OnBoard Men’s Advisory Council
OnBoard’s Men’s Advisory Council launched in 2026 and consists of men who advocate for women on corporate boards, utilizing their board service and connections to introduce women to opportunities.
OnBoard Men’s Advisory Council
OnBoard’s Men’s Advisory Council launched in 2026 and consists of men who advocate for women on corporate boards, utilizing their board service and connections to introduce women to opportunities.
Executive Vice President, General Counsel, & Chief Sustainability Officer
Burt Fealing is seasoned, business-oriented General Counsel at Southwire Company with extensive in-house experience at Fortune 500 and privately-held companies. He has demonstrated experience in M&A, securities, intellectual property, contracting, corporate, employment/HR and regulatory matters. He has experience building and managing cross-border legal and compliance teams and is a senior advisor to management and board of directors on strategic and operational matters.
Background
Brian, a principal in KPMG’s Economic and Valuation Services (EVS) practice, is the leader of KPMG’s Southeast valuation practice with more than twenty years of valuation experience. He has performed a wide range of valuation projects which include the appraisal of common and preferred stock, financial derivatives and intangible assets (patented/unpatented technology, trade names and trademarks, slot rights, alliances, marketing agreements, customer relationships, etc.). He has also served as an expert witness in business valuation. Specifically, he has provided both deposition and trial expert testimony, in addition to, valuation and rebuttal expert reports. Brian also leads KPMG’s Consumer & Retail industry vertical in the Southeast.
Professional and Industry Experience
Brian has provided valuation services to clients in a broad range of industries for purposes including estate and gift tax planning, dissenting shareholder and other litigation, contemplated mergers and acquisitions, bankruptcy proceedings and general business planning. His financial reporting valuation experience includes ASC 718, ASC 805, ASC 350, ASC 360, ASC 820, ASC 842, IFRS 3, IAS 38 and fresh start accounting. Brian has also performed intangible asset valuations for financial reporting and tax purposes. His intangible asset valuation experience includes, but is not limited to, trade names/trademarks/brands, customer relationships, franchise agreements, reacquired franchise rights, patented and non-patented technologies, software, backlog, off-market contracts and noncompetition agreements. Specifically, in the quick serve restaurant (QSR) industry, Brian has assisted clients with the following:
Specifically, as it relates to expert witness experience, Brian has assisted clients with the following:
Representative QSR Industry Clients
Raj Choudhury is the founder and CEO of Alloy, an integrated marketing, creative and communications agency built for the age of intelligence. He founded Alloy in 2022 on a conviction that a better agency model could be built through M&A — six acquisitions in four years later, it’s one of the fastest-growing independent agencies in the country, with 100+ specialists serving brands in technology, healthcare, finance, regulated industries and large non-profits. An Emmy-nominated, three-time Inc. 5000 agency, Alloy has also been named a Technology Agency of the Year and a 10-time Best Place to Work. Before Alloy, Raj founded, scaled and exited a series of agencies and technology companies — Spunlogic, Engauge, Moxie, BLiNQ Media, BrightWave and Ansira — and was named Marketer of the Year by both the American Marketing Association (AMA) and the Atlanta Interactive Marketing Association (AiMA) in 2018. Born in Uganda and raised in London, he has built and sold companies for nearly three decades.
Scott Deakin has been an international business leader, across both manufacturing and distribution sectors, for more than thirty years. His career includes more than a decade as a Chief Financial Officer for both privately held companies and SEC registrants. In C-level roles for more than 15 years, Mr. Deakin has had extensive corporate board of directors and committee exposure, complemented by board leadership roles with several high-profile non-profit organizations.
Mr. Deakin has distinguished himself as a CFO, President/Group Executive and strategic M&A executive with leading diversified companies including Eaton Corporation; Barnes Group Inc.; Ensign-Bickford Industries; and Lydall, Inc. As the CFO of Gypsum Management & Supply (NYSE: GMS), Mr. Deakin contributed to the realization of compound annual revenue growth of 10% in revenues and 24% in EBITDA, generating a sustained three-point improvement in EBITDA margin. Culminating a multi-year growth strategy, GMS was sold to The Home Depot in 2025 for $6 billion, realizing a 6x shareholder return over his tenure.
As a Chief Financial Officer, Mr. Deakin has consistently delivered transformational functional change, driving marked reductions in transactional cost and complexity while redeploying resources to value-add analytics and business partnership, all while improving the fidelity of controls and reporting. Leveraging strategic M&A as a principal growth driver and focus of capital deployment, Mr. Deakin has led numerous successful transactions and integrations, including the realization of SOX compliance. And as a leader in the capital markets, Mr. Deakin has led myriad refinancings, including a highly subscribed debut $350 million high yield bond offering, a $500 million term loan, and a nearly $1 billion ABL. Also having had responsibility for Information Technology, Mr. Deakin has championed successful ERP implementations and cyber security readiness initiatives. With a tight focus on margin enhancement and growth, market capitalization has more than doubled in each of his last two companies during his tenure as CFO.
