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With more than 35 years of diverse healthcare experience, Todd LaPorte leads an integrated health system at HonorHealth – Arizona’s seventh largest employer. This includes six acute-care hospitals, numerous outpatient facilities, a research institute, and various community services impacting social determinants of health and military preparedness.

Joining HonorHealth in 2001, and becoming CEO in 2017, Todd has shaped a system with many access points to provide convenient, high-quality care for patients, and with an ability to coordinate care efficiently and effectively. HonorHealth governs with its medical staff one of the country’s highest performing ACOs in the country. Before joining HonorHealth, he held senior management roles for an international CPA firm and was also the CFO of a privately held healthcare company.

Todd is also a member of Greater Phoenix Leadership, a board member of Experience Scottsdale and Health System Alliance of Arizona, and speaks frequently to Arizona State University MBA classes and community service organizations throughout the valley. He holds a bachelor's degree in business from the University of Arizona and an MBA from Arizona State University.

Michael M. Crow is an educator, knowledge enterprise architect, science and technology policy scholar and higher education leader. He became the sixteenth president of Arizona State University in July 2002 and has spearheaded ASU’s rapid and groundbreaking transformative evolution into one of the world’s best public metropolitan research universities. As a model “New American University,” ASU simultaneously demonstrates comprehensive excellence, inclusivity representative of the ethnic and socioeconomic diversity of the United States, and consequential societal impact.

Lauded as the ”#1 most innovative” school in the nation by U.S. News & World Report for eight straight years, ASU is a student-centric, technology-enabled university focused on global challenges. Under Crow’s leadership, ASU has established more than twenty-five new transdisciplinary schools, including the School of Earth and Space Exploration, the School for the Future of Innovation in Society and the School of Human Evolution and Social Change, and launched trailblazing multidisciplinary initiatives including the Biodesign Institute, the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory, and important initiatives in the humanities and social sciences.