Speaker Schedule

January 27, 2025: Dr. Russell Evans, Partner & Chief Economist

Dr. Russell Evans serves as Partner and Chief Economist for Thorberg Collectorate and President of the Collectorate’s Regional Economic Advisers division, providing a suite of chief economist services to the City of Oklahoma City and clients ranging from industry trade groups to tribes and nonprofits.

As chief economist, Dr. Evans is highly regarded as an analyst and communicator. His analysis of national and regional economic performance, economic policy, and financial markets is widely respected and delivered to a broad audience through dozens of speeches annually. As chief economist, he specializes in making complex economic principles accessible to engaged audiences.

Dr. Evans previously served as professor of economics and interim dean of the Meinders School of Business at Oklahoma City University and currently serves as a Visiting Professor of Business Analytics and the University of Central Oklahoma. He is a Trustee of the Oklahoma City Community Foundation and chair of the investment committee.

Dr. Evans enjoys spending time with his wife, Amanda, and their five kids as well as soccer, golf, and fly fishing and serves actively in his church and community.

February 24, 2025: Brent Ragsdale, EVP & CFO, Chick-fil-A

Brent Ragsdale

EVP, Chief Financial Officer

Brent Ragsdale is executive vice president and chief financial officer of Chick-fil-A, Inc. and is a member of the company’s Executive Committee. In his current role, Brent oversees financial services and supply chain.

Brent began his career at Chick-fil-A during high school as a team member and was later afforded the opportunity to become a member of the first WinShape® class at Berry College, a scholarship program founded by S. Truett Cathy.

Upon graduation, he worked for accounting firm Arthur Young (now Ernst and Young) for two years. He then joined Chick-fil-A as a business intern, during which he served as the Operator of a Chick-fil-A restaurant in South Florida. He later moved back to Atlanta, working with the company as a business consultant before transitioning to the financial services department, where he has held multiple leadership positions.

He holds a Master of Business Administration from Mercer University and is both a certified public accountant and a graduate of Harvard Business School’s advanced management program.

Brent serves on the Berry College board of trustees, the board of directors of Fellowship of Christian Athletes Atlanta and serves on the board of Southwest Christian Care.

Brent and his wife, Gigi, have three children.

March 24, 2025: Alan Marcum & Eric Wenger, The Chickasaw Nation

R. Alan Marcum serves as the Deputy Secretary of the Chickasaw Nation Department of Commerce and is the President of Sovereign Native Holdco, a wholly owned subsidiary. The Chickasaw Nation is a federally recognized Native American tribe with headquarters in Oklahoma. The Nation serves over 80,000 citizens across the United States. The tribe operates over 23 gaming and hospitality facilities, own and operates two racetracks, and investments in a portfolio of investments to support it diversification efforts.

Mr. Marcum is involved in corporate development, information technology, strategic planning and assisting in diversification efforts of the Chickasaw Nation. He was instrumental in the creation of Good Springs Capital located in New York City and more recently Pennington Creek Capital located in Dallas. The tribe has now established its own private equity investment offices and vehicles to deploy capital into competitively advantaged middle-market platform businesses run by entrepreneurial management teams in services, industrial, and consumer sectors. In addition, the Funds will look to companies that can accelerate organic initiatives and grow through add-on mergers and acquisitions.

He attended East Central University on a football scholarship and graduated with a bachelor's degree in accounting and finance. A certified public accountant, Mr. Marcum began working for KPMG Peat Marwick, a national accounting firm. He left the accounting firm to join Devon Energy Corporation and assisted in the growth of the company from an enterprise value of $200 million to over $30 billion at its peak. While working with Devon, Mr. Marcum had daily responsibilities for information technology, project management, real estate services, and was part of the project team for the construction of the Devon Energy Tower located in downtown Oklahoma City. In addition, he was part of over 20 mergers or acquisitions over the course of his career.

He has served on numerous boards supporting arts, education and philanthropy including, President of the Civic Center Foundation, which manages the performing arts of the Oklahoma City area. He also serves on the board of the International Bank of Commerce and Dreamscape Entertainment.

Eric Wenger is the Under Secretary of Construction Services for the Chickasaw Nation Department of Commerce. He leads the tribal construction program valued at more than $1.5 billion. Facilities include commercial, health, wellness, educational and cultural projects in support of the mission to enhance the overall quality of life of the Chickasaw people.

Prior to his career with the Chickasaw Nation, Eric served as the City Engineer and Public Works Director for the City of Oklahoma City, retiring after 28 years of service. During this time, he oversaw many of the city’s major capital improvement projects, construction programs and general obligation bond initiatives. He also served in leadership roles on several boards within the organization.

