ADVISORY COUNCIL

A Community Guided by Experience

Corporate Board Member Network’s Advisory Council is composed of Fortune 500 directors who help shape the year’s most relevant boardroom conversations.

Rafael Andres Diaz-Granados

Board Member
Huntington Bancshares Inc.

Rafael Andres Diaz-Granados is an experienced CEO, board leader and investor with a career spanning global industrial, energy and services businesses. He currently serves as chairman and CEO of TransForce, Inc., a CDL driver solutions company, and as chairman of Paragon Integrated Services Group, an energy and environmental services company. Previously, he served as chairman and CEO of Paragon and as president and CEO of Q’Max Solutions, a multinational oilfield services company.

Diaz-Granados serves on the board of Huntington Bancshares Incorporated, where he is a member of the Risk Oversight Committee, chairs the Human Resources and Compensation Committee and serves on the Executive Committee.

Earlier in his career, Diaz-Granados spent 15 years with General Electric, holding senior leadership roles including CEO of GE Mexico, CEO of GE Spain and Portugal and general counsel and chief commercial officer of GE Latin America. He led multiple turnaround and restructuring efforts at GE and brings extensive public and private company board experience. He is also co-founder of Angeles Investors, a Chicago-based Hispanic angel investing group.

Shan Atkins

Board Member
Darden Restaurants

Shan Atkins is an experienced public company director with deep expertise in the consumer, retail and healthcare sectors. She currently serves on the boards of Darden Restaurants and Canopy Growth Corporation and chairs the Audit Committee at both companies. At Darden, she also serves on the Nominating and Governance Committee. She is an SEC-designated audit committee financial expert.

Atkins recently completed more than two decades of board service with Spartan Stores and SpartanNash. Her prior public company board roles include Aurora Cannabis, LSC Communications, SunOpta, Pep Boys, Tim Hortons and Shoppers Drug Mart. She also served as an independent director of True Value.

Earlier in her career, Atkins co-founded Chetrum Capital LLC, a private investment firm, and served as its managing director from 2001 to 2017. She also held senior leadership roles at Sears, Roebuck and was a partner at Bain & Company. She began her career at Price Waterhouse.

Sheila Bangalore

Board Member
Alliance Entertainment

Sheila Bangalore is a seasoned senior operator who combines financial and legal expertise to support multinational technology, mining, specialty materials and healthcare businesses.

She currently serves as an independent director of Alliance Entertainment, Inc. (Nasdaq: AENT), a global entertainment distribution company; Principal Mineral Company, a venture-backed critical minerals company; and StoneAge Holdings, Inc., an ESOP-owned industrial cleaning tools company serving the mining, oil and gas and specialty materials sectors, where she chairs the Governance Committee. She also serves on the Nasdaq Center for Board Excellence Insights Council and is an advisory board member of Wharton Alumni for Boards.

Claire Bennett

Board Member
AutoNation

Claire Bennett serves on the boards of AutoNation and Samsonite Group, where she is a member of the Audit Committee at both companies. She also serves on the board of Culligan International. She previously served as a nonexecutive director of Tumi Holdings and on several industry advisory boards.

Bennett is a global executive with extensive experience in customer experience, general management and consumer services. She currently advises corporations, private equity firms and family offices. Previously, she served as global chief customer officer of InterContinental Hotels Group, where she was a member of the Executive Committee and responsible for driving customer experience and growth across a portfolio of multinational brands.

Earlier, she held senior leadership roles with P&L responsibility at American Express and held marketing and finance roles at Dell Technologies. She holds a bachelor’s degree in accounting from Indiana University and an MBA from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management.

Dr. Deepak Bhatt

Board Member
Bristol-Meyers Squibb Company

Deepak L. Bhatt, MD, MPH, serves as volunteer president of the American Heart Association’s New York City Board of Directors, after previously serving as a board member. He previously served as a trustee of the American College of Cardiology and was the inaugural chair of the American Heart Association’s Get With The Guidelines Quality Oversight Committee.

