Each year, the Directors' Academy hosts esteemed private sector and government speakers. Select past private sector keynotes have been given by Heather Lavallee, CEO, Voya Financial (2023); William "Bill" Ackman, CEO, Pershing Square Capital (2022); Thomas "Todd" Gibbons, CEO, BNY Mellon (2022), and Martin Lipton, Founder and Partner, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz LLP (2022) and Daniel Schulman, CEO, Paypal (2021). Select past government speakers have included Gurbir Grewal (2022, 2023), Director of Enforcement, SEC, and Marshall Miller, Prinicipal Associate Deputy Attorney General, Department of Justice (2023).
The 2024 Directors' Academy speaker biographies will be updated here in coming weeks.