Eric earned a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering from the University of Oklahoma, is a registered professional engineer, is married and has two daughters.

April 28, 2025: Jennifer Hillman, Senior Fellow for Trade and International Political Economy, Council on Foreign Relations

Jennifer A. Hillman is a senior fellow for trade and international political economy at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), specializing in U.S. trade policy, the law and politics of the World Trade Organization (WTO), international organizations, and Brexit.

Hillman is a professor of practice at the Georgetown University Law Center, teaching the lead courses in international business and international trade, along with a practicum on international trade and investment law that gave students the opportunity to resolve real-world problems for developing country governments and a wide variety of NGOs. She recently published Getting to Brexit: Legal Aspects of the Process of the UK’s Withdrawal from the EU (IIEL 2018) and Legal Aspects of Brexit: Implications of the United Kingdom’s Decision to Withdraw from the European Union (IIEL 2017). She also co-authored the leading casebook on trade, International Trade Law, 3^rd ed., Wolters Kluwer (2016). Additional writings have covered climate change, carbon taxes, the trade war with China, and reforms to the WTO.

Hillman has had a distinguished career in public service. In 2012, she completed her term as one of seven members serving on the WTO's highest court, its Appellate Body. Hillman also has in-depth experience adjudicating antidumping, countervailing duty, patent and safeguards cases along with conducting numerous studies of the economics of trade policy and trade agreements as a result of her service as a Commissioner at the United States International Trade Commission. Through her work as the General Counsel at the Office of the United States Trade Representative, Hillman was involved in all litigation matters in which the United States was a party or third party in disputes before panels of the NAFTA or the WTO and in addressing the intersection between trade policy, trade law, and foreign policy. She negotiated bilateral agreements with forty-five countries while serving as USTR’s Ambassador and Chief Textiles Negotiator and was the legislative director and counsel to U.S. Senator Terry Sanford of North Carolina before joining USTR.

Hillman was a partner in the law firm of Cassidy Levy Kent, a senior transatlantic fellow for the German Marshall Fund of the United States, president of the Trade Policy Forum, and a member of the selection panel for the Harry S. Truman Scholarship Foundation. She serves on the board of visitors at the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University and is a graduate of the Harvard Law School and Duke University. In 2021, she was the recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Association of Women in International Trade.

October 28, 2024: Toby Baldwin, Executive Associate A.D., The University of Oklahoma - NIL

Toby Baldwin (“Baldwin”) began his career in NCAA compliance in 1990, while working for the University of Oklahoma as a compliance assistant in the Athletics Department, with an emphasis in rules education. Following his five (5) years with the University, Baldwin served as the Assistant Athletic Director at Oral Roberts University for four (4) years where he supervised all aspects of compliance, student-athlete academics, initial and continuing eligibility and financial aid. He also managed personnel, budgets, travel and scheduling for twelve (12) sports, while completing his law degree.

Baldwin has an extensive educational and legal background. Baldwin’s accomplishments include a Juris Doctorate degree from the University of Tulsa (1999) as well as a Master’s degree in Sports Administration from United States Sports Academy (1991). Prior to accepting the Director of Compliance position with the University of Oklahoma, Baldwin practiced law for nine (9) years and was the principal partner in his law firm, Baldwin & Associates, PLLC, specializing in sports law, oil and gas law, and real estate law. He has represented numerous institutions, coaches and student-athletes who were under investigation by the NCAA, including appearances before the NCAA Committee on Infractions and has also assisted with eligibility appeals. Baldwin has been back with OU since 2008 and served as the Director of Compliance until the summer of 2022 when he was appointed Executive Associate Athletic Director for Name, Image, Likeness and Operational Advancement.

November 18, 2024: KaLeigh Long, Founder & CEO, Westwin Elements

Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Westwin Elements, Inc. KaLeigh Long has started and operated several small businesses including an advertising firm that regularly employs nearly 300 contractors and serves dozens of clients, a subscription box meat company, and a cattle company. Her expertise extends to mass communications and advertising campaigns. KaLeigh holds an undergraduate degree from the College of the Ozarks, and a professional master’s degree in strategic and international studies from the Institute of World Politics in Washington, DC.

