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2020 2021 SEASON - The Economic Club of Indiana
2020 - 2021
              SEPTEMBER 17, 2020*                  OCTOBER 5, 2020*                        NOVEMBER 9, 2020*
              Tom Linebarger                       Dr. Michael McRobbie                    Michael Abramowitz
              Chairman & CEO                       President                               President & CEO
              Cummins, Inc.                        Indiana University                      Freedom House

              DECEMBER 1, 2020*                    JANUARY 20, 2021                        FEBRUARY 11, 2021
              A’Lelia Bundles                      Tony Bates                              Adam Silver
              Author                               Chief Executive Officer                 Commissioner
              On Her Own Ground                    Genesys                                 NBA

              MARCH 22, 2021                       APRIL 28, 2021                          MAY 2021
              Gail Boudreaux                       David Ricks                             Mike Tirico
              President & CEO                      Chairman & CEO                          Sportscaster
              Anthem, Inc.                         Eli Lilly and Company                   NBC Sports

                              *As of the publishing of this brochure, these luncheons will be virtual.

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2020 2021 SEASON - The Economic Club of Indiana
September 17, 2020                                    October 5, 2020                                        November 9, 2020
                     Tom Linebarger                                        Dr. Michael McRobbie                                   Michael Abramowitz
                     Chairman & CEO                                        President                                              President & CEO
                     Cummins, Inc.                                         Indiana University                                     Freedom House

Our season kicks off with the Chairman & CEO        Since July 2007, Michael A. McRobbie has                 How free are people across the globe? Is
of Cummins, Inc., Tom Linebarger. Based in          served as the 18th president of one of the largest       democracy in retreat? Michael Abramowitz can
Columbus, IN, Cummins is the world’s largest        universities in the United States, Indiana University.   tell you. He is President and CEO of Freedom
independent maker of diesel engines and related     Since coming to IU in 1997 he served in multiple         House, an independent watchdog organization
products. Linebarger’s career with Cummins          roles including Vice President for Information           dedicated to the expansion of freedom and
began with an internship on the manufacturing       Technology and Chief Information Officer in 1997,        democracy around the world. Freedom House
line at the Midrange Engine plant in Walesboro,     Vice President for Research in 2003, and Interim         has been measuring political rights and civil
IN. Before taking the helm in 2012, he served       Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs          liberties in every country for nearly 50 years and
many leadership roles including President &         for IU’s Bloomington campus in 2006. While               shares these findings annually in the Freedom in
COO, Power Generation Business Executive VP         President, McRobbie has led Indiana University           the World report. Prior to joining Freedom House
& President, VP & Chief Financial Officer, and      though a major expansion in the size, quality, and       in February 2017, Abramowitz spent more than
Supply Chain Management VP. With a mission          diversity of its student body, including the largest     20 years at The Washington Post as National
of making people’s lives better by powering         academic restructuring in its history. Most recently,    Editor and then White House Correspondent
a more prosperous world, Cummins not only           IU celebrated it’s Bicentennial in January of 2020       before becoming Director of the U.S. Holocaust
invests in enhancing its product portfolio, but     and under McRobbie’s leadership achieved their           Memorial Museum’s Levine Institute for Holocaust
people. This mission has served as the foundation   ambitions goal of raising $3 billion in the largest      Education, leading the museum’s genocide
guiding Cummins’ response, under Linebarger’s       fundraising campaign in IU’s history.                    prevention efforts and public education programs.
leadership, to current world events.
2020 2021 SEASON - The Economic Club of Indiana
December 1, 2020                                       January 20, 2021                                      February 11, 2021
                       A’Lelia Bundles                                        Tony Bates                                            Adam Silver
                       Journalist & Author                                    Chief Executive Officer                               Commissioner
                                                                              Genesys                                               NBA

