Regina created Pizza Hut’s New Founders Program to give women and minority entrepreneurs access to the capital and connections they need to start businesses. She also co-wrote Pizza Hut’s strategy for equity, opportunity, and unity and led efforts to create new entry-level jobs. Originally from Switzerland and now based in Texas, Regina has lived and worked in dozens of countries and is fluent in six languages.

Adrienne’s focus at Eli Lilly is Type 2 diabetes, a global epidemic affecting more than 463 million people worldwide. In her two decades at the company, she has brought innovative treatments to market and made it her team’s mission to enable breakthrough outcomes on diabetes and obesity by 2030. Adrienne serves on the board of BioCrossroads. She has an MBA from Florida A&M University.

Lisa holds a PhD in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and is a mission-driven serial entrepreneur. Her current venture, Air Protein, uses half-century-old NASA technology to create meat from elements of the air. Lisa’s startup has been recognized as a World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer company. Previously she founded Kiverdi, an industrial biotech company that harnesses space age science to create planet-friendly commercial solutions and new products through carbon transformation.

Karen drives Bank of America’s strategy to mobilize and deploy $1.5 trillion in sustainable finance capital for climate transition and social inclusive development by 2030. Karen sits on BofA’s management committee and ESG committee. She is a national board member of the Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC), one of the largest Community Development Financial Institutions in the U.S. Karen has been recognized on the Fortune 40 under 40 list and as a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader.

Emma is a founding team member and leads data science at Fractal Ag, a fractional farmland investment platform. Before joining Fractal, Emma created a groundbreaking program that pays farmers to reduce their carbon emissions at Corteva Agriscience. The program has potential to scale to millions of acres of farmland. After receiving her BA in biology and environmental studies at the University of Chicago, she earned a PhD in ecology at Princeton, where she investigated the environmental impact of U.S. commercial fisheries. Now she’s dedicated to solving private-sector environmental problems at scale.

Fewer than 2 percent of intellectual property lawyers are African American, and Toni Hickey is one of them. As deputy chief of staff at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, she helped launch the Patents for Humanity Initiative to incentivize the development of technologies addressing humanitarian needs. At Cummins, Toni has led efforts on COVID-19 personal protection equipment, diversity, and global sustainability. She serves on the board of the Indianapolis Urban League.

Cherée began her journey as a chemical engineer at 3M before pivoting to law school and a career as an intellectual property lawyer. A passion for clarifying complex challenges took her from Cargill to Kraft Heinz to McCormick to W.R. Grace before she moved to Dentsply Sirona in early 2022. Cherée is on the board of the John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Lindsay spent 28 years as the primary caregiver for her mother, who suffered from Multiple Sclerosis. That experience led Lindsay to create a company to help people navigate the confusing caretaking landscape. Before starting Wellthy in 2014, Lindsay worked in advertising, technology, and media, as well as SVP of Marketing at New York-based startup Simulmedia, and in product and strategic marketing at Microsoft.

Elli had one goal when she started Neurotrack: To change the way Alzheimer’s is diagnosed and treated. After losing two grandparents to the disease, she created a company that develops digital cognitive health solutions to enable people to assess, monitor, and strengthen brain health. Elli began her career in government, working at the White House and the State and Treasury Departments before moving to private equity and then the United Nations. She has an MBA from Harvard University and is on the Business School’s Healthcare Advisory Board.

Jaclyn joined General Motors 20 years ago and sees herself as a model for women and girls to reach the highest levels in the male-dominated auto industry and other STEM fields. A mechanical engineer, she was Executive Chief Engineer of Full Size Trucks before GM promoted her to President and Managing Director of GM Europe in 2022. Now based in Zurich, Jaclyn speaks proudly of her Chaldean heritage and actively promotes women and diversity across GM.

Shally is EVP and CIO for Liberty Mutual’s global commercial and specialty businesses. She began her career in IT as a developer at Amerigroup. She rose to lead technology strategy and innovation there before moving to Anthem, WellStar Health System, and Humana, where she was the first woman SVP & CIO. Shally is passionate about advancing women in technology. She is also co-founder and Chairwoman of the Freedom Council, a coalition of businesses combating human trafficking.

After gaining expertise in healthcare via stints at Deloitte, Goldman Sachs, Bain, and Massachusetts Medicaid, where she was COO, Corbin decided she wanted to revamp the ways substance abuse treatment and mental healthcare are paid for and delivered, particularly for marginalized populations. Eleanor Health, which Corbin founded in 2019, applies technology, data, and compassionate teams to provide at-home and in-clinic care. Corbin serves on boards that support equity for women and the LGBTQ+ community.

Laura co-founded Code 2040, a nonprofit focused on dismantling structural barriers to diverse and inclusive leadership in tech. She then worked on access to capital and DEI as a senior policy adviser in the Obama White House and was head of impact at social innovation fund Echoing Green. In 2021, Laura joined Base10 Partners, the first and only black-led VC firm to cross $1B in assets under management, as operating partner. Laura has taught social innovation at Stanford and at the American University of Rome.

Yolanda began her career at the law firm Morrison & Foerster and moved to Gap as a contract attorney in 2003. Today, she’s General Counsel of Athleta—a Gap brand focused on “igniting the limitless potential of all women and girls”—as well as Deputy General Counsel at the parent company. Yolanda co-leads Gap’s Legal Diversity Committee and has developed initiatives to provide jobs for attorneys who may be overlooked in traditional recruiting efforts.

After starting her career in education, Elise worked at IBM Watson and then in venture philanthropy. While pursuing her MBA/MA in Education at Stanford, she co-founded Praxis Labs to create immersive VR-enabled learning platforms to train employees to be empathetic and inclusive—and drive inclusion across the workplace.