Peter Brock has been developing commercial real estate in the New York and Florida markets since 1975. For the past 10 years, he's been a principal in Brock Development and has developed major retail projects in the Florida area. Brock founded two land and development funds that have invested in commercial real estate in Florida, Texas, Arizona, Colorado, Tennessee, New Mexico and California. He has served on the investment committee of those funds for the past four years. He is the founder of Brock Services Corporation, a hotel management company. Brock assists with donor development by personally contacting donors and sharing his story. Brock graduated with a bachelor's degree in economics from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Finance & Commerce; and holds a master of business administration degree from the Columbia Graduate School of Business. 

Jorge Benitez joined Accenture in 1981 after graduating cum laude from the University of Florida with degrees in accounting and economics. With more than 28 years of experience in management consulting, technology and outsourcing, Benitez's specialty is directing large-scale global-change initiatives across a diverse set of industry segments. Throughout his career, Benitez has been recognized by his peers and clients for his ability to lead with a keen focus on both people and business results. He has led the minority mentoring program for Accenture's US business, global people advocacy worldwide, and the global partner matters function for Accenture. Benitez's success in business and the community has been recognized on a local and national level. He was selected in 2005 as one of the Top 100 Most Influential Hispanics in the United States. 

Ralph Lawson is the executive vice president and chief financial officer of Baptist Health South Florida, Inc. Baptist Health owns six hospitals and 21 satellite outpatient centers, and is the largest private employer in Miami-Dade County. Baptist operates in three counties with over 14,000 employees, and has been recognized as one of the 100 Best Employers in America for the last eight years by Fortune Magazine. Lawson earned a bachelor of science degree from the University of Colorado and a master degree in business administration from The Wharton School of Finance, University of Pennsylvania. He also serves as chairman of the Board of Catholic Health Services and is the former National Chair of the Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA). 

Raanan Horowitz is the president and chief executive officer of Elbit Systems of America, LLC, a leading provider of high-performance products and systems solutions for the defense, homeland security, commercial aviation, and medical instrumentation markets. Horowitz leads the strategic and operational direction of the Fort Worth-headquartered company, and serves as a member of the Elbit Systems of America board of directors. During his tenure with the company, he has been instrumental in driving its organic growth and strategic acquisitions, resulting in its evolution to providing mission-critical systems to many major defense platforms. Horowitz is active in the defense and aerospace industry through his service in the U.S. Army Science Board. He serves on the Board of Governors of the Aerospace Industry Association and is a member of the Business Executives for National Security (BENS). He received a master's of business administration from the Seidman School of Business at Grand Valley State University in Allendale, Michigan, and was also awarded a master of science degree in electrical engineering and a bachelor of science degree in mechanical engineering from Tel-Aviv University in Israel. 

Jim Beck is a certified financial planning practitioner and major shareholder and principal of Hefren-Tillotson, a Pittsburgh-based financial planning and investment firm. He has more than 25 years of experience in investments and financial planning. Beck's indirect involvement with LLS dates back to 1951, when his 4-year-old brother lost his battle with leukemia. He has been active in his local chapter in numerous capacities over the past 25 years, including chapter president and treasurer. 

Bill Behnke is the founder and president of The Behnke Group, founded in 2005. He is a senior executive with extensive background in direct sales, marketing, sales management, and business development, with a specialization in the health care market. He has more than 15 years of experience selling to CEOs, CFOs, CMOs, and boards of directors of health insurance companies and hospitals, and has significant success raising capital from venture capital firms, private equity firms, and accredited private investors. Behnke has been instrumental in opening doors; most recently he has recruited and supported the last two Men of the Year candidates. 

Dana Callow is the managing partner of Boston Millennia Partners, and co-founded Boston Capital Ventures in 1982. He was a senior consultant at Braxton Associates, an international strategic planning firm. He worked with Fortune 100 companies in strategic planning and implementing merger and acquisition strategies. Callow is currently presiding director and chair of the governance committee of PAREXEL International Corporation, a $1-billion-plus clinical-trials management company. He is also a director of jobs for Massachusetts, a Massachusetts-based non-profit organization comprised of business and political leaders, including the governor and congressional leaders. Callow is a member of the advisory board of the Dartmouth/Tuck Center for Private Equity and Entrepreneurship; a member of the Board of Trustees and the chairman of the Investment Committee at Tufts University; and serves on the board of overseers at Tufts University Medical School. He was a major sponsor for the Massachusetts Chapter's gala and Black Tie event. Callow is a magna cum laude graduate of Tufts University, and holds a master's of business administration degree from the Amos Tuck School at Dartmouth College. 

