FRONTIERS

Speakers

 

LaChaun Banks

Research Fellow, Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise and Professor of the Practice, UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School

Theresa Barber

Vice President, HR People Systems and Analytics, SAS Institute

Sekou Bermiss

Associate Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship, UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School, and 2025 Kenan Institute Distinguished Fellow

Suzie Bishop

Vice President of Product Development, The Center for Leadership Studies

Susan Cates

Managing Partner, Leeds Illuminate

Aaron “Ronnie” Chatterji

Chief Economist, OpenAI; and Mark Burgess & Lisa Benson-Burgess Distinguished Professor of Business and Public Policy, Duke University

Gerald Cohen

Chief Economist, Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise

Betsy Conway

Director, Lowe's Foundation

Jeff Cox

President, North Carolina Community College System

David Deming

Danoff Dean, Harvard College and Isabelle and Scott Black Professor of Political Economy, Harvard Kennedy School, and 2025 Kenan Institute Distinguished Fellow

Mary Margaret Frank

Dean, UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School

Elizabeth Faber

Global Chief People & Purpose Officer, Deloitte

Daniel Fitzpatrick

President Mid-Atlantic Region, Citizens

Shanna Gibbons

Associate, Client Skills Training, J.P. Morgan Private Bank

Annelies Goger

Fellow, The Brookings Institution; and 2025 Kenan Institute Distinguished Fellow

Chris Hage

Managing Director, HR Business Partners, Duke Energy Corporation

Chris Harrington

Director, ApprenticeshipNC

Timitra Hildebrand-Jones

Vice President, Culture, Albemarle Corporation

Ben Hoffman

Chief Strategy Officer & Head of Consumer Product, Fifth Third Bank

Cecilia Holden

CEO & President, myFutureNC

David Knowles

Managing Director, Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise

Jeff Korzenik

Chief Economist, Fifth Third Commercial Bank

Camelia Kuhnen

Director of Research, Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise; and Boyd White Harris Jr. Distinguished Professor of Finance, UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School

Senator Michael V. Lee

North Carolina General Assembly

Beth Mayer-Davis

Dean, The Graduate School at UNC-Chapel Hill

Ari Medoff

Chief Executive Officer, Arosa

Paige Ouimet

Executive Director, Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise, and Professor of Finance, UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School

Michelle Peluso

Chief Executive Officer, Revlon

Lee H. Roberts

Chancellor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Nora Spencer

Founder and CEO, Hope Renovations

Thomas Stith

CEO, The Michael Thomas Group Inc.; former president, North Carolina Community College System

Telly Tucker

President, Institute for Advanced Learning and Research

Cathy Tyler

Director of Workforce Development, National Center for Construction Education and Research (NCCER)

Tara Watson

Professor of Economics, Williams College; and Director, Center for Economic Security and Opportunity, Brookings Institution
 
 

Frank Hawkins Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise

Leveraging the Private Sector for the Public Good

Established in 1985 by Frank Hawkins Kenan, the Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise is a nonpartisan business policy think tank affiliated with the UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School. The nonprofit institute and its affiliated centers convene leaders from business, academia and government to better understand how the private sector can work for the public good. The institute leverages best-in-class research to develop market-based solutions to today’s most complex economic challenges. In doing so, the institute aims to support businesses and policies that better the lives of people in North Carolina, across the country and around the world.

www.kenaninstitute.unc.edu

     

A Frank Hawkins Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise Event