2024
Board of Directors ForumOctober 29-30, New

York City

LizAnn is a trusted advisor to companies, organizations and individuals facing complex business and legal challenges. She is a highly accomplished professional with a remarkable career that spans the legal, academic, and public sectors. Her career has been shaped by working collaboratively to identify opportunities, implement value-enhancing strategies and solve problems. LizAnn brings an unusual range of business, strategy and regulatory expertise in both large organizations and startups. She regularly advises entrepreneurs, evaluates and invests in businesses, and serves on public, private and governmental boards.

LizAnn is an Acting Professor of the Practice at Cornell Law School, and has taught at Cornell in Ithaca and Cornell Tech on Roosevelt Island since 2018. At the end of 2018, LizAnn retired from Cravath, where she had been a Corporate Partner since 2005, and had a wonderful 20 plus-year career. Her practice focused on domestic and international public and private corporate finance transactions, corporate governance and reporting matters, M&A, and liability management transactions. She has worked across many industries, including technology, financial services, industrials and consumer products.

From January 2022 to September 2022, LizAnn served as the Deputy Director, Disclosure Operations, Division of Corporation Finance at the SEC. In that seat, she led a team of over 350 people overseeing the disclosure review program for ‘33 and ‘34 Act disclosure, including in emerging areas such as fintech and digital assets, and division-wide performance evaluation, risk oversight and strategy.

LizAnn’s experiences have deepened her passion to work with entrepreneurs as a valuable sounding board to them on strategy, regulatory matters and talent. She was on the board of a SPAC and serves on the board of CEA company capitalizing on emerging market trends. Since 2018, through teaching at Cornell Tech, she has spent time with entrepreneurs early in their startup journey. This complements her role as a Senior Partner, Strategy & Regulatory, at Braven, an early-stage investment firm, and as an independent advisor to startups in the fintech, digital health and consumer products.

Allen Parker served from March 2017 until March 2020 as an executive at Wells Fargo & Company in San Francisco. He was Wells Fargo’s Chief Executive Officer and a Board Member from March 2019 until November 2019, and was the General Counsel for the remainder of his tenure.

Allen is currently the President of J.H. Whitney Investment Management, LLC, a company that creates investment indices, provides geopolitical risk-rating services, and performs risk analytics for governmental and commercial entities. He is also currently a member of the Board of Directors of Archer Systems, LLC, a company that provides comprehensive litigation-related claims administration and other settlement services, and was elected an Independent Director of Silicon Valley Bank Financial Group following its bankruptcy filing. Allen is also currently a member of the Board of Directors of, or an advisor to, several not-for-profit organizations.

Earlier in his career, Allen was a partner in the New York law firm Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP. While at Cravath, he specialized in finance and corporate governance and served in a variety of firm leadership roles, including serving from January 2013 through December 2016 as Cravath’s Presiding Partner.

Allen received a B.A. in 1977 from Duke University, where he majored in political science and comparative area studies. He then received an M.A. in political science in 1980 from the University of Chicago, where he focused on international affairs and political systems in China, India, Pakistan, and the Middle East. Allen received a J.D. in 1983 from the Columbia University School of Law, where he was a Notes and Comments Editor of the Columbia Law Review.

Bill Priestap is a founder of Trenchcoat Advisors, a boutique risk management firm. He is a recognized thought leader in national security, with a particular expertise in business security risks. Mr. Priestap spent 21 years at the FBI. While serving as head of the Counterintelligence Division, his responsibilities included the development and implementation of the organization’s global strategy to counter foreign nations’ intelligence efforts against the United States. Earlier in his career, Mr. Priestap handled transnational organized crime and later counterterrorism investigations. Over the years, he has interacted with hundreds of businesses and gained deep insight into the risks they face. Mr. Priestap is also an Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University’s Walsh School of Foreign Service, where he was previously a Centennial Fellow.

David Lawrence is the Founder and Chief Collaborative Officer of RANE. He previously served for approximately 20 years as Associate General Counsel and Managing Director at Goldman Sachs. During his tenure, David formed and was the global head of the Business Intelligence Group. His role covered a wide range of legal, regulatory, diligence and transactional responsibilities for the firm, as well as advising Goldman’s clients directly. David served on a number of the firm’s global risk-management and investment committees, including its Commitments and Capital Committees. During his tenure, David worked with his industry counterparts to lead in 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 2013, David received the FBI Director’s Award for his efforts in combating international terrorism.

Over the years, David and Goldman Sachs were jointly awarded over 20 risk management patents. While at Goldman Sachs, he helped create and lead the firm’s formation of Regulatory Data Corp (RDC), in which 20 of the leading global banks invested. RDC (www.rdc.com) provides data, technology and risk management solutions to the private sector in wide ranging areas including: anti-money laundering, fraud, corruption and illicit finance, as well as other enterprise risk-relevant fields. Until 2014, David served as a member of the company’s board. RDC was acquired by Vista Equity Partners in 2016 and purchased by Moody’s Corporation for $700 million in 2020.

Prior to working at Goldman Sachs, David served for 10 years as an Assistant US Attorney, in the Southern District of New York. During this tenure, 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. David serves as a member of the Board of Trustees for the John Jay College of Criminal Justice Foundation (City University of New York) and as a member of the Steering Committee for the Global Cyber Institute. David received a B.A. from Brandeis University in Urban Studies, Magna Cum Laude with Highest Honors. He attended the University of Texas School of Law and received his J.D. from New York University School of Law.

William is Managing Partner and Chief Investment Officer at Braven, an early-stage investor that’s built for breakthroughs within large regulated sectors – finance, healthcare & industrials.

Before Braven, William spent over a decade at BlackRock, where he was the Founder and Head of its Innovation Capital venture group. There he led investments in more than 25 early-stage startups, serving as board member for 18 companies, and fostering 8 successful IPOs. He also served as Deputy Chair of the firm-wide Blackrock Investment Council, and previously led its Market Intelligence Group – an investment team guided by quantitative analysis and global macro-economic and sector insights.

