2026 Speakers

Emcee, Host, Journalist; Member, Forbes Coaches Council

Former Chair, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, Fannie Mae (Chair); Former Board Member, Bunge, Thomas Reuters, Host Hotels, Grupo Santander, ICBC; Advisory Board Member, Grupo Santander, Wealthfront

President and Founder, Eurasia Group and GZERO Media

Director, NACD; Global Vice Chair & Global Chief Risk & Regulatory Officer, PWC; Former Director, AICPA; Former Chair, XRBL

Chair, KLA Corporation; Director, Hewlett Packard Enterprises

Managing Partner, Member of Management, Risk, Allocation and Investment Committees, Elliott

Entreprenuer, Filmmaker, Comedian

 Lead Independent Director, Advanced Micro Devices; Director, Gen Digital, NACD

Director, Blue Cross Blue Shield of NC, Sally Beauty Holdings, United States Cold Storage, UNC Charlotte Belk College of Business 

President and Chief Executive Officer, NACD

Futurist

Member, National Petroleum Council; Founder, National Energy Dominance Council

President & CEO, Nortech Systems; Board Member, NACD

Founder, Long Term Stock Exchange; Innovation Expert; NYT Bestselling Author, The Lean Startup, Incorruptible

President & CEO, The Conservation Fund; Chair, Leading Harvest; Board Member, Weyerhaeuser

Chief Operating Officer, General Counsel, and Corporate Secretary, NACD

Director, Johnson & Johnson, JPMorgan Chase, Saudi Aramco, MetLife; Former Global Chair & CEO, EY

Board Chair, NACD; Director, Northrop Grumman, TD Bank, Chipotle Mexican Grill; President, CEO, WinsCo Enterprises

Director, USAA, Spahn & Rose, Gem Group, NACD; Former Non-executive Chair, Foot Locker; Former Director, Board Aegon LTD

Board Member, Old Republic, VSP Vision; Lead Executive Advisor, Ascend Pinnacle

Managing Director, Pearl Meyer

Board Chair, Lyft, Borderless AI

Enterprise Industry Leader, Industrials and Public Company Leader, RSM US LLP

Senior Advisor, KPMG Board Leadership Center

Vice Chair, Pancreatic Cancer Action Network; Member, Executive Compensation & Board Advisory Team, AON

Director, Wiley; EVP and Chief Data, Digital & AI Officer, The Cigna Group

Chairman Emeritus, Young Presidents' Organization Austin Chapter; CEO, Grow2Day

Director, Bill Jacobs Companies, Lauridsen Group, Inc., Community State Bank, NACD Heartland; CEO, Story Board Advisors

Director, The Larry H. Miller Company; Board Member, Nashville Health Care Council, Tennessee Business Leaders Council

Senior Partner, Knowledge Council, McKinsey

Independent Director, Entain plc, Alliance Entertainment, Inc., Principal Minearl Company, StoneAge Holdings, Inc.

Partner, COO, Farient Advisors LLC

Senior Advisor, AlixPartners; Director, Moelis & Company, Tiger 21

Senior Advisor, KPMG Board Leadership Center

Director, American Electric Power, Avient Corp., Trinsea PLC, Ripple Therapeutics

Senior Advisor and Member of Geopolitics Advisory Council, McKinsey

Lead, People & Organization Practice, Boston Consulting Group

Independent Director, United Community Bank, Barton College, Constellation Quality Health

Board Member, Edgewell, RTIC Outdoors, good2grow, Targeted Petcare; Senior Advisor, BCG

Managing Director, Family Enterprise Business Services, EY

Board Member, Lovesac; Advisor, Ridgeview Digital; Executive in Residence, Foundation Capital

Director, NACD New Jersey; Advisory Board Member, Biomimetics International, Keralty; CEO & Founder, GEC Risk Advisory

Enterprise Technologist, Amazon Web Services

Senior Managing Director, Board Advisor, Chief Innovation & Acceleration Officer, WTW

President, CEO, and Executive Chair, Wyo-Ben, Inc.

