Born in South Africa and raised in Alaska, Muriel navigated to the intersection of AI and the global workforce. Earning a doctorate in industrial and organizational psychology from the University of Georgia along the way, she is on a mission to enable the underserved. Muriel co-founded Anthill to connect the deskless workforce—frontline workers who often lack access to smartphones and computers—with employee resources on any kind of device and in over 100 languages.

Eradicating workplace inequities fuels Maria’s leadership. A first-generation college graduate, she raised $17.1 million in Series B funding for Syndio while she was eight months pregnant. Syndio is a SaaS company that empowers companies to optimize pay equity. Before joining Syndio as CEO in 2018, Maria spent four years at Starbucks and co-founded Smartsheet, a NYSE-listed company that is now valued at $6 billion.

Born in Ethiopia, Lule spent her early years as an immigrant in Greece, the UK, and Kenya before coming to the U.S. and working in a series of increasingly senior roles at J.P. Morgan, Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley, TD Ameritrade, and Ally. A risk taker with guardrails, as she calls herself, Lule now leads U.S. Operations of the social investing platform eToro USA with a perspective informed by her intersectional identities and experience.

From the U.S. House of Representatives to John McCain’s presidential campaign to Morgan Stanley, Heather has scaled both business and politics. Starting at Trulia as employee No. 12, she rose to SVP & GM. In 2016, Heather co-founded Solv Health to shift power in the healthcare system to patients. Solv’s national network of providers enables healthcare access to 180 million Americans, offering same-day or next-day in-person and virtual care. Heather is also on the board of Atlassian.

Growing up on Long Island with a father who was a volunteer EMT, Shanel learned early on about the challenges of first responders. After graduating from Cornell, she worked at AT&T and Athenahealth, managing enterprise healthcare IT sales teams, before starting MD Ally to fix a critical and under-resourced piece of America’s healthcare infrastructure: 911. MD Ally connects non-emergency 911 callers to in-network virtual care, mental health, substance abuse and other community resources. Shanel is also on the board of Techstars.

Rebecca grew up in rural New York State, served in the Peace Corps in Russia, and set out on a mission to tackle one of the world’s toughest challenges: advancing clean energy. After 12 years at the Vermont Energy Investment Corporation (VEIC), she is at the helm of the nonprofit, working with utilities, manufacturers, and distributors to design renewable energy programs for towns and cities—particularly underserved and vulnerable communities—across the U.S.

Harini grew up in India and came to the U.S. to get her Masters in marketing at Vanderbilt. Over two decades, she worked at IBM, then Microsoft in western Europe, and then Amazon Web Services (AWS). Harini recently joined Entrust, a leader in securing identities and payments and digital infrastructure, as Chief Customer Officer. She is an active startup advisor and also on the city council in her hometown of Medina, Washington.

Shayna has worked at the intersection of sustainability and innovation in food systems for the past two decades. A Fulbright Scholar who pioneered new approaches to supply chain management at consumer giant Mars and at venture-backed startups, Shayna moved on to co-found Supply Change Capital in 2020. The venture capital firm invests in early-stage food and agriculture tech with a focus on two forces transforming the way we secure what we eat: climate and culture. Shayna is also a contributing writer for Forbes.

Lenore’s passion for national security and economic mobility fuels her leadership. After graduating from the Naval Academy and serving as an officer in the Marine Corps for seven years, she worked at Bank of America, SoFi, McChrystal Group, and Citadel. Now at venture firm First In, Lenore focuses on cybersecurity, AI, and data intelligence. She chairs the board of Bunker Labs, which helps veterans and their spouses build successful businesses.

Growing up near Toronto, Melissa developed an early love of business. She spent 24 years at PepsiCo, where she rose from financial analyst to SVP of finance for North American Beverages, with a focus on strategic transformation. She joined General Motors in 2021 as CFO of the company’s EV, Digital and Innovation business. At GM, Melissa champions various diversity and inclusion and learning initiatives.

A Rhodes and Truman Scholar who started her career in the U.S. Army, Liz completed two year-long tours in Iraq, where she served on the senior staff of General David Petraeus, and served as a Military Police Commander. During her decade plus at McKinsey, she rose to a Partner and Global Leader at McKinsey Academy. Now at Schmidt Futures, Liz oversees a portfolio of programs addressing hard to solve problems in science, technology, and science.

From KPMG tax accountant to senior attorney at Amgen to Executive Director of the Debbie Allen Dance Academy, to returning to her accounting and finance roots as VP Finance Cumulus Media, Chief Accounting Officer and CFO at Reputation.com, Shannon eventually navigated a path to Alphabet, the holding company that owns Google and she runs the finance, operations, and partnerships teams at Wing, Alphabet’s drone delivery company. Shannon serves on the boards of NetScout Systems (NASDAQ: NTCT), Lazy Dog Restaurants, and Sofi Bank (a Sofi subsidiary). She’s also a filmmaker: Her award-winning Colored My Mind follows the stories of families with children with autism in the Black community Her latest film, OnBoard, delves into board diversity and is slated to be released in Summer 2023.

A first-generation college grad with an electrical engineering degree from Northwestern, Leslie joined IBM as an intern and rose to global sales VP. She moved on to Comcast and First Data. Following Fiserv’s 2019 acquisition of First Data, Leslie co-heads operations for the combined companies Global Business Solutions Division. As executive sponsor of the company’s Black Leadership Council, she changed the name of the organization to SOAR.

A Harvard-educated physician, board certified in both internal medicine and endocrinology, Chevon worked across business (from digital health startups to Amazon to Takeda Digital Ventures), government, and academia——always focusing on improving patient outcomes and fixing healthcare inequities. Now at Oncology Care Partners, she leads the company's digital strategy and oversees its oncology delivery systems.

After conquering her own health challenges, Kristina started Equip to improve care for people with eating disorders. Equip is the leading provider of virtual, evidence-based eating disorder treatments—providing therapists, dietitians, physicians, and peer & family mentors to support patients in their recovery. Kristina also founded Project HEAL, a non-profit that works to improve access to treatment for eating disorders.