Dina Powell, Vice Chairman & President of Global Client Services, Partner, BDT-MSD

In her new role. Powell McCormick will join the senior leadership of the firm, drawing on her years of experience in the public and private sectors to broaden and deepen the firm’s relationships throughout its global client network. Powell McCormick joins BDT & MSD Partners from The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., where she was Global Head of Sovereign Business, focused on growing the franchise and broadening the firm’s network with some of the world’s most important institutional investors. She also held the role of Global Head of Sustainability and Inclusive Growth, playing an instrumental role in furthering the firm’s investment goal of advising and financing clients on climate finance investment opportunities, and served on the firm’s Management Committee and the Firmwide Client and Business Standards Committee. Powell McCormick initially joined Goldman Sachs in 2007, and from 2007 to 2017 she served as Head of the firm’s Impact Investing Business and served in various roles during that period, including Head of the Urban Investment Group, President of the Goldman Sachs Foundation, and President of Goldman Sachs Gives. She led the development of Goldman Sachs’ inclusive growth initiatives, including 10,000 Women, 10,000 Small Businesses, and One Million Black Women — programs that have positively impacted the lives of tens of thousands of female entrepreneurs and small business owners around the world. Earlier in her career, Powell McCormick served in the U.S.government for more than a dozen years, including as Assistant to the President for Presidential Personnel and Senior White House Advisor, as well as Assistant Secretary of State and Undersecretary for Public Affairs and Public Diplomacy. In 2017, she served as Deputy National Security Advisor. She is currently Chairman of the Robin Hood Foundation Board, Trustee of the National Geographic Society Board, Trustee of the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Member of the Board of Mount Sinai Hospital, and a Member of the Board of the Atlantic Council. Additionally, she is a member of the Advisory Councils of the Harvard Kennedy School Center for Public Leadership and the Stanford University Freeman Spogli School.

Sean Coffey, General Counsel Department of the Navy

John P. (“Sean”) Coffey was sworn into office on February 16, 2022, as the 24th General Counsel of the Department of the Navy after his confirmation by the U.S. Senate on February 9, 2022. As General Counsel, Mr. Coffey is the Department of the Navy’s (DON) Chief Legal Officer and head of the Office of the General Counsel (OGC). He leads more than 1,100 attorneys and professional support staff in 140 offices worldwide. DON OGC provides legal advice to the Secretary of the Navy, the Under Secretary of the Navy, the Assistant Secretaries of the Navy, their staffs, and the multiple components of the Department, including the Navy and the Marine Corps. A native of New York City, Mr. Coffey is the oldest of seven children born to Irish immigrants. He is an honors graduate of the United States Naval Academy and Georgetown University Law Center. After graduating from Annapolis, Mr. Coffey completed Naval Flight Officer training and served eight years on active duty, including assignments as a P-3C Orion mission commander hunting Soviet submarines during the Cold War, a junior officer intern to the Strategy Division in the Organization of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the special military assistant (personal aide) to Vice President George H.W. Bush. Mr. Coffey attended Georgetown Law’s evening program while assigned to the Pentagon and White House. After graduating from Georgetown, Mr. Coffey transitioned to the Navy Reserve and returned to New York, where he practiced law for over thirty-five years, including several years as an Assistant United States Attorney in the Southern District of New York and most recently as Chair of Complex Litigation at Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP.

Jeh Charles Johnson, Partner, Paul, Weiss; Former US Secretary of Homeland Security

Jeh Johnson is a 2021 recipient of The American Lawyer’s Lifetime Achievement Award, as “[a]n American statesman [who] has devoted his career to the public interest.” In public life, he served as Secretary of Homeland Security (2013-2017), General Counsel of the Department of Defense (2009-2012), General Counsel of the Department of the Air Force (1998-2001) and as an Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York (1989-1991). In private law practice Secretary Johnson has been an experienced litigator and trial lawyer, and a Fellow in the American College of Trial Lawyers. Since returning to Paul, Weiss in 2017, Secretary Johnson is co-chair of the firm's Cybersecurity & Data Protection practice, and advises high-tech companies, private equity firms and government contractors on the legal aspects of cybersecurity, national security, data privacy, government relations, crisis management, high-stakes litigation and regulatory matters. Secretary Johnson is currently a member of the board of directors of Lockheed Martin, U.S. Steel and MetLife, and is a trustee of Columbia University. At present Secretary Johnson is co-chairing an ABA-sponsored national task force with former judge J. Michael Luttig to assess ways to restore public trust in the American democracy. In private life, Secretary Johnson is also a regular commentator on national issues on NBC, CBS, MSNBC, CNBC, CNN, PBS, FOX, FOX Business, Bloomberg TV and numerous other outlets, and he has published op-eds in the Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The Hill, Lawfare and Bloomberg Law. Secretary Johnson is the recipient of 13 honorary degrees.

