Kanchana Suresh is a senior vice president and regional senior investment officer at Northern Trust. In her current capacity, she leads a team of portfolio advisors within the Northern Trust Wealth Management Business. During her 20 plus years at Northern Trust, Kanchana has advised ultra-high net worth individuals and families by creating and implementing customized investment solutions built to achieve their financial goals. She also has worked with nonprofit institutions and helped them to manage their investment portfolios.

Kanchana has a master’s degree in financial markets and trading from the Illinois Institute of Technology. She is a chartered financial analyst and a certified private wealth advisor.

While growing up in India, Kanchana helped many families struggling to put food on the table. After moving to the U.S., she continued to work with Child Relief and You, an organization working to improve the health, education and safety of children. In the last few years, she has continued to spend time with Feed My Starving Children. She is currently a board member of Nourishing Hope Chicago.

Kanchana lives in the Lakeshore East area of Chicago. Her interests include running, hiking and yoga.

Debbie Simpson’s career has been marked by her passions for diversity, change and growth. Winner of Consulting Magazine’s Lifetime Achievement Award for 2018 Women Leaders in Consulting, Debbie has been recognized for her role in Boston Consulting Group’s continued excellence, as well as prior contributions to PwC, also known as PricewaterhouseCoopers.

Her experience as a global financial and operations leader began first as a partner at PwC, and then at BCG, a $10 billion business, where she worked for 20 years before retiring in June 2021. Debbie was a member of the BCG executive committee for 12 years, serving as chief financial officer and as the head of global functions. She was a critical leader in driving BCG’s continued growth and development as a leading management consultancy and its evolution into a digital leader in the marketplace.

Debbie helped BCG grow tenfold over her career and deepen its global footprint, now with more than 20,000 partners and staff located in over 90 cities and more than 50 countries. She received the President’s Award at BCG in 2016 for her instrumental role in building the digital ventures unit, and continues to support the digital ventures and green ventures teams as an advisor.

Debbie also brings experience on for profit and not-for-profit boards, where she has assumed leadership roles on audit and finance committees as well as supporting compensation, strategy and development efforts.

Debbie received her bachelor’s degree in biomedical engineering from Duke University and her master’s degree in business from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Sloan School of Management.

Maham began working with Plan International in 2021 as part of the Youth Advisory Board. Over the past four years she has spearheaded Plan’s Youth Leadership Academy, heading the workshop design subcommittee and serving as the 2021 coordinator. She has represented Plan at the White House Gender Policy Council and at the United Nations’ Commission on the Status of Women youth forum, advocating for online protections in the face of technology-facilitated gender-based violence. Her passion lies at the intersection of health care and social issues, and she hopes to work with Plan and other organizations to combat issues regarding women’s health and equitable health care access.

Maham graduates from Rice University where she received a Bachelor of Science degree in biosciences, with a cell biology and genetics concentration, and a Bachelor of Arts in social policy analysis on a pre-med track. At Rice, she was an emergency medical technician with Rice Emergency Medical Services and an executive board member for the university’s Planned Parenthood chapter. She was a research assistant at McGovern Medical School’s Wang Lab, studying the pathology of atrial fibrillation. Maham also has extensive experience in health equity research through Smith Research and Consulting and Stanford School of Medicine’s California Maternal Quality Care Collaborative.

Currently, Maham is spending her gap year before medical school leading maternal health research at Zayed University in Dubai as a Wagoner Foreign Study grant recipient.

Fran Priddy, M.D., M.P.H., is an infectious disease physician and global health leader with more than two decades of experience in vaccine development, maternal and child health, and international health research implementation. She has led health research across Africa, India, the United States and Europe, focusing on developing novel prevention products, improving access to care, and addressing global health issues that disproportionately affect women and girls.

For more than 20 years, Priddy has sponsored girls through Plan International, witnessing firsthand the transformative impact of education and opportunity on their lives. She has combined clinical expertise with strategic leadership to advance women’s health, health equity and community-based solutions.

Priddy began her career taking care of women with HIV in Atlanta and families with complex health issues in the U.S. Indian Health Service, where she saw the far-reaching effects of women’s reproductive rights, financial status and access to health care on families and communities. She holds a Doctor of Medicine degree and a Master of Public Health and currently leads clinical development of vaccines at Moderna.

Ann C. O’Brien is an executive-level business professional with more than 30 years of experience in strategic planning, execution and financial management in the health care, higher education and nonprofit fields. She is also involved in numerous philanthropic endeavors serving girls, children and people living in poverty.