Dr. Bhatt is director of the Mount Sinai Fuster Heart Hospital and the Dr. Valentin Fuster Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. He previously held senior academic and clinical leadership roles at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, the VA Boston Healthcare System and Cleveland Clinic.

A nationally recognized cardiologist and clinical trial leader, Dr. Bhatt has authored or co-authored more than 2,000 publications and has served as principal investigator or co-principal investigator for numerous cardiovascular trials and registries. His honors include the American College of Cardiology’s Distinguished Mentor Award and the American Heart Association’s Distinguished Scientist Award.

Pat Bowe

Board Member
The Andersons

Pat Bowe serves as chairman of the board of The Andersons, Inc., following nearly nine years as president and chief executive officer from 2015 to 2024. He also serves on the board of King Ranch, a large private agribusiness company. Previously, he served on the boards of United Malt Group, Schwan’s Company and Fabcon Precast. He chaired the Risk and Finance Committee at Schwan’s and served as chairman of Fabcon. He is also a former chair of the Toledo Alliance for the Performing Arts, now Live Arts Toledo.

Bowe joined The Andersons with more than 35 years of experience in agriculture. Previously, he spent 30 years at Cargill, where he served as corporate vice president and president of Corn Wet Milling North America, along with other senior leadership roles.

He holds a bachelor’s degree in political science and a master’s degree from Stanford University’s Food Research Institute.

Eric Brandt

Board Member
Lam Research Corp.

Eric Brandt is a seasoned public company executive and board leader with more than two decades of independent director experience. He currently serves on the boards of Lam Research and Gen Digital, where he chairs each company’s Audit Committee and serves on its Nominating and Governance Committee. He also serves on the boards of Option Care Health, where he is a member of the Compensation Committee and the Quality, Technology and Compliance Committee, and Nutanix, where he serves on the Audit and Security and Privacy Committees. He previously served as chairman of the boards of Dentsply Sirona and Yahoo! and has chaired audit, compensation, nominating and governance and special investigation committees across multiple public companies.

Brandt served as senior vice president and chief financial officer of Broadcom Corporation from 2007 to 2010 and as executive vice president and chief financial officer from 2010 to 2016. He previously served as chief executive officer and president of Avanir Pharmaceuticals and held senior finance and operations roles at Allergan. Earlier in his career, he was a vice president and partner at The Boston Consulting Group. He holds a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Agnes Bundy Scanlan

Board Member
Truist Financial Corporation

Agnes Bundy Scanlan serves as an independent director of Truist Financial Corporation, where she chairs the Nominating and Governance Committee and serves on the Executive and Risk Committees. She also serves as a director of AppFolio, chairing the Risk and Compliance Oversight Committee and serving on the Audit and Nominating and Corporate Governance Committees. In addition, she serves on the board of iCapital. She previously served on the boards of R1 RCM and NewTower Trust Company, where she chaired the Audit and Compliance Committee.

Scanlan is president of The Cambridge Group LLC, a strategy and risk management advisory firm. Previously, she served as a senior adviser to Treliant, counseling financial services firms on strategy, governance, regulatory, compliance and risk management matters.

Earlier, she served as Northeast Regional Director of Supervision Examinations at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and held senior regulatory, compliance and privacy roles at TD Bank, Bank of America and its predecessors. She also practiced law at Goodwin Procter and served as counsel to the United States Senate Budget Committee.

Michelle Collins

Board Member
Ulta Beauty

Michelle Collins serves on the boards of CIBC, CIBC Bancorp USA, CIBC Bank USA and Ryan Specialty. She chairs the Audit committees of CIBC Bancorp USA and CIBC Bank USA. Her prior board experience includes Ulta Beauty, Health Care Service Corporation, PrivateBancorp, Integrys Energy Group, Molex, CDW, Bucyrus International and Coldwater Creek. She also formerly chaired the Board of Trustees of National Louis University.

