Current Speakers

Robert Allen
Forensic, Litigation & Valuation Partner,
Whitley Penn

Kara Altenbaumer-Price
Senior Vice President
McGriff, Seibels & Williams – Executive Risk Advisors

Gregg Ballew
Executive Director of the Institute for Excellence in Corporate Governance,
UT Dallas

Chris Bhatti
Assistant Vice President, Associate Dean and Adjunct Faculty
UT Dallas

Margot Carter
President, Living Mountain Capital, and Co-Founder
Cien.ai

Frank Cinatl
EVP & CFO
Abatix Corp

Trisha Cunningham
President and CEO
North Texas Food Bank

Neely Duncan
CPA, Partner/National Nonprofit Advisory Services Leader
Forvis Mazars

Douglas Greene
Firmwide Chair,
Securities and Governance Litigation Team,
BakerHostetler,
Author of the D&O Discourse blog

Rick Gove
Principal, Transaction Tax – M&A Tax Services
Grant Thornton

Robert Hall
Founder/CEO,
CEO Coach and Author:
This Land of Strangers:
The Relationship Crisis That Imperils
Home, Work, Politics and Faith

Kevin Hazelwood
Chief Development Officer
Cactus Feeders, Inc

Ray Hemmig
Chairman
Retail & Restaurant Growth Capital

Ben Holzemer
Partner, Global Head of Human Capital
TPG

Igor Jablokov
CEO & Founder
Pryon

Nichole Jordan
Texoma Regional Managing Principal
Grant Thornton Advisors LLC

Dr. Rita Kirk
Altshuler Distinguished Teaching Professor and the William F. May
Endowed Director of the Maguire Center for Ethics & Public Responsibility at SMU

John Kober
Partner
Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP

David Kohl
Partner
Mangrove Investments

Stephen Konstans
Managing Director
ZRG Partners

Jill Lampert
Chief Financial and Administrative Officer
NGP Energy

Jim Lavelle
Head of Corporate Coverage, Industrials
Houlihan Lokey

Mariama Maiga
CFOO
Dallas Children’s Advocacy Center

Harold MacDowell
Managing Partner
Baywood Advisory, LLC

Jim Massey
Financial Advisor

Niki McCuistion
Nonprofit Strategy Consultant and Coach and
President/CEO of the Foundation for Responsible Television

Joe McLaughlin
CFO
Austin Industries

Albert McLelland
Audit Committee Chairman
Breeze Holdings Acquisition, Corp

Robin Minick
Attorney
Wright Law

Carolyn Newham
General Counsel
Communities Foundation of Texas

Emily Neubert
SVP and National Director of Ultrahigh Net Worth Services
Alliance Bernstein

Chris Packard
Consultant
Nonprofit Organizations

Colin Patrick
CIO
Patterson Thoma Family Office

Shanon Patrick
Associate Vice President, Development and Alumni Relations
UT Dallas

Jack Pfeffer
Director of Air Tractor Inc. Cactus Feeders and Liberty Military Housing Advisor at Ebby Halliday Foundation

Hasan Pirkul
Dean
Naveen Jindal School of Management

Jeremy Prather
CFO
Air Tractor, Inc.

Susan Powell
Audit Partner
Whitley Penn

Tim Reazor
CEO & Co-founder
Fifth & Cherry

Pradeep Saha
Board Director
Saha Consulting

Dennis Sadlowski
CEO, Board Member & PE Operating Partner
Sun Capital

Manmohan Singh
Managing Director of Cybersecurity & Privacy Advisory Services
Grant Thornton

Yoram Solomon
Author
Host of the Trust Show Podcast

Julia Spracklen
Chief Operating Officer, Board Member, Principal
Roach Howard Smith & Barton

Darren Tallman
Chief Financial Officer & Director
EOC Holdings, LLC

Patrick Tickner
Attorney
Wright Law

Chris Tsourides
Chief Executive Officer
Synapse ITS

Dr. Mallory Vachon
Chief Economist
Labor IQ

Adam Van de Berghe
Managing Director
Goldman Sachs

Eric Ward
Accredited Senior Appraiser & Principal
AltaView Advisors

Richard Weaver
Senior National Director of Executive Services
Institute for Business Owners and Corporate Executives, Bernstein

Genevra Williams
Attorney
Mendrygal Law PLLC

David Woodyard
President and CEO
Catholic Charities of Dallas

Chowdary Yanamadala
Technology Strategist at Arm and Founder
Code17Tek

Jim Adams
Board Member
Advisor to Families and
Family Offices, Retired Corporate Lawyer

Theresa Boyce
Chair and CEO
CEO Trust

Eric Burgess
Partner, Transaction Services
Grant Thronton LLP

Dennis Cagan
Principal
Caganco Inc

Shawn Cleveland
Partner-in-Charge,
Litigation Leader,
BakerHostetler,
Dallas Office

Catherine Cuellar
Director of Communications, Outreach and Marketing
City Of Dallas

Shardul Desai
Partner
Holland and Knight

John Dziminski
President & CEO
The Rosewood Corporation

Julie England
Board of Directors
TTM Technologies

Julia Fisher
Senior Vice President, Global Operations Director
Edelman Smithfield

Lara Gaither
Corporate Social Responsibility Consultant

Clint Haggard
Member
Burgher Haggard, LLC

Kevin Hazelwood
Chief Development Officer
Cactus Feeders, Inc.

