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William Barr Chief Operating Office SAIF Corporation Bill Barr serves as SAIF Corporation’s Chief Operating Officer. SAIF is a not-for-profit, state-chartered workers' compensation company. We make workers' compensation insurance affordable and available to the employers of Oregon. We strengthen the Oregon economy by helping to keep workers' compensation insurance costs low while keeping the workplace safe. The company vision is simple – we create the safest and healthiest state to work in country. Before joining SAIF, Bill worked with Cambia Health Solutions in several leadership positions. His last post was as chief executive officer of the company’s subsidiary, LifeMap Assurance Company. Prior to Cambia, he successfully launched a Tacoma based company focused on mental health and substance abuse problems in the workplace, which grew to become a part of Magellan Health Services. Bill is an active community volunteer with interests in education, mental health and community civility. In 2016 he was appointed to the Oregon Public Employees Benefit Board by Governor Brown. Bill holds a bachelor's degree from San Diego State University and graduate degrees from Washington State University, and the University of Missouri. Bill and his wife Debra have two young adult children both of whom are more than moderately surprised when they find he has been asked to speak at any meeting outside the confines of their Portland, Oregon home. Jim Bromley CFO Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Jim Bromley, chief financial officer of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, oversees finance and accounting, financial planning and analysis, strategic planning, grants and contracts management, and several special initiatives. Jim has held several positions at the foundation, including the director of operations and the program CFO for the Global Development division. Jim joined the foundation in 2008 as its deputy director, Financial Planning and Management for Global Development division. Prior to the foundation, Jim consulted for several CEOs and CFOs on strategy and financial planning and management. From 2000 to 2005, he worked for Nordstrom Inc., where he worked initially as the CFO and then as the EVP and president of the company’s catalog and internet division. He also spent thirteen years with various investment banks, focused on corporate finance, including eight years with CS First Boston in New York, Singapore and San Francisco. Jim holds a BA in Economics from Middlebury College. Joe Brusuelas Chief Economist RSM US LLP Joseph Brusuelas has over 20 years of experience in finance and economics and specializes in analyzing the U.S. monetary policy, labor markets, fiscal policy, economic indicators and the condition of the U.S. consumer. Prior to joining RSM in July 2014, Brusuelas spent four years as a senior economist at Bloomberg, LP and the Bloomberg Briefs 2017 Pacific Northwest Enterprise Risk Forum Speaker | www.EnterpriseRiskForum.org newsletter group. As co-founder of the award-winning Bloomberg Economic Brief, Brusuelas was named as one of the 26 economists to follow by the Huffington Post. Earlier in his career, he was a director at Moody's Analytics where he covered the U.S. and global economies for the Dismal Scientist web-site. He also served as chief economist at Merk Investments L.L.C. and chief U.S. economist at IDEAglobal. Brusuelas regularly appears on Bloomberg Television, Bloomberg Radio and is frequently quoted by the financial press on the U.S. and global economies. He is the co-author of Forex Analysis and Trading: Effective Top-Down Strategies Combining Fundamental, Position, and Technical Analyses and the upcoming "It’s Worse Than You Think: The US Economy and the Decline of the American Middle Class," both published by Wiley. In his current role, Brusuelas provides macroeconomic perspective to help clients anticipate and address the unique issues and challenges facing their businesses and the industries in which they operate. He produces RSM’s monthly publication, The Real Economy. Each edition provides economic information and insights for and about the middle market; recent subjects include: OPEC's waning power and the production standoff - OPEC’s powers are waning and efforts to reduce production will be offset by increased production from the U.S. and other countries. Border tax would mean sweeping changes for middle market - The proposed border adjustment tax and corporate tax reform would be the most sweeping change to the tax code since 1986. Diane Camenisch Sr. Officer, Assurance and Risk Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Diane Camenisch serves as a Sr. Officer on the Bill & Melinda Gates foundation’s Assurance & Risk Management Team, where she