Past Speakers

Tom Cole, Oklahoma Congressman
Jeffery Rosenberg, Blackrock Investments
Joshua Landes, International Studies, University of Oklahoma
Colin Fenton, Blacklight Research
Pam McKissick, Williams, Williams & McKissick
Doug Lawler, CEO, Chesapeake
Jim Glassman, Managing Director for Commercial Banking, JP Morgan Chase
Max Weitzenhoffer, Independent Producer of New York/London theatre productions
Bill Stoller, Co-Founding Partner, Express Personnel
Tom Hoenig, Vice Chairman, FDIC
Mike Ming, General Manager, Oil and Gas Technology Center, General Electric
Andrea Smith, Chief Administrative Officer, Bank of America
Mark Holden, Chairman, Freedom Partners
Rick Johnson, CEO, Charles Machine Works
Sir Rogers Makins, British Ambassador to the United States
A. Campbell, British Colonial Attache, Washington, D.C.
Ralph Damon, President, Trans World Airlines
Hon. Dr. Heinz L. Krekeler, German Ambassador to the U.S.
Donald C. Slichter, President, Northwestern Mutual Life Ins. Co.
Walter H. Steel, Partner, Drexel & Co., NYC, NY
Dr. Marshall Holloway, Director, Lincoln Laboratory, M.I.I.
Robert W. Galvin, President, Halliburton Oil Well Cementing Co.
Rudolph Smutney, Senior Partner, Solomon Bros. and Hutzler
Fred F. Florence, President, Republic National Bank of Dallas
Dr. George Kozmetsky, Litton Industries
L.L. Smith, VP, Kohler Co.
John D. Wilson, VP, Chase Manhattan Bank
Rawleigh Warner, President, Socony Mobile Oil Co., NYC, NY
Dr. Roy L. Reierson, VP/Economist, Bankers Trust Company, NYC, NY
Theodore O. Yntema, VP – Finance, Ford Motor Co., Dearborn, MI
R.L. Tollett, President, Cosden Petroleum Corporation, Big Springs, TX
James Rogers, VP, Springfield-Monarch Insurance Companies, Springfield, MA
Rear Admiral O.P. Lattu, Executive Director, Military Petroleum Supply Agency, Washington, D.C.
Ira T. Ellis, Economist for the DuPont Company, (F.I.) de Nemours, Wilmington, DE
Albert O. Steffy, President/CEO, City Products Corp., Chicago, IL
Dr. William G. Murray, Professor Agriculture Economics, Iowa State University, Ames, IA
Harry L. Moir, VP, The Pure Oil Company, Palatine, IL
W.M. Drout, Jr., Manager, Economic Research, Humble Oil & Refining Company, Houston, TX
Dr. Charles Newton Kimball, President, Midwest Research Institute, K.D., MO
Julius Barnathan, VP/General Manager, American Broadcasting Company, NYC, NY
William B. Ricke, Deputy Associate Administrator for Advanced Research and Technology, NASA Headquarters, Washington, D.C.
Donald Hall, Administrative VP – Finance, Hallmark, Inc., Kansas City, MO
A. King McCord, President, Westinghouse Air Brake Company, Pittsburgh, PA
Edwin Vennard, Managing Director, Edison Electric Institute, NY
Jenkin Lloyd Jones, Editor, Tulsa Tribune, Tulsa, OK
Charles B. Shuman, President, American Farm Bureau Federation, Chicago, IL
George H. Clay, President, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City
Frank R. Barnett, President, National Strategy Information Center, Inc. NYC, NY
Louis W. Menk, President, Chicago, Burlington & Quincy R.R. Co., Chicago, IL
P.H. Robinson, President, Houston Lighting & Power Company
Alfred H. VonKlemperer, VP – International Division, Morgan Guaranty Trust Company of New York
Dr. Joseph V. Charyk, President, Communications Satellite Corp., Washington, D.C.
Thomas A. Martin, President, Channing Shares, Inc., NYC, NY
Clifford P. Weake, VP, Wilding, Inc., Chicago, IL
B.R. Stokes, General Manager, Bay Area Rapid Transit District, San Francisco, CA
William Jovanovich, President, Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc., NYC, NY
B.N. Woodson, President, American General Insurance Company, Houston, TX
John L. Hanigan, President, Brunswick Corporation, Chicago, IL
Dr. H.C. Jordon, President, Brunswick Corporation, Chicago, IL