Jim Hirsch
President & CEO
Air Tractor, Inc

Josh Hochberg
Global COO
Edelman Smithfield

Admiral Bobby Inman
Managing Director
Limestone Capital Advisors

Eric Jackson
Global Head of Security
Silicon Valley Bank

Larry King
Advisory Board
Amegy Bank Dallas

George Lamberth
Owner
GST Manufacturing

Caren Lock
Regional VP & Associate General Counsel
TIAA

Kim McCormick
Executive Vice President & General Counsel
Lincoln Property Company

Dan Miller
CFO
HHS Residential

Charles Miller
Partner
Blue Wolf Capital Partners

Jessica Nammers
Field CISO
Flair Data Systems

Al Near
Chairman & CEO
Hossley Lighting Power Solutions

Brad Oates
Chairman
Stone Advisors

Jonathan Peri
President
Manor College

Kerri Scott
CEO
Mt. Vernon Investments

Don Springer
Chairman
Colton Group

Margo McClinton Stoglin
Senior VP, Philanthropic Strategist
Bank of America

Judge Leo Strine
Attorney
Wachtell Lipton

Jamie Tassa
Publisher, Corporate Board Member, and Vice President of Events
Chief Executive Group

Pamela Turay
Board Director, Public/Private CHRO
Luminator Technology

Crayton Webb
Owner & CEO
Sunwest Communications

Major General James Williams
Senior Managing Partner
Disruptive Healthcare Solutions, LLC

Tony Alessandra
Founder at Assessments24X7.com & Keynote Speaker/Author at Alessandra & Associates, Inc.

Philip L. Asmundson
Telecommunications Sector & Managing Partner, TMT, (Retired) Deloitte

Paul Atkins
Former SEC Commissioner

Rodger Baker
Vice President Strategic Analysis Stratfor

Steve Bartlett
Senior Advisor, Treliant, Former CEO of the Financial Services Roundtable

Rhys Best
Director at Trinity Industries, Cabot Oil & Gas, MRC Global Inc., and Commercial Metals Company & Chairman at Austin Industrial, Inc.

Tre’ Black
President & CEO
On-Target Supplies & Logistics

Todd Bluedorn
Chairman & CEO, Lennox International

Danielle DiMartino Booth
Former Dallas Federal Reserve Board, Author, “Fed Up, Why the Fed must be Fixed”

Richard Bowen
Former Business Chief Underwriter for the Consumer Lending Group of Citigroup

Greg Brenneman
Executive Chairman CCMP Capital

Terry Brock
Founder and CEO, Achievement Systems Inc.

Daniel Burrus
Founder and CEO of Burrus Research

Francis H. Byrd
CEO Byrd Governance Advisory

William Chittenden
Associate Dean for Graduate Programs Associate Professor of Finance at Texas State University

Miguel Clarke
Special Agent
Federal Bureau of Investigation

Bonnie Clinton
VP and CPO
Indirect Procurement
Shared Services
Toyota of North America

Sam Coats
Vice Chair, Board of Directors at Dallas Fort Worth International Airport

Charles Cooper
Texas Bank Commissioner

Lisa Croley
Executive Compensation and Corporate Governance Consultant, Aon Hewitt

Dr. David Daniel
Deputy Chancellor and CEO, University of Texas System

Deb DeHaas
Vice Chairman, Chief Inclusion Officer, & National Managing Partner, Center for Board Effectiveness, Deloitte

John Ellerman
Founding Partner
Pay Governance LLC

Julie England
Independent Director

William F. Ezzell
National Managing Partner, Legislative Relations, Deloitte LLP (Retired)

Andy Fastow
Former CFO, Enron

Carly Fiorina
Chief Executive Officer Carly Fiorina Enterprises

John Fleming
Law office of John Fleming, Adjunct Professor at the University of Texas School of Law

Jim Fontaine
President and CEO at Tella Firma

Bruce Freed
Executive Director at Center for Political Accountability

Mike Fucci
Chairman of the Board Deloitte

Jason Galui
Former White House Advisor,
Professor, Leader,
Lieutenant Colonel,
U.S. Army, Retired

Dawn Haghigi
General Counsel
PCV Murcor
Director, Elevate

Robert Hall
Founder/CEO, Speaker, CEO Coach, Author

Donna Hamlin
CEO and Board Director Boardwise

Megan Harrison
Director of Corporate Relations
UT Dallas

Marc Hodak
Founder and Managing Partner, Hodak Value Advisors

Brooke Hopkins
Managing Director
Alix Partners

Renee Hornbaker
CFO, Stream Energy, Director, Eastman Chemical

Tracy Houston
Board Resource Services

Richard J. W. Howard
Managing Director at Hayman Capital Management, LP

Ken Jacobson
Communications Director theAIRnet

Marianne Jennings
Professor Emeritus of Legal and Ethical Studies, Arizona State University

Jill Jones
Board of Manager
Breakthru Beverage Group

Mamie Jones
Senior Vice President of Product Development Intuit

Terry Jones
Chairman of Wayblazer and managing principal of ON Inc.

