Anu Aiyengar
Managing Director, Global Head of Advisory and Mergers & Acquisitions, J.P. Morgan
NACD Directors Summit™ 2025
2025 Speakers
Global thought leaders shaping the future of governance.
Meet This Year's Powerhouse Speakers
More to be announced - check back for the latest updates
2025 Mainstage Speakers
Anima Anandkumar
AI researcher and professor, Caltech
Session on Bridging the Digital and Physical Worlds with AI
Sharon Bowen
Director, Intercontinental Exchange, Inc., Neuberger Berman Group LLC, Akami Technologies; Chair, New York Stock Exchange; Partner, Seneca Women
Ian Bremmer
President & Founder, Eurasia Group and GZERO Media
Session on The Power of Crisis
Tripp Crosby
2025 Mainstage Host
Peter Gleason
President and Chief Executive Officer, NACD
Spencer Glendon
Founder, Probable Futures
Session on Strategic Insights for Navigating "Probable Futures"
Diane Hessan
Director, NACD New England Chapter, Panera Brands, Eastern Bank, Brightcove, Sago
Session on Transforming Corporate Leadership: A Conversation with Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, the CEO Whisperer
Ryan McManus, NACD.DC
Board Member, Nortech Systems, NACD New York, Limbik AI, ArcticBlue AI; Founder, techtonic.io
Wayne Peacock
Former CEO and President, USAA; Vice Chair, Elizabeth Dole Foundation
Shelly Palmer
Advanced Media Professor, Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications; CEO, The Palmer Group
Session on Navigating the Future: AI, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, NFTs & Smart Contracts
Andrew Senchak
Board of Trustees, 9/11 Memorial & Museum; Former Chairman, KBW, Inc.
Jeffrey Sonnenfeld
Founder & President, Chief Executive Leadership Institute, Senior Associate Dean, Leadership Studies & Lester Crown Professor, Practice of Management, Yale University
Session on Transforming Corporate Leadership: A Conversation with Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, the CEO Whisperer
Kimberly Simpson
Chief Operating Officer, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary, NACD
Dona Young, NACD.DC
Non-Executive Chair, Audit Committee Member, Governance and Social Responsibility Committee Member, Foot Locker; Nominating and Governance Committee Member, Audit Committee Member, Compensation and Workforce Committee Member, USAA; Board Member, Spahn & Rose; Board Member, National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD)
2025 Concurrent Session Speakers
Kevin Abikoff
Partner, Proskauer Rose LLP
Nisa Amoils
Director, Wharton, Robotics Automation; Managing Partner, A100x Ventures
Linda E. Amuso
Senior Partner, Aon and Vice Chair, Pancreatic Cancer Action Network
Susan Angele, NACD.DC
Senior Advisor, KPMG Board Leadership Center; Chair, Invest Ahead
Stephanie Avakian
Chair, Securities and Financial Services Department, WilmerHale
Sheila Bangalore
Director, StoneAge Holdings Inc.; Advisory Board Member, Games Global Ltd.
Annalisa Barrett
Senior Advisor, KPMG Board Leadership Center
Jordan Barth
Managing Director, US Cyber Response & Resilience Leader, KPMG LLP
Megan Belcher
Director, Yakima Chief Hops; Chief Legal Officer & Corporate Secretary, Kohler Co.
