the Board of Directors for C. R. Bard, Inc., AdvaMed (the medical device industry association), National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) and the Healthcare Leadership Council. He is also a member of the Business Roundtable.
Girish Rishi
CEO
JDA Software
Girish Rishi is Chief Executive Officer of JDA Software. JDA is the leading supply chain software provider powering today’s digital transformation for over 70 of the Top 100 leading retailers, consumer goods companies and third-party logistics providers. Rishi’s experience spans early stage and established companies in the enterprise mobility and IoT segments. Rishi is passionate about building a values-driven culture at JDA that emphasizes customer success, innovation and collaboration. Rishi joined JDA from Tyco International, where he was responsible for the firm’s global retail solutions business and the North America building automation segment. Prior, Rishi was senior vice president for the Enterprise division of Motorola Solutions where he transitioned the portfolio to new application frameworks that delivered a compelling user experience. At Motorola, he led an M&A strategy that positioned the business for growth and created immense shareholder value. Previously, he held positions of increasing responsibility at Symbol Technologies, where he led the EMEA theater. He serves as a board member of Digi International, is a member of the board of directors at UI Labs, and the board of regents at the University of Hartford. He holds a master’s degree in public policy from Johns Hopkins University, a master’s degree in business administration from the University of Hartford and received his undergraduate degree from the University of Mumbai.
Carlos Rodriguez
President and CEO
ADP
Mr. Rodriguez was named President and Chief Executive Officer in November 2011.
Carlos has been with ADP since 1999, most recently as President and Chief Operating Officer since May 2011, and previously as President of National Account Services and Employer Services International. He joined ADP through its acquisition of Vincam, where he served initially as CFO for a short period before becoming President of ADP TotalSource. Under his leadership, TotalSource became the fastest growing, as well as the largest, Professional Employer Organization (PEO) in the industry.
Carlos then spent several years as President of ADP’s Small Business Services (SBS), which included ADP’s small business payroll services, ADP TotalSource and ADP Retirement Services. Under his leadership, SBS launched “RUN Powered by ADP®” payroll management service, which has become one of ADP’s fastest growing product platforms.
Carlos holds master of business administration and bachelor of arts degrees from Harvard University. In addition to his work at ADP, Mr. Rodriguez serves on the Boards of ADP, and Hubbell Inc. He is a member of the Business Roundtable and the Economic Club of New York.
Virginia M. Rometty
Chairman, President and CEO
IBM
Ginni Rometty was appointed President and CEO of IBM effective January 1, 2012. She became Chairman of the Board of Directors on October 1, 2012. Mrs. Rometty began her career with IBM in 1981 in Detroit, Michigan. Since then she has held a series of leadership positions in IBM, most recently as Senior Vice President and Group Executive, IBM Sales, Marketing and Strategy. Prior to this, Mrs. Rometty served as Senior Vice President, IBM Global Business Services, where she led the successful integration of PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting. In prior leadership roles, Mrs. Rometty served as general manager of IBM Global Services, Americas, as well as general manager of IBM’s Global Insurance and Financial Services Sector.
John Rosanvallon
President & CEO
Dassault Falcon Jet
John Rosanvallon was named President and CEO of Dassault Falcon Jet, located in Teterboro, New Jersey, in 2003. Prior to this, he had served as Senior Vice President Sales and Marketing for Falcon Jet, with responsibility for consolidating Falcon Jet’s worldwide business jet sales and marketing activities. Rosanvallon was recruited by Dassault Aviation in 1975 to coordinate Falcon activities between the company’s Paris headquarters and the Falcon subsidiary in Teterboro. At that time the unit was a joint venture between Pan American World Airways and Dassault Aviation, known as Falcon Jet Corporation. In 1979, Rosanvallon moved to the United States as Assistant to the President of Falcon Jet in charge of overseeing the Coast Guard program. He was later promoted to Vice President Finance. In 1984, Rosanvallon returned to Paris as Executive Vice President of Sogitec, a Dassault Aviation affiliate that specializes in flight simulation. However, he retained close ties to the Falcon Jet business and rejoined in 1989 as Vice President of Marketing based in Paris. Rosanvallon graduated from France’s prestigious business school, HEC, in 1974. He is a recipient of the French Légion d’Honneur and Ordre National du Mérite.
Panu Henrik Routila
President and CEO
Konecranes Plc
President and CEO
Head of Business Area Equipment
Member of the Group Executive Board since 2015
Employed since 2015
M.Sc. (Econ.)
Primary working experience:
2008–2015: President and CEO, Ahlström Capital Oy
2002–2008: CEO, Alteams Oy, Kuusakoski Group
1997–2002: Director, Drawn Copper Products, Outokumpu Group
1995–1997: Controller, Drawn Copper products, Outokumpu Group
1986–1995: Various financial management positions at Partek Group in Finland, France and Belgium
Current key positions of trust:
Onvest Oy: Board Member
Mitchell E. Rudin
Vice Chairman
Mack-Cali Realty Corporation
Mitchell E. Rudin serves as vice chairman of the Company. He joined Mack-Cali in 2015. Mr.
Rudin is a veteran real estate investment professional with more than 30 years of industry
experience. Mr. Rudin, along with his partner Michael DeMarco, is responsible for the strategic
direction of the Company.
Prior to joining the Company, Mr. Rudin served as the president and chief executive officer of
U.S. Commercial Operations at Brookfield Office Properties, where he was responsible for a
portfolio in excess of 50 million square feet in eight major markets in the U.S. Prior to that, he
served as president and chief executive officer of the New York Tri-State Region for CBRE
where he oversaw the business and operating functions within CBRE’s largest region. Prior to
that, he served as president of brokerage services for CBRE and oversaw its tenant and landlord
brokerage operations for office, retail, and industrial leasing throughout the U.S.
His current professional affiliations include being a member of The Real Estate Roundtable; St.
Francis Friends of the Poor Board; Hudson County Boys and Girls Club Board; Urban Land
Institute governor; NYC Police Foundation Executive Committee; American Israel Public
Affairs Committee (AIPAC); and Police Athletic League Board. Mr. Rudin is recognized as a
leader in philanthropy in the metropolitan region and has been honored by numerous
organizations. Mr. Rudin received a Juris Doctor from Boston College Law School and is a Phi
Beta Kappa graduate of Franklin & Marshall College.
