Amol is a Senior Manager at RSM. He focused on state and local tax consulting matters. As an attorney, he defends clients that are audited by state taxing authorities, he provides clients guidance on various state income tax issues, and assists them through the tax return process. He started his career at an AMLAW 200 law firm based in the Midwest where he focused on state and local tax litigation matters. After practicing law for two years, he earned a Masters of Law in Tax at Georgetown Law. From there he decided to work in public accounting given accounting firms’ deep relationship with taxpayers of all sizes.

Charles is an Analytics and Technology Advisor at Information Services Group (ISG).

Charles Chiang who once navigated the waters of engineering to the promise land of consulting (Deloitte, BearingPoint) has recently started a new journey as an Analytics and Technology Advisor at Information Services Group. Information Services Group is a leading global technology and research advisory firm that specializes in digital transformation services, including automation, cloud and data analytics; sourcing advisory; managed governance and risk services; network carrier services; strategy and operations design; change management; market intelligence and technology research and analysis.

 Deepak Marwah, Strategic Partner Executive, Amazon

Deepak is a technology strategist with deep implementation experience—helping clients simplify their IT to accelerate Digital Transformation. As a Senior Manager at Accenture, Deepak is responsible for leading client transformations, tracking technology trends, and communicating insights and perspectives. His past clients include organizations in the Federal government, high-tech, and other industries.

Ki Hur is a Director with Accenture with 17 years of experience in Financial Management, Accounting, Finance, Internal Controls and Audit industry. Currently he is managing numerous DoD contracts with 200+ FTEs.

Ms. Wan is a Director of PricewaterhouseCoopers' Deals Analytics practice in the United States. She specializes in data management, with significant time dedicated to leading large-scale, complex projects. Liyao advises clients on the tactical construction and implementation of carve-out financial statements, big data analytics, data quality analysis, fraud investigations, litigation support, claim management, tax provision, and preventive analytics. Her experience also includes financial modeling, financial statement separation, data optimization, cleansing, transformation, and master data management. Liyao has extensive experience advising clients to use technology to meet deals and compliance objectives related to Mergers and Acquisition, AML/ BSA, Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), tax provision, and other regulations.

Ms. Wan received her Master in Engineering Management (MEM) from Duke University. She is also a Certified Public Accountant (CPA), Project Management Professional (PMP), Oracle Certified Professional (OCP), and Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE).

Najam Mohiuddin is a Managing Director in Accenture’s Technology Growth Platform and leads the Salesforce Capability for Accenture Federal Services. Najam has 20+ years of experience across federal, state & local government, higher education, domestic & international nonprofit organizations/foundations and specializes in strategy and delivery of complex digital transformation across US Federal agencies.

As the Salesforce Capability lead, Najam is responsible for the development of our strategic offerings in the Federal market and enablement of our Salesforce practitioners to serve our clients. Najam was a participant in Ascend CELP Cohort 3, Class of 2018.

In 2016, he moved from NYC to Ashburn, VA with his family and loves traveling, college football (Go Gamecocks!) and trying new restaurants in the area.

A technology executive with 15+ years of experience leading complex technology integration projects, building market-driven products and architecting solutions in software, financial services and wireless telecommunication industries.

At CapitalOne, Ram’s responsibilities include delivery of business critical programs, introduce/implement bold new ideas to create

competitive advantage for the enterprise and guide, manage and motivate people to perform at their best. Programs he has managed span core financial services, digital analytics, cloud migration and real time streaming. Ram’s roles prior to CapitalOne include, leading a global matrix'ed team to deliver mobile device management capabilities in Latin America (working for wireless service provider), product managing a mobile service management product and product manager/telecom strategy lead for a middleware software company.

Ran is a Tax Director with the Washington DC Metro Private Company Services (PCS) practice and have over 10 years of experience with PwC. She focuses on providing tax planning and compliance service to professional service companies, manufacturing companies and construction companies. She helps corporate, partnership, and individual clients comply with evolving tax legislation. She works closely with various tax specialty groups to assists with various tax consulting and tax research

matters. She is a CPA licensed in Virginia and Washington, DC. She is a graduate of the American University with a Bachelor of Science in Accounting and Finance and Master of Science in Taxation.

Raveesh is a Senior Director, Centers of Excellence for Technology at CareFirst. A thought leader, business partner and executive collaborator with 18+ years of experience with diverse expertise directing enterprise-level cost and efficiency improvements. Strong at strategic planning, adoption of emerging/new technologies, digital transformation and technology leadership for driving change.

Experienced in creating and executing strategic vision and applying innovation and technology to deliver outstanding business results.

Championed expansion and adoption of open source technologies for cost effectiveness and quick turnaround times. Results oriented, with an extensive track- record of IT governance and delivery with strong business and technical acumen.

Extensive experience with achieving cross-functional business objectives, building high- performing teams, and delivering world-class customer focused services. Experienced in streamlining architecture, technology platforms and implementing DevOps strategy to increase productivity, quality and efficiency of teams for delivering high quality application be and overall business outcome.

Currently working as an Area Service Manager for HSBC Mid-Atlantic region. His key responsibilities are to support, manage and ensure operational soundness, service excellence, compliance and oversight of the HSBC retail branches in DC, MD, VA, PA locations.

Rik is the Vice President of Application Delivery and Software Development at CareFirst FEPOC. He provides technical and thought leadership on several strategic initiatives including Technical Transformation, Product Modernization, Cloud Enablement, Agile Transformation and DevOps. Rik provides engineering leadership for the development and implementation of key technology initiatives to drive FEPOC Business strategy.

