Haslam College of Business - Neel Corporate Governance Center – Previous Speakers

2024

• Marty Brown, President & CEO, PYA
• Bart Dockery, Director, RSM’s Consulting Practice
• Kazi Islam, Global Assurance Strategy and Growth Leader, PwC
• Kelly Richmond Pope, Author, filmmaker, and forensic accounting expert
• JP Price, Neuro-inclusion champion
• Scott Roe, Tapestry, Inc. chief financial officer and chief operating officer

2023

• Herschel Frierson, Crowe LLP strategic networks leaders and principal
• Chris Hadorn, former KPMG International global head of payments
• Shameek Konar, Pilot Company chief executive officer
• Jeffrey P. Mahoney, Council of Institutional Investors general counsel
• Sosseh Prom, African Communities Together (ACT) state policy manager

2022

• Ian Bradley, EY Global Director of Customer Tax Operations and Reporting Services (CTORS)
• Anoop Mehta, American Institute of CPAs (AICPA) Chair
• Adam Pritchard, Frances and George Skestos Professor of Law at the University of Michigan
• Megan Turner, EY Financial Services Consulting Partner
• Steven Ward, Deloitte climate data scientist and ESG services professional
• U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Atlanta regional office
  • Justin Jeffries, Division of Enforcement associate director
  • Dale Perez, Division of Examinations manager
  • Todd Rogers, Division of Examinations staff accountant
  • Deborah Shaw, Division of Examinations assistant regional director

2021

• Veit Buetterlin, member of the management board of AlixPartners Germany
• Mohammad Hasham, director in BDO’s Accounting & Reporting Advisory Services group
• Jenneen Kaufman, former Senior Vice President and CFO for the Tennessee Titans
• Carla Mashinski, chief financial and administrative officer for Cameron LNG
• Bobby Stover, leader of EY Americas Family Enterprise and Family Office

2020

• Susan Angele, Senior Advisor at KPMG Board Leadership Center
• Victoria Glover, Deloitte Tax LLP Partner and former Majority Tax Advisor for the Committee on Ways and Means of the US House of Representatives
• Natasha Granholm, PwC Partner and Center Market Tax Leader
• Commissioner Hester Peirce, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

2019

• Allen Bell, PwC Assurance Partner and Leader of the Private Company Services Practice for Southern California
• Richard Chambers, President and CEO of The Institute of Internal Auditors
• Paul Sobel, Chairman of the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (COSO)
• Eugene Soltes, Associate Professor at Harvard Business School and author of “Why They Do It: Inside the Mind of the White-Collar Criminal”
• Kevin Wills, Chief Financial Officer for Pilot Flying J (PFJ)

2018

• Steve Albrecht, Experienced Audit Committee Member, Expert Witness and Professor Emeritus of Brigham Young University
• Paul DeNicola, Principal at PwC’s Governance Insights Center
• Ron Ford, Senior Vice President and CFO of Armstrong Flooring, Inc.
• Kathleen Hamm, Board Member of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board
• Linda-Eling Lee, Global Head of Research for MSCI’s Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Research Group
• Maria Castañón Moats, PwC U.S. Assurance Leader
• Mike Willis, Assistant Director of the Office of Structured Disclosure at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

2017

• Wes Bricker, Chief Accountant of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
• Roslyn Brooks, Managing Director of the PwC office of Government, Regulatory Affairs & Public Policy based in Washington, D.C.
• Curt Buser, CFO of Carlyle, one of the world’s largest and most successful private equity firms
• Vanessa A. Countryman, Chief Counsel in the SEC’s Division of Economic and Risk Analysis
• Todd Metcalf, PwC Washington National Tax Policy Services Group
• Jean Rogers, the CEO and Founder of the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board
• Vernon Stafford Jr., Executive Vice President and Chief Audit Executive at First Horizon National Corporation