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Yahoo Finance All Markets Summit

Yahoo Finance presented the All Markets Summit: The Path Forward on Monday October 25th from 9:00am - 5:00pm ET. 🌐It was an all-virtual event hosted live from the Nasdaq in New York’s Times Square and connected Yahoo Finance’s audience with leaders and influencers in business, finance, cryptocurrencies, healthcare, public policy, social justice, philanthropy, climate change, and more. 🌐Speakers examined the new dynamics at work in an ever-changing and increasingly challenging world, and offered a bold new path forward. 🌐For information or questions about Yahoo Finance events, including speaking and sponsorship opportunities, please email AMS@YAHOOFINANCE.COM.

2021 ALL MARKETS SUMMIT SPEAKERS

Amy Arnott
Morningstar Research Services
Arnott is a portfolio strategist for Morningstar Research Services, a wholly owned subsidiary of Morningstar. She currently focuses on research that helps investors and financial advisors build smarter portfolios. She writes about a wide range of portfolio-related topics and covers emerging asset classes such as cryptocurrency.
Albert Bourla
Pfizer CEO
During his more than 25 years at Pfizer, Bourla has held a number of senior global positions across a range of markets and disciplines. Prior to becoming CEO in 2019, he was Pfizer’s COO, and he began his career at the company in 1993 in the Animal Health Division as Technical Director of Greece.
Christian Braneon
NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies Climate Scientist; Hummingbird Firm CTO
Dr. Christian Braneon co-leads urban research in the Climate Impacts Group of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies. He also serves as Co-Director of the Environmental Justice and Climate Just Cities Network at The Earth Institute. His career spans water resources engineering, remote sensing, climate resilience, and data science.
Brian Cornell
Target CEO
Cornell has been Target’s CEO since 2014 and leads a team of more than 350,000 people in 1,900 stores throughout the U.S. Cornell is credited with making Target one of the more successful multi-category mass merchandisers in the U.S. In 2019 Target was named 'Yahoo Finance’s Company of the Year'.
Ann Dennison
Nasdaq Chief Financial Officer
Dennison has been the Nasdaq’s Chief Financial Officer since March 2021. She has been with Nasdaq for five years and has more than 20 years of experience in financial reporting and analysis. Prior to joining Nasdaq, Dennison worked at Goldman Sachs as Managing Director, Head of Financial Reporting.
Carmine Di Sibio
EY Global CEO
Di Sibio leads one of the largest professional services organizations in the world with over 300,000 people in more than 150 countries. He plays an active role in the World Economic Forum, and is involved in developing a core set of metrics to help standardize disclosures around Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) factors.
Jane Fraser
Citi CEO
Fraser has been CEO of Citi since March of 2021, and is the first female CEO in the firm’s history. She manages one of the world's most global banks, serving millions of consumers, businesses and institutions across 160 countries. Fraser joined Citi in 2004 in the Corporate and Investment Banking division.
Pat Gelsinger
Intel CEO
Gelsinger is one of the tech industry’s pioneers having played a key role in the development of several groundbreaking technologies such as USB, Wi-Fi, and Intel’s line of revolutionary microprocessors. Gelsinger was Intel’s first Chief Technology Officer, and the architect of its legendary 486 processor. Before rejoining Intel in early 2021 he was CEO of VMware.
Gary Gensler
Securities and Exchange Commission Chair
Following President Biden’s nomination, Gensler was confirmed by the Senate and sworn into office in April 2021 as the 33rd Chair of the SEC. Previously, he was professor of the Practice of Global Economics and Management at MIT. Gensler was also former chair of the CFTC; and Assistant Secretary of the Treasury from 1997-2001.
Lynn Good
Duke Energy CEO
Good leads one of America’s largest energy holding companies. Under her leadership, Duke Energy has committed to at least a 50% carbon reduction by 2030 and net-zero carbon emissions by 2050. Since 2005, the company has cut carbon dioxide emissions by more than 40%. Good is among Fortune’s ‘Most Powerful Women in Business’, and Forbes’s ‘World’s 100 Most Powerful Women’.
Katharine Hayhoe
The Nature Conservancy Chief Scientist
Prof. Hayhoe has been named a U.N. Champion of the Earth and one of Time’s 100 Most Influential People. She’s Director of the Texas Tech University Climate Science Center, and was a lead author for several U.S. National Climate Assessments. Hayhoe hosts the PBS series Global Weirding, and is author of ‘Saving Us’.
Jeff Immelt
Former GE CEO
Immelt was General Electric’s CEO for sixteen years, and was the ninth chairman of the company. He’s currently a partner at the VC firm New Enterprise Associates. Immelt is author of ‘Hot Seat: What I Learned Leading a Great American Company’. Immelt has been named one of the “World’s Best CEOs” three times by Barron’s.
Isaiah Jackson
'Bitcoin & Black America' Author
Jackson is the best-selling author of ‘Bitcoin and Black America’, host of “Community Crypto” on Coindesk TV, and co-host of “The Gentlemen of Crypto” podcast. He’s also co-founder of Black Bitcoin Billionaires - the biggest bitcoin group on Clubhouse. Jackson is an award-winning speaker who travels the world teaching about bitcoin.