Dr. Millard G. Roberts, President, Parsons College, Fairfield, IA
A. Wade Martin, Executive Director, State Committee for Techinical Education, State of South Carolina, Columbia, SC
Sidney Homer, General Partner, Solomon Bros. & Hutzler, NYC, NY
Gen. William T. Seawell, Senior VP – Operations, American Airlines, Inc., NYC, NY
Samuel C. Johnson, President, Johnson & Son, Inc., Racine, WI
Bruce A. Valentine, F.P., Lionel D. Edie & Company, Inc., NYC, NY
Myron Wright, Chairman, Humble Oil & Refining Co., Houston TX
Leif H. Olsen, Senior VP/Economist. First National City Bank, NYC, NY
Fred F. Brown, Partner, J & W Seligman & Co., NYC, NY
Malcom A. MacIntyre, P.P., Martin-Marietta Corporation, NYC, NY
Capt. R.C. Atkinson, U.S. Naval Oceanographic Office, Suitland, MD
W. Gordon Robertson, Co-Chairman, Bangor-Punta Corp., NYC, NY
Arthur P. Ringler, Executive VP – Administration, Chemical Bank, NY
Charles M. Kittrell, VP, Phillips Petroleum Company, Bartlesville, OK
Roy V. Edwards, President, Wilson & Co., Oklahoma City, OK
M.M. Briscoe, President, Standard Oil Company (New Jersey), NYC, NY
Robert Beaudette, VP, Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith, Inc.,NYC, NY
Wayne D. Nusbaum, VP/Treasurer, Ralston Purina Co., St. Louis, MO
J.C. Brown Jr., VP, Weyerhaeuser Co., Hot Springs, AR
John W. Carleton, VP/General Manager, Lenox Square, Atlanta, GA
H. Ross Perot, Chairman, Electronic Data Systems Corp., Dallas, TX
Hugh F. Owens, Member, Securities and Exchange Commission, WA
Jacques R. Stunzi, President, Allied Bank International, NY
J.W. Bates, Jr., Chairman, Reading and Bates Offshore Drilling Co., Tulsa, OK
James S. Plaxico, Head, Department of Agriculture Economics,
Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK
Robert Anderson, President, North America Rockwell Corp., El Segundo, CA
Malcom S. Forbes, President, Forbes, Inc., NY
R.B. Gilmore, Chairman, DeGolyer and MacNaughton, Dallas, TX
Jack B. Jackson, President, J.C. Penney, Inc., NY
Robert V. Sellers, Chairman, Cities Service Co., NY
John C. Clark, Director, Export-Import Bank of the U.S., Washington, D.C.
Sir James Pimson, Ambassador of Australia, Washington, D.C.
George L. Shinn, President, Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith, Inc., NYC, NY
John Potter, Jr., President, Earth Satellite Corp., Washington, D.C.
L.H. Schoenhofen, President, Marcor Inc., Chicago, IL
Dean A. McGee, Chairman, Kerr-McGee Corp., Oklahoma City, OK
Guy E. Noyes, Sr., VP – Economics, Morgan Guaranty Trust Co. of New York
J. Peter Grace, President/CEO, W.R. Grace & Co., NY
James R. Thomas, President, Dayton Tire & Rubber Co., Dayton, OH
R.D. Harrison, President/CEO, Fleming Companies, Inc., Oklahoma City, OK
John C. Whitehead, Partner, Goldman Sachs & Co., NY
Oliver Brooks, Managing Director (Financial) Peninsular and Oriental Stream Navigation Co., London
Robert H.B. Baldwin, President, Morgan Stanley & Co., Inc., NY
Mrs. Ben T. Head, Vice Chairman, National R.R. Corp.-“Amtrak”, Newport News
Oakley Hunter, Chairman and President, Federal National Mortgage Association, Washington, D.C.
Dr. Wolfgang Jahn, Managing Director, Commerzbank, Duessledorf, Germany
Zane F. Barnes, President, Southwestern Bell Telephone Co., St. Louis, MO
Dr. Morris Cohen, Chief Economist, Shroder Naess & Tomas, NY
Richard J. Anderson, Association Director, Battelle Memorial Institute, Columbus, OH
Donald M. Kendall, Chairman, PepsiCo., Inc. Purchase, NY
Anthony Fisher, c/o The International Institute of Economics Research, Los Angeles, CA
Lawrence K. Roos, President, Federal Reserve Bank, St. Louis, MO
Harold B. Ehrlich, Chairman, Bernstein-MacAulay, NYC
Roger Guffy, President, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, MO
Dr. Frank H. Baker, Dean College of Agriculture, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK
Howard Kauffman, President, Exxon Corporation, NY
Morgan Maxfield, Investment Advisor
Ned Davis, Senior Director, Market Timing Research, J.C. Bradford and Co., Nashville, TN
Jackson Hinds, Chairman, Entex, Incorporated, Houston, TX
Dr. James A. Byrd, Economist, First International Bancshares, Inc., Dallas, TX
Benjamin N. Woodson, CEO, American General Life Insurance Co., Oklahoma City, OK
Sam L. Nakagama, Chief Engineer, Kidder, Peabody & Co., NY
Ray Shaw, CEO, Dow Jones & Company, Inc.
Bennett C. Whitlock, President, American Trucking Assoc., WA, D.C.
Dimitri V. d’Arbeloff, President, Millipore Corporation, Bedford, MA
Jack J. Murphy, Senior VP, Dresser Industries, Dallas, TX
Sanford R. Goodkin, Chairman, Sanford & Goodkin Research Corp., Del Mar, CA
Johannes Steel, Author, Financial Columnist and Analyst, Newton, CT
J. Roger Guffey, President, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, MO
Arthur Zeikel, President, Merrill Lynch Asset Management, Inc., NYC, NY
J. Neal Miller, Deputy Director, Governmental and Industry Affairs, Gulf Oil Corporation, Austin, TX
Hugh F. Owens, Chairman, Securities Investor Protection Corporation, Washington, D.C.
William A. Andres, Chairman, Dayton Hudson Corp. Minneapolis, MN
Robert L. Parker, Chairman/CEO, Parker Drilling Co., Minneapolis, MN
Julian M. Snyder, Editor Publisher of Moneyline, The Financial Newsletter, NYC, NY
Willis J. Winn, President, Federal Reserve Bank, Cleveland, OH
The Honorable William F. Simon, Former Secretary of theTreasury, NYC, NY
Austin H. Kiplinger, President, Kiplinger Washington Editors, Inc., Washington,D.C.
Jerry C. Nelson, Regional V.P., Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp., Dallas,TX
Herbert D. Kelleher, President/CEO, Southwest Airlines, Dallas, TX
Alan C. Greenberg, Sr. Partner, Bear, Stearns & Co., NYC, NY
Ms. Virginia A. Dwyer, VP/Treasurer, American Telephone & Telegraph, New York, NY
James B.Townsend, Member, Corporation Commission of Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, OK
Dr. Gary M. Wenglowski, Partner/Director of Economic Research, Goldman Sachs, New York,NY
J. Hugh Roft, Jr., Chairman/CEO, United Energies Resources Inc., Houston,TX
Hal L. Hansen, President, Cargill Investor-Services Inc., Chicago, IL
Leonard J. Eaton, Jr., Chairman and CEO, Bank of Oklahoma,Tulsa,OK
Charles D. Baker, Vice Chairman, Harbridge House, Boston, Sachs, NYC, NY
Edward L. Gaylord, President, The Oklahoma Publishing Company,Oklahoma City,OK
Alden P. Yates, President, Bechtel Group, Inc., San Francisco, CA
Siefan Abrams, Partner, Oppenheimer & Co., Inc., NYC, NY
Edward L.O’Brien, President, Securities Industry Assn., NYC, NY
William T. Comfort, Chairman, Citicorp Venture Capital, Ltd., NYC, NY
Robert M. Hart, Managing Director, Royal Dutch Shell Group, London, England
W.R. Howell, Chairman, J.C. Penney Co., Inc., NYC, NY
Richard L. Burress, Associate Director, The Hoover Institution, Sanford, CA
Hon. Allan Gottlieb, Canadian Ambassador to U.S., Washington, D.C.
C.J. Silas, Chairman, Phillips Petroleum Co., Bartlesville, OK
Admiral Bobby Inman, CEO, Micro Electronics and Computer Technology Corp. Austin,TX
Stanley Collender, Director-National Issues and Federal Budget Policies, ToucheRoss&Co.,Washington,D.C.
Lawrence Rawl, President, Exxon Corporation, NY
Thomas J. Murrin, President, Energy & Advanced Technology Group, Westinghouse ElectricCorp.,Pittsburgh,PA
Andrew Avramides, Managing Director, Avra Petroleum Ltd., London, England
Lt. Gen. Richard Burpee, Director of Operations, Joint Chiefs of Staff, Washington, D.C.
Harry Bruce, Chairman/CEO, Illinois Central Gulf, Chicago, IL
Dr. Martin Mauro, Senior Economist, Merrill Lynch Capital Markets, NY
Albert Basey, V.P. Manufacturing Network Systems Equip. AT&T, Morristown, NJ

