National Advisory Council

Emily Abbas, NAC Chair
Executive Vice President, Chief Consumer Banking and Marketing Officer
Bankers Trust

Nataliya Boychenko Stone, Ph.D.
Senior Vice President, EB/Shareholder
Holmes Murphy

Andy Buchta, CFP®, CPWA®
Partner
Principality Private Wealth & Partners

Becki Drahota
CEO
Mills Marketing 

Denise Essman
President and CEO
Essman/Associates, Inc.

Kevin Farley
Vice President of Enterprise Worksite Services
Principal Financial Group

W. Jeffrey Heng
Consultant
Real Deal Actuarial Consulting, LLC

Adam Kaduce
President
R&R Real Estate Advisors

Brent Mardis
VP-Chief Strategy Officer
Sammons Financial Group

Gary Porter, Ph.D.
Retired Professor of Accounting

Travis Rabe
Partner in Charge
KPMG, LLP - Northern Heartland Business Unit (Audit)

Andy Schroeder
Senior Vice President, Accounting, Controller
Hy-Vee

Jade Vuong
Manager of Transaction Advisory Services
UHY Advisors, Inc.

Tanya Wentzel, NAC Vice-Chair
Vice President - Enterprise Development
EMC Insurance Companies

Forrest Wrede 
Senior Consultant - Middle Market Strategy
Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company

Undergraduate Students
Kaitlyn Staut
Simeon Moulton

Graduate Students
Sabrina Brangers
Megan Shrum