Sarah M. Abrams is an attorney and Executive Vice President at RTProExec – The OakBridge Team, a division of RT Specialty. RTProExec – The OakBridge Team is an insurance intermediary focused exclusively on management liability risks, including directors and officers (D&O), employment practices (EPL), errors and omissions (E&O), and cyber liability. Before joining RTProExec, Sarah held senior leadership roles in professional and management liability claims, overseeing complex coverage and litigation matters. She is an active writer and speaker on corporate governance, securities litigation, and emerging risks in management liability insurance, and serves as a co-author of The D&O Diary and an expert contributor for Law360. Sarah regularly participates as a panelist, moderator, and guest lecturer for industry organizations and universities. Sarah lives in Glencoe, Illinois with her husband Howard and their three children. In her personal time, she enjoys swimming, biking and running (sometimes together in triathlon competitions) and traveling with her family.
Faculty Type: Advisory Board
Hiwot Shaw
Hiwot Shaw works as an Activism Fellow at the Institute for Justice in Arlington, Virginia. In her role, she helps bolster grassroots advocacy campaigns that empower communities to defend their rights and advance justice. Her work focuses on expanding access to justice, promoting economic liberty, and creating stronger, more equitable communities grounded in individual freedom, entrepreneurship, and civic participation. She graduated from Duke in 2025 with a BA in Environmental Science and Policy and an Ethics and Society certificate. She loves dance, the outdoors, and reading.
Steven Armstrong
Steven R. Armstrong is the incoming president of the William R. Kenan, Jr. Funds as well as the president of Kenan Management, Inc. (KMI). As president of KMI, Steven serves in various roles in leading the single-family office for the Frank H. Kenan family. Steven is also a Director on the Flagler System Board in Florida. Prior to joining KMI, Steven practiced as a Certified Public Accountant with Arthur Andersen and Deloitte. In that role, Steve led the private client practices for those firms in central and eastern North Carolina as well as serve in Deloitte’s National Center of Excellence in Cincinnati. Steven received a bachelor’s degree in Accounting from North Carolina State University in 1989 and holds the Certified Financial Planner designation. Steven resides in Cary, North Carolina.
Todd Singleton
Todd Singleton (Engineering ’98) spent 25 years in the software technology industry. He served as the General Manager for Microsoft’s Application Modernization & Development Tools cloud business. Before his time at Microsoft, Todd held sales and engineering leadership positions at Google, Intel, IBM, and multiple tech startups. Today, he serves as Board Chair for Ambition Angels, focused on orienting systemically marginalized children toward an economically empowered future.
While at Duke, Todd earned his bachelor’s in electrical engineering and played varsity basketball. He received his master’s degree at Stanford. Todd serves in his community through his local church and as a youth basketball coach. He resides in the San Francisco Bay Area with his wife Veronica, son Judah, and their dog Sonora.
Neil Steiner
Neil Steiner (T’94, P’29) is a partner in Dechert’s Securities and Complex Litigation group. He represents private equity funds and their portfolio companies, hedge funds, investment advisers, corporations and their senior executives in litigations and regulatory investigations and works seamlessly with Dechert’s private equity team to resolve issues as they arise during transactions. Neil also devotes significant time to pro bono matters, with a particular emphasis on voting rights cases, and serves as a member of the Executive Committee of the Board of Trustees of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law. He received the American Bar Association’s Pro Bono Publico Award in 2020 and the Second Circuit Federal Bar Council’s Thurgood Marshall Award in 2021 for his voting rights work and was named one of the ten most innovative lawyers in North America by the Financial Times in 2015. Neil served as a member of the Advisory Board of Jewish Life at Duke from 2019 through 2025. He lives in New York City with his wife, Amy, and children, Sam (T’29) and Rachel.
Azra Kanji
Azra Kanji, T’01, is the Founding Partner of Astira Capital Partners, a middle-market private equity firm primarily focused on investing in North American-based B2B workflow solutions. Prior to founding Astira, Azra was a partner at Abry Partners where she spent 20 years in the private equity strategy. She started her career in the Technology, Media and Telecommunications group at Goldman Sachs. She has served on the non-profit boards of Boston Medical Center and United South End Settlements. Azra lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts with her husband Fiyaz and their two children. She graduated from Duke University with a B.A. in Economics in 2001.