Gary Kelly
Southwest Airlines CEO
Kelly is a 35-year veteran of the company who began his career at Southwest Airlines as Controller, moving up to CFO, and becoming CEO in July 2004. Under his leadership the airline enjoys some of the best consumer ratings in the industry. A point of pride for Kelly: Southwest Airlines has never had a single layoff in its 50-year history.
Do Kwon
Terraform Labs Co-Founder & CEO
Terraform Labs (TFL) is the group behind Terra - a stable, programmable currency for the internet. Do co-founded Terra to use blockchain technology to develop a more efficient payment system. Its eponymous price-stable cryptocurrency, or stablecoin, attracted 40 million users to work with the company at launch in January 2018.
Gina McCarthy
White House National Climate Advisor
McCarthy is the first-ever climate czar in charge of the White House’s domestic climate agenda. She’s President Biden’s chief advisor on domestic climate change policy, and is no stranger to battling climate skeptics and foes. McCarthy has worked for both Republican and Democrat administrations, and ran the EPA under President Obama.
Calvin McDonald
Lululemon CEO
McDonald runs a company with over 500 stores in 17 countries. Under his leadership, lululemon has delivered double digit revenue growth as its clothing has moved well beyond just yoga pants. It‘s become a favored work-from-home outfit, and as people return to the office they’re taking their lululemons with them.
Kathryn McLay
Sam's Club CEO
McLay leads this members-only warehouse club, which is a division of Walmart. Sam’s Club had revenues of $64 billion for FY 2020; 100,000 associates and nearly 600 clubs. She has held a number of leadership roles at Walmart since joining in 2015 as vice president of U.S. Finance & Strategy. McLay began her career in 1992 at Deloitte.
Gavin Michael
Bakkt CEO
Gavin Michael is CEO of Bakkt where he is responsible for setting strategic direction and planning business objectives. Prior to Bakkt, he held roles at Citi, JPMorgan Chase and Accenture, giving him a unique blend of expertise in branch technology innovation, data analytics, product design and core consumer technology.
Brian Moynihan
Bank of America CEO
Moynihan leads a team of more than 200,000 employees serving individuals, companies, and institutional investors across the globe. He’s active in organizations that focus on a wide range of economic and social issues, including the World Economic Forum, the Business Roundtable, and the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture.
Vice Admiral Dr. Vivek Murthy
Surgeon General of the United States
Dr. Murthy was confirmed by the U.S. Senate in March 2021 to serve as the 21st Surgeon General of the United States - a returning role. As the nation’s top doctor, he leads a uniformed service of 6,000 public health officers tackling some of the most pressing health issues, including the current coronavirus pandemic.
Katie Nixon
Northern Trust Wealth Management CIO
Nixon is EVP and Chief Investment Officer for the Wealth Management division at Northern Trust. She leads the national investment management practice for Northern Trust’s Wealth Management business, and directs the investment management activities of over 200 Northern Trust portfolio managers across the firm.
Sergey Paltsev
MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change Deputy Director
Paltsev is author of more than 100 peer-reviewed publications in scientific journals and books in the area of energy economics, climate policy, transport, advanced energy technologies, and international trade. Sergey was a lead author of the Fifth Assessment Report Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
Penny Pennington
Edward Jones CEO & Managing Partner
Pennington is only the sixth managing partner in Edward Jones’ 99-year history and is responsible for the firm's strategic direction, working together with more than 49,000 associates across North America. She began her Edward Jones career in 2000 and has twice been featured on Fortune’s Most Powerful Women in Business list.
Elizabeth Spaulding
Stitch Fix CEO
Spaulding joined Stitch Fix as President in 2020 to focus on driving the next phase of the company’s growth, including direct buy capabilities and international expansion efforts. Prior to Stitch Fix, Spaulding was Global Head and Founder of the Digital Practice at Bain & Company, where she was also a partner and served on the board.
Stephen J. Squeri
American Express Chairman and CEO
Squeri joined American Express in 1985 and held a number of senior roles across the company before becoming Chairman and CEO in 2018. Under his leadership, American Express has launched innovative payment, financial management and lifestyle offerings for consumers and businesses. Squeri champions ESG and DEI initiatives at the company.
Caty Tedman
Dapper Labs Head of Partnerships
Tedman is the Head of Partnerships for Dapper Studio at Dapper Labs, which drives in-house led blockchain projects. Tedman was instrumental in bringing its NBA Top Shot platform to life. She has also struck up deals for NFTs with La Liga, the WNBA, and most recently the NFL. Tedman previously worked at the NHL, NFL, and ESPN.
Eric Yuan
Zoom CEO
Yuan founded Zoom in 2011 and the company has quickly become one of the big winners in the new work-from-home era. Prior to Zoom, he was a VP of engineering at Cisco, and one of the founding engineers at Webex. Yuan has been named the #1 CEO of a large U.S. company by Glassdoor, and named an EY Entrepreneur of the Year.