Tom Gilligan, Hoover Institute
Terry Spencer, CEO & Chairman of ONEOK
Ross McKnight, Chairman, Interbank Holding Company
Steven Rhines, President, Noble Research Institute
Preston Ackerman, FBI, Cyber Security
Mike Holder, Athletic Director, Oklahoma State University
Sam Presti, General Manager, Oklahoma City Thunder
Esther George, President and CEO, Kansas City Federal Reserve
Bruce Katz, Vice President, Brookings Institute
Scott Clemons, Chief Investment Strategist, Brown Brothers Harriman
William Thomas, Chairman and CEO, EOG Resources
Scott Klososky, Futurist, Future Point of View
Jason Sanders, Provost, OU School of Medicine
Dr. Bo Kong, Professor of Chinese & Asian Studies, OU
Shelley Lavender, SR VP, Surveillance and Mobility, Boeing Company
James Barnes ,Chairman/CEO, MAPCO, Inc., Tulsa, OK
Ronald W. Allen, President, Delta Airlines, Atlanta, GA
John Nevin, Chairman, Firestone Tire and Rubber, Akron, OH
Joseph Pinola, Chairman/CEO, First Interstate/CEO, ENRON Corp., Houston, TX
Allen E. Paulson, Chairman/CEO, Gulf Stream Aerospace Corp., Savannah,GA
Gerald Barton, Chairman, CEO of Landmark Land Company, Carmel, CA
F.H. Clark, Chairman, Baker Hughes, Inc., Newport, CA
T. Joseph Semrod, President/Chairman, United Jersey Banks, Princeton,NJ
Arthur Levitt, Jr. ,Chairman/CEO, American Stock Exchange, NYC, NY
Ms. Martha O. Hessee, Chairman of the Federal Regulatory Energy Commission, Washington, D.C.
Richard Lawson, President, of the National Coal Association, Washington, D.C.
Jim Rainey, Chairman/CEO, Farmland Industries, Kansas City, MO
Kenneth Kermes, CEO, Smith Kline Bechman
Bennett E. Bidwell, Chairman, Chrysler Motors, Highland Park, MI
Merle I. Borchelt, Chairman/CEO, Central & Southwest Corp., Dallas, TX
Derrill Cody, Chairman/CEO, Texas Eastern Pipeline, Oklahoma City, OK
George H. Wayerhaeuser, Jr., VP/Mill Manager, Wayerhaeuser Paper Co., Valliant, OK
John Albers, President/CEO, Dr. Pepper Seven Up Companies, Inc.
Edward Whiteker, Chairman/CFO, Southwestern Bell
Jack Murphy, Chairman/CEO, Dresser Industries
John D. Sterman, Director, System Dynamics Group, Institute of Technology, MA
William Dillard, Sr., Chairman, Dillards Department Store
James Grant, Editor, Grant’s Interest Rate Observer
Andrew B. Craig, III, Chairman, President/CEO, Boatmen’s Bancshares, Inc.
homas M.T. Niles, Assistant Secretary of State for European and Canadian Affairs
Keith A.Tucker, Vice Chairman, Torchmark Corporation
Wayne R. Sanders, President/CEO, Kimberly-Clark Corporation
George B. Kaiser, Chairman/CEO, Bank of Oklahoma, N.A.
E.W. Wendell,President/CEO,OprylandUSAInc.
Ray L. Hunt, Chairman/President/CEO, Hunt Consolidated, Inc.
E. DeanWerries,Chairman/President/CEO, Fleming Companies
James L. Cochrane, Senior VP/Chief Economist, New York Stock Exchange, NYC,NY
Drew A. Roy, President, Southwestern Bell Telephone
John W.Creighton, Jr., President/CEO, Weyerhaeuser Company
Richard B. Fisher, Chairman, Morgan Stanley Group, Inc.
Jack McMillan, Co-Chairman, Nordstrom Inc.
J. Larry Nichols, CEO, Devon Energy Corporation
George H. Walker, III, Chairman, Stifel, Nicolaus & Company, Incorporated
John B. McCoy, Chairman/CEO, Banc One Corporation
Victor L. Campbell, VP, Corporate/Investor Relations, Hospital Corporation of America
Phil Simpson, Chairman/President/CEO, Republic Gypsum Company
Henry J. Hermann, Executive VP/Chief Information Officer,
Waddell & Reed Investment Company
John C. Eason, Co-Founder, Alternative Public Schools, Inc.
Thomas H. Cruikshank, Chairman/CEO, Halliburton
James O. Rollans, Senior VP, CAO Flour Corporation
James G. Harlow, Jr., Chairman/President, OK Gas and Electric Co.
Jerry W. Walton, Executive VP-Finance/CFO, J.B.Hunt
Charles Lieberman, Managing Director, Financial Markets Research Securities, Inc.
Steven Moore, Director of Fiscal Policy Studies, Cato Institute
Henry E. (Jack) Lentz, Lehman Brothers
J.J. Mulva, President/CEO, Phillips Petroleum
Major General Kenneth E. Eickmann, Commander, Oklahoma City Logistics, Tinker Air Force Base
Peter M. Winter, VP-Market Development, Cox Newspapers, Inc.
Thomas M.Hoenig, President, Federal Reserve Bank of KC, MO
V. Burns Hargis, Attorney, McAfee & Taft, Oklahoma City, OK
Edna McDuffie Manning, Ph.D., Founding President, Oklahoma School of Science and Mathematics
Charles A. Trabandt, Chairman, Global Power Strategic Advisory Services
Dr. Neal M. Soss, Managing Director-Senior Advisor & Chief US Economist of Credit Suisse First Boston
Patrick J. Howie, Economist, Regional Financial Associates, Inc.
James Hotchkiss, Investment Counselor, Hotchkiss Associates
Anthony Chan, VP/Chief Economist, Banc One Investment Advisors
Larry Brummett, Chairman/CEO, ONEOK, Inc., OK
Bruce Steinberg, Chief Economist, Merrill Lynch & Co.
Gail D. Fosler, Senior VP/Chief Economist,The Conference Board
Gregory M. McCormack, Director of Business Development, Cambridge Energy Research Associates
Neil E. Wolfson,CFA/National Director, KPMG Investment Consulting Group
Dr. Arthur Porter, VP-Technology/Dean of the College of Engineering, University of Oklahoma, Norman,OK
Fred J. Hall, Chairman/President/CEO,The Fred Jones Companies, Oklahoma City, OK
Keith E. Bailey, Chairman/President/CEO,The Williams Companies, Inc.,Tulsa, OK
