Past Speaker

Mr. Gantar is a global economic development leader as the Honorary Consul for Ethiopia in Seattle with diverse experience in growing business operations and facilitating complex public private investment both in the U.S. and Africa. Mr Gantar is the current President of the Consular Association of Washington State which [...]

Jim Weber joined Brooks as CEO in 2001 and is credited for the Seattle-based company’s aggressive turnaround story, focusing the team solely on delivering personally inspiring products and experiences that keep people running. The business and brand caught the attention of Warren Buffett, who declared Brooks a standalone Berkshire [...]

Heather Redman is Co-Founder & Managing Partner at Flying Fish Partners, a venture firm investing in artificial intelligence, machine learning and robotics companies. She serves on the boards of PPL Corporation (NYSE), Brooklyn ImmunoTherapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ), Beneficial State Bank, and Coldstream Holdings Inc. and as a Regent of Washington [...]

Director of Community and External Relations, Special Advisor to the A.D. – UW Athletics Born in Yakima, Washington, Huard was raised southeast of Tacoma in Puyallup, where his father Mike was a high school teacher and head football coach. He was the first to hold a snap for kicker [...]

Artistic Director Adam Immerwahr comes to Village Theatre from Washington DC, where he served as Artistic Director of Theater J, the nation’s premier Jewish theater. He has previously served as the Associate Artistic Director at McCarter Theatre, a Tony Award-winning theater in Princeton NJ, and as Resident Director of [...]

Under Marsh’s leadership, Overlake has continued to advance its patient safety and care quality, expanded partnerships and acquisitions, launched Project FutureCare, the hospital’s largest campus renewal project that will be completed in early 2023, grown its workforce to some 3,500 employees and introduced performance excellence to improve all facets [...]

Mary Bacarella joined the Market in January 2018 and serves as the Executive Director of the Pike Place Market Preservation and Development Authority (PDA). In her role at Pike Place Market, Bacarella is responsible for the overall business including commercial and residential property management, facilities management, marketing and the [...]

Dr. Sean Murphy is an accomplished cybersecurity executive with more than 20 years’ experience leading information security and risk management in highly regulated industries and fast-paced organizations in the military, healthcare, and financial services space.  In his current role as SVP, CISO at BECU, he is responsible for providing [...]

Jerry Chiang is General Counsel at DistroKid, a SaaS unicorn valued at $1.3 billion dollars and the world’s largest distributor of independent music (one out of every three new songs on Spotify comes from DistroKid). Prior to DistroKid, Jerry began his legal practice in the music industry by working [...]