Board and Presenter Biographies

William A. Downe, a corporate director, is the former chief executive officer of BMO Financial Group from 2007 to 2017, prior to which he was chief operating officer and, from 2001 to 2005, the head of BMO Capital Markets. He also served on the boards of the Bank of Montreal and its subsidiaries, BMO Nesbitt Burns Holding Corporation and BMO Financial Corp.

Downe holds a bachelor of business administration degree from Wilfrid Laurier University, an MBA from the University of Toronto and has been awarded honorary doctorates from Wilfrid Laurier University, the University of Windsor, Cape Breton University, and the University of Toronto.

Downe serves as the chairman of Rush University System for Health and chair of the Social and Economic Policy Advisory Board at RAND. Downe is a board member of Loblaw Companies Limited and has served as a board member to public and non-profit organizations, including Trans Mountain Corporation (chair), Manpower Group (lead independent director), the Business Council of Canada, the International Monetary Conference, the Federal Reserve Board’s Federal Advisory Council, Catalyst Inc., the Martin Prosperity Institute at the University of Toronto, and St. Michael’s Hospital.

Indira Cameron-Banks is the founding attorney of her own legal practice, Cameron Banks Law, A Prof. Corp., a boutique litigation and investigations firm.

She was an assistant United States attorney in Los Angeles for over 13 years, working in both a federal prosecutor and civil trial attorney. Indira’s roles at the U.S. Department of Justice included Chief of the Financial Litigation Section and Special Counsel to the United States Attorney. During the global pandemic, she left her federal appointment to serve vulnerable members of the community by leading a Los Angeles County-funded, county-wide legal services program dedicated to helping the unhoused community. Cameron-Banks has been appointed by the Governor to serve on the California State Board of Pharmacy and the California Civil Rights Department Council. She is a graduate of the University of Chicago and of Boston University School of Law.

Frank Clark is the retired chairman and chief executive officer of ComEd. ComEd is a unit of Chicago-based Exelon Corporation. ComEd delivers electricity to more than 4 million customers across northern Illinois, or 70 percent of the state’s population. Clark retired from ComEd in February 2012.

Clark serves on the board of trustees of the Museum of Science and Industry, on the board of directors of the Big Shoulders Fund, and chaired the RAND Social and Economic Policy Advisory Board. He is past chairman of the Executive Committee of The Chicago Community Trust, a life trustee and past board chair of the Adler Planetarium and Astronomy Museum, and life trustee of DePaul University. Clark is former chancellor of The Lincoln Academy of Illinois and former president of the Chicago Board of Education. He is a member of the Chicago Bar Association, Commercial Club of Chicago, and Executives Club of Chicago. Clark is co-founder of the Rowe-Clark Math & Science Academy on Chicago’s West Side.

Clark received an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from Governors State University and an honorary Doctor of Law degree from DePaul University. He is the recipient of the Order of Lincoln, Illinois’ highest civilian award. Clark has received numerous other awards, including the prestigious History Makers Award and the National Humanitarian Award from the National Conference for Community and Justice. In 2008, U.S. Black Engineer & Information Technology Magazine named Clark to its annual list of the 100 Most Important Blacks in Technology. Clark also was ranked among the 50 Most Powerful Black Executives in America by Fortune magazine in 2002.

Clark received his bachelor’s and law degrees from DePaul University. Clark and his wife, Vera, have two sons, Frank III and Steven.

Michael Critelli has had multiple careers as an attorney, a chairman and CEO of Pitney Bowes, a mailing industry leader who led his peers through a successful advocacy of major postal reform legislation, an advisor to many health-related businesses, and a trailblazer on initiatives relative to employer-sponsored healthcare, smart cities and community development, and diversity, inclusion, and equity.

As a successful large business leader, he led through a major technology and market transition. He is a serial entrepreneur, a member of multiple for-profit (Eaton Corporation and Wyeth) and nonprofit boards (currently PowerMyLearning, Confer MED, and the Searching for Solutions Institute), a philanthropist, a technologist, a feature filmmaker, and an investor. His goal is to live a life with 7th generation impact. He publishes blogs on www.mikecritelli.com and has created a health resource network and publishes content on www.makeuswell.org. He graduated with a B.A. in political science and communications from the University of Wisconsin (1970) and with a J.D., cum laude, from Harvard Law School (1974).

