Lerner-Mantel backs exceptional founders and high-growth startups with technologies their customers will enjoy. She previously built and sold a technology startup and led operational innovation in data strategy and platform technologies at Wayfair. Lerner-Mantel will conduct the fireside chat with Julie Wainwright on Friday.

López empowers professionals and organizations to thrive by embracing their authentic superpowers to achieve personal and professional success. She leverages her Latina roots, passions, and experiences as a mother to drive impact. López is the Amazon bestselling author of Intentional Unicorn. She spent 23 years in leadership roles, including site head, global brand leader, chief operating officer, and vice president of global talent acquisition at Eli Lilly. She also has previous experience as a board member, fitness professional, former NFL cheerleader, and backup dancer. López’s presentation is called “Be an Intentional Unicorn: Thrive in Life and Career.”

Mahan ensures seamless understanding of combat capabilities by representing the Joint Forces Air Component commander to the Joint Forces commander in the Korean Theater of Operations. She was previously the individual mobile augmentee to the deputy commander of the Joint-Global Strike Operations Center at Barksdale Air Force Base. She is a senior navigator with more than 1,100 flight hours. In 2008, Mahan flew for more than 400 combat hours in Afghanistan during Operation Enduring Freedom. In 2022, she served on operations in Europe, and in 2023, she served as battle director for major operations in the Middle East. Mahan will speak during the panel discussion “Forged in Service: Leading in the Military with Strength and Purpose.”

Sarpy has spent more than 30 years in the public relations and marketing field. In January 2001, she left her role as a senior executive at a leading global public relations firm and started her own firm, Agency H5, where she now manages a talented team of professionals who support dozens of global, national, and Chicago-based clients in the consumer packaged goods, hospitality, finance, real estate, and nonprofit spaces. Sarpy supports civic organizations and philanthropies, including Girl Scouts, Ronald McDonald House Charities, and CC’s Wish List. In 2017, she helped found the International Council of Purdue Women, which later became the Purdue Women’s Network. In 2024, she was invited to participate in Purdue’s Old Masters program. Sarpy will speak with Julie Dussliere during the fireside chat on Thursday.

Solina began her career as the communications officer, electronic key management system manager, and combat information center officer aboard the USS Spruance (DD-963) during Operation Enduring Freedom. She was later deployed to Iraq in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Under the U.S.-Poland Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement, she oversaw 113 infrastructure projects valued at more than $3 billion. Solina is dual qualified as a Seabee Combat Warfare specialist and a surface warfare officer, is registered as a professional engineer in the state of Virginia, and is a member of the Defense Acquisition Corps. In 2017, she received the Purdue Civil Engineering Alumni Achievement Award. Solina will speak during the panel discussion “Forged in Service: Leading in the Military with Strength and Purpose.”