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Jay Clayton, Sr Policy Advisor & Of Counsel, Sullivan & Cromwell; Former Chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

Jay Clayton, who recently served as the Chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, is a Senior Policy Advisor and Of Counsel to Sullivan & Cromwell. Mr. Clayton's practice centers on advising institutions, board of directors and individuals on governance, markets and regulatory matters, particularly where multidisciplinary advice and practical experience are valued. As Chairman of the SEC from May 2017 to December 2020, Mr. Clayton focused on modernizing the regulation and oversight of our equity and fixed income markets, concentrating on the interests of long-term investors. In addition, under his leadership, the women and men of the SEC addressed various market developments and emerging risks, including the 2020 COVID-19 economic shock, the digitization of securities and other assets, the Brexit and LIBOR transitions, and various cybersecurity matters. Prior to Mr. Clayton’s government service, he spent over 20 years at Sullivan & Cromwell where he was a member of the management committee, co-managing partner of the General Practice Group and co-head of the Cybersecurity Group.

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Richard Haass, President Emeritus, Council on Foreign Relations

Dr. Richard Haass is a veteran diplomat and a prominent voice on American foreign policy. He is president emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations, an independent, nonpartisan membership organization, think tank, publisher, and educational institution dedicated to being a resource to help people better understand the world and the foreign policy choices facing the United States and other countries. He previously served as CFR’s president for twenty years.

Kris Pederson, Center for Board Matters Leader, EY Americas
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Kris is a seasoned professional with 30 years of management consulting, auditing, financial analysis, and corporate board experience.She currently focuses on the board agenda, including the board’s role in strategy definition, disruptive innovation, board performance and culture, and long-term value/ESG. She previously led EY Americas Strategy and Customer Consulting Services and is one of the founders of the EY Purpose-Led Transformation™ organization.Experienced in large-scale business transformation associated with business process and system integration efforts, she focuses on strategy consulting, customer experience, sales and services processes, business development, value realization, financial engineering, human resource processes, change leadership, organization change and technology-driven transformation.Prior to joining Ernst & Young LLP, she held various strategy practice leadership roles with a multinational technology company and a multinational professional services firm.Kris received an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BA in Psychology and Business Administration from UCLA.

Terry Roberts, Founder, President, Chief Executive Officer, Whitehawk, Inc.

Terry is a global risk analytics, cyber intelligence and national security professional with over 20 years of Executive level experience across government, industry, and academia - establishing the first online Cybersecurity Exchange, with continuous easy access to Cyber Risk end to end automated SaaS and PaaS Product Lines to include:  Threat Landscape, Cyber Risk Profiles, CIS/NIST/CMMC Based Maturity Models, Action Plans and automated matching to over 400 innovative, easy to implement and cost effective solutions. Previously Terry was the TASC VP for Cyber Engineering and Analytics, running all Cyber/IT, Financial and Business Analytics cross cutting, innovative technical services. Prior to TASC, Terry was an Executive Director of the Carnegie Mellon, Software Engineering Institute, leading the technical body of work for the US Interagency, with a special focus on leveraging and transitioning commercial innovation and acquisition excellence to government programs and capabilities and establishing the Emerging Technologies Center and Cyber Intelligence Consortium.  Before transitioning to industry in 2009, Terry Roberts was the Deputy Director of Naval Intelligence (DDNI), where she led, together with the Director of Naval Intelligence, more than 20,000 intelligence and information-warfare military and civilian professionals and managed more than $5 billion in resources, technologies, and programs globally, leading the initial approach for the merging of Naval Communications and Intelligence under the OPNAV N2/N6 and the creation of the Information Dominance Corps. Prior to being the Navy DDNI, Terry Roberts served as the Director of Requirements and Resources for the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence (USDI), spearheading the creation and implementation of the Military Intelligence Program (MIP), in partnership with the Director of National Intelligence, the Services, the Combat Support Agencies, and the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD).

