Equity Experts

Sam Angus

Partner, Corporate GroupFenwick & West LLP

Entrepreneurship and venture financing for start-ups have been long-standing specialties for this lawyer and conference panel moderator

Stephen Peca

Managing DirectorConcourse Realty Group

Commercial Real Estate Development and Investment (and everything in between)

Tammy Clifford

Chief Scientist and Vice President, Evidence StandardsCanadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health (CADTH)

Supporting evidence-informed decisions in Canadian health care as CADTH's Chief Scientist and Vice President, Evidence Standards.

Laura J. Burton, Ph.D.

Department Head, Educational LeadershipUniversity of Connecticut

Professor focused on management in sports organizations and how gender stereotypes affect women working in athletics.

Jan Barton

Associate Professor of AccountingEmory University, Goizueta Business School

Peter G. Klein, Ph.D.

Professor of EntrepreneurshipBaylor University

Expert economist specializing in managerial & organizational issues, with a particular focus on entrepreneurship & innovation

Rich Milner

Cornelius Vanderbilt Professor of Education, Department of Teaching and LearningVanderbilt University

Expert on urban education and teacher education, centering on equity and diversity.

Dr. Raphael (Rafi) Hofstein

President & CEOMaRS Innovation

Turning academic ideas into commercial realities

Micah Officer, Ph.D.

Professor of Finance, College of Business AdministrationLoyola Marymount University

Associate Chair, Department of Finance

Amilcar Shabazz

Professor and Undergraduate Program Director, W.E.B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American StudiesUniversity of Massachusetts Amherst

Amilcar Shabazz has been a prominent voice in the movement to make reparations to descendants of former enslaved Americans.