2026 Speakers

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, AICPA; Chair, XRBL International; Global Assurance Leader, PWC

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, Duke University Climate Committment; Past Chair, NACD Carolinas Chapter

President and Chief Executive Officer, NACD

Futurist

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

President & CEO, Nortech Systems

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

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

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

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

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

Board Chair, Lyft, Borderless AI

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

Senior Advisor, KPMG Board Leadership Center

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

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

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

Senior Advisor, KPMG Board Leadership Center

Managing Director, Family Enterprise Business Services, EY

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

Director, Cyber Future Foundation, NACD New Jersey, Epic Theatre Ensemble; 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.

Senior Advisor, KPMG Board Leadership Center

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

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

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

Founder, Phase IV Ventures LLC

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Lead, US Family Enterprise Practice, Russell Reynolds Associates

Principal, Advisory, KPMG LLP

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

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

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

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

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

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

Managing Director, Pearl Meyer

Board Member, Easter Bank, Sago, Tufts University, NACD New England; Vice Chair, Beth Isreal 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

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

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

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

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

Vice President of Search, Security, and Observability at Amazon Web Services

U.S. Quantum Lead, KPMG LLP

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

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

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

Board Member, reacHIRE, NACD New England

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

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

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

Senior Managing Director and Chair, Reinvention Executive Advisory, Accenture

Independent Director, WD-40; Chair, NACD Nashville; COO, Thomas F. Frist Jr. College of Medicine

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.; CEO, Coyuchi Inc.

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

Independent Director, Latham Group, Veritiv Holdings

Managing Partner, Meridian Compensation Partners

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

Executive Chair, Sapien Care

Lead, Global Family Enterprise Practice, Russell Reynolds Associates

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, ControlRisk

Managing Director, Corporate Performance in Chicago, Alvarez & Marsal

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

National Managing Partner, Audit Quality and Professional Practice, KPMG

Artificial Intelligence Leader, RSM US LLP

Director, Superior Industrues Int'l, Orion Energy Systems, Cognition Therapeutics

Managing Director, Governance Insights Center, PWC

Co-lead, Board Leadership Center, KPMG US

National Managing Principal, Corporate Governance, BDO

Vice President of Security, Office of the CISO, AWS

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

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

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

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

Director, National Bank Holdings Corp., NACD New England

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

Managing Director, Pearl Meyer

Senior Fellow and Director of South Asian Program, Stimson Center

Director, Columbia Financial Inc., NACD Philadelphia; Founder and Managing Partner, Walls Torres Group

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

Vice President, Audit & Risk Advisory, The Clorox Company

Senior Manager, Family Enterprise Business Services, EY

Partner, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP

Executive Vice President, Chief People Officer, Walmart US

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

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

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

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

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