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Zenia Mucha is a communications and brand leader whose career spans more than four decades across government, entertainment, media, and technology. She is currently the Chief Brand and Communications Officer at TikTok where she helps strengthen the brand’s voice and amplify its position at the center of culture, creativity, and social commerce.

Prior to TikTok, she spent over 20 years at The Walt Disney Company, where she served as Chief Communications Officer reporting directly to the CEO, leading global communications for the company and its major business segments. She played a key role in communications strategy for many of Disney’s defining milestones, including the acquisitions of Pixar, Marvel, Lucasfilm, and major 21st Century Fox assets, as well as the company’s international growth and park openings.

Throughout her career, she has been recognized for strategic judgment, candor, resilience, and the ability to lead through moments of transformation. Strengths shaped early in her professional journey through public service, first as communications director and campaign manager for U.S. Sen. Alfonse D’Amato, and later as director of communications and senior policy advisor to New York Governor, George Pataki.

Her career reflects a lasting commitment to trusted leadership, purposeful storytelling, and the role of communications in shaping institutions that matter to audiences around the world.

Kristen Welch is an accomplished financial and operations executive with more than 35 years of leadership experience in the media and educational industries with a longstanding commitment to advancing women in both.
Kristen spent the first 27 years of her career at Discovery Communications, where she held a series of senior leadership positions, including CFO of Discovery Channel and Science Channel, SVP of Corporate FP&A and Strategy, and SVP of Global Content Operations and Discovery Studios. In these roles, she provided strategic and financial leadership across the organization, overseeing financial planning and analysis, forecasting, capital modeling, content analytics, programming operations, data governance, and the development of systems and processes supporting content across a global portfolio.
Kristen currently serves as Chief Financial and Operations Officer at Illustrative Mathematics, the non-profit organization behind IM® Math, a problem-based TK-12 curriculum grounded in research on how students learn mathematics and rooted in the belief that all students can succeed. She oversees finance, accounting, legal, IT, research, events, and administration. She is passionate about high-quality education and learning and is committed to listening to partners and customers, embracing innovation, and creating an environment that leverages the diverse talent and expertise of the people around her.
A passionate advocate for women in all fields, Kristen served for more than a decade on the national board of the Alliance for Women in Media, the organization behind the Gracie Awards, including two years as Chair. Her service reflects a deep commitment to recognizing the accomplishments of women in the industry and supporting the next generation of women leaders.
Kristen has been recognized throughout her career for her leadership. She was named a Person to Watch by The Financial Manager in 2011 and received the Women Leading Women award from the University of Maryland in 2013.
Kristen holds a Master of Business Administration and a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from the University of Maryland, College Park.

Marilu Galvez is general manager of ABC7/WABC-TV New York, the No. 1 station in the country, and has overall management responsibility for WABC-TV and its ancillary businesses.

Galvez is an Emmy® Award-winning journalist who has been at WABC-TV for more than 20 years. Under her leadership, WABC-TV was honored with the Edward R. Murrow Award for Overall Excellence in 2023 and 2025.

Prior to taking over leadership of the station in 2022, she served as vice president of Community Engagement and Development. She was responsible for community outreach efforts and for growing relationships with key service organizations in the tristate area. She successfully aligned news, programming, marketing and on-air talent with cause-related events and campaigns and leveraged opportunities with advertiser support. Through strategy and innovation, her leadership has helped expand and elevate a multicultural presence at the station.

She is an active member of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists and was named one of the Top 10 Latina Corporate Executives of the Year by LATINA Style in 2019. Most recently, Galvez was honored by the nonprofit organization New York Edge during their 2025 gala for her work with underprivileged youth.

She serves as a board member for several organizations, including the nonprofit humanitarian organization American Red Cross, New York City’s largest hunger relief organization, The Food Bank For New York City, and the nonprofit STOMP OUT Bullying. She is also an advisor for the nonpartisan organization, The League of Women Voters of the City of New York (LWVNYC). Additionally, she is a strong supporter of the Boys & Girls Club, WABC anchor Sade Baderinwa’s Get Reel Foundation, and all initiatives under Disney’s VoluntEars program.

Before joining WABC in 2001, Galvez worked as a production assistant and assignment editor at Telemundo, an assignment editor at WNYW and an assignment manager at WNBC.

Galvez earned her Master of Business Administration from the University of Maryland University College in 2021. She also received an honorary degree from Hofstra University in 2022. Currently, she is pursuing a master’s degree in diplomacy and international relations at Seton Hall University.

Tina Perry is President of OWN: OPRAH WINFREY NETWORK, WARNER BROTHERS DISCOVERY (WBD), a public company listed on the NASDAQ Exchange. She reports to OWN Chairwoman and CEO Oprah Winfrey and Warner Brothers Television Group and US Networks (of which OWN is a renowned brand) Chairman and CEO Channing Dungey. Tina oversees all operational and creative areas of OWN, including all OTT properties (OWN on HBOMax, d+, WatchOWN, podcasts, YouTube, and Oprah.com), social good campaigns (OWN Your Vote and OWN Your Health), and all creator short form programming.