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David Lawrence, Founder & Chief Collaborative Officer, RANE

David Lawrence is the Founder and Chief Collaborative Officer of RANE. He previously served for 20 years as Associate General Counsel and Managing Director at Goldman Sachs. His role as the global head of the Business Intelligence Group covered a wide range of legal, regulatory, diligence, and transactional responsibilities. David led the development of Wall Street’s first design and implementation of controls and technology to safeguard against money-laundering, illicit finance, terrorism financing, foreign corrupt practices, and violations of economic sanctions. In 2014, David received the FBI Director’s Award for his efforts in combating international terrorism.Prior to Goldman Sachs, David served for 10 years as an Assistant US Attorney, in the Southern District of New York. He served as the Deputy Chief of the Criminal Division, Chief of the Public Corruption and General Crimes Units, and as the office’s first Chief Ethics Officer.

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Karen Snow, Senior Vice President, Global Head of Listings, Nasdaq

Karen Snow is a Senior Vice President and the Global Head of Listings at Nasdaq. In this role, Karen oversees Global Initial Listings, as well as the retention of Global Listings and U.S. IR and ESG services. Karen brings a unique perspective to Nasdaq, and has been instrumental in solidifying IR, GC, C-Suite and board-level relationships.Prior to joining Nasdaq in December of 2018, Karen served as a Managing Director and Head of NY Equity Sales at Credit Suisse for 18 years. She led a team of executives in diverse areas of Strategic Planning, Account Management, Training & Development, and Compliance. In addition to her 13 years in Equities, Karen spent 5 years in investment banking where she worked on multiple IPOs, High Yield Financings, Bankruptcies and M&A situations.  Karen received her BS with honors from Babson College and her MBA from the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University. She is on the board of Nasdaq Private Markets, a consortium company with Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Citigroup, Silicon Valley Bank and Allen & Company and serves as an advisor to the Nasdaq Center for Board Excellence. She also serves on the Babson College Advisory Board as well as the Advisory Board at the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown.

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Dr. Homaira Akbari, President and CEO, AKnowledge Partners, LLC

Dr. Homaira Akbari is President and CEO of AKnowledge Partners, LLC, a global strategy advisory firm providing services to private equity funds and corporations in digital transformation and technology sectors of Cybersecurity, Internet of Things, Artificial Intelligence, Energy Transition, and FinTech. She currently serves on the Board of Directors of Banco Santander (NYSE: SAN) and Landstar System (NASDAQ: LSTR).  
Dr. Akbari has held senior management roles in Fortune 1000 companies including Microsoft, Thales, and Liberty Media subsidiary, Trueposition. Dr. Akbari has served as the President and CEO of SkyBitz, Inc., a leading IoT company providing asset tracking and security solutions. Under her leadership, the company had record performance.  She successfully sold SkyBitz to Telular Corporation (NASDAQ: WRLS). She holds a Ph.D. with honors in particle physics from Tufts University and an MBA with distinction from Carnegie Mellon Tepper School of Business. She is the author of more than 50 scientific articles in international journals, has two patents in IoT, and is a frequent speaker in industry conferences. She has published numerous governance and technology Opinion Editorials and Podcasts, and most recently published the book: The Cyber Savvy Boardroom. She is a faculty member of cybersecurity at DCRO Risk Governance Institute.

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Geoff Brown, Vice President, Global Intelligence Platforms, Recorded Future; Former Chief Information Security Officer, City of New York

Geoff Brown joined Recorded Future in January 2022 to accelerate the company’s impact for the missions of global governments. Geoff was CISO for the City of New York and Head of NYC Cyber Command between 2016 and December 2021, and has prior experience in financial services and the U.S. Federal Government, including with the 9/11 Commission.




