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Trudy Cathy White is the youngest child and only daughter of Chick-fil-A founder Truett and Jeannette Cathy. At just 19 years old, she opened Birmingham, Alabama’s second Chick-fil-A restaurant, making her one of the youngest Operators in Chick-fil-A’s history. She and her husband, John, served in international missions for 20 years with the International Mission Board. Upon completing their work with the IMB, she served for 13 years as the director of WinShape Camps for Girls, while together the Whites co-founded Lifeshape and Impact 360 Institute. Today, she serves as a Chick-fil-A Ambassador and has become nationally known as an influential leader and speaker. She is the author of several books, including her most recent release, A Legacy that Lasts, focused on living today the legacy you hope to leave future generations. She and her husband John are the proud parents of four children and grandparents of 17 grandchildren. In all she does, White is led by her commitment to be used by God to invest in relationships, influence culture, and inspire godly character in the next generation.

Sarah Sandberg is the vice president of strategic initiatives for Tallgrass Energy, a midstream company leading decarbonization innovation within the energy industry. Previously, she was the head of sustainability and external affairs for PDC Energy through its acquisition by Chevron. Before PDC, she was the vice president of sustainability & energy transition for DCP Midstream, a Fortune 500 energy company that was acquired by Phillips 66. Prior to her sustainability focused efforts, Sarah led DCP’s investor relations, non-op joint ventures, external and internal communications, crisis communications, public affairs and media relations, stakeholder relations, brand management, and community outreach and investment. She previously served as the chief operating officer for the Colorado Oil & Gas Association, the marketing director and a founding executive management team member of GoAuto Insurance, and managed communications and outreach within the Louisiana Governor’s Office, including assisting with the Deepwater Horizon oil spill response efforts and several hurricanes.

Trisha Curtis is the president and CEO of PetroNerds, LLC. She founded the company and began running it out of Denver in 2016. She was formerly the director of research, upstream and midstream, at the Energy Policy Research Foundation, Inc. in Washington, D.C. Since 2010, she has led extensive research efforts and major consulting projects and authored several reports on the North American upstream and midstream markets for government agencies, global think tanks and corporations. She was also the manager for strategy and analytics at Anschutz Exploration in Denver from 2019 to 2020. At PetroNerds, Curtis leads research, advising and consulting services. She is a macroeconomist with an expertise in U.S. shale markets, geopolitics and China. She is globally recognized for her knowledge of U.S. shale and has been asked to speak and present at several academic, industry and investor forums including OPEC in Vienna, SPE in Bahrain, IEF in Saudi Arabia, Stanford University, Chatham House, Oxford University, Denver University and Colorado School of Mines. She is also the host of the PetroNerds Podcast. She provides clients with in-depth analysis of the U.S. and world economy, geopolitics, global oil and gas markets and the U.S. shale industry. She synthesizes this into relevant, actionable and forecastable information integral to her clients and their respective businesses and needs. She spearheaded EPRINC’s projects with Department of Energy for the Quadrennial Energy Review, evaluating future North American crude oil production volumes and midstream transportation options through 2030. She worked extensively with U.S. and Canadian railroads in their efforts to begin moving Bakken crude, by rail, to the East Coast. Curtis also authored multiple reports on U.S. shale and completions in U.S. shale with the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies. Her work for Department of Defense has focused extensively on China, energy and U.S. Shale. She is a board member at the Denver Earth Resources Library, a research associate at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies, a recognized independent center of Oxford University, a distinguished fellow at the Energy Policy Research Foundation, Inc. and a fellow at Colorado School of Mine’s Payne Institute. Curtis completed her undergraduate work at Regis University in Denver, where she double majored in economics and politics, minored in criminology and graduated summa cum laude. She has a master’s degree from the London School of Economics in international political economy and wrote her dissertation on Chinese national oil companies. As an undergraduate, she also worked as a staff assistant in UK Parliament for John Grogan, Selby Constituency. Raised in northwest Colorado and southwest Wyoming, she grew up around pumpjacks and has worked on oil and gas sites in Colorado and Wyoming with her father.