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She most recently served as the Retail Transformation Officer for Aptos, Inc. and in that role she was responsible for developing the practice to materially help retailers on their quest to put the customer at the center of everything they do, and establish move the needle opportunities in their data and business.

Prior to joining Aptos, Cantrell served as NRF’s Senior Vice President, Communities and Executive Director, Shop.org., providing strategic direction and management of Shop.org, NRF’s digital retail division. Additionally, she provided oversight for the NRF communities, including the CIO Council, Digital Council, CMO Council, ARTS and Loss Prevention Council.

Prior to joining NRF, Cantrell served as the COO of Tory Burch during a period of extreme growth and expansion domestically and internationally. As COO, her work centered on the development of process and infrastructure for the transition from initial success to sustained growth. She was also a brand advocate and instrumental in developing ongoing employee and team strategies. During her storied retail career, Cantrell has also worked as CIO of Giorgio Armani Corporation and held positions of growing responsibility with Gucci Group, Party City and JCPenney.

Cantrell is a respected industry leader and is an active member of the Retail Orphan Initiative as a Donor Trustee since 2010. She also serves on the Influencer Advisory Board (IAB) of Sparks & Honey, an agency model based on cultural relevance, and is a board member of Tandy Leather Company.

Previously, Dr. Garner served as Vice President, Medical Affairs, Women’s Health and Preventive Care at Myriad Genetics Laboratories. In this role, she directed a team of Medical Specialists in women’s health, managed the

women’s health clinical research, publication, and Key Opinion Leader (KOL) development program, provided medical and scientific input to the company’s marketing and new product strategies, and served as the company’s media spokesperson. Before that, she was Senior Director at Abbott Laboratories (now Abbvie), where she oversaw all clinical aspects of the global Phase III development program in endometriosis, including protocol development, preparation of regulatory documents, safety and risk management plans, and clinical operations including site and vendor selection.

From 2007 to 2011, Dr. Garner served as Associate Director and then Director, Vaccines Clinical Research at Merck Research Laboratories, and served in roles of increasing responsibility during her tenure. While at Merck, she was a key clinical development leader of the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine program and was instrumental in achieving successful outcomes on important supplemental submissions to the Food and Drug Administration. Dr. Garner served as the clinical lead and chair of the Next Generation HPV vaccine program Product Development Team, directing this cross-functional team in formulation of strategy with respect to scientific, regulatory, global access and medical affairs. Dr. Garner also served as the team leader and core presenter for the 2010 FDA GARDASILô Advisory Committee Meeting for which she developed and delivered the key clinical presentation that resulted in committee support of FDA approval of a gender-neutral anal cancer indication. She also had direct involvement in KOL development, provided medical input on commercialization strategy, and assisted with diligence on women’s health products.

Dr. Garner received joint M.D. and M.P.H degrees from Harvard Medical School and the School of Public Health. She was trained in obstetrics and gynecology at Brigham and Women’s/Massachusetts General Hospitals and completed a subspecialty fellowship in gynecologic oncology at Brigham and Women’s and the Dana Farber Cancer Institute, receiving board certification in both general Obstetrics and Gynecology and Gynecologic Oncology. Prior to entering the pharmaceutical industry, she had several years of experience in academic clinical practice, basic science research in ovarian cancer, and teaching and mentorship at Harvard Medical School. In addition, Dr. Garner is an author on numerous scientific papers published in peer-reviewed journals. Dr. Garner is a member of the Board of Directors for the American Medical Women’s Association, a professional organization which functions at the local, national, and international level to advance women in medicine and improve women’s health. Dr. Garner was a 2018 honoree at the Executive Women of New Jersey’s Salute to the Policy Makers gala, honoring executive women leaders across all industries in New Jersey.

Under Ms. Green’s leadership, The Fragrance Foundation served the international industry, retail, media, consumers, students, libraries, and became a central source of educational, historical and cultural information. By way of expanding the industry, Ms. Green organized meetings featuring experts from academic, scientific and fragrance-related communities and published a wide variety of publications that brought fragrance to new business heights. The Fragrance Foundation’s Annual “FiFi” Awards, the Oscars of the fragrance industry, were conceived by Ms. Green 35 years ago and still stand today as the biggest, celebrity-studded awards gala to recognize the best of the industry. In 1992, she brought the “FiFi” Awards to France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom to applaud the most unique and successful Men’s and Women’s Fragrance Launches of the previous year.

