Darren Root has over 30 years of experience as a CPA and has a passion for helping firm owners modernize and transform their practices into thriving, sustainable enterprises. Darren has earned numerous awards and continues to contribute to the profession with books, articles, podcasts and shows that educate and inform the industry in all areas of firm operations, industry trends and business models.

Dr. Nela Richardson leads the team at ADP Research, an independent and reliable source of economic data tailored to global and local business leaders, policymakers, and the public. Her areas of expertise include finance, technology, housing, and labor. Richardson and her team of researchers, data scientists, and financial market experts deploy proprietary ADP data, including the anonymized payroll records of more than 25 million employees and a monthly global survey that has reached more than half a million workers worldwide, to generate discoveries about the world of work. She is a regular contributor to top-tier media outlets, including Bloomberg and American Public Media’s Marketplace, and has appeared on CNBC, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Fortune, CNN, and Yahoo! Finance, among others.

Karin Kimbrough is the Chief Economist for LinkedIn Corporation, leading a team of economists and data scientists that delivers research and insights from the LinkedIn Economic Graph. Previously, she worked as assistant treasurer at Google and as managing director and head of macroeconomic policy at Bank of America. She also served as vice president in the Markets Group of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York during the financial crisis. Karin holds a doctorate in economics from Oxford University, a master’s in public policy from the Harvard Kennedy School, and an undergraduate degree in economics from Stanford. Karin was recognized by Black Enterprise as one of the most powerful Black women in business in 2017.