Susan Remmer Ryzewic Ph.D.

President and CEO, EHR Investments, Inc.; Director, University of North Florida Foundation, Remmer Family Foundation, and Olympic Fibers, SA; Co-chair, WCD North Florida/South Georgia (United States)

Susan Remmer Ryzewic is a dynamic and recognized leader who serves on corporate, industry, and nonprofit Boards, with an accomplished business career of more than 25 years. She is an analytical, intuitive, and compassionate problem solver, with a broad range of strategic planning, project management, and investment expertise.

President and CEO of EHR Investments, Inc., Susan is responsible for the leadership and management of the investment and business operations for her family.

Susan, a member of WomenCorporateDirectors Foundation, serves on the Advisory Board, co-chairs the Northeast Florida/South Georgia Chapter and co-chairs the Family Business Council. Her current corporate Board positions include EHR Investments, Inc., and Cabot- Wellington, LLC, a single family office, which she chairs the Governance and Investment Oversight Committees. She previously served on the Boards of: Endless Pools, Inc., a manufacturer of swim in place pools; William Smith Enterprises, Inc., a precision machining company; and Olympic Fibers, SA, an industrial conglomerate located in Costa Rica.

Susan is Advisory Faculty Emeritus of the Institute for Private Investors, (IPI) an educational organization that she has been involved with since May 1992. In 2010, IPI awarded Susan the “Mark Morris Mentoring Award” and in 2012, Gleneagles, a multi-family office, named her “Family Office Executive of the Year.” She served as a client advisor on the Investment Committee of GenSpring Family Offices, formerly Asset Management Advisors, for over 20 years. Susan is a former President of the University of North Florida Foundation (UNFF) Board. At the end of her term as President of the UNFF Board, Susan was awarded the “Presidential Medallion,” the highest award given to volunteers by the University. She continues to serve on the Executive Committee, the Investment Committee, and the Governance Committee.

Susan is a Director of The Remmer Family Foundation. In 2002, she co-founded the First Coast Girls Initiative, a coalition of organizations serving girls in Northeast Florida, and serves on the leadership team. As Chair of Voices for Florida Girls, she serves on the Board of Voices for Florida, a nonprofit social entrepreneurial enterprise established to promote social and economic progress for Florida’s children, families and communities. Her other nonprofit commitments include serving on the Investment Committee of The Community Foundation of Northeast Florida, Advisory Leadership Council to the Delores Barr Weaver Policy Center, and Wellesley College. Susan has received several awards for her volunteer leadership, including “Woman of Distinction” by the Girl Scouts, Gateway Council and “Woman of Vision” by Girls, Inc. Northeast Florida.

Susan holds a Ph.D. in Sociology of Education from the University of Chicago and a B.A. degree in Sociology from Wellesley College.

Marina Brogi

Director, Clessidra SGR, Fratelli Branca Distillerie, Mediaset; Co-chair, WCD Italy (Italy)

Massimiliano Pogliani

CEO, illycaffè (Italy)

Born in Milano, Massimiliano Pogliani owns a bachelor's degree cum laude in Economics and Business at the Catholic University of Milan and a postgraduate education at the London Business School and IMD Business School in Lausanne. He has over twenty years of marketing, commercial and retail experience, and acquired leading companies with premium and luxury brands.

After his initial professional experiences, he joined Saeco International Group as the Head of Global Marketing, greatly contributing to the development of the company and its IPO and listing at the Milan Stock Exchange. In 2003, he joined the Nestlé Group at the Swiss Headquarters of Nespresso where, as Head of International Retail & Customer Management, steered the growth of the Nespresso Boutiques at a global level, for customer service (Nespresso Club) and trade marketing.

From 2008 to 2012, he was first Chief Commercial & Marketing Officer and eventually, CEO of Nestlé Super Premium, a division created to speed up the expansion of selected Nestlé brands in the super premium segment. In 2012, he moved to the U.K. to join Vertu following the acquisition by the investment organization EQT, first as Chief Marketing Officer and then CEO, by overhauling and transforming the company until it was sold to a new investor.

He joined illycaffè in 2016, as the first external CEO in the over 80-year company history. Under his leadership, illycaffè has gone through a successful transformation involving both business and branding. The company has embraced new customer centric-thinking thanks to its digital transformation, launched successful products such as new compatible aluminum capsules, continued to develop sustainable practices and products, and supported by strong marketing and communication initiatives.

