Leaders Interviewed or Consulted

CAROLINE ANSTEY, senior advisor to the International Development Bank. She was previously a managing director of the World Bank.

DOMINIC BARTON, global managing partner of McKinsey & Co., July 2009–July 2018

MARK BENJAMIN, CEO of Nuance Communications Inc. Previously he was the president and COO of the NCR Corporation.

CHARLIE BROWN, founder and CEO, Context Partners

USHA CHAUDHARY, president and chief operating officer, Kettler

JEANNE CRAIN, president and CEO, Bremer Financial Corporation

PAT DOLAN, vice president of engineering and Boeing military aircraft chief engineer

ROGER W. FERGUSON Jr., president and CEO, TIAA

PETER FISHER, senior fellow at the Center for Business, Government, and Society, and clinical professor at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth University. Previously he was the head of fixed income portfolio management at BlackRock and the undersecretary for domestic finance in the US Treasury.

YARON GALAI, cofounder and chief executive officer of the digital media startup Outbrain

ANDREW GÉCZY, CEO, Terra Firma Capital Partners Limited

JIM GOODRICH, former director and chief operating officer, McKinsey & Co., 1987–1996

PETER GRIFFITH, global vice chair, corporate development, EY

PAULA KERGER, president and CEO of PBS

JANE KIRKLAND, senior vice president, investment servicing business, State Street Corporation

RICHARD LESSER, president and CEO of the Boston Consulting Group

CHRIS LISCHEWSKI, president and CEO, Bumble Bee Seafoods LLC

JOHN LUNDGREN, formerly CEO and chairman, Stanley, Black & Decker, 2004–2016

TAMARA L. LUNDGREN, president and chief executive officer, Schnitzer Steel Industries, Inc.

RICHARD LYONS, dean of Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley

SERAINA MACIA, executive vice president of AIG and CEO of Blackboard Insurance, a technology-focused subsidiary of AIG. Formerly she was CEO of regional management and operations at AIG and CEO of AIG EMEA. She joined AIG from XL Insurance, where she was chief executive of XL’s North American property and casualty business.

KATHERINE MANUEL, senior vice president, innovation, Thomson Reuters

JOHN MARTIN, formerly CEO of Innography, 2013–2017

STANLEY MCCHRYSTAL, US Army (retired), CEO of the McChrystal Group, former commander of the US Joint Special Operations Command, 2003–2008

ANNE MULCAHY, former chairman and CEO of Xerox Corporation, 2001–2010. She retired as chairman in 2010.

RICHARD OBER, president and CEO of the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation

PATRICK O’SULLIVAN, chairman of Saga Plc. He was previously the chairman of Old Mutual Plc, vice chairman of Zurich Financial Services, and CEO of Eagle Star Insurance.

RUNE OLAV PEDERSEN, president and CEO, Petroleum Geo-Services ASA (PGS)

BOB PROCTOR, founding member, Blu Venture Investors, and CEO of Linked Labs

HUNTER R. RAWLINGS III, formerly president of the University of Iowa (1988–1995) and Cornell University (1995–2003), and acting president of Cornell, 2005–2006 and 2016–2017

GARY RODKIN, former CEO of ConAgra Foods, 2005–2015.

MICHAEL ROTH, president of Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut

DAN SPRINGER, CEO of DocuSign. He was previously the chairman and CEO of Responsys.

DARREN WALKER, president, Ford Foundation

DAVID WINN, advisory consultant and former president of American Express Bank, France

MIKE WIRTH, chair and CEO of Chevron Corporation

ANDREW WOLK, founder and CEO, Root Cause

JIM ZIOLKOWSKI, founder and CEO, buildOn