Mr. Deakin has served as a multi-industry general manager, President, CEO and Group Executive for a wide variety of global companies (inclusive of $1B+ entities), notably with direct on-the-ground accountability for manufacturing, R&D and marketing operations in the United States, Asia, Europe, and Latin America. Traditionally operating in hyper-competitive markets, Mr. Deakin has led numerous successful restructurings, built high-performing teams, and intently deployed enterprise-wide, lean-based business systems to realize above-market growth and margin enhancement. Mr. Deakin’s teams have frequently been recognized with operational excellence, EH&S, and growth accolades, including the prestigious Shingo Medallion and the General Motors Supplier of the Year Award.
As an M&A leader with completed transaction value of more than $15 billion, Mr. Deakin has been responsible for envisioning, executing and integrating transformational acquisitions and divestitures throughout his career. Notable transactions include a coordinated three-party asset swap, a semiconductor equipment business IPO, and leadership of Eaton’s acquisition of Aeroquip-Vickers, at the time the company’s largest transaction ever completed. In its execution of an industry roll-up strategy, GMS completed more than 30 transactions under Mr. Deakin’s leadership of the M&A program.
Mr. Deakin earned his undergraduate degree from Bowling Green State University and an MBA in Finance and Operations from Carnegie Mellon University, with post-graduate executive education at Dartmouth College. He began his career in consulting managerial roles at both Price Waterhouse and Deloitte and Touche.
Mr. Deakin currently serves as an independent director for building and metal components manufacturer Central States, Inc. He has also been a member of the Manufacturers Alliance for Productivity and Innovation, a member of the Board of Advisors for Harvard University’s Joint Center for Housing Studies, as well as a member of the Board of Examiners for the Eaton Quality Award. He has served on the Boards of Directors of The Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts and The Hartford Symphony.
Scott is a sports and live music fan, and an ever-evolving golfer. He is married with three children, making his home in greater Atlanta, Georgia.
Researcher, author, advisor, and active board member
Dr. Keith D. Dorsey is a researcher, author, advisor, and active board member focused on issues of diversity, governance, and strategic growth for private and public corporate boards. His recent research examined women executives’ pathways to securing corporate board seats, yielding powerful insights about the barriers and facilitators unique to women candidates seeking these positions. His book, The Boardroom Journey: Practical Guidance for Women to Secure a Seat at the Table, combines his research insights with his extensive executive, board, and industry experience. He speaks on topics related to governance and navigating the path to the C-suite and boardroom. As an executive advisor, he is focused on increasing Optimal DiversityTM within corporate senior management, executive, and board-level roles.
Board Experience and Certification
Keith is a National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD) Certified Director and was recognized as an honoree of the 2023 NACD Directorship 100™, an annual recognition of 100 leading corporate directors and corporate governance experts who impact boardroom practices and performance. He was also named to the 2025 100 Exceptional Private Company Board Member list by BoardProspects. Keith serves as a board member at Vimly Benefit Solutions, a private technology and third-party administration company; Continu, a private learning management system SaaS company; Pepperdine University’s Graziadio Business School, Pacific Crest Trail Association; and a commissioner and former chair of the City of La Quinta’s Financial Advisory Commission. Former Board Member, Orion Talent, a recruitment process outsourcing and talent acquisition firm. Keith is also an Executive Leadership Council (ELC) member and a graduate, mentor, and advisor of Santa Clara University’s Black Corporate Board Readiness program.
Corporate Experience
Keith founded the Boardroom Journey, a leadership development consultancy dedicated to helping professionals access board education, gain needed certifications, and make efficient progress to the C-suite and the boardroom. As a senior advisor at Boyden, a global executive search and consulting firm, he also helps executive teams and boards enhance their governance quality through a comprehensive set of board consulting services, including full-scale governance review, board, committee, and director assessments, M&A governance planning, board refreshment, and CEO succession planning.
In his former role as President and Executive Advisor for Dorsey Management Consulting, he mentored and advised CxOs on their sales growth and go-to-market strategies, helped businesses align their strategies with sales expectations, aggressively grew their bottom line and shareholder value during significant periods of change, and optimized leadership and sales team effectiveness.