Alex Drane is co-founder and CEO of ARCHANGELS—a women-owned, public benefit corporation and omnichannel platform that engages and supports caregivers across all 50 states through partnerships with employers, consumer brands, health-plans/systems, communities, and states.

Drane previously co-founded other companies, including Rebel Health, Eliza Corporation, and Engage with Grace (all-bootstrapped). She believes communities are the frontline of health, that caregivers are our country’s greatest asset, and that we need to expand the definition of health to include life. Her board roles include the Joint Commission Resources Board of Directors, RAND Social and Economic Policy Advisory Board, vice chair of the Trustee Advisory Board at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and she is a founding member of the Board of Directors of C-TAC. She serves on Harvard Medical School’s Executive Council of the Division of Sleep Medicine, the Board of Advisors for Boston Children’s Hospital Innovation and Digital Health Accelerator, Lake Nona Impact Forum, OpenNotes Lab, and the Entrepreneurs Council for The United States of Care. She also spent seven years as a Governor-appointed member of the Executive Committee for the Board of Directors for Massachusetts Technology Collaborative.

Drane’s honors include being named to the first-ever Care100 list, a VNA Care Hero, a Top Women in Healthcare’s Entrepreneur of the Year, one of Disruptive Women in Health Care’s Women to Watch, one of Boston Globe’s Top 100 Women Leaders, and the Boston Business Journal’s “40 Under 40.” She is also an inventor on numerous patents and has co-authored multiple peer-reviewed journal articles, including publications with the CDC, the Journal of Affective Disorders, NEJM Catalyst, and the American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse. She joined Prudential Financial as their national host and wellness expert for a national ad campaign, “The State of US.”

Outside of healthcare, she enjoys car racing, fiercely loving on family, friends, neighbors (and sometimes even strangers—because what’s a stranger!?), and living into the joyful belief that ‘the adventure begins when it all goes wrong’ (Yvon Chouinard).

Elliot J. Favus, M.D. is founder and CEO of Favus Institutional Research, a health care equity research consulting firm serving institutional investors. The firm uses fundamental analysis to evaluate the health care sector, with a focus on commercial, clinical data, legal, reimbursement, and regulatory catalysts. Favus has been working as a health care equity research analyst on Wall Street since 2006. Prior to founding Favus Institutional Research in 2009, Favus gained equity research and institutional investment management experience at Lazard and Och-Ziff Capital Management (Sculptor Capital).

Prior to working on Wall Street, Favus was an instructor in Medicine at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York. He is a graduate of the University of Michigan (B.A.), the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine (M.D.), and the NYU-Bellevue Hospital Internal Medicine Residency Program. He became board-certified in internal medicine in 2004. Favus has 10 years of basic science laboratory experience, working on human genetics projects at Harvard Medical School, the University of Chicago, and the University of Pittsburgh.

As chairman of Oracle Health and Life Sciences, David Feinberg, M.D., is committed to making healthcare more accessible, affordable, and equitable. His work advances thought leadership and strategy related to unleashing the healing power of data through an open and connected healthcare ecosystem.

Previously, Feinberg served as president and CEO of Cerner, now Oracle Health, where he led teams delivering tools and technology to improve the patient and caregiver experience. As a pediatric psychiatrist, Feinberg built his early career around helping children and families. He served as president and CEO of both UCLA Health and Geisinger Health prior to assuming leadership of Google Health in early 2019.

His work at UCLA provided Feinberg a clear view of how patient satisfaction translates to clinical success. His focus on the patient experience increased UCLA’s patient satisfaction scores from the 28th to the 99th percentile. At Geisinger, he led a complex turnaround that made Geisinger one of the nation’s most innovative healthcare providers, including a first-of-its-kind clinical program that made DNA sequencing a routine part of patient care. Feinberg also guided Geisinger’s transition to value-based care using Cerner’s population health platform, HealtheIntent, integrated with a non-Cerner EMR.

