Banco Popular de Puerto Rico

Andre Sterley is a senior audit manager and practice leader for the digital asset group of Mazars USA based in New York City, as well as co-chair for the accounting and audit working group of the Accounting Blockchain Coalition. The Mazars Digital Asset Group was formed with the mission to help organizations navigate the complex accounting, tax, audit and other advisory issues related to digital assets, blockchain and distributed ledger technologies.

Lavanya Nair is a reporter for Financial Planning. Follow her on Twitter: @Lavi4Life

Sumit Punjabi is senior manager of RPA strategy, digital strategy and business transformation at NTT DATA Services. He is a management consultant with extensive global consulting experience spanning the breadth of robotics process automation strategy and roadmap definition, digital strategy assessments, customer journey re-engineering, business transformation, business process management, program management, change management and implementation of various policy level changes impacting the organization.

He has advised senior executives of leading global institutions on several strategic engagements, assessing the organizations business strategies, people, process and technology capabilities, identifying key client business issues, determining client needs, validating analysis and developing recommendations for the client in the context of the overall business strategy. He has extensively used Lean Six-Sigma and ITIL methodologies to analyze, improve and redesign solutions across business and IT process areas.

Sumit is an MBA from Indian School of Business and participated in a student exchange program with Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth University. He is also a Certified Six Sigma Black Belt (ASQ), Dell Certified Project Management Professional and Trained in ITIL v3.

Oliver Tearle is head of research at The ai Corporation

Scott Cawood is president and CEO of WorldatWork, a nonprofit professional association in compensation and total rewards. WorldatWork aims to serve those who design and deliver total rewards programs to cultivate engaged, effective workforces through education and certification, advocacy, research and more. Founded in 1955, WorldatWork serves total rewards professionals throughout the world working in organizations of all sizes and structures.

Derek McDowell is a managing partner for private equity firm Boyne Capital Partners.

Jonathan Michael Thomas is senior counsel at Foley & Lardner LLP.

Daniel Stahl is the model platform manager at Regions Bank.

Andre Shevchuck is managing director of tax at Top 100 Firm BPM, bringing with him more than 15 years of public accounting experience. As co-leader of BPM’s R&D Tax Credit consulting practice, Shevchuck helps his clients to identify, document and defend their R&D tax credit claims.

Cliff Stanford is a partner in Alston & Bird's Financial Services and Products Group and the leader of the firm's bank regulatory team.