Brett Wells helps large organizations shape outcomes—not slides. With 27 years leading Oracle Cloud and SAP S/4HANA programs, hebuilds the governance, process, data, and AI layers that make ERP stick: program control towers, country activation kits, value tracking, and regression discipline. A frequent keynote speaker, Brett partners with executive sponsors to align strategy to execution and prove value early—improving reliability, compliance, and ROI across petrochemicals, energy, and financial services. Brett has led and or delivered over 31 multi-national ERP implementations.

• Lead architect for front, middle, and back-office modernization across Oracle Cloud (ERP, SCM, MFG, OTC) and SAP S/4HANA (including SAP RISE and BTP).
  
• Specializes in defining and delivering digital core strategies that unify operations, finance, customer experience, and supply chain for global enterprises.
  
• Expert in embedding Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), and Robotic Process Automation (RPA) into enterprisesystems to drive intelligent operations.
  
• Business architect across Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), AWS, Azure, and GCP, aligning multi-cloud strategies to business goals and regulatory frameworks.
  
• PgMP-certified leader and former Accenture IPC Delivery Executive, with experience driving enterprise-wide programs across industries.
  
• Expert in creating ROI-driven business cases and monetization frameworks for large-scale cloud and AI transformations.
  
  

Greg Derderian
Senior Vice President, CFO Advisory

Greg is a seasoned finance transformation and consulting leader with an extensive track record of helping CFOs modernize finance operating models, elevate decision-making, and embed technology and AI into the core of enterprise performance. As CFO Advisory Leader at RGP (Nasdaq: RGP)—recognized by Forbes as one of America’s Best Management Consulting Firms for four consecutive years—Greg leads the firm’s CFO Advisory services, a core growth engine within the Consulting business. His role marks a strategic investment in scaling RGP’s CFO Advisory practice, reinforcing the firm’s commitment to integrating Finance and Digital transformation under a unified leadership model.

RGP’s CFO Advisory practice spans finance transformation, ERP value realization, AI-ready finance, supply chain optimization, M&A integration, risk and compliance, tax and treasury, and enterprise project and change management. Greg is responsible for delivering repeatable, outcome-driven solutions across these interconnected priorities, providing CFOs and their C-suite partners with holistic, scalable support across the transformation lifecycle—from advisory through execution and ongoing operations.

Prior to joining RGP, Greg served as Senior Partner and Global CFO Transformation and Consulting Leader at Genpact, where he led a global practice focused on reimagining finance operations at enterprise scale. Before Genpact, he served as a Partner at EY, where he held senior leadership roles in finance management consulting, advising global enterprises on modernizing finance functions while maintaining operational rigor and regulatory compliance.

Widely recognized for balancing governance, efficiency, and strategic impact, Greg champions transformation that is not only visionary but also durable. His approach connects finance strategy, technology enablement, and operational execution—ensuring transformation creates lasting, measurable business value for clients navigating compressed M&A timelines, ERP modernization, AI enablement, data governance, and margin pressure simultaneously.

Danny Boyer
Sr. Vice President, Global M&A Practice Leader

Successful M&A professional with 20 years of experience, building and leading cross-functional advisory teams, partnering with corporate and private equity clients to drive value creation through complex transformations and transactions across the lifecycle, spanning strategy, diligence, and execution. As Global Head of M&A, he leads RGP’s M&A offering across the full transaction lifecycle, from financial and operational due diligence through Day 1 readiness, integration, separation, and long-term post-close optimization. His leadership reinforces RGP’s differentiated model: aligning finance, technology, operations, and data under a single, accountable framework to ensure strategy translates into measurable execution. 

Danny has partnered with client executives to shape and lead 100+ transactions and related transformation efforts ranging in size from $300M asset deals to $35B+ global integrations and separations. Selected experience includes:

• $7B Parallel Integrations –Shaped and led multiple acquisitions doubling size of business, and established post-close transformation roadmap, business case, operating model and supported implementation.
  
  
• $1.3B Carve-out Strategy and Stand-up –Shaped, sold and led PE backed stand-up of new business working directly with CEO and PEboard to set strategy, stand-up new business processes, systems, and design/recruit/onboard organization.
  
  
• $10B Integration, Performance Improvement, & Separation –Shaped and led multiple programs over 7 years building business (multiple acquisitions), driving cost reduction during downturn, and eventual exit through parallel divestitures.
  
  
• $4B Integration and International Business Stand-up –Shaped and led mobilization and execution of $4B integration across 20+ workstreams and multiple additional asset deals. Advised on international expansion strategy and stand-up of international business in Mexico (first among peers). Developed M&A playbook for future transactions.
  
  
• $30B Global Separation –Led separation across 34 workstreams. Set strategy, roadmap, plans, designed operating model/organization, analyzed costs/dis-synergies, and managed separation execution in preparation for IPO.
  
  
• Enterprise Performance Improvement –Architected and led multiple lean-based operations improvement assessments, identified and developed plans to achieve >$300M in margin and >$500M in working capital benefit, across 4 continents.

M. Steven Bender 
Senior Advisor to the President and Chief Executive Officer

Mr. Bender is the Senior Advisor to the President and Chief Executive Officer of Westlake Corporation since June 2026. Prior to assuming this role, he served as Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer for Westlake Chemical Corporation since 2008. In addition, Mr. Bender was also the Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Director of Westlake Chemical Partners LP since its formation in 2014.

