Ameer Ali – Partner, A T Kearney

Ameer Ali is a Partner in A T Kearney's Digital practice. He helps F1000 CXOs realize business value from their current and future technology investments. Ameer has grown through the classic tech immigrant in America experience of the past 30 years and brings a multicultural perspective to his work and coaching style. Mentoring is a passion and a way to pay forward at least some of what he has received. Ameer lives in Fairfax County with his preschool teacher wife, and two college-age kids.

Bhavani Amin – Growth Catalyst | Strategic Operator | Transformational Executive

Bhavini Amin is a growth and operations executive with 20+ years of experience scaling businesses, modernizing revenue engines, and commercializing technology across financial services, fintech, mortgage, real estate, government, and technology. She has held executive leadership roles at Freddie Mac and PE-backed fintech Roostify, where she led large-scale transformation, revenue operations, AI/ML partnerships, and go-to-market strategy. Currently at Aertron, she leads growth and operations across AI, digital transformation, and federal technology markets. Bhavini also advises startups, investors, and Fortune 500 companies on growth and value creation and teaches in the MBA program at Johns Hopkins University. 

Urvi Bham is the CEO and Founder of Vikara Risk and Compliance Solutions, a boutique advisory firm focused on transforming the risk and regulatory compliance landscape in the financial services industry. Prior to starting her venture, Urvi worked at Bank of America as Senior Vice President (SVP) and Chief Operating Officer (COO) where she was highly successful in developing firm-wide risk and control strategies to address global complex issues. Urvi’s background also includes leadership tenure with Freddie Mac, America Online and Ernst & Young LLP. She is highly regarded for developing next generation leaders and leading diverse multi-disciplinary global teams. Urvi holds an MBA in Finance from the University of Pittsburgh and resides in Northern Virginia with her husband and two children. 

Angela Chen-Cimini – Chief Human Resources, The Chronicle of Philanthropy

Angela is the Chief Human Resources Officer for The Chronicle of Philanthropy and previously served as the Senior Vice President, Talent & CHRO for Harvard Business Publishing, home of the Harvard Business Review. Angela was named to the Top 101 Global Employee Engagement and Experience Influencers by Inspiring Workplaces in 2025 and 2026 and is co-author, with Joy Chen, of the groundbreaking June 2024 Harvard Business Review article “Stop Overlooking the Leadership Potential of Asian Employees.” She married her college sweetheart with whom she has two amazing children.

Jeannette Chu – VP, National Security Policy, National Foreign Trade Council

Jeannette Chu currently serves as Vice President for National Security Policy at the National Foreign Trade Council, a trade association representing more than 140 leading companies. She is an expert on export controls, sanctions and foreign investment security, defense-related edge technologies, and tech policy and competition between the U.S. and China. Jeannette was a Senior Managing Director at PwC for more than ten years where she led the firm's national security regulatory compliance practice. She was a U.S. diplomat in China for 13 years and had a 31-year career in the federal government. 

Jeannette is a non-resident senior associate with the Trustee Chair for China Business and Economics at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) and a lifetime member of the Council on Foreign Relations. She is on the Executive Board for Ascend Greater Washington Chapter and a recipient of the Ascend President's Award. Jeannette enjoys mentoring, being a volunteer chef for Lasagna Love and creating pollinator gardens.

Susan Go is Senior Director of Solution Engineering at Salesforce, the #1 customer relationship management (CRM) platform. With over 20 years of experience in enterprise software sales she helps government agencies innovate faster and transform mission delivery to better meet the demands of constituents with user-centered technology. Under her leadership, her organization has grown 6x in revenue and scale embracing innovation to provide value-based solutions to government agencies during a time of rapid change. She has spearheaded organizational pipe generation initiatives that have resulted in more than $150m in impacted revenue. 

Susan believes in a diverse and inclusive workforce and community. She models inclusive leadership which puts people at the center and builds a foundation of trust to create psychological safety and a coaching culture which drives high performance for the individual and the team. She is Founder and President of Salesforce’s Asian American employee resource group for the DC Metro area, leading member of Greater DC AAPI ERG Leaders’ Network, founder of Salesforce's Equality Council for the DMV and member of Salesforce's Citizen Philanthropy Council. She serves on the Board of Touching Heart, on the Leadership Council for DC for Upwardly Global and is a Bestselling author.

