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21SEPTEMBER 17, 2020*Tom Linebarger Chairman & CEO Cummins, Inc.

OCTOBER 5, 2020*Dr. Michael McRobbie PresidentIndiana University

NOVEMBER 9, 2020*Michael Abramowitz President & CEOFreedom House

DECEMBER 1, 2020*A’Lelia BundlesAuthorOn Her Own Ground

JANUARY 20, 2021Tony BatesChief Executive OfficerGenesys

FEBRUARY 11, 2021Adam SilverCommissionerNBA

MARCH 22, 2021Gail BoudreauxPresident & CEOAnthem, Inc.

APRIL 28, 2021 David RicksChairman & CEOEli Lilly and Company

MAY 2021Mike TiricoSportscasterNBC Sports

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September 17, 2020Tom LinebargerChairman & CEOCummins, Inc.

Our season kicks off with the Chairman & CEO of Cummins, Inc., Tom Linebarger. Based in Columbus, IN, Cummins is the world’s largest independent maker of diesel engines and related products. Linebarger’s career with Cummins began with an internship on the manufacturing line at the Midrange Engine plant in Walesboro, IN. Before taking the helm in 2012, he served many leadership roles including President & COO, Power Generation Business Executive VP & President, VP & Chief Financial Officer, and Supply Chain Management VP. With a mission of making people’s lives better by powering a more prosperous world, Cummins not only invests in enhancing its product portfolio, but people. This mission has served as the foundation guiding Cummins’ response, under Linebarger’s leadership, to current world events.

Since July 2007, Michael A. McRobbie has served as the 18th president of one of the largest universities in the United States, Indiana University. Since coming to IU in 1997 he served in multiple roles including Vice President for Information Technology and Chief Information Officer in 1997, Vice President for Research in 2003, and Interim Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs for IU’s Bloomington campus in 2006. While President, McRobbie has led Indiana University though a major expansion in the size, quality, and diversity of its student body, including the largest academic restructuring in its history. Most recently, IU celebrated it’s Bicentennial in January of 2020 and under McRobbie’s leadership achieved their ambitions goal of raising $3 billion in the largest fundraising campaign in IU’s history.

October 5, 2020Dr. Michael McRobbiePresidentIndiana University

November 9, 2020Michael AbramowitzPresident & CEO Freedom House

How free are people across the globe? Is democracy in retreat? Michael Abramowitz can tell you. He is President and CEO of Freedom House, an independent watchdog organization dedicated to the expansion of freedom and democracy around the world. Freedom House has been measuring political rights and civil liberties in every country for nearly 50 years and shares these findings annually in the Freedom in the World report. Prior to joining Freedom House in February 2017, Abramowitz spent more than 20 years at The Washington Post as National Editor and then White House Correspondent before becoming Director of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Levine Institute for Holocaust Education, leading the museum’s genocide prevention efforts and public education programs.

February 11, 2021Adam SilverCommissionerNBA

For almost thirty years, Adam Silver has been a part of the NBA. In February 2014, he was unanimously elected by the NBA Board of Governors to serve as the NBA Commissioner where he presides over a global sports and media business built around four professional sports leagues: the National Basketball Association, Women’s National Basketball Association, NBA G League and NBA 2K League. He has served in numerous positions in the NBA over the years, dedicating his career to growing basketball around the world, embracing innovation and new technologies, increasing transparency and using basketball to bring people together and promote health and fitness. Silver has been recognized by Sports Business Journal, being given the top ranking on its list of the 50 Most Influential People in Sports Business in 2015.

January 20, 2021Tony BatesChief Executive Officer Genesys

Tony Bates, Chief Executive Officer of Genesys, leads the company’s strategy, direction and operations in more than 100 countries and oversees a global team of more than 5,000 employees. Bates has decades of experience steering business-to-business and business-to-consumer companies through major market transitions and rapid scaling. Tony began his career in network operations and internet infrastructure, teaching himself to code during his daily train commute. He swiftly gained the business acumen to advance into trusted executive roles at some of the world’s most respected global SaaS companies. He also led Cisco’s Service Provider business, growing its Enterprise and Commercial division to more than $20 billion in annual revenue and was CEO of Skype, where he was responsible for expanding the business to over 170 million connected users.

December 1, 2020A’Lelia BundlesJournalist & Author

A’Lelia Bundles is an award-winning Journalist and Author, as well as the Founder of the Madam Walker Family Archives. A former network Television News Executive and Producer, she has appeared on ABC, NBC, CBS, PBS, C-Span, NPR and BBC. As an author, she has written biographies about the amazing women in her family: entrepreneur Madam C. J. Walker and Harlem Renaissance icon A’Lelia Walker. On Her Own Ground: The Life and Times of Madam C. J. Walker is a New York Times Notable Book and served as the non-fiction source for Self Made, the fictionalized four-part Netflix series starring Oscar-winner Octavia Spencer that premiered on March 20, 2020. She is at work on her fifth book, The Joy Goddess of Harlem: A’Lelia Walker and the Harlem Renaissance, about her great-grandmother whose parties, arts patronage and travels helped define the era.

Gail Boudreaux is President & CEO of Anthem, Inc., a Fortune 500 company and leading health benefits provider, serving nearly 41 million insured members through its affiliated health plans. In total, Anthem serves over 79 million lives across 27 states through its broad portfolio of health insurance and services subsidiaries. Throughout her more than three decades in the healthcare industry, Boudreaux has established an outstanding record of successfully leading multi-billion dollar businesses by serving as CEO of United Healthcare, Executive Vice President of Health Care Services Corporation as well as President of Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Illinois. Don’t miss this opportunity to hear insight from one of Forbes 100 Most Powerful Women in the World and Fortune Magazine’s Most Powerful Women in Business.

March 22, 2021Gail BoudreauxPresident & CEO Anthem, Inc.

April 28, 2021David RicksChairman & CEOEli Lilly and Company

Dave Ricks is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Eli Lilly and Company. He was elected Chairman of the company’s board effective June 2017. Over the span of his 20 year career with Eli Lilly, he has held high leadership roles with Lilly Bio-Medicines, Lilly USA , Lilly China, and Lilly Canada. Dave joined Lilly in 1996 as a Business Development Associate and held several management roles in U.S. marketing and sales before traveling the globe. He also serves in leadership roles on multiple philanthropic boards including International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers & Associations (IFPMA), Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA), Central Indiana Corporate Partnership, Adobe, and Riley Children’s Foundation.

At this season’s finale, NBC Sports’ Mike Tirico brings to the stage his unparalleled sports knowledge, journalistic savvy and a connection with the audience that is unmatched. Tirico is host of NBC’s Football Night in America – the most-watched studio show in sports — and has worked sports’ most high-profile events, including the Olympics, the Stanley Cup Final, horse racing’s Triple Crown, The Masters, French Open and of course the Indianapolis 500 , just to name a few. After 25 years at ESPN/ABC he joined NBC Sports Group in 2016. During his time with ESPN, he established himself as a preeminent broadcaster, was the play-by-play voice for Monday Night Football, and in 2010 was named the “Sportscaster of the Year” by his peers at the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association.

May 2021Mike TiricoSportscasterNBC Sports

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