Prior to joining BlackRock, William was Head of Fixed Income Trading Strategy at Bridgewater Associates, having begun at the firm as the architect of their FX trading systems. Before that, he had founded LogisticScience, a strategy consulting firm leveraging advanced data analytics and computational models to support decision making across Fortune 1000 clients.

William holds advanced degrees in Physiology and Computer Science from McGill and Concordia Universities (Montreal, Canada) and has pursued extended coursework at the Center for Applied Mathematics in Bioscience & Medicine. He lives in New York City with his wife and two children.

Theodore “Teddy” Flo is Zest AI’s Chief Legal Officer, overseeing legal, compliance, lobbying, and regulatory affairs. With a focus on fair lending, artificial intelligence policy, explainability, model risk, and Fair Credit Reporting Act compliance, Teddy provides strategic guidance to the Company, helping every department live Zest AI’s mission of making credit fair and transparent for everyone. Before joining Zest AI, Teddy was in private practice, helping financial services clients of all sizes and types with litigation and enforcement matters as well as with the development and management of compliance management systems. Teddy graduated with honors from The George Washington University Law School and summa cum laude from the University of Maryland, College Park.

Fellow and Lecturer. Y-SIM was established in 2022 to help leaders more effectively create economic and societal value. The program is based on the work Jon and his collaborators led exploring stakeholder capitalism’s impact on leadership.

Jon is also Founding Executive Director of the Data & Trust Alliance, a not-for-profit organization which brings together leading businesses to develop and adopt responsible data and AI practices. Its first initiative, announced in 2021, was the development of algorithmic anti-bias safeguards for workforce practices, adopted by its member companies including American Express, CVS Health, GM, Humana, Mastercard, Meta, Nike and Walmart.

Over a 35-year career at IBM, Jon held multiple roles, including Senior Vice President, Chief Brand Officer, and leader of the company’s global marketing, communications and citizenship organization. He reported to three IBM CEOs during two decades of significant transformation. He was chairman of IBM’s corporate strategy committee and established the company’s values and policy committee. According to Interbrand, IBM became the second most valuable brand in the world during Jon’s tenure as CMO.

Jon is Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum; a director of the Ladies Professional Golf Association and chair of its nominating and governance committee; and a member of the advisory board of Responsible Innovation Labs. He was appointed a Tech Ethics and Policy Mentor at the McCoy Family Center for Ethics in Society at Stanford University in April 2023.

Jon is an inductee of the B2B Hall of Fame, the Marketing Hall of Fame and the CMO Club Hall of Fame. He was named a Brand Genius by AdWeek. In 2023 he received the Larry Foster Award for Integrity in Public Communications from the Page Center at Penn State University. He holds a B.A. from the School of Journalism and Mass Communications at San Jose State University.

Jon is co-inventor of a U.S. patent for a nanotechnology and process for atomic-scale semiconductors.

Dr. Irving Wladawsky-Berger is a Research Affiliate at MIT’s Sloan School of Management. He is a Fellow of the Initiative on the Digital Economy, of Cybersecurity at MIT Sloan, of MIT Connection Science, and of the Stanford Digital Economy Lab.

Dr. Wladawsky-Berger retired from IBM in May of 2007 after a 37-year career with the company, where his primary focus was on innovation and technical strategy. He led a number of IBM’s companywide initiatives including the internet, supercomputing, and Linux. Dr. Wladawsky-Berger has been Adviser on Digital Strategy and Innovation at Citigroup, at HBO, and at MasterCard; Adjunct Professor at the Imperial College Business School; and guest columnist at the Wall Street Journal’s CIO Journal. Since 2005, he has been writing a weekly blog, irvingwb.com.

Dr. Wladawsky-Berger is a member of the Committee on Science, Engineering and Public Policy of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and of the Linux Foundation Research Advisory Board. He was co-chair of the President’s Information Technology Advisory Committee as well as a founding member of the Computer Sciences and Telecommunications Board of the National Research Council.

Dr. Wladawsky-Berger is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. A native of Cuba, he was named the 2001 Hispanic Engineer of the Year. Dr. Wladawsky-Berger received an M.S. and a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Chicago.

Yali Harari is the CEO and co-Founder of Innovesta. She is a serial entrepreneur in the knowledge architecture, analytics and AI spaces. Earlier in her career Yali was CEO of various startups such as Tescom and Kamoon, and 3i-MIND as well as COO and head of Global Delivery for NICE Systems (NASDQ:NICE).She lives between Tel-Aviv and NYC.

Yali has a B.Sc in Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science from Tel Aviv university.

Lisa Shalett is the Co-Founder of Extraordinary Women on Boards, a dynamic peer-to-peer network of 700+ women who are experienced corporate board directors, focused on advancing board excellence, modernizing governance, and raising the presence and influence of diverse board members. A former Goldman Sachs Partner, she serves on several public and private for-profit boards, and also advises growth companies.

Known for her agility over her 25+ year career, she has held global leadership roles ranging from International Equities, to Compliance, Risk and Audit, to Brand Marketing, Digital Transformation, and Strategic Innovation. She managed Goldman Sachs’ brand through the financial crisis.

Lisa currently serves on the boards of PennyMac Financial (NYSE: PFSI), AccuWeather (private), and MPower Partners (private, Japan’s first female-founded, and first ESG-focused Venture Capital firm), and informally advises a number of startups. She previously served on the boards of Brookfield Property Partners, Bully Pulpit Interactive, and PerformLine. She is a committed mentor, a connector, a life-long learner with a serendipity mindset, and is fascinated by transitions, “portfolio careers,” and the power of communities. She lives in NYC, earned her MBA from Harvard Business School, and her BA, summa cum laude, in East Asian Studies (Japan) from Harvard University.

