ACC NCR 2025 Annual Meeting & Sponsor Welcome Reception

Kick-off the New Year at ACC NCR’s 2025 Annual Meeting & Sponsor Welcome Reception!  

Join members, in-house counsel, annual relationship sponsors*, and select guests** for an evening of networking and celebration.  

We are excited to welcome our returning and new sponsors, share the successes of 2024 and plans for 2025, and toast to the election of new officers and directors (the slate of candidates is listed below).  

On the Ballot:

Officers:

• President Elect: Véronique Staco, Assistant General Counsel, WTW
• Treasurer: Henrique Canarim, Vice President, Senior Assistant General Counsel - Securities, Governance & Transactions, Leidos
• Secretary: Audrey Jean, General Counsel, 3E Company
• Vice President (Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion): Elizabeth Roman Jones, Associate General Counsel, Breakthrough T1D

Directors:

For terms expiring in 2028:

• Mitch Bashur, Associate General Counsel, Verizon (first term)
• Henrique Canarim, Vice President, Senior Assistant General Counsel - Securities, Governance & Transactions, Leidos (1st full term; served previous partial term to fill an open spot)
• Audrey Jean, General Counsel, 3E Company (second term)
• Kirsten Keating, Employee Relations Associate General Counsel, Freddie Mac (first term)
• Véronique Staco, Assistant General Counsel, WTW (second term)
• Kathi Westcott, Deputy General Counsel, The Pew Charitable Trusts (second term)

They will join:

Officers Elected in 2024 to Continue to Serve in 2025:

• President: Kathi Westcott, Deputy General Counsel, The Pew Charitable Trusts
• Vice President (Member Engagement): Ilona Levine, Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary, Internet Society
• Vice President (Professional Advancement & Community Engagement): Anjanette “Anji” Stinson, Associate General Counsel, National Student Clearinghouse
• Vice President (Programming): Andrew Sakallaris, General Counsel, LMI Consulting, LLC
• Vice President (Sponsor Relations): Patrick Samsel, General Counsel, Fors Marsh

Directors Elected in 2023 and 2024 (serving in either the first or second of two three-year terms):    

• Charlotte Bernard, Commercial Counsel, Google Cloud, Google
• Mary Chapin, Vice President, Chief Legal Officer, and Corporate Secretary, National Student Clearinghouse
• Matthew (“Matt”) Dost, General Counsel, General Counsel, Redhorse
• Denise Gold, Corporate and Labor Senior Counsel, Associated General Contractors of America
• Ilona Levine, Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary, Internet Society
• Laura M. Murray, General Counsel, Virginia REALTORS®
• Sandy Paik, General Counsel, The Tower Companies
• Amit Patel, Chief Ethics & Compliance Officer, Senior Counsel, The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
• Elizabeth Roman Jones, Associate General Counsel, Breakthrough T1D
• Andrew Sakallaris, General Counsel, LMI Consulting, LLC
• Patrick Samsel, General Counsel, Fors Marsh
• Anjanette “Anji” Stinson, Associate General Counsel, National Student Clearinghouse

    *Sponsors may send two representatives, except Diamond, which may send three.
**Guests may include business colleagues and significant others but may not include law firm or vendor representatives that compete with our sponsors