Mark is a Partner in Berry Appleman & Leiden LLP’s Dallas office. Mark represents clients ranging from startups to Fortune 500 companies in the IT, health and medical research, engineering, transportation, and pharmaceutical industries. He focuses on providing corporations with strategic advice and insight while they seek to hire and retain global talent. As the son of two immigrant parents, Mark uses his family’s experiences to carefully navigate clients through the US immigration system.  

Partnering with corporate HR and legal teams, Mark develops immigration sponsorship and compliance programs, and aligns services with business operations. He advises companies on the impact of corporation reorganizations and mergers and acquisitions. Mark also advises researchers and health care professionals on EB-1, PERM, Physician NIW, and Conrad 30 J-1 waivers. Mark has extensive experience with health care immigration and has represented both institutional clients and individual physicians. 

Identifying innovative approaches and improved solutions to business challenges both motivate and drive me. Observation, inspiration, and determination are my foundation for success. My philosophy is that introducing fresh perspectives and new techniques allow businesses to evolve and grow. My goal is to remain on the cutting-edge of advancements. My successes have stemmed from essential skills, including organizational development and employee relations. I have enhanced my collaboration abilities and cultivated a reputation as a major contributor through motivation. I am a team player who is always searching for opportunities to impart valuable insights. With these qualities, I am able to facilitate positive change and impacting outcomes.

Alessandra Henderson is the Co-Founder & CEO of Elektra Health, a next-gen women's healthcare platform on a mission to smash the menopause taboo. Elektra empowers the 50M women navigating menopause in the US – and the millions more abroad – with evidence-based education, care & community. Prior to Elektra, Alessandra spent 10+ years building early stage consumer businesses from the ground up at Artsy, the MIT NYC Startup Studio, and Human Ventures. She holds a B.A. from Vanderbilt University and MBA from Sloan MIT, where she received the Martin Trust Community Fellow Award and the Patrick McGovern Entrepreneurship Award. Her work has been covered by The NY Times, Fast Company, Techcrunch, the Financial Times and more.

Andrea began her career building a tech startup from $10k in seed monies to a multi-million-dollar organization in only 8 years. She went onto serve as the first female corporate executive at multiple global companies, and an I-CORPS certified instructor with the University of Iowa’s Startup Incubator. Trained as a behavioral scientist, Andrea founded a customer-centric strategic differentiation firm, serving multi-billion-dollar companies. She is a published author, contributor to Harvard Business Review, and is a TEDx Speaker.

David Setzkorn CPCU, leads HUB’s Workforce Absence Management team and has over 14 years’ experience working in the absence management space as a subject matter expert on Leave Administration in the United States and Canada.  His experience includes consultation and development of Integrated Absence Management programs that include implementation, training, and ongoing compliance with state and federal regulations. He is responsible for helping clients create unique time away from work programs that ensure that when an employer experiences an absence, they have the right programs in place to handle the absence and successfully return the employee to work.  

Jeff Faber is the Chief Strategy Officer for Hub International.  His role is to put better ideas in the heads of our consultants and customers. 

In his 20+ years of broad-based consulting, which ranged from pension actuarial work to executive compensation to HRIS and healthcare, he learned that the success of an employer’s benefits offering is unique to a workplace and deeply interconnected to culture, company branding and individual talent. 

He is responsible for the development and execution of cutting-edge tools, enabling cost-containment strategies with minimum friction, and deploying risk-reduction and employment-enhancing initiatives.  At Hub, he creates quality employee experiences.

Global CDO, consultant, speaker and author Janet M. Stovall helps business dismantle systemic inequity to leverage the power of diversity.  Global Head of DEI at NeuroLeadership Institute, and founder of DEI consultancy, Pragmatic Diversity, Janet specializes in shaping and implementing realistic DEI visions and strategies that drive change and build culture. Collectively, her three TED talks challenging business to get serious about inclusion have nearly 3 million views, and she is co-author of Amazon bestseller, The Conscious Communicator: The Fine Art of Not Saying Stupid Sh*t.

Tim Mousseau, the founder of Create Safe, has consulted and trained over 400 global organizations. Tim's mission centers around creating people-first spaces where everyone feels safe enough to show up authentically and share their creative ideas. Tim blends original research, shares vulnerably about his experiences as a survivor of workplace sexual harassment, and uses deliberate engagement to help create more human organizations that feel safer and welcoming for everyone. 

 Building off original research with 1500+ participants, Tim has designed a customizable framework and identified realistic tactics to stop any form of harm, cultivate feelings of safety, and create human-centered cultures.