Gisbert Rühl
CEO
Kloeckner & Co SE
Tim Ryan
US Chairman and Senior Partner
PwC
Tim Ryan is US Chairman and Senior Partner of PwC. He has over 28 years of diversified experience serving clients in the financial services industry in the US and internationally. In addition, Tim serves on PwC’s US Board of Partners and Principals, and its Global Board. Tim previously served as Vice Chair, having responsibility for the PwC’s strategy function and stakeholder relationships including investor relations, regulatory affairs, public policy, corporate responsibility and human capital. Prior to that, Tim led the firm’s Assurance practice and before that, he led the PwC’s US Financial Services Practice and Consumer Finance Group. He has been published and quoted in numerous publications and is a frequent contributor to industry events. He plays an active role in the Center for Audit Quality— a non-partisan, non-profit group dedicated to enhancing investor confidence and public trust in the global capital markets. Over the past year, Tim worked with a small group of CEOs to launch The CEO Action For Diversity & Inclusion™ — the largest ever CEO-driven business commitment to advance diversity and inclusion in the workplace. Tim is a certified public accountant in Massachusetts and New York and a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. He serves on the Board of Trustees for the Securities and Exchange Commission Historical Society and the Children’s Aid Society. He graduated from Babson College where he studied accounting and communications, and joined PwC after graduation. Tim is a Boston native, marathon runner, and proud father of six children.
Michael Sabia
President and CEO
Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec
Before joining la Caisse, Mr. Sabia was with BCE, holding such positions as President and Chief Executive Officer, Executive Vice-President and Chief Operating Officer, and Chief Executive Officer of Bell Canada International. From 1993 to 1999, he occupied various roles with Canadian National Railway, including Chief Financial Officer. He spent the preceding decade working as senior official in the Government of Canada.
Mr. Sabia obtained a Bachelor of Arts in economics and politics from the University of Toronto and holds graduate degrees in economics and politics from Yale University.
Mr. Sabia is a trustee of the Foreign Policy Association of New York. He is a member of the Canada-Mexico Leadership Group and the Asia Business Leaders Advisory Council.
Among many other community activities, Mr. Sabia currently co-chairs the capital campaign of Université de Montréal, Polytechnique Montréal and HEC Montréal.
Faiza J. Saeed
Deputy Presiding Partner
Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP
Ms. Saeed was designated a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum (Davos) in 2006. In 2007, The New York Times named her one of “Wall Street’s 100 Masters of the New Universe” and The American Lawyer named her a “Dealmaker of the Year” in 2000, 2005 and 2011.
Ms. Saeed received a B.A. in Economics and Molecular Biology with Highest Distinction from the University of California at Berkeley in 1987, where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, and a J.D. magna cum laude from Harvard Law School in 1991.
David T. Seaton
Chairman and CEO
Fluor Corporation
Since joining the company in 1985, Mr. Seaton has held numerous positions in both operations and sales globally. Prior to assuming his current position, Mr. Seaton served as Fluor’s chief operating officer. He has served as the senior group president over Energy & Chemicals, Government and Power Groups and was responsible for Fluor’s activities in China and the Middle East. He led the company’s global business activities in the upstream, downstream, pipeline, offshore, gas processing, oil and gas production, chemicals, integrated petrochemical and petroleum refining industries including ICA Fluor, the company’s joint venture in Mexico. Mr. Seaton has also served as senior vice president and group executive for Fluor’s global corporate sales function.
Active in a variety of professional and business organizations, Mr. Seaton serves on the board of directors of The Mosaic Company (NYSE: MOS) and is a member of the Business Roundtable and the International Business Council. He is a board member of the American Petroleum Institute (API) and the U.S.‐Saudi Arabian Business Council.
As chief executive officer, Mr. Seaton is committed to maintaining Fluor’s commitments in the areas of ethics and compliance, integrity and anti‐corruption. He is an active leader and board member of the World Economic Forum’s Partnering Against Corruption Initiative and the chairman of the PACI Vanguard initiative. He is a member of the Board of Governors of the Boys and Girls Clubs of America. He is a recipient of the South Carolina State Guard’s Lifetime Achievement Award.
Mr. Seaton holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of South Carolina and received an honorary doctoral degree in 2014. He completed the Advanced Management Program at the Wharton School of Business and Thunderbird University’s International Management Program.
Jahja Setiaatmadja
President Director
PT Bank Central Asia Tbk
Gregg M. Sherrill
Chairman and CEO
Tenneco Inc.
Prior to joining Tenneco in January 2007, Sherrill was with Johnson Controls, Inc., a leading automotive supplier. He joined Johnson Controls in 1998, serving most recently as president of the power solutions group, the company’s global automotive battery business.
Previously with Johnson Controls, he was group vice president and managing director of Europe, South Africa and South America for the automotive systems group. He also held the position of vice president and general manager for the company’s North American automotive operations.
In addition to extensive experience in the automotive supply industry, Sherrill’s background includes 22 years with Ford Motor Company, serving in a broad range of engineering and manufacturing positions. He serves on the board of directors of Snap-on Incorporated and is chairman of the board of directors of the National Association of Manufacturers. He is also a member of Business Roundtable.
Sherrill holds a B.S. degree in mechanical engineering from Texas A&M University and an MBA from Indiana University’s Graduate School of Business.
Takumi Shibata
Representative Director, President & CEO
Nikko Asset Management Co., Ltd.
Takumi Shibata is Representative Director, President & CEO of Nikko Asset Management Co., Ltd. (Nikko AM).
He joined as Executive Chairman in July 2013, and assumed the roles of Chairman, President & CEO in January 2014. At the end of March 2014, he relinquished the title of Chairman.
Drawing on his global network and wealth of experience, he holds overall responsibility for the group’s business worldwide, reinforcing relationships with business partners and clients and acting as a catalyst to unite Nikko AM’s multinational workforce.
Prior to joining Nikko AM, Mr. Shibata was Group COO of Nomura Holdings. Before that, he was responsible for Nomura’s European business from its London subsidiary, and then oversaw global investment banking, global wholesale, global administration, and global asset management operations. During his time at Nomura, Mr. Shibata spent 20 years with the business in Japan, and 17 overseas.
