Floss Aggrey
Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer, Randstad
Floss Aggrey, chief diversity and inclusion officer for Randstad North America, designs and implements equity, diversity, inclusion, and accessibility strategies and initiatives for Randstad and hundreds of Fortune 100 companies. She brings more than 20 years of experience supporting diversity and inclusiveness at all job levels. Most recently, she served as senior vice president of equity, diversity, and inclusion for Randstad Sourceright, where she focused on advancing the EDI&A goals of her global clients. Aggrey believes that diversity and inclusion must be woven into every aspect of the talent life cycle and that a workforce where everyone feels they belong is more innovative, effective, and productive. Aggrey is a critical partner in Randstad’s Hire Hope program and leads Randstad’s Transcend program.

Vanessa Broadhurst
Executive Vice President, Global Corporate Affairs, Johnson & Johnson
Vanessa Broadhurst is the executive vice president of global corporate affairs at Johnson & Johnson, one of the world’s largest and most diversified health care product companies. In her role as an executive committee member, Broadhurst is responsible for advancing strategies across corporate marketing, global communications, and global health equity. She leads a world-class team, who are passionate about changing the health of humanity. Prior to her current position, Broadhurst served as company group chairman of global commercial strategy for Johnson & Johnson’s Innovative Medicine sector, where she led efforts focused on commercialization and launch strategies that spanned the company’s broad pipeline of products. Previously, Broadhurst held P&L leadership positions at health care companies in the U.S. and Europe, including Amgen, Novartis, and Abbot. Broadhurst serves on the board of directors of Zoetis, the largest global animal health company. She is a board member of the Ad Council and a member of the Executive Leadership Council. Among many professional recognitions, SAVOY magazine named her one of the Most Influential Black Executives in Corporate America, and she has been recognized as Health Care Champion of the Year by the National Association for Female Executives.

Kat Cole
Chief Executive Officer, AG1
Kat Cole is CEO at AG1, a global health company focused on foundational nutrition. In her role, she is responsible for leading AG1’s next phase of growth, global expansion, and innovation. Cole is a seasoned business leader and sought-after advisor, with more than 20 years of operational, brand, and executive leadership experience. Prior to AG1, she was president and COO at Focus Brands, where she oversaw the company’s nine presidents and businesses generating billions in sales around the world. In addition to her role at AG1, Cole serves on the boards of Slice and Milk Bar. She has been a Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum, a member of the United Nations Global Entrepreneurs Council, and named to Fortune’s annual 40 Under 40 list.

Jotaka Eaddy
Founder and CEO, Full Circle Strategies, LLC
Jotaka Eaddy is an award-winning strategist, advocate, television host, and connector. She is the co-host of the Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN) award-winning series Speak Sis. With more than 20 years of experience in policy, advocacy, and movement building, Eaddy is a highly sought-after speaker and strategist, whose accomplishments include her trailblazing election as the University of South Carolina’s first Black woman student body president and her groundbreaking work that led to the abolition of the juvenile death penalty in America through the 2005 landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision in Roper vs Simmons. She was also a senior advisor to the NAACP, all before her transition to Silicon Valley’s C- suite and the private sector. As the founder and CEO of Full Circle Strategies, Eaddy leads a team of dynamic individuals committed to advancing transformative change and global impact for clients, including corporate, nonprofit, foundation, technology, and government organizations seeking to advance policy, ideas, and change. Her clients and work have included advising OWN’s award-winning OWN Your Vote Campaign and advising the launch of Goldman Sachs’ One Million Black Women Initiative, which created an historic $1 billion investment in projects impacting Black women.

Jennifer Fonstad
Founder and Managing Partner, Owl Capital
Jennifer Fonstad is a serial entrepreneur and veteran investor, with more than 25 years of experience investing in early-stage ventures. She co-founded and leads the Owl Capital Group, an early-stage investment firm, and earlier co-founded Aspect Ventures. She also currently serves as an executive fellow with the Harvard Business School. Previously, she served as a managing director with Draper Fisher Jurvetson for 17 years, where she helped grow the firm to more than $3.5 billion, from $150 million, under management. Fonstad participated in more than 100 investments, with eight IPOs and 23 M&A exits. Her success as an investor has landed her on the Forbes Midas List twice, and in 2016, she was named Deloitte's Venture Capitalist of the Year. In 2017, Working Mother named her one of the 50 Most Powerful Moms. Fonstad is a graduate of Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service and holds an MBA, with distinction, from the Harvard Business School. Prior to venture investing, she was a consultant with Bain & Company and spent a year teaching math to high school students in sub-Sahara(n) Africa. She serves on the board of the Mastercard Foundation Asset Management Company, which has a $45 billion endowment. Her favorite role is as a mother of four children.