Jon B. Davis, Meteorologist, Salomon Smith Barney, Inc., Chicago, IL
Stanley F. Hupfeld, President/CEO, INTEGRIS Health, Oklahoma City, OK
John Ryding, Senior Economist/Senior Managing Director, Bear Stearns & Co., Inc., NY
Brian Wood, VP/General Manager, Enterprise Segment, Dell Computer Corporation
Cliff Hudson, Chairman/CEO, Sonic Corp., Oklahoma City, OK
David Bialis, VP/General Manager, Cox Communications, Oklahoma City, OK
Archie W. Dunham, Chairman/President/CEO, Conoco Inc.,Houston,TX
Gary L. Nelson, President/CEO, Advanced Financial Solutions, Oklahoma City, OK
J. Larry Nichols, Chairman/President/CEO, Devon Energy Corporation, Oklahoma City, OK
Dr. Don Capra, President, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City, OK
Rob Luke, President/CEO, Rio Algom Mining Corp., Oklahoma City, OK
Dr. Thomas W. Synnott, Chief Economist, United States Trust Company of NYC, NY
Don Betz, Ph.D., Executive VP/VP Academic Affairs/ Professor of Political Science, University of Central Oklahoma, OK
Matthew Simmons, President, Simmons & Company International, Houston, TX
James D. Couch, City Manager, City of Oklahoma City, OK
Lindy Ritz, Director, Mike Monroney Aeronautical Center, Oklahoma City, OK
General Jack Vessey (Ret.), Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff
General Dennis J. Reimer (Ret.), Director, National Memorial Institute For the Prevention of Terrorism, Oklahoma City, OK
James C. Day, Chairman/CEO, Nobel Drilling Corporation, Houston,TX
Robert B.Catell, Chairman/CEO, Key Span Corporation, NYC, NY
Scott Meacham, Director, Office of State Finance, OK
Dr. Michael Anderson, President, Presbyterian Health Foundation
Dr. Craig Shemusaki, Inter Genetics Incorporated
Honorable Ianin Murray, Her Majesty’s General Counsel Don Cain, President, SBC Oklahoma
Robert J. Allison, Jr., Anadarko Petroleum Corporation
James K. Hotchkiss, CFA, Chairman/Founder, Hotchkiss Associates
Robert Keegan,President, Goodyear Tire and Rubber Products
Bob McKee, Retired, Conoco Phillips, Iraqi Oil Expert
David Green, Owner, Hobby Lobby Stores, Oklahoma City, OK
Aubrey McClendon, Chairman/CEO, Chesapeake Energy Corporation
Bill Daley, JP Morgan Chase, Chicago, IL
J.D. Williams, Founding Partner, Williams & Jenson, Washington, D.C.
Jack Taylor, Sr. Managing Partner, KPMG, New York
Skip Mc Gee, Chief Economist, Lehman Brothers
George Kaiser, Chairman, BOK Financial Corporation & BOK, N.A.
Jim Mulva, CEO, Conoco-Phillips
Lane Riggs, VP-Optimization, Planning & Econ., Valero Energy Corp.
C. Christopher Gaut, VP/CFO, Halliburton
T. Boone Pickens, CEO, BP Capital
Drew Braum, President, Braum’s Ice Cream & Dairy Stores
Charles W. Kadlec, CIMA®/ManagingDirector, Seligman & Co., Inc.
David Kyle, Chairman/CEO, ONEOK, Inc.
Ben T. Robinson, Program Dir., C/KC-135 Program for Support Systems, Boeing
Dr. C. Ross Anthony, Co-Director, R and Health’s Center for Domestic & International
Health Security, Director Global Health
Harland Stonecipher, President/CEO, Prepaid Legal Services, Inc.
General Bruce Carlson, Commander, Air Force Materiel Command, US Air Force
Chester Cadieux, President/CEO, Quik Trip
Tom Ward, Chairman/CEO, Sand Ridge Energy
James E. Glassman, Managing Director, JP Morgan Chase
Barnett Helzberg, Former Chairman/CEO, Helzberg Diamonds, Helzberg Foundation
Robert E. Lorton, III, Publisher, World Publishing Company (Tulsa World)
KenLackey, Chairman/CEO, The NORDAM Group
Harold Hamm, Chairman/CEO, Continental Resources
Tom Falk, CEO, Kimberly-Clark
Robert Tercek, Digital Media Strategist, Robert Tercek META Consulting
Tom Farmer, President, Pratt & Whitney Military Aircraft Engines
Klaus Scharioth, Ambassador the United States Federal Republic of Germany
Jim Dolan, CEO, Dolan Media
Doug Foshee, CEO, El Paso Corporation Robert Darbelnet, National President, AAA
Larry Nichols, CEO, Devon Energy
Bob Gilligan, VP,GE Energy
Hank Abate, Senior VP, SMG Arenas & Stadiums
Tom Hoenig, President, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City
Dr. Joseph Ferretti, OU Health Sciences Center, Provost Emeritus
Gen. Donald J. Hoffman, Commander, Air Force Material Command
Charles Davidson,Chairman/CEO, Noble Energy
Diane Ellis, Deputy Director, Division of Insurance and Research,FDIC
Red Cavaney, Senior VP,Government Affairs, Conoco Phillips
Mark Nuttle, Managing Partner, Oklahoma Sovereign Developement, LLC
Mike Emmelhainz, Director-OKC, The Boeing Company
Scott Thomas, President, American Precious Metals Exchange, Inc.
Frank Keating, President, American Bankers Association
Mark Allen, President, Pierre Foods
Governor Bill Anoatubby, Chickasaw Nation
John Richels, CEO, Devon Energy
Bill Ford, President, Shawnee Milling Company
William Buckner, President, Noble Foundation
Mila Knopp, Head Rowing Coach of OCU
Joe Jacobi, CEO of USA Canoe/Kayak & Olympic Gold Medalist
Gary Pierson, CEO, OPUBCO
Vann Cunningham, Asst VP Econ. Development, The Burlington Northern &Santa Fe Co.
Peter Delaney, Chairman/CEO, OGE Energy Corp.
Robert D. Mannel, MD, Director, Stephenson Cancer Center OUHSC
Marran Ogilvie, Advisor and Member of Board of Directors
Meredith Siegfried, CEO, Nordam Group
Joe Quinlan, Chief Market Strategist, US Bank, BOA Private Wealth Management 312