Victoria Grace is a founding partner of Colle Capital Partners LP, an opportunistic, early stage technology venture fund. Previously she was a partner at Wall Street Technology Partners LP, a $125mm mid stage technology fund. Before that she was a Director of Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein Private Equity Group. Victoria has extensive experience in originating, structuring and monitoring venture capital transactions.

Victoria has worked with, and made investments in a broad range of companies, including enterprise software, wireless technologies, medical devices, health IT, FinTech, hardware, virtual reality and D2C retail companies. Victoria is especially passionate about companies that have a strong ESG focus. She has evaluated and invested in the companies worldwide. Notable investments that Victoria either led or worked closely with include Apriso (acquired by Dassault Systemes), bitpesa, Bread Finance (acquired by Alliance Data), CargoX, Concourse (acquired by EAB), Coast, Collectiv Food, Doctor.com (acquired by Press Ganey), Dukkantek, EnsoData, Findigs, Frete, Haystacks.AI, Hyliion (NYSE: HYLN), Imagemover, JunoDX, Maven Clinic, MaxBone, MetaStorm (acquired by OpenText), Netki, Numan, NWO.AI, QMerit, Radar, Sensydia, SkopeNow, Swiftmile, Syft (acquired by Indeed) and Vergent Bioscience.
In addition, Victoria co-founded Work It, Mom! LLC, a network site for professional moms with an advertising revenue model. She co-managed the company for five years, until it was merged into another content company in NYC.

Prior to joining Dresdner Kleinwort Capital, Victoria was with a Los Angeles-based venture capital/incubator firm focused in the emerging technology, Internet, and biotech fields. Earlier, she worked in the investment banking division of Salomon Brothers in New York, where she participated in M&A advisory assignments and capital raising for commercial banks and finance companies.

Earlier in her career, Victoria did cancer related research at the National Institutes of Health. Her research was published in well-respected science magazines. Victoria was also a research assistant at the Washington University School of Medicine, Cardiothoracic Surgery Department. There she analyzed statistics and data recorded from activation of the sinus node of the heart.

Victoria received a B.A. in economics and biochemistry, Summa Cum Laude, from Washington University in St. Louis, winning both a Florence Moog Academic Science Scholarship and a Mabel Blake Academic Science Scholarship.

Victoria has been serving on the board of Vostok New Ventures, an investment company with presence in Sweden from 2015 to 2021. Vostok New Ventures focuses on European and emerging markets companies with strong network effects. Victoria also sits on the Investment Committee of Teklas Ventures, a corporate venture arm of Teklas, One of the leading auto parts suppliers to the most prominent car manufacturers. Teklas Ventures focuses on European and US companies with strong strategic synergies.
Victoria is an avid supporter of education and involved in the Go Project. She also supports other education-focused organizations. Victoria is also actively involved in Washington University, her alma mater.

Noah Joshua Phillips is Co-Chair of the Antitrust Practice and previously served as a Commissioner of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). He advises clients on a range of antitrust issues, including mergers and acquisitions, business conduct and compliance, litigation and investigations, consumer protection, data security and privacy.

On the FTC, Mr. Phillips played an integral role in precedent setting enforcement actions and regulatory efforts concerning antitrust, consumer protection and privacy. He decided dozens of merger and other antitrust enforcement matters across the economy, including in the consumer product, defense, energy, entertainment, healthcare, technology, pharmaceutical and retail industries. Mr. Phillips’ written antitrust opinions were consistently upheld by federal appellate courts.

Recognized by The Legal 500 and The Best Lawyers in America for his work in both antitrust litigation and antitrust merger control, Mr. Phillips currently represents Tesla in consolidated putative class action antitrust litigation alleging Tesla has monopolized access to parts and services needed to repair its vehicles, and that the company’s actions have resulted in delays and supracompetitive pricing for Tesla vehicle maintenance, in violation of Sections 1 and 2 of the Sherman Act, California’s Cartwright Act and California’s Unfair Competition Law.

Mr. Phillips speaks and writes frequently on a range of topics, including antitrust, consumer protection, and privacy issues, as well as the evolving artificial intelligence landscape and the various risks that might be addressed through enforcement and regulation. In addition, in his role as an FTC Commissioner, Mr. Phillips frequently testified before Congress and represented the FTC before international bodies, including the G7, the Competition Committee of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, and the International Conference of Data Protection and Privacy Commissioners.

Prior to the FTC, Mr. Phillips served as Chief Counsel to U.S. Senator John Cornyn, of Texas, on the Senate Judiciary Committee. He advised Senator Cornyn on a variety of legal and policy issues, as well as judicial nominations.

Mr. Phillips received an A.B. magna cum laude from Dartmouth College in 2000, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, and a J.D. from Stanford Law School in 2005. He began his career at a New York-based investment bank. After law school, Mr. Phillips clerked for Hon. Edward C. Prado of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and joined Cravath’s Litigation Department in 2006. He left the Firm in 2010, and he rejoined Cravath as a partner in December 2022.

Sarah Kreps focuses on the intersection of international politics, technology, and national security. She is the John L. Wetherill Professor in the Department of Government, Adjunct Professor of Law, and the Director of the Cornell Brooks School Tech Policy Institute.

She has written five books, including, most recently, Social Media and International Relations. Other books include Taxing Wars: The American Way of War Finance and the Decline of Democracy; Drones: What Everyone Needs to Know; Drone Warfare; and Coalitions of Convenience: United States Military Interventions after the Cold War.

Beyond these books, Professor Kreps’ work has appeared in a number of academic journals such as the New England Journal of Medicine, Science Advances, Vaccine, Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) Network Open, American Political Science Review, World Politics, International Security, and Journal of Cybersecurity, policy journals such as Foreign Affairs, and media outlets such as CNN, the BBC, New York Times, and Washington Post.