Collins is president of Cambium LLC, a business and financial advisory firm serving small and midsize businesses. In 1997, she co-founded Svoboda Capital Partners, where she served as managing director from 1998 to 2006 and now serves on its advisory board. Earlier, she was a principal in the corporate finance department at William Blair & Company, focusing on specialty retail, direct-to-consumer and distribution businesses.

She serves on several Chicago civic and nonprofit boards and holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from Yale University and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Fred Diaz

Board Member
Valero Energy Corporation

Fred M. Diaz is an accomplished C-suite leader and independent public company director. He serves on the boards of Valero Energy Corporation, Archer Aviation Inc., Smith & Wesson Brands Inc. and SiteOne Landscape Supply Inc. Across these boards, he chairs, serves or has served on audit, compensation, governance, public policy and sustainability committees. He also serves as lead independent director of Archer Aviation.

Diaz previously served as president, chief executive officer and chairman of Mitsubishi Motors North America. Earlier, he held senior leadership roles at Nissan North America, including division vice president and general manager of trucks and commercial vehicles and senior vice president of sales, marketing and operations. He began his career with Chrysler Corporation, where he spent 24 years in leadership roles, including president and chief executive officer of the Ram Truck Brand and president and chief executive officer of Chrysler of Mexico and Latin America. He holds a bachelor’s degree in business management from Texas Lutheran University and an MBA from Central Michigan University.

Jonathan Foster

Board Member
Lear Corporation

Jonathan Foster is the founder and managing partner of Current Capital Partners LLC, a mergers and acquisition advisory, corporate management services, and private equity co-investment firm.

Among other prior positions, he was at Lazard for some ten years, ultimately as a Managing Director. He has been on the boards of more than 55 companies. In addition, as an expert witness in major corporate litigation, Jon has filed expert reports in some 60 cases, as well as been deposed and testified in court and arbitration about M&A, valuation, governance, and distressed company issues.

His book, On Board: The Modern Playbook for Corporate Governance, was published by Radius in Summer 2025. He has an undergraduate degree in accounting from Emory University and a master’s degree in accounting and finance from the London School of Economics. Jon and his wife live in New York City with their goldendoodle; they have two grown children.

Diane Gherson

Board Member
The Kraft Heinz Company

Diane serves as an Independent Director and Committee Chair at Kraft Heinz Company, as well as two startups, Centivo (health care) and TechWolf (work intelligence). She is also an advisor to several human capital AI startups as part of her role as Executive Advisor to VC firm Semper Virens.

The prior Chief People Officer at IBM, Diane was responsible for the global HR function, successfully transforming the company culture of 365,000 employees to support a massive portfolio shift, requiring innovation, agility and continuous learning. Recognized as the early pioneer in AI that led to a new operating model for HR, she was elected HR Executive of the Year in 2018. She is an elected Fellow of the National Academy of Human Resources.

Following her 19-year stint at IBM, Diane taught MBAs at the Harvard Business School. Today, Diane is a senior advisor at Boston Consulting Group (BCG) where she serves as a coach and advisor to CEOs and CHROs.

Kathy Hannan

Board Member
Otis Worldwide Corporation

Kathy Hopinkah Hannan serves on the boards of Otis Worldwide Corporation and Annaly Capital Management. At Otis, she chairs the Compensation Committee. At Annaly, she chairs the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee and serves on the Audit Committee and Management Development and Compensation Committee. She previously served on the boards of Ginkgo Bioworks and Carpenter Technology Corporation.

Hannan is a retired national managing partner and former vice chairman of KPMG LLP, where she held several national and global leadership roles during a 30-year career. Her responsibilities included human resources, tax services, diversity and corporate responsibility, sustainability and governance.

She is an audit committee financial expert as defined under SEC rules, holds a CERT Certificate in Cybersecurity Oversight and is NACD Directorship Certified. She has served as chair of the Board of Trustees of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian and as chair and national president of Girl Scouts of the USA. She is a member of the Ho-Chunk Nation.

