Mrs. Michelle C. Ifill, Esq.

After a 25-year career at Verizon and its predecessor companies, Michelle retired as SVP and General Counsel to focus on her executive and career coaching business, McIfill Consulting, LLC.

As General Counsel, she provided senior executive teams with guidance on strategic planning and execution, cyber security and data privacy, crisis management, internal corporate investigations and integration facilitation, among other areas.

Throughout her career, Michelle has focused on issues of equity, inclusion and belonging and is a founder and former Co-Chair of the (formerly MCI) Verizon Legal Diversity & Inclusion Council. In that role, she created initiatives aimed at increasing and retaining the representation of diverse populations within Big Law and was also a proponent for the expansion of pro bono opportunities.

Mr. Brian Siegel

Brian is a principal in Deloitte Consulting LLP’s Government & Public Services (GPS) practice with 25 years of experience in both the public and private sectors. He is a leader in Deloitte’s Shared Services practice serving both providers and customers, specializing in a range of offerings from assessment and design to implementation and optimization. He has led projects addressing technological change, process improvement, insourcing, enterprise
resource planning implementations, and financial management operating models. Brian takes a results-driven and pragmatic approach to project delivery that pushes the “art of the possible.”

Clients have included the Department of Defense, Department of Homeland Security, Department of the Interior, and General Services Administration, among others. Brian has a BA in Government from the University of Virginia and a Master of Public Affairs from the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas.
Brian currently serves on the Foundation

Board of the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy at the University of Virginia.