Professor Kreps is a Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution and has held fellowships at the Council on Foreign Relations (and is a life member), Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, West Point, and the University of Virginia’s Miller Center for Public Affairs.

Professor Kreps received her undergraduate degree from Harvard, a master’s from Oxford and her Ph.D. from Georgetown. She served as an active-duty officer in the United States Air Force from 1999-2003.

Roslyn (Roz) leads PwC’s U.S. Government, Regulatory Affairs & Public Policy office based in Washington, DC. A member of the firm’s U.S. Leadership Team, Roz is responsible for ensuring PwC has a voice in important debates at the nexus of business and government and helping the firm successfully execute its business strategy. Roz leads PwC’s engagement with Congress, the White House, regulatory agencies, state and local governments, and third-party organizations including trade associations, think tanks, and NGOs.

Roz brings more than 25 years of experience working at PwC in both tax consulting and public policy. During her tenure in PwC’s tax practice, Roz’s participated in a national rotational program working directly with the firm’s U.S. Leadership Team. In the program, Roz led internal initiatives focused on brand, knowledge management, and communications. After completing the program, Roz transitioned to the firm’s U.S. Government, Regulatory Affairs & Public Policy team based in Washington, D.C., which is where she has played an essential role in leading government, regulatory, and public policy strategy for PwC for 20 years.

Roz has been a featured speaker at several major conferences hosted by Atlantic Media, the Committee for Economic Development, the National Association for Black Accountants, and the Society for Corporate Governance. She also serves on the Board of Browne Academy, an independent private day school in Alexandria, Virginia and the Advisory Council for GlobalWIN—a nonprofit organization that helps women lead in the global innovation economy.

Roz holds a B.A. in English and Psychology from Stanford University, a J.D. from The University of Michigan Law School at Ann Arbor, and an L.L.M. in Taxation from Wayne State University in Detroit.

Tamara Brightwell is a corporate partner in the Washington, D.C., office of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, where she counsels public company clients on a wide range of regulatory matters and provides expert securities law advice on complex capital markets transactions.

Prior to joining the firm, Ms. Brightwell served as the Disclosure Review Program Director in the Division of Corporation Finance at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). In that role, she provided legal and policy guidance to the disclosure review program and oversaw the division’s reviews of transactional filings and periodic and current reports to monitor and enhance compliance with disclosure and accounting requirements, with specific oversight of industry offices for life sciences, industrial applications and services, energy and transportation, manufacturing, and trade and services. During her nearly two decades at the SEC and in the Division of Corporation Finance, Ms. Brightwell served in numerous roles, including as Deputy Chief Counsel and Senior Advisor to the Chair.

Ms. Brightwell received a B.S. in financial management, cum laude, from Clemson University, and a J.D. from the University of Notre Dame Law School.

Steve Israel U.S. Congressman 2001–2017, directs the nonpartisan Institute of Politics and Global Affairs at Cornell University. He has published two critically acclaimed satires of Washington: The Global War on Morris (2014) and Big Guns (2018). As a member of Congress, Israel served as chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (2011–2015).

Israel is a regular political commentator on MSNBC, and his insights appear regularly in the New York Times, The Atlantic magazine, the Washington Post, and Wall Street Journal. He was profiled on HBO’s Last Week Tonight with John Oliver and has appeared on CBS’s Sixty Minutes.

Andrew Karolyi is the Charles Field Knight Dean of the Cornell SC Johnson College of Business. He is a Professor of Finance and International Business as well as holder of the Harold Bierman Jr. Distinguished Professorship in the Johnson Graduate School of Management. Dr. Karolyi is also a Professor of Economics in Cornell’s College of Arts and Sciences.

A scholar in the area of investment management, with a specialization in the study of international financial markets, Dr. Karolyi has published extensively in journals in finance and economics, including the Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, and Review of Financial Studies. He has also published several books and monographs, and his research is featured in print and electronic media such as the Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, The Economist, Time, New York Times, Washington Post, Forbes, BusinessWeek, and CNBC. Dr. Karolyi recently completed a four-year term as executive editor of the Review of Financial Studies, one of the top-tier journals in finance. He has also served as an associate editor for a variety of journals, including the Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Empirical Finance, Journal of Banking and Finance, Review of Finance, and the Pacific Basin Finance Journal.

Dr. Karolyi is a recipient of the Michael Jensen Prize for Corporate Finance and Organizations (2017), the Fama/DFA Prize for Capital Markets and Asset Pricing (2005), the William F. Sharpe Award for Scholarship in Finance (2001), the Journal of Empirical Finance’s Biennial Best Paper Prize (2006), and Johnson School’s Prize for Excellence in Research (2010). Dr. Karolyi leads various executive education programs in the U.S., Canada, Europe, and Asia, and he is actively involved in consulting with corporations, banks, investment firms, stock exchanges, and law firms. He is president-elect/program chair of the Western Finance Association, has served as a director of the American Finance Association, and is past chairperson of the board of trustees and past president of the Financial Management Association International. Dr. Karolyi received his B.A. (Honors) in Economics from McGill University and worked at the Bank of Canada for several years in its research department. He subsequently earned his MBA and Ph.D. degrees in Finance at the Graduate School of Business of the University of Chicago.

Shawn Muma is the Director, Supply Chain Innovation and Emerging Technologies for CGE’s Digital Supply Chain Institute (DSCI).

His experience includes structuring and managing technology alliances for IBM in the U.S., Europe, Asia, Middle East and South America in a wide variety of industries including aerospace and defense, investment banking, retail banking, chemical and public sector. In addition to the US, he has lived and worked in London, Bangkok and Beijing giving him a broad perspective on challenges facing global corporations. He has designed and implemented governance models and management systems in a variety of multi-partner environments and has vast experience in dealing with the complex issues encountered in multi-cultural environments.