At Google, Feinberg leveraged Google’s technology, talent, and search capabilities to tackle health care’s most important challenges. Under his leadership, Google was at the forefront of using artificial intelligence and mobile platforms to improve healthcare and—in partnership with Ascension Health—produced Care Studio, a tool that organizes patient records for healthcare clinicians at the point of care.

Feinberg began his career at UCLA, researching and publishing in the areas of addiction and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. He took on additional leadership responsibilities, including becoming the medical director of the Resnick Neuropsychiatric Hospital. By implementing rigorous service metrics and patient satisfaction measures and completing a financial turnaround, UCLA’s neuropsychiatric hospital is now considered the premier psychiatric hospital in the western United States.

David earned his M.D. from Chicago Medical School in 1989, finishing at the top of his class and is a member of the Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Honor Society. He also holds an economics degree from the University of California, Berkeley, and an MBA from Pepperdine University.

Patrick Frawley currently serves on the boards of several healthcare, social service, and charitable organizations. He previously served as senior vice president with Centene (NYSE:CNC), one of the nation’s largest managed care organizations serving government programs such as Medicaid, Medicare, and the Health Exchange. Prior to Centene, he held the position of CEO of Fidelis Care, which he co-founded in 1996. Upon Centene’s acquisition of Fidelis for $3.75 billion in 2018, he led the successful integration of Fidelis into Centene before promotion to a senior leadership position at Centene, reporting directly to Centene’s chairman and CEO.

Under Frawley’s leadership, Fidelis Care grew rapidly in membership, programs, and services after securing financial sponsorship from the Roman Catholic Bishops of New York State. Fidelis expanded from an initial service area within Brooklyn to serving more than 2 million members in all 62 counties of New York State. The proceeds of the sale of Fidelis to Centene were used to form the Mother Cabrini Health Foundation with assets of over $3 billion, extending the historic Fidelis Care mission to address the health and social service needs of vulnerable populations in New York State.

Prior to founding Fidelis Care, Frawley served as associate executive director of Mary Immaculate Hospital, a 270-bed acute care facility in Jamaica, Queens, where he had primary responsibility for ambulatory care services.

Frawley holds a master’s degree in health administration from New York University, a JCL degree in Canon Law from Catholic University, a master of divinity degree in theology from Immaculate Conception Seminary, and a bachelor’s degree in classics from Cathedral College.

Jonathan Graham is executive vice president and general counsel and secretary, responsible for leading Amgen’s global law function.

Before joining Amgen in 2015, Graham was senior vice president and general counsel at Danaher Corporation. He was responsible for all legal, governance, regulatory, risk, compliance, and EH&S matters. Prior to Danaher, Graham was vice president, Litigation and Legal Policy at General Electric Company and a partner at Williams & Connolly LLP in Washington, D.C.

Graham received a bachelor’s degree in economics from Pitzer College and a J.D. from the University of Texas. He also served as a law clerk to the Honorable Joseph T. Sneed, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

Dana Guerin is a producer and philanthropist. Over the years, she has dedicated herself to the health and well-being of Los Angeles County residents. Currently, Guerin is a commissioner on the Los Angeles County Prevention and Community Health Task Force. She is also co-lead on the newly formed Black Maternal Health and Infant Mortality Ad Hoc.  She serves as head of District 3 for Los Angeles County. 

Guerin is a member on the board for Planned Parenthood Los Angeles, sitting on the strategy committee, finance committee, and the AQC. She was integral in the creation of the UCLA Law Center for Reproductive Health Law and Policy. And, she continues her daily fight for health care for all. She also sits on the Board of Trustees for the Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles Guild for Reproductive Health, and DemocraShe, an organization that teaches leadership to underprivileged young women throughout the United States.

In August 2022, Guerin opened Guerin Children’s at Cedars-Sinai, the first pediatric hospital for Cedars. Guerin Children’s provides innovative and specialized inpatient care, as well as a cutting-edge research facility and a strong network of pediatric services nationwide. Guerin Children’s also recognized that a hospitalized child affects the entire family, and a parent-friendly atmosphere was created, which provides full-sized beds in each room for the parent, kitchen and laundry facilities, as well as a serenity garden. Guerin Children’s was awarded the Healthcare Design Award from the 2023 International Interior Design Association.