Renzo Canetta, M.D. has more than 35 years of clinical and regulatory cancer research experience at Bristol-Myers Squibb. At the forefront of cancer research, he has seen firsthand how innovation has transformed cancer treatment. His experience includes direct patient care, diagnosis and experimental treatment of cancers that affect blood, bone marrow and lymph nodes, as well as solid tumors, methodology of clinical trials and new drug development. He has held multiple leadership roles, including head of Clinical Cancer Research, head of Development on the Life Cycle Management team and head of Regulatory Oncology Research Policy. Dr. Canetta and his team developed 16 new drugs to treat cancer and two to treat viral infections, and received approval of more than 50 regulatory dossiers for additional indications and formulations. Dr. Canetta retired from Bristol-Myers Squibb in August, 2015.

Scott A. Carroll is the resident manager of the Cincinnati, Ohio office of Jackson Lewis LLP. Carroll has represented clients across the spectrum of labor and employment law, including wrongful discharge litigation, collective bargaining, union avoidance, and human resources counseling. He has expertise in drafting, counseling, prosecuting, and defending theft-of-trade-secret cases and/or non-compete, non-solicitation cases. Carroll is a member of the U.S. Sixth Circuit Bar Association, the Federal Bar Association, the Ohio State Bar Association, and the Cincinnati Bar Association. He received his bachelor's of science degree from the University of Cincinnati in 1990, and he earned his JD from The College of Law at the University of Cincinnati in 1993, where he was a member of the University of Cincinnati Law Review. 

Betsy Clark is the executive director of the National Association of Social Workers - the largest organization of professional social workers, with nearly 150,000 members. Her clinical specialty is oncology social work. Clark has conducted research, developed service delivery programs and published papers and book chapters on psychosocial oncology, cancer survivorship, and loss and bereavement. She is an editor of the book Social Work and Oncology: Supporting Survivors, Families, and Caregivers, published by the American Cancer Society, and she serves on the editorial boards of CURE: Cancer Updates, Research, and Education, and the journal Illness, Crisis, and Loss. Clark is a member of the Academy of Certified Social Workers, and was recently elected to the National Academies of Practice. She holds bachelor and master degrees in social work, a master of public health from the University of Pittsburgh, and master and doctorate degrees in medical sociology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. 

William S. Dalton, Ph.D., M.D., is the founder and CEO of M2Gen, a national biotechnology subsidiary of Moffitt Cancer Center. Dr. Dalton is the past president, CEO & center director of Moffitt Cancer Center. Prior to that role, Dr. Dalton was dean of the University of Arizona, College of Medicine. He is interested in the development of personalized cancer care and patient-centered outcomes research. Dr. Dalton's basic and translation research interests focus on molecular mechanisms of drug resistance and drug discovery in hematologic malignancies. He has more than 200 publications, serves on several editorial boards, and has numerous patents in the fields of drug discovery and personalized medicine. 

Bernie Garil is a retired investment adviser and broker-dealer executive and former president of OpCap Advisors, a subsidiary of Oppenheimer Capital. He is a director or trustee of 16 investment companies for which UBS Global Asset Management (Americas) Inc. serves as investment advisor, sub-advisor, or manager, and is a member of the Audit and Nominating committees of each of the funds. Garil is a member of the board of directors, Chairman of the Examining Committee, and a member of Trust Investment and Operating committees of OFI Trust Company. Since 1976, Garil has been a volunteer for The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society as a donor, past member of the National Board of Directors (1987-1995), a trustee of the New York City chapter (1976-1995) and president of the chapter (1982-1985). He graduated from Brooklyn College with a bachelor of science degree in accounting and did graduate work in finance at American University. Garil currently serves on the Brooklyn College Foundation and works on investment issues at UBS and OFI Trust Company. 

Francie Heller, is the managing partner at Heller Advisory. Ms. Heller has more than two decades of financial experience in both the public and private sectors and has served as managing director at Houlihan Lokey, where she ran the pension, endowment and foundation advisory group. Prior to that, Ms. Heller was a managing director at Chilton Investment Company. Before Chilton, she served as senior managing director at Bear Stearns & Co., Inc., and president of MBIA Municipal Investors Service Corporation and was also an education director in the New York City public schools for several years. Ms. Heller earned a bachelor's degree from Boston University, a master's equivalent degree from the University of Georgia, and a professional diploma from Fordham University. She currently serves on the board for Furman University and several other educational not for profit organizations. In addition, Heller is an advisor to the Government Finance Officer Association's committee on retirement and benefits administration. 

Rich Jeanneret is the americas vice chair of transaction advisory services (TAS) and is a member of the Americas executive board at Ernst & Young. Jeanneret was formerly the mid-atlantic managing partner of the assurance and advisory business services practice - more than 1,000 professionals providing assurance and business advisory services to its clients in that region. Jeanneret has 26 years of experience providing advisory and consulting services to private equity, financial services, real estate, and hospitality industry clients. He has extensive transactional expertise, and has worked on several mergers and acquisitions with financial buyers and spinoffs from public companies. Jeannert received his bachelor of arts in economics from Boston College and is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accounts. He has been active with a number of charitable and civic activities over the course of his career. 