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Rupert Hammond-Chambers, President, US-Taiwan Business Council

Mr. Hammond-Chambers was born and raised in Scotland before emigrating to the United States in 1987 and earning a Bachelor of Arts degree at Denison University. As a new graduate in 1991, he worked for Advanced Telecommunication Corporation (ATC), managing a variety of clients with business interests in the Caribbean and Latin America. In April 1993, he joined The Center for Security Policy, a defense and foreign policy think tank in Washington, D.C., as the Associate for Development. The Center accomplishes its goals by stimulating and informing national and international policy debates, particularly those involving regional, defense, economic, financial, and technology developments that bear upon the security of the United States. He began working for the US-Taiwan Business Council in October 1994. In March of 1998, he was promoted to Vice President of the Council with additional responsibilities for office management, oversight of the staff, financial bookkeeping and a clear mandate to build out the Council’s member/client base. Mr. Hammond-Chambers was elected President of the Council in November 2000. Mr. Hammond-Chambers is also the Managing Director at Bower Group Asia – a strategic consultancy focused on designing winning strategies for its client companies in Asia. He sits on the Board of The Project 2049 Institute. He is a Trustee of Friends of Fettes College, and is a member of the National Committee on United States-China Relations. He has two daughters.

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Paul Saltzman, Executive Vice President and Chief Legal Officer, EagleBank

Mr. Saltzman is a seasoned C-Suite executive, legal and operating officer with experience in all aspects
of financial services and trade association management, and is widely recognized as a crises manager
and corporate governance leader, having been recently featured in Vanguard Magazine. He is
currently Chief Legal Officer of EagleBank, a $12 billion USD asset publically traded community
commercial bank, where he joined in January of 2020. Paul is responsible for all legal activities of the
Bank, including in particular the management of several publically disclosed high profile government
investigations and litigations he was recruited to resolve. Before EagleBank, Mr. Saltzman was a
partner in the Banking and Financial Institutions Advisory Practice at White & Case since 2018. He
was Vice Chairman at Deutsche Bank from 2015 to 2018, where he held non-legal positions
sequentially managing capital stress testing, regulatory remediation and then transaction banking
and payments in the Americas region. From 2010 to 2015, Mr. Saltzman served as General Counsel
of The Clearing House Payments Company, and President of its then affiliated trade association (now
Bank Policy Institute), where he lead the industry response to Dodd-Frank and was credited by
American Banker with transforming the 150 year old organization and bringing a new brand of fact
based data- driven leadership to the trade association space. From 2008 to 2010, Mr. Saltzman
served as General Counsel of one of the largest mortgage hedge funds, Ellington Management Group,
helping them through the sub-prime mortgage crises. Prior to that Paul was Chief Operating Officer
of Espeed (now owned by NASDAQ), Cantor Fitzgerald's public electronic bond trading company,
having been recruited to stabilize the company following the September 11th attacks. From 1994 to
2004, Mr. Saltzman led the Bond Market Association (now SIFMA), as its General Counsel
facilitating a product and global expansion of the leading fixed income trade group. Mr. Saltzman
previously served in private practice as a structured finance transactional associate at Skadden, Arps.
He holds a B.A. Phi Beta Kappa from Clark University, and a J.D. from the Boston University School of
Law and is a member of the New York State Bar. Paul resides in both Bethesda, MD and Scarsdale,
NY, where he is married with two adult children. He grew up in Brooklyn, NY, is an avid (and
frustrated) lifelong New York Knicks fan, and enjoys traveling, playing golf and tennis.

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Byron Loflin, Global Head of Board Advisory, Nasdaq