Among his accomplishments is the initial technology development and management for the London based Continuous Linked Settlement Bank, a consortium of more than 50 global banks that handles simultaneous settlement for $7 trillion in daily foreign exchange transactions.

He holds an MBA from the Wharton School and has been a lecturer on Global Operations Management for graduate students at Washington University in St. Louis.

Christopher G. Caine is President of the Center for Global Enterprise, a New York based non-profit organization dedicated to the study of the contemporary corporation in the era of global economic integration. He is also President & CEO of Mercator XXI, LLC (www.mercatorxxi.com), a professional services firm helping clients engage the global economy.

Drawing on over 35 years of experience in government and public affairs and travel to 47 countries, Mercator XXI provides marketplace insight, experiences, and support to execute client needs in all hemispheres.

Prior to April 2009, Mr. Caine was employed by IBM Corporation for 25 years. For thirteen years he had corporate responsibility for global public policy issues that impacted IBM in his role as Vice President, Governmental Programs.

Mr. Caine also served as Director, Human Resources and Environmental Policy for IBM, responsible for public policy issues such as health-care reform, labor, personnel, health and safety, environment, and energy. Prior to that, he was Manager of Federal Government Relations and was Regional Manager of the company’s state government relations programs.

Prior to IBM, Mr. Caine worked for the Coca-Cola Company, the Eaton Corporation, and the Electronic Industries Association.

Mr. Caine has spoken at a variety of public fora on policy and economic development trends involving government, innovation, globalization, global electronic commerce, privacy, and new security challenges. These fora include: United States Congress; National Intelligence Council Conference convened by the Center for Strategic and International Studies: An Open and Trusted Model in Information Technology; World Knowledge Forum in Seoul, Korea: Government in an Era of Rapid Innovation; the World Economic Forum: Improving Public-Private Cooperation to Address New Security Challenges; the Shanghai International Forum: Globalizing Electronic Commerce; the Progress & Freedom Foundation Aspen Summit; the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation; the New York Technology Forum: Transforming Government for the 21st Century; and the Centre for Corporate Public Affairs in Sydney, Australia.

Mr. Caine serves as a senior adviser for technology and public policy to the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). He is a Fellow of the International Academy of Management. He is on the boards of the following organizations: The Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, The Economic Club of Washington DC, The Institute for Education, The Ambassador Theater, and BrainFood.

He is a guest lecturer at Lafayette College and Georgetown University. In the Spring of 2008, he created the Caine Scholar’s Award for Global Leadership, Business and Policy at Lafayette College. It is designed to help develop the next generation of U.S. leaders for the globally integrated economy. He also served as an Alumni Associate member of the Lafayette College Board of Trustees.

Born in Rochester, New York, Mr. Caine received a bachelor’s degree in Philosophy from Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania and a master’s degree in American Government from Georgetown University.

Effective February 5, 2020, Colin Browne became the Chief Operating Officer, responsible for the company’s supply chain and sourcing operations, demand planning, distribution, information technology, business process management, corporate real estate, asset protection and sustainability. From July 2017 to February 2020, Colin served as the Chief Supply Chain Officer where he led all aspects of the company’s supply chain operations, including sourcing, planning and global distribution and logistics.

Mr. Browne has over 25 years of experience leading sourcing efforts for large brands. Prior to joining Under Armour, he served as Vice President and Managing Director for VF Corporation, leading its sourcing and product supply organization in Asia and Africa. Additionally, he served as Executive Vice President of Footwear and Accessories for Li and Fung Group LTD and Chief Executive Officer, Asia for Pentland Brands PLC.

In addition to his role as co-chair of the DSCI, Mike is currently an Independent Board Member for Specright, a Senior Advisor for Sageview Capital, an Advisor for a stealth cybersecurity startup and an advisor for CyberStarts. Mike and his family have also founded Team Steve: The Steven Crowe Legacy Fund at Curesearch for Children’s Cancer. Mike retired as Chief Information Officer at Colgate-Palmolive Company after serving in that role from 2013-2022. In this role, Mike was responsible for leading Colgate’s Global Information Technology strategy and function.

Mike has led a broad range of IT organizations and initiatives over the years, joining Colgate in 1989 at the Colgate Data Center. He led several software implementations around the world, including many SAP projects. Mike has been responsible for multiple IT shared service organizations, IT infrastructure and software application development, where he and his team were involved in many leading-edge projects, including SAP’s HANA technology, agile development, mobile applications, cloud computing and collaboration tools.

Prior to joining Colgate, Mike held software development positions related to U.S. naval defense systems and healthcare systems at Computer Sciences Corporation, Shared Medical Systems, and Seton Hall University. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Computer and Information Sciences from the University of Delaware.”

Ira Sager is a VP, Communications and Global Learning at the Center for Global Enterprise where he is responsible for the Center’s global learning initiatives.

Mr. Sager has held several senior editorial roles in 21 years with Bloomberg Businessweek. Recently, he was Director of Special Projects. In that position, he developed strategy and content for editorial projects, realigned coverage in several areas and helped launch Bloomberg Businessweek’s award-winning iPad app. He was a member of the editorial team that redesigned and repositioned Businessweek online, launched the publication’s first blogs and worked extensively with third-party content providers. He also served as Managing Editor of eBiz, a monthly supplement to Businessweek that chronicled the dot-com era. He has written and edited numerous cover stories, features and news articles on all aspects of the computer industry. Mr. Sager has extensive experience with digital media and knowledge of the technology, management consulting and education industries.

He has a B.A. in English from Baruch College, City University of New York.

Evan Mehran Norris, a former federal prosecutor, focuses his practice on advising U.S. and multinational companies and their senior executives with respect to government and internal investigations, criminal defense, regulatory compliance and related civil litigation.

A member of the Investigations and Regulatory Enforcement practice and Data Security and Privacy practice, Mr. Norris advises clients in matters ranging from cross‑border investigations and cryptoasset‑related compliance reviews to cyber incident response.