Partner, Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP

Senior Advisor, KPMG Board Leadership Center

Associate Director, Corporate Governance Content, NACD

Director, Bed Bath & Beyond, Inc., CorVel Corp., ReliabilityFirst Corp.; Founder, Flat Rock Strategic Advisors LLC

Vice President, Strategic Engagement, NACD

Board Chair, Resawn Timber; Independent Director, PaintersUSA

Senior Director, Office of the CISO, Financial Services and Advocacy, Google Cloud

Vice Chair and Managing Director, Moelis & Company

Director, Vice Chair, United Fire Group, Inc.; CEO, Tokai Carbon GE LLC

Head of Governance and Sustainability, Teneo

Director, HF Sinclair, Frontdoor, Ecovyst, Hexion, Inc.

Director, Group Dynamite, NACD Texas TriCities, Woba.io; Founder, HC Advice

Founder, Phase IV Ventures LLC

Director Emeritus, Terex Corporation; Director, Bank of the Ozarks, Lexeo Therapeutics

Board Member, Just Born, Ozarks Coca Cola/Dr. Pepper, Vollrath Manufacturing, Kalsec Global Flavorings

Managing Director, Head, Leadership Advisory Practice, Pearl Meyer

Director, Edgewell; Former Chief Digital Officer Mars, Marriott; Venture Partner, NextGen

Director, Castle Biosciences, Eisai Pharmaceutical US, General Geonomics, Moleculera Biosciences; CEO, Cotton Ventures

Chief Partnerships Officer & Shareholder Advisory Global Practice Lead, Sodali & Co

Managing Partner, Center for Board Effectiveness, Deloitte & Touche, LLP

Director, Broadcom Inc., Martin Marietta Inc.

Global Lead, Cyber Strategy, Risk & Architecture, Accenture

Director, Fulton Financial Corporation, SelectQuote, Inc., Innovative Aerosystems, Inc., AUS, Inc.; CEO, FNB Holdings

Board Member, People's Group, Banco Popular, Finconecta, NACD New York

Managing Partner, Director, Boston Consulting Group

Chair of the Board, Coherent Corporation

Director, PACS Administrator Group, Somnigroup International Inc., QuidelOrtho, Health Equity; Board Member, Protiviti

Director, Global Macro, Eurasia Group

Board Member, Cyber Risk Institute; Advisory Board Member, Digital Trust Council; Cybersecurity Legal Lead, Sophos

Director, Keenova Therapeutics, T Scan Therapeutics, Fulcrum Therapeutics, Prelude Therapeutics

Partner and Global Co-Chair of Shareholder Activism & Takeover Defense Practice, Latham & Watkins

Director, Broadway Financial Corp; Chair, 50/50 Women on Boards; President, NACD Pacific Southwest; CEO, Lynx Technology

Senior Director, Columbia Threadneedle Investments

Partner and Global Co-Chair of Shareholder Activism & Takeover Defense Practice, Latham & Watkins

Board Member, Teleflex; Retired Partner, KPMG LLP

Board Member, CenterPoint Energy, Texas Pacific Land Corporation, Arcadis NV, McDermott International, Pattern Energy

Director, Johnson Controls International, SiteOne Landscape Supply, Duke Energy, McKesson Corp.

Board Member, Altus Group, Beacon Capital Partners, Vistria

Lead, US Family Enterprise Practice, Russell Reynolds Associates

Senior Partner, Lead, NA Board Services Practice, McKinsey

Principal, Advisory, KPMG LLP

Vice Chair, Maryland Clean Energy Center; Managing Director, Hamilton Clark Sustainable Capital

Managing Director, Goldman Sachs

Independent Director, Marathon Petroleum, US Bancorp, Mutual of Omaha; CEO, KET Solutions, LLC

Managing Director, Partner, Boston Consulting Group

Director, Best Buy Corporation, BMO Financial Corporation, Arteris, Inc.; Chair Emeritus, NACD Northern California

Leader, Board Effectiveness Practice, Russell Reynolds Associates

Deputy General Counsel, Corporate Secretary, Chief Compliance Officer, Ford Motor Co.

