Damon Jones leads efforts to ensure the world’s leading CPG company is force for good and a force for growth. Leveraging P&G’s significant industry influence and convening power, he drives a broad portfolio of communications and advocacy efforts aimed at achieving equality for women, people of color, members of the LGBT+ community and other under-represented groups.

 He leads a team responsible for P&G’s corporate communications, digital and social media, stakeholder engagement and crisis management.  Beyond his advocacy leadership at the world’s largest advertiser, Jones drives collaboration on topics on equity and inclusion across the Fortune 500 through efforts such as CEO Action for Diversity & Inclusion, Take on Race and the Executive Leadership Council’s Gamechanger Initiative.

 Over the last 20 years at P&G, Jones has had responsibility for a diverse set of geographic, organizational and product portfolios – with assignments in Boston, Geneva, London and Singapore – with efforts broadly recognized as some of the industry’s best with Silver Anvil’s, Cannes Lions and a Primetime Commercial Emmy.

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Mark Walker started his career in finance management in North Carolina in 1991. In 1999, Walker earned a theology degree followed by a 16 year career as an ordained minister. In 2014, Walker stepped away from ministry and made a successful run for Congress. After arriving in Congress, Walker became the only member in their first term to be elected by his colleagues as Chairman of the RSC - the largest caucus in Congress. Walker served on House Administration, Education & Labor Committees, House Oversight and on Homeland Security, serving as the ranking member on Intelligence and Counterterrorism Subcommittee. Walker created the HBCU Fly-in attended by more 80 Chancellors from HBCU's across the country. Walker also worked with Congresswoman Alma Adams to launch the paid internship from program for college students and Walker is a frequent speaker on his work on Criminal Justice Reform. In addition, Congressman Walker served with Senator James Lankford as Co-Chair of the bi-cameral Prayer Caucus.

Veta T. Richardson has been president & CEO of ACC since 2011. During her tenure, she has been responsible for working with the ACC Board and Staff on strategies that have substantially grown ACC’s membership, expanded its global footprint, and launched key advocacy efforts like, Seat at the Table which focuses on the position and credibility of the general counsel in the C-Suite, as well as ACC’s investments in research and benchmarking, credentialing and legal operations. Prior to being named ACC CEO, Veta was a nationally recognized thought leader regarding diversity and inclusion in the legal sector, serving as an advisor to three U.S. Presidential Administrations (Clinton, Bush, Obama) and garnering multiple awards for best-in-class programs while she was executive director of the Minority Corporate Counsel Association. Before becoming a chief executive in the nonprofit sector, Veta was in-house counsel to a Fortune-50 energy company where she went to work right out of law school for one of ACC’s founding general counsel at the Sunoco law department in Philadelphia, where she grew up. She has experience leading multi-billion-dollar M&A transactions, corporate financings, securities disclosure, and investor communications, as well as corporate governance issues.

In addition to serving as chief executive at ACC, Veta sits on the Strategic Advisory Board of Ethisphere, Inc., a for-profit corporation that advances business integrity, compliance, and ethics as a strategic advantage and annually selects The World’s Most Ethical Companies. She has expertise in the area of corporate governance and is a Fellow of the National Association of Corporate Directors, holds the NACD Certified Directorship Credential, and was named to the prestigious Directorship 100 list four times. Veta is also a board member of the John L. Weinberg Center for Corporate Governance at the University of Delaware and an Adjunct Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center where she co-teaches the course, In-House Counsel: Law and Practice. She received a B.S. in Business Management and a J.D. from the University of Maryland.