Board Committees

Margaret Knight has served as our director since August 2023. Ms. Knight is currently chair of the Accounting and Business Intelligence & Analytics department, Director of the Master of Accounting Program and an Assistant Professor of Accounting at Creighton University’s Heider College of Business. She earned her doctorate at Creighton University in 2018. Up until August 2016, Ms. Knight served as the chief financial officer for the primary and specialty care networks of physicians at CHI Health in Nebraska. She originally joined CHI Health (formerly Alegent Health) in 2008 as the system controller, where she oversaw accounting, financial reporting, budgeting, financial analysis, capital planning, benchmarking and decision support/cost accounting for the health system. Ms. Knight is a Certified Public Accountant in the State of Nebraska and is also a Chartered Global Management Accountant. Prior to her time at CHI Health, Ms. Knight spent seven years in public accounting; six of those years with KPMG.

Carol MacKinlay has served as our Director since February 2024. Ms. MacKinlay formerly served as chief people officer at Binance.US, a U.S. digital asset exchange, from 2021 to January 2024, where she was responsible for global recruiting, talent management, employee engagement and corporate governance programs. Prior to that, Ms. MacKinlay worked as chief people officer at UserTesting, a video-first platform to experience how real people engage with products, designs and brands, from 2017 to 2021. She has also been a successful executive for Plantronics, a premier electronics manufacturer; Xero, a vendor of accounting software; Coverity, now the Software Integrity Group of Synopsis; and Matterport, a 3D media technology company. In these roles, she has created and executed programs to drive business strategy, achieve cost-efficiency, compensate fairly, promote inclusivity and develop world class company cultures. Ms. MacKinlay has also worked as a management and Board consultant with the KPMG financial strategy and executive compensation consulting teams and as a founder of Compensation and Performance Management, Inc, a boutique executive compensation consultancy. She holds a BA in Applied Mathematics from U.C. Berkeley and an MBA in Venture Management from the Marshall School of Business at USC.

Tyler Skelton has served as our Director since February 2024. He has served at two New York digital asset limited purpose trust companies – head of finance at Gemini since January 2023 and chief financial officer at Bakkt from May 2019 to July 2021. Mr. Skelton led the finance team at Bakkt through its SPAC merger and IPO during 2021. Prior to his time at Bakkt, Mr. Skelton was the Director of eCommerce Finance from July 2016 to June 2019. He has a 20-year career in various financial services industries including digital assets, payments, banking and public accounting. Mr. Skelton is a Chartered Financial Analyst®, Certified Public Accountant in the state of Georgia and FRM Certified Professional. He holds a master’s degree in economics from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.