Leigh Gallagher
Senior Managing Director, Teneo
Leigh Gallagher is senior managing director at Teneo, the global CEO advisory firm, where she advises clients on complex strategic corporate, financial, and reputational communications issues. She was previously director of external affairs at Google, where she focused on high-level media engagement and executive positioning across the company’s leadership team. Prior to Google, she had a distinguished career in business journalism, most notably as a longtime top editor and award-winning writer for Fortune, where she wrote and edited long form stories and oversaw live media events, including Fortune Brainstorm Tech and the Fortune Most Powerful Women Summit, for which she also served as executive director. Throughout her career, Gallagher has also been a regular on-air presence on outlets including MSNBC’s Morning Joe, CBS This Morning and Face the Nation, CNBC’s Squawk Box, CNN, and public radio’s Marketplace, where she appeared biweekly for 10 years. She is the author of two books, The Airbnb Story (2017) and The End of the Suburbs (2013). Gallagher is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a past visiting scholar for the Business and Economic Reporting Program at the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute at New York University. She is a graduate of Cornell University and lives in New York City. 

Bonnie W. Gwin
Vice Chair, New York, Heidrick & Struggles
Bonnie Gwin is a vice chair in Heidrick & Struggle’s New York office and co-managing partner of the Global CEO and Board of Directors Practice. She focuses on searches at both the director and CEO level across a wide range of industries. Previously, she served as president of the Americas and the corporate officer responsible for all of Heidrick & Struggles’ operations in North and Latin America. She has served in many other leadership roles for the firm, including global managing partner of the Technology Practice and managing partner of the North America Quality Council. Gwin has been widely quoted regarding leadership effectiveness at the CEO and board level, diversity, and corporate social responsibility, and she has hosted multiple forums with women in senior leadership roles worldwide to discuss diversity in the boardroom. Additionally, she has received the NACD’s Directorship 100 award every year since 2010. She was awarded the Association of Executive Search and Leadership Consultants Award of Excellence in 2018. She also received the John E. Struggles Award, the firm’s top honor. Before joining Heidrick & Struggles, Gwin served some 13 years with the IBM Corp

Marie Hattar
Chief Marketing Officer, Keysight Technologies
Marie Hattar is the senior vice president and chief marketing officer of Keysight Technologies, where she is responsible for driving the company’s brand and global marketing results. She leads Keysight’s corporate positioning, messaging, and communication to internal and external stakeholders to create a competitive advantage for the company’s growth initiatives. As Keysight’s first chief marketing officer, she established a powerful marketing team to elevate the company’s brand, promote its products and solutions, and create a world-class marketing engine focused on driving sales growth through marketing leads. Hattar has more than 20 years of marketing leadership experience in the commercial communications, networking, and security markets. Before joining Keysight, she served as chief marketing officer for Ixia and Check Point Software Technologies, where she reestablished the two companies as industry leaders. Her other roles include vice president at Cisco, where she managed the company’s enterprise networking and security portfolio, and several other senior marketing and chief technology officer positions at Nortel Networks, Alteon Websystems, and Shasta Networks. Hattar received her master’s degree in business administration and marketing from York University, Toronto, and a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from the University of Toronto. 

Seema Hingorani
Managing Director, Morgan Stanley
Seema Hingorani is a managing director and senior client advisor at Morgan Stanley Investment Management (MSIM). She is also a member of the MSIM operating committee and joined the firm in 2019. Hingorani is a veteran investor of nearly 30 years at the highest levels in the private and public sectors at firms including hedge funds Andor Capital, Pequot Capital and asset manager T. Rowe Price. Previous to Morgan Stanley, she was the founder and chief investment officer of SevenStep Capital, a seed stage investment platform focused on women asset managers as well as serving as chief investment officer for the New York City Retirement Systems, which had assets of $160 billion. She is also the founder and chair of Girls Who Invest, a nonprofit organization dedicated to increasing the number of women in portfolio management and executive leadership in the asset management industry. She was awarded in 2021 by France its highest civil and military award, Chevalier de la Legion d'Honneur (Knight of the Legion of Honor) and by Barron's as one of the most influential women in U.S. Finance.

