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Kathi earned a BA in American Studies from the University of Texas at Austin and a JD from University of Texas School of Law. After graduation from law school, she moved to Dallas and began working as a lawyer (at Jackson & Walker) – specialized in employee benefit law, which led her to the actuarial division of Coopers & Lybrand, first in Dallas and then in Minneapolis. Upon returning to Dallas, Child began her 18-year career at JCPenney, starting in the tax department, moving to Human Resources and ending as SVP of Human Resources. She has also served as SVP of Human Resources at Family Dollar Stores in Charlotte, NC and ended her career as SVP of Global Compensation for Walmart in Bentonville, AR.

In retirement, Kathi has been active with the United Way, serving on the board and finance committee of United Way of Metropolitan Dallas (where she was introduced to Café Momentum) and as a steering committee member for Women of Tocqueville. She continues to serve as a panelist for community investment grant panels.

I am married to Chris Child, who works for the Society of St. Vincent DePaul Disaster Services Division. We have two sons, Pete and Kit, who are both employed in the restaurant industry.

Ken is Creative Director and Partner of the Digital and Creative division of LDWWgroup. As a founding Café Momentum board member, he is responsible for the launch of the Café Momentum brand, marketing and digital user experience. Previously, he designed the Youth Village Resources brand and was very excited about partnering with such creative minds to make Café Momentum a reality. Ken’s award-winning work includes branding and creative communication initiatives for clients such as Got Milk?, Motorola Mobility, Verizon Wireless, Crescent Real Estate, American Airlines, Hitachi Consulting, the Big 12 Athletic Conference, ExxonMobil, UT Southwestern Medical Foundation, The Meadows Foundation and Downtown Dallas Incorporated. Ken has won numerous design awards for the successful rebrand of the Dallas Zoo and the Children’s Aquarium at Fair Park.

Jack Stout is Vice President of Merchandising at 7-Eleven, Inc., where he has worked since 2003 in a variety of roles, including Vice President of Strategic and Financial Planning and International Business Consultant at Seven Eleven Japan in Tokyo. Mr. Stout is a graduate of Duke University, holding a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics and an MBA from the Fuqua School of Business. He also holds a Master’s of Science in Applied Statistics from Wright State University. Mr. Stout previously served as an officer in the United States Air Force, attaining the rank of Captain. Additionally, he held positions at Booz-Allen & Hamilton and TXU Energy. Mr. Stout was born and raised in Dallas where he currently resides with his wife Emily, their two sons and three American Brittany spaniels.

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Jennifer Rudenick Ecklund is a Partner at Thompson Coburn. She focuses her practice on litigation and dispute resolution, representing clients before state and federal trial courts. Jennifer practices primarily in the healthcare, complex commercial litigation, and white collar litigation sections.

Jennifer has significant experience handling healthcare litigation matters, including representing healthcare providers in coverage and reimbursement disputes, fraud, defamation, and civil RICO claims. She has resolved affirmative claims on behalf of providers regarding violation of the Texas Prompt Pay Act, claims under ERISA for an insurer’s failure to pay a provider’s claims, and contractual disputes and employment issues between provider entities and individual healthcare providers. Jennifer has also represented healthcare providers in litigation related to qui tam and False Claims Act cases and federal and state anti-kickback provisions and Stark laws. She has represented both plaintiffs and defendants in these types of matters.

Jennifer also has expertise handling white collar fraud matters in both the civil and criminal contexts. She regularly handles cases in securities fraud, healthcare fraud, tax fraud, and mortgage fraud, as well as matters related to Ponzi schemes and resulting receiverships. She has also litigated numerous complex commercial matters and various contract, tort, employment, business, and tax disputes. Jennifer was previously a trial attorney for the United States Department of Justice, Tax Division, representing the United States in all phases of litigation before federal district and bankruptcy courts

Prior to her current role, she held the position of Assistant Vice President- Alternate Channels for State & Local Government and Education (SLED). In this role Pamela was responsible for the expansion of sales distribution coverage and growing market share for over 53,000 customers utilizing alternative partnerships. Pamela previously held Director-Chief of Staff positions in Public Sector & Wholesale Solutions; Digital, Distribution & Channel Marketing and Big Data & Advanced Solutions prior to being appointed to her current role. As Chief of Staff, she was responsible for managing human resources, expense budgeting, business management, special projects and operations across the organizations. Prior to this role, Pamela was Director, Enterprise Mobility Business Portfolio Management in the Mobility Product Management organization. She was responsible for managing the $100M+ capital and expense budgets supporting the delivery of innovative, enhanced enterprise mobility products, solutions, and offers. In 2016, she was named a Technology All-Star by Women of Color STEM Magazine.

Pamela has amassed 20+ years of experience in leadership roles spanning Sales, Sales Management, Operations, Human Resources, Product Management, Marketing and Strategy across three of the country’s leading telecommunication companies: AT&T, CenturyLink(Qwest), and Verizon. Throughout her career, she has been committed to serving the communities in which she resides and advocating for women, people of color and young people. Pamela and AT&T were recognized for their work with Christ the King Preparatory High School in 2012 when AT&T was awarded the Christo Rey Award as Corporate Sponsor of the Year. Her work with AT&T and the Thurgood Marshall College Fund was recognized by the White House Jobs Initiative in 2013. She is also a founder of the Tri-State (NY/NJ/CT) Diversity Council and past board of director for the organization.

Since her move to Dallas, TX in August 2013, she has quickly engaged with the community. Pamela was appointed to the Board of Directors for Dallas based Café Momentum in January 2018. She is a member of United Way of Metropolitan Dallas’ Women of Tocqueville Steering Committee and the Board of Directors for the Black Academy of Art & Letters. She devotes a considerable amount of time to supporting, advising and mentoring many of the Employee Resource Groups within AT&T to ensure we are building future leaders. As part of that commitment, she is a founder and Co-President of AT&T’s newest Employee Network– AT&T Women of Business.

Ms. Osborne has had the great fortune to be part of an United States Air Force family that is committed to service. Through relocating often both domestically and internationally, she has been exposed to diverse cultures and thought. This drives her commitment to building and developing diverse, high performing teams. She holds a B.A. in Journalism from Indiana University and currently resides in Las Colinas (Irving), TX. She is the proud mother of Eric Osborne who is a second generation AT&T employee.