Kevin Jessop
MWCN Chair, Podcast Vice Chair
Director of Marketing and Client Engagement, IMA
Matt Castleberry
MWCN Executive Committee Member
Shareholder/Director of Client Relations and Business Development, Amplēo
Jennifer Christopulos
MWCN Executive Committee Member, Utah 100 Chair
EVP Corporate Banking Director, Zions Bank
Todd A. Reece
MWCN Executive Committee Member
Partner, Holland & Hart
Todd A. Reece is an experienced corporate attorney who advises clients on general business matters, mergers, acquisitions, financings (venture and private equity), securities, joint ventures, licensing matters, and other business transactions. He assists both public and private companies with corporate governance, internal investigations, audits and compliance matters, including Foreign Corrupt Practices Act compliance and reviews.
Cheri M. Waldron
MWCN Executive Director & Secretary
Cheri Waldron plans and executes all key events such as the Utah 100 Award Event, the Entrepreneur of the Year Award Event, Deal Flow Awards, the Deal Makers Golf Tournament, Business Boot Camp and numerous other meetings and events of up to 1,300 people in attendance. Leads and supports the President, Board and Committee chairs in creating new, profitable and engaging programs and events that foster and support entrepreneurship in Utah. Cheri graduated from the University of Utah.
Ryan J. Dent
MWCN Executive Committee Member
Ryan is a Partner in PwC’s Financial Services practice with a focus on the banking and capital markets sector. He consults with and supervises audit and consulting engagements of public and privately owned companies. Ryan is currently leading PwC’s financial services audit practice in Salt Lake City providing services primarily to asset management and banking clients throughout Utah and the western United States.
Paul Skeen, CPA
MWCN Chairman
Audit Partner, Eide Bailly LLP
Paul is a partner at Eide Bailly and overseen the audit practice for the Utah offices. He has more than 17 years in public accounting with experience in a variety of industries. Paul’s areas of emphasis include governmental, technology and public and private companies. He has served on the MWCN Board for eight years and is Chair of the Utah 100 committee. He is a past President for the Utah Association of CPAs (UACPA) and currently serves on the Advisory Board for the University of Utah’s School of Accountancy.
Kevin Jessop
MWCN President
Director of Marketing and Client Engagement, IMA
Kevin has over twenty years of experience in sales and marketing for large public companies and currently leads marketing and business development for IMA Financial Group. Before entering the insurance and wealth management industry, he worked in financial printing with RR Donnelley, where he helped companies go public and supported public firms with secondary offerings, large-scale debt transactions, and mergers and acquisitions.
Matt Castleberry
MWCN Executive Committee Member
Shareholder/Director of Client Relations and Business Development, Amplēo
Matt Castleberry is a native of Utah and is a Shareholder and Director of Client Relations and Business Development for Amplēo. He has been in Business Development for over half of his life and loves building new relationships with anyone he can. His experience covers a wide variety of industries including, Transportation, Finance, Banking, Advertising, HVAC, and Healthcare. He has worked for companies ranging from freight to lease finance.
Matt has four children and spends most of his free time in Utah’s beautiful outdoors. He is willing to try just about anything once and loves everything from Golf to motocross to fly fishing and just about everything in between.
Kady K. Reese
MWCN Executive Committee Member, EOY Vice Chair
Partner, Kirkland & Ellis LLP
Kady K. Reese is a corporate mergers and acquisitions partner who focuses her practice on complex business transactions, including leveraged acquisitions of private and public companies, strategic mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, restructurings and recapitalizations. Kady also represents private equity funds and their portfolio companies in all aspects of their businesses.
Jason Roberts
MWCN Executive Committee Member, MWCN Podcast Chair
Managing Director, Protiviti
Jason has over 20 years of experience in risk-based internal controls and process reviews, business process outsourcing, business consulting engagements, contract compliance audit services, SOX compliance services, and best practice analyses for clients in the consumer products, technology, manufacturing, distribution, and healthcare industries. As Managing Director and Salt Lake City Office Leader, Jason leads a team of over 25 full-time consultants and has served over 50 clients in the West Region market.
Jennifer Christopulos
MWCN Executive Committee Member, Utah 100 Chair
Corporate Banking Director and EVP, Zions Bank
Jennifer has had a 25+ year career assisting mid to large sized businesses meet their strategic objectives by leveraging banking products and services. Currently, Jennifer leads a team of corporate banking professionals that are responsible for the origination of credit, servicing of loan portfolios, and developing and deepening of full banking relationships with middle market to large corporate businesses primarily within the state of Utah.
Jennifer enjoys reading mystery novels and supporting her husband and their five children in their various sports events and extracurricular activities.