Samuel J. Heyman In September 2001, Mr. Heyman founded the Partnership for Public Service, with a gift of $45 million, to address the need for reform in government service and served as the Partnership’s Chairman from 2001-2009. Mr. Heyman passed away in November 2009. Heyman was the owner and Chairman of one of the nation’s major privately-held companies,... Read more
Tom A. Bernstein Tom A. Bernstein is president and co-founder of Chelsea Piers, L.P., formed in 1992 to develop and operate the Chelsea Piers Sports and Entertainment Complex, a 30-acre waterfront sports village located between 17th and 23rd Streets along Manhattan’s Hudson River. He is also co-chairman of Chelsea Piers Connecticut, a 450,000-square-foot sports facility, which opened in... Read more
Karan Bhatia Karan Bhatia is the head of government affairs and public policy at Google, a role he has held since joining the company in 2018. In this role, he leads the company’s engagement on a broad array of public policy issues and oversees its engagement with government officials and key political stakeholders in the United States... Read more
Doug Conant Douglas R. Conant is the only former Fortune 500 CEO who is a New York Times bestselling author, a Top 50 Leadership Innovator, a Top 100 Leadership Speaker, and a Top 100 Most Influential Author in the World. Conant was appointed president and CEO of the Campbell Soup Company in 2001. He retired in 2011... Read more
Nora Gardner Nora Gardner is the leader of the intersection between McKinsey’s organization and public sector practices. For the past 10 years, she has served clients across the public, private and social sectors, both in the United States and abroad, on issues related to talent management and organizational change. Gardner led the development of McKinsey’s Talent System... Read more
W. Scott Gould W. Scott Gould is CEO of Mountain Lake Associates, LLC, a technology enabled medical services firm that helps government providers and payers obtain the commercial services that are increasingly integral to their network health care systems, by providing standardized and specialized networks of care. The company improves the quality and lowers the cost of medical... Read more
David J. Kappos David J. Kappos is a partner at Cravath. Kappos supports the firm’s clients with a wide range of their most complex intellectual property issues. From August 2009 to January 2013, Kappos served as undersecretary of commerce and director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office. In that role, he advised the president, secretary of... Read more
Les L. Lyles General Lester L. Lyles entered the United States Air Force in 1968 as a distinguished graduate of the Air Force ROTC program. His first assignments included special assistant and aide-de-camp to the commander of Air Force Systems Command and avionics division chief in the F-16 Systems Program Office. He then served as program director of... Read more
Tom Nides Thomas R. Nides is a vice chairman, strategy and client relations at Blackstone. He supports a variety of strategic firmwide initiatives, special projects and focus on senior client relationships globally. Before joining Blackstone, Nides served as the Ambassador of the United States to Israel from 2021 to 2023. Prior to that, he spent over a... Read more
Sean O’Keefe Sean O’Keefe is currently a faculty member of the Syracuse University Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs as university professor and the Howard and Louise Phanstiel chair in strategic management and leadership. He also serves as a senior advisor at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, in Washington, D.C., a partnership with the... Read more