Joe Kelley is vice president, government affairs for Eli Lilly and Company, where he serves as the head of Lilly's Washington office and is responsible for Lilly's federal, state, and international government affairs activities. He has been an active member of LLS's National Capital chapter, where he served on the Executive Committee, and co-chairs the chapter's highly successful Annual Leukemia Ball. Kelley has been responsible for raising significant funds for this very successful event. He established the Virginia Sheldon Jerome Foundation in memory of his wife, who he lost to AML in 2002. Kelley has also assisted with LLS's government affairs activities to help secure funding for blood cancer research. 

Michelle Le Beau, Ph.D., is the Arthur and Marian Edelstein Professor of hematology/oncology at the University of Chicago, and director of the University of Chicago Medicine Comprehensive Cancer Center. In her role as director of the Comprehensive Cancer Center, an NCI-designated Cancer Center, Dr. Le Beau oversees cancer research, education and outreach programs. She has expertise in developing research teams, and advancing multidisciplinary and transdisciplinary research. Dr. Le Beau received her doctorate in pathology and genetics from the University of Illinois. She completed her postdoctoral training at the University of Chicago. She is an accomplished cancer geneticist with expertise in improving the diagnosis and treatment of blood cancers. Dr. Le Beau is a member of the executive committee of the American Society of Hematology, and serves on the National Cancer Policy Forum of the Institute of Medicine (National Academy of Sciences), as well as the immediate Past President of the Association of American Cancer Institutes, and a previous member of the board of directors of the American Association for Cancer Research.

Connie L. Lindsey is Executive Vice President and Head of Corporate Social Responsibility and Global Diversity & Inclusion at Northern Trust, Chicago. In addition, Ms. Lindsey provides oversight and leadership to the firm's response to environmental matters as well as social issues, within the marketplace, workplace, and the community. Prior to becoming the Head of CSR, Ms. Lindsey led the client servicing teams in the Public Entities and Institutions segment in the Corporate & Institutional Services business, serving public fund and not-for-profit clients. Ms. Lindsey is the immediate Past National Board President of Girl Scouts of the USA, the highest-ranking volunteer of this 3.4 million-member organization. Ms. Lindsey is a founding member of the Advisory Board of the Center for Green Schools, a member of the Economic Club of Chicago, Executive Leadership Council, Executives' Club of Chicago, Friends of Prentice Women's Board member at Northwestern Memorial Hospital, and a member of the Board of Governors of the Metropolitan Club of Chicago. She is a Leadership Greater Chicago Fellow in the class of 2001. Ms. Lindsey attended the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, where she majored in finance and has completed the Harvard Business School Executive Education Corporate Social Responsibility program. 

Kathleen Meriwether is the Americas Life Sciences Leader for Ernst & Young LLP’s Fraud Investigation & Dispute Services practice. She specializes in assisting health sciences companies with global risks and compliance assessments and regulatory compliance analysis. She works closely with management teams, compliance officers and counsel to identify compliance and enforcement risks, determine potential vulnerabilities and recommend solutions from business and operational perspectives. Prior to joining Ernst & Young, she served as an assistant U.S. attorney in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. She previously spent more than 16 years with Bristol-Myers Squibb Company in a number of legal, regulatory affairs and compliance positions, including division counsel for the Oncology and Immunology franchise.

Donald Proctor is a senior vice president at Cisco in the Office of the Chairman and CEO. As the leader of Cisco's Cybersecurity Task Force, he works with Cisco customers, partners, and worldwide government leaders in defense, civilian agencies, and the intelligence community to advance the safety, privacy, and integrity of their critical network infrastructure. A graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, Proctor is also part of the professional faculty in the Management of Technology graduate program at UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business and formerly taught in the UC Berkeley Extension Telecommunications Engineering certification program. 

Dr. Steven T. Rosen is the Provost, Chief Scientific Officer and Director of the Cancer Center for the City of Hope. Following his graduation with distinction from Northwestern University Medical School's Six-Year Honors Program in 1976, Dr. Rosen completed his residency in Internal Medicine at Northwestern and a fellowship in Medical Oncology at the National Cancer Institute. He served as the director of the Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine from 1989-2014. Dr. Rosen's laboratory research focuses on experimental therapeutics and hematologic malignancies. Dr. Rosen has received numerous grant awards and contracts and has published more than 300 scientific papers. Dr. Rosen was the recipient of Northwestern University Medical School's Alumni Achievement Award (1994), the Martin Luther King Humanitarian Award from Northwestern Memorial Hospital (1995), the Marv Samuel Award from the Chicago Baseball Cancer Charities (1996), recognition from the Woman's Board of Northwestern Memorial Hospital for Compassionate Care (1996), and Israel Cancer Research Fund, Man of Distinction Award (2011). He is acknowledged in Best Doctors in America and Best Doctors in Chicago. 