Tina serves on the OWN Board of Directors; as the Chair and Member of the Television Academy Foundation’s Board of Directors; The Paley Center for Media’s Los Angeles Board of Governors; and the Board of the Hollywood Radio and Television Society (HRTS). Previously, she was an Independent Board Director, a Member of the Nominating and Governance Committee, and a Member of the Compensation Committee for AVANTAX, a NASDAQ fintech wealth management leader that sold to a private firm with a 30% closing price premium.

She has a passion for the arts and serves on CalArts’ Board of Trustees as the Audit Committee Chair and a Board Director; Stanford University’s Cantor Arts Center Director’s Advisory Board; and is a founding Board Member of The Mistake Room, LA’s independent, non-profit global platform for contemporary art and ideas.

Tina is the recipient of multiple awards, including the: 2026 Cablefax 100; 2025 Cablefax 100; 2025 Cynopsis Top Women in Media; 2025 Cablefax Most Powerful Women; 2025 African American Film Critics Visionary; 2024 Hirshhorn National Arts and 2024 Cynopsis Top Women in Media awards; 2023 Cablefax 100; 2023 Cynopsis Top Women in Media; and 2023 Cablefax Most Powerful Women. She has been featured in numerous publications, including the 2024 LEADERS and 2025 Forbes magazines.

Tina earned an MSc in Comparative Social Policy from the University of Oxford; a JD from Harvard Law School; and her BA in Political Science, with honors, from Stanford University.

Julie Talbott is President of Premiere Networks, the industry's leading audio syndication company. She oversees a portfolio of more than 100 radio programs and services that reach a quarter-billion listeners each month on more than 8,600 radio affiliates nationwide. She also manages key talent partnerships and affiliate relationships across Premiere Networks, Total Traffic & Weather Network, and the 24/7 News Network.

Talbott began her career in advertising at BBDO, where she spent five years in media planning and buying before following her passion for radio to MJI Broadcasting. During her 19-year tenure at MJI, she helped grow the company from five employees to more than 150 and played a key role in securing the exclusive radio rights to the CMA Awards and CMA Music Festival. Following Premiere Networks' acquisition of MJI in 1999, Talbott joined Premiere as Senior Vice President of Integrated Marketing Solutions. She later advanced to Executive Vice President of Affiliate Relations, where she helped expand distribution for major programs and personalities, including Glenn Beck, Steve Harvey, Elvis Duran, George Noory and FOX Sports Radio. She was named President of Content and Affiliate Relations in 2009, and became President of Premiere Networks in 2014.

Talbott has been recognized with numerous industry honors, including TALKERS magazine's Judy Jarvis Memorial Award, the Broadcasters Foundation's Ward L. Quaal Leadership Award, Talk Show Boot Camp's Ashwood Award, and the Mentoring and Inspiring Women in Radio (MIW) Trailblazer Award. She was honored as a Giant of Broadcasting by the Library of American Broadcasting Foundation, inducted into the University of Kentucky Gatton College of Business and Economics Hall of Fame in 2024, and inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame in 2025. Talbott has also been named among Radio Ink's "Most Powerful People in Radio" and "Most Influential Women in Radio" multiple times.

Erin Underhill is President of Universal Television, a division of Universal Studio Group, where she oversees all aspects – creative affairs, casting, production and more – of one of the most successful television studios in the world.

With Underhill at the helm, Universal Television produces over 40 primetime comedies and dramas for a variety of broadcast, cable and streaming platforms. Acclaimed series under her purview include Dick Wolf’s enormously successful “Law & Order,” “One Chicago” and “FBI”-branded series, the Emmy and Peabody Award-winning comedy “Hacks,” “The Gilded Age,” “The Paper,” “St. Denis Medical,” “Happy’s Place,” “A Man on the Inside,” “The Four Seasons,” "The Fall and Rise of Reggie Dinkins," and more.

Underhill and her team support a slate of top creative talent, including Mike Daniels, Tina Fey, Malcolm D. Lee, Julie Plec, Amy Poehler, Michael Schur, Justin Spitzer, Darren Star and Kevin Williamson. Over the years, she has been instrumental in many critically lauded and fan-favorite series, including “ER,” “The West Wing,” “Friday Night Lights,” “Parenthood,” “Bel-Air,” “The Equalizer,” “The Best Man: The Final Chapters,” “Never Have I Ever,” “American Dreams,” “Bates Motel,” “The Bold Type,” “Good Girls” and “New Amsterdam.”

Prior to her current role, Underhill led Universal Television’s drama development department as Executive Vice President and was previously Senior Vice President, Drama. Before that, she was Senior Vice President, Current Programming for NBC and Universal Media Studios (renamed Universal Television) and was responsible for creative oversight of drama series such as “Heroes,” “Southland” and “Chicago Fire,” among many others.

Underhill serves on the Hollywood Radio & Television Society Advisory Board. She resides with her family in Los Angeles and is a graduate of UCLA.