Emma Hinchliffe is the editor for Fortune’s Most Powerful Women franchise, where she chronicles the stories of women at the top of the business world and writes Fortune’s flagship newsletter Most Powerful Women (MPW) Daily. She’s profiled figures from CEOs of the largest Fortune 500 companies and founders of the world’s fastest-growing startups to Kim Kardashian. She is a frequent onstage interviewer, leading conversations with newsmakers around the globe; her interview with E. Jean Carroll is featured in the documentary Ask E. Jean. Her journalism has been honored by the Silurians Press Club, the Deadline Club, the National Headliner Awards, and the New York Newswomen’s Club’s Front Page Awards. Before joining Fortune, she worked as a reporter for Mashable and the Houston Chronicle. She is a graduate of Georgetown University and lives in Brooklyn, N.Y.

Hitha Palepu is a consummate multi-hyphenate – an entrepreneur, speaker, and author. She’s the CEO of Rhoshan Pharmaceuticals, whose lead product is injectable aspirin for hospital use. Hitha is the author of We’re Speaking and How to Pack, and runs the Hyphenated by Hitha Substack. She lives in New York with her husband and two sons

Katie Dunn is an investor, entrepreneur, and venture expert focusing her angel investments on underrepresented pre-seed and seed-stage founders in the United States, primarily in the consumer packaged goods (CPG) and technology sectors.

With over 25 years in banking and financial services—including financing over $10 billion in commercial real estate—she has built deep expertise in strategy, due diligence, finance, and identifying people and businesses worth investing in. Her passion for empowering emerging founders and her talent for screening high-potential opportunities drive her global investment portfolio and advisory work.

Katie has helped founders secure over $30 million in capital from investors and grants by leveraging her understanding of investor psychology and pitch development. She guides startup teams in communicating their company stories clearly and concisely to acquire investment, partners, and customers using her custom AI tools and through her company, Masthead Strategies.

Katie’s personal investment portfolio includes Outcast Brands (Blood Monkey Gin and Two Shores Rum), Another Tomorrow, Juliet Wine, WTHN, Forecastr, and Goodword. She sits on various advisory boards including Outcast Brands, Fierce Foundry, InPress and the Enthuse Foundation.

Carmen Bryant is a marketing and growth executive with more than 20 years of experience helping companies translate customer needs, cultural shifts, and market trends into strategies that drive action. As VP of Marketing at Wizehire, she has helped reposition the company from a SaaS hiring platform to an AI-first company while keeping its human-first mission at the center.
Carmen brings a rare mix of growth strategy, storytelling, customer empathy, and workforce expertise.

Her work focuses on helping business leaders understand what’s influencing workers today, what’s changing in hiring, and how to make more human-centered recruiting decisions. She is known for her ability to connect with customers, surface meaningful insights, and facilitate thoughtful conversations on challenging topics including AI, bias, equity, workforce change, and the future of work.

Dr. Samantha Nutt is an award-winning humanitarian, bestselling author and medical doctor. She’s the founder of the renowned humanitarian organizations, War Child Canada and War Child USA, and has worked with children and their families at the frontline of many of the world’s major crises – from Iraq to Afghanistan, Somalia to the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Sierra Leone to Darfur, Sudan. With a background in public health, she continues to put science at the forefront of her international work. A leading authority on current affairs, war, international aid, public health, and foreign policy, Dr. Nutt is one of the most intrepid and recognized voices in the humanitarian arena and is a highly sought-after public speaker in North America.

Michelle Sutter is the incoming CEO of One Girl Can and the Founder of the Opening Doors Foundation, where her work is focused on expanding access to education and mentorship for young women from underserved communities in Kenya. A long-time supporter of One Girl Can, Michelle brings a values-driven and purpose-rooted approach to her leadership.

Before stepping into the CEO role, Michelle was Vice President of Culture and Organizational Development at Fanatics, leading leadership development and employee experience while serving as the company’s internal executive coach. She previously spent two decades in shipboard and corporate leadership roles with Royal Caribbean Cruises, Celebrity Cruises, and Holland America Line.

Alongside her nonprofit work, she leads Michelle Sutter Coaching & Consulting, applying her expertise in organizational culture and leadership development to advise organizations and coach individual leaders to accelerate their growth and amplify their impact.

Maria Sol Pintos Castro is Deputy Head of Private Sector Engagement at the Global Fund, where she works with philanthropists, foundations, corporations, and private sector leaders to mobilize resources and partnerships that improve health outcomes around the world.

Over the past two decades, Sol has built a career at the intersection of global health, philanthropy, and innovative finance, helping turn ambitious ideas into partnerships and investments that create lasting impact. Her work focuses on connecting capital with opportunity-whether through major philanthropic partnerships, innovative financing mechanisms, or new approaches to strengthening health systems and expanding access to care.

Originally from Argentina and now based in Geneva, Sol is passionate about the role that philanthropy, leadership, and collaboration can play in unlocking human potential and creating opportunities for people and communities to thrive.

She serves on the Board of the Fund for the Global Fund and holds an Executive MBA from the University of Geneva.

Heather is an accomplished Canadian entrepreneur, brand builder, and event producer whose experience in corporate environments inspired her to found WNORTH in 2015, an award-winning membership network dedicated to bridging the gender power gap by elevating women in the leadership pipeline. WNORTH Members gather, network and uplift each other through Roundtables, Dinners, Forum Groups, City Summits and annual Whistler Conference.

WNORTH is recognized as the global curator of transformational leadership gatherings for women—blending luxury, belonging, and impact. Through destination retreats, curated in-person gatherings in Canada, the US, and the UK, virtual forums, and our flagship Whistler Conference, we’ve hosted 450+ events, welcomed over 20,000 participants, and featured more than 500 global thought leaders.  We have co-hosted events with Virgin Unite, PwC, Thinkific, Instagram, SAP and TD Bank.

In 2025, during UNGA 80 in New York City, Heather was named to the Top 100 Faces of Impact, she has also been named by The Globe and Mail’s Report on Business as one of the Top 50 Changemakers of 2022 and a Top Female Founder of 2024 and 2025 by FoundersBeta.

Suzy is a community and experience builder with 15 years in the nonprofit and philanthropy world, designing gatherings, curating meaningful moments, and building the kinds of relationships and communities that can lead to real change.

Since joining Virgin Unite—the nonprofit foundation of Richard Branson, the Branson family, and the Virgin Group—in 2017, she has led their global community, bringing together philanthropists, entrepreneurs, and business leaders united by one big idea: using their resources, influence, and networks for good. Her work focuses on creating spaces where people feel connected enough to have honest conversations, form unlikely partnerships, and leave inspired to take action (ideally with a beautiful view involved).

Before Virgin Unite, Suzy spent six years with Clinton Global Initiative, helping lead membership strategy and producing more than 30 global gatherings, including the first-ever CGI Middle East & North Africa meeting. Earlier stops included Harvard University, Interpublic Group, and a brief but glamorous detour into celebrity event planning with David Tutera (where she learned a shocking amount about floral budgets).

A proud New Yorker and daughter of Polish immigrants (and first-generation American), Suzy spent more than five years living in the British Virgin Islands before recently making her return to New York City with her chocolate lab, Bento—a dog who previously believed all of life involved beaches, golf carts, and coconuts.

At the heart of it all, Suzy believes deeply in the power of community, thoughtful connection, and bringing people together in ways that make the world feel a little smaller, and hopefully a little better.