For more than 15 years, Ann was an executive in the health care management advisory practice of a Big Four accounting and consulting firm. In that role, she led strategic and business planning engagements for large academic medical centers, hospitals and physician practices involving integrated health system development, financial management and physician practice management.

Most recently, Ann was the vice president at Grants Plus, a fundraising and grant-seeking firm serving the nonprofit community. In her role, she was responsible for all business operations including human resources, budgeting and financial management, information technology and business planning. Prior to her time at Grants Plus, she served as a program director for the Center for Innovation and Growth at Baldwin Wallace University, the president and a board member of the Rainbow Babies & Children’s Foundation and the finance director for the eastern region of the Cleveland Clinic Health System.

Ann has served on the boards of numerous nonprofit organizations and is currently on the board of directors for both the Saint Luke’s Foundation as well as the Deaconess Foundation. She holds a master’s degree in public administration from Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government and a bachelor’s degree in international politics and economics from Georgetown University’s Walsh School of Foreign Service.

Ann lives in Cleveland with her husband, Robert, and has three adult children.

Daniela is the inaugural associate director for research and technology initiatives at Georgetown University’s Baratta Center for Global Business, leading efforts on innovative research and technology to shape global business practices, with a focus on business for good. She is also a research affiliate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab, conducting research on emerging technology trends and their impacts on productivity, economic growth and shared prosperity. Additionally, she serves as executive-in-residence for Research & Development and chair of the Global Fellows Program at AI2030, an organization committed to the responsible development of artificial intelligence.

With over a decade of experience in applied economic research, impact evaluations and evidence-informed policy across various institutions, geographies and stakeholders, Daniela has built a diverse career. Her roles have included positions at the Central Bank of Slovenia, the International Monetary Fund, Harvard University’s Center for International Development, MIT and Amazon Web Services.

At AWS, she developed and led original research on the economic, social and environmental impacts of cloud computing technology and infrastructure. Before AWS, she was a policy and research manager at MIT’s Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab, focusing on the role of the private sector, entrepreneurship and labor markets in poverty alleviation. Her notable achievements include being selected as a G20 Young Global Changer in 2019, contributing to the Berlin Global Solutions Summit and presenting research on economic inequality at a G20 Tokyo event.

Daniela earned her master’s in international economics and relations from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies. She also holds a dual Bachelor of Science in mathematical economics and Bachelor of Arts in international studies from Baldwin Wallace University, where she graduated summa cum laude.

For 16 years, Hatem Mostafa was a senior executive at HP Inc., where he successfully managed multidivisional multibillion dollar businesses.

During his tenure at HP, Hatem had the opportunity to successfully create and ramp up four new business categories, each one growing to multibillion dollar printing businesses. He also led the incubation and development of several new technologies to launch these categories, and was heavily involved in several significant business and organizational redesigns to pivot organizations from mature markets toward new and emerging markets.

Hatem retired from HP in 2015, and since then has been a co-owner of Biscayne Hospitality, a custom furniture manufacturing company. He is vice president of business development and is also in charge of developing and optimizing companywide processes.

Hatem has been involved with Plan International for more than 35 years, sponsoring several children and contributing to various Plan initiatives. In 2018, Hatem connected Plan International with the Biscayne Hospitality Foundation, the social responsibility arm of Biscayne Hospitality. With Plan’s help, the company has been able to expand its existing scholarship programs for Indonesian schoolchildren, as well as launch the GIRL 2.0 project for young Indonesian entrepreneurs.

Hatem is a fitness fanatic and enjoys running and swimming outdoors in sunny San Diego. He also enjoys traveling with his wife, especially diving in remote tropical locations, and watching obscure foreign movies.

Sara Moore began working with Plan at age 12, as a member of the Youth United for Global Action and Awareness program, which empowered young people to be active members of the global community.

Continuing her leadership with the organization, Sara co-founded Plan International USA’s Youth Advisory Board.  She also served four years on the Global Youth Advisory Panel, where she helped develop a strategy for incorporating youth participation into Plan’s global governance structure.

Sara holds a bachelor’s degree in biology from Rhode Island College and recieved her M.D. and Ph.D. in biomedical sciences at the University of Toledo’s College of Medicine and Life Sciences. She is currently a pediatric resident physician at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, where she continues to advocate for the well-being of children.