Ellen Comeaux is an accomplished and respected business leader with more than 30 years of experience in commercial finance and strategic development, helping business to successfully tackle their most difficult challenges and achieve their goals. Ellen has recently embarked on the next phase of her career journey, where she plans on sharing her passion for authentic leadership and transformative change with others in the industry. Comeaux built her leadership and change agent focus through her various commercial roles with more than 24 years with General Electric under GE Capital, GE Real Estate, and GE Capital Bank. Most recently, Comeaux spent eight years with EverBank, where she led the vendor equipment finance and commercial real estate business lines.

Eileen Schoonmaker is a human-centric, transformational leader and respected industry expert with more than 35 years of experience in vendor finance. She retired from DLL in 2023 after over 23 years with the company. Throughout her DLL career, she held multiple senior leadership roles including SVP Operations, SVP and Manager of Business Information and U.S. Chief Operating Officer. She was the first DLL U.S. country manager with P&L responsibility for a $10B portfolio.

A seasoned business executive and thought leader with a successful track record of launching and building a private equity startup into a $4 billion asset enterprise that is now part of a $1.2 trillion assets under management Fortune 100 company.

Denis' leadership spans from startup opportunities to global companies within the technology, finance, and banking industries. Denis is a senior business executive who bridges the business and technology domains. He has envisioned, developed, delivered, and managed startups and technology platforms in leading-edge technology environments, with a focus on revenue creation, digitalization, operations effectiveness, and efficiency.

Wendi is the Founder and CEO of Wasik Consulting (www.wasikconsulting.com). She brings 25 years of experience in leadership development, effective communication, and performance coaching, working with high-performing executives and emerging leaders across diverse industries such as advertising, banking, public accounting and professional services, healthcare, television broadcasting, utilities, and multinational commercial real estate. She has collaborated with companies such as BBDO, Citibank, KPMG, PwC, Einstein Healthcare Network/Jefferson Health, QVC, Northwest Natural, Tishman Speyer, among many others. 

An intuitive facilitator, speaker and coach, Wendi partners with clients to identify and transform familiar and comfortable patterns which impede individual and organizational performance, and in doing so, accelerates their capacity to lead and communicate effectively in today’s fast-paced and highly competitive global market. She has a proven record of helping executives managing an onslaught of rapidly expanding responsibilities and stakeholder expectations to prioritize next steps and move beyond self- limiting thought patterns and behaviors.

Beyond her work as an executive coach and leadership development consultant, Wendi is an active member of the National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD) and has spoken about nonprofit governance at many of its national programs. She hasbeen named an NACD Board Leadership Fellow. Wendi is also a passionate advocate for women. She speaks regularly tocorporate women’s groups and served on the Board of Directors of Women International Leaders.

In addition, Wendi serves on the National MS Society’s Board of Directors, as well as its Greater Delaware Valley Board of Trustees.She previously served as Board Chair of Beyond Celiac, formerly known as the National Foundation for Celiac Awareness. Wendi isan adjunct professor at Temple University’s Fox School of Business Center for Executive Education. She has also taught for Temple’sInternational Executive MBA program in Cali, Colombia, has been a guest lecturer at California State University’s Doctoral Program inEducational Leadership, and has served as a Senior Leadership Advisor at The Wharton School’s Small Business Development Center.

Wendi received an M.S. degree in Organizational Dynamics from the University of Pennsylvania and attended international economicand organizational management programs at Oxford University and London University. Additionally, Wendi is certified as an“Ambassador of Applied Compassion” by the Center of Compassion and Altruism Research Education at Stanford University. She alsoreceived an Executive Certificate in Leadership Coaching from Georgetown University’s Institute for Transformational Leadership.Wendi has also completed several courses at Harvard Law School’s Program on Negotiation and is a Fellow of The Institute of Coaching at McLean, Harvard Medical SchoolAffiliate. Wendi received a B.S. degree in Psychology from Rosemont College.