Robyn Bew
Director, EY Americas Center for Board Matters
Andrea Bonime-Blanc
CEO & Founder, GEC Risk Advisory; Director, NACD New Jersey, Epic Theatre Ensemble, Cyber Future Foundation
Kim Box, NACD.DC
Independent Director, McGrath Rentcorp, Med One Group, Applied Science, PCTA
Colleen B. Brown
Director, TrueBlue, Inc.; Director, Port Blakely; Director, Bakkt
Stephen L. Brown
Senior Advisor, KPMG Board Leadership Center
Mallory Bucher
Director Governance Content, NACD
Marcel Bucsescu
Vice President, Strategic Engagement, NACD
Holly Carr
Managing Director, Forensics, BDO
Hollie Castro, NACD.DC
Founder, HC Advice; Director, Groupe Dynamite, NACD Texas TriCities, Woba.io
Bhaskar Chakravorti
Dean of Global Business, The Fletcher School, Tufts University
Anil Cheriyan
Founder, Phase IV Ventures, LLC
Paul Connelly, NACD.DC
Professor of Practice for Cybersecurity, Belmont University; Independent Director, Fortified Health Security; Technical Advisor, U.S. Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network
David Crosbie
Founder, Redengage; Former SEC Visiting Fellow, Crypto and AI
Nora M. Denzel, NACD.DC
Lead Director, AMD; Director, Gen Digital Inc., NACD
Matt Depp
Managing Director, Pearl Meyer
Dan Diasio
Global Consulting Artificial Intelligence Leader, EY
Chip Dickinson
Senior Advisor, FODIS
Keith D. Dorsey, NACD.DC
Director, Vimly Benefit Solutions and Continu; Founder & Executive Advisor, Boardroom Journey
Katina Dorton, NACD.DC
Director, Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals, Fulcrum Therapeutics, TScan Therapeutics, Sonoma Bio
John Driver, NACD.DC
Director, Broadway Financial Corp., City First Bank N.A., and Vital Energy; CEO, Lynx Technology
Michael Dumais
Director, Baker Hughes
Ana Dutra, NACD.DC
Director, Pembina Pipeline, Carparts.com, Latino Corporate Directors Association
Theodore L. Dysart, NACD.DC
Managing Director, Russell Reynolds Associates
Kimberly Ellison-Taylor, NACD.DC
CEO, KET Solutions, LLC; Independent Director, Marathon Petroleum, US Bancorp, Mutual of Omaha
Marc A. Feigen
Chief Executive Officer, Feigen Advisors
Rich Fields
Managing Director, Russell Reynolds Associates
Bill Gaetz
Partner, Financial Consulting RSM US LLP
Pranav Gokhale
Vice President and General Manager of Computing, Infleqtion
Jamie Gorelick
Director, Amazon, Verisign; Chair, Regulatory and Government Affairs Department, WilmerHale
Lisa Hammitt
Chair, Intelsat; Director, Sun Corporation, Clear Channel Outdoor
Christine Heckart
Founder and CEO, Xapa World Inc.
Alyssa H. Henry
Board Member, Intel, Confluent, Samsara, Athenahealth
Brett A. Herand
Managing Director, Pearl Meyer
Kurt Hohl
Chief Accountant, SEC
Chad Holliday
Lead Independent Director, Venterra Group PLC; Chief Advisor, Resource Resolutions, PLC.
Richard Holt
Managing Director, Alvarez & Marsal Corporate Performance Improvement
Marie Oh Huber
Director and Nominating, Governance, and Sustainability Committee Chair, Portland General Electric
Joseph K. Hurd III, NACD.DC
Director, Lloyd’s of London, Trustpilot Group PLC, and Hays Group PLC; Operating Partner, SOSV LLC
Dune Ives, NACD.DC
Independent Director, Ball Corporation
Jonathan Johnson
Director, The J.M. Smucker Co.; Audit Committee Chair, Nursa; Director, Bloom
Regina Jones
Senior Vice President and Chief Legal Officer, Archer Daniels Midland Company (ADM); Board Member, National Association of Manufacturers
Meghan Juday
Chair, IDEAL Industries
Samantha Kappagoda
Independent Director, Credit Suisse Funds; Member, Business Board at University of Toronto
Konstantinos Karagiannis
Director, Quantum Computing Services, Protiviti
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
Jannice Koors
Senior Managing Director, Pearl Meyer
Shermin Kruse, NACD.DC
Author/Professor
Frank Kurre
Managing Director, Global Board Governance & CEO Program Leader, Protiviti
James E. Langston
Partner, Mergers & Acquisitions Group, Paul Weiss
Phil Le-Brun
Director of Enterprise Strategy, Amazon Web Services
Johnny Lee
National Practice Leader for Forensic Technology, Grant Thornton
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
Aeisha Mastagni
Senior Portfolio Manager, Sustainable Investment & Stewardship Strategies, California State Teachers’ Retirement System; Chair, Council of Institutional Investors; Vice Chair, Golden 1 Credit Union
Sara Mathew
Lead Independent Director, State Street
Nichelle Maynard-Elliott
Founder and CEO, Dunamis Transaction Advisors LLC; Independent Director, Xerox; Independent Director, Lucid Group, Inc.
