James Fitzgerald, B.Sc.

Prior to being elected with 86 percent support from Miami residents, Mayor Francis X. Suarez served as Miami Commissioner for District 4 during eight years. 

Ambassador Lisa Kenna is a career member of the Senior Foreign Service, class of Minister Counselor.  She served most recently as the Executive Secretary of the Department of State.  Prior to that, Ambassador Kenna held positions as the Executive Assistant to the Secretary of State, a Political Adviser in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, and the Director for Iraq at the National Security Council.  She also served as chief of the Political Section at the U.S.

Carlos Fernando Chamorro Barrios is a Nicaraguan independent investigative journalist. He is the founder and editor of Confidencial, a news website and weekly publication combining investigative journalism and analyses of current affairs.

He also hosts two television news shows, Tonight and This Week. Chamorro is the youngest son of former president of Nicaragua Violeta Barrios de Chamorro and Pedro Joaquín Chamorro Cardenal, a Nicaraguan journalist and editor of La Prensa.

Wanda Weigert is chief brand officer at Globant, where she supervises all global corporate communications, manages the relationships with the press worldwide, internal and external communications strategies, crisis communications, and marketing. She is in charge of Globant’s Stay Relevant department, tasked with enhancing the company’s relations with its clients through thought-provoking guidance on surfing the digital and cognitive revolutions. Within this area, she supervises research, marketing activities, analyst relations, and content production.

Manuel D. Medina is a highly successful business executive and investor with more than 30 years of leadership experience in the IT infrastructure and cybersecurity industries.

Hamdi Ulukaya is the founder, chairman and CEO of Chobani—one of the fastest growing food companies in the last decade and a pioneer of the natural food movement. Raised in a dairy-farming family in a village in eastern Turkey, Hamdi launched Chobani to make better food more accessible.

Leopoldo Martinez is a professional with over 23 years of experience in banking operations, distribution and marketing and merger & acquisitions. He has extensive skills in the implementation of business strategies, from strategy to execution, and possesses excellent leadership, team building and client relationship skills.

Mariel Beasley is a principal researcher at the Center for Advanced Hindsight at Duke University and co-founder of the Common Cents Lab, a subcenter committed to improving the financial behavior of low- to moderate-income households in the United States.