At the end of the 20th Century, Ms. Green developed and opened the country’s first fragrance museum in NYC, named in her honor by the Board of Directors. At the opening ceremonies for The Annette Green Museum at The Fragrance Foundation, Ms. Green was lauded as “the muse” of the fragrance industry. In 2004, the Museum made a gift of its entire fragrance collection of over 1000 vintage and contemporary bottles and boxes from more than 165 international fragrance houses, perfumers and private collectors beginning in the eighteenth century to The Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising Museum & Galleries (FIDM) in Los Angeles. The Annette Green Perfume Museum opened in 2006 at FIDM and led to Ms. Green being presented with the first annual “Legend of Beauty Award.”

During her tenure as Executive Director of The Fragrance Foundation, Ms. Green galvanized the fragrance industry to establish a charitable, tax-exempt organization, The Sense of Smell Institute, dedicated to funding studies on the sense of smell and the psychological benefits of fragrance. Since its creation, the study of the positive effects of fragrance on behavior made a giant leap into the consciousness of the scientific research community. Today, in universities and hospitals around the world, the olfactory system is being studied for both its physiological and psychological effects. Through the science of “Aroma-chology” (a term coined by Ms. Green), great strides have been made in understanding how the sense of smell influences our response to stress, sleep, relaxation, social relationships and performance.

In January of 1994, Ms. Green established The Annette Green/Fragrance Foundation Studio at The Fashion Institute of Technology – the first fragrance laboratory ever to be established in an American University. It is part of a unique program for students in the four-year Bachelor of Science Degree Program with a major in Cosmetic/Fragrance Marketing which Ms. Green helped to establish to give F.I.T. students a career edge as they learn first-hand about essential oils, how fragrances are developed, constructed, evaluated and tested.

Ms. Green was named one of America’s 1,000 “Most Influential Women Today” by Mirabellla in June, 1994.

Ms. Green is Chairman Emeritus of the Board of Women’s Project Theater, which is dedicated to expanding the role of women in theatre and served as Chairman for two years. She is a member and past President of Trends and is currently a member of the Women’s Forum, The Fashion Group International, having served twice on its Board and the International Perfume Bottle Association. She was named Cosmetic Executive Woman of the Year in 1982 and remains an honorary member of the organization. She is affiliated with The Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising Advisory Board in California and serves on the Influencer Advisory Board for a leading New York City-based agency, Sparks & Honey, which employs cutting edge proprietary cultural mapping technologies.

By the time she ventured into private practice in 2005, Patricia’s skill and experience were firmly established and widely acknowledged. She is one of a handful of Illinois lawyers who have tried cases in state, city, and federal court as well as state appellate, federal appellate, and Illinois Supreme Court. She is also co-writer of a brief that was presented before the US Supreme Court.

Over the past decade, in her role as a successful and sought-after defense attorney, she has represented a wide range of public and private corporate clients in complex commercial, regulatory, and class action litigation as well as in internal investigations involving financial and accounting fraud, corporate whistleblower allegations, contract disputes, and mail and wire fraud.

Patricia practices the art of communicating with government officials by employing equal measures of conviction, clarity, and tact. Her experience on both sides of the bench has given her valuable insight into how to analyze cases from all angles. This rare combination makes her a powerful asset, valuable partner, and trusted counselor to a wide range of corporate clients in several industries, among them education, transportation, manufacturing, entertainment, industrial, healthcare, and food and beverage.

She was recognized in Savoy Magazine as one of the 2018 Most Influential Black Lawyers and in Crain’s Chicago Business as one of Chicago’s 2018 Notable Women Lawyers and Chicago’s 2017 Most influential Minority Lawyers for her impressive achievements and dedication to diversity initiatives. Patricia continues to be an avid and committed champion of diversity in the legal profession as demonstrated by RSHC’s 53% women and 27% racial/ethnic minorities percentages, which far exceed the national averages.

Judge Holmes served on the University of Illinois Board of Trustees, is a past President of the Chicago Bar Association, and has served in a variety of appointed positions such as the Special Prosecutor in the Laquan McDonald matter, the Trustee of Burr Oak Cemetery, and as co-chair of the Judicial Selection Commission for the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.

She’s a Board Director at the Lumina Foundation, chair of the Finance/Audit Committee and Executive Committee member. Today, PRI reaches more than 20MM people monthly. Named one of Fast Company’s Most Influential Women in Technology, Alisa is the first woman to lead a public radio network. Her TEDTalk on media’s impact on knowledge and perception has been viewed 1.9MM+ times/translated into 48 languages.