Mr. Shibata has been on the board of The Investment Trusts Association, Japan since June 2005, and has previously been a member of the Business Accounting Council of Japan’s Financial Services Agency, acted as Vice Chairman of the Japan Investment Advisers Association, Chairman of the Self-regulatory Planning Committee of the Japan Securities Dealers Association, Board Member of the International Primary Market Association (London), and Board Member of the Securities Institute (London). In these roles, he strove to further develop the financial industry in Japan, and worldwide.
Mr. Shibata holds a BA in economics from Keio University and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
Keith Skeoch
CEO
Standard Life plc
Keith was appointed Chief Executive of Standard Life plc in August 2015 and has responsibility for overseeing £307.4bn* of assets under administration. He has been Chief Executive of Standard Life Investments since 2004 and has been a Director since joining in 1999 as our Chief Investment Officer. He has also been on the Board of Standard Life plc since 2006.
Prior to that, from 1980 to 1999, Keith was with James Capel (HSBC Securities from 1996) where his previous roles included; 1998 Managing Director of International Equities, 1993 Director of Economics and Strategy, 1984 Chief Economist and in 1980 International Economist. Keith started his career in 1979 at the Government Economic Service.
Keith has held a number of key industry appointments and responsibilities. He is a board member of the Financial Reporting Council.
Keith has been awarded honorary doctorates from the University of Sussex and Teesside University. These awards are in recognition of his contribution to the financial services industry over many years, most notably in the wake of the global financial crisis where he worked with government and trade bodies in establishing best practice in stewardship and governance.
Keith is a Fellow of the Society of Business Economists, which was awarded for service to the Economics profession. In November 2013, Keith was named European Personality of the Year by Funds Europe.
Gerry P. Smith
CEO
Office Depot, Inc.
Gerry P. Smith joined Office Depot, Inc. as Chief Executive Officer and a Director in February 2017. Prior to joining Office Depot, Smith served as Executive Vice President of Lenovo Group Ltd. and Chief Operating Officer of its personal computer (PC) and smart devices unit. Gerry joined Lenovo in 2006 and was instrumental in the company’s growth to become the largest personal computer (PC) company. He was also a leader in building the company’s global brand recognition and expansion during the past decade.
In his role as Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, he was responsible for operations across Lenovo’s $45 billion global product portfolio. Previously as Chief Operating Officer of the Personal Computing Group and Enterprise Business Group, he led Lenovo to the top position in world-wide PC sales and as President of the Americas, he led Lenovo’s America’s Group to record market share and profits. He also served as Senior Vice President of Lenovo’s Global Supply Chain, where his leadership was recognized by leading research firm, Gartner, in ranking Lenovo’s supply chain among the best in the world.
Prior to Lenovo, Gerry had a number of executive positions at Dell, as the company became a global leader in PCs. In his last role, he built the Dell Singapore Design Center and led Dell to the leading market position in flat panels as Vice President and General Manager of Displays. He is a graduate of Pacific Lutheran University.
Frederick W. Smith
Chairman and CEO
FedEx Corporation
Smith is responsible for providing strategic direction for all FedEx Corporation operating companies, including FedEx Services, FedEx Express, FedEx Ground and FedEx Freight. FedEx serves more than 220 countries and territories with operations that include 660 aircraft and over 90,000 vehicles. More than 300,000 team members worldwide handle more than 10 million shipments each business day. Since founding FedEx in 1971, Smith has been an active proponent of regulatory reform, free trade and “open skies agreements” for aviation around the world. Most recently, he has advocated for vehicle energy-efficiency standards and a national energy policy.
FedEx has continued to strengthen its industry leadership over the past 40 years, and has been widely acknowledged for its commitment to total quality service. FedEx Express was the first service company to win the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award in 1990. FedEx has consistently been ranked on FORTUNE magazine’s industry lists, including “World’s Most Admired Companies,” “100 Best Companies to Work For” and is on FORTUNE’s “Blue Ribbon Companies List
Smith is co-chairman of the Energy Security Leadership Council, a Trustee for the United States Council for International Business and a member of the Business Roundtable. He served as chairman of the U.S.-China Business Council and is co-chairman of the French-American Business Council. Smith has served on the boards of several large public companies and the St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital and Mayo Foundation Boards. He was formerly chairman of the Board of Governors for the International Air Transport Association and the U.S. Air Transport Association.
Sir Martin Sorrell
CEO
WPP
WPP companies, which include some of the most eminent agencies in the business, provide clients with advertising, media investment management, data investment management, public relations and public affairs, branding and identity, healthcare communications, direct, digital, promotion and relationship marketing and specialist communications services.
Collectively, WPP employs over 200,000 people (including associates and investments) in over 3,000 offices in 113 countries. The Group’s worldwide companies include J Walter Thompson, Ogilvy & Mather, Y&R, Grey, Mindshare, MEC, MediaCom, Kantar (including Millward Brown and TNS), Wunderman, Burson-Marsteller, Hill+Knowlton Strategies, Landor, Brand Union, Fitch, The Partners, AKQA and WPP Digital. Clients include 353 of the Fortune Global 500, all 30 of the Dow Jones 30 and 74 of the NASDAQ 100. In 2015, WPP had revenues of $19 billion and billings of $73 billion.
Sir Martin actively supports the advancement of international business schools – advising Harvard, IESE, the Indian School of Business, the China Europe International Business School and Fundação Dom Cabral Business School in Brazil. He has been publicly recognised with a number of awards including the Harvard Business School Alumni Achievement Award. In the Time 100 “Builders & Titans” he was voted one of the world’s most influential figures in business. He was also nominated for CNBC’s First 25 List (“Rebels, Icons and Leaders”) of people judged to have had the most profound impact on business and finance in the last 25 years. He received a knighthood in January 2000. He was awarded the 2014 Hugo Shong Lifetime Achievement Award in Communication by Boston University’s College of Communications. In October 2015, Sir Martin was named the fifth best-performing CEO in the world by Harvard Business Review.
