Banco Popular de Puerto Rico

Deb Muller is CEO of HR Acuity.

Rena Nigam is the Founder and CEO of Meytier, which she started with the mission to help improve diversity at scale through a technology-based approach. She is an entrepreneur focused on building and scaling firms that focus on the re-imagination of businesses through technology.

Christine Cooper is CEO at aequum, and a co-managing member at Koehler Fitzgerald.

Wildly addicted to all things leadership, Cecilia Gorman is a veteran of the advertising industry and the owner of Creative Talent Partners, a training consultancy that specializes in the development of rising managers and their teams. Whether it’s a team offsite, a manager workshop or through her online Manager Boot Camp course, Cecilia’s sole pursuit is adding value to growth-focused employees.

Luz Urrutia is the CEO of Accion Opportunity Fund.

Matthew S. Adams is a partner with the national law firm Fox Rothschild LLP and co-chair of the firm’s White Collar Criminal Defense and Regulatory Compliance Practice Group. He can be reached at 973-994-7573 or by email at madams@foxrothschild.com.

Demetrios Frangiskatos, CPA, is the leader of analytics and emerging methods at Top 10 Firm BDO USA. He has more than 22 years of experience providing accounting, auditing, and business advisory services. Currently, he oversees BDO’s assurance business line’s BDO Advantage team, where he focuses on the strategic research and development, deployment, integration and enablement of technology platforms and solutions within the assurance practice.

Jen Farrell is director of agent and customer research at Liberty Mutual and Safeco Insurance, supporting independent agent distribution and product development. In her role, she conducts primary research and interprets industry trends to ensure Liberty Mutual and Safeco take a data-driven approach to the agent and customer experience. Jen brings nearly 15 years of experience in research and digital analytics, previously working with some of the world’s largest brands to uncover marketing insights and answer critical business questions. When she’s not studying consumers, independent agents, or the insurance industry, she can be found hiking through the woods in New England.

Udi Hoitash is an accounting professor at Northeastern University in Boston.

William Holder serves as dean of the USC Leventhal School of Accounting, and holds the Alan Casden Dean’s Chair of Accountancy. Prior to his current post, he was the Ernst & Young Professor of Accounting and director of the SEC and Financial Reporting Institute in the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California. Dean Holder has published extensively on the subjects of financial accounting and reporting and auditing. He has received numerous awards during his career, including being twice named as one of the “Top 100 People” in the accounting profession and receiving the AICPA Gold Medal for Distinguished Service, the highest honor awarded by that organization. He has served on a number of governance and standard setting authorities including the Accounting Standards Executive Committee of the AICPA and the Governmental Accounting Standards Board.  During congressional hearings leading to passage of the Sarbanes/Oxley Act, he provided invited testimony about financial reporting, auditing and corporate governance.