Banco Popular de Puerto Rico

As U.S. chief operating officer at Esker, Steven Smith is responsible for all operations in North, South and Central America. He joined Esker in 2003 as the director of sales. Prior to Esker, He spent 17 years at Equitrac Corporation as the senior vice president of worldwide sales and two years in sales at Pitney Bowes.

Érica Carnevalli is a spring reporting associate at Financial Planning. She is a graduate student in the business and economic reporting program at New York University. A native of Brazil, she has also worked at Brazilian publications and interned at CNBC Investigations in New York.

Salene Hitchcock-Gear is president of Prudential Individual Life Insurance, a unit of the financial services company that offers consumers a diverse portfolio of life insurance products. She is an insurance industry veteran with more than 30 years of experience.

Joanna Kuang is VP of Product Development and Impact and bias trainer at Illumen Capital an impact fund of funds addressing systemic inequity by reducing racial and gender bias in investing. 

Moe Sayadi, a solution architect and CEO at Djuno, a company that develops AI technology that helps businesses optimize their cloud IT infrastructure for better performance and lower cost.

Ilan joined Sapiens in February 2022 and brings a wealth of leadership experience at the forefront of technology and innovation, with such companies as NAYAX, Amdocs and Bank Leumi. Ilan is responsible for developing a coherent view across Sapiens' product offering, leading the company's journey to cloud, reinforcing Sapiens' technology roadmap and digital offering. Ilan also leads all aspects of IT, cyber and information systems, to accelerate the company's business growth.

Dr. Dave Rengachary is Senior Vice President and Head of Underwriting for U.S. Mortality Markets at RGA Reinsurance Company, where he has served instrumental roles in setting the risk philosophy for the department, oversight of US Manual development, leadership roles across numerous USMM underwriting initiatives and regulatory engagements.  He previously served as Chief Medical Director for RGA

Prior to joining RGA in 2013, he was a general neurologist in practice at Missouri Baptist Medical Center where he also served as medical director for their Primary Stroke Center.  Dr. Rengachary attended the Honors Program in Medical Education at Northwestern University. He then completed an adult neurology residency at Washington University followed by a fellowship in Clinical Neurophysiology. He serves on the board of directors of Memory Home Care Solutions and Oasis, non-profit organizations respectively dedicated to Alzheimer's caregiver support and healthy aging.  He has obtained board certification in neurology, insurance medicine,  FALU, and FLMI. Dr. Rengachary recently received his executive M.B.A. through the program at the Olin Business School at Washington University.

In 2021 Dr. Rengachary accepted a position as chair of ACLI's Risk Classification Committee. He is Past-President of the Midwestern Medical Directors Association; current Deputy Director of the Longer Life Foundation; Medical Consultant for the Academy of Life Underwriting; and a past member

Michele Harbaugh has been a human resource professional for more than 20 years and currently manages health and benefits for Yoga Joint, which operates eight yoga studios across South Florida. Michele's professional dream is for employees to see human resources as a tool for them, not the dreaded "principal's office". She does this through actively engaging the team, having open and honest conversations, and interpreting policies into everyday language. She is on a mission to put the human back in human resources, help employees thrive at their workplace, and contribute to the company's overall growth.