Previous Speakers
The following list reflects the Neel Corporate Governance Speaker Series’ most recent speakers. For a full list or our speakers, dating back to the series’ inception in 2003, please contact us.
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
2016
Jim Doty, PCAOB Chairman
Wilma Jordan, Founder and CEO of The Jordan, Edmiston Group Inc. (JEGI)
Paula Loop, PwC partner and Leader of PwC’s Center for Board Governance and Investor Resource Institute
Zach Oleksiuk, the Americas Head of Investment Stewardship for BlackRock, the largest institutional investor in the United States and among the largest investors in the world
Tim Ryan, PwC U.S. Chairman and Senior Partner
Anne Sheehan, Director of Corporate Governance for the California State Teachers Retirement System (CalSTRS), the second largest public pension fund in the U.S.
Taylor Simonton, an experienced audit committee member, long-time PwC partner