KR Sridhar
Co-Founder and CEO
Bloom Energy
Prior to founding Bloom Energy, Sridhar led a team developing technologies to sustain life on Mars for NASA. For his work, Fortune Magazine cited him as “one of the top five futurists that are inventing tomorrow today”. Before this Sridhar was a professor of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering as well as Director of the renowned Space Technologies Laboratory (STL) at the University of Arizona.
Sridhar received his Bachelors Degree in Mechanical Engineering with Honors from the University of Madras, India, as well as his M.S. in Nuclear Engineering and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
Sridhar has served on many technical committees, panels and boards. He has over fifty publications and is a sought-after speaker and advisor on energy and environmental issues. He is outspoken in his belief that the climate crisis we face is also a tremendous economic opportunity, that energy policy must be technology-neutral and performance-based, and that we can solve our current energy problems through a combination of technology, innovation and conservation.
KR enjoys outdoor activities. He is an avid hiker and runner, participating in marathons when possible. KR enjoys mentoring young people interested in math and science. KR and his wife have two children and live in Woodside, California.
Paula Steiner
President and CEO
Health Care Service Corporation
As president and CEO of Health Care Service Corporation (HCSC), Paula Steiner is committed to expanding access to quality, cost-effective health care to all Americans. Firmly focused on the health care needs of 15 million HCSC members, Steiner leads the nation’s largest non-investor-owned health insurer, which operates as Blue Cross and Blue Shield in Illinois, Montana, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas.
HCSC — the nation’s fourth largest health insurer overall — also operates Dearborn National, TMG Health, Medecision, Academic HealthPlans and Innovista Health Solutions. HCSC has more than 21,000 employees.
Under Steiner’s leadership, HCSC continues on the path to help achieve a sustainable health care system that provides access to affordable care for generations to come for all Americans. As part of her commitment to addressing the needs of today’s health care consumer, Steiner’s priorities include: advancing HCSC’s leadership role in value-based care solutions, including accountable care organization arrangements with providers; promoting the use of technology and data to an even greater extent to help physicians help their patients; and looking for better ways to manage chronic disease to keep people healthy and away from emergency rooms.
Steiner has worked for more than 30 years in the Blue Cross and Blue Shield system. After serving as senior vice president of Brand Enhancement and Extension at the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association, she took on several leadership roles with Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois and then HCSC before becoming its chief strategy officer. She developed the company’s current long-term strategy focused on serving three main markets: employer groups, government programs (Medicare and Medicaid), and individuals. Steiner became HCSC president in July 2015 and added the CEO role in January 2016.
Steiner serves on the boards of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association, America’s Health Insurance Plans and the National Institute for Health Care Management. She is also a member of the Wall Street Journal CEO Council and the board of directors of World Business Chicago. She holds a B.A. in economics from Johns Hopkins University and an MBA from the Wharton School.
Arthur P. Steinmetz
Chairman, CEO and President
OppenheimerFunds, Inc.
Art Steinmetz is Chairman, CEO and President of OppenheimerFunds, Inc. Since joining the firm in 1986, Art has held a number of positions over his 30-year tenure, including Chief Investment Officer and Chief Investment Officer, Fixed Income. Art was named President in 2013, CEO in 2014, and in 2015, his role was further expanded to include Chairman.
Throughout his career, Art has taken a key role in expanding and strengthening OppenheimerFunds’ capabilities. In 1989, he created and launched one of the first multi-sector bond funds in the industry, Oppenheimer Global Strategic Income Fund, which he managed for 25 years until being named CEO. As the Fund’s manager, Art was nominated for Morningstar’s Fixed Income Manager of the Year in 2007. As the firm’s Chief Investment Officer, Art led the effort to acquire SteelPath in 2012, offering innovative investments in energy infrastructure through Master Limited Partnerships, and also worked to deepen the firm’s bond management strategies. In 2015, he led the acquisition of VTL Associates’ RevenueShares, bringing the firm into the Smart Beta space. Art began his career as an Analyst at PaineWebber, and also served in the United States Air Force.
Additionally, Art is passionate about advancing financial and mathematical literacy, which he believes are essential elements of the next generation’s success. He plays an active role in shaping OppenheimerFunds’ philanthropic initiatives and serves on the Board of Trustees of the National Museum of Mathematics (MoMath) in New York City. In 2015, he was named ‘‘Man of the Year’’ by The YWCA of the City of New York for his efforts in promoting STEM education among girls and minorities.
Art is a Partner at the Partnership for New York City and a Member of the Economic Club of New York.
Todd A. Stevens
President and CEO
California Resources Corporation
Mr. Stevens was appointed President, Chief Executive Officer and Director of CRC in July 2014. Mr. Stevens served as Vice President—Corporate Development of Occidental Petroleum Corporation from August 2012 to July 2014, as Vice President— California Operations, Oxy Oil & Gas from April 2008 to September 2012, and as Vice President—Acquisitions and Corporate Finance of Occidental from August 2004 to July 2012. Mr. Stevens holds a Master of Business Administration degree from the University of Southern California and a Bachelor of Science degree from the United States Military Academy.
Our Board of Directors benefits from Mr. Stevens’ deep knowledge of the oil and gas industry and his expertise in strategically evaluating and valuing oil and gas assets that is derived from years of buying and integrating exploration and production assets, many of which we currently own. Mr. Stevens also brings specific insight into the Company’s operations from his significant managerial experience as an executive at Occidental, including his strong experience in allocating capital and managing Occidental’s and our assets. Mr. Stevens extensive experience dealing with California’s regulatory environment, agencies and political landscape and his ability to forge strong ties within the state have proven a valuable asset to the Company.
Jeff Storey
President and CEO
Level 3 Communications
As CEO of Level 3, Mr. Storey positioned the company to capitalize on the industry transition from legacy services to more efficient and secure technologies. Level 3’s global network is foundational to providing these enhanced network capabilities. He also prioritized a company-wide focus on the customer experience enabling his team to respond more effectively to the complex demands of the market.
Before assuming his current role, Mr. Storey served as the company’s president and chief operating officer, with global responsibility for Level 3’s sales, marketing, customer and network operations, IT and business process engineering spanning three regions: North America, Latin America and EMEA.
Mr. Storey has held a number of leadership positions in the telecommunications industry. He served as president and CEO of WilTel Communications and was president of Leucadia Telecommunications Group. He also held senior executive positions at Cox Communications, where he was a founding member of Cox Business Services. He began his 30-year career in the telecommunications industry with Southwestern Bell Telephone.