Tom McGinness

Global Chair Family Business, KPMG LLP (United Kingdom)

Tom McGinness is Global Leader of Family Business for KPMG Private Enterprise and an experienced Senior Partner with a demonstrated history of working with large family businesses and private companies providing tax, accounting and advisory support with a focus on tax, family governance and succession planning.

Tom’s long standing family business clients in the U.K. include: Wates, Bestway, J Murphy & Sons Ltd. and McLaren.

Susan C. Keating

CEO, Women Corporate Directors Foundation (United States)

Susan C. Keating is chief executive officer of the Women Corporate Directors Foundation (WCD).

Prior to joining WCD, Susan was president and chief executive officer of the National Foundation for Credit Counseling (NFCC), the largest and longest-serving nonprofit credit counseling organization in the United States. Under her leadership NFCC members improved the financial well-being of 26 million people with the support of $88 million in funding for housing programs and $36 million for other programs promoting financial wellness and stability.

Susan spent 29 years in financial services before moving into the nonprofit sector, serving as president and chief executive of Allfirst Financial, Inc., the 43rd largest U.S. bank, and the largest U.S. holding of Allied Irish Banks plc (AIB Group). Her additional experience includes executive positions with NationsBank, MNC Financial and First Bank System.

Irene Chang Britt

CEO, ICB Enterprises LLC; Director, Brighthouse Financial, Amica Senior Lifestyles, Transformational CPG, MikMak, Peloton Capital Management, and Center for Higher Ambition Leadership; Member, WCD Tampa (United States)

Irene Chang Britt is an experienced independent board director and former Fortune 500 C-Suite executive. She currently serves on the boards of top ten life insurance company Brighthouse Financial, Inc. (NASDAQ: BHF--Chairperson, Nomination and Corporate Governance), premium senior living Amica Senior Lifestyles (OTPP-owned, Chairperson of the Board), leading-edge digital e-commerce accelerator MikMak, and is an advisory board member of Peloton Capital Management in Canada. In addition to her current boards, Irene previously served on these public company boards: Dunkin Brands Group, Inc. (Chairperson, Nomination and Corporate Governance), Tailored Brands, Inc. (Chairperson, Nomination and Corporate Governance), TerraVia, Inc. (Chairperson of the Board) and Sunoco, Inc.

She is also a board member of the executive education and leadership development not-for-profit, Center for Higher Ambition Learning. She is a National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD) Board Leadership Fellow and a frequent speaker on both leadership and corporate governance best practices. Irene is a highly accomplished former Fortune 500 President, with a long track record of transforming businesses to achieve industry-leading growth. From 2012 through 2015, she was President/CEO, Pepperidge Farm, Inc. and Senior Vice President, Global Baking and Snacking for the Campbell Soup Company, capping a decade of executive service at the company that also included tenure as Global Chief Strategy Officer, President of North America Food service and Vice President & General Manager, Sauces and Beverages.

Before joining Campbell Soup in 2005, Irene held a number of leadership positions within Kraft Foods/Nabisco in both the U.S. and Canada, including Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Salted Snacks division and Post Cereal division. Before that, she spent more than a decade at Kimberly-Clark, where she held key assignments in marketing, sales and R&D leadership. Irene has been honored with a number of recognitions for her business and community accomplishments, including Women Inc.’s Most Influential Corporate Board Directors (2019), NACD Directorship 100 (2017), a Leadership Education for Asian Pacifics (LEAP) Award (2014) and New Jersey Business Hall of Fame Award (2011).

Irene earned her B.A. from the University of Toronto and MBA, with honors, from the Richard Ivey School of Business at the University of Western Ontario.

Margaret Preston

Director, McCormick & Company, Inc. and Otis Worldwide, Inc.; Member, WCD New York

Margaret Preston is an experienced corporate board member and recognized community leader. Margaret is a proven financial services executive with broad and deep experience in private wealth management, investments and capital markets. She is the former Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer of a division of a global bank. Margaret is a developer of strategy and detailed operating plans to achieve goals while managing risk. She is a thought leader with a gift for turning change into opportunity. Margaret is a member of NACD and WCD, as well as a frequent panelist with expertise in compensation, governance, ESG and D, E & I.

Margaret has served as a member of the Board of McCormick & Company since 2003. She was the first woman outside Director. She has served on the Audit Committee, the Nominating and Governance Committee and now serves on the Compensation and Human Capital Committee. McCormick is one of the highest performing Consumer Packaged Goods companies, with a market capitalization of $24 billion.