Guerin’s day job is a producer at Epic Level Entertainment, specializing in low-budget horror films. In April 2025, her film 825 Forest Road was the number 1 movie on Shudder.  Her short the Lord of All Future Space and Time premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival winning the Back By Popular Demand Trophy, and also won best screenplay at Kevin Smith's festival Smodcastle.  She recently dipped her toe in Broadway with Call Me Izzy, starring the amazing Jean Smart.

Don James served as chairman and CEO of Vulcan Materials Company for 17 years until his retirement as CEO in 2014 and as chairman in 2015. Vulcan Materials Company, a member of the S&P 500, is the nation’s largest producer of construction aggregates and a major producer of other construction materials for infrastructure, commercial, and residential construction.

James currently serves as chairman of New Frontier Materials and as a director of The Southern Company. He recently retired as a director of Wells Fargo & Company. Prior to joining Vulcan in 1992, James was a partner and member of the Executive Committee of Bradley, a large regional law firm in the Southeast, where he practiced corporate law for 15 years. James served as an officer in the United States Army for two years as Aide-de-Camp to the Commanding General of the Army Finance Center.

James earned B.S. and MBA degrees from the University of Alabama and a J.D. from the University of Virginia Law School, where he served as executive editor of the Virginia Law Review and was elected to Order of the Coif. James has been married for 52 years to his wife, Anna. They have three adult children and seven grandchildren.

Peter Luchetti is the founder of Table Rock Infrastructure Partners (“TRIP”). TRIP is an infrastructure fund focused on making private equity investments in greenfield and brownfield public and private infrastructure projects in the U.S. TRIP deals with three sectors, including energy, water & waste, and communications. TRIP specializes in water, wastewater, and storm water, distributed energy resource (DER) P3, and alternative delivery applications in U.S. cities.

Luchetti’s experience includes advisory and capital raising, investment and asset management roles covering a wide range of infrastructure: acquisitions/divestitures, privatizations, greenfield development, recapitalizations, distressed asset recovery, and public private sector partnerships for public and private companies, quasi-governmental entities (i.e., cities, municipal utilities, regulated utilities, and state-owned enterprises), and strategic equity investors.

From 1992 to 2004, Luchetti was senior managing director and global head of Project & Structured Finance for Banc of America Securities LLC. In this role, he was responsible for a 180-person team working in 32 countries on the origination and execution of project and structured finance advisory and capital raising roles. He was responsible for a $5.5 billion (amount held post syndication) portfolio of privately placed debt and private equity transactions in the infrastructure sector. During his tenure managing the BofA portfolio he was responsible for over $250 BN in infrastructure investment around the world.

Luchetti was appointed by Jerry Brown, the Governor of California, to the Board of Directors of the California Infrastructure and Economic Development Bank in October 2013 and served on the board through January 2019 as the Governor’s appointee and vice chair of the board. Luchetti serves on the board of the Bay Area Council Economic Institute (“BAEI”), a nonprofit public policy research organization, where he has completed 11 white papers on infrastructure public policy and public private sector partnerships. He played a central role in the formation of the Marin Clean Energy (“MCE”), the first Community Choice Aggregation energy enterprise in California. He is actively involved at the federal, state, and local level in forming infrastructure assets. Luchetti sits on the boards related to a number of TRIP assets, including: Rialto Water Services LLC, which is a 30-year water and wastewater concession and portfolio company originated and managed by TRIP; Inland Valley Pipeline LLC, where he plays a similar role; Heila Technologies, a distributed Energy Resource microgrid hardware and software control company; and Scepter Air, a provider of medium and long wave infrared satellite systems designed to measure air quality and provide critical tactical data for managing large wildfire events.  

Paul O’Neill is the managing member of the O’Neill Alpha Fund, which commenced trading in 2007. In 2005, O’Neill co-founded Value Capture LLC, a healthcare consulting firm. He served as the managing director until November 2007 and currently acts in an advisory capacity to the firm as the non-executive chairman. O’Neill has served as managing director of O’Neill Advisory Services since its inception in January 2004. He held the position of vice president of counseling at the Ayco Company, L.P., a Goldman Sachs company, from December 1999 to 2003. O’Neill became a partner of Ayco in 1996 and served in that capacity throughout his tenure with Ayco. O’Neill served as a financial advisor and staff attorney at the Ayco Company from December 1993 until becoming vice president of the company. O’Neill served as an associate attorney at Buchanan Ingersoll from 1990–1993.

