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MODERATOR Christy Gillenwater President & CEO Greater Oklahoma City Chamber

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Bob Dauffenbach Professor Emeritus

Russell Evans Dean, College of Business; Partner and Chief Economist University of Central Oklahoma and Thorberg Collectorate

Cortney Cowley Oklahoma City Branch Executive and Assistant Vice President Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City

Mark Snead President and Economist RegionTrack, Inc.

Price College of Business University of Oklahoma

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KEYNOTE SPEAKER Stephen Jury Vice Chairman J.P. Morgan Private Bank

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STEPHEN JURY Vice Chairman, J.P. Morgan Private Bank

CORTNEY COWLEY Oklahoma City Branch Executive and Assistant Vice President Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City

Stephen Jury is vice chairman of J.P. Morgan Private Bank and a markets and global commodity strategist. Based in New York, Jury is part of a team that delivers a comprehensive vision of the firm’s macro market and investment views to clients. He is primarily responsible for coordinating and providing advice to clients on commodity markets, including energy, precious metals, base metals and agriculture. He works closely with J.P. Morgan Private Bank, Chase Wealth Management and J.P. Morgan Securities. Prior to his current role, Jury spent five years as a global portfolio specialist with the firm’s CIO team, and before that, five years as global head of fixed income, currency and commodity specialists. He has more than 40 years of experience in financial markets. Before joining J.P. Morgan, Jury was chief FX dealer at Chemical Bank and global head of FX trading at Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette. More recently, he served as chief investment officer at Greenwich, Connecticut-based Tradex Capital Markets. Earlier in his career, he was senior vice president in foreign exchange sales at HSBC Bank in New York and deputy head of foreign exchange at UBS, also in New York. Jury currently holds Series 7, 63, 9, 10 and 23 securities licenses. He holds dual nationality in Britain and the United States and lives in New York with his family.

Cortney Cowley serves as Oklahoma City branch executive and assistant vice president for the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City. Cowley joined the bank in 2015 as an economist and was promoted to senior economist in 2021. In 2025, she began her role as branch executive. As Oklahoma City branch executive, Cowley is the bank’s lead officer and economist in Oklahoma. She recruits and works closely with the Oklahoma City Branch Board of Directors and is responsible for briefing Kansas City Fed President Jeff Schmid, a member of the Federal Open Market Committee, on economic trends in the state. She also serves as a special adviser on agriculture to Vice Chair for Supervision Michelle Bowman at the Federal Reserve Board of Governors. Cowley’s team conducts research and surveys on key regional issues such as energy, manufacturing and migration. Cowley holds a doctorate in agricultural economics from Oklahoma State University, as well as a master’s degree in civil engineering from Colorado State University and a bachelor’s degree in biosystems engineering from Oklahoma State, where she was named a Harry S. Truman Scholar. She is a member of the Economic Club of Oklahoma, the Downtown Club of Oklahoma City and the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association and serves as an economic adviser on the campaign cabinet of the United Way of Central Oklahoma. Cowley, along with her husband and 8-year-old twins, lives on a small farm northwest of Oklahoma City.

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RUSSELL EVANS Dean, College of Business; Partner and Chief Economist University of Central Oklahoma and Thorberg Collectorate Russell Evans was recently appointed dean of the College of Business at the University of Central Oklahoma while continuing as partner and chief economist at Thorberg Collectorate. A highly regarded business analyst and economic communicator, he works closely with cities, tribes and industry groups across the region. He also serves as a trustee and Investment Committee chair for the Oklahoma City Community Foundation. Evans enjoys time with his wife, Amanda, and their five children, along with soccer, golf, fly-fishing and active service in his church and community.

Price College of Business University of Oklahoma

Robert C. Dauffenbach recently served as senior associate dean for economic development, professor of business administration and director of the Center for Economic and Management Research at the Michael F. Price College of Business at the University of Oklahoma. He earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in economics from Wichita State University in 1969 and received his doctorate in economics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1973. Dauffenbach served as assistant professor of economics at Wayne State University from 1973 to 1975, then returned to the University of Illinois as a research economist at the Center for Advanced Computation. He joined the faculty at Oklahoma State University in 1977 and served as director of the Office of Business and Economic Research from 1985 to 1990, attaining the rank of full professor. He assumed duties as professor of business administration and economics and director of the Center for Economic and Management Research at the University of Oklahoma in the fall of 1990. He served as associate dean for research and graduate programs from 2002 to 2013. In 2014, he was named McCasland Foundation Professor of American Free Enterprise and senior associate dean for economic development and impact, serving through 2022. In October 2015, he was inducted into the Oklahoma Higher Education Hall of Fame. Upon his retirement in July 2022, he was named professor emeritus.

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MARK SNEAD President and Economist RegionTrack, Inc.

TERESA ROSE Chair, Greater Oklahoma City Chamber Executive Director, One Heartbeat Foundation

Teresa Rose is the new executive director at One Heartbeat Foundation. She has spent her career serving others and improving her community, holding a variety of executive positions, including senior leadership roles at Communities foundation of Oklahoma, Oklahoma City Community Foundation and Chesapeake Energy Corporation. Her expertise in community relations, government affairs, philanthropy, and legal matters, combined with her heart for giving, enabled her to provide individuals, families and organizations with guidance and options as they choose the best way to approach giving.

Mark C. Snead is an economist and president of RegionTrack Inc., an Oklahoma City-based economic research firm specializing in regional economic forecasting and analysis. Snead’s research interests focus primarily on regional economic modeling and forecasting, local area economic development and the economic role of the nation’s energy-producing regions. He frequently presents to business, financial and policy audiences and has published numerous research articles and reports on regional economic issues. His research has been widely cited by policy officials, other researchers and leading media outlets. Before founding RegionTrack, Snead served as vice president and Denver branch executive of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, where he was the Reserve Bank’s regional economist and lead officer in Colorado, Wyoming and northern New Mexico. Prior to joining the Federal Reserve, he was with Oklahoma State University, where he was the founding director of OSU’s Center for Applied Economic Research. A native of Atlanta, Snead holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of Georgia, a master’s degree in economics and finance from the Georgia Institute of Technology, and a doctorate in economics from Oklahoma State University. He is married and has two daughters.

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DECEMBER 8 D.C. SPOTLIGHT

DECEMBER 17 ANNUAL MEETING

8:30 to 10 a.m. Skirvin Hilton Hotel One Park Ave. Oklahoma City, OK 73102

11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum 1700 NE 63rd St. Oklahoma City, OK 73111

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Keynote Speaker BILL CAMERON President and CEO, American Fidelity

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