Norman M. Brothers, Jr, EVP & Chief Legal and Compliance Officer, UPS

Norm is a seasoned C-Suite Executive at a Fortune 50 company with 25 years of experience advising public companies. He currently serves as Executive Vice President, Chief Legal and Compliance Officer for UPS, a transportation and logistics company with over $90B in revenue operating in 200+ countries and with 500,000 employees. He leads UPS’s global labor relations, audit and compliance, privacy, security, and legal functions along with advising the UPS Board of Directors on governance matters as corporate secretary. He also has previously managed the public affairs and information security teams at UPS.

Labor Relations 

At UPS, who has the largest unionized workforce in the world, Norm developed and executed the company’s strategy in its recent, successful national negotiations with the Teamsters that resulted in a win-win contract without business interruption. He also plays a key role in maintaining non-union status in the strategically important portions of UPS’s business, including Healthcare and Supply Chain Solutions, which are not unionized.  

Audit, Compliance, and Security

Norm leads a combined internal audit and compliance team that has responsibility for overseeing global programs for anticorruption, antitrust, aviation security and physical security, to include all complex investigations. He directly supervises UPS’s chief audit executive and the auditing of UPS’s financial statements and control environment, with a concomitant understanding of all audit committee functions, internal controls over financial reporting, GAAP and financial statements, qualifying him as a financial expert for section 407 purposes. 

Risk Management

Norm has aligned UPS’s security, legal, audit and compliance functions to pool data and use analytics to better identify trends to move upstream in global enterprise risk mitigation and prevention. He manages the company’s enterprise risk management process.  He also led UPS’s efforts to develop and implement global incident response plans, including cybersecurity incident response, remediation, and information security governance. 

International 

At UPS, Norm worked in its international business for over 10 years, during which time UPS grew international operations both organically and through acquisition into a strategically important, high growth, high margin core part of the business. 

Education, Prior Work History, Military and Board Service 

Norm received his undergraduate degree from the University of Pennsylvania and his law degree from the Emory University School of Law. He has attended executive education courses at the Yale School of Management and the Wharton School. Norm served on active duty as a Captain in the US Army, where he was a military prosecutor. He practiced as a litigator at the international law firm of King & Spalding. Norm serves on the Board of Directors of Reach for Excellence, the Board of Trustees of Marist School, The Annie E. Casey Foundation, and the Atlanta Police Foundation. He was the former Chair of the Emory University Board of Visitors and the Georgia Justice Project. 

Kasey Chow, Director, Corporate Strategy, Southern Company Gas

Kasey Chow is the Director of Corporate Strategy for Southern Company Gas. In this role, she is responsible for developing corporate strategy, planning, and engagement connected to policy and programs supporting the Company’s governmental, regulatory, environmental, and commercial/economic development initiatives and opportunities. This role involves directing corporate activities on a broad array of policy and economic priorities that impact the Company and recommending a strategic approach to engage business leadership in identifying and prioritizing initiatives that support key business, economic, and regulatory objectives.

Kasey joined Southern Company in 2015 as a Regulatory Attorney supporting Southern Linc. She was responsible for federal regulatory, legislative, and external affairs, including policy advocacy and business development opportunities related to spectrum, roaming, broadband, privacy, cyber and data security, and net neutrality. In 2021, she became Senior Counsel for Southern Company Gas, where she was responsible for legal support on state regulatory, governmental, and legislative matters, such as ratemaking proceedings, sustainable gas initiatives, capacity projects, legislation implementation, and regulatory compliance.

She most recently served as Assistant To the Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer Grace Kolvereid and the Executive Vice President & Chief External and Public Affairs Officer Bryan Batson. In that role, she helped develop and implement vision and strategy, provided trusted advice and counsel to leaders, managed multiple complex cross-functional projects, and coordinated strategic business initiatives.

Prior to joining Southern Company, Kasey spent five years in private law practice, specializing in corporate transactional, regulatory, and telecom matters, including federal and state regulatory representation, startup consulting, business creation, compliance strategy, settlement negotiations, corporate governance, and regulatory M&A. 

Kasey holds a JD and MBA from Emory University’s School of Law and Goizueta Business School. She received a BA in International Studies and Psychology from Emory University as well. She studied abroad at Oxford University and Singapore Management University. Kasey is licensed to practice law in Georgia and currently serves on the boards of the

Georgia Asian Pacific American Bar Association (GAPABA) and the GAPABA Law Foundation. 

Kasey has a passion for community and service. She was Founding Chair of Southern Linc’s Inclusion Action Team, served on SCS Operations’ Inclusion Advisory Council and Southern Company’s DE+I Working Group, and has served as an ERG leader since 2016. She’s a member of GAPABA, GAWL, LCLD, NAAAP-Atlanta, WEN, and OnBoard, and is an avid supporter of AAAJ-Atlanta, GAIN, We Love BuHi, and PAWS Atlanta.  Originally from Huntsville, AL, Kasey has been in Atlanta since 2003. Kasey lives in  Decatur, GA with her partner, Daniel, and their rescue dog, Koya.

Amy Chua, John M. Duff, Jr. Professor of Law, Yale Law School

Amy Chua is the John M. Duff, Jr. Professor of Law at Yale Law School.   The daughter of Chinese immigrants from the Fujian province who grew up in the Philippines, Amy was born in Champaign, Illinois and raised in the Bay Area.] She graduated magna cum laude from Harvard College, and cum laude from Harvard Law School, where she was the first Asian American Executive Editor of the Harvard Law Review.  After practicing on Wall Street for a few years, she joined the Yale Law School faculty in 2001 and is a noted expert in the areas of foreign policy, globalization, and ethnic conflict.