Byron Loflin is Global Head of Board Advisory at Nasdaq, where he leads board assessments and boardroom training for Nasdaq Governance Solutions. He is the founder and former CEO of the Center for Board Excellence (CBE) – acquired by Nasdaq in 2019 – and is architect of CBE’s unique board assessment and advisory platform. Byron is recognized in the governance community for developing unique products that address board dynamics, corporate culture, accountability and performance. His experience and expertise are in the design and administration of assessments and advising board chairs, boards, committees, directors and executive management in a full range of corporate governance matters including strategic alignment, best practices, board refreshment, diversity, structures and corporate planning. He and his team have performed several hundred third-party board, committee, peer and CEO self-assessments for organizations of all structures and sizes.Byron is a graduate of Harvard Business School (OPM) and James Madison University (BA). He is a member of the Society for Corporate Governance, Institute of Directors (UK), and the National Association of Corporate Directors.Some of his recent published works include: “Love Your Neighbor,” International Banker Spring 2019, “Guide to Board Assessments,” Corporate Board Member June 2019, “Reboot, Not Refresh,” International Banker Spring 2018; “Board Evaluations: Getting Aligned,” published by Nasdaq 2017, and “Six Reasons Digital D&O Questionnaires Streamline Proxy Disclosure,” published by Nasdaq 2017.

Kevin Chambers, Global Chair of White Collar Defense & Investigations Practice, Latham & Watkins

Kevin Andrew Chambers, Global Chair of the firm's White Collar Defense & Investigations Practice, represents clients in high-stakes white collar, securities, and professional liability matters.Mr. Chambers draws on extensive senior government experience to help individuals, public and private companies, and corporate committees navigate: Criminal and civil litigation, Internal investigations, and Government inquiries. Most recently, Mr. Chambers served at the US Department of Justice (DOJ) as Director for COVID-19 Fraud Enforcement and Associate Deputy Attorney General.As Director for COVID-19 Fraud Enforcement, Mr. Chambers oversaw the Department’s efforts to identify, investigate, and prosecute pandemic relief-related fraud. He established nationwide strike teams to combat large scale fraud committed by criminal organizations and transnational actors. During his tenure, the Department reported billions in recovered funds and charged actual losses.As Associate Deputy Attorney General, he handled the Criminal Division portfolio for the Deputy Attorney General, including serving as co-chair of the Corporate Crime Advisory Group responsible for significant revisions to the Department’s policy for prosecuting corporations, executives, and individuals implicated in corporate criminal and civil misconduct. He joined the firm in 2014 after serving for four years as an Assistant United States Attorney. During his appointment, he prosecuted more than 250 criminal cases in the District Court for the District of Columbia and the Superior Court of the District of Columbia and was lead prosecutor in more than 60 bench and jury trials. He successfully argued four criminal appeals the convictions’ affirmance in the trial court. Mr. Chambers’ prosecutorial experience includes interstate drug trafficking operations, violent crime, and fraud against government agencies.Before embarking on his legal career, Mr. Chambers practiced as a certified public accountant and senior auditor at a top New York public accounting firm. After law school, Mr. Chambers served as a law clerk to Judge Harry T. Edwards of the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.A recognized leader at the firm, Mr. Chambers has served as Local Chair of the firm’s Washington, D.C., Litigation & Trial Department.Mr. Chambers actively participates the firm’s diversity efforts and previously served as Global Chair of its Diversity Leadership Committee, which works to ensure that Latham continues to attract the highest level of talent and promote diversity internally and in the profession generally. He serves on the board of directors for the Council for Court Excellence and regularly speaks on diversity initiatives at firm training academies and law schools.

Cari Robinson, Senior Managing Director, August Strategic Communications

Cari Robinson is a Senior Managing Director at August Strategic Communications, a strategic communications and crisis advisory firm that handles matters in areas including: reputation management, crisis management, litigation and investigations, cybersecurity & data breach, blockchain, digital assets & fintech, healthcare, diversity, bias & discrimination, restructurings & Chapter 11. Cari was the Executive Vice President, General  
Counsel at Revlon, where she oversaw Revlon’s worldwide legal affairs and security team. Prior to joining Revlon, Cari was the Vice President, Assistant General Counsel, Investigations & Cybersecurity at IBM, where she led a global team responsible for handling internal investigations, regulatory matters, cybersecurity  
incidents and data breaches. Her previous position at IBM was as  Associate General Counsel, Litigation, where she managed white collar and commercial litigation matters worldwide. Prior to joining IBM, Cari was an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Criminal Division for the Southern District of New York, and before that, she was an associate at Davis Polk & Wardwell. Cari graduated from Emory University School of Law and from Vassar College.

