
NACD Directors Summit™ 2025
2025 Speakers
Global thought leaders shaping the future of governance.

Meet This Year's Powerhouse Speakers
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2025 Mainstage Speakers

2025 Concurrent Session Speakers

Nisa Amolis
Director, Wharton, Robotics Automation; Managing Partner, A100x Ventures

Sheila Bangalore
Lead Independent Director, Chair, Human Resources Committee, member, Executive Committee and Audit Committee, State Street; Chair

Annalisa Barrett
Senior Advisor, KPMG Board Leadership Center

Jordan Barth
Managing Director, US Cyber Response & Resilience Leader, KPMG LLP

Bhaskar Chakravorti
Dean of Global Business, The Fletcher School, Tufts University

Keith D. Dorsey, NACD.DC
Director, Vimly Benefit Solutions and Continu; Founder & Executive Advisor, Boardroom Journey

John Driver, NACD.DC
Director, Broadway Financial Corp., City First Bank N.A., and Vital Energy; CEO, Lynx Technology

Theodore L. Dysart, NACD.DC
Managing Director, Russell Reynolds Associates

Holly Gregory
Partner and Co-Chair of Global Corporate Governance and Executive Compensation, Sidley Austin LLP

Chad Holliday
Lead Independent Director, Venterra Group PLC; Chief Advisor, Resource Resolutions, PLC.

Joseph K. Hurd III, NACD.DC
Director, Lloyd’s of London, Trustpilot Group PLC, and Hays Group PLC; Operating Partner, SOSV LLC

Samantha Kappagoda
Independent Director, Credit Suisse Funds; Member, Business Board at University of Toronto

Karin Klein
Director, Regency Centers and Paramount Group; Founding Partner, Bloomberg Beta

Nita Kohli, NACD.DC
CEO & Co-Founder, Kohli Advisors LLC; Advisory Board Member, Interos Inc., BD Logic

Shermin Kruse, NACD.DC
Author/Professor

Marsha Lindsay
CEO & Chief Analyst, Lindsay Foresight & Stratagem

Sonita Lontoh, NACD.DC
Board Member, Sunrun and TrueBlue; Advisor, Sway Ventures

Ed Magee
Independent Director, WD-40 (WDFC); COO, Thomas F. Frist Jr. College of Medicine

Michael Marquardt, NACD.DC
CEO, Epi One; Former Chair, American Cancer Society

Sara Mathew
Lead Independent Director, Chair, Human Resources Committee, member, Executive Committee and Audit Committee, State Street; Chair

James Mullen
Director, Thermo Fisher Scientific; Operating Partner, Advent International

Suzanne Nimocks
Director, Brookfield Infrastructure Partners, Owens Corning

Jerry Perullo, NACD.DC
Professor of the Practice, School of Cybersecurity and Privacy, Georgia Institute of Technology; Founder, Adversarial Risk Management

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

Pam Reeve
Chair, American Tower Corp.

Ellen Richstone, NACD.DC
Director, Cognition Therapeutics Inc., Superior Industries, Orion Energy Systems Inc., NACD New England Chapter; Advisory Board Member, Amerian College of Corporate Directors; Former Fortune 500 CFO and Private Company CEO

John Rodi
Co-leader, KPMG Board Leadership Center

Jane Sadowsky, NACD.DC
Director, Allied Gold, Nexa Resources, Scientific Games, NACD New York Chapter; Senior Advisor, Moelis

Jessica Sapterstein, NACD.DC
Board Director, Chief Customer Experience Officer & Strategic Advisor

Chris Smith
Chief Government Affairs Officer, Ford Motor Company

Sharon Stern
Partner, Joele Frank

Gregory G. Stoeckel
Managing Director, and Consulting Team Leader, Pearl Meyer

Lawrence X. Taylor, NACD.DC
Director, Caliber Companies, 1847 Holdings, Runbeck Election Services, NACD Pacific Southwest Chapter; President, Taylor Strategy Group

Amy Wilkinson
Director, Hut 8, Innovate Corp.; CEO, Ingenuity

Helen Yu
Director, CEC and KeenFolks; CEO, Tigon Advisory Corp.

Dawn Zier
Chair, Hain Celestial; Director, Prestige Consumer Healthcare, Acorns; ExCo Leadership Group
Call For Sessions
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