Elizabeth Kurian Adeoye

Ms. Elizabeth Kurian Adeoye has served as a management consultant, PE investor, independent consultant, and BD executive over 20 years, with a sector focus in Healthcare and Financial Services. She began her career in strategy consulting, transitioning to direct/ LBO investing at Ares Capital (formerly ACAS) after business school. Later, she served as SVP of an Internal consulting group at Citi after which she began her consulting practice. Most recently, she worked as an executive at Business Talent Group, helping scale the business over a five year period. She is skilled at strategy, M&A, operational transformation, and new product strategy and is passionate about helping develop platforms and solutions leveraging the power of data, AI, & human capital.

Elizabeth has an MBA in Finance from The Wharton School, where she was a Joseph Wharton Fellowship recipient. She also holds a BA in Economics from Duke University and serves on the Board of Directors for the Wharton Club of Houston.

Alexander M. Economides

Mr. Alexander M. Economides is the General Manager of Economides Consultants Inc., a financial evaluation, strategic consulting, and oilfield optimization company and has worked as a consultant since 2009. He holds a Master of Economics and an MBA from the University of Texas at Austin. He has featured as a speaker and panelist in many countries for his knowledge of both oil and gas geopolitics, and shipping industry strategic considerations. As a consultant, he focuses on business modeling, planning, and risk evaluation. He also has extensive experience in publishing, and managed the creation of both Modern Fracturing, and Energy Tribune. He is currently evaluating the positive and negative economic impacts of switching to low-carbon, or net-zero fuels while continuing the use of hydrocarbons and is planning a new speaker series starting in 2021, which will shed significant light on the subject.

Lin Giralt, CMC

Mr. Lin Giralt has a 28-year career in management consulting following 10 years in executive management in Agribusiness and Construction. Since 2011 he has been teaching part-time in consulting related courses at Rice University during the US academic year and at various universities in China for Summer School. He started as a consultant in 1991, as an intern with McKinsey & Co. and then served for four years as a Project Manager with Booz Allen & Hamilton in their Latin America Division. He started his own consulting firm, Lambda International, with a partner in 1997. Within Lambda, Lin has led over 150 consulting projects covering just about every industry and function. He has worked in ten countries in Latin America and much of the Southern USA. A.D. Little hired him as a Contract Project Manager in 2006-2007 and he worked in Verizon’s Venezuelan operation as an Internal Consultant focused on Marketing and Market Research in 2002-2003 apart from having led strategy, operations and financial analysis projects for many Fortune 100 companies as well as family-owned firms.

Lin holds an Interdisciplinary B.A. degree from Duke University, the M.Arch. degree from Rice University and an M.B.A. in Finance and Real Estate from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School. He holds the Certified Management Consultant certification from the Institute of Management Consultants USA.

David Kelly

David Kelly is a thought-leader in the Enterprise Incentive Compensation Management / Sales Performance Management space. As a long-tenured solution architect in the domain, he is skilled in creating accurate, maintainable, high-performing system architectures to solve complex business challenges. He is the author of “The Book on Incentive Compensation Management: The Systematic Administration of Variable Compensation in the Enterprise”, and of “Out of the Box, or Out of the Question: What Won’t Your Incentive Compensation Management System Do?”. He is also the founder and architect of BobTrak, Inc., providing best-of-breed tracking, management, and analytics of insurance distribution channels.

Glenn Mujica, MBA, PMP

Mr. Glenn Mujica is a bilingual and interdisciplinary management consultant, integrating twenty years of business process redesign experience with high-level support in strategy, organizations, system evaluation, and procurement, both in the private sector and in government agencies. He has worked on many software implementation projects throughout Latin America, developing and delivering in-house courses on Project Management, Business Cases Development and IT Principles. He is a Visiting Critic in the undergraduate program at Rice University and has served as a consultant at PwC, Deloitte, and Arthur D. Little. Glenn holds a Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Sciences and a Post Graduate Diploma in Marketing from Simon Bolivar University in Caracas, Venezuela as well as an MBA from IESA in Caracas, Venezuela. He is a PMP and holds Prince2 and Scrum Master certifications.

Jag Singh

Mr. Jag Singh is an international Private Equity Investor and Consultant. He has 27 years of experience, of which 10 were spent at Lehman Brothers. His unique expertise is in solving the problems of strategic planning under uncertainty by evaluating the personnel available for transforming operations within companies. His skill set has been applied to Change Management, Turnarounds, Operations Management, Human Resource Management, Restructuring and setting up of Financial Services companies. Jag has worked with companies in the following fields, among many others: Healthcare, Consumer Products, Education, Technology, Oil & Gas Services. His US and international experience covers New York, Houston, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and the United Arab Emirates. Jag holds a Bachelor’s from Princeton University and the MBA from the Stern School of Business at NYU.

Bill Stevenson

Mr. Bill Stevenson is Principal and Consultant of HK Stevenson, Inc.  Bill is a veteran management, marketing and technology consultant.  He serves on the Board of Directors for the Wharton Club of Houston and, for many years, as a member of the Rice Alliance, where he is also a Judge with the Rice Business Plan Competition.   Bill has also served as a technology champion with the Houston Technology Center.  He holds degrees from both Wharton and UCLA’s Anderson School, in management, marketing and finance, including an MBA. With Citicorp, Bill managed a $12 billion portfolio targeting money center banks and middle market corporations. With Compaq, he led two teams focusing on new marketing programs and channel development, and co-chaired another to address early major account strategy. Bill left Compaq to co-chair a start-up targeting a $500 million electronic communications market niche to improve information flow, and then founded his consulting business. Bill is actively involved in church and community affairs.

Charles T. Wilson, CMC

Mr. Charles Wilson is a Risk Advisor and founded RiskSmart Solutions®in 2001 to provide objective risk management and insurance advice to business owners and managers who want to ensure their protection and contingency plans are as strong as their products and customer service.

Clients say they are inspired to take charge of protecting their organizations with Charles’ unique and objective insights into insurance, risk and small business problems. He is independent and does not sell insurance.

Before consulting, Charles spent over 30 years in senior leadership assignments building start-ups, and trouble-shooting small and mid-sized business units in the international insurance arena. From these experiences, Charles brings an integrated and creative, solution-oriented approach to business risk assessment, problem solving and crisis management. “I’ve been on both sides – I know the insurance industry thought-process, and the vital small-business need for practical, effective solutions.”

Michiko I. Wolcott, CMC

Ms. Wolcott is currently the managing partner and principal consultant of Msight Analytics, a management consulting firm specializing in data and analytics. Backed by over 20 years of experience in analytical project execution and delivery as well as by the Certified Management Consultant designation, she has helped organizations of all sizes in the development of enterprise capability and effectiveness in data and analytics. She has led multi-national analytical consulting practices, with clients and colleagues from across the globe in financial services, media and communications, retail, healthcare, life sciences, public sector, as well as humanitarian response and disaster management, and has spoken at many industry conferences and forums.

Her prior responsibilities include serving as the Lead Data Scientist at North Highland and leading the international analytics practice at Equifax as the Vice President of International Analytics. Ms. Wolcott holds a Master of Science degree in Statistics from Florida State University among other degrees from Florida State University and the Peabody Conservatory of the Johns Hopkins University.