Michal Katz
Head of Investment and Corporate Banking, Mizuho Americas
Michal Katz is the head of investment and corporate banking for Mizuho Americas, a division of the Mizuho Financial Group, one of the world’s largest financial institutions, with $2 trillion of assets. At Mizuho, she leads a division of some 1,000 bankers and business professionals across the Americas, Europe, and Asia. Her division serves clients spanning public and private corporations and alternative investment firms, including the largest private equity and infrastructure funds. Katz is also a member of Mizuho Americas’ management committee. With a career spanning more than 25 years on Wall Street, she is recognized as a seasoned and trusted advisor in corporate finance, strategy, and digital transformation. Prior to Mizuho, she was co-head of the Global Technology Investment Banking Group at RBC Capital Markets. Prior to RBC, she was a managing director at Barclays and Lehman Brothers, where she was head of the Global Software Practice in the Technology Investment Banking Group. She also spent several years practicing corporate law at Skadden Arps and Winthrop Stimson (now Pillsbury Winthrop). For the past three years, Katz was recognized by American Banker as one of the Most Powerful Women in Finance.  

Christina Kosmowski 
Chief Executive Officer, LogicMonitor 
Christina Kosmowski, as CEO of LogicMonitor, is responsible for accelerating the company’s hypergrowth and delivering on its brand promise of helping C-level executives and their teams thrive through transformation. Kosmowski earlier served LogicMonitor as president, leading go-to-market strategy, R&D, customer success, and operations. She has held leadership positions in the enterprise software space for more than two decades and is passionate about discovering new ways to bring the worlds of technology and business together. Kosmowski came to LogicMonitor from Slack, where she spent four years building and leading Customer Success and Enterprise GTM teams. She also served 15 years at Salesforce, where she oversaw functions including renewals, consulting, support, and customer success. In these previous roles, she helped guide her respective organizations through pivots, disruptions, and periods of rapid growth, while also pioneering the Customer Success Practice. Kosmowski serves on the board of Rapid7 and is a founding partner of Operator Collective, an organization that brings together tech’s most sought-after operators, investors, and founders from diverse backgrounds to invest in the next generation of B2B tech. She holds a BS degree in industrial engineering from Northwestern University and currently serves on the McCormick School of Engineering advisory board.

Victoria Husted Medvec
Adeline Barry Davee Professor of Management and Organizations, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University; Chief Executive Officer, Medvec & Associates
Dr. Victoria Medvec is a leading global expert in negotiation strategy, corporate governance, and decision making, sought after by CEOs, senior leaders, and boards of directors to advise on critical strategic decisions and transactions. For the last two decades as CEO of a boutique advisory firm, Medvec & Associates, Medvec has advised on mergers and acquisitions, significant customer contracts, regulatory filings, and partnership agreements. Many of her clients are Fortune 500 companies, as well as smaller, fast-growing organizations. Medvec partners with CEOs and other senior leaders for extended periods of time to drive results with a focus on long-term strategy, particularly around sustained revenue growth and customer engagement. Her work has enabled companies to differentiate their offerings and products, deftly navigate their competitive landscapes, create dramatic revenue growth, and, most importantly, change their market position. Since 1995, Medvec has served on the faculty at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. She is also the co-founder and executive director of Kellogg’s Center for Executive Women. In this role, she created the Women Director Development Program and over the past 15 years has helped to prepare more than 800 senior executive women for roles on boards.

Ellen Patterson 
President Ellen Patterson, President and General Manager, EVERFI from Blackbaud
Ellen Patterson has spent her career at the intersection of education, technology, and social impact. With a penchant for operational excellence and relationship building, she has developed and scaled world-class revenue teams, overseen operations, and led transformational growth initiatives. As EVERFI’s president, she has helped architect the underpinnings of growth, scale, and transformation through some of the company’s most critical moments. Prior to her current role, Patterson served as COO, where she scaled the organization and readied it for a successful acquisition by Blackbaud. Earlier, she oversaw a world-class revenue team as chief revenue and partnership officer, driving triple-digit revenue growth and attracting thousands of notable customers, including Truist, Elevance Health, Mass Mutual, and the NFL. Patterson’s career began in education, teaching and mentoring at-risk youth in K-12 schools across the Gulf Coast, Boston, and San Francisco. She later spent four years in Silicon Valley at both a digital media startup and AOL. Patterson serves on the community advisory board for Children’s National Hospital in Washington, DC. She has been recognized for her leadership and innovation, including as Washingtonian magazine's Tech Titan in 2022 and 2023 and a Washington Life Innovator and Disruptor in 2021.  