Lauren McIlvany
Technical Director, CERT Division Threat Analysis Directorship and Director, Artificial Intelligence Security Incident Response Team, Carnegie Mellon University Software Engineering Institute
Miriam McLemore
Director of Enterprise Strategy and Evangelism, Amazon Web Services
Liz Micci
Co-Global Head of Strategy & Reputation, FGS Global
Donna Morris
Executive Vice President, Chief People Officer, Walmart Inc.; Trustee, Fordham University; Director, PhonePe; Director, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art
Darren Moskovitz
Partner, Lead Consultant, Meridian Compensation Partners
Dan Moynihan
Managing Director, Pearl Meyer
Richard S. Mroz, NACD.DC
Managing Director, Resolute Strategies; Advisor, Protect Our Power; Board Member, ClearPath
James Mullen
Director, Thermo Fisher Scientific; Operating Partner, Advent International
Suzanne Nimocks
Director, Brookfield Infrastructure Partners, Owens Corning
Lucy Nottingham
Senior Director, Governance Content and Thought Leadership, NACD
Nick Oldham
Global Chief Risk, Privacy & Compliance Officer, Equifax
Pablo Ottado
Former Chief Audit Executive, Citigroup
Susan Paley
NACD Advisor; Founder, Bright Spots Coaching
Krista Parsons
Audit & Assurance Managing Director, Deloitte & Touche LLP
Christian Peo
Vice Chair, Audit, KPMG LLP
Arthur K. Perez, NACD.DC
Executive Vice President, Chief Audit Executive, Salesforce
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
Justine Phillips
Partner & Co-Chair of Data + Cyber for North America, Baker McKenzie
Terry Rappuhn
Independent Director, HealthStream, Inc.
Pam Reeve
Chair, American Tower Corp.
Karen Richardson
Director, Exponent, Inc., BP; Partner, Artius II Acquisition Inc.
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
Mark Rogers
Founder & CEO, BoardProspects
Amy Rojik, NACD.DC
National Managing Principal, Corporate Governance, BDO
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
Stacey L. Schabel
Director, Institute of Internal Auditors Global Board; Chief Audit Executive, Jackson Financial Inc.
Mary Lee Schneider, NACD.DC
Director, Larry H. Miller Company, PGIM Alternative Investments Fund, Propelis
Mihir Shah
Advisor in Residence to EY
Shiv Singh
CEO, Savvy Matters; Co-Founder, AI Trailblazers; Director, United Rentals
Chris Smith
Chief Government Affairs Officer, Ford Motor Company
Colin Soutar
Managing Director, Deloitte & Touche LLP
Vito Sperduto
Head of RBC Capital Markets U.S., RBC Capital Markets (RBCCM); Board President, Play Rugby USA
Dave Stainback
US Territory Crisis & Resilience Leader, Global Crisis & Resilience Co-Leader, PwC US
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
Vanessa Teitelbaum
Senior Director, Professional Practice, Center for Audit Quality
Peter Thies
Managing Director, Pearl Meyer
Mimi Thigpen
Audit Committee Chair, Globe Life; Director, Achievelt
James L. Turgal
Vice President, Global Advisory, Risk and Board Relations, Optiv; Former FBI Executive Assistant Director and CIO
Matt Turner
President, Executive Compensation Consulting, Pearl Meyer
Friso van der Oord
Senior Vice President, Content, NACD
Amy Wilkinson
Director, Hut 8, Innovate Corp.; CEO, Ingenuity
Tracy Wittman
Principal, Farient Advisors
Alejandro Wolff
Director, Governance and Public Policy Committee Chair, Albemarle Corporation; Director, Compensation Committee Chair, Frontier Group Holdings; Director, JetSMART Holdings
Helen Yu
Director, CEC and KeenFolks; CEO, Tigon Advisory Corp.
Dawn Zier
Chair, Hain Celestial; Director, Prestige Consumer Healthcare, Acorns; ExCo Leadership Group
Adam Zoller
Chief Information Security Officer, CrowdStrike