She won the Distinguished Presenter Award at the Brown & Brown Senior Financial Leadership Presentation meeting and was also the recipient of the “Vision to Value” award during her time at the Newport Group.

Bhandair is a CPA, licensed in the state of Iowa where she earned her MBA from Maharishi University of Management in Fairfield, Iowa. She holds a Master of Taxation degree from Florida Atlantic University and a Bachelor of Commerce with Honors from Delhi University in India. Bhandair also holds the Chartered Global Management Accountant (CGMA) designation and is currently working towards her Certified Equity Professional (CEP) designation. She is a member of the American Institute of CPAs and the National Association of Stock Plan Professionals.

For Hyne, the most gratifying aspect of her job is bringing new partners into the LPGA family and nurturing these relationships to help the LPGA and its tour professionals, teachers and girls golf members grow. She now oversees all business development, corporate partnerships, research, merchandise and licensing for the LPGA on a global scale.  

Hyne is a proud BGSU alumna, earning a Bachelor of Education in Sport Management in 1993. Followed by a Masters in Communications from the University of Arkansas in 1995.  

In 2016, Sports Business Journal honored Hyne as one of 35 national ‘Game Changers’ for having a major impact on sports business. Hyne serves on the national board of the Executive Women’s Golf Association (EWGA) and the BGSU sport management and sport administration alumni advisory board.

Sterling is an alumni of Leadership Toledo, a recipient of the “20 Under 40” award and a Women in Communications Crystal Award winner. She holds a master’s degree from the University of Toledo and is a fellowship graduate of the executive leadership program at Case Western Reserve University’s Weatherhead School of Management. She teaches courses in fundraising and nonprofit management at the university level. 

Under Sterling’s leadership, Aly Sterling Philanthropy earned membership in 2015 to the Giving Institute, a highly respected and exclusive professional organization for nonprofit consultants. 

Aly currently serves on the board of trustees for Advocating Opportunity, an organization formed to stop human trafficking. She has served as president of the Northwest Ohio chapter of the Association of Fundraising Professionals and has belonged to the boards of St. Ursula Academy, the Arts Commission of Greater Toledo, Leadership Toledo and David’s House.

Sylvester began her GE career in 1987 as an intern at GE Motors in Ft. Wayne, Indiana. She then joined GE Lighting in 1988 in the sourcing operation. Along the way, she held positions of increasing responsibility, such as director of sourcing for GE Lighting Europe, based in Budapest, Hungary, and in 1997, as general manager of Worldwide Sourcing for the business, based in Cleveland. Sylvester also served as general manager for Global High Intensity Discharge (HID) before being named president and CEO of GE Lighting Systems in Hendersonville, North Carolina, in 2000. She was then named president of the former GE Quartz in 2002, followed by the CEO roles with GE Intelligent Platforms in 2006 and GE Lighting in 2011 respectively.  

Sylvester is a member of GE's Corporate Executive Council, GE’s Commercial Council and she was instrumental in helping to launch the GE Women’s Network. She is a former chairman of the board of Governors for the National Electrical Manufacturers Association, and she serves on the board for Harley-Davidson, as well as the Foundation Fighting Blindness.

Sylvester holds a undergraduate degree in business from Bowling Green State University and an MBA from Cleveland State University.