Jana Rich
Founder and Executive Chair, Rich Talent Group 
Jana Rich has partnered with leading companies, from early-stage to the Fortune 500, for nearly 30 years, helping to build teams of proven leaders and diverse thinkers. She founded Rich Talent Group (RTG) in 2014 to focus on advancing diversity in leadership, particularly in the consumer and technology spaces. With offices in San Francisco and New York, RTG has worked with companies such as Adobe, Intuit, Sephora, and Sony Interactive Entertainment to build more diverse and inclusive leadership teams and boards of directors. Additionally, Rich has built well-established relationships with many leading venture capital firms. Before founding RTG, Rich spent more than 18 years at two of the world’s largest executive search and assessment firms. At Russell Reynolds Associates, she led the Global Consumer Digital and Media Practice and the Consumer Sector of North America. And at Korn Ferry International, she launched, in 1996, the industry’s first digital recruiting practice. Rich is a board member of brand strategy and storytelling firm Godfrey Dadich Partners, and has served as an advisory board member for MAKERS, World 50, and Forbes Executive Women. She has been honored three times by the San Francisco Business Times as one of the Most Influential Women in Bay Area Business.

Irana Wasti
Chief Product Officer, Bill.com
Irana Wasti is the chief product officer at BILL, a company at the forefront of financial automation software for small and midsize businesses. Wasti is a seasoned leader committed to serving SMB customers and inspiring her teams with innovation, empathy, and passion. In her role at BILL, she drives the company’s product strategy, customer experience, innovation, and product management. She is at the helm of integrating the platforms of BILL’s three acquisitions: Finmark, Divvy, and Invoice2go.Before joining BILL, Wasti was chief product officer at Typeform, a global SaaS platform for audience engagement. She also served as president of GoDaddy EMEA, as well as senior vice president and general manager for GoDaddy’s Productivity business, leading an international team to provide SMBs with tools and services to flourish, particularly expanding GoDaddy’s reach across EMEA regions. Wasti also served on the board of Sage, a financial software and services company. She has led product teams at Intuit and IBM, overseeing significant launches such as Quickbooks POS and mobile payments, which empowered more than 100,000 merchants to adopt mobile solutions. Wasti holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BA degree in computer science from University of California at Berkeley. 

Michelle Weese
Chief Corporate Affairs Officer, Novartis
Michelle Weese is chief corporate affairs officer for Novartis, leading a function that brings together the company’s Global Public and Government Affairs, Communications and Engagement (including Patient Engagement), and Global Health and Sustainability teams. In this role, she is responsible for strengthening the company’s corporate brand and positioning, stakeholder engagement, and trust and reputation. Weese joined Novartis from Bristol Myers Squibb (BMS), where she served as executive vice president, corporate affairs, since 2021. In this role, she led efforts to strengthen the company’s brand and reputation through strategic communications, patient advocacy, government relations and policy, and ESG. Before joining BMS, she was general secretary for North America at Danone from 2019 to 2021, where she led strategic corporate functions including legal, regulatory and compliance, corporate security and competitive intelligence, government and public affairs, communications, community affairs, scientific affairs, and sustainable development. Prior to this, she was CEO of private consulting firm Stratigence, which she founded in 2009. Between 1999 and 2009, she held corporate affairs positions at Mars, Inc., including serving as global head of communications. Weese is a director of Krispy Kreme, Inc., in the U.S. She earned her bachelor’s degree in journalism from Georgia State University.

Andrea Wishom
President, Skywalker Holdings, LLC
Andrea Wishom is an award-winning media executive, strategist, and producer, with more than two decades of experience. She played a major role in launching and developing some of the most groundbreaking programming in television history, for The Oprah Winfrey Show and OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network. As executive vice president of programming, production, and development at OWN, Wishom led the development of successful unscripted programs and became the executive producer of Super Soul Sunday, earning a GLAAD award. Her strategic programming efforts helped OWN become a Top 30 network in its first year and the No. 1 Cable Network among African American Women. Currently, Wishom serves as the president of Skywalker Holdings, where she oversees the fiduciary, philanthropic, and creative activities of a diversified multibillion-dollar family office. She is also the lead independent director at Pinterest and serves on the boards of Inflection AI and Tory Burch, LLC. Outside of her professional roles, Wishom is dedicated to empowering diverse leaders and high-impact organizations. Her nonprofit board service includes the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, the Tory Burch Foundation, CASEL, the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, and the board of jurors for the Peabody