Idalene Kesner

Board Member
Duke Energy Corporation

Idie Kesner is dean emerita and the Frank P. Popoff Chair of Strategic Management at the Indiana University Kelley School of Business. She served as interim dean beginning in 2012 and as dean from 2013 to 2022. Previously, she served as associate dean for faculty and research and chaired the Department of Management and Entrepreneurship. Before joining Indiana University, she was a professor at the University of North Carolina’s Kenan-Flagler Business School from 1983 to 1995. She earned her MBA and Ph.D. from Indiana University.

Kesner’s research focuses on corporate boards, chief executive succession, corporate governance and mergers and acquisitions. Her work has appeared in publications including Strategic Management Journal, Organization Science and Harvard Business Review. She is an editor of Business Horizons and has taught in more than 120 executive education programs.

Kesner has served on public company and nonprofit boards and currently serves as a director of Duke Energy, where she is a member of the Compensation and People Development Committee and Corporate Governance Committee. She was named Dean of the Year by Poets&Quants in 2019.

Don Kornstein

Board Member
Caesars Entertainment, Inc. (retired); Invited

Don Kornstein served on the Board of Caesars Entertainment, Inc. from July 2020 until December 2025 as Vice Chairman of the Board. He was a director of Caesars Entertainment Corporation from October 2017 until the merger in July 2020, at which time he joined the Board. During his tenure, he also served as Chairman of the Transaction Committee and the Strategy & Finance Committee. He served as Chairman of Caesars Entertainment U.K., Ltd. from November 2020 until its sale in July 2021.

He founded and serves as managing member of Alpine Advisors LLC, a strategic, management and financial consulting firm engaged in mergers and acquisitions and capital raising. Mr. Kornstein has served on the Board of Invited Inc. since May 2024 and on the Sharp Alpha Advisors Advisory Board since September 2021. He previously served on the boards of Gala Coral Group, Affinity Gaming, Bally Total Fitness, Shuffle Master, Cash Systems, Circuit City Stores and Varsity Brands.

Mr. Kornstein served as Chief Executive Officer, President and Director of Jackpot Enterprises, Inc., a NYSE-listed gaming company, and was an investment banker and Senior Managing Director of Bear, Stearns & Co. Inc.

Tracy McKibben

Board Member
Ecolab

Tracy B. McKibben serves on the boards of Ecolab Inc. and HII. At Ecolab, she is a member of the Governance Committee and the Compensation and Human Capital Management Committee. She also serves on the board of the United Services Automobile Association and has served as chair of the Board of Directors of the National Kidney Foundation. She previously served on the board of the New York Power Authority.

McKibben is founder and chief executive officer of MAC Energy Group companies, which invest in environmentally sustainable energy and infrastructure solutions across a global platform. She established the firm in 2010 following a career spanning finance, public policy and law.

Previously, she served as managing director and head of environmental banking strategy at Citigroup Global Markets. She also held senior roles at the National Security Council and the U.S. Department of Commerce and practiced law at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, advising multinational energy clients on complex litigation and strategic investments. She is a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Rose McKinney-James

Board Member
MGM Resorts International

Rose McKinney-James serves on the boards of MGM Resorts International and Ioneer and is a director of Toyota Financial Savings Bank and the Las Vegas Stadium Authority. She is managing principal of Energy Works and McKinney-James & Associates, which provide consulting services in public affairs, energy policy and sustainable development.

McKinney-James previously served as president and CEO of the Corporation for Solar Technology and Renewable Resources, as a commissioner on the Nevada Public Service Commission and as Nevada’s first director of the Department of Business and Industry. A registered lobbyist with the Nevada Legislature, she has represented public and private organizations on regulatory, energy policy and business matters.