In every consulting assignment, Dana focuses not only on the individual but also on the system within which her clients operate to help create sustainable change. Her ability to spot adaptive leadership challenges enables her to help her clients create transformative solutions that translate into business success. Dana has worked with hundreds of clients across industry sectors in myriad talent management disciplines, including leadership development, team coaching, relationship coaching, women’s advancement, executive assessment, career strategy, and communication.

Dana has had extensive instruction across domains relevant to high-performance leadership and team effectiveness at leading institutions such as Harvard Kennedy School, Columbia Business School, Ackerman Institute for the Family, and Arbinger Institute, among many others. She is certified in Leadership CircleTM, Hogan Inventories™, PRINT Survey™, Golden Personality Type Profiler™, StrengthsFinder™, Immunity to Change™, and Technology of Participation Facilitation Methods and Strategic Planning. Dana is also trained in improvisational acting, image consulting and storytelling.

Representative assignments include senior partners and attorneys from Paul Hastings and Kirkland & Ellis and McKinsey and C-Suite executives from Publicis Groupe, Morgan Stanley, J.P. Morgan, NewsCorp, Time Warner, American Express, Shiseido, Deutsche Bank and Frito-Lay. Additional clients served include AIG, Bain & Co., BlackRock, PepsiCo, Pfizer, Publicis, WebMD, NBA, the Bloomberg Administration, charity: water, Junior League and many others.

Dana has also delivered career strategy programs and keynotes for The S.C. Johnson School of Management at Cornell, Georgetown’s McDonough School of Business, Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and Columbia Business School. Dana served as an adjunct executive coach for the S.C. Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University and participated on the Corporate Board of ALPFA, a leadership development organization for Latino professionals.

An entrepreneur at heart, Dana has helped launch a number of companies, including Kayak.com as well as New York-based talent development consulting firms Defineum and The Imprint Group. Dana was the Head of Communications for the Trickle Up Program, a microfinance organization. Prior to that, Dana held senior roles at leading public relations agencies, including Robinson Lerer & Montgomery in New York and the Gable Group, Golin/Harris and Rogers & Cowan in Los Angeles.

Giving Voice to Values, a pioneering business curriculum for values-driven leadership, has been featured in Financial Times, Harvard Business Review, Stanford Social Innovation Review, McKinsey Quarterly, etc. and piloted in over 1,050 business schools and organizations globally. The award winning book is Giving Voice To Values: How To Speak Your Mind When You Know What’s Right www.MaryGentile.com), with translations in Chinese, Korean and forthcoming in Thai. Gentile has authored numerous books and articles and partnered with Nomadic.fm in 2014 to launch six online interactive social cohort-based modules around Giving Voice To Values (http://nomadic. fm/ProgDetailGivingVoiceToValues.html). A 4-week online course on Ethical Leadership through Giving Voice To Values has launched from Coursera/Darden in Fall 2017.

From 1985–95, Gentile was faculty member and manager of case research at Harvard Business School and one of the principal architects of HBS’s Leadership, Ethics and Corporate Responsibility curriculum. She co-authored Can Ethics Be Taught? Perspectives, Challenges, and Approaches at Harvard Business School and was Content Expert for the award-winning interactive CD-ROM, Managing Across Differences (HBS Publishing).

Gentile earned her Bachelor’s degree from The College of William and Mary and her MA and PhD from State University of New York-Buffalo.

Before joining Paul Hastings, Meg was based in Europe for ten years. During that time, she was the Director of Marketing for the EMEIA region at Andersen.
In addition, Meg has served as the director of development and export for a major French clothing manufacturer, the director of development for the largest French shoe manufacturer and the assistant vice president in an American venture capital business.

In 2011, Meg founded Quorum Initiative, an international organization focused on accelerating the advancement of executive women in business. Chapters exist in New York, Washington, D.C. and London connecting executive women across borders to share ideas and create systemic change. Meg is passionate about diversity and inclusion being a driver of business innovation and women’s role in helping to shape our future global enterprises.

As a new Fellow of the Aspen Institute’s First-Mover Fellowship program, Meg is currently working on a new social impact business innovation for Paul Hastings. She also serves on the steering committee for The Aspen Institute Socrates Program and the advisory council for Child HELP Partnership.