Motokuni Takaoka
CEO & Founder
airweave
Motokuni Takaoka is Chief Executive Officer and founder of airweave, the leading manufacturer of premium mattress. He founded airweave in 2007 after he took over his uncle’s company, manufacturer of plastic injection molding machine for fishing line and reinvented its purpose, using the resins to develop a high-quality airweave Top Mattress. He opened more than 150 airweave stores in Japan and made the sales over US$100 million in those 8 years. He has lead the company to conduct sleep study with Stanford University and IMG Academy to evaluate how sleeping on airweave affects sleep, recovery and athletic performance. He is absolutely an energetic salesperson of airweave and CEO at the same time.
He serves as an outside auditor of eAccess Ltd., an Internet service provider listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange, and a director of various associations in Japan, such as Chubu Economic Federation and Japan Stanford Association. He is running two companies and leading employees with his strong passion and leadership.
He is also an active investor of start-ups; his portfolio includes thin-firm PV cell manufactures in Silicon Valley, i.e. Miasole and NuvoSun, as well as IT service providers in Asia. He received his M.S. Engineering from Stanford University in 1987. He also has a M.B.A. from Keio University in Japan and a B.E in Applied Physics from Nagoya University in Japan.
In private, he has participated in marathons and triathlons not only to maintain his health, but also to understand an athlete’s feelings.
Anthony R. Tersigni
President and CEO
Ascension
Before becoming the first President and CEO of Ascension, Dr. Tersigni had served as President and CEO of Ascension Health since June 17, 2004. Previously he served as Ascension Health’s Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer from January 2001 through December 2003. He was interim CEO for the System beginning in January 2004. From 1995 to 2000, Dr. Tersigni was President and Chief Executive Officer at St. John Health, Detroit, Mich., (now St. John Providence Health System) Ascension Health’s largest integrated health system.
Dr. Tersigni has served as a board member of numerous professional organizations. He is past Chair and currently serves on the board of the Healthcare Leadership Council, Washington, DC. He is a board member of the National Catholic Bioethics Center, Philadelphia; the Catholic University of America, Washington, DC; the St. Louis Regional Business Council; and the St. Louis Regional Commerce and Growth Association. He is a former board member of the Detroit Economic Club, the United Way of Greater St. Louis and board member, past Chair of the Catholic Health Association of the United States and a member of the Coalition to Protect America’s Health Care, Washington, DC.
Dr. Tersigni was listed as one of Modern Healthcare’s “100 Most Powerful People in Healthcare” for the years 2006 through 2012. He is the recipient of many professional awards including the 2004 Senior-Level Healthcare Executive Regent’s Award from the American College of Healthcare Executives for his contributions toward the advancement of healthcare management. Dr. Tersigni was awarded the 2012 Meritorious Service Award from the Michigan Health & Hospital Association, and named a St. Louis Business Journal 2010 Health Care Hero for Public Policy.
Dr. Tersigni holds a doctorate in the field of leadership/organizational development from Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Mich., and honorary doctorates from St. Louis University, the Aquinas Institute of Theology and the Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology at Berkeley.
Robert Thomson
Chief Executive
News Corp
Mr. Thomson most recently served as editor-in-chief of Dow Jones & Company and managing editor of The Wall Street Journal since May 2008. As the senior news executive at Dow Jones, he directed the global news operations of the Journal and Dow Jones Newswires, with an international news staff of over 2,000 journalists in more than 80 bureaus worldwide.
Mr. Thomson’s editorial leadership and Dow Jones’ commitment to quality journalism fueled growth and innovation, with The Wall Street Journal becoming the largest circulation newspaper in the U.S. The Journal expanded its content and added a host of sections to complement its core of unrivalled business and finance coverage. The company’s expansion across content was complemented by a growth across geographies and devices, with numerous digital content and video offerings and local-language Web sites in Europe and Asia, reaching tens of millions of users worldwide.
Before joining Dow Jones in December 2007, Mr. Thomson was editor of The Times of London where he presided over a significant expansion of its readership in print and on the Web – the audience of the Times Online grew from less than 1 million monthly to almost 13 million during his editorship. Prior to that, he was editor of the U.S. edition of the Financial Times taking prime editorial responsibility for the FT Group’s ambitious drive into the U.S. market, where the newspaper trebled its sales to almost 150,000. For his work in building the FT’s operations, in print and online, he was named as U.S. Business Journalist of the Year in 2001 by the influential trade journal TJFR.
Mr. Thomson had been editor of the Weekend FT and assistant editor of the Financial Times, orchestrating a successful redesign of the Weekend FT in late 1996 – that edition became the fastest-growing newspaper in the U.K. market during 1997. He also oversaw the evolution of the occasional “How to Spend It” magazine into an award-winning monthly. From 1994 to 1996, he was the FT’s foreign news editor in London, overseeing the paper’s extensive network of correspondents. Mr. Thomson had been a correspondent himself in Tokyo (1989-1994), where he witnessed the rise and fall of the “bubble economy,” and in Beijing (1985-1989), where he reported on the country’s economic and social reforms, and the crushing of the democracy movement in Tiananmen Square.
Mr. Thomson has been a journalist since early 1979, when he joined The Herald in Melbourne, working as a copyboy and a finance and general affairs reporter before becoming the paper’s Sydney correspondent. In 1983, he was hired by The Sydney Morning Herald as a senior feature writer and, two years later, was appointed to a Beijing bureau then shared by the Sydney paper and the Financial Times.
He is the author of The Judges: A Portrait of the Australian Judiciary (Allen & Unwin) and co-author ofThe Chinese Army (Weldon Owen). He edited a collection of satirical writing titled True Fiction(Penguin Books).
Mr. Thomson was born in Torrumbarry, near Echuca, in southern Australia, and is married with two sons.