She served on the board of Pacific Premier Bancorp from 2022 to 2025 and chaired the U.S. Energy Foundation board from 2020 to 2022. She is an emeritus board member of ACORE and chair emerita of the American Association for Blacks in Energy. McKinney-James earned a bachelor’s degree from Olivet College and a law degree from the Antioch School of Law.

Tatiana Mitrova

Lumenaza GmbH

Tatiana Mitrova is a board-level advisor and researcher focused on how large energy and industrial systems behave under geopolitical, regulatory, and market stress.

She is a Global Fellow at Columbia University’s Center on Global Energy Policy and a Senior Research Fellow at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies. Alongside her academic work, Tatiana has over a decade of experience as an independent director on the boards of international energy and industrial companies, where her focus has been on risk oversight, long-term strategy, and governance in highly uncertain environments.

Her work bridges geopolitics, energy systems, and institutional decision-making, with particular emphasis on structural constraints, resilience, and judgement under pressure.

CeCe Morken

Board Member
Wells Fargo & Company

CeCe Morken serves on the boards of Wells Fargo & Company and Genpact and is chair of the board of DailyPay. She has served as a director at Genpact since 2016 and previously served on the board of Alteryx until the company was taken private in 2024.

Morken is a former chief executive and senior technology executive with experience across software, digital platforms, banking and financial services. She most recently served as president of Headspace Health and was CEO of Headspace before its merger with Ginger.

Previously, she served as executive vice president and general manager of the Strategic Partner Group at Intuit. She also led Intuit’s ProTax Group and Intuit Financial Services, which provided digital banking solutions to banks and credit unions. Earlier, she held senior roles at WebTone Technologies and Fortis Investments and spent 15 years in various positions with John H. Harland Co.

Morken graduated from North Dakota State University, where she majored in economics and business administration. She also attended the executive development program at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

Rob Mosbacher

Board Member
Devon Energy Corporation

Rob Mosbacher, Jr., is Chairman of the Board of Mosbacher Energy Company, a family-owned energy business headquartered in Houston, Texas. He served as the ninth President and CEO of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) from 2005 to 2009, an independent agency of the U.S. Government that has facilitated over $50 billion in investments in developing countries around the world.

He played an instrumental role in the drafting and passage of the BUILD Act, a bipartisan piece of legislation passed in 2018 that combined OPIC and the Development Credit Authority of USAID into a new U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC). Rob Mosbacher served as Chair of the that Advisory Council for the first four years and continues to serve on it.

He also serves on the Board of the National Archives Foundation. In 2009, he rejoined the Board of Devon Energy, a large, independent oil and gas producer, and served on the Board of Calpine Corporation until the company was taken private in March 2018.

He received a law degree in 1977 from Southern Methodist University and a Bachelor of Arts degree from Georgetown University in 1973.

Linda K. Myers

Board Member
Gibraltar Industries

Linda K. Myers is a nationally recognized corporate attorney with over 30 years of experience representing private equity groups, major public and private companies, and commercial lending institutions. Until her retirement in 2022, Linda was a Share Partner at the international law firm Kirkland & Ellis, LLP where she served on the Firm’s Global Executive Management Committee for over 10 years.

Linda currently serves as an Independent Director for various boards. She sits on the Board of Directors of Gibraltar Industries (NASDAQ: ROCK). At Gibraltar, she serves as Chair of the Gibraltar Nominating, Governance & Corporate Social Responsibility Committee and is a member of the Capital Structure & Asset Management Committee, and Compensation & Human Capital Committee. She also serves on the LCI (NYSE: LCII) Board of Directors. She is the Chair of Corporate Governance, Nominating & Sustainability and is a member of the Risk Committee and the Strategy, Acquisition, and Capital Deployment Committee. Linda also sits on the Board of Marex Group plc (NASDAQ: MRX). She is Chair of the Remuneration Committee as well as a member of the Audit & Compliance Committee and the M&A Committee.