An experienced trial and appellate lawyer, Mr. Norris has represented clients in a variety of sensitive matters concerning the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), trade sanctions, cybersecurity, anti‑money laundering controls, the False Claims Act and securities fraud. He has worked across many industries, such as banking, fintech, healthcare, energy, telecommunications, aircraft, automotive, consumer products, metals and mining, construction, spirits, pharmaceutical and commercial real estate. Mr. Norris has handled both domestic and cross‑border investigations, including in Europe, Asia, the Middle East and Latin America.

Mr. Norris has represented clients before a number of enforcement agencies, including the Criminal, National Security and Tax Divisions of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), numerous United States Attorneys’ Offices, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control, the U.S. Commodities Futures Trading Commission, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office for Civil Rights, the New York State Department of Financial Services and numerous state attorneys general.

Prior to joining Cravath, Mr. Norris served for 10 years as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York. He was the lead prosecutor of the groundbreaking FIFA case, spearheading a global investigation of corruption in international soccer in one of the most far‑reaching cross‑border corruption cases ever brought by the DOJ. Mr. Norris held a number of leadership positions during his tenure at the U.S. Attorney’s Office, including Chief of the National Security & Cybercrime Section, Deputy Chief of the Organized Crime & Racketeering Section and the first Director of the FIFA Task Force. He also trained other DOJ prosecutors on the conduct of international money laundering and asset forfeiture investigations, including the use of MLATs to freeze and seize assets located overseas.

Mr. Norris is a frequent speaker on topics ranging from cybersecurity, cryptoasset and ESG enforcement trends to governance standards for international sports organizations. In November 2022, he appeared in Netflix’s documentary series “FIFA Uncovered,” in which he discussed his role as the prosecutor leading the DOJ’s multi-year corruption investigation. Mr. Norris also regularly publishes articles and resources, among these, “How U.S. Authorities Obtain Foreign Evidence in Cross-Border Investigations,” which he co-authored for Global Investigation Review’s “Americas Investigations Review” (2019-2021), “Regulatory Compliance in the Context of a Cross-Border Data Breach,” which he co-authored for Global Investigation Review’s “Guide to Cyber Investigations” (Second Edition) and “More than Just the Ooki DAO: Lessons for Web3 Companies About Control After bZx,” which he co-authored for Coindesk (October 2022).

Mr. Norris earned a number of awards and commendations for his work as a prosecutor, including the 2017 J. Michael Bradford Memorial Award, presented annually by the National Association of Former United States Attorneys for the most outstanding performance by one of the nation’s federal prosecutors. Since joining Cravath, he has been recognized for his white collar criminal defense work by the Best Lawyers in America and The Legal 500 US, as a Future Star by Benchmark Litigation and as a leading lawyer in White-Collar Crime & Government Investigations by Chambers USA, which describes Mr. Norris as “brilliant and polished” and someone whose “international experience is a real asset for his clients and colleagues.” He has also been selected by Lawdragon as one of “500 Leading Litigators in America”. In 2021, Mr. Norris was selected to serve as a member of Law360’s Cybersecurity & Privacy Editorial Advisory Board.

Mr. Norris was born in Dallas, Texas. He received a B.A. magna cum laude from Columbia College and a J.D. from Harvard Law School, where he was a member of the Legal Aid Bureau. Mr. Norris serves on the board of the Iranian American Bar Association’s New York chapter, and is also a member of the New York City Bar Association and the International Bar Association.

He joined Cravath in 2017 and was elected a partner in 2019.

Jason Smolanoff is President of Kroll’s Cyber Risk practice, based in the Los Angeles office. Since joining Kroll in 2017, Jason has led the practice through transformative growth into a highly diversified, global organization that today provides clients with seamless, end-to-end cyber risk management services.

Devon Ackerman is the Global Digital Forensic and Incident Response Services Leader for Kroll’s Cyber Risk practice. Devon is an authority on digital forensics and has extensive experience in the investigation and remediation of cyber-related threats and incidents from his years with the Federal Bureau of Investigation as well as in the private sector. In his current role, Devon provides strategic leadership and management support to Kroll’s digital forensic and incident response teams serving diverse clients in North and South America, EMEA, and APAC. Devon’s extensive cyber investigative experience includes physical and cyber-based corporate espionage and sabotage investigations; ransomware and malware cyber intrusion events; unauthorized user access; PII and PHI compromise; malicious spear-phishing and whaling campaigns; Office 365 and G Suite compromises and related log analytics; data destruction events; breach response; and other events involving misuse of networked endpoints and infrastructure. Devon joined Kroll from the FBI, where he was a Supervisory Special Agent and Senior Digital Sciences Forensics Examiner in the Digital Evidence Field Operations Unit. In this role, he oversaw and coordinated all FBI Digital Forensics-related field operations across the United States, spanning a variety of matters such as domestic terrorism, mass shootings, critical incident response events and large-scale electronic evidence collections. Devon has also provided expert witness testimony in federal and state courts. During this time, Devon developed a number of forensic tools that are still widely used. He was also the course material revision architect and co-author for the FBI’s CART Tech Certification program and Digital Evidence Extraction Technician (DExT) training curriculums. He began his career with the FBI in 2008, where he co-founded the FBI’s first North Carolina Cyber Security and Intrusion Working Group (eShield).

Cameron Malin, JD, CISSP, is a Behavioral Profiler and former Supervisory Special Agent/Behavioral Profiler with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), specializing in the assessment of cyber threat actor decision making, adversary tradecraft, cyber deception and cognitive vulnerabilities. He has over twenty-two years of experience investigating, analyzing and profiling cyber adversaries across the spectrum of criminal to national security attacks.