Margaret serves as the Nominations and Governance Committee Chair and Compensation Committee member of the Board of Otis Worldwide Corporation. Otis was spun from UTC in April of 2020 and has a market capitalization of $29 billion. Otis is the world’s leading elevator and escalator manufacturing, installation and service company. Margaret is an award-winning community leader with extensive board experience. She is passionate about helping women and children to attain their potential, with a particular focus for 25 years on Women United (United Way of NYC and Central Maryland).

Margaret Preston holds a bachelor’s degree in History from Trinity College and an MBA with a concentration in Finance from the Harvard University Graduate School of Business Administration.

Anilu Vazquez-Ubarri

Partner and CHRO, TPG; Director, Teach for America-Bay Area, LatinoJustice PRLDEF, Charter School Growth Fund, Upwork, and Greenhouse (United States)

Anilu Vazquez-Ubarri is a Partner and TPG’s Chief Human Resources Officer, based in San Francisco. Anilu also serves as a member of the TPG Holdings Committee. Prior to joining TPG in August 2018, Anilu was with Goldman Sachs for more than 11 years, where she most recently was the firm’s Global Head of Talent and Chief Diversity Officer. Prior to Goldman Sachs, Anilu was an associate at Shearman & Sterling LLP in the Executive Compensation & Employee Benefits group from 2002 to 2007. Anilu received an AB in History and Latin American Studies, cum laude, from Princeton University and a JD from Fordham University School of Law. Anilu currently serves on the Boards of Teach for America-Bay Area, LatinoJustice PRLDEF, the Vera Institute of Justice, Charter School Growth Fund, Upwork, and Greenhouse.

Julie Daum

Head of North American Board Practice, Spencer Stuart; Director, Seacoast Bank, The Jackson Laboratory, CityMeals; Commissioner for the Women’s Refugee Commision; Member, WCD New York (United States)

Claudia Pici-Morris

Consultant, Board Advisory Services, Spencer Stuart (United States)

Claudia Pici Morris focuses exclusively on board advisory engagements as a member of the Board Practice in New York. She advises clients across industries on board director recruitment, board succession planning, board effectiveness and other key governance and senior leadership issues facing boards and CEOs. Her clients range from Fortune 50 to family to private equity-backed pre-IPO companies.

Claudia has conducted more than 500 board director searches and governance consulting engagements, including activist defense, spin-out boards, composition analysis and benchmarking, CEO and senior leadership assessments, and board candidate pipeline projects.

Prior to joining Spencer Stuart in 2019, she worked for 13 years at another global executive search firm, where she founded a peer-to-peer network of nominating and governance committee chairs representing a cohort of Fortune 250 companies. Claudia has authored a number of publications on board composition and effectiveness, including “Investors Turn Up the Heat on Boardroom Gender Diversity” (2018), “Board Effectiveness Reviews: What the Board Can Learn from Looking in the Mirror” (2017), “Evergreen Board Succession Planning” (2016), “Global Board Index” (2014) and “Gender Diversity on Boards; Breaking the Impasse.”

She started her career in management consulting with Booz Allen Hamilton and AT Kearney.

Claudia serves on the St. Elizabeth Seton Children’s Foundation Board of Directors, the National Association of Corporate Directors and the Society of Corporate Secretaries. She has a master's degree from Columbia University and a bachelor’s degree in philosophy from Fordham University.

Kathleen Tamayo

Director of Operations & Development, North American Board Practice, Spencer Stuart; Director, Chicago Metamorphosis Orchestra Project (United States)

Tania Binder

Consultant - Board, CEO, Private Equity and Technology, Media & Telecommunications, Spencer Stuart (United States)

Tania Binder is a member of Spencer Stuart’s Board, CEO, Private Equity and Technology, Media & Telecommunications practices. She specializes in enterprise (B2B, SaaS, infrastructure) and consumer software from both a search and leadership advisory capacity. Specifically, she recruits and assesses board directors, CEOs, general managers, chief revenue officers, chief marketing officers and other core members of leadership teams responsible for driving transformation and growth. In addition to her work with clients, Tania has led Spencer Stuart’s West Coast offices and has served on the firm’s North American Operating Committee.

Prior to joining Spencer Stuart, Tania served as general manager of a San Francisco-based boutique firm specializing in recruiting technology leaders for high-growth venture-backed tech companies.

Previously, she was senior vice president at TRX Training, where she built the company’s worldwide sales operations and grew the organization’s sales, digital and customer service capability across retail, enterprise and government channels. Earlier in her career, Tania was with BMC Software, where she held several senior management roles in sales, marketing and business development, leading large-scale sales teams and managing client relationships with major enterprise customers.

