Dawn D. Hennings

Dawn D. Hennings is the Group Vice President for Police Services at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco.  In this capacity, Ms. Hennings provides strategic leadership and oversight for law enforcement and business continuity in the district’s six offices.   She is the Phoenix Processing Center regional executive and a member of the Bank’s … Read more

Debbie Henney

Debbie Henney is an economics professor and director of the Center for Economic Education at Mesa Community College in Mesa, Arizona.  An economic educator for 21 years, she spent the first 10 years of her career teaching economics in the high school classroom. Her work with teachers began in 2006 as a Master Teacher for … Read more

Brian Harris

Brian Harris is the Vice President, Market Leader for Consumer Banking & Merrill Edge covering the Scottsdale/Phoenix Market for Bank of America/Merrill Lynch. Brian joined Merrill Lynch in 2008 as a Financial Advisor. After 5 years with Merrill Lynch, he moved to Merrill Edge as a Financial Solutions Advisor.  In 2013, he moved into the … Read more

Dr. Robyn Conrad Hansen

Dr. Robyn Conrad Hansen was the principal of Playa del Rey Elementary School from 2001 to 2016. Playa is a three-time Arizona A+ School of Excellence, a Title I Rewards School, and has earned an “A” Label from the Arizona Department of Education for academic achievement. In the spring of 2015, Playa del Rey was … Read more

Sarah Hancotte

Over the past two decades, Sarah has worked in many facets of the credit union industry, including front line operations, community outreach, business development, and IT operations. Sarah is a strong believer in the credit union philosophy of “people helping people” and culture of providing affordable financial services to the communities they serve.  In her … Read more

Jacob Gold

Jacob H. Gold is the Chairman and Chief Investment Officer of Jacob Gold & Associates, Inc., a private wealth management firm located in Scottsdale, Arizona. He and his team provide personalized, comprehensive financial guidance in the areas of investment strategies, retirement planning, and wealth preservation. In addition to being a CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ practitioner, Jacob … Read more

William C. Davis

Bill Davis is currently Board Chairman of the Arizona Council on Economic Education.  Mr. Davis has over 30 years of Arizona Public Finance experience providing investment banking and consulting services to municipal governments throughout Arizona. Bill received a bachelor’s degree in business administration/finance from Northern Arizona University and has earned the designation of Chartered Financial … Read more

Melody Cline-Valdes

Melody oversees the 4 branches currently in the Arizona footprint.  Melody brings over 30 years of experience in the banking industry, more specifically in Retail Banking.  Melody leads a team of individuals, who work close with her to provide a high level of customer service.  Melody uses her years of Retail Banking experience to help … Read more

Huacong Chen

Huacong (Hua) is an intellectual property attorney at Booth Udall Fuller, PLC. She mainly works on protection of biotechnology inventions and prosecution of trademarks. Her career path started with a series of discussion on market monopolies and their impact on economic development in her high school AP Economics class (where she was lucky enough to … Read more

William Callahan

Bill Callahan currently serves as President & CEO of Arizona Bank & Trust, an affiliate of Heartland Financial, USA, Inc.  In this role, Bill manages a Bank with total assets in excess of $660 million across 7 branches located in the Valley and will oversee all operational activities of the Bank, including commercial, retail, private … Read more