A board built for what comes next.

David Li is President and CEO of Ingevity Corporation (NYSE: NGVT), the specialty chemicals and materials company, and serves on its board. He also serves on the board of Hexcel Corporation (NYSE: HXL).

Before Ingevity he led CMC Materials, formerly Cabot Microelectronics, as president, chief executive officer, and board member from January 2015 until the company’s sale to Entegris in July 2022. He joined CMC in 1998 and ran its Asia Pacific region from 2008 to 2014. He holds a Bachelor of Science in chemical engineering from Purdue University and an MBA from Northwestern University.

On the board, David connects semiconductor supply-chain decisions to the workforce questions they create: where capacity gets built, and who has to be hired to run it.

Matthew Wells is President and CEO of One Region, a private-sector-led civic and investment coalition positioning the Greater South Shore of Lake Michigan as a leading North American corridor for advanced industry, technology, and growth. He unites business leaders, philanthropic foundations, universities, utilities, and public partners around transformative priorities across the 90-mile corridor from Chicago to South Bend.

A leading voice for the Great Lakes Quantum Coast and an industrial Midwest strategy centered on advanced manufacturing, quantum technology, and energy innovation, Matthew is active in networks including the American Enterprise Institute’s Leadership Network, the Aspen Institute, the U.S. Council on Competitiveness, the Krach Institute for Tech Diplomacy, and Angeles Investors. Originally trained as a classical opera singer, he brings a blend of cultural fluency and strategic vision to regional transformation.

On the board, Matthew connects workforce strategy to regional economic development: how a corridor competes for advanced-industry investment, and whether the local labor market can staff it once it lands.

Elliott Garms is founder and CEO of Happy Jeanne, where he is building Jeanne, an AI recruiter for blue-collar and trades staffing. He grew up around recruiting. His father ran an executive recruiting firm and his mother a temp staffing agency, and his first job in high school was sourcing candidates for his father. At 21 he started his own staffing agency placing software engineers. He co-founded Dev Bootcamp Chicago, one of the first coding bootcamps, acquired by Kaplan in 2015, and has built HR-technology products including humanpredictions, acquired by Indeed in 2023. On the board, Elliott pressure-tests how TalentCraft applies AI, data, and recruiter workflow design, so the firm anticipates where hiring technology is going rather than reacting to it.

Marc Carlson is a Senior Advisor to the Krach Institute for Tech Diplomacy at Purdue, the bipartisan institute advancing freedom through trusted technology, and serves on its Board of Directors. A former Senior Advisor to the U.S. State Department on trusted technology and 5G, he spent more than three decades building technology companies, including enterprise sales leadership at DocuSign and early work at Ariba. He holds engineering and management degrees from Purdue. On the board, Marc connects workforce strategy to the geopolitics of technology: trusted supply chains, industrial policy, and the regional capability decisions that determine where companies build and hire.

Michael Andreone is Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Carelon Services at Elevance Health, where he leads the financial strategy and performance of the company’s $30B+ healthcare services and insights business.

Previously, Michael served as Vice President of Corporate FP&A after joining Elevance Health in its Commercial Health Benefits business.

Before Elevance Health, Michael held progressive finance leadership roles at General Electric following completion of its Financial Management Program. He later led finance transformation initiatives at Stanley Black & Decker, driving the deployment of enterprise financial tools and establishing an investment governance framework.

Michael earned a Bachelor of Science in Economics from Purdue University and an MBA from New York University.

On the board, Michael connects hiring decisions to the economics they move: what finance leadership in enterprise healthcare is accountable for, and which roles decide whether those numbers land.