He has over 25 years of sales leadership experience in the Human Capital Management industry, such as at Alight Solutions (formerly Aon Hewitt and Hewitt Associates), a $2.3B leading provider of human capital solutions where he served as the Executive Vice President, Global Head of Sales, responsible for the overall sales growth strategy and execution. Under Keith’s executive leadership, his sales teams consistently produced double-digit annual growth. Prior to joining Hewitt Associates, Keith worked with Paychex, Inc., a Fortune 1000 payroll and HR outsourcing company, for 16 years. He was a Zone Sales Manager responsible for the growth and delivery of revenue in their Human Resource Service Division. Before Paychex, Keith spent three years in the insurance industry and five years serving his country in the U.S. Air Force.
Education
Keith has a Doctor of Education in Organizational Change and Leadership from the University of Southern California. His dissertation research examined gender and ethnic diversity on corporate boards. He also holds an MBA from Pepperdine University and a BS in Business Administration from Charter Oak State College.
Named by SAVOY Magazine since 2021 as one of the most influential Corporate Directors and since 2020 as one of the most influential executives in corporate America, Kevin A. Henry is a multi-faceted and proven executive having served as a public company C-suite executive for over 29 years, with several well-known and successful brands including BlueLinx Corporation, Extended Stay America, Snyder’s-Lance, Inc., Coca-Cola Bottling Co. Consolidated and Nationwide Credit. In addition, Kevin has held senior human resources roles at Office Depot, Clorox, Pepsi-Cola, and Amoco Corporation.
Kevin is currently the Executive Vice President and Chief People Officer for PulteGroup publicly traded company with a market cap of over $25B. (NYSE PHM)
PulteGroup has been providing the American Dream of homeownership to families for more than 60 years and has delivered almost 800,000 homes to customers while fulfilling the company’s purpose of Building Incredible Places Where People Can Live Their Dreams.
In this role, Kevin is responsible for leading all people, compliance, equity & fairness functions at PulteGroup.
Kevin currently serves on the board of directors of Saia Inc., a publicly traded logistics and distribution company as a member of the Audit and Compensation Committees, the Boys & Girls Club of America, the African American Leadership Academy of Charlotte, the Chastain Park Conservancy and the advisory board of Dedication to Community.
Previous Board Service includes Vice Chairman of Johnson C. Smith University’s Board of Trustees, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Urban League of Central Carolinas, Charlotte Latin Day School, Samaritan’s Feet International, Wake Forest University’s School of Business, Cornell University’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Charlotte Regional Visitors Authority, the DJ Dream Fund, the Urban League of Central Carolinas Bank, Junior Achievement, Queens University’s McColl School of Business, The Harvey B. Gantt Center and Teach for America. In addition, Kevin has served as an advisor for both The Charlotte Chapter of the National Association of African Americans in Human Resources and PRIDE Magazine.
Born in Queens and raised on Long Island, New York, Kevin graduated from Cornell University with a B.S. degree in Industrial & Labor Relations and has earned additional certification from Harvard Business School.
Kevin and his wife Tina reside in Atlanta and have two adult sons Tyler and Taylor.
Independent Board Director
Skip Paterson serves as the Chairman of the Board for 1910 Legacy Enterprises and is an independent director with broad expertise in construction, energy, and manufacturing. He also serves on the boards of Cathedral Holdings, Inc. and Concrete Supply Company, Inc., both of which are employee-owned companies. Skip’s executive career includes leadership roles at organizations such as ITT Cannon, Alliant Energy, JD Edwards, and BellSouth/Cingular. He is a certified director and a senior human resources professional, maintaining memberships with the NACD and SHRM. Skip holds a BS in General Management from Purdue University and an MBA from Indiana University.
Kevin Pearson is a member of the Board of Directors of McCarthy Building Companies, Inc. He first joined the McCarthy Holdings, Inc. Board of Directors in 2021 before joining the McCarthy Building Companies Board.
Mr. Pearson serves as General Manager for Land at Georgia Power. In this capacity, he has overall responsibility for and sets the strategic vision for land acquisition and disposition, surveying, mapping, and engineering of land, land research, and natural resource management in support of Georgia Power’s business operations. He also serves as a strategic advisor to Georgia Power on property rights, revenue growth, conservation, and brand enhancement.
Mr. Pearson began his career at Georgia Power in 2005 as a Senior Claims and Litigation Specialist in Risk Management and has held positions including Staff Attorney, Senior Staff Attorney, and Managing Attorney in Legal Services; Workplace Concerns Manager; Managing Attorney for Risk Management; and Director of Corporate Security. Prior to joining Georgia Power, he practiced law at Ice Miller in Indianapolis, Indiana.
Mr. Pearson earned a B.A. in History and an M.A. in Human Development from Boston College and a J.D. from Boston College Law School. He is a member of the State Bar of Georgia and the Indiana State Bar. He serves on the Board of Trustees for Boston College and is also a board member of Trust for Public Land (Georgia) and the Georgia Wildlife Federation.