Amy is the bestselling author of numerous books, including World on Fire: How Exporting Free Market Democracy Breeds Ethnic Hatred and Global Instability (2002), which was selected by both The Economist and the U.K.’s Guardian as a Best Book of 2003; Day of Empire: How Hyperpowers Rise to Global Dominance – and Why They Fall (2007); The Triple Package: How Three Unlikely Traits Explain the Rise and Fall of Cultural Groups in America (2013); and Political Tribes: Group Instinct and the Fate of Nations (2018). Her 2011 memoir Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother was a runaway international bestseller that has been translated into 30 languages.  Most recently, Amy published her debut novel, The Golden Gate, with Minotaur/St. Martin’s Press in September 2023.

[OPTIONAL: Professor Chua has lectured widely around the world, including at the World Bank, the Aspen Ideas Festival, the Brookings Institution, the World Knowledge Forum in Seoul, and the World Economic Forum in Davos.]

In 2011, she was named one of Time magazine’s 100 most influential people in the world, one of the Atlantic Monthly’s Brave Thinkers, and one of Foreign Policy’sGlobal Thinkers.  She is also a multiple-time recipient of Yale Law School’s “Best Teaching” award.

Timothy Wang, Managing Director, Delta Connection, Delta Air Lines

Timothy Wang is a Managing Director at Delta Air Lines, where he leads the operational and commercial teams for the Delta Connection division. Previously, Timothy served as Managing Director and Associate General Counsel, leading the team responsible for providing legal strategy and support on technology, commercial, and intellectual property matters across Delta’s global operations. With over 20 years of legal and business experience, Timothy is a seasoned executive with a proven track record of delivering results. 

Timothy is active in the community, and is the immediate past-President of the Georgia Asian Pacific American Bar Association and one of the founders of the National AAPI Crime Victims and Education Fund. Timothy also serves on the executive committees of the Atlanta Bar Foundation, the Clayton County Chamber of Commerce, and the Metro Atlanta Regional Business Coalition.

Amara Walker, Anchor and Correspondent, CNN

Amara Walker is an Emmy-award winning anchor and correspondent based at the network’s global headquarters in Atlanta, where she co-anchors CNN This Morning Weekend with Victor Blackwell and Amara Walker and and CNN Newsroom on CNN Max and CNN International, airing Mondays, Tuesdays, and Wednesdays beginning at 8aET.

Walker began her career at CNN as an anchor for CNN International in 2013. During her time with CNNI, she distinguished herself as one of the lead breaking news anchors having covered a number of live major international news events.

In 2024, Walker was awarded an Emmy for her breaking news coverage of the Israel-Hamas War, which began October 7, 2023.

As a CNN correspondent, Walker reported on the 2021 Atlanta spa massacre and the subsequent outcry from the Asian-American community against the increasing hate and racist incidents due to misplaced blame for the Covid-19 pandemic and Donald Trump’s rhetoric. She also co-hosted a primetime special with Anderson Cooper, Victor Blackwell, and Ana Cabrera, called “Afraid: Fear in America’s Communities of Color.”

During the 2020 Presidential election and the Georgia Senate runoff, Walker was part of the election night team reporting on President Trump’s repeated attacks against the Georgia Secretary of State baselessly claiming fraud. Her subsequent reports focused on the investigations into Trump’s phone call pressuring the Secretary to “find” more votes after his loss to Joe Biden. She also reported on the presidential vote recount in Georgia.

Walker anchored the network’s coverage of the ongoing humanitarian and political crisis in Venezuela; and the large-scale demonstrations against a controversial extradition bill in Hong Kong in June 2019, helming the network’s rolling coverage of protesters storming the city’s Legislative Council building in June 2019. Walker was also live on the air as a fire ripped through Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris in April 2019.

Other major live events Walker has anchored include the truck terrorist attacks in Nice, France and the Berlin Christmas market in 2016, the 2017 La Rambla van attack in Barcelona, the attempted coup in Turkey in 2016, the 2015 deaths of Singapore’s founding father Lee Kuan Yew and Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah, the death of Ariel Sharon, the South Korea Sewol ferry disaster, the historic double canonization of John XXIII and John Paul II, the search for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 and the referendum in Crimea, which led to Russia’s annexation of the Ukrainian region. She was also live on the air as security forces stormed Kiev’s Independence Square, which ultimately led to the crisis in Ukraine. In 2014, Walker led the network’s initial coverage of the Ottawa shootings at the Canadian Parliament which was simulcast on CNN and CNN International. Walker was nominated for an Emmy award for her breaking news coverage of the Manchester Arena bombing attack during an Ariana Grande concert in 2017. Additionally, Walker provided updates on Anderson Cooper’s AC360’s “360 Bulletin.”

Walker previously served as a news anchor and general assignment reporter at WFLD in Chicago. While there, she reported from President Barack Obama’s re-election campaign headquarters during the 2012 U.S. presidential election. She also covered the 2012 Chicago teachers’ strike that shut down the public school system for eight days. In addition, she contributed numerous reports on the violence plaguing the south side of Chicago.

Prior to Chicago, Walker spent seven years at WTVJ in Miami as a weekend evening news anchor and general assignment reporter. During her time there, she reported on major national and international stories including the capture and killing of Osama bin Laden, the 2012 Florida Republican primary, the 2006 NBA championship and the 2010 governor’s race in Florida. In the summer of 2005, she reported from New Orleans and Mississippi as Hurricane Katrina was bearing down on the South. After the earthquake struck Haiti in January 2010, Walker traveled to the country to cover the devastation.

Born and raised outside of Los Angeles, Walker graduated Magna Cum Laude with a dual degree in political science and broadcast journalism from the University of Southern California. She speaks conversational Korean and Spanish.

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