Howard Brod Brownstein
President of Brownstein Corporation
Howard Brod Brownstein, CTP, is a nationally-known turnaround and restructuring professional, and regularly provides programs for Women in the Boardroom. He is President of Brownstein Corporation, which provides turnaround management and advisory services, as well as investment banking, fiduciary services, litigation consulting, investigations and valuation services. He regularly serves on the boards of directors of public and private companies, and currently serves on the boards of: P&F Industries (Nasdaq: PFIN) where he chairs the Nominating/Governance and Strategic Planning & Risk Assessment Committees, Renew Financial, where he serves as chair of the Risk Committee, and Merakey, a nonprofit with over 10,000 employees. He is a Certified Turnaround Professional, and also an NACD Board Leadership Fellow and Immediate Past President and Board Chair of the NACD Philadelphia Chapter. He has authored ninety articles and textbook chapters, is a Contributing Editor at two publications, and is a regular guest-lecturer at Harvard Business School, Wharton, NYU and elsewhere. He received JD and MBA degrees at Harvard, and B.S. (Wharton) and B.A. degrees from the University of Pennsylvania.
Priya Cherian Huskins
SVP & Partner, Woodruff Sawyer
Priya Cherian Huskins is a Partner and Senior Vice President at the full-service insurance brokerage Woodruff Sawyer. She is a recognized expert on the topic of D&O liability risk and its mitigation. She has appeared on CNBC and been quoted in publications including the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times and the Financial Times. She is also the editor of the D&O Notebook, a weekly blog about D&O liability, insurance, and corporate governance.
Priya serves on two public and two private company boards as well as on the advisory board of the Stanford Rock Center for Corporate Governance. She was named a Directorship 100 honoree by the National Association of Corporate Directors in 2024. Prior to joining Woodruff Sawyer, Priya practiced corporate and securities law at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati.