O’Neill received a J.D. from Hofstra University School of Law in 1990 and a B.S. in economics from Northeastern University in 1987 (cum laude). O’Neill is a trustee of the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Foundation and also serves on several community boards in Pittsburgh, including the Tull Family Theater and the Pittsburgh Futures Collaborative.

Thomas M. Priselac is president and CEO Emeritus, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and Cedars-Sinai Health System. An advocate for improving quality and access in healthcare throughout his career, Priselac developed strategic and operational innovations to foster high-quality, safe, and efficient care for patients. Under his leadership, Cedars-Sinai earned an international reputation for quality care, community service, research, and education while evolving from a community hospital to a major health system founded by Cedars-Sinai Medical Center to better serve the people of the Los Angeles region. Priselac holds the Warschaw/Law Endowed Chair in Healthcare Leadership at Cedars-Sinai.

He joined Cedars-Sinai in 1979 and, until his retirement in 2024, served as president and CEO of Cedars-Sinai Medical Center beginning in 1994, and also as president and CEO of Cedars-Sinai Health System from its formation in 2017. Prior to Cedars-Sinai, Priselac was on the executive staff of Montefiore Hospital in Pittsburgh.

Active in policy discussions regarding the delivery and financing of health care, Priselac is past Chair of the American Hospital Association Board of Trustees, serving as chair during the development of the Affordable Care Act. He is also a past chair of the Association of American Medical Colleges and formerly chaired the California Hospital Association and the Hospital Association of Southern California Board of Trustees. He currently serves on the USC Leonard D. Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics Advisory Board and the RAND Social and Economic Policy Advisory Board. He is also an adjunct professor at the UCLA School of Public Health.

Priselac has received numerous awards for his leadership in healthcare and his commitment to improving the health of the underserved, including the American Hospital Association’s Distinguished Service Award, B’nai B’rith International’s National Healthcare Leadership Award, the Special Needs Network’s Distinguished Community Champion Corporate Leadership Award, and the Charles R. Drew University Board of Trustees Medal of Honor.

Priselac earned a bachelor’s degree in biology from Washington and Jefferson College and a Master of Public Health degree in health services administration and planning, from the University of Pittsburgh.

Sophie Ross is the global chief executive officer (CEO) of the Technology segment at FTI Consulting and is based in San Francisco. Ross also leads the Technology Steering Committee and is a member of the firm’s Executive Committee. Ross has more than 20 years of experience in company management and operations in the United States, Europe, and Asia. Ross specializes in helping clients manage their overall e-discovery and review through predictable pricing models and by simplifying the multi layers of discovery management. Prior to her appointment as global CEO of the Technology segment, Ross led the Western Region for the Technology segment, as well as the managed document review business globally.

Ross joined FTI Consulting through its 2008 acquisition of Strategic Discovery, a leader in the litigation discovery industry, where she served as the chief operating officer and was responsible for data processing, IT and client support, human resources, and administration and accounting. Prior to Strategic Discovery, Ross was executive vice president of Global Delivery & Operations at Freeborders Inc., an application outsourcing and software firm. Ross has also held strategic and operational leadership roles at Revlon Inc./MacAndrews & Forbes and The Boston Consulting Group.

In addition to her leadership role in the Technology segment, Ross serves on the Global Steering Committee of FTI Consulting’s Women’s Initiative, a company-wide program to attract, retain, develop, and promote highly talented female professionals. Ross has served in the Israeli Navy Intelligence, possesses an international and European background, and is fluent in four languages. She holds a bachelor of science in industrial engineering from Tel Aviv University and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

John Rydzewski is a private investor who also serves as strategic advisor and director to health care companies and health education and policy organizations. As an investment banker at Solomon Partners and previously at Kidder Peabody and Dean Witter Reynolds, he provided advisory and capital raising services for health care and life sciences companies in biotech and drug development services; hospital management and long-term care, including assisted living and skilled nursing care; behavioral health; and managed care. He co-founded a pre-clinical stage biotech company developing cancer-targeting immuno-therapeutics utilizing technology licensed from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University.