Director, CDW Corporation, Martin Marietta Inc., NXP Semiconductors NV

Board Member, Chuy's Holdings; Former Chief Audit & Risk Officer, Ralph Lauren Corporation; Founder, NFS Insights 

Director, Nutanix, EVERTEC Inc., Virtu Financial; Managing Parnter, Azimuth Parnters LLC

Co-CEO and Board Member, AlixPartners; Board Member, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago

Cofounder, Chief Technology Strategist, QuEra Computing

Independent Director, Kraft Heinz Company, TechWolf; Senior Advisor, BCG

Professor, Information Systems & Digital Innovations, University of Liechtenstein; Lecturer, University of St. Gallen

Independent Director and Strategy Committee Chair, Master Fluid Solutions; Independent Director, Wyo-Ben, Inc.

Director, Deep Fission, MIND Technology, Crescent Pass Energy, Strand Energy; Founder, Eschelon Advisors, LP

Partner, Joele Frank

Director, Global Advisory Board, UAP Group; Head of Energy Transition, Argo Infrastructure Partners

Director, Third Coast Bank, Advantage/Forbes Books, Zilker Media, Terrain Capital; Founder & CEO, Content Capital LLC

Principal, Pearl Meyer

Director and Audit Chair, Generate Capital; Former Managing Director, Brookfield Asset Management

Board Chair, Executive Committee Member, CoxHealth; Board Member, Missouri Chamber of Commerce; VP, Chair, Ozarks

Chair, Priority Health; Board Member, Wyffels Hybrids; Executive Advisor, C-Suite Advisor

Chief Risk Officer, Consulting, RSM LLP

Director, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Jefferson Science Associates; President, Old Dominion University

Managing Director, Pearl Meyer

CEO, Hertz Farm Management

Board Member, Easter Bank, Sago, Tufts University, NACD New England; Vice Chair, Beth Israel Deaconess Advisory Board

Senior Advisor, KPMG Board Leadership Center

Chief Accountatnt of the SEC

Board Security Specialist and Advocacy Lead, Office of the CISO, Google Cloud

Board Member, Enact Holdings, Alera Group, AGL Private Credit Fund; CEO, Alpha Advisory Partners

Director, Eastman Chemical, Deep Isolation Nuclear, Ausenco, Global Advanced Metals

Director and Nominating, Governance, Sustainability Committee Chair, Portland General Electric

Director, Lloyd's of London, Trustpilot Group PLC, Hays Group PLC; Operating Partner, SOSV LLC

Cofounder & CEO, Arist

Board Member, SiteOne Landscape Supply, Inc., Atkore Inc., NACD Florida Chapter

Chair, Bill Jacobs Motorsport

Director, IFF, Inc., Advanced Auto Parts; Chair, Darden Restaurants; Vice Chair, Save the Children US

Chief Executive Officer, Highlights for Children, Inc.

Director, Independence Bank, Kentucky Housing Corporation, PreventScripts, KET, NACD Nashville

Regional Managing Partner, Texoma, Market Manging Partner, Dallas & Austin, Grant Thornton Advisors LLC

Partner, Tech M&A, Grant Thornton Advisors LLC

Director, Credit Suisse Funds; Chief Data Scientist, Numerati Partners; Board Member, University of Toronto

U.S. Quantum Lead, KPMG LLP

Principal, U.S. and Americas Lead, KPMG LLP

Senior Managing Director, Pearl Meyer

President & CEO, American Institute of CPAs; CEO, Association of International Certified Professional Accountants

Director, Leidos, Option Care Health, Performance Health; Board of Trustees Member, Northwestern University, The Conference Board, Endeavor Health System; Clinical Professor of Leadership, Northwestern University's Kellog School of Management

Cofounder and CEO, QuSecure; Member, World Economic Forum's Global Futures Council

Senior Director, WTW

Managing Director, Protiviti Inc.

Independent Director, BlackRock iShares; President, James Lam & Associates

Program Manager, Strategic Engagement, NACD

Global Co-Head of Mergers & Acquisitions, Paul, Weiss

Board Member, reacHIRE, NACD New England

Partner, Sidley Austin LLP

Board Member, Evergy Inc., Brixmor Property Group, Hall Family Foundation, NACD

  Board Member, Mathews Asia Funds; Trustee, Harvey Mudd College; Executive Coach, The Exco Group

Partner, Forensic Advisory Services, Grant Thornton Advisors LLC

Independent Director, WD-40 Company, Rather Outdoors, Arber; Advisor, Regenerative Capital Group

Director, Wyo-Ben, Inc.; Chief Executive Officer, uLab Systems, Inc.

