Elizabeth ("Liz") Cahill Lempres is a Senior Partner Emeritus of McKinsey & Company, a global management consultancy. During her 28-year tenure, she worked on strategy, organization and performance improvement issues across industries in 20+ countries. She led McKinsey's Global Consumer and Retail practice, the Global Private Equity Practice, was the Managing Partner of the Boston Office and served on McKinsey's Board of Directors. She also led McKinsey's partner election and performance evaluation process globally and its global Women's Initiative.

Ms. Lempres currently serves on the boards of General Mills, Axalta, Traeger and Culligan International. She served on the Thayer School Board of Advisors from 2012-2022.

Ms. Lempres graduated cum laude with an AB in Engineering and earned her BE at the Thayer School. She received her MBA from Harvard Business School where she was designated a Baker Scholar.

Erica Schultz has led enterprise technology go-to-market functions for nearly two decades and currently serves as the President of Field Operations at Confluent, the enterprise technology platform for data in motion. Prior to Confluent, Ms. Schultz served as New Relic’s Chief Revenue Officer. She joined the business pre-IPO and led it through massive growth, scaling the company's revenues more than 10x. Before that, Ms. Schultz spent nearly 17 years at Oracle where she pioneered the company's cloud go-to-market strategy and scaled numerous sales teams around the globe. In addition to her membership in the Fortune Most Powerful Women community, she serves on the Board of Directors of Amplitude, Inc. and is a founding LP of Operator Collective.

Ms. Schultz received her A.B. from Dartmouth in Spanish and Latin American Studies, graduating with high honors. Recently, Ms. Schultz served as founding member of the Centennial Circle and a Class Agent for the Class of 1995.

Laurel Richie currently serves as an independent director at Hasbro, Synchrony Financial, and Bright Horizons and as a leadership consultant to Fortune 100 c-suite executives at Merryck & Co.

As President of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) from 2011 to 2015, Laurel led the league's business, operations, and marketing initiatives, and became the first person of color to lead a major national sports league. Prior to the WNBA, she served as senior vice president and chief marketing officer of Girl Scouts of the USA.

As a senior partner and executive group director at advertising agency Ogilvy and Mather, she worked on a host of blue-chip clients. Upon her departure from Ogilvy, she became a founding member of the agency's external Diversity Advisory Board.

A frequent keynote speaker and panelist on Leadership, Diversity, and Inclusion, Richie is a recipient of the Black Girls Rock Shot Caller Award, Sports Business Journal's Game Changer Award, and the YMCA Black Achievers in Industry Award. She was awarded Ebony magazine's Outstanding Women in Marketing and Communications award and named to its Power 100 List. Black Enterprise named her one of the Most Influential African Americans in Sports.

Richie lives in New York City.  She received a bachelor’s degree in policy studies from Dartmouth College in 1981, where she chairs the advisory board of the Hopkins Center for the Arts after serving her alma mater as a member of the board of trustees from 2012-2021 and chair of the board from 2017-2021.

Wendy Becker serves as chairperson of Logitech International SA. She is also a non-executive director and Compensation Committee chair of Sony Corporation, Oxford Nanopore Technologies, and Oxford University Press. Becker chairs the British Heart Foundation and is a trustee of the University of Oxford. Previously, she served on the boards of Whitbread plc, Great Portland Estates, Ocado, the National Health Service of England, Cancer Research UK, the Prince’s Trust, and the Design Museum of London.

Karen C. Francis serves as Chairman of the Board of Vontier (NYSE: VNT), a global industrial technology company focused on smarter transportation and also serves as Board Chair for CelLink, manufacturer of printed flexible circuits. Karen is a Senior Advisor to private equity firm TPG Global and serves on the Board of Directors for public companies Polestar, TuSimple, Quanergy and private companies Wind River, Nauto, Metawave. She is widely acknowledged for her success in the automotive industry as General Manager of the $8 billion Oldsmobile Division of General Motors and as VP of Ford Motor Company. She transitioned to Silicon Valley fifteen years ago and is deeply engaged with emerging automotive technology companies. Her career also included executive positions at Procter & Gamble, Bain & Company, Berol Corporation, and Publicis. Karen also has an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School and owns and runs Limerick Lane Cellars, a boutique winery in Sonoma Valley, CA known for old vine zinfandel and rhone varietals.