As a managing director of Christofferson, Robb & Co., he originated structured credit investments in pharmaceutical products. As the senior manager in the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Group of Price Waterhouse & Co., he provided creditor and debtor advisory services. He has served as a director of numerous private and publicly traded health care companies. He is chairman of the Board of Advisors of the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics at the University of Pennsylvania.

He received both an MBA and B.S., with honors, from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and obtained a CPA license.

Arthur M. Southam, M.D., is the former executive vice president, Health Plan Operations and Chief Growth Officer for Kaiser Permanente, America’s largest not-for-profit health system with over $115 billion in annual revenue, providing integrated health care and coverage to 13 million members and patients. Kaiser Permanente is a national leader in health plan and care delivery innovation, quality, and consumer satisfaction. Dr. Southam joined Kaiser Permanente in 2001 and retired in February 2023. Reporting to the CEO and Board chair, his roles included national responsibility for Health Plan strategy, growth, marketing, sales, business development, products, service, technology, and administration.

Dr. Southam is a member of the Board of Directors of Easterseals of Southern California, SCAN Group, SCAN Health Plan, and The SCAN Foundation. He is a member of the Board of Advisors of the Fielding School of Public Health at UCLA and a member of the RAND Social and Economic Policy Advisory Board. He is an advisor to McKinsey & Company, Accenture, and other organizations.

Before joining Kaiser Permanente, Dr. Southam was chief executive officer of two California-based health plans, Health Net and CareAmerica. He was CEO of Health Systems Design, a developer of software for health plans and physician groups. He has previously served as board chair of CHRISTUS Health, the Council for Affordable Quality Healthcare (CAQH), the California Association of Health Plans, and the Integrated Health Care Association. He served as a member of the Institute of Medicine’s Committee on the Quality of Health Care in America, contributing to the widely cited publications, To Err is Human and Crossing the Quality Chasm.

Dr. Southam received his medical degree and M.P.H. from UCLA, and his MBA from Pepperdine University. He received his B.A. in neuroscience from Amherst College.

Joseph Sullivan is a private investor and past chairman of the RAND Health Advisory Board and the Board of Advisors of the UCLA Medical Center. He served on the board of HCP, Inc., one of the largest health care real estate investment trusts (REIT). He served for six years as a director of CIGNA Corporation, a global health care company. In addition, he is a senior strategic advisor to Riordan, Lewis & Haden, a leading private equity firm. He was a director of Amylin Pharmaceuticals (2003–2012) through its sale to Bristol Myers Squibb and a director of MPG Office Trust through its sale to Brookfield Properties in 2013.

Sullivan served as chairman and CEO of Protocare, Inc., a clinical trials and pharmaceutical industry consulting firm, for three years. He joined Protocare after seven years as chairman and CEO of American Health Properties, Inc., a New York Stock Exchange REIT. Previously, he had been an investment banker with Goldman Sachs & Co. for 20 years. He holds an MBA from the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration and a law degree, and a B.S. from the University of Minnesota.

Jim Thomson is president emeritus of RAND and a professor at the Pardee RAND Graduate School.

Thomson describes his career in four phases. In the first phase, he was an experimental nuclear physicist and published numerous scientific papers in peer-reviewed journals. In the second, he was a government official dealing with defense and arms control matters, serving in the U.S. Defense Department and at the White House. In the third phase, he focused on policy research covering a range of strategic issues. In the fourth phase, while continuing his research, Thomson moved into research leadership positions at RAND. He served as RAND’s fourth president from 1989 to 2011. Under his leadership, RAND grew by 60 percent, expanded its research agenda, increased its policy impact, and became an international organization with offices in North America, Europe, and the Middle East. Thomson is a member of several for-profit and nonprofit boards.

Thomson holds a B.S. in physics from the University of New Hampshire and an M.S. and Ph.D. in physics from Purdue University. He has honorary doctorates from Purdue and Pepperdine universities, the University of New Hampshire, and the Pardee RAND Graduate School.