Alan Trefler
CEO
Pegasystems
In a three decade career, Alan Trefler has been a visionary leader, a technology change-agent, an innovative philanthropist and a trusted advisor to business executives around the world. Alan’s unique technology vision and relentless focus on customer success is changing the way many of the world’s leading enterprises engage with their customers today. His life’s work has been to design a platform for living applications that businesspeople can evolve dynamically to manage the constant disruption and change in today’s customer-centric economy. Alan’s recent book, Build for Change, describes a new generation of customers that have unprecedented power to make or break brands and the changes businesses must embrace to succeed in today’s digital world. A best-seller, the book has been reviewed and featured in global media including Forbes, Investor’s Business Daily and Les Echos. Alan founded Pegasystems in 1983 and has built the company into a $600 million provider of strategic applications with more than 3,000 employees in 30 global offices, and growing more than 20 percent annually. Alan’s industry recognition includes The American Business Award’s “Software CEO of the Year,” the Massachusetts Technology Leadership Council’s “Public Company CEO of the Year” and the Babson College Academy of Distinguished Entrepreneurs. He frequently presents to international business and technology audiences at industry conferences and has consulted extensively in the use of advanced technology and customer engagement Alan holds a degree with distinction in Economics and Computer Science from Dartmouth College, where he was a winner of the John G. Kemeny prize in computing. A staunch advocate for education, Alan and his wife Pam established the Trefler Foundation in 1996 to improve educational outcomes. Recently, the Foundation has sponsored Union & Fifth, an innovative non-profit that turns clothing donations into money for charities.
Paul A. Tufano
Chairman and CEO
Amerihealth Caritas Family of Companies
Ronald N. Tutor
Chairman and CEO
Tutor Perini Corporation
NV "Tiger" Tyagarajan
President and CEO
Genpact
Tiger frequently writes and speaks about global talent issues, continuous skill development, and the importance of building a strong corporate culture. He is also passionate about diversity and serves as one of the founders of the US chapter of the 30% Club, an organization of CXOs focused on achieving better gender balance at US companies.
Tiger began his career with the Unilever Group in India where he spent seven years in sales and marketing and then three years with Citibank’s Consumer Financial Services businesses in sales, operations and credit. He then spent the next ten years in a variety of roles in GE Capital, spanning a range of global businesses in consumer finance, auto finance, and commercial leasing as well as across India, the US and global markets.
Tiger rejoined Genpact in February 2005 as EVP of Sales, Marketing and M&A, was promoted to the position of COO in 2009, and was named president and CEO in June 2011.
Tiger has a degree in mechanical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai, and an MBA, majoring in finance and marketing, from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad.
Bernard J. Tyson
Chairman and CEO
Kaiser Permanente
With annual operating revenue of more than $50 billion, Kaiser Permanente serves more than 9.3 million members in eight states and the District of Columbia.
Tyson assumed the role of chairman in January 2014 and has served as CEO since July 1, 2013. His career at Kaiser Permanente has spanned nearly 30 years, and he has successfully managed all major aspects of the organization. He had previously served as president and chief operating officer of the Oakland, California-based health care organization since 2010.
Under Tyson’s leadership, Kaiser Permanente has delivered on its “Thrive” promise by bringing an innovative and fully integrated approach to health care and health care coverage that is helping members achieve their aspirations of total health. Tyson believes Kaiser Permanente’s demonstrated ability to deliver high-quality and affordable health care through a combination of prevention, innovation, and integration can serve as the model for the future of health care in America. In fact, the strength of Kaiser Permanente’s approach is evident today in the significant increase in partnerships between health plans, hospitals, and medical practices across the health care industry.
As Chairman and CEO, Tyson is dedicated to highlighting Kaiser Permanente’s role as an industry leader in preventive care and in treating serious health conditions. For example, Kaiser Permanente’s 175,000 employees and 17,000 physicians consistently deliver some of the best cancer care, cardiovascular care, and neuroscience outcomes in the nation while also leading the country in infection prevention, cancer screenings, patient safety, and quality. Tyson has been a strong advocate for the elimination of health care disparities among individuals by promoting the use of aggregated data from members’ electronic health records to determine the most effective treatments for optimal clinical outcomes. He is also dedicated to upholding Kaiser Permanente’s mission to provide high-quality, affordable health care services for the organization’s members and to improve the health of its members and the communities it serves.
Tyson has served in roles from hospital administrator to division president, leading Kaiser Permanente’s business in California and in its other regions. During his tenure as executive vice president for Health Plan and Hospital Operations, Tyson was responsible for both the care and health care coverage for members within one of the nation’s largest health plans and hospital systems — now 38 Kaiser Permanente-owned hospitals and more than 600 medical offices across America.
A San Francisco Bay Area native, Tyson earned a Bachelor of Science in health service management and a Master of Business in health service administration from Golden Gate University in San Francisco. He earned a leadership certificate from Harvard University. He serves on the board of directors of the American Heart Association. He recently completed service as chair of the Executive Leadership Council in 2012-2014.
Tien Tzuo
Founder and CEO
Zuora
Tien Tzuo, widely recognized as one of the thought leaders in the software-as-a-service industry, founded Zuora in 2007. As Zuora’s CEO, Tzuo has not only built one of the fastest growing SaaS companies, he’s also evangelized the shift to subscription based business models and the complex billing structures they inherit, coining the phrase Subscription Economy. In an effort to empower this new Subscription Economy, Tzuo has spent over six years working with the best companies in the world to build an award-winning platform powerful and flexible enough to fuel any subscription business.
Before Zuora, Tzuo was one of the ‘original forces’ at salesforce.com, joining as employee number 11. In his 9 years at salesforce.com, Tzuo built salesforce.com’s original billing system and held a variety of executive roles in technology, marketing, and strategy organizations, including building out the product management & marketing organization, serving as Chief Marketing Officer for two years, and most recently as Chief Strategy Officer.
Tzuo holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Cornell University and a master’s in business administration from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. He was named CMO of the Year Finalist by the CMO Council and BusinessWeek Magazine while at salesforce.com and is on DestinationCRM’s Who’s Who in CRM list. He is on the Board of Directors for Network for Good.
Jing Ulrich
Managing Director and Vice Chairman of Asia Pacific
JPMorgan Chase
Jing Ulrich is Managing Director and Vice Chairman of Asia Pacific at JPMorgan Chase. She provides strategic advice to the firm’s most senior global clients across all sectors and asset classes, while building relationships with executives at Asia’s leading enterprises. Ms. Ulrich works with all lines of business at JPMorgan Chase to foster greater cross-border collaboration and strengthen senior client relationships in Asia Pacific and the rest of the world.
