Amanda Engstrom Eversole is president of the Center for Advanced Technology and Innovation (CATI) and senior vice president of the U.S. Chamber Center for Capital Markets Competitiveness (CCMC). She is also a senior vice president of the U.S. Chamber and a member of the Chamber’s Management Committee. As president of CATI, Eversole leads the Chamber’s efforts to expand engagement with high-tech industries on policy development, regulatory issues, and international opportunities and challenges. Through advocacy, research, events, and partnerships, CATI seeks to unleash entrepreneurship and technology development in high-tech centers across the nation. As senior vice president of CCMC, Eversole is responsible for the day-to-day management of the Center’s agenda dedicated to making U.S. capital markets the most fair, efficient, transparent, and attractive in the world. This effort addresses domestic and international securities regulation and implementation of the Dodd-Frank law, as well as challenges to the auditing profession, proxy rules, business due process, and a host of other issues. Eversole joined the Chamber in 2003. She has served as chief of staff, led efforts to fight counterfeiting and piracy globally, oversaw marketing and communications for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation, and managed communications for association and chamber of commerce members. Earlier, she worked for RTC Relationship Marketing, a WPP Group company, in business development. Eversole graduated cum laude from the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, with a bachelor’s of business administration and a minor in French. She earned an M.B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School where she was a Palmer Scholar and graduated first in her class. Eversole lives in Washington, with her husband, Eric, their daughter, Ellie, and their dog, Gus.

In 2014, Texans overwhelmingly re-elected Senator John Cornyn to represent them for a third term in the U.S. Senate. In addition to serving on the Senate Finance and Judiciary Committees, Sen. Cornyn serves as the Majority Whip, the number two position in the Senate’s Republican leadership.

Sen. Cornyn has earned a national reputation as an articulate and powerful voice for Texas and conservative values, and he has been a leader in promoting innovation, research, and education initiatives at all levels. He has been a leading advocate in the Senate for patent reform, and as a member of the Senate High Tech Task Force, he is working to ensure that the federal government does not hinder American technological growth.

Sen. Cornyn has served the people of Texas for the last three decades, first as a district judge and later as a member of the Texas Supreme Court and as Texas Attorney General. He received his undergraduate degree from Trinity University, his law degree from St. Mary’s School of Law, and his LLM from the University of Virginia Law School.

Sen. Cornyn has been married to his wife, Sandy, for 36 years, and they have two grown daughters.