is primarily responsible for facilitating enterprise risk management, assessing risk and monitoring risk mitigation activities in the service of enhancing the foundation's impact. Diane also supports other aspects of the team’s work in grantee and internal audit, partner organizational effectiveness and grant-related investigations. The team aims to provide assurance over the appropriate expenditure of foundation resources, help the foundation enhance the financial, operational and governance capacity of its key partners, improve the efficacy of internal processes and protect the foundation’s brand and reputation in the service of impact. Trained as an attorney, Diane specialized initially in human rights and development, with an emphasis on transactions, both bilateral and multilateral, and compliance. After fourteen years spent in international governmental institutions, academia, the non-profit sector, a law firm and corporate in-house practice working on a variety of issues related to, among others, European Human Rights, international criminal law, public health, health care, carbon finance and energy, natural resources and the environment, Diane joined the Bill & Melinda Gates foundation seven years ago. Prior to moving into her current role, Diane managed a team providing transactional support for investments in global policy and advocacy, communications and operations. Diane has a law degree from Oxford University, an LL.M. from New York University School of Law and is a member of the New York State Bar Association. Derek Care Director, Legal - Privacy and Legal GDPR Lead Uber Technologies Derek Care is Director, Legal - Privacy for Uber Technologies, and the legal lead for Uber's GDPR preparation efforts. Prior to Uber, Derek was Privacy Counsel for Bloomberg LLP, and a member of the Privacy and Litigation teams at Bingham McCutchen. 2017 Pacific Northwest Enterprise Risk Forum Speaker | www.EnterpriseRiskForum.org Yvette Connor Chief Risk Officer Focal Point Data Risk Yvette Connor is the Chief Risk Officer at Focal Point Data Risk, LLC. In that role, she leads Focal Point’s Executive Risk Consulting practice, as well as taking a strategic role overseeing the firm’s Cyber Balance Sheet initiative. Yvette joined Focal Point from consulting firm Alvarez & Marsal (A&M), where she was Managing Director of Insurance and Risk Advisory Services with a dedicated focus on enterprise-wide risk management and compliance. Prior to A&M, she served as the Director of Client Engagement for Marsh, where she was responsible for the top 1500 client relationships and a member of the analytics team supporting Global Risk Management clients. She previously was the Director of Risk Management at Vulcan Inc., a privately held company, with a diverse portfolio of more than 200 operating companies, where she led the development of a multi-disciplinary risk management department. Earlier, she served as Vice President of Risk Management at Roll International, a global food producer. In 2013, Business Insurance magazine named Connor as one of the “Women to Watch” in Risk Management and Insurance. In 2009, Treasury and Risk magazine recognized Connor as one of the top “40 under 40” professionals in her field. John Connors Managing Partner Ignition Partners John Connors is a managing partner at Ignition. John joined Ignition in 2005 after a distinguished career as a software- industry executive. John spent sixteen years at Microsoft in several high-level, strategic roles. From January 2000 to April 2005 he was senior vice president of finance and administration, as well as the company’s chief financial officer. He also served as vice president of the Worldwide Enterprise Group and vice president and chief information officer (CIO). Before becoming CIO, John held a number of positions within and outside finance, including corporate controller; general manager of worldwide financial operations; director of business operations at Microsoft’s European headquarters in Paris; and director of business operations for the Worldwide Sales and Support Strategy Group. John is a member of the board of directors of Nike (NKE), Splunk (SPLK), FiREapps, Motif Investing, Chef, Azuqua, Tempered Networks, Icertis, KenSci, and LiveStories. He was also a board member of Xensource, acquired by Citrix in 2007; Heroku, acquired by Salesforce.com in 2010; Parse, acquired by Facebook in 2013; Tier 3, acquired by CenturyLink in 2013; Scout Analytics, acquired by ServiceSource in 2014; and Xamarin, acquired by Microsoft in 2016. John also led Ignition’s investment in Splunk (IPO 2012). John was named to the 2013 Forbes Midas List, a ranking of the world’s top venture capital investors, and to Business Insider’s 2013 list of top enterprise technology VCs. John received his BA in accounting from the University of