2020-2021

James Lankford, United States Senator, US Senate, Oklahoma
John Armitage, M.D., CEO, Oklahoma Blood Institute
Randall Stephenson, Executive Chairman, AT&T
Michelle W. Bowman, Member of the Board of Governors, Federal Reserve Board
Joe Castiglione, Athletic Director, University of Oklahoma

2021-2022

John O’Connor, Attorney General, State of Oklahoma

Terry Stuart Forst, General Manager, The Stuart Ranch
Nancy Anderson, Vice President, Boeing and Steve Fendley, President, Kratos
Ryne Miller, General Counsel, FTX US

Aaron Cohen, Director, Global Long Term Forecasting and Industry Analysis, General Motors
Craig Hakkio, Special Advisor on Economic Policy (Retired), Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City

2022-2023

Taek Lee, Chief Financial Officer, Gallup

Dr. Andrew Weyrich, President, OMRF

Matthew Bertram, IT Decentralization Practice Lead, Future Point of View

Rick Muncrief, President and Chief Executive Officer, Devon Energy

Matt Bell, Senior Managing Director and Global Leader of Export Controls & Sanctions, FTI Consulting

Bob Stewart, Senior Vice President and Chief Supply Chain Officer - North America, McDonald's LLC

2023-2024

Lieutenant General Stacey Hawkins, Commander, Air Force Sustainment Center, Tinker Air Force Base

Dr. Chad Moutray, Chief Economist, National Association of Manufacturers

Dr. Kayse Shrum, President, Oklahoma State University

Jeff Schmid, President & Chief Executive Officer, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City

Marc Goldwein, Senior Vice President and Senior Policy Director, Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget

Raul Anaya, President of Business Banking, Bank of America