Thomson is vice chair of the Pacific Century Institute.

Kenan Arkan is a managing director in Commodities Origination at J.P. Morgan, leading the development of the Physical Energy and Global LNG businesses. Before joining J.P. Morgan, he spent nearly 20 years at Goldman Sachs in various leadership roles across natural gas, power, LNG, and public sector businesses.

He has worked with multinational corporations, public sector entities, and sovereigns on physical and financial commodity transactions and has provided geopolitical and energy security briefings to U.S. government agencies.

Arkan serves on the RAND National Security Advisory Board and the executive board of the Immigrant Justice Corps. He holds a B.A., magna cum laude, and an MBA from Vanderbilt University, where he was a varsity football player.

Dr. Cornelia Daly (“Beezie”) is a board-certified obstetrician-gynecologist and family physician who recently retired after more than 40 years of full-time direct patient care, including 35 years as a partner in Santa Monica Women’s Health, a 10-physician medical group based at Providence St. John’s Hospital in Santa Monica. Prior to becoming a physician, she was a cardiology nurse at UCLA Medical Center. Dr. Daly serves on the Board of Planned Parenthood Los Angeles and has been chair of the Development Committee.

Dr. Daly received her medical training at the UCLA School of Nursing, UCLA Medical School, UCLA/Santa Monica Family Practice Residency Program, and the USC/LA County Women’s Hospital OB-GYN residency program.

Dr. Daly has been married to Dr. Arthur Southam for 42 years. They have four wonderful children and three delightful grandchildren.

Gordon J. Lee is president & CEO of Princeton Credit and Princeton Ventures. For more than 35 years, he has been actively engaged in counseling and representing a wide range of public, private, government, corporate and individual clients, in an array of financing and advisory transactions, whilst consulting to a variety of domestic and international technology startups.

Lee has served over 30 years on the Board of Advisors for the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine sitting on a variety of subcommittees ranging from education, audit and development. For the past 25 years, he’s served on the UCLA Hospital System Finance/Audit, Operations & Strategy Committee that meets quarterly with the CEO and C-Suite executives to discuss the complex challenges facing the health enterprise. He also serves on the Health Systems International Advisory Committee which assesses UCLA Health’s global engagement strategy through setting priorities and implementing programs that lead to international prominence for the health system.

In 2019, Lee was selected by former University of California (UC) President Janet Napolitano to serve as a founding member of her 20-person Fiat Lux Alliance advisory council. Today, the committee advises current UC President JB Milliken and UC leadership on an assortment of initiatives vital to the advancement of the university’s priorities. The University of California is the most renowned public university system with a $43 billion dollar operating budget that manages 10 campuses, 6 medical schools, 5 hospitals and 3 research labs that are prominently recognized on the global stage of education and research.

Aside from his deep commitment to the University of California, Lee serves on the University of Alabama Heersink School of Medicine Board in Birmingham. UAB is recognized as a medical leader in the Southeast. Its flagship hospital is the 4th largest public hospital in the nation.

Lee, a native of San Francisco, earned his Bachelor of Science degree in finance at the University of Southern California Marshall School of Business.

Aside from his enjoyably hectic life, you can find him at the gym six days a week in a strength conditioning or cycle exercise class, spending quality time with his two adult sons, or feverishly over the stove with one of his hundreds of cookbooks. He shuttles continuously between Los Angeles and Atlanta where his beloved is the dean of the School of Medicine at Emory University. He’s a patron of the arts, paddle tennis/pickleball player, weekend golf hack, foodie, and wine enthusiast.

Stephanie Murphy is a former U.S. Congresswoman, national security expert, and bipartisan leader. She has spent her career tackling complex challenges—from strengthening America’s economy and security to advancing climate resilience. Murphy is a current candidate for Mayor of Orange County, Florida and the founder of Center Aisle, a bipartisan nonprofit organization combating political extremism and championing America's commonsense center.