Tania earned both a bachelor’s in human biology (neuroscience) and a master’s in organizational behavior from Stanford University.

Katherine Blue

IMPACT National Leader, KPMG LLP; Co-chair, WCD Atlanta (United States)

Katherine is KPMG’s US Environmental Social and Governance (ESG) services leader for audit, tax, and advisory and has over 20 years of experience in corporate ESG strategy, climate change and decarbonization, and EHS regulatory compliance. Katherine is also KPMG’s IMPACT Leader for the US in support of the global KPMG firm. In her ESG leadership role, she has served clients across most major sectors, including power/utility, oil and gas, diversified industrials, technology, and financial services. She also leads KPMGs southeast Major Projects Advisory services, providing advice on major capital project construction in the energy sector. Ms. Blue is also co-chair of the Women Corporate Directors chapter for Atlanta.

Leads ESG strategy, materiality, and climate/decarbonization advisory engagements across KPMG US business sectors, including financial services, energy and natural resources, diversified industrials, technology, and other sectors in KPMG. -Coordinates KPMG’s services across audit, tax, and KPMG’s Board Leadership Center to provide a full suite of ESG services to clients.

-Over 20 years of experience in climate change and decarbonization services, including offset strategies, climate inventories, climate risk analysis, renewable energy, emissions trading, regulatory compliance, valuation, and other services. -Provide experienced support of corporate internal audits of ESG and EH&S data to support maturity of programs. Substantial experience with GRI, WBCSD, SASB, TCFD and other important protocols for ESG governance.

-Provide board level advisement for companies on strategies related to managing investor relations issues in the ESG and climate areas.

-Coordinates with our audit practice, providing support for performing sustainability assurance engagements across sectors.

-Assured data has included greenhouse gas, EH&S, social and governance data, and other relevant data. Additional assurance engagements have included climate and green bonds and social bonds.

-Responsible for overall execution and quality of True Value engagements in the US. Experienced with product and process life cycle analysis and supply chain impacts for climate change and social impact.

Stephen T. Dabney

Leader, Audit Committee Institute, KPMG LLP

Stephen is an audit partner in the Houston office of KPMG with more than 25 years of experience, primarily serving public energy-related clients. He is also leader of the KPMG Audit Committee Institute (ACI), which is part of the KPMG Board Leadership Center. In this role, Stephen leads ACI initiatives to provide directors with practical insights and resources related to boardroom challenges specific to the audit committee. He is a frequent speaker on board governance and audit committee issues—including strategy, risk oversight, ESG, financial reporting and internal controls.

Stephen serves as the global lead audit partner for Halliburton Company and the account executive for many others. He is also an engagement quality reviewer for public companies, a designation given to the firm’s most technical partners, providing objective review of significant auditing, accounting, and financial reporting matters.

Prior to leading the ACI, Stephen served as the Audit Partner-in-Charge of the Houston Business Unit. In that role, he was responsible for operational, financial, personnel, and client care matters.

Stephen previously completed a two-year assignment in the firm’s national office in New York where he advised clients and engagement teams on a variety of accounting and financial reporting matters., He completed a three-year assignment in Bogota, Colombia serving large U.S. multinational clients doing business in the country.

Zoe Thompson

Principal, Transformation Delivery, KPMG LLP (United States)

Zoe Thompson is a Principal for advisory services with KPMG LLP, the U.S. audit, tax and advisory services firm. She has over 25 years’ experience with a broad range of organizational performance and change management areas, including workforce improvement, corporate culture, and competency assurance. She has worked primarily in the oil and gas and utilities sectors.

-Led the executive alignment and change management program for a global quality improvement program, impacting 60,000+ employees worldwide.

-Led the executive alignment, communications, and change management workstreams for a strategy, process and operating model transformation for a large professional services organization, impacting approximately 9,000 employees.

-Served as the change management strategic advisor for a Quorum Land and Division Order implementation for a premier independent E&P company.

-Partnered with the client to design the organizational and behavioural change management strategy to support an integrated surface and subsurface reengineering effort across the upstream segment of a Major Global Oil Company.

-Led the effort to standardize and document the order entry, MRP/MPS, purchase execution and schedule attainment processes for an international oilfield services organization. Supported deployment across 33 plants globally.

-Led the executive alignment and change management program for the US deployment of ERP, covering Customer Relationship Management, Engagement Management and Billing, and Time Tracking. Program impacted 20,000+ employees.