A’Lelia Bundles is an award-winning Journalist           Tony Bates, Chief Executive Officer of Genesys,     For almost thirty years, Adam Silver has been
and Author, as well as the Founder of the Madam          leads the company’s strategy, direction and         a part of the NBA. In February 2014, he was
Walker Family Archives. A former network                 operations in more than 100 countries and           unanimously elected by the NBA Board of
Television News Executive and Producer, she has          oversees a global team of more than 5,000           Governors to serve as the NBA Commissioner
appeared on ABC, NBC, CBS, PBS, C-Span,                  employees. Bates has decades of experience          where he presides over a global sports and media
NPR and BBC. As an author, she has written               steering business-to-business and business-to-      business built around four professional sports
biographies about the amazing women in her               consumer companies through major market             leagues: the National Basketball Association,
family: entrepreneur Madam C. J. Walker and              transitions and rapid scaling. Tony began his       Women’s National Basketball Association, NBA
Harlem Renaissance icon A’Lelia Walker. On Her           career in network operations and internet           G League and NBA 2K League. He has served
Own Ground: The Life and Times of Madam C. J.            infrastructure, teaching himself to code during     in numerous positions in the NBA over the years,
Walker is a New York Times Notable Book and              his daily train commute. He swiftly gained the      dedicating his career to growing basketball
served as the non-fiction source for Self Made, the      business acumen to advance into trusted executive   around the world, embracing innovation and new
fictionalized four-part Netflix series starring Oscar-   roles at some of the world’s most respected         technologies, increasing transparency and using
winner Octavia Spencer that premiered on March           global SaaS companies. He also led Cisco’s          basketball to bring people together and promote
20, 2020. She is at work on her fifth book, The          Service Provider business, growing its Enterprise   health and fitness. Silver has been recognized
Joy Goddess of Harlem: A’Lelia Walker and the            and Commercial division to more than $20 billion    by Sports Business Journal, being given the top
Harlem Renaissance, about her great-grandmother          in annual revenue and was CEO of Skype, where       ranking on its list of the 50 Most Influential People
whose parties, arts patronage and travels helped         he was responsible for expanding the business to    in Sports Business in 2015.
define the era.                                          over 170 million connected users.
2020 2021 SEASON - The Economic Club of Indiana
March 22, 2021                                       April 28, 2021                                        May 2021
                      Gail Boudreaux                                       David Ricks                                           Mike Tirico
                      President & CEO                                      Chairman & CEO                                        Sportscaster
                      Anthem, Inc.                                         Eli Lilly and Company                                 NBC Sports

Gail Boudreaux is President & CEO of Anthem,         Dave Ricks is Chairman and Chief Executive           At this season’s finale, NBC Sports’ Mike Tirico
Inc., a Fortune 500 company and leading health       Officer of Eli Lilly and Company. He was elected     brings to the stage his unparalleled sports
benefits provider, serving nearly 41 million         Chairman of the company’s board effective            knowledge, journalistic savvy and a connection
insured members through its affiliated health        June 2017. Over the span of his 20 year              with the audience that is unmatched. Tirico is host
plans. In total, Anthem serves over 79 million       career with Eli Lilly, he has held high leadership   of NBC’s Football Night in America – the most-
lives across 27 states through its broad portfolio   roles with Lilly Bio-Medicines, Lilly USA , Lilly    watched studio show in sports — and has worked
of health insurance and services subsidiaries.       China, and Lilly Canada. Dave joined Lilly in        sports’ most high-profile events, including the
Throughout her more than three decades in the        1996 as a Business Development Associate             Olympics, the Stanley Cup Final, horse racing’s
healthcare industry, Boudreaux has established       and held several management roles in U.S.            Triple Crown, The Masters, French Open and
an outstanding record of successfully leading        marketing and sales before traveling the globe.      of course the Indianapolis 500 , just to name
multi-billion dollar businesses by serving as CEO    He also serves in leadership roles on multiple       a few. After 25 years at ESPN/ABC he joined
of United Healthcare, Executive Vice President       philanthropic boards including International         NBC Sports Group in 2016. During his time with
of Health Care Services Corporation as well as       Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers &         ESPN, he established himself as a preeminent
President of Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Illinois.     Associations (IFPMA), Pharmaceutical Research        broadcaster, was the play-by-play voice for
Don’t miss this opportunity to hear insight from     and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA), Central        Monday Night Football, and in 2010 was named
one of Forbes 100 Most Powerful Women in the         Indiana Corporate Partnership, Adobe, and Riley      the “Sportscaster of the Year” by his peers at
World and Fortune Magazine’s Most Powerful           Children’s Foundation.                               the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters
Women in Business.                                                                                        Association.
2020 2021 SEASON - The Economic Club of Indiana
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