Ken Schwartz is a transaction advisory services partner with Ernst & Young LLP. He has been providing services to both private equity and corporate acquirers for the past ten years. Schwartz's experience includes complex, cross-border mergers, acquisitions, divestitures and recapitalizations. He has led teams working on transactions ranging from $5 million to more than $25 billion. Schwartz is a certified public accountant with more than 17 years of experience. He earned his bachelor's degree from the State University of New York at Albany. He is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the Long Island chapter of the New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants. 

Bart Sichel, executive vice president and chief marketing officer at Burlington Stores, has been instrumental in shaping the strong bond between Burlington, a national off-price retailer, and LLS -- a relationship that has generated more than $22 million for blood cancer research and patient services since 2001. His interest and passion for LLS is also deeply personal: His son is a leukemia survivor and in 2005 he lost his father to lymphoma.  In 2011, Sichel joined the executive leadership team at Burlington.  He is part of a team that has created a growth trajectory for the company, taken it public, and significantly expanded Burlington's enterprise equity valuation. Prior to joining Burlington, Sichel was a principal at McKinsey & Company, where he specialized in marketing and e-commerce for clients in a wide range of industries. It was his work with the firm's social sector office that strengthened his passion for making a difference in non-profit settings. Sichel received a bachelor's degree in political science and economics from Vassar College and an MBA from Columbia University. 

Franklin O. Smith, III, M.D., is Vice President for Medical Affairs at Medpace and adjunct professor of medicine and pediatrics at the University of Cincinnati College Of Medicine. Prior to joining Medpace, Dr. Smith served as the Clinical Director of the University of Cincinnati Cancer Institute at the University of Cincinnati. Previously, Smith served as the Director of the Division of Hematology/Oncology at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center and as the Vice Chair of the Children's Oncology Group. He received his bachelor of science degree from Wofford College and his medical degree from the University of South Carolina School Of Medicine. Smith was a resident in pediatrics at the University of Florida College of Medicine and did fellowship training in pediatric hematology/oncology at the University of Washington and the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. He has clinical expertise in hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. Dr. Smith's research focus is acute myeloid leukemia and Fanconi anemia. He has more than 150 scientific publications and has served on the LLS Board for the Indiana and Tri-State chapters. 

Kathryn Vecellio is a trustee of her family's foundation and volunteer for many community and charitable organizations for the past 36 years. In addition to holding a board position with the LLS Western Pennsylvania and West Virginia chapter, Vecellio serves on the boards of the Kravis Center for the Performing Arts and Harvard's affiliate, the Schepens Eye Research Institute. She also currently serves on the boards of the Norton Museum of Art, her family's foundation, and The Leadership Board of the Cleveland Clinic Florida and Cleveland Clinic Heart and Vascular Institute Leadership Commission in Cleveland. Vecellio has received many awards, including the Women in Leadership Award from the Executive Women of the Palm Beaches and the Outstanding Volunteer Fundraiser Award from the Association of Fundraising Professionals.

Louise Warner is a former consultant and sales manager with experience in product development and marketing. She has been actively involved in the Cleveland community as a volunteer for more than 30 years. Louise has been involved with LLS since 1996, serving on the Northern Ohio Chapter Board as Chapter President and on the National Board of Directors for 8 years. She was the first Chair of the Board of Representatives, and was the Chair of Strategic Planning. Louise has served on the Board Development, Public Policy, and Patient Services Committees as well as numerous task forces. She was Woman of the Year in Northern Ohio in 2012. Louise lost her Mother to lymphoma in 2004. 

Keith S. White, chief executive officer of ParkerWhite, developed this San Diego-based company into a premier national branding agency, bringing more than 15 years of brand development, marketing, sales, consumer and business management experience to the agency. Throughout his career, White, a multi-disciplinary marketing professional, has built powerful consumer and trade brands in the marketplace and has successfully launched and grown many well-known consumer brands. He has been the lead brand strategist on Star Trac Fitness, Donjoy, Zimmer Medical, Next Proteins, Airwalk, and Westec Security (ADT). In his spare time, White has launched a data-mining marketing firm, AtomicMinds; a real estate investment firm, Sottaku Doji; and a charity for keeping America's youth active, American Youth Fitness Organization (AYFO). All three organizations are active today. His undergraduate work started at Auburn University in the sciences, and he completed his bachelor degree in communications at the University of California, San Diego.