Craig Robinson is a seasoned chief executive, board director and advisor for global real estate, business services and technology companies. Over his 27-year career, Craig has developed a reputation for the creative energy and bold thinking he brings to unlocking and sustaining high performing organizations. His background and leadership style are well-suited for board rooms facing significant growth, business transformation and disruptive technologies.
Craig is currently an Independent Board Director for Lessen, Roofstock, and Second Nature. He also serves on the Audit and Comp Committees for Lessen and Roofstock and has significant experience leading global public company divisions during IPOs, M&A, digital transformation and periods of complex change. Craig currently serves as a Strategic Advisor to Dunes Point Capital, a private investment firm investing in the business services and industrials sectors, as well as an advisor to a number of early-stage growth companies in the sustainability, construction and data analytics sectors.
Craig has a proven track record of leading companies through growth, transformation, and innovation. He has held executive positions at some of the largest and most respected companies in the industry, including Industrious, WeWork, Newmark, and Colliers International. In his most recent role as Chief Growth Officer at Industrious, Craig was responsible for leading the company’s growth strategy and helped to make Industrious the largest premium workplace-as-a-service provider in the industry. Prior to Industrious, he led Powered By We, a global business unit at WeWork providing development, design, construction and management services to real estate owners and tenants. Previously, Craig was CEO of Global Corporate Services at Newmark (NASDAQ: NMRK) and President of Colliers International (NASDAQ: CIGI), U.S. Region, where he grew revenues and profits by an average of 20% and 40% respectively, year-over-year. At Colliers, he was responsible for $1B+ in annual revenue, 5,600 real estate professionals, and leading the successful acquisition and integration of eight real estate companies. He also played critical roles in the IPOs of both Colliers and Newmark.
Craig’s governance experience also includes serving on the advisory boards for several venture-backed tech companies and the operating board of Cassidy Turley, a full-service real estate firm that generated more than $22B in annual transaction volume with nearly 4,000 real estate professionals in North America. As a Cassidy Turley board director, he governed over the acquisition of 15 companies and the company’s ultimate exit to a private equity group.
Craig has significant international experience from managing global teams, P&Ls, and key corporate functions, including legal, HR, technology, and risk. He has also negotiated outsourcing agreements that spanned regions with unique labor concerns and has large scale development experience in markets like China and Japan. Early in his career, Craig also lived and worked in Belgium for Arthur Andersen Business Consulting where he was an ERP consultant.
Craig’s reputation and experience have made him a frequent speaker, published authority, and recognized industry leader. He was named a CoreNet Global Industry Luminary and Savoy Magazine’s Top 100 Most Influential Blacks in Corporate America. He is the author of The Happiness Reboot – The Path To Reclaiming Your Happiness, scheduled for release in 2026, and an op-ed contributor for CNN and Fast Company on topics of leadership.
Craig currently resides in his hometown, Atlanta, GA where he is a life coach, a passionate art collector and a master scuba diver.
Global Senior Director, Global Cyber Defense & Operations
Mark Sturtevant is a global cybersecurity and enterprise technology executive with more than 30 years of experience leading cyber defense, technology modernization, infrastructure, applications, cloud and hybrid environments, manufacturing / OT security visibility, and enterprise risk governance across Fortune 250 and Fortune 500 organizations.
He currently serves as Global Senior Director, Global Cyber Defense & Operations for Genuine Parts Company, a $20B multinational enterprise supporting 20,000+ retail and distribution locations worldwide. In this role, Mark partners with the CISO, CIO and executive leadership to align cyber defense, manufacturing and OT risk visibility, operational resilience, cloud modernization, digital commerce enablement, supply-chain continuity, and enterprise risk governance with business performance, revenue continuity, and shareholder confidence.
Mark has built and matured global cyber operating models, advanced Zero Trust and cloud-aligned modernization strategies, expanded monitoring coverage across global systems, and established executive and board-level risk dashboards that connect cyber posture, OT visibility, production resilience, and operational exposure to financial and business impact. His leadership has helped reduce mean time to detect and respond by 60%, automate 80% of Tier 1 workflows, reduce phishing and business email compromise success rates by 90%, and expand enterprise monitoring coverage to 99% of global systems.
Earlier in his career, Mark founded COMSEC360, an enterprise technology and transformation advisory firm serving Fortune 250 and Fortune 500 clients. Through that work, he advised CIOs and executive teams on infrastructure redesign, cloud strategy, identity modernization, governance frameworks, crisis response, and multi-year transformation roadmaps for large-scale global environments.
Mark is well positioned for Global CISO, manufacturing security, enterprise cyber risk, technology resilience, and board/advisory roles where directors and executive teams require credible guidance on cyber risk oversight, industrial resilience, crisis preparedness, technology investment, operational continuity, and secure digital growth.
