François Locoh-Donou ›
President & CEO, F5
Aicha Evans ›
CEO, Zoox
Celia Karam ›
Chief Audit Officer,
Capital One
Christopher Young ›
Executive Vice President of Business Development, Strategy and Ventures, Microsoft
Dwana Franklin-Davis ›
CEO, Reboot Representation
Ime Archibong ›
Head of New Product Experimentation, Facebook
Jamila Conley ›
Vice President of Business Transformation, F5
Lanaya Irvin ›
CEO, Coqual
Speakers
with special guest Trevor Noah
François Locoh-Donou is F5’s President, Chief Executive Officer, and a member of the Board of Directors. He joined F5 in April 2017, bringing to the office nearly two decades of enterprise technology experience building a wide range of products, teams, and operations around the world. Locoh-Donou previously held successive leadership positions at Ciena, including Chief Operating Officer; Senior Vice President, Global Products Group; Vice President and General Manager, EMEA; Vice President, International Sales; and Vice President, Marketing. Prior to joining Ciena, he held research-and-development roles at Photonetics, a French opto-electronics company. Locoh-Donou serves on the board of Capital One Financial Corporation (NYSE: COF). He is also the co-founder and Chairman of Cajou Espoir, a social enterprise focused on cashew processing that employs several hundred people in rural Togo, 80 percent of whom are women. He holds engineering degrees from École Centrale de Marseille and Télécom ParisTech in France and a M.B.A. from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
François Locoh-Donou
Aicha Evans joined Zoox as the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) in February 2019. Prior to Zoox, Evans served as Senior Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer at Intel Corporation, driving the company's transformation from a PC-centric to a data-centric company. Previously, she ran the company's wireless efforts and oversaw a global team of 7,000 engineers. Evans in a member of the Supervisory Board of SAP and holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering from The George Washington University.
Aicha Evans
Celia Edwards Karam is Capital One's Chief Audit Officer responsible for leading the company's 300+ person internal audit organization. This includes conducting independent analysis identifying current and emerging risks across the enterprise, and providing high-value, proactive insights that effectively challenge the company’s strategy, governance, and risk management activities, helping to ensure the safety and soundness of the organization. Celia is also leading the digital transformation of Capital One’s Internal Audit function.
An accomplished leader throughout her 15-year career at Capital One, Celia has held executive roles in Capital One’s Small Business Bank and Consumer Bank lines of business. As Head of Small Business Banking, she led the organization through a strategic transformation. As Credit Officer and Vice President for the Consumer Credit Card business she led teams focused on product management, strategy, and credit policy.
Celia has also been actively engaged in Capital One’s Women’s Business Resource Group, Black Resource Group, and served as Capital One’s Investing for Good Market President of the Washington, D.C./Southern Maryland region where she led a range of community development efforts. Externally, Celia has worked with the non-profit Leadership Greater Washington - a business incubator that works to bring diverse leaders together across the Washington Metropolitan region, and Commonwealth - a non-profit working to build solutions to financial challenges faced by financially vulnerable people. Several publications have recognized her for her work. The Network Journal named her one of 25 Influential Black Women in Business for 2020. She has also been featured in Working Mother Magazine, and by the Washington Business Journal as 2014 Women Who Mean Business.
Celia Edwards Karam
Christopher Young is Executive Vice President of Business Development, Strategy and Ventures at Microsoft. He is responsible for driving growth across the company by establishing strategic partnerships, setting corporate strategy and identifying high impact investments through Microsoft’s corporate venture arm.
Young is the former CEO of McAfee, LLC (2014-2020). In 2017 he led the initiative to spin McAfee out of Intel to become a standalone company. Under his leadership, McAfee grew to protect mission-critical systems and data for more than two-thirds of the Global 2000 and more than 500 million consumers.
Earlier in his career, Young led cybersecurity efforts at Cisco, RSA and AOL. He also led end user computing at VMware and cofounded the company Cyveillance.
Young currently serves on the board of directors of American Express. He also serves as a member of the President’s National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee. He was formerly a board member of Snap Inc., cybersecurity data analytics firm Rapid7 and the Cyber Threat Alliance, and has served on the board of trustees of Princeton University.
Young holds an A.B. degree cum laude from Princeton University, and an M.B.A. degree with distinction from the Harvard Business School. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with his wife and two daughters.
Christopher Young
Dwana Franklin-Davis is the CEO of Reboot Representation. She is a collaborative and compelling visionary leading the Tech Coalition’s pooled philanthropic investments that enable Black, Latina, and Native American women to graduate with computing degrees by 2025 and lessen the diversity gap in tech.
