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

William Buchanan
Chairman
Unified Life Insurance Company 

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

Daniel Peterson
Vice President, Finance and Operations, Loyola Academy
Retired Principal, ZS Associates, Inc.

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

Undergraduate Students
Lucas Rabe
Kaitlyn Staut

Graduate Students
Ashley Evans
Dillon Murray