Rik is responsible for developing and managing application development standards, processes, and tools. Also, Rik develops and implements the technology strategy, process automation and human capital capable of supporting a scalable, functional and reliable suite of products with a focus on innovation, emerging technologies and making recommendations on the strategic use of technology to achieve business results.

Rik provides visible technology leadership for the FEPOC to customers, partners, and vendors, as well as to the technology community Prior to joining FEPOC, Rik served as Sr Director of Product and Delivery for the Federal Employee Health Benefit Plan, where he was responsible for developing departmental technology vision and roadmap, overseeing technology operations and providing thought leadership for business transformation activities.

He played a pivotal role in transforming the FEP Bridge into a multi-tenant and innovative product suite comprised of 10 unique products that are currently used by seven Plans. Rik earned an MBA in IT Strategic Management from the University of Maryland Smith School of Business and a Bachelor of Engineering from the Delhi College of Engineering.

Additionally, Rik holds several technical certifications including: AWS Certified Solution Architect, AWS Certified Machine Learning Specialty, Certified Scrum Master (CSM) and Project Management Professional (PMP).

Rohit is the Delivery Director with Freddie Mac. An accomplished IT professional with over 20 years of experience building organization and delivering Technology solutions and platforms, managing teams, vendors, partners and customer relationships. Experienced in working with stakeholders and colleagues at all levels and attuned to internal/external customer satisfaction, team dynamics and motivation, mentoring, establishing high-performing teams and organizations.

A consistent track record in delivering solutions that enable successful outcomes to both Business and Technology stakeholders. A self-motivated, reliable, problem-owning and problem-solving team player and leader with excellent communication skills. An IT professional who seeks continual process improvements and an enthusiastic quick- learner.

Sangita is a Strategy Sr. Manager at Accenture, with over 15 years of experience in the industry. Her span of experience ranges from leading post-merger integrations, developing digital strategies for organizations, creating business cases and multi-year roadmaps for new product introductions / new initiatives / operating model changes, and developing corporate strategies for commercial and Federal clients.

She has worked across multiple industries, which include retail, consumer electronics, telecom, professional services, and Government clients. Most recently, Sangita has been responsible for growth and strategy at one of Accenture’s Federal accounts. She has been focused on developing Prime contracts, focused on whitespace. In her new role, Sangita has formed new relationships across the Agency and serves as trusted advisor to her clients. Her goal is to bring the best of herself and her organization’s capabilities to the Agency, and to mature the account through Prime contracts.

She holds an undergraduate degree in economics from Cornell University, and an MBA from the Darden Graduate School of Business at UVA. She is married with two sons – ages six and two.

Sharat is a Senior Manager in Accenture's Advanced Technology and Architecture practice, with over 15 years of broad industry experience in the areas of integration, technology architecture, program/project management, leading and delivery of large scale technology solutions, operational management using onsite/offshore delivery models and client account leadership.

Sharat is Accenture certified Delivery Lead, Technology Architect and Automation Architect with specialization in Integration, Technology Architecture and IBM SOA- BPM/Middleware products. In his roles, Sharat works as trusted client advisor, bringing together Accenture's expertise and thought leadership to shape solutions and to solve clients' most critical business needs. Sharat owns client relationship for the Operations contract which covers one or more of the Ops offerings. Responsible for client relationship, Profit and Loss management of the account, quality and risk with the services provided to the client, strategic positioning for growth and people management of the account. Interfaces with the Client Account Lead and appropriate leadership within Service Delivery Operations. Responsible for shaping and driving valueled transformation for the clients. Plan, deliver and execute one or more projects and programs for clients, ensuring appropriate resources are mobilized and programs/projects/portfolios meet operational, contractual and economic commitments.

Susan Z. Luo is currently a compliance director leading the Office of the Trustee at Freddie Mac. She is a seasoned finance and compliance professional with extensive experience in structured finance, capital markets, financial analysis and compliance risk oversight. She has broad experience with financial services, mortgage industry, private equity, fund management, securitization & funding programs, P&L analysis, modeling and reporting, as well as control testing.

For 7 years, Tieying led the Modeling team to support all structured securitization across Freddie Mac. Tieying redesigned the end-to-end Agency REMIC process and led her team to build the new process from scratch. When she left the team, this new process was the most efficient in the Agency REMIC industry, among dealers, issuers and accounting firms, which took half of the time compared with that of her competitors' and gained valuable competitive advantage for the company. All developments were undertaken by existing staff over 2 years, and saved the company $2-3 millions.

Later, Tieying decided to expand market knowledge and joined the trading desk as the lead structurer to support re-performing loan securitization. Tieying got more exposure to investment banking, investor relationships and bond marketing and was part of the core team to build two new REMIC shelves from scratch and successfully offered the first transactions to the market. Both programs have been very successful and in 2017, our desk raked in $1 billion profits, the highest for any single team in the company.

To get exposure beyond securitization, Tieying joined the Internal Audit team recently and she is working with Multifamily and Finance to mitigate control gaps and enhance the audit process.

Mr. Treb Farrales is a Senior Manager at Deloitte, a Certified Information System Security Professional (CISSP), Certified SAFe® Agilist (SA), and Project Management Professional (PMP) who specializes in providing Cybersecurity and Identity Management services for Civilian Departments and Agencies. Mr. Farrales has 18 years of experiences as a technology practitioner with a successful track record in security systems integration, project management, IT modernization, technical architecture, requirements, and design. Mr. Farrales currently provides cybersecurity advisory services for the Social Security Administration (SSA) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). Mr. Farrales also serves as the Federal CA Identity and Access Management (IAM) Practice Leader.

Treb has been promoted to Managing Director at Deloitte for 2020. This is a great achievement and major milestone in his career, and certainly well-deserved.