Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging Summit 2021

Alexander Triantis is the third dean of Johns Hopkins Carey Business School and a professor of finance. As an expert in the areas of corporate financial strategy and valuation, Triantis has built a reputation throughout his career as a strong, personable, and pragmatic leader skilled at building consensus around a strategic vision.

Triantis came to Carey Business School August 2019 from the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland, where he served as dean from 2013 to 2019. As dean of the Smith School, he promoted the development of cross-divisional research centers and initiatives focused on artificial intelligence, data analytics, enterprise and markets, ethics and regulation, financial and economic policy, and entrepreneurship. He also helped launch a number of new dual degree programs and several new graduate programs and certificates, including a top-ranking online MBA and an in-person and online MS in Business Analytics.

Triantis received his PhD in industrial engineering (with a specialization in finance) from Stanford University and his BASc and MEng degrees from the University of Toronto. Prior to joining the University of Maryland's faculty in 1995, he was a visiting scholar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Sloan School of Management, and an assistant and associate professor at the University of Wisconsin.

Bill Stromberg is the CEO of T. Rowe Price. He is chairman of the firm’s Board of Directors and of the Management and Management Compensation Committees. Bill also is a vice president of T. Rowe Price International Ltd.

Bill has been with T. Rowe Price since 1987, beginning in the U.S. Equity Division. He served as the head of Equity from 2009 to 2015 and the head of U.S. Equity from 2006 to 2009. He also served as a director of Equity Research from 1996 to 2006, as a portfolio manager of the Capital Opportunity Fund (2000 to 2007) and the Dividend Growth Fund (1992 to 2000), and as an equity investment analyst from 1987 to 1992. Prior to this, Bill was employed by Westinghouse Defense as a systems engineer.

Bill earned a B.A. in engineering from Johns Hopkins University and an M.B.A. from Dartmouth College, Tuck School of Business. Bill also has earned the Chartered Financial Analyst® designation. Currently, he serves on the Johns Hopkins University Board of Trustees and the Johns Hopkins Whiting School of Engineering Advisory Council. Bill previously served nine years on the Catholic Charities Board of Trustees, with two years as Board president.

Mr. Rhee is an impact-focused entrepreneur, investor, operator and educator. As both CEO and investment firm founder, Mr. Rhee has generated market-leading returns by creating bespoke capital and operational solutions through the contemporaneous application of algorithmic, technological and cultural change. He has a uniquely diverse network and knowledge base spanning the private equity, retail/consumer, venture and media/technology communities. At Ashley Stewart, as Chairman and CEO, Mr. Rhee has authored and executed upon an innovative complement of CRM, digital and organizational changes that have transformed a twice bankrupt, unprofitable brick-and-mortar retailer with decades of operating losses into an industry leader founded upon a values-based, social commerce paradigm. FirePine Group, the investment firm he founded in 2009, invests the capital of some of the world’s most sophisticated investors and their family offices to successfully fuel and realize transformative and impactful change in multiple enterprises, including Ashley
Stewart.

Mr. Rhee received his AB with honors from Harvard College and his JD with honors from Harvard Law School, where he was an editor of the Harvard Law Review.

A 24-year veteran of the energy industry, McHugh leads Constellation, Exelon’s competitive retail and wholesale businesses. Constellation is responsible for the marketing of electricity, natural gas and other energy-related products and services to its wholesale, commercial, industrial, and residential customers, as well as ensuring the optimization of Exelon’s generation portfolio by obtaining maximum value for power produced while managing risk for the company and its shareholders. Constellation has a business presence in 48 states, Washington, D.C., and parts of Canada.

McHugh has a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Lehigh University, and a master’s of business administration in finance from Villanova University.