Karole F. Lloyd is Vice Chair and Southeast Regional Managing Partner for Ernst & Young. For the last seven years, she has also served as a member of the U.S. Executive Board, Americas Operating Executive and the Global Practice Group at EY. Since taking the southeast regional leadership role in 2009, she has augmented the business with full-scale advisory and transaction consulting services. Under her leadership, the region doubled its annual revenue to exceed $1.3 billion. Lloyd also serves as the senior advisory partner for Delta Air Lines, WestRock and the Coca-Cola Company. Within the Atlanta community, Lloyd serves on the board of trustees and executive committee of the Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce; the United Way of Greater Atlanta and The Rotary Club of Atlanta. She supports many colleges and universities, including serving on the president’s advisory council and the board of visitors at the University of Alabama.

Sam Williams is one of the nation’s leading experts on urban competitiveness. He ran the Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce for 17 years and Central Atlanta Progress for two years. He continues to work at the intersection of business, government and academia through his consulting firm, Business City Partnerships, and as a professor at Georgia State University’s Andrew Young School of Policy Studies. Formerly he served as a partner and COO with Portman Properties, a global architect-development company, and as president of America’s Mart for 13 years. He has been named as one of Georgia Trend’s Most Influential Georgians every year from 1990­2014, and has received the Governor’s International Lifetime Achievement Award. A native of Tennessee, he is a graduate of the Georgia Institute of Technology and Harvard Business School.

Chris Brearton serves as a partner in Latham & Watkins' entertainment, sports and media practice as well as the deputy office managing partner of the firm's Century City office. Recognized as a leading lawyer in both the entertainment and sports law fields, Brearton advises motion picture studios, independent producers, financial institutions, investment funds, television networks and sports organizations. He counsels clients in transactions ranging from the creation of strategic alliances and complex commercial licensing arrangements to project financing and industry-specific mergers and acquisitions. Brearton is currently a member of the Board of Directors of the LA Sports Council, as well as LA's Promise, a nonprofit organization transforming under-served communities by preparing every child in a South Los Angeles neighborhood to graduate high school. He is also a member of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, the Beverly Hills Bar Association and the Sports Lawyers Association. Brearton was formerly a certified public accountant with KPMG in Los Angeles. Brearton graduated from the University of Georgia Terry College of Business with a BBA in 1992, and from the University of Virginia School of Law in 1998.

Virginia "Gina" C. Drosos was named CEO of Assurex Health, a leading personalized medicine company, in July 2014 after joining the company in 2013 as president. As president, she has been responsible for leading and expanding the company's commercial programs to drive broad awareness and adoption of GeneSight, a genetic test which helps physicians select the right medication for patients with mental health disorders and chronic pain. During her tenure, she's led the doubling of year on year volume, tripled the company's outreach to healthcare providers and rebranded GeneSight, supported by a new website, selling platform and digital marketing program. Gina has more than 25 years of executive leadership experience in the consumer goods and personal care industries. Her illustrious career at Procter & Gamble includes most recently serving as group president for Global Beauty Care, a $6 billion global business unit with more than 6,000 employees in 120 countries including leading brands like Olay, CoverGirl, Old Spice and Secret. She has been recognized twice on Fortune's list of 50 Most Powerful Women in Business. Gina's expertise building and scaling companies and marketing to consumers, particularly to women, is helping Assurex Health bring its market-leading GeneSight technology and the possibility of mental wellness to more than 50 million patients in the U.S. Since 2012, Gina has served on the Board of Directors of Signet Jewelers, Ltd., the world's largest specialty jewelry retailer whose key banners include Kay, Jared the Galleria of Jewelry and Zales. She has also served as a director for American Financial Group since 2013, a leading financial company engaged primarily in property and casualty insurance through the operations of Great American Insurance Group, and in the sale of traditional fixed and fixed-indexed annuities. Gina is a board member of the Terry Dean’s Advisory Council. She holds a Bachelor of Business Administration from the Terry College and a Master of Business Administration from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.

Boland Jones is founder, chairman and CEO of PGi or Premiere Global Services Inc., a worldwide provider of conferencing and collaboration solutions. Jones started his first business at age 16, paving driveways with a friend. In the mid 80s, he started his first company, American Network Exchange, which he sold in 1991. After noticing that military men and women had a hard time connecting with their loved ones, Jones developed an award-winning prepaid calling card to help families keep in touch. That tool became the backbone of PGi, which has a presence in 25 countries, an established base of more than 40,000 enterprise customers and the trust of 75 percent of the Fortune 100.

Bill Linginfelter oversees the daily commercial and retail operations for the Georgia and South Carolina Divisions of Regions Financial Corporation, a top U.S. bank holding company headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama, with $146 billion in assets, operating over 2,000 branches in 16 states. Throughout his 35-year career, he has held various management positions in the financial services industry. Prior to joining Regions in 2008, Linginfelter served as Georgia Chief Executive Officer for Wachovia Bank. Prior to assuming that position, he served as director of SouthTrust Bank’s Enterprise Banking division, which included oversight of all business activities in the bank’s largest markets. Linginfelter received his bachelor’s degree from the University of Georgia. He also completed the Commercial Banking Schools at the Graduate School of Banking of the South and at the University of Virginia Graduate School. He serves on the Executive Board of the Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce, where he served as chair in 2010. He also serves on the following boards: Georgia Research Alliance (immediate past chair), Buckhead Coalition, The Commerce Club, Piedmont HealthCare, Inc., as well as The Foundation for Public Broadcasting in Georgia, Inc. In addition, he holds leadership roles with the Georgia Chamber of Commerce, the Woodruff Arts Center, the Atlanta Speech School; and is the American Heart Association’s 2014 Heart Ball Chairman. He is past Director of the Georgia World Congress Center; 2006 Chair of the Metro Atlanta United Way campaign and in 2004 and 2005 chaired the Atlanta United Negro College Fund campaign. Bill and his wife, Mitzi, have two children.

Bill Linginfelter oversees the daily commercial and retail operations for the Georgia and South Carolina Divisions of Regions Financial Corporation, a top U.S. bank holding company headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama, with $146 billion in assets, operating over 2,000 branches in 16 states. Throughout his 35-year career, he has held various management positions in the financial services industry. Prior to joining Regions in 2008, Linginfelter served as Georgia Chief Executive Officer for Wachovia Bank. Prior to assuming that position, he served as director of SouthTrust Bank’s Enterprise Banking division, which included oversight of all business activities in the bank’s largest markets. Linginfelter received his bachelor’s degree from the University of Georgia. He also completed the Commercial Banking Schools at the Graduate School of Banking of the South and at the University of Virginia Graduate School. He serves on the Executive Board of the Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce, where he served as chair in 2010. He also serves on the following boards: Georgia Research Alliance (immediate past chair), Buckhead Coalition, The Commerce Club, Piedmont HealthCare, Inc., as well as The Foundation for Public Broadcasting in Georgia, Inc. In addition, he holds leadership roles with the Georgia Chamber of Commerce, the Woodruff Arts Center, the Atlanta Speech School; and is the American Heart Association’s 2014 Heart Ball Chairman. He is past Director of the Georgia World Congress Center; 2006 Chair of the Metro Atlanta United Way campaign and in 2004 and 2005 chaired the Atlanta United Negro College Fund campaign. Bill and his wife, Mitzi, have two children.