Maria S. Jelescu Dreyfus, Chief Executive Officer, Ardinall Investment Management

Maria is the CEO and Founder of Ardinall Investment Management, an investment firm focused on sustainable investing and resilient infrastructure that she started in 2017. Prior to Ardinall Investment Management, Ms. Dreyfus spent 15 years at Goldman Sachs, where she most recently served as a Portfolio Manager and Managing Director in the Goldman Sachs Investment Partners (GSIP) Group. She currently serves as a director on the boards of Pioneer Natural Resources (NYSE: PXD), Nabors Energy Transition Corp (NYSE: NETC), Cadiz Inc (NADSAQ: CDZI), CDPQ (one of Canada’s largest pension plans), and on the advisory board of Eni Next (Eni SpA’s corporate venture arm). She served as an independent director on the board of Macquarie Infrastructure. She also serves as a director on several private companies’ governing and advisory boards in the energy transition space. Additionally, she is the Vice Chair of the advisory board of the Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia University and Co-chair of its Women in Energy program. Ms. Dreyfus is also a member of the MIT Corporation’s  Development Committee and sits on the MIT Economics  Department’s Visiting Committee. Her current and past non-profit board memberships include the Global CCS Foundation, New America Alliance, Breakthrough New York, and Girls Inc. of NYC. She is a member of the Economic Club of New York and the National Association of Investment Companies (NAIC). Ms. Dreyfus has held her CFA since 2004, and holds a dual degree in economics and management science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Anne Alonzo, Board Member, PotlatchDeltic, Unitil, and Feeding America

Anne Alonzo is a respected global leader with an accomplished career in the public, not-for-profit and corporate sectors. Anne presently serves on the boards of PotlatchDeltic (NASDAQ: PCH), Unitil (NYSE: UTL), and  Feeding America, the nation’s largest charity. She is senior advisor to firms including the Pollination Group, a climate change advisory and Trailhead Capital, regenerative agriculture impact investing, and she is a trustee of the Pan American Development Foundation. Anne has served in an executive capacity at Fortune 500 companies and federal government agencies, including Corteva Agriscience (SVP/Chief Sustainability Officer), the American Egg Board (President & CEO), the USDA (Administrator), and Kraft Foods(VP). She has also held senior leadership positions at Amoco Corporation, U.S. EPA, U.S. Departments of State and Commerce, and the National Foreign Trade Council. She has extensive international experience, which includes having lived and worked in Mexico City as a US diplomat. She is a member of the Council  on Foreign Relations. Anne is a National Association of Corporate Directors fellow and member of the Latino Corporate Directors Association. She has been recognized for her community leadership and efforts championing Diversity, Equity & Inclusion. She holds a JD and an MBA, University of Chicago.

Ryan Hittner, Artificial Intelligence and Algorithmic Assurance, Audit & Assurance Principal, Deloitte

Ryan is an Audit & Assurance principal with more than 15 years of management consulting experience, specializing in strategic advisory to global financial institutions focusing on banking and capital markets.  He serves his clients as a trusted service provider to the CEO, CFO, and CRO in solving problems related to risk management, valuation and technology. Ryan co-leads Deloitte's Artificial Intelligence & Algorithmic Assurance practice which is dedicated to advising clients in developing and deploying responsible AI including risk frameworks, governance, and controls related to Artificial Intelligence (“AI”) and advanced algorithms.  Ryan also serves as deputy leader of Deloitte's Valuation & Analytics practice, a global network of seasoned industry professionals with experience encompassing a wide range of traded financial instruments, data analytics and modeling. In his role, Ryan leads Deloitte's Omnia DNAV Derivatives technologies, which incorporate automation, machine learning, and large datasets.  Ryan previously served as a leader in Deloitte’s Model Risk Management (“MRM”) practice and has extensive experience providing a wide range of model risk management services to financial services institutions, including model development, model validation, technology, and quantitative risk management.

Jonathan Litchman, Co-Founder and CEO, The Providence Group

Jonathan Litchman, Co-founder and CEO of The Providence Group, is a national security and strategic communications veteran with experience in the Intelligence Community, a staff member on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and a senior defense industry P&L executive who consulted on information operations and strategic planning. He most recently led Edelman Public Relations’ cybersecurity policy and national security practice.