Saad Hasan – Managing Director, Accenture

Saad Hasan is a Managing Director at Accenture Federal Services, where he leads growth and delivery efforts across multiple projects. He is a graduate of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) and currently resides in Alexandria, Virginia, with his wife, Gia. Their daughter, Hannah, is a sophomore pre-law student at the University of Maryland, College Park, and their son, Adam, is a sophomore at West Potomac High School. Outside of work, Saad enjoys traveling, with recent trips to Italy, Switzerland, and France, along with ‘trying’ to stay active through exercise and dedicating time to spiritual growth and reflection.

John Hwang – Managing Director, Accenture

John Hwang is a Managing Director and Client Account Lead within Accenture Federal Services’ Intelligence Practice. In this role, he is responsible for all things AFS at his clients including delivering AFS programs and growing mission value. John joined Accenture in 1999 as an Andersen Consulting hire and previously supported a variety of clients to include UUNET, AOL, United States Postal Service, and Transportation Security Administration. One of his superpowers is understanding, analyzing, and speaking to the value and outcomes of technology to further a client’s mission.

John graduated from the University of Virginia with a Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering. He resides in Fairfax County, VA, with his wife, Sunah, and their four children, Connor, Cailey, and twins Cameron and Colin. Fun fact – John has been on the cover of a CNN.com!

Professionally, John lives by two tenants: 1) Helping clients to be the best and 2) Creating opportunities for people. Doing both well motivates John to do his best every day.

Amol has over 17 years of experience in state and local tax and focuses on state income/franchise taxes and gross receipts taxes. He advises clients on state income tax planning, state tax controversy, and state income tax compliance issues. His industry focus is on business and professional services, government contractors, and technology companies. His publications and presentations include: 

• Co-presenter, State-of-the-States: Income Taxes, RSM Tax in Motion 2023 Forum, June 13, 2023
• Co-presenter, State Tax and the Digital Economy, RSM Tax in Motion 2022 Forum, June 14, 2022

Education:

• Master of Laws, Tax, Georgetown University Law Center
• Juris Doctor, University of North Carolina School of Law
• Bachelor of Arts, History and Plan II Honors Program, University of Texas at Austin

Tony Scardino is currently serving as the Chief Audit Executive at CrowdStrike, where he is responsible for all internal audit operations, including SOX testing and Enterprise Resource Management.  Prior to this position, Tony had a long career as an executive with the federal government (CFO at three agencies) and a Partner/VP at Grant Thornton, Guidehouse, and CGI.  Tony currently lives in Arlington, VA.  Among his hobbies and passions are daily exercise, cooking/baking, mentoring, and international travels.

Liayo Wan - Partner, PwC

Liyao Wan is an Advisory Partner at PwC with more than 18 years of experience helping clients navigate complex M&A, transformation, and analytics initiatives. She specializes in bringing together data, AI, and technology to create meaningful, lasting value.

Liyao has worked with clients across industrials, technology, media and telecommunications, healthcare, and private equity. Based in Washington, DC, she lives with her husband, Edward, and their two children, Victoria and Neo. Outside of work, she enjoys traveling with her family, reading, and dancing.

Garett Yee – Vice President, General Dynamics

Garrett Yee currently serves as the Vice President and General Manager of the Army and Defense Agencies Sector at GDIT. In this role, he is responsible for the successful operation, execution, and management for GDIT’s Army and Defense Agencies mission programs. He leads over 3,000 employees with operations in 22 countries, implements effective employee and customer engagements, and focuses on improving service delivery in all major programs.

Garrett is a seasoned leader with over 20 years of experience specializing in executive leadership, customer engagement, team building, performance improvement, and productivity optimization.

Prior to GDIT, Garrett served in the U.S. Army retiring as Major General. In his final assignment with the Army, Garrett served at the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) where he helped to lead a global organization of approximately 8,000 military and civilian personnel who plan, develop, deliver, and operate joint, interoperable, command and control capabilities and a global enterprise infrastructure in direct support of the president, secretary of defense, joint chiefs of staff, combatant commanders, Department of Defense components, and other mission partners across the full spectrum of operations.

Prior to his assignment at DISA, Garrett served as the Military Deputy to the Army CIO/G-6 and Senior Information Security Officer in the Office of the Chief Information Officer (CIO)/G6, Headquarters, Department of the Army in the Pentagon