Susan Cevallos Coleman is a risk, governance, and Qualified Financial Expert serving as Global Vice President of Internal Audit at GoPro, Inc. (NASDAQ: GPRO), a global consumer electronics company. In this role, she oversees internal audit, SOX compliance, and enterprise risk management, and serves as a trusted advisor to the CFO, Chief Accounting Officer, and Audit Committee Chair on financial reporting integrity, strategic risk, and governance. Ms. Coleman is experienced in framing and leading Audit Committee discussions that translate complex risk and control environments into actionable insight for boards. She has also led the company’s AI governance initiative, establishing a risk-tiered framework for evaluating and deploying emerging technologies across the enterprise, and has played a leadership role in acquisition due diligence and integration.
Previously, Ms. Coleman served as Vice President of Internal Audit at Patelco Credit Union, a financial institution approaching $10 billion in assets, where she modernized the internal audit function, facilitated the regulatory relationship, and was appointed to the steering committee responsible for evaluating and prioritizing enterprise programs. Earlier, she served as Director of SOX, Internal Audit and Business Process Improvement at Starwood Waypoint Residential Trust, where she designed and executed the company’s SOX compliance program from inception through IPO. Her career also spans progressively responsible roles in audit, risk, compliance, and finance at Visa — where she executed the North American ethics and compliance program — as well as Dolby Laboratories, Sun Microsystems, the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, and Deutsche Bank.
Ms. Coleman currently serves as Audit Committee Co-Chair of The Athenian School, a Bay Area independent school, and as a Board Director and Executive Committee member of Grande Center for Education and Economic Opportunity, an international nonprofit. She has been a featured speaker at industry panels for audit committee members and podcasts focused on the audit profession. Ms. Coleman is a Certified Internal Auditor, holds a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from UCLA, and is a UCLA Anderson Riordan Fellow. She is a native Spanish speaker.
Vinita Clements is Executive Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer for Nationwide. In this role, she oversees the human resources for nearly 22,000 associates. She’s responsible for leading Nationwide’s workforce strategy, overseeing compensation, benefits, learning and development, culture and belonging, talent acquisition, succession management and organizational effectiveness. Vinita is pioneering Nationwide’s workplace of the future by redefining its approach to attracting and retaining talent, emphasizing the associate experience, workplace flexibility, career development, and embedding AI-enabled learning to accelerate skillset building and continuous growth.
Under her leadership, Vinita fostered engagement strategies that drove top decile engagement results, strengthening ahigh-performing and caring culture and placing Nationwide among the top 10% of companies globally for engagement. Her impact has driven numerous recognitions including the Brandon Hall Group HCM Excellence Award – Best Program for Upskilling Employees in the Future of Work Category, Training Magazine Hall of Fame Outstanding Initiatives – for Emerging Leader Certification program and Generative AI, Learning Elite Organization of the Year, Yello’s Top 100 Internship programs, and was the first to receive the Ohio Recovery Friendly Workplace Designation.
She serves as a board trustee for the Columbus Symphony Orchestra, the National Urban League and the Columbus Museum of Art. Vinita is a member of the Executive Leadership Council, the Advisory Board for Catalyst and a charter member of the National Advisory Council for The Kids Mental Health Foundation.
Passionate about mentoring, investing in relationships and supporting community arts and education, Vinita is recognized as one of the Most Influential Black Executives in Corporate America by Savoy, and was named to the Diversity Woman Elite 100, 10 Most Influential Human Resources Executives to Watch, and a trailblazer by Smart Business Columbus. She has also been featured in multiple podcasts and articles sharing corporate strategies on how to obtain engaged and productive workforces.
Dr. Kelly Richmond Pope is the Dr. Barry Jay Epstein Endowed Professor of Forensic Accounting at DePaul University in Chicago, IL. Pope is a nationally recognized expert in risk, forensic accounting, and white-collar crime research, and an award-winning educator, researcher, author, and award-winning documentary filmmaker. Pope teaches managerial and forensic accounting both at the undergraduate and graduate level.
In 2020, the AICPA and the CPA Practice Advisor named Dr. Pope among the top 25 most powerful women in accounting. Her area of expertise lies in understanding and identifying financial fraud risk within financial statements, assessing corporate culture and compliance systems designed to confront internal control challenges. Pope’s research on executive misconduct culminated in directing and producing the award-winning documentary, All the Queen’s Horses which explores the largest municipal fraud in U.S. history. Pope’s TED Talk entitled “How Whistle-blowers Shape History” has been viewed over 1.6 million times, translated into 20 languages, and serves as a resource to help organizations and individuals embrace internal whistleblowing.