During his tenure in the FBI, he was the founder of both the FBI Behavioral Analysis Unit’s
(BAU) Cyber Behavioral Analysis Center (CBAC), the FBI BAU’s methodology and application of science-based behavioral profiling and assessment to national security and criminal cyber offenders—and the BAU’s Deception and Influence Group (DIG), a uniquely trained and experienced cadre of Behavioral Profilers specialized in analyses and countermeasures to adversary cyber deception campaigns and influence operations.

He is a co-author of the authoritative cyber deception book, Deception in the Digital Age:
Exploiting and Defending Human Targets Through Computer-Mediated Communications
(published by Academic Press, an imprint of Elsevier, Inc.) and co-author of
the Malware Forensics book series: Malware Forensics: Investigating and Analyzing Malicious Code, Malware Forensics Field Guide for Windows Systems, and Malware.
Forensics Field Guide for Linux Systems (all published by Syngress, an imprint of Elsevier, Inc.).

William P. Rogers, Jr. retired from Cravath’s Corporate Department in December 2015. His practice encompassed the representation of both corporate and financial institution clients in a wide variety of matters, including international securities offerings, corporate governance and SEC compliance matters, mergers and acquisitions, and derivative financial products.

Mr. Rogers was repeatedly cited as one of the country’s leading practitioners in capital markets by, among others, Chambers USA, Chambers Global, The Legal 500 US and IFLR1000.

Mr. Rogers regularly advised a wide variety of the Firm’s clients, including Royal Dutch Shell plc, Bacardi Limited, Time Warner Inc., Northrop Grumman Corporation, CBS Corporation, INEOS Group Limited, Tetragon Financial Group Limited, Costamare Inc., priceline.com Incorporated, FactSet Research Systems Inc., Morgan Stanley, Citigroup, GasLog Ltd. and Goldman Sachs.

Mr. Rogers advised Royal Dutch Shell plc in its $70 billion acquisition of BG Group plc and in connection with its reserves and financial restatements and the corporate restructuring that created Royal Dutch Shell plc. He represented Bank of America, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and Citigroup in the refinancing by Chrysler LLC of the debt provided by the U.S. Treasury and the Canadian Government. Mr. Rogers also advised Banco Santander SA in the $100 billion acquisition of ABN AMRO by a consortium of bidders, including Santander; and INEOS Group Limited, a major UK chemical company, in the financing of its acquisition of the Innovene chemicals business from BP plc and subsequent debt refinancings.

Mr. Rogers represented a number of non‑U.S. companies in their equity IPOs and initial listings, including GasLog Ltd. (U.S. IPO and NYSE listing), GasLog Partners LP (U.S. IPO and NYSE listing), Costamare Inc. (U.S. IPO and NYSE listing), Safe Bulkers Inc. (U.S. IPO and NYSE listing), Tetragon Financial Group Limited (Global IPO and Euronext Amsterdam listing), T.E.R.N.A S.p.A. (Global IPO and Milan listing) and Royal Dutch Shell plc (Global IPO as part of a unification of predecessors and NYSE, LSE and Euronext Amsterdam listings).

Mr. Rogers also regularly advised the Firm’s corporate clients on derivatives matters, including the implications of the new Dodd‑Frank swaps regulation. He was involved in the formation of the International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA) and, prior to his move to London, regularly represented ISDA on legislative, regulatory and documentation matters.

Mr. Rogers was born in Bronxville, New York. He received a B.A. from Union College in 1972 and a J.D. from Case Western Reserve School of Law in 1978.

Mr. Rogers joined Cravath in 1979 and became a partner in 1985. From 1998 to 2001, he served as the Managing Partner of the Corporate Department and, from 2001 to 2007, headed the Firm’s London office. Mr. Rogers most recently served on the Firm’s Strategy Board.

Daniel J. Cerqueira focuses his practice on mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance, activist defense and general corporate matters. Mr. Cerqueira’s clients have included AerCap, Altra, AmerisourceBergen, Ashland, Biogen, Blue Current, Brookfield Asset Management, Buckeye Partners, Cincinnati Bell, Disney, DRI Capital, FS Investments, GreenSky, Hasbro, Hertz, Hibu Group, IBM, Illumina, Occidental Petroleum, Pinnacle Foods, RedHill Biopharma, SMBC Aviation Capital, Southwest Gas, Starwood Hotels and Univision.

David J. Kappos is Co-Chair of Cravath’s Intellectual Property Practice. He is widely recognized as one of the world’s foremost leaders in the field of intellectual property, including intellectual property management and strategy; the development of global intellectual property norms, laws, and practices; and commercialization and enforcement of innovation-based assets.

Mr. Kappos supports the firm’s clients with a wide range of their most complex intellectual property issues, including those pertaining to blockchain, cryptoassets, and fintech, as well as data security and privacy. From August 2009 to January 2013, Mr. Kappos served as Undersecretary of Commerce and Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). In that role, he advised the President, the Secretary of Commerce, and the administration on intellectual property policy matters. As Director of the USPTO, he led the agency in dramatically re-engineering its entire management and operational systems as well as its engagement with the global innovation community. Mr. Kappos was instrumental in achieving the greatest legislative reform of the U.S. patent system in generations through passage and implementation of the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act, signed into law by President Obama in September 2011.

Prior to leading the USPTO, Mr. Kappos held several executive posts in the legal department of IBM, including litigation counsel; Asia Pacific IP counsel; and, from 2003 to 2009, Vice President and Chief Intellectual Property Lawyer responsible for all patent, trademark, copyright and trade secret matters worldwide.

Jane Seu is a Senior Client Partner based in Korn Ferry’s Washington DC office and a member of the firm’s Global Technology practice.

Jane is an accomplished search executive specializing in emerging digital technologies across all sectors, commercial and government, in the North American region. Her work is notable as it relates to the recruitment and selection of members of boards of directors and senior operating leaders. She also has extensive experience advising large-scale public-private sector partnerships in technology and innovation.