Robert Kang
Chief Counsel for Cyber & US National Security
Southern California Edison

Rashad Khalik
Professor in International Accounting, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign

Jackie Kimzey
Associate Professor of Practice, Organizations, Strategy & International Management
The University of
Texas at Dallas

Reatha King
Chairman, NACD

Ed Knight
Executive Vice President, General Counsel, NASDAQ

David Kohl
Risk Expert RHSB, Dallas Committee on Foreign Relations(DCFR)

Angelina Kwan
CEO at Stratford Finance Limited

Richard Leblanc
Research Fellow and Advisory Board Member at Institute for Excellence in Corporate Governance, University of Texas at Dallas

Baruch Lev
PhD, Professor of Accounting and Finance at New York University Stern School of Business

Tony LeVecchio
President, The James Group, Inc. and Chairman of the Board, Legacy Texas Bank

Sandra Beach Lin
Director at American Electric Power, WESCO Distribution, PolyOne Corporation, and Interface Biologics

Melendy Lovett
SVP and CAO Trinity Industries, Inc.

Tiffany Jones Miller
Associate Professor of Politics University of Dallas

Ranjan Misra
Board Member
The Shoulders of Giants

Jana Monroe
VP Global Security
Herbalife

Paige Holden Montgomery
Partner
Sidley Austin LLP

Steve Moore
Distinguished Visiting Fellow, The Heritage Foundation

Michael G. Oxley
Member of Government Policy Group at BakerHostetler, Former Member of Congress

James Park
Professor of Law
UCLA School of Law

Carrie Freeman Parsons
Chair of Board
Freeman Company

Cynthia Pharr
Marketing Communications Executive, Corporate Board Member, Co-Founder Tx Women Ventures

Bob Priest-Heck
CEO
Freeman Company

Bill Quinn
Executive Chairman, American Beacon Advisors

Retired General Harry D. Raduege Jr.
Senior Advisor & Director, Deloitte Center for Cyber Innovation

Elke Rebock
Partner
Dentons

Ann Rhoades
PRES at People Ink, Director at HireVue

James R Rickards
Author of New York Times best seller, The Death of Money & Currency Wars

Tom Ridge
President /CEO, Ridge Global, Former Head of Homeland Security, Former Governor of Pennsylvania

Lilliana Rogers
Director of Development
UT Dallas

Edward W. “Rusty” Rose III
President & Owner, Cardinal Investment Company

Frederick E. “Shad” Rowe Jr.
President, Rowe and Company, Executive committee member of Texans for Lawsuit Reform

Terry Schpok
Partner, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Field LLP

Stephen F. Schuckenbrock
CEO at Crossmark

Dave Scullin
President and CEO
Communities Foundation of Texas

Nancy Shemwell
COO
Trilogy Networks

Ernie Von Simson Max Hopper Speaker
Senior Partner, Ostriker von Simson Author, The Limits of Strategy

Raj Sisodia
FW Olin Distinguished Professor of Global Business, Babson College

Bradley A. Smith
Josiah H. Blackmore II/Shirley M. Nault Professor of Law Capital University Law School

Matt Solomon
Director of Compliance
Ethics & Policy
AT&T Inc

Michael Stockham
Partner
Holland & Knight

Darla Stuckey
President & CEO Society for Corporate Governance

Don Townsend
President Donley Townsend Associates, LLC

Ralph Ward
Publisher Boardroom INSIDER.com

D. Wayne Watts
Past: Senior Vice President and General Counsel, AT&T(Retired)

Jim Wetherbe
Richard Schulze Distinguished Professor, Texas Tech University

Billie Ida Williamson
EFH Director & Audit Committee Chair, Retired Partner & Americas Inclusiveness Officer-EY

Stephen T. Winn
Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer, RealPage

Patrick Walsh
United States Navy (retired),VP, Boeing Global Services, Boeing Global Company, Dallas Committee on Foreign Relations (DCFR)

Philip Dunkelberger
President & CEO Nok Nok Labs

E Patricks Jenevein III
CEO Pointe Bello LLC, Dallas Committee on Foreign Relations (DCFR)

Richard Levick
Chairman & CEO Levick

Paul Miering
Managing Director & Partner Prudential Private Capital

Hester Peirce
US Securities & Exchange Commissioner

Steve Szejner
Managing Director and Partner Pridential Private Capital

Meredith Walker
Chief Economist Earth X