Banco Popular de Puerto Rico

Carl Peterson retired in June after more than a decade as vice president of small firm interests at the AICPA & CIMA. He has been named one of Accounting Today's Top 100 Most Influential People in Accounting every year since 2014.

Zorana Milovanovic, MBA, is a senior accountant specializing in ERP implementation, financial systems optimization and compliance in high-growth, regulated environments. She has supported end-to-end system transitions, often acting as a liaison between accounting, IT and audit teams. With business degrees from both the U.S. and Europe, she brings a cross-cultural perspective to internal controls, SOX readiness and policy design.

Bob Fraser is the co-founder, CFO and chief macro strategist at Aspen Funds. An author, entrepreneur and podcast host, he is passionate about expanding access to institutional-caliber opportunities traditionally reserved for family offices and ultrawealthy investors.

Pavlo Boyko is accounting and tax solutions architect at TMF Group.

Jeff Wilcoxon is the Senior Strategy and Corporate Development Principal for VIU by HUB. He drives broader enterprise-level strategic partnerships for VIU, helps source and drive acquisition prospects that align with the VIU strategy, and develops strategies that help further position VIU to enhance its value proposition as a modern digital broker.

Prior to VIU by HUB, Jeff held leadership roles in corporate strategy and strategic partnerships at Nationwide Insurance. Other experience includes leading global consumer insights on the connected car strategy team at General Motors, strategy and operations consulting at Accenture, and various other roles in banking and consulting. Jeff is also an entrepreneur and co-owner of a fifth-generation family ice cream business where he assists with strategy, marketing, and financial planning in his spare time.

Jay Venkateswaran is head of banking and financial services at WNS.

Rodrigo Tumaián is co-founder and co-CEO of Prometeo, the largest open banking platform in Latin America.

Alessio Alionço is the founder and CEO of Pipefy, a leading process management and AI platform. Brazilian-born Alionco is a high-impact global leader and has grown Pipefy from its founding in 2015 to a company with hundreds of customers worldwide. Pipefy delivers a business process automation platform that improves productivity and efficiency, centralizes data, and standardizes processes for teams in insurance.

Emma Bienias is managing director of Stout, a global advisory firm specializing in corporate finance, accounting and transaction advisory, valuation, financial disputes, claims, and investigations.  She has a background in performing valuation engagements for various purposes including financial reporting, tax valuations, business reorganizations, pre-acquisition diligence, post-acquisition disputes, fairness and solvency opinions and other management planning and corporate-related matters. Emma has experience providing expert litigation support for analyses of economic damages resulting from the infringement or misappropriation of intellectual property rights. She has performed damage analyses that included consideration of unjust enrichment, loss profits, and reasonable royalty. Emma also combines financial, market and competitive information to value intellectual property for a variety of objectives such as regulatory compliance, licensing and sale transactions, and securing financing for corporate acquisitions and expansion.

Justin Grooms is the president of Bolt, a checkout technology company.