Senior Managing Director, Evercore

Director, Hitachi, Tokyo, Myers Industries, Humanetics; Senior Advisor, Bridgepoint, Zscaler; Professor of Practice, SMU Cox

Lead, North America AI and Functional Practice Area, AI and Digital Transformation, BCG

Senior Managing Director and Chair, Reinvention Executive Advisory, Accenture

Director, WD-40 Company; Chair, NACD Nashville; COO, Belmont University's Thomas F. Frist Jr. College of Medicine

Partner, AI & Data, Grant Thornton Advisors LLC

Director, State Farm Fire, Life Insurance Companies; Board Member, Children's Burn Foundation, NACD Pacific Southwest

Managing Director, Russell Reynolds Associates

Change Strategist, Russell Reynolds Associates

Director of Responsible AI, Amazon

Board Member, American Cancer Society; CEO, Global Kompass Strategies, Inc.

Board Chair, Internships Inc., TessPay Inc.; Independent Director, KULR Technology Group, Hollywood Foreign Press Assn.

Advisory Board Member, The Hilltop Institute at UMBC

Board Member, VTEX, TOMS Shoes Inc., SPANX; CEO, Coyuchi Inc.

Partner, Head of Los Angeles Office, FGS Global

Strategy Professor, Columbia Business School; Founder, Valize, Rita McGrath Group

Director, Ecolab Inc., Huntington Ingalls Industries, Inc., USAA, National Kidney Foundation

Director, Nortech Systems, EMPOWER, NACD New York; Founder, techtonic.io

Partner, Leader of US Ignition, KPMG

SVP, Global Head of Banking, Infosys

Partner, Transformation, Grant Thornton Advisors LLC

Independent Director, Latham Group, Veritiv Holdings

Director, Boot Barn Holdings; Board Member, Duluth Trading Co., H & W Franchise Holdings, dbz Xponential Fitness

Managing Partner, Meridian Compensation Partners

Board Member, Coherent, F. N. B. Corporation, Koppers Holdings, Armada Supply Chain Solutions, SRI

Director, ClearPath Foudnation, Princetown Nu Energy; Consultant, Archer Public Affairs; Founder, Resolute Strategies, LLC

Board Chair, Jefferson Community & Technical College; Chief Technology Officer, Texas Roadhouse

Director, SoFi, NetScout Systems, Lazy Dog Restaurants, Silicon Valley Community Foundation; COO, CFO, Vibrant Planet

Senior Director, Governance and Thought Leadership, NACD

Chairman of the Board, Sapien Care

Lead, Global Family Enterprise Practice, Russell Reynolds Associates

Founder & CEO, Space Economy Rising

Independent Director, MYR Group; President, Datacenter Development & Construction, Big Wat Digital, LLC

Board Member, Ontario Securities Commission, Meridian Credit Union, TD Asset Management's Independent Review Committee

Global and US Audit Committee Program Lead, Deloitte & Touche LLP

President, Chief Executive Officer, MITRE

Director, Univest Financial Corp., Fintegra LLC, NovaData Solutions; Managing Partner, 1867 Capital Partners

Lead, Western Hemisphere Digital Risks Advisory Practice, Control Risks

Vice Chair, Standard Chartered Bank; Director, Munich RE, NESR

Managing Director, Corporate Performance in Chicago, Alvarez & Marsal

Board Member, McCormick & Company, Otis Worldwide Corporation; Managing Director, Cohen Klingenstein LLC

Managing Director, Head of Activism Defense & Shareholder Advisory Practice, RBC

Board Member, American Red Cross, NACD Pacific Southwest; Senior Member, Corporate Directors Roundtable of Orange County

Director, FWSIM; President of the Board, Long Ridge Library; CEO, Ranetix; Partner, Investor Collaborative 

National Managing Partner, Audit Quality and Professional Practice, KPMG

Chair, American Tower Corporation, CareQuest Institute for Oral Health, The Women's Edge; Board Member, Greentown Labs