A lifelong technologist with a passion for increasing diversity, equity, and inclusion in the tech sector, Dwana joined Reboot Representation in 2019 after working in IT, software engineering, and leadership positions for Mastercard, May Department Store Companies, and IBM. Based in New York City, Dwana holds a BS in Management from Purdue University, an MS in Information Management from Washington University in St. Louis, and a Certificate in Project Management from Washington University in St. Louis. Currently Dwana is on the National Center for Women & Information Technology Board of Directors, on the Break Through Tech Advisory Committee, and the Last Mile Education Fund’s Champions Board.
Dwana Franklin-Davis
Ime Archibong is Head of New Product Experimentation at Facebook, where he leads a community of entrepreneurs testing new standalone experiences with the goal to meaningfully improve people’s lives.
Previously, he was Facebook’s Vice President of Product Partnerships, where he built the global team that manages strategic partnerships aligned with Facebook's mission. This included developers, community leaders, and nonprofits.
He holds a Bachelor’s of Science degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Yale University, where he was Captain of the Varsity Basketball team, and also received an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, where he served as class president. He is a listed inventor on more than a dozen technical patents, and serves on the boards of many nonprofits focused on empowering underserved youth, students and entrepreneurs.
Ime Archibong
Jamila Conley is a Vice President at F5 Networks on the Corporate Strategy team. She leads the Business Transformation Office which encompasses M&A integrations and strategic business transformation activities. She has championed many foundational and innovative projects by guiding and nurturing a wide variety of cross-functional teams. She is a business process and analysis professional with a strong passion for furthering diversity and inclusion in the technology sector.
Jamila sponsors the F5 Appreciates Blackness inclusion group furthering diversity, inclusion, and equity for black and underrepresenting minorities within the company while fostering key partnerships with non-profit organizations to help build an opportunity and talent pipeline for kids of color interested in STEM. Jamila is the President of the board of directors for TAF helping to promote STEM education for underrepresented youth. She has also served on a D&I advisory board for a company based in Atlanta, GA. She is also a Leadership Tomorrow alum, class of 2016.
Jamila holds a CPA license, CISA certification and has an MBA in MIS. In her prior experience, she has worked in Consulting, Telecomm, and public accounting.
Jamila Conley
Lanaya Irvin is a global business executive and CEO of Coqual (formerly Center for Talent Innovation), a 17 year old think tank that conducts research on workplace diversity, equity, and inclusion and advises the world’s largest corporations. Irvin spent more than a decade at BofA Securities where she led strategic initiatives in global equities, managed global client relationships, and led multinational teams.
A longtime diversity and inclusion leader, Irvin was a founding executive member of OPEN Finance, a consortium of LGBTQ leaders advancing inclusion across Wall Street. In 2015, she mobilized more than 30 financial services firms to sign onto a US Supreme Court amicus brief in support of federal marriage equality. Since 2013, she has co-chaired the Human Rights Campaign’s Business Advisory Council. She also sits on the board of directors for Outright Action International, an LGBTQ advocacy organization with permanent presence at the UN. In 2021, Irvin was named to the Yahoo Finance top 100 OUTstanding LGBT+ Executives list. Her thought leadership has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Financial Times, Newsweek, Bloomberg, Forbes, NPR Marketplace, and the BBC.
Irvin earned her undergraduate degree from the University of California and holds an MBA from the University of Texas, McCombs School of Business.
Lanaya Irvin
Trevor Noah is the host of the Emmy® and Peabody® Award-winning “The Daily Show” on Comedy Central. “The Daily Show with Trevor Noah” recently received two 2019 Primetime Emmy nominations, including Outstanding Variety Talk Series and Outstanding Interactive Program.
Trevor has written, produced, and starred in 8 comedy specials, most recently including “Son of Patricia” on Netflix. Trevor's success has also spanned to sold out shows over 5 continents. Trevor is currently crossing North America on his first ever arena outing with the “Loud & Clear Tour 2019”. In April 2019, Trevor launched his new podcast series “On Second Thought: The Trevor Noah Podcast” exclusively on Luminary.
Trevor Noah is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller
“Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood” and its young readers adaptation “It’s Trevor Noah: Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood,” which also debuted as a New York Times bestseller. The book received the Thurber Prize for American Humor and two NAACP Image Awards, one for Outstanding Literary Work by a Debut Author and another for Outstanding Literary Work in the Biography/Auto-Biography category. The Audible edition of “Born a Crime,”performed by Trevor, remains one of the top-selling, highest-rated, and most-commented-on Audible performances of all time. To date, “Born a Crime” has sold over 1 million copies across all formats.
Trevor’s production company, Day Zero Productions, recently partnered with Viacom and has several projects in development, including the feature film adaptation of Born a Crime starring Academy Award winner Lupita Nyong’o, and a half-hour comedy with Roy Wood Jr. and Aaron McGruder at Comedy Central.
In April 2018, Noah launched The Trevor Noah Foundation, a youth development initiative that enhances youth preparedness for higher education or entry into the workforce.
Trevor Noah
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