2025 ACG DFW Fort Worth May Content Program

Brendan Achariyakosol, Founder & Managing Member, Evolute Capital

Lauren Albrecht, Director of Business Development, DKB Innovative

With over 15 years of experience in business consulting, Lauren Albrecht has partnered with clients across industries including HR, employee benefits, and IT recruiting. Currently, Lauren serves as a business consultant at DKBinnovative, an IT service provider specializing in supporting small to medium-sized businesses.

DKBinnovative delivers a comprehensive suite of services — from help desk support and infrastructure management to proactive cybersecurity solutions — all designed to strengthen and safeguard a company’s operational backbone. In addition, DKBinnovative offers strategic consulting tailored to each organization’s unique business objectives, ensuring the right IT solutions are in place to support both growth and security.

Lauren’s approach centers on building lasting partnerships by working closely with business owners to assess and enhance their cybersecurity posture while identifying the best-fit solutions — whether through DKBinnovative or another trusted provider — to ensure long-term resilience and success.

Rudy Bustamante, Vice President - Executive & Professional Risk Solutions (EPS), USI Insurance Services

Rudy joined USI in 2022, continuing his career in the Executive & Professional lines of the insurance industry. He partners with CEOs, executives, and solopreneurs, with the goal to procure risk transfer insurance products to mitigate such firm’s operational risk exposures globally. This includes Cyber & Data Privacy Liability, Media Liability, Directors & Officers [D&O], Employment Practices Liability [EPL], Fiduciary Liability, and Errors & Omissions [E&O] | Professional Liability for several industry classes, such as: Financial Services, Technology/Security, Media, Business products, and services.

Prior to joining USI, Rudy held the position of Assistant Vice President, for the Southwest Region at HUB International serving in the Encino, California, office; as well as, the position of Associate Broker for Socius Insurance Services, Inc., working in the Los Angeles, California, office. In these roles, Rudy focused on partnering with clients in understanding their risk exposures, in order to provide the best insurance solutions possible. 

Rudy is a graduate from The University of California, Los Angeles. Originally from San Francisco, California, Rudy now resides in the Dallas-Fort Worth metro area.

Moderator: Eddie Bridgers, Area Managing Partner, SeatonHill Partners

Eddie Bridgers is the Central Region Area Managing Partner for SeatonHill Partners, the fastest growing, national strategic CFO Firm providing Fractional, Interim, and Project level CFO services.  Eddie is well connected in the DFW marketplace and since joining the firm 4.5 years ago, SeatonHill has quadrupled business and now boasts ~95 elite CFOs nationwide, with 28 in Dallas, 14 in South Texas, and growing rapidly across the Midwest, Northeast, and Southeast regions.  Eddie is known as an innovative change agent who is adept at building groundbreaking, successful enterprise sales infrastructures that enhance and drive all revenue-connected aspects of the business.  He is a proven, executive sales leader who generates bottom-line results with integrity and purpose.  With 35+ years of demonstrated success in building teams, developing programs, and opening new markets, Eddie has extensive experience in enterprise software, infrastructure/cloud solutions, and financial/operational leadership. Eddie has also served in senior leadership and executive consultant roles for multiple start-ups and Fortune 200 companies, where he assembled and mentored large-scale national and international sales organizations.