Miriam Richard earned a bachelors degree in kinesiology with a minor in psychology at the University of Texas, Austin. She went on to receive master’s degree in physical therapy from the Texas Woman’s University in Houston. She was then awarded a health coaching certification from the Institute of Integrative Nutrition.

She has been happily married for twenty-eight years. Miriam is the mother of three kids and three wonderful dogs. She resides in the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex. In addition to her work and ongoing holistic research, she writes educational and therapeutic songs to pass her knowledge on to others. She enjoys taking on projects wholeheartedly and is falloff passion for helping others. She enjoys taking on projects wholeheartedly and is full of passion for helping others. She recently finished a “Dogumentary” for Dogs in Vests and it is available to watch on YouTube.

You can connect with Miriam and follow her mission on www.DogsinVests.com.

SVP, Specialty Construction, Arch Insurance Group Inc.

Amelia currently serves as the SVP of Construction Specialty Products for Arch, with direct responsibility for the Subcontractor Default Insurance (SDI) line of Business. She is responsible for management and growth of the product as well as maintaining key client and brokerage relationships. Directly before joining Arch in 2020, Amelia spent 2 years at Willis Towers Watson. There she was licensed in all 50 states and held national roles as both the Professional Liability and the Subcontractor Default Placement leader for the WTW Construction Team. Before joining Willis, Amelia started her career by spending 16 years on the carrier side of the industry, with roles at Zurich North America and then XL Catlin. Her specialty was manuscript construction risks, with underwriting and management roles across Subcontractor Default (SDI), Builders Risk, Contractor’s Equipment, Contractor’s Pollution Liability, and Construction Professional Liability.

1. I grew up in Dallas and graduated Jesuit College Prep in 1989, attended college at the University of Colorado in Boulder, and returned to Dallas for flight school after graduation.

2. After flight school, I worked for a short time as a flight instructor before working in corporate aviation. This involved flying private charters and then managing private flight departments. In 1996 I began a management training program at a financial corporation in Dallas while managing the corporation's flight departure.

3. In 2000, I began my dream career at Southwest Airlines. I worked as a First Officer until 2007, when I upgraded to Captain.

4. In 2012, I transitioned to work as a Check Airman for Southwest Airlines. This involves giving checkrides and instruction to pilots in our simulators and flying with new First Officers & Captains for their first 25 hours in the actual airplanes.

• Graduated with a BA in Molecular Biology from Princeton University ‘96
• Worked in Cancer Drug Development for 8 years - basic research and pharmacokinetics
• Started a software company during the .com boom, some applications still in use
• Moved into Human Resources Software technology
• Joined IBM Cloud to lead development and IT teams maintaining the backbone of the Cloud

I graduated from SMU with degrees in Geology, Mechanical Engineering, and Geophysics. My first job out of college was a Petroleum Engineer with Mobil Oil Co. as in the New Mexico oil fields. After one year, the oil business crashed and I got laid off. I then took a job in Fort Worth as a Facilities Engineer at Lockheed Martin where the F-16 Fighter Jet was being built. We currently build the F-35 stealth fighter. After a few years, I became an Environmental Engineer cleaning up waste disposal sites at the Lockheed facility. Ten years later, I became a Quality Engineer auditing environmental, safety and health management systems. Ten years after that, I took a job as a Safety Engineer whose job is to reduce risks of employee injuries in a manufacturing plant.