From 2002 until 2005, Mr. Bender served as Vice President and Treasurer of KBR, Inc., and from 1996 to 2002 he held various senior Finance positions for Halliburton Company. Additionally, he was employed by Texas Eastern Corporation for over a decade in a variety of increasingly responsible audit, finance and treasury positions.

Mr. Bender received a Bachelor of Business Administration from Texas A&M University and an M.B.A. from Southern Methodist University. Mr. Bender is also a Certified Public Accountant.

Srinivas Venneti
Managing Director with Deloitte Consulting LLP

Srinivas Venneti is a Managing Director with Deloitte Consulting LLP and a senior finance transformation leader with 26 years of experience leading large, complex, global ERP transformations for many Fortune 500 companies. Srinivas advises CFOs and finance organizations on how to modernize the finance function through Cloud ERP, automation, and AI. With deep experience helping large, complex organizations navigate enterprise-wide change, Srinivas brings a practical perspective on how to build the right data, technology, and operating model foundation for scalable transformation. Srinivas helps finance leaders cut through the noise to understand where AI is delivering value today, where other automation tools are the better fit, and how to prioritize investments for measurable business impact. Srinivas is focused on helping organizations improve efficiency, strengthen decision-making, and drive lasting value from finance transformation.

Nicole Sherwood
Senior Finance Director
American Bureau of Shipping 

Nicole Sherwood is a senior finance leader with more than 25 years of professional experience driving transformation, building scalable organizations, and improving enterprise performance. At ABS, she has led the development of first-of-their-kind finance capabilities that strengthened commercial discipline, improved service delivery, and enabled more efficient global operations. She currently leads commercial finance operations and is recognized for translating strategy into execution, building high-performing teams, and delivering measurable impact across growth, margin, and operational effectiveness.

Chris Delange 
Senior Partner
NewVista Advisory Group 

Chris is a Senior Partner at NewVista Advisory Group with over 20 years of finance and accounting leadership experience. He has a proven track record in business transformation and a unique blend of expertise in finance, accounting, process improvement, cash forecasting, financial planning and analysis, and project management. Chris’s industry expertise spans the entire energy landscape (upstream, downstream, midstream, services, chemicals, and utilities) and includes exposure to technology and software companies. Over the past decade, he has held senior finance leadership positions at Callon Petroleum and Carrizo Oil & Gas.

Previously, Chris spent 10 years in professional services at EY, FTI, and Booz Allen, where he provided post-merger integration services, process improvement, internal control guidance, and support during financial distress and restructuring. Chris holds an MBA from the University of Chicago, a Masters of Accounting from the University of Virginia, and a bachelor’s degree in Economics from Brigham Young University. He is also a licensed CPA in Texas and California. 

Jennifer Whalen
Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer
Bristow Group Inc

Jennifer Whalen is serving as Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer for the Bristow Group Inc. beginning June 2020. The CFO role is responsible for overseeing our Information Technology department, company accounting, decision support, financial reporting, internal audit, investor relations, strategy and M&A, and tax, and other financial functions of the Company.

Kristy Manteris
Managing Director and Leadership Advisor
The Siegfried Group

Outside of work, Kristy is actively involved in the Houston community and serves on several local committees. She is a proud mother of four daughters and enjoys coaching soccer, volunteering as room mom, and staying closely involved in her daughters’ activities. Kristy has traveled to all seven continents and has a goal of traveling more with her family as well as spending more time on the golf course to improve her game.

Will Braeutigam

US Capital Markets Transactions Leader

Deloitte & Touche LLP

 

Will is the US Capital Markets Transactions Leader at Deloitte. In this role, he leads the firm's efforts related to companies seeking public capital or debt. He has extensive venture capital and private equity experience. His team has served hundreds of companies completing capital market transactions. The team focuses on helping companies meet their strategic goals and objectives in a dynamic market and ever-changing regulatory environment.

Will also has several leadership roles including serving on the firm’s mergers, acquisitions, and restructuring services executive committee, and leading the firm’s accounting advisory services offering.

Kathy Pattillo

Managing Partner 

Boyden and Global Practice Leader for Financial Officers 

Kathy Pattillo is a Managing Partner at Boyden and Global Practice Leader for Financial Officers. She brings over 20 years of executive search and consulting experience, with a strategic, big-picture perspective on how finance leaders evolve into enterprise leaders who drive transformation, growth, and long-term value. 

 

Kathy focuses on recruiting C-suite executives and board leaders across industries including energy, industrial, EPC, healthcare, and private equity-backed companies. She works closely with clients to assess leadership teams, business strategy, and culture, placing executives who align with organizational goals and accelerate performance. Her experience spans public, private, and sponsor-backed environments, with deep expertise supporting CFOs and leadership teams through IPOs, M&A, operational improvement, and business transformation initiatives. 

 

Kathy earned her Bachelor of Business Administration in Finance and Management from Texas Christian University and has completed advanced continuing education through the National Association of Corporate Directors. She is actively involved in board and advisory roles, including work with the Texas Hearing Institute, Moore & Shelton Co., Ltd, and industry organizations. Beyond the office, Kathy enjoys spending time with her family, boating, and staying engaged in the Houston business and philanthropic community.