Events

Xavier A. Gutierrez serves as president, CEO, and alternate governor of the Arizona Coyotes Hockey Club. In this role, Gutierrez oversees all business operations, strategic planning, significant organizational decision-making, and public affairs for the club. He is the first Latino president and CEO in the history of the National Hockey League.

Gutierrez has a 25+ year career as a business executive, investor, and dealmaker focused on investment management, corporate strategy and operations, finance, and business development. Previously he was managing director at Clearlake Capital Group (a private investment firm with more than $39 billion in institutional capital). Prior to Clearlake, Gutierrez served as chief investment officer of Meruelo Group (an Alex Meruelo family office/management company), and president and chief investment officer of Meruelo Investment Partners (an investment affiliate). He was also principal and managing director with Phoenix Realty Group (a national real estate private equity firm with $1 billion in equity capital) and has worked at Latham & Watkins, Lehman Brothers, and the National Football League Office.

A dedicated philanthropist and corporate leader, Gutierrez serves on multiple boards and advisory councils. He is currently a shareholder and board director of Commercial Bank of California (CBC), the largest Latino-owned bank in California with over $1.5 billion in assets. He also serves on the board of ARCTOS Northstar Acquisition Corp (NYSE: ANAC), Janus International Group (NYSE: JBI), and Trinitas Capital Management (a privately held credit investment manager).

Mr. Gutierrez is currently a board director and on the Investment Committee for the Arizona Community Foundation (ACF), serves on the Board of the National Association of Investment Companies (NAIC), is a member of the Board of Regents at his alma mater, Bellarmine College Preparatory, and is on the Advisory Boards of both the Aspen Institute Latinos & Society Program and the Hispanic Scholarship Fund.

In 2020, Gutierrez co-founded and currently serves as Board Chairman of SUMA Wealth, an innovative financial technology company focused on eliminating the Latinx wealth gap by engaging, educating, and empowering this cohort through culturally-relevant content, financial tools, and services.

Gutierrez previously served as a voting member of the U.S. SEC Advisory Committee on Small and Emerging Companies and was a board member for several organizations including Sizmek, Inc. (NYSE: SZMK), the U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, the California Community Foundation, and the Southern California Public Radio (2016-2019).

Gutierrez is a proud graduate of Bellarmine College Preparatory, an all-boys Jesuit high school in San Jose, California. He received his Bachelor of Arts cum laude in Government from Harvard University, and his Doctor of Jurisprudence from Stanford Law School. He, his wife Jericca, and son Xavi live in Paradise Valley, Arizona.

Aaron Matos is the founder and CEO of Paradox, the world's leading conversational recruiting software that’s driving automation with a human touch to assist with the work talent teams don't have time for — streamlining tasks like screening, interview scheduling, and more through fast, easy, mobile-first interactions.

Matos is an experienced entrepreneur and recognized technology leader, and his passion for recruitment has driven him to start several successful companies in the talent acquisition technology market; which have served tens of thousands of clients and millions of job seekers. Under Aaron's leadership as the former founder/former CEO of Jobing.com and Recruiting.com, his companies achieved industry-leading growth and three consecutive Inc. 500 awards. Aaron was recognized as a top ten honoree ($10 million and up category) in the Sun Devil 100's Class of 2022.

Christopher Waller is member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. He was confirmed in December 2020 and his term expires in 2030. Prior to joining the Board, he was executive vice president and director of research at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis from 2009 to 2020. He began his career at Indiana University-Bloomington from 1985-1998. He then moved to the University of Kentucky, where he served as the C. M. Gatton Chair of Monetary Economics. In 2003, he joined the University of Notre Dame as the Gilbert F. Schaefer Chair of Economics. His research focuses on monetary theory and has been published in a variety of top scholarly journals such as the American Economic Review and the Quarterly Journal of Economics. He earned a BA from Bemidji State University (1981) followed by an MA (1984) and a PhD (1985) in economics from Washington State University.