Neel Corporate Governance Center

Speaker series

Previous Speakers


The following list reflects the Neel Corporate Governance Center’s most recent speakers. For a full list of our speakers, dating back to the series’ inception in 2003, please contact us.

Audit & Accountability

  • Richard Chambers, President and CEO of The Institute of Internal Auditors
  • Jim Doty, PCAOB Chairman
  • Kathleen Hamm, Board Member of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board
  • Anoop Mehta, American Institute of CPAs (AICPA) Chair
  • Maria Castañón Moats, PwC U.S. Assurance Leader
  • Tim Ryan, PwC U.S. Chairman and Senior Partner
  • Paul Sobel, Chairman of the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (COSO)

Board Oversight

  • Steve Albrecht, Experienced Audit Committee Member, Expert Witness and Professor Emeritus of Brigham Young University
  • Susan Angele, Senior Advisor at KPMG Board Leadership Center
  • Paul DeNicola, Principal at PwC’s Governance Insights Center
  • Amy Miles, experienced corporate board member and former CEO
  • Taylor Simonton, an experienced audit committee member, long-time PwC partner

Business Ethics & Fraud Prevention

  • JP Price, Neuro-inclusion champion
  • Marty Brown, President & CEO, PYA
  • Veit Buetterlin, member of the management board of AlixPartners Germany
  • Herschel Frierson, Crowe LLP strategic networks leaders and principal
  • Kelly Richmond Pope, Author, filmmaker, and forensic accounting expert
  • Eugene Soltes, Associate Professor at Harvard Business School and author of “Why They Do It: Inside the Mind of the White-Collar Criminal”
  • Megan Turner, EY Financial Services Consulting Partner

Executive Perspectives

  • Curt Buser, CFO of Carlyle, one of the world’s largest and most successful private equity firms
  • Jenneen Kaufman, former Senior Vice President and CFO for the Tennessee Titans
  • Shameek Konar, Pilot Company chief executive officer
  • Carla Mashinski, chief financial and administrative officer for Cameron LNG
  • Scott Roe, Tapestry, Inc. chief financial officer and chief operating officer
  • Vernon Stafford Jr., Executive Vice President and Chief Audit Executive at First Horizon National Corporation
  • Kevin Wills, Chief Financial Officer for Pilot Flying J (PFJ)

Investor & Stakeholder Perspectives

  • Wilma Jordan, Founder and CEO of The Jordan, Edmiston Group Inc. (JEGI)
  • 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
  • Paula Loop, PwC partner and Leader of PwC’s Center for Board Governance and Investor Resource Institute
  • Jeffrey P. Mahoney, Council of Institutional Investors general counsel
  • Sosseh Prom, African Communities Together (ACT) state policy manager
  • Anne Sheehan, Director of Corporate Governance for the California State Teachers Retirement System (CalSTRS), the second largest public pension fund in the U.S.

Regulatory Oversight

  • 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.
  • Vanessa A. Countryman, Chief Counsel in the SEC’s Division of Economic and Risk Analysis
  • Victoria Glover, Deloitte Tax LLP Partner and former Majority Tax Advisor for the Committee on Ways and Means of the US House of Representatives
  • Todd Metcalf, PwC Washington National Tax Policy Services Group
  • Hester Peirce, Commissioner of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
  • Mike Willis, Assistant Director of the Office of Structured Disclosure at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
  • Todd Wright, Assistant Vice President, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond

Technological Innovations & Risk Management

  • Ian Bradley, EY Global Director of Customer Tax Operations and Reporting Services (CTORS)
  • Bart Dockery, Director, RSM’s Consulting Practice
  • Chris Hadorn, former KPMG International global head of payments
  • Kazi Islam, Global Assurance Strategy and Growth Leader, PwC