ACC NCR 2026 Annual Meeting & Sponsor Welcome Reception

Kick-off the New Year at ACC NCR’s 2026 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 2025 and plans for 2026, and toast to the election of new officers and directors (the slate of candidates is listed below).  

MEMBERS - Please complete a proxy by January 9, 2025; click here to do so.  

Officers:

• President Elect:  Anjanette “Anji” Stinson, Associate General Counsel, National Student Clearinghouse
• Vice President (Member Engagement):  Patrick Samsel, General Counsel, Fors Marsh
• Vice President (Professional Advancement &   Community Engagement):  Denise Gold, Corporate and Labor Senior Counsel, Associated General Contractors of America
• Vice President (Programming):  Kirsten Keating, Managing Associate General Counsel – Employment Law, Freddie Mac

Directors:  

For terms expiring in 2029:

• Denise Gold, Corporate and Labor Senior Counsel, Associated General Contractors of America (second term)
• Elizabeth Jones, Associate General Counsel, Breakthrough T1D (second term)
• Sandy Paik, General Counsel, The Tower Companies (second term)
• Virginia Robinson, Chief Administrative Officer/Chief Legal Officer, Chugach Government Solutions, LLC (first term)
• Andrew Sakallaris, General Counsel, LMI (second full term*)
• Steven “Steve” Tibbets, General Counsel, Q-Free America, Inc. (first term)

* Per ACC NCR’s bylaws, eligible for two full three-year terms, as their first term was for less than two years when they completed the term of a board member who resigned.

They will join:

Officers Elected in 2025 to Continue to Serve in 2026:

• Immediate Past President:  Kathi Westcott, Deputy General Counsel, The Pew Charitable Trusts
• 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 Elected in 2024 and 2025 (serving in either the first or second of two three-year terms):

• Mitch Bashur, Senior Counsel Public Sector, Figma
• Charlotte Bernard, Commercial Counsel, Google Cloud, Google
• Henrique Canarim, Vice President, Senior Assistant General Counsel, Leidos
• Mary Chapin, Vice President, Chief Legal Officer, and Corporate Secretary, National Student Clearinghouse
• Audrey Jean, General Counsel, 3E Company
• Ilona Levine, Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary, Internet Society
• Kirsten Keating, Managing Associate General Counsel – Employment Law, Freddie Mac
• Amit Patel, Chief Ethics & Compliance Officer, Senior Counsel, The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
• Patrick Samsel, General Counsel, Fors Marsh
• Véronique Staco, Assistant General Counsel, WTW
• Anjanette “Anji” Stinson, Associate General Counsel, National Student Clearinghouse
• Kathi Westcott, Deputy General Counsel, The Pew Charitable Trusts

*Sponsors may send two representatives, except Diamond and Ruby, 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