Jane’s career in executive search spans 15 years leading high visibility engagements with concentration in general management (CEOs, COOs, presidents) and technical (CTOs, CIOs, CISOs, CDOs, CPOs) leadership.

Prior to Korn Ferry, Jane was a principal for the CEO & Board of Directors practice focused on the technology industry for another public-traded executive search firm.

Before executive search, Jane was a member of the technology consulting services division of Thomson Reuters Corporation.

Jane holds a master’s degree from Brown University and a bachelor’s degree from New York University. She resides in Washington, DC.

Machua Millett is the Chief Innovation Officer and Alternative Investment Practice Leader at Lockton Financial Services, in which role he creates new insurance products for unaddressed risk exposures and serves as a technical expert on management and professional liability issues for private equity, venture capital and hedge fund managers, SPACs and target companies, and private and public companies. He works on a regular basis with GPL policies, portfolio companies, D&O programs, SPACs, and companies making the transition from private to public through initial public offerings (IPOs) and reverse mergers, D&O/management liability, pension trust liability, fidelity/crime, employment practices liability, private equity/venture capital professional services liability, internet/e‐commerce/cyber liability, kidnap and ransom, and merger and acquisition facilitation products. Mach has also been involved in creating new insurance products relating to wage and hour liability, FCPA investigation costs, FERC investigation costs, the responsible corporate officer doctrine, Dodd Frank compensation claw-back, cyber liability, social engineering loss, Chief Compliance Officer personal liability, intellectual property infringement liability, reputational risk, medical billing and coding liability, and transaction facilitation.

Mach came to Lockton after twelve years at Marsh and ten years as an attorney at Skadden Arps, Bingham McCutchen, and Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge, where he practiced law as an intellectual property, securities and general commercial litigator and insurance coverage defense lawyer. He has extensive experience crafting insurance contracts and litigating, arbitrating, mediating and negotiating the settlement of complex securities, intellectual property, business and insurance coverage disputes.

Christopher White is a senior vice president in the Cyber Risk business, based in Boston. Chris leverages more than 18 years of experience in security, intelligence, and crisis and reputational management, and he has an extensive background in managing crisis communications around cybersecurity and data privacy incidents.

Prior to joining Kroll, Chris served as a director in the Cybersecurity practice at the Brunswick Group, a crisis management firm, where he counseled clients on preparing for and responding to cybersecurity incidents. Before that, he served as a spokesperson and intelligence analyst for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), where he managed crisis communications and media relations, as well as assessed geopolitical risk for the Bush and Obama administrations.

After leaving the CIA, Chris served as the Deputy Director of D.C.’s Homeland Security and Emergency Management Agency (HSEMA), where he helped lead disaster preparedness, response and recovery efforts for the city of Washington, D.C., including the coronavirus pandemic, as well as hundreds of First Amendment demonstrations and National Security Special Events such as the Black Lives Matter demonstrations, presidential inaugurations, State of the Union addresses and July 4th celebrations on the National Mall.

Barry Strauss is a classicist and a military and naval historian and consultant. In addition to teaching at Cornell, he is also the Corliss Page Dean Fellow at the Hoover Institution. As the Series Editor of Princeton’s Turning Points in Ancient History and author of nine books on ancient History, Professor Strauss is a recognized authority on the subject of leadership and the lessons that can be learned from the experiences of the greatest political and military leaders of the ancient world (Caesar, Hannibal, Alexander among many others).

He is a former Chair of Cornell’s Department of History as well as a former Director of Cornell’s Judith Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies, where he studied modern engagements from Bosnia to Iraq and from Afghanistan to Europe. He also served as Distinguished Visiting Professor in the Department of Defense Analysis at the Naval Postgraduate School. He is an expert on military strategy. He is currently director as well as a founder of Cornell’s Program on Freedom and Free Societies, which investigates challenges to constitutional liberty at home and abroad.  He holds fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the German Academic Exchange Service, the Korea Foundation, the MacDowell Colony, the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, the American Academy in Rome, among others and is the recipient of Cornell’s Clark (now Russell) Award for Excellence in Teaching. In recognition of his scholarship, he received he received the Lucio Colletti Journalism Prize for literature and he was named an Honorary Citizen of Salamis, Greece.

His Battle of Salamis: The Naval Encounter That Saved Greece—and Western Civilization was named one of the best books of 2004 by the Washington Post. His Masters of Command: Alexander, Hannibal, Caesar and the Genius of Leadership was named one of the best books of 2012 by Bloomberg. His The Death of Caesar: The Story of History’s Most Famous Assassination, (Simon & Schuster, March 2015) has been hailed as “clear and compelling” by TIME, “brilliant” by the Wall Street Journal, “engrossing, exhaustive yet surprisingly easy to read” by Barrons, and “an absolutely marvelous read” by The Times of London.

His bestselling Ten Caesars: Roman Emperors from Augustine to Constantine (Simon & Schuster, March 2019) was called “an exceptionally accessible history of the Roman Empire … much of Ten Caesars reads like a script for Games of Thrones (Wall Street Journal), “enlightening,” (New York Times), “an excellent and eminently readable introduction,” (New Criterion), “a history page-turner which brings to life Rome’s rulers,” (National Geographic), and “a captivating narrative,” (Publisher’s Weekly). The book was named to five best book lists of the year.

Strauss’s books have been translated into nineteen languages. Strauss is also author of over 60 scholarly articles and reviews.

Strauss is a well-known television personality with appearances on The History Channel, The Discovery Channel, CNN, PBS, and Netflix. He is host of the popular podcast, “ANTIQUITAS: Leaders and Legends of the Ancient World,” barrystrauss.com/podcast or on most platforms.

In March 2022 he will publish his latest book, The War that Made the Roman Empire: Antony, Cleopatra, and Octavian at Actium (Simon & Schuster).