The Global Summit

Byron Loflin is the Global Head of Board Advisory at Nasdaq where he leads the governance team in driving board and governance effectiveness. Byron founded Center for Board Excellence (CBE) in 2010 and was CEO until it was acquired by Nasdaq in 2019. Prior to CBE, Byron was the CEO and president for two private companies between 1992-2009. Byron is the architect and developer of a governance platform and tools used by thousands of board members globally.

Along with speaking on and teaching corporate governance effectiveness, Byron has co-authored the book CEO Ready with Mark Thompson and being published by Harvard Business Review, November 2025. The book draws insights from their over 25 years of experience with board dynamics including CEO succession. Byron is a graduate of James Madison University (BA) and Harvard Business School (OPM) and an active learner with several HBS Executive Education Certificates including Havard’s Board Effectiveness program.

Recently published:
Driving Excellence: Redefining AI Governance videocast with Steven Wolfe Pereira, July 2025
“Trust and the Interplay of Confidence and Accountability”, International Banker February 2025
“Enterprise Risk Management for Next-Gen Boards”, Nasdaq January 2025

Titi Cole is an experienced Board Director, Financial Services C-Suite Executive, and Global business leader. She serves on the Boards of Citigroup, (NYSE: C), and Datadog (NASDAQ: DDOG) a leading provider of cloud monitoring and security solutions.

In her last role at Citigroup, she was the CEO of Legacy Franchises and a member of the Executive Management Team where she managed and successfully divested the international consumer banking division with over 70,000 employees in 14 countries. Ms. Cole is known for her expertise in transforming large publicly traded financial institutions to deliver innovative solutions that drive growth. She is recognized in the financial services industry as a dynamic leader and for her skill at leading high-performing teams and delivering business results in fast-paced environments. She has more than 30 years of experience in the financial services, payments, and professional services industries, including six years at McKinsey & Company.

She is also a Board Trustee at CARE USA, Queens University of Charlotte, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, CFR, and The Executive Leadership Council, ELC. Ms. Cole serves as Executive Director of Development for the Sickle Cell Hope Alive Foundation, a nonprofit focused on improving awareness, support, and health outcomes for people living with Sickle Cell disease.

In her nearly 40 years in industry, Judy Marks has witnessed technological advances while applying emerging and mature technologies in a way that benefits society. She is leading Otis through a digital and cultural transformation that will drive its long-term success returning to an independent, publicly traded company. Otis is the world’s leading company for elevator and escalator manufacturing, installation and service.

Today, Otis is taking its deep knowledge of the hoistway and using it to create digital solutions that serve customers’ needs in an era of intelligent buildings. This includes IoT-based service solutions with proactive data analytics for predictive maintenance; advanced video analytics and dispatching systems to manage varying traffic patterns; and a new generation of elevators that are connected, data rich, safer, healthier, and more intelligent, efficient and comfortable than ever.

“Our 71,000 colleagues are on a journey together into the future,” she says. “We’re continuing to innovate, to find new business models, to serve customers with excellence and to disrupt ourselves to become an end-to-end enabler of passenger mobility in a taller, faster, smarter world.”

Judy joined Otis in October 2017 as President. She was appointed CEO in June 2019 and in April 2020 led the successful spin of Otis to an independent publicly traded company on the NYSE. In February 2022, Judy was also named Chair of Otis. Prior to Otis, she held senior leadership roles at three global icons – IBM, Lockheed Martin and Siemens AG where she served as CEO of both Siemens USA and Dresser-Rand, a Siemens business.

“People make a decision every day about what kind of work they’re going to do,” she says. “That’s what I love about Otis colleagues – we know that what we do matters. Across 200 countries and territories, we service over 2.3 million units and touch 2.3 billion people every day to keep the world moving.”

Judy serves on the Board of Directors of Otis Worldwide Corporation, Caterpillar Inc. and AdvanceCT. She is a member of the Business Roundtable and Chair of its Trade and International Committee, and a member of the U.S.-India CEO Forum. She earned a degree in electrical engineering from Lehigh University.

Janice Ellig, CEO of Ellig Group, works closely with CEOs, boards, and C-suite executives to assess and place top talent, ensuring alignment with a company’s strategy, culture, and purpose. She has over 20 years of experience as a corporate Human Resources and Marketing executive at Pfizer, Citibank, and Ambac Financial Group. She played a significant role in Ambac’s initial public offering.

Janice’s leadership is marked by a steadfast commitment to excellence and innovation in the executive search industry, particularly focused on enhancing the C-suite and boardrooms with executives who reflect an organization’s constituents—employees, customers, communities, and shareholders. Janice’s influence and strategic approach to recruitment have garnered global recognition, earning her the title of one of “The World’s Most Influential Headhunters” by Bloomberg Businessweek.

A respected author and speaker, Janice has been featured in The Financial Times, Forbes.com, Directors & Boards, Corporate Board Director and other leading publications. She has co-authored influential books, including Driving the Career Highway and What Every Successful Woman Knows, which Bloomberg Businessweek hailed as “the best of its genre.” Believing that giving back is both a privilege and a responsibility, Janice has extensive non-profit leadership experience. She currently serves as Board member of Girls Inc. of NYC, Board member of Paradigm for Parity, Trustee of the Committee for Economic Development of The Conference Board (CED), member of The Economic Club of New York (ECNY), and member of the Leadership Council of the Entertainment Community Fund (formerly The Actors Fund). She previously served as Chair of the University of Iowa Foundation, Chair of the YMCA Board of Greater New York, Director of the National YMCA, and Trustee of the Entertainment Community Fund. Janice is also the former President of the Women’s Forum of New York, where she founded and launched the Corporate Board Initiative and its signature event, the Breakfast of Corporate Champions, which honors companies that exceed the national average of female representation on their boards.