U.S. Reindustrialization Summit

Claire Campbell is a corporate partner in the Houston office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. Claire’s practice focuses on representing private equity funds in all stages of fund activity, with a primary focus on equity investments and related portfolio management, including fund formation matters and co-investments. She has extensive experience in negotiating mergers and acquisitions and structured equity investments for private equity clients in multiple jurisdictions, as well as managing the material legal issues that arise with respect to a target post-acquisition through exit. Claire, colead K&E’s team on negotiating the Japan trade agreements.

Claire regularly manages investments from inception to acquisition to exit, including LOIs, deal negotiations, definitive documentation, structuring, funds considerations, co-investment negotiation, employment issues and portfolio level litigation. She also advises with respect to funds issues including cross-fund matters, allocations, concentration management and investment structuring for targets involving multiple funds.

Will Dunham is President and Chief Executive Officer of the American Investment Council (AIC), an advocacy and resource organization that represents the private equity and private credit industries. In this role, he leads the AIC team to effectively advocate for private investment’s powerful role in supporting jobs, building better businesses, and strengthening retirement across America.

Prior to this, Will Dunham was the AIC’s Executive Vice President of Government Affairs. He led AIC’s bipartisan advocacy and education efforts on behalf of the private investment industry, taking the industry’s story directly to lawmakers, and promoting a tax and regulatory environment that supercharges American job creation.

Earlier in his career, Will spent two years as a Policy Director at Brownstein, the largest lobbying firm in the United States, working for a diverse group of clients in the financial services, health care, and consumer brands sectors.

Will spent more than 13 years in Congress. He served for seven years as former-Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s (R-CA) top policy aide and liaison to House committees, the Senate, and executive branch, through every type of political terrain. As the lead House Republican staffer in bipartisan, bicameral negotiations, Will developed a deep understanding of the legislative process. His negotiating experience spans from perennial National Defense Authorization Acts and appropriations bills, to crisis legislation including the historic COVID legislative response. Prior to his work for former-Speaker McCarthy, Will also served as executive director to now-Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-LA).

Will graduated from Hillsdale College with a Bachelor of Science in English.

Travis Egan spearheads product and business development at AMT, focusing on strategic growth through membership, partnerships, community engagement, and revenue generation. With nearly 30 years of experience, he has played a crucial role in bridging the gap between buyers and sellers of manufacturing technology, both domestically and internationally. His expertise encompasses the dynamics and purchasing trends between manufacturing technology suppliers and durable goods manufacturers. Before joining AMT, Travis dedicated 23 years to Gardner Business Media, where he made significant contributions in integrated media brand management, strategy, and new product development across print, digital, and event platforms. His roles included Vice President of the Metalworking Media Group, Publisher of Modern Machine Shop, and Co-Founder/Publisher of Production Machining and Additive Manufacturing media brands. Travis holds a degree in Engineering Technology from Illinois State University.

Rachel Hoff serves as Policy Director at the Ronald Reagan Institute, the Washington DC office of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation. Before joining the Institute, she was Speechwriter and Policy Advisor for John McCain at the Senate Armed Services Committee. Rachel has conducted research and outreach for a number of think tanks in Washington, including the American Enterprise Institute, the American Action Forum, and the Foreign Policy Initiative, an organization she helped found in 2009. She also worked as a Legislative Assistant for Congressman Mac Thornberry.

Rachel has worked and volunteered for numerous Republican campaigns and organizations. She has represented Washington DC twice as a delegate to the Republican National Convention and served on the 2016 GOP Platform Committee.

Rachel received a master’s degree in Global Policy Studies from the University of Texas at Austin’s LBJ School of Public Affairs (where she now teaches as an Adjunct Professor) and a bachelor’s degree in Political Science from Tufts University. She was born and raised on U.S. military bases in Tokyo, Japan.

Harry founded the Reshoring Initiative to bring five million manufacturing jobs back to the U.S. after working for high end machine tool supplier GF AgieCharmilles, starting as President in 1985 and retiring 12/31/10 as Chairman Emeritus. Largely due to the success of the Reshoring Initiative, Harry was inducted into the Industry Week Manufacturing Hall of Fame 2010 and AME’s Hall of Fame 2021 and was named Quality Magazine’s 2012 Quality Professional of the year and FAB Shop Magazine’s Manufacturing Person of the year.

Harry participated actively in President Obama’s 1/11/12 Insourcing Forum at the White House, won The Economist debate on outsourcing and offshoring, received the Manufacturing Leadership Council’s Industry Advocacy Award in 2014 and the Made in America 2019 Reshoring Award. He received AMT’s Al Moore Award in 2026. He was recognized by Sue Helper, then Commerce Department Chief Economist, as the driving force in founding the reshoring trend and named to the Commerce Department Investment Advisory Council in August 2019. He testified to the House Commerce and Small Business Committees and at a June 9, 2022 Senate commission hearing on U.S. supply chains and China.