Educated at Harvard and Stanford Universities, Ms. Ulrich is one of the most prominent advisors to the world’s largest asset-management companies, sovereign wealth funds, and multinational corporations.
Ms. Ulrich has been ranked one of Fortune Magazine’s 50 Most Powerful Global Businesswomen. Forbes named her one of Asia’s 50 Power Businesswomen and ranked her among the 100 Most Powerful Women in the World. The South China Morning Post selected Ms. Ulrich as one of the top 25 most inspirational and influential women in Hong Kong. In recent years, publications including China Daily, China Entrepreneur magazine and FinanceAsia have consistently ranked Ms. Ulrich among the top business elite in Asia. She has also been dubbed as “the unofficial voice of China” and the “Oprah Winfrey of the investment world.”
Erez Vigodman
President and CEO
Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Limited
From 2010 to 2014, he served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Adama Agricultural Solutions Ltd. (formerly Makhteshim Agan Industries Ltd.), the world’s leading generic agrochemical company and the world’s seventh largest company in the global agronomical industry.
From 2001 to 2009, he served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Strauss Group, Global food and beverage company (brands in the US: “SABRA”, Max Brenner”).
Between 1998 to 2001 Erez served as CEO of Elite, the leading coffee and confectionary company in Israel. This appointment was sealed about a year after he had joined Elite as CFO and Deputy CEO.
Prior to that Erez served as a senior partner in PWC Israel between 1991-1996, which he joined at the end of 1987 upon graduating from Tel Aviv University.
Mr. Vigodman is a member of the Advisory Committee to the Israel National Economic Council (Prime Minister Office), and the International Advisory Board of the Israel Science Technology & Innovation Policy Institute.
Mr. Vigodman was a member of the advisory board to the governor of the bank of Israel (during the years Stanley Fischer was the governor of the Bank).
C Vijayakumar
President & CEO
HCL Technologies
C Vijayakumar (CVK or Vijay) is the President & Chief Executive Officer of HCL Technologies, a US$ 6.7 billion global IT services company.
Vijay leads HCL Technologies, a team of over 111,000+ professionals in 32 countries helping customers reimagine their businesses as a 21st Century Enterprise with technology at the core. Driving growth and transformation in an age of connected assets and connected experiences, Vijay is responsible for devising a robust strategy, overseeing meticulous execution and guiding enduring partnerships.
Vijay joined HCL Technologies in 1994 as a member of the core team that designed and implemented India’s first ever fully automated trading network at the National Stock Exchange. With a strategic vision and global outlook, he relentlessly reinvented himself to emerge as a leader who could span a breadth of technologies and deftly navigate the shifting industry landscape.
Most recently, as Chief Operating Officer, he led the company’s strategy to leverage the transformative nexus of forces like Digitalization, Internet of Things, Cloud, Cyber-security and Artificial Intelligence. His Mode 1-2-3 Strategy today serves as the company’s blueprint for serving IT needs of the 21st Century Enterprise.
Previously, as President of HCL’s Infrastructure Services Business, he led its exponential growth and market dominance over the years leading up to a contribution of 40% to HCL’s revenues today. As part of the founding team of its wholly owned subsidiary HCL Comnet, he played an instrumental role in building the Remote Infrastructure Management value proposition which is today a multi-billion-dollar market. Over the years, Vijay has held several Technology, Business & Operational leadership positions at HCL and is widely recognized in the industry for his strategic thinking and impeccable execution. He is currently a member of Wall Street Journal’s CEO Council and is on the Steward Board of World Economic Forum’s Strategic Initiative on ‘Future of Education, Gender and Work’.
Vijay is deeply invested in promoting sustainable business practices in the communities where HCL operates in, with an emphasis on advancing STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) learning for the youth and is also a passionate champion of the Diversity and Gender empowerment agenda.
Known for his hands-on approach, diligence, and deep connect with his teams and the clients, Vijay’s leadership style has been commended in the business bestseller ‘Blueprint to a billion: 7 essentials to achieve exponential growth’ by renowned management guru David G. Thomson. Vijay is a graduate in Electrical & Electronics Engineering from P.S.G. College of Technology, Tamil Nadu, India.
Timothy R. Wallace
Chairman, President and CEO
Trinitiy Industries Inc
Mr. Timothy R. Wallace is Chairman, President & Chief Executive Officer at Trinity Industries, Inc. He is on the Board of Directors at The Belo Foundation.
Mr. Wallace also served on the board at MoneyGram International, Inc. and Viad Corp.
He received his undergraduate degree from Texas Tech University.
Mark A. Weinberger
Global Chairman and CEO
EY
In addition to his time at EY, Mark has previously served as the Assistant Secretary of the United States Department of the Treasury (Tax Policy) in the George W. Bush Administration. Mark was also appointed by President Clinton to serve on the US Social Security Administration Advisory Board, which advises the President and Congress on all aspects of the Social Security system. Mark has also held other US government and policy positions, including Chief of Staff of President Clinton’s 1994 Bipartisan Commission on Entitlement and Tax Reform; Chief Tax and Budget Counsel to US Senator John Danforth (R-Missouri); advisor to the National Commission on Economic Growth and Tax Reform; and Commissioner on the National Commission on Retirement Policy.
Mark was co-founder of Washington Counsel, P.C., a Washington DC-based law and legislative advisory firm that merged into EY and now operates as Washington Council EY.
Mark plays an active role in the World Economic Forum (WEF), serving as a member of its International Business Council and as a Global Agenda Trustee for Economic Growth and Social Inclusion. He co-chairs the Russia Foreign Investment Advisory Council (FIAC) with Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, and serves as Vice Chair of the International Business Leaders Advisory Council (IBLAC) to the Mayor of Shanghai. Mark is an Executive Committee member of the Washington DCbased, US Business Roundtable and chairs its Tax and Fiscal Policy Committee. He is a member of the International Advisory Board of British-American Business, is a member of the International Integrated Reporting Council (IIRC), and is on the Board of Advisors for the American Council for Capital Formation. Mark is a frequent speaker at WEF and other international events, including the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum in Russia.