Most recently, Linda joined the board of Eurowag (LON: EWG). She is Chair of the Remuneration and sits on the Audit Committee and Nominating & Governance Committee. She also is Chair of the Board and Chair of the Executive Committee of the National Philanthropic Trust. Linda holds advisory roles at Kinzie Capital Partners and Chelsea Lighting and holds directorship roles at the Chicago Shakespeare Theater, the Lyric Opera of Chicago, and National Association of Corporate Directors.

Liane Pelletier

Board Member
Expeditors International of Washington, Inc.

Liane Pelletier is a former public company CEO and chairman with a 25-year operating career in telecommunications. Since late 2011, she has served as a full-time independent corporate director across a range of industries. Her board experience includes cybersecurity oversight, shareholder engagement, digital transformation, enterprise risk and regulated industries. She is an NACD Board Leadership Fellow and holds a professional certificate in Cybersecurity Oversight from Carnegie Mellon University’s Software Engineering Institute and NACD.

Pelletier currently serves on the boards of Expeditors International, Ameriprise Financial and Frontdoor. She chairs the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee at Expeditors, serves on the Audit and Risk Committee at Ameriprise and serves on the Audit and Compensation committees at Frontdoor. Her prior corporate board service includes Switch, Washington Federal, ATN International, Alaska Communications and Icicle Seafoods.

Pelletier spent nearly eight years as CEO, president and chairman of Alaska Communications, where she generated 275% total shareholder return, increased revenue by 25% and increased EBITDA by 30% while transforming the company’s asset base and business model. Previously, she spent 17 years at Sprint, serving in her final years on the Executive Committee as senior vice president of corporate strategy and business development.

She earned a bachelor’s degree in economics, magna cum laude, from Wellesley College and a master’s degree in management from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Sloan School of Management.

Mauricio Ramos

Board Member
Charter Communications

Mauricio has been a member of the Board of Directors of Charter Communications (NASDAQ: CHTR) since 2016. He is currently a member of Charter’s Compensation Committee and its Nomination and Governance Committee. Since April 2025, Mauricio has also served as Chairman of the Board of Directors of WOM Chile, the second-largest mobile operator in Chile. Mauricio served as Chief Executive Officer of Millicom (NASDAQ: TIGO) for nine years, from 2015 to 2024. He was also a member of the Millicom Board of Directors from 2020 to 2024 and its Executive Chair from 2023 to 2024.

Mauricio currently serves as a member of the Board of Trustees of the Meridian International Center, a nonprofit, nonpartisan diplomacy center based in Washington, D.C. He serves on Meridian’s Finance and Audit Committee and its Development Committee. Mauricio is also a member of the INCAE Business School’s Presidential Advisory Council. He previously served as Chair of the U.S. Chamber’s US-Colombia Business Council and as a member of the GSMA Board of Directors.

Before joining Millicom, he was President of Liberty Global’s Latin American division from 2006 until February 2015. During his career at Liberty Global, Mauricio held several leadership roles, including Chairman and CEO of VTR in Chile, Chief Financial Officer of Liberty’s Latin American division and Chair and President of Liberty Puerto Rico.

He is a dual Colombian and U.S. citizen with degrees in Economics and Law and a graduate degree in Financial Law from Universidad de Los Andes in Bogota.

Carissa Rollins

Board Member
Accendra Health (formerly known as Owens & Minor)

Carissa Rollins is a retired global healthcare and technology executive with over 30 years of experience driving digital transformation, operational excellence, and inclusive leadership across Fortune 500 organizations. Most recently, she served as Global Chief Information Officer (CIO) at Illumina, a global leader in genomics and life sciences, where she led enterprise-wide information systems strategy, infrastructure, cybersecurity, enterprise architecture, and compliance.

Prior to Illumina, Carissa served as Chief Information Officer at UnitedHealthcare, the largest U.S. health insurer, where she led enterprise IT strategy, digital health innovation, infrastructure modernization, and data platforms supporting over 50 million members. Earlier in her career, she held senior leadership roles at Gander Mountain, Kohl’s Corporation, ManpowerGroup, and MillerCoors, gaining deep expertise across IT, operations, and digital strategy.