Murphy made history as the first Vietnamese-American woman ever elected to Congress, representing one of the nation’s most competitive battleground districts from 2017 to 2023. In Congress, she served on the House Ways and Means and Armed Services Committees, shaping economic, trade, and national security policy. As leader of the pragmatic Democratic Blue Dog Coalition and a chief deputy whip, she was consistently ranked among the most bipartisan and effective Members of Congress. Murphy was also a key player in delivering historic infrastructure and climate investments.

Before serving in Congress, Murphy was a national security specialist at the U.S. Department of Defense, where she worked to protect the nation from foreign threats and strengthen counterterrorism efforts. She has also been a business executive and an instructor at Rollins College, helping entrepreneurs and students launch successful careers.

Jonathan B. Perlin, M.D., Ph.D., became the seventh president and chief executive officer of the Joint Commission enterprise on March 1, 2022. The Joint Commission enterprise includes Joint Commission, Joint Commission International (JCI), Joint Commission Resources (JCR), and the National Quality Forum (NQF).

Dr. Perlin has revitalized Joint Commission through the introduction of new programs addressing digital technologies and AI, with a focus on benchmarking and the sharing of best practices across the healthcare ecosystem. Recently, he led the most significant, comprehensive evolution of the accreditation process since the Medicare program was established 60 years ago.

Previously, as president, clinical operations, and chief medical officer, HCA Healthcare, Dr. Perlin led clinicians, data scientists and researchers in developing a learning health system model for improving care at the system’s 189 hospitals and 2,200 sites of care. His team’s work achieved national recognition for preventing elective pre-term deliveries, reducing maternal mortality, using artificial intelligence to improve sepsis survival, and developing public-private academic partnerships for improving infection prevention and treating COVID-19. Dr. Perlin’s CHARGE consortium partnered HCA, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, and academia to create a reusable platform for accelerated research using real-world evidence from the care of over 400,000 COVID inpatients.

Before HCA, Dr. Perlin was Under Secretary for Health in the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), where he led the Veterans Health Administration to national prominence for full implementation of a national electronic health record and benchmark clinical performance. He has served on numerous federal commissions, including as a Congressional Budget Office Health Advisor, a member of MedPAC (Medicare Payment Advisory Commission), and as chair of the VA Special Medical Advisory Group. An elected member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM), he has co-chaired NAM action collaboratives on digital health and has provided leadership for major Academy initiatives.

Dr. Perlin’s board service includes George Washington University, Columbia University’s Health Policy and Management program, Vanderbilt University’s School of Engineering, and he served as a trustee of Meharry Medical College for 15 years. Perennially recognized as one of the most influential leaders in healthcare, Dr. Perlin maintains faculty appointments at Vanderbilt University as a clinical professor of medicine and health policy and at Virginia Commonwealth University as an adjunct professor of health administration.

Since 2017, Jasmin Weaver has served as the executive vice president of Civic Ventures, a Seattle-based organization that works to reduce economic inequality at the local, state, and national levels. At Civic Ventures, she has led several policy efforts that have profoundly improved many people’s lives. She led successful campaigns at the state and federal levels to increase overtime protections for workers, substantially increasing pay for millions of working-class people. She led successful local and statewide efforts to make Washington’s tax system less regressive, helping pass Washington’s capital gains tax to fund education and also Seattle’s JumpStart tax to fund affordable housing. And she regularly meets with national, state, and local elected officials to advise on economic policy messaging and discuss the importance of progressive economic policies. 

Before joining Civic Ventures, Weaver served as deputy director of the City of Seattle’s Office of Intergovernmental Relations, overseeing the City’s interactions with local, state, and federal governments, and tribal nations. Before that, she worked as legislative director for a national union organizing campaign, helping organize tens of thousands of workers across the country to secure better pay and benefits. She also worked in budgeting and strategic planning at Harvard University, where she earned a master’s degree in public policy from the Kennedy School of Government. 

Weaver was born and raised in Seattle and graduated from the University of Washington, where she served as student body president and earned the Dean’s Medal as the top graduate in the social sciences. After graduating from UW, Weaver was selected as a George Mitchell scholar, receiving a year of fully funded study in Ireland, where she obtained a master of science in equality studies from University College Dublin. She lives in Seattle with her husband, three energetic children, and dog, and enjoys hiking, reading, and eating chocolate.