Harry is quoted in the Wall Street Journal, NYT, Forbes, Financial Times, New Yorker, Washington Post and USA Today and seen on Fox Business, MarketWatch, PRI, NPR, Manufacturing Talk Radio and other national TV and radio programs. He received a BS in Mechanical Engineering and an MS in Engineering at MIT in 1967 and an MBA from U. of Chicago in 1981.

John Richert is a co-founder of J.P. Morgan’s Global Mid Cap Investment Banking practice and a member of the Investment Bank Operating Committee. He also serves as Global Head of Business Services Investment Banking Coverage. Since joining J.P. Morgan in 2013, John has led the build out of the #1 mid cap investment banking practice on Wall Street, generating more than $3 billion in revenue over the past three years. He is an accomplished strategic and M&A advisor to several of JPMorgan’s most notable clients across a broad range of sectors, drawing on extensive experience in M&A, debt, and equity.

Prior to J.P. Morgan, John was a Managing Director at Barclays and in the Lehman Brothers M&A group in New York. Earlier, he worked in investment banking at Bank of America in Hong Kong. He received his BS in Economics and French from Washington & Lee University and his MBA from UNC-Chapel Hill.

Marshall Shaffer is a corporate partner in the New York office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. Marshall represents an extensive roster of clients ranging from leading private equity sponsors, to blue chip public companies and prominent private companies who tap him for their most complex and transformative transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, carve-outs, minority investments, joint ventures, recapitalizations and other strategic transactions. Marshall, led K&E’s team on negotiating the Japanese and Korean trade agreements.

Private equity clients that Marshall has represented include, among others, Apollo Global Management, Avista Healthcare Partners, Blackstone, EW Healthcare Partners, Gamut Capital Management, General Catalyst, HGGC, L Catterton, Transom Capital and Warburg Pincus. Corporate clients that Marshall has represented include, among others, Activision Blizzard, Alleghany, Ann Taylor, CBS, Chesapeake Energy, Chubb, Clearwater Analytics, Commure, Corning, Cousins Properties, Covidien, Facebook, IBM, Jefferies, Lions Gate, Lord + Taylor, McDonald’s, McGraw Hill, Medivation, NextEra Energy, Polestar, Renesas, Sunrise Senior Living, Taubman Centers, URS and Zoetis.

Marshall received his B.A., cum laude, from Yale University. Marshall completed a J.D. from Stanford Law School, where he served as articles editor of the Stanford Law & Policy Review.

Lior is an investor, entrepreneur, and the Founder and CEO of Eclipse. He is passionate about building groundbreaking technology companies. He is passionate about building groundbreaking technology companies.

Lior is an unlikely venture capitalist. He grew up on a kibbutz (ask him about banana farming) and spent many years in the Special Forces of the Israeli military. After he’d completed his military service, he did what he so often does – set out to solve a big problem. In 2008, Lior joined his brother to help build Intucell, a pioneer in the software-defined networking space for global telecommunications networks. After four years, Cisco acquired the company.

Following the acquisition, Lior joined Flex, a multinational manufacturing leader, where he led the hardware investment platform, Lab IX. During his time at Flex, Lior was immersed in many “old-line,” physical industries. He witnessed firsthand the headwinds these sectors were facing, in addition to inefficiencies and eroding of competitive advantage these negative forces were causing.

Lior became convinced that digital transformation would strengthen physical industries and support both economic and national security. As a result, in late 2014, Lior began to build Eclipse. He firmly believes that the distinction between technology and non-technology companies is over and seeks to partner with ambitious founders who are dedicated to vastly improving critical infrastructure in all forms.

In addition to his desire to drive exemplary returns to Eclipse’s Limited Partners, Lior also seeks to invest in solutions that deliver greater opportunities for all people (perhaps as a nod to his kibbutz roots), as well as those that create better prospects for our planet.

Lior currently works with Cerebras, Ursa Major, VulcanForms, Bright Machines, Augury, and other companies pursuing big ideas. As a board member, he has helped companies move from Day Zero onwards — offering guidance and support from pitch deck to public offering.

A relentless optimist with a passion for company building, Lior believes that the world needs a new economy – and wants to help the best entrepreneurs build it.

Patrick Sykes is Boston Consulting Group’s North America lead for M&A. As a core member of BCG’s Industrial Goods and Corporate Finance & Strategy practices, he offers a unique perspective at the intersection of these disciplines, bringing clarity and strategic vision to clients’ most critical decisions.

Drawing on his comprehensive expertise in M&A and strategy, Patrick specializes in industrial goods, working with both financial sponsors and corporate acquirers. His client base consists mostly of engineered products businesses, but his experience spans the broader industrials and services landscape. In his recent M&A work, Patrick has led both buy- and sell-side support for over $50 billion in transacted enterprise value.

Before joining the firm, Patrick worked at Capital One in the US and UK. Patrick holds an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. He received a BS/BA in computer science and economics from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.