Artificial Intelligence Leader, RSM US LLP

Director, Orion Energy Systems, Cognition Therapeutics

Director of Stewardship, Sands Capital Management

Managing Director, Governance Insights Center, PWC

Co-lead, Board Leadership Center, KPMG US

U.S. Sector Leader, Consumer & Retail, KPMG

Senior Manager, Amazon Security

Board Member, Exelon, 3Degrees, Natel Energy

National Managing Principal, Corporate Governance, BDO

Vice President of Security, Office of the CISO, AWS

Global Head of Applied Innovation, BlackRock

Director, Allied Gold, Nexa Resources, Scientific Games, NACD New York; Senior Advisor, Moelis

Program Manager, Digital & Cybersecurity Content, NACD

Global Security Lead, AWS

Senior Advisor, Healthcare Practice, McKinsey

Managing Director, Center for Board Effectiveness, Deloitte LLP

Director, University of North Florida, Jacksonville Museum of Science & History, NACD Atlanta; CTO, IBM

Director, TruStage, Cygnestise; Cofounder, 1414 Ventures

Board of Governors Member, International Corporate Governance Network; Managing Director, TD Asset Management Inc.

Director, Citizens Financial Group, Inc., National Association of Manufacturers, NACD New Jersey; President & CEO, NJBIA

Partner, Co-lead, Securities and Shareholder Litigation Practice, Sidley Austin LLP

Board Member, Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce; President, NACD Florida; Managing Director, Diversified Search

Board Member, PTC Therapeutics, Inc., HAI Group, Greenway Health

Principal, Deloitte Consulting LLP; Lead, US Monitor Deloitte Strategy Practice

Board Member, Etsy, Remitly

Head of Capital Markets U.S., Member, Global Capital Markets Operating Committee, RBC

Director, National Bank Holdings Corp., NACD New England

Director, Tanimura & Antile, The Doctors Company, DEEP ISOLATION, Global Water Resources

Board Chair, Hasbro; Board Member, Altria, Affinity Answers

Director, CMC Energy Services; SVP Global Sustainability and Citizenship Officer, Kyndryl

Director, Caliber Companies, 1847 Holdings, Runbeck Election Services, NACD Pacific Soutwest; Founder, Taylor Strategy Group LLC

Independent Director, Deep Isolation, Deep Fission, Titan Acquisition Corp

Corporate Partner & Head of Shareholder Engagement and Activism Defense, Wachtell, Lipton, Rozen & Katz

Managing Director, Pearl Meyer

Director, LPL Financial, Vanderbilt University, BCBS of Massachusetts; Executive Chairman, Rapid7

Senior Fellow and Director of South Asian Program, Stimson Center

Advisory Board Member, DigiStream Investigations, Rezbin;  Managing Partner, Walls Torres Group

Vice President, Global Cyber Risk, Strategy & Board Operations, Optiv

Vice President, Audit & Risk Advisory, The Clorox Company

Partner, ClearBridge

Chair, NACD Capital Area Advisory Board; Board Member, Athena Alliance, Alpha Council

Senior Manager, Family Enterprise Business Services, EY

CEO, Family Business Capital

Partner, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP

Executive Vice President, Chief People Officer, Walmart US

Board Chair, MarineMax, Inc.

Board Chair, John Wiley & Sons

Director, Sabre Yachts; Founder, Platinum Rules Advisors; Associate Professor, Vanderbilt University

Director, Mead & Hunt, Orion; Fellow, Society of American Military Engineers

 Director, Albemarle Corporation, Frontier Group Holdings, JetSMART Holdings 

Director, Apricus Energy Partners, California Asian Pacific Chamber of Commerce, Invest Ahead; Managing Director, The Siena Group

Senior Vice President, Content, NACD

Chair, Haemonetics Corporation; Director, Boston Scientific Corporation, Synchrony Financial, Global Medical Response

Board Member, The Cigna Group, Duchossois Capital Management, Halstatt LLC

Co-leader, KPMG Board Leadership Center

Board Chair, Hain Celestial; Director, Prestige Consumer Healthcare, Acorns; Operating Partner, The ExCo Group

Past Chair, USAA; Senior Advisor, Boston Consulting Group