The global trade landscape is shifting rapidly in the wake of new presidential administration policies, evolving trade agreements, and ongoing supply chain disruptions. For board directors, understanding these dynamics is essential to guide strategic decision-making and maintain organizational resilience. Join our expert panel for an in-depth discussion on the latest developments in international trade, tariffs, and supply chain management. Topics will include: the impact of recent administration changes on global trade policies and tariffs, strategies for mitigating risks and managing uncertainty in international supply chains, opportunities for diversification and reshoring in response to geopolitical and economic pressures, insights into long-term trends shaping the future of global commerce.
SPEAKERS
Joyce Cacho
Joyce Cacho is a distinguished board director and governance strategist with a multi-sector track record across manufacturing, financial services, natural resources, and global supply chains. She brings boardroom leadership grounded in experience in business growth, capital strategy, sustainability, and stakeholder linkage—advancing enterprise resilience across companies in regulated industries and organizations being redefined by data analytics technology. Joyce brings diversity of thought about business growth, especially in the industrial, environment-saving technology, resource extraction, and specialized agriculture sectors.
Joyce is an Independent Director and Board Chair of Sistema.bio, a U.S. company and energy transition manufacturer with operations, sales, and distribution in Latin America, India, and the African continent. She has led governance strengthening, capital oversight, acquisition of a digital monitoring company, and board-level financing decisions—including a $15M bridge round and Series C preparation. As a former director at Land O’Lakes, Inc. ($17B, Fortune 215) and Sunrise Banks ($2B OCC-regulated; SMB and FinTech clients; Certified B-Corp), she provided public company-comparable governance across audit, operations, compliance, sustainability, and data strategy.
Joyce holds board governance designations from Corporate Director International (CDI.D) and is an NACD (Leadership Fellow) and is a member of Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) Society NY. She earned a Generative AI for Productivity certificate from Cornell University, applying AI and digital insight to board oversight of cybersecurity, operational efficiency, and workforce transformation.
A collaborative, multilingual leader, Joyce brings extensive board and executive experience related to U.S. regional dynamics and global markets, with a focus on cross-border strategy, sustainability, and governance. She holds a Ph.D. in economics, corporate finance, and commodity-business growth. Joyce was honored to serve on the USDA/USTR Agricultural Policy Advisory Committee during her tenure at Rabobank International – North America, and more recently, to be named to the 50/50 Women to Watch list of public company board-ready directors, Savoy Magazine’s “Most Influential Black Corporate Director”, and Directors & Boards Magazine’s “Director to Watch.”
Joyce continues to shape how boards address boardroom composition risk and strategic agility by contributing to The Future Boardroom – How to Transform in Turbulent Times by Helle Bank Jorgensen. Released in March 2025, this book is a groundbreaking guide that challenges conventional governance and defines how modern boardrooms can be integral to a leading company's agility, accountability, and strategic foresight in an era of rapid change.
Karl Schamotta
Karl Schamotta is Chief Market Strategist at Corpay. Previously, Karl lead Cambridge Global Payment’s currency research group, focused on analyzing shifts in the world economy and creating strategies that help businesses harness market volatility. He has built risk management and trading programs for hundreds of major corporations, and has extensive experience in managing complex exposures across major, minor and exotic currencies. Karl is a regular contributor to a number of international finance publications, and regularly appears in the Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, Reuters, BNN, CNN and CNBC.
Andrew Shoyer
Andrew Shoyer is a Partner at Sidley Austin. He advises companies on compliance with sanctions administered by the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) and export controls and anti-boycott rules administered by the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS). He also focuses on the implementation and enforcement of international trade and investment agreements. Drawing on his experience at the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) and with the World Trade Organization (WTO), Andy advises companies, trade associations and governments on the use of WTO, USMCA and other treaty-based trade and investment rules to open markets and resolve disputes. He works extensively with manufacturers and service providers on WTO compliance in Asia and on protection of intellectual property in bilateral and regional free trade negotiations.
Andy spent seven years at USTR, serving most recently as legal adviser in the U.S. Mission to the WTO in Geneva. He was the principal negotiator for the United States of the rules implementing the WTO Dispute Settlement Understanding and has briefed and argued numerous WTO cases before dispute settlement panels and the WTO Appellate Body. Prior to his arrival in Geneva, Andy was assistant general counsel at USTR in Washington, D.C., where he served as principal legal counsel in the negotiation of the market access rules of the NAFTA, as well as the framework agreements with various Latin American countries. He also worked on numerous trade policy issues with the U.S. Congress and the economic agencies of the executive branch of the U.S. government.
Andy’s leadership in the international trade and dispute settlement arena is widely recognized. He is consistently ranked among the nation’s top international trade lawyers by Chambers USA, Chambers Global, and Lexology Index. Andy has been ranked by Chambers USA for International Trade: Remedies & Policy in USA – Nationwide every year since 2005, and has been ranked as Band 1 in that category since 2013. He has also been ranked by Chambers Global for International Trade: Trade Remedies & Trade Policy in the USA since 2006 and for International Trade/WTO in the Asia-Pacific Region since 2021. The 2024 edition described Andy as a “go-to practitioner for issues centered around trade and investment agreements.” Andy has been recognized in Lexology Index: USA – Trade & Customs as a “Thought Leader,” most recently in the 2025 edition. In the 2021 edition, he is described as “a top WTO lawyer” who stands out for his “superb knowledge of trade law.” A previous edition notes that he is particularly proficient in dispute settlement proceedings and “very attentive to client needs” (2020). International Law Office has bestowed on Andy twice its “Client Choice Award” for client service in trade and customs law. In 2017, Andy was listed in Legal 500’s Hall of Fame. Andy is an adjunct professor in international trade and investment policy at the School of Foreign Service of Georgetown University.
F. Daniel Siciliano, moderator
Dan Siciliano is a successful technology CEO-founder and entrepreneur, as well as Vice Chair of the board of the Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco, and a recognized expert in corporate strategy and governance, capital financial markets, executive compensation, and technological disruption (including fintech, AI and cybersecurity). He is currently Chairman of SVDX, board member of the Latino Corporate Directors Education Foundation, chair-elect of the Council of Federal Home Loan Banks, and a fellow at Stanford University.