Mark sits on the Board of Directors for Catalyst as Chair of the Audit Committee, as well as on the Boards for The Tax Council and the Bullis School in Potomac, Maryland. He is also a member of the Board of Trustees for Emory University and Case Western Reserve University.
In December 2012 Mark was presented the prestigious Achievement Award by the Anti-Defamation League. Cornell University honored him in September 2015 with the Robert S. Hatfield Fellowship in Economic Education Award, the highest honor Cornell can bestow on someone from the private sector. The award stands as a platform for the exchange of ideas between the academic and corporate communities. In 2015, Mark also received the Tax Council Policy Institute’s Pillar of Excellence Award.
Mark holds a B.A. from Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, an M.B.A. and J.D. from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio and a Master of Laws in Taxation from Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, D.C. Mark has an honorary doctorate from the Kogod School of Business at American University in Washington DC Mark and his wife, Nancy, live in Potomac, Maryland with their four children.
Dion Weisler
President and CEO
HP Inc.
Dion began his HP career as Senior Vice President and Managing Director, Printing and Personal Systems, Asia Pacific and Japan. In that role, he was responsible for all aspects of the business in the region.
With more than 25 years of experience in the IT industry, Dion has held numerous key executive positions across multiple geographies in the IT and telecommunications sectors.
Prior to joining HP, he was the Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Lenovo’s Product and Mobile Internet Digital Home groups, and led the Global Transaction Model globally. Prior to this, Dion was the General Manager of Korea, ASEAN and ANZ where he was responsible for Lenovo’s entire business in these markets.
Prior to Lenovo, he served as General Manager at Telstra Corporation – Australia’s leading telecommunications company – where he was responsible for Telstra’s Conferencing and Collaboration products and services. He also had a successful 11-year career at Acer, where he was the Managing Director of Acer UK having previously established and operated Acer’s business in Central and Eastern Europe as Managing Director of the region.
He holds a Bachelor of Applied Science – Computing degree from Monash University, Australia.
Dion is based in Palo Alto, California.
Elliot S. Weissbluth
Founder and CEO
HighTower
In 2007, Elliot Weissbluth launched HighTower and pioneered a new business model focused on three key differentiators: a vibrant, collaborative culture built by advisors, for advisors; a brand recognized and respected for its dedication to unobstructed advice; and an exclusive platform that causes market forces to benefit the clients. HighTower is a five-year honoree on Inc. magazine’s list of the fastest-growing companies nationwide (2012-2016).
Mr. Weissbluth, a frequent speaker on the topic of financial health and its impact on overall wellness, is a three-time honoree on the Worth annual Power 100 list (2014-2016). Investment Advisor named him one of the Top 25 Most Influential People in the Industry (2012-2013), RIAbiz ranked him second on its 2012 list of Most Influential Figures in the RIA Business, InvestmentNews named him to its 2012 Power 20 list.
Mr. Weissbluth is also a LinkedIn Influencer—an invitation-only group of thought leaders who share monthly insights. He wrote the foreword to Tony Robbins’ #1New York Times bestselling book “Money: Master the Game” and contributed to personal finance guide “How to Be a Financial Grownup” by Bobbi Rebell. He is a regular guest on major broadcast networks, including CNBC, Fox Business and Bloomberg.
James Whitehurst
President and CEO
Red Hat
James “Jim” Whitehurst is president and CEO of Red Hat, the world’s leading provider of open source enterprise IT products and services. Whitehurst is an avid advocate for open software as a catalyst for business innovation. With a background in business development, finance, and global operations, Whitehurst has proven expertise in helping companies flourish—even in the most challenging economic and business environments. Since joining in January, 2008, he has more than quadrupled the company’s revenue. Under his leadership, Red Hat was named to Forbes’ list of “The World’s Most Innovative Companies” in 2016, 2015, 2014, and 2012; added to Standard and Poor’s (S&P) 500 stock index in 2009; and named one of the best places to work by Glassdoor.
In June 2015, Whitehurst published a book with Harvard Business Review Press entitled “The Open Organization: Igniting Passion and Performance” showing how open principles of management—based on transparency, participation, and community—can help organizations navigate and succeed in a fast-paced connected era.
Prior to Red Hat, Whitehurst spent six-years at Delta Air Lines where he oversaw all aspects of airline operations and drove significant international expansion as chief operating officer. Before Delta, Jim held several corporate development leadership roles at The Boston Consulting Group, working in the Chicago, Hong Kong, and Shanghai offices, and as a partner in the Atlanta office with numerous clients across a wide range of industries.
Zhao Xianming
Executive Director and President
ZTE Corporation
Mr. Zhao Xianming, born 1966, graduated from the Harbin Institute of Technology in 1997 specialising in telecommunications and electronic systems with a doctorate degree in engineering. He joined the Company in 1998 to be engaged in the research, development and management of CDMA products. He had been head of the research and development group, project manager and general product manager from 1998 to 2003. In 2004, he was appointed Senior Vice President of the Company in charge of the CDMA Division and the Wireless Product Operations. From January 2014 to March 2016, he was Executive Vice President of the Company. From January 2014 to December 2015, he was Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of the Company in charge of the Strategic and Platform Operations and System Product Operations of the Company. Since November 2015, he has been Executive Director of the Company. Mr. Zhao has many years of experience in the telecommunications industry and over 25 years of management experience.
Harold L. Yoh III
Chairman and CEO
Day & Zimmermann
Yuanqing Yang
Chairman and CEO
Lenovo
Mr. Yuanqing Yang joined Lenovo Group in 1989. He has played a key role in Lenovo’s transformation into a global company. Under his leadership, in May 2005, Lenovo completed the acquisition of IBM PC business. In October 2014, Lenovo completed the acquisitions of IBM x86 server business and Motorola Mobility. Now, Lenovo is the number one PC company in the world. It is also one of the leading companies in global x86 server market and smartphone market.
Mr. Yang was in Barron’s Best CEOs list in 2013, 2014 and 2015. In 2014, Mr. Yang won Edison Achievement Award.
Mr. Yang was born in Hefei, Anhui Province, in 1964. He graduated from the University of Science and Technology of China (“USTC”) in 1989 with a Master’s degree. Mr. Yang currently serves as a member of the International Advisory Council of Brookings Institute and a board member of Baidu, Inc.