Carissa is the recipient of the ORBIE Leadership Award, recognizing her outstanding impactas a technology leader. She is passionate about mentoring future leaders and advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion in technology and healthcare. She currently serves on the boards of Owens & Minor (OMI) and the Grand Canyon Conservancy. She holds an MBA from Marquette University and continues to contribute her strategic insights through board service and thought leadership.

Zan Vautrinot

Board Member
Wells Fargo & Company

Suzanne “Zan” Vautrinot serves on the boards of Wells Fargo & Company, Ecolab Inc., Parsons Corporation, CSX Corporation and Battelle Memorial Institute, bringing extensive experience in cybersecurity, national security and enterprise risk oversight. She previously served on the board of Symantec Corporation, later renamed NortonLifeLock. Across her board roles, she contributes expertise in cybersecurity, technology, governance and risk assessment.

Vautrinot is president of Kilovolt Consulting Inc. and a retired major general of the U.S. Air Force. During her 31-year military career, she held leadership roles in cyber operations, strategic security and space operations. She retired after serving as commander of the 24th Air Force, Air Forces Cyber and Air Force Network Operations, where she oversaw a multi-billion-dollar cyber enterprise responsible for operating and defending the Air Force portion of the Department of Defense’s global network.

She previously served as deputy commander of the Joint Functional Component Command–Network Warfare within U.S. Strategic Command and as director of plans and policy for U.S. Cyber Command. She was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2017.

Ali Wing

Board Member
Casey's General Stores, Inc.

Ms. Wing has more than 25 years of experience leading growth, brand & strategy across consumer, retail & technology companies. Ms. Wing is currently CEO of Oobli, Inc., a venture-backed food biotechnology & consumer products company.
 
Prior to Oobli, Ms. Wing was Chief Consumer Officer for Bright Health, a venture-backed health technology services company as the company grew from $200m to over $2B in revenues. Previously, at Ascena Retail Group, Ms. Wing was a Chief Marketing Officer & EVP of Digital as part of a public portfolio of retail brands with ~5,000 stores. Ms. Wing founded & led giggle, Inc. an omni-channel retailer & manufacturer of better-for-you consumer products with ~700 retail locations.

Early in her career, Ms. Wing worked for Nike progressing through brand management & corporate development roles followed by several years in Silicon Valley leading growth, brand & product across a variety of technology companies. Ms. Wing practiced law as a corporate securities attorney, has her JD & MBA from Northwestern University & has been recognized by Women’s, Inc. among its Top 100 Corporate Board of Directors.

Phoebe Yang

Board Member
GE Healthcare Technologies

Phoebe L. Yang is a Fortune 250/S&P500 board director, Stanford AI faculty, and former C-suite executive in some of the world’s most valued companies across technology, media, and healthcare.

Bringing AI, cybersecurity, digital transformation, and global growth expertise, she serves as independent board director of GE Healthcare (NASDAQ: GEHC), Doximity (NYSE: DOCS), and CommonSpirit Health ($40B revenues), where she chairs the Technology Committee. She is Stanford University Lecturer in Law, teaching the popular graduate-level course, Business Leadership in the Age of AI.

Previously, she was General Manager, Amazon Web Services, Healthcare, where she led Amazon’s highest margin healthcare business and AWS’s highest growth business to 70%+ yoy growth. She served in two Presidential Administrations, as U.S. diplomat to China and as Senior Advisor to the FCC Chairman on Broadband, and in C-suite or senior executive leadership in one private and four public companies.

A Council on Foreign Relations life member, Yang graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Virginia and from Stanford Law School, where she was President of the Stanford Law Review. She was named Top 100 Most Influential in Healthcare (Modern Healthcare), Top 30 AAPI Board Director (BoardProspect), and Top 10 Women of Influence (Fierce Healthcare).