No Reward Without Risk: Your Company in the Digital Economy
July 26, 2017
Hosted by Bonnie D. Graham
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The buzz: “You always miss 100% of the shots you don’t take” (Wayne Gretsky). Despite headlines about companies that make regulatory missteps and have lax internal controls, many are still playing catch-up to grasp pitfalls in the business environment. In contrast, risk-aware organizations frame risk as an enabler of business performance vs containing it, and embed risk management in day-to-day. If you’re one of the former, can technology – cloud, analytics, robotics – help gain a competitive edge via effective risk management? The experts speak. Ben Zimmerman, EY: “The biggest risk is not taking any risk...in a world that is changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks” (Mark Zuckerberg). Brian Ocampo, EY: “Data is the sword of the 21st century, those who wield it well, the Samurai" (Eric Schmidt). Kevin McCollom, SAP: “Test fast, fail fast, adjust fast” (Tom Peters). Join us for No Reward Without Risk: Your Company in the Digital Economy.
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Bonnie D. Graham
Bonnie D. Graham has been producing and hosting live talk radio since 1998. She is the creator, producer and host of more than 25 weekly business thought leadership talk series presented by SAP under the banner of Coffee Break with Game-Changers Radio, which debuted in 2011. In a uniquely lively, unscripted roundtable discussion format, Game-Changers offers a broad range of expert business and technology insights to a global business audience.
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Kirsten Boileau is a Director of Digital Experience at SAP. She is responsible for the training, enablement and thought leadership for Social Selling at SAP. As a member of the Global Marketing team and ten-year veteran of SAP, Kirsten is an expert in social selling, training development, business development and enterprise software sales. Kirsten has deep expertise in personal branding, LinkedIn and LinkedIn Sales Navigator, and was recently ranked #40 on the Top 100 Social Selling Influencers list. View Guest page
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Scott Bolick
Scott Bolick leads SAP’s solution management team, responsible for delivering solutions assisting companies across the full product lifecycle – sustainable innovation, responsive manufacturing, and operational excellence. Previously, Scott led various efforts to embed sustainability within SAP’s operations and solutions. Scott also served as Vice President for Portfolio Strategy Group (PSG), which is responsible for the company’s portfolio governance process and drives key cross-topics portfolio priorities. Prior to SAP, Scott was a consultant for both McKinsey & Company and Accenture. Scott also served as the Vice President, Secure Networks Solutions and Applications, at Enterasys Networks. Additionally, Scott served in various leadership roles in the United States Army during his five years of service. Scott holds a Masters of Business Administration from Harvard Business School and a Bachelor of Science from the United States Military Academy at West Point. View Guest page
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Allen Bonde
Allen Bonde, CMO at The Pulse Network, entrepreneur and industry watcher with 20 years in online marketing, CRM, and e-commerce. Allen helps Pulse clients evolve their digital marketing and business strategies to include video content, community engagement and social media campaigns. Previously, he was co-founder and CMO at social marketing tools pioneer Offerpop; CMO and SVP of strategic services at eVergance; and started the Internet Computing practice at Yankee Group. Allen began his career in corporate R&D telecom, where he received a US patent. He has appeared on CNBC, Fox News and PBS television, and blogs for 1to1Media, oneforty.com, Social Times and WOMMA. He was named a Top CMO on Twitter by Social Media Marketing Magazine in 2010. View Guest page
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Susan Bor
Susan Bor is the Global Senior Vice President of Talent at SAP. She is responsible for leading SAP’s talent acquisition strategy, which includes executive, professional, and entry level hiring, as well as employer branding and marketing. Susan supports SAP's efforts to make the company the employer of choice in the IT industry. Prior to joining SAP, she spent 12 years in HR leadership positions at Royal Bank of Scotland Group, most recently as director of Group Resourcing, responsible for all global recruiting and hiring requirements. Before that, she was an HR manager at large organizations that include Abercromby Motor Group and Tesco Stores. View Guest page
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Bernie Borges
Bernie Borges is CMO of Vengreso, the only full spectrum provider of digital sales transformation services supporting B2B clients across the U.S. He is a frequent speaker at marketing conferences and is the author of Marketing 2.0, one of the earliest playbooks written on social media strategy. He is an IBM Futurist as well as host of the Social Business Engine podcast, a weekly show featuring brands and technology innovators in social strategy, social technology and social culture. Borges has been recognized by industry peers, including Marketing Insider’s 60 Best Marketing Speakers, TopRank’s Top 50 Content Marketing Influencers 2016, Cision’s Top 50 Content Marketers on Twitter and Brand Quarterly’s Top 50 over 50 Marketing Thought Leaders.
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Peter Bostelmann
Peter Bostelmann is the Director of Mindfulness Programs at SAP, a global market leader in enterprise application software. Peter is also an executive coach and mindfulness teacher and he was previously a Global Health Management Ambassador for SAP. Peter created the Mindfulness @ SAP Program to support a cultural change. Offering mindfulness based trainings to SAP’s employees will support a cultural shift towards an increasing capacity of creativity, focus, resilience, leadership excellence and wellbeing at all levels of the organization. Prior to his current role focusing on developing concepts and leading programs for corporate mindfulness, leadership and well-being at SAP, Peter spent 15 years working with SAP clients internationally as a senior project and program delivery manager. Peter brings a wealth of field experience and his training as an industrial engineer to his current efforts to bring mindfulness programs to scale at SAP globally, including recent initiatives to expand the footprint of mindfulness programs in the U.S., Europe and Asia. View Guest page
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Chris Boudreaux
Chris Boudreaux helps brands transform their business operations through digital and social media. He is a digital strategy executive at EY. Chris founded the web site Social Media Governance in 2009, and in 2013 published the book, "The Most Powerful Brand on Earth", which helps organizations empower their employees in external social media. His work has been featured by Harvard Business Review, Inc. magazine, Consulting magazine, Forrester and Gartner. In 2012, iMedia listed Chris among the Top 25 Internet Marketing Innovators and Leaders. He also spent a year in the Caribbean hunting drug smugglers as an officer in the U.S. Navy.
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Jason Bradley
Jason Bradley, EPM Practice Leader at SAP, has extensive experience in addressing complex customer implementation and solution issues. With over 17 years of experience at SAP, Jason’s background as a consultant, as well as his participation in dozens of full life-cycle EPM implementations, provide an extensive foundation of experience to ensure customer success. He brings a broad and diverse base of knowledge of the entire SAP EPM solution suite and has an extensive network across all operating areas of SAP. View Guest page
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Mark Breading
Mark Breading is a Partner at Strategy Meets Action (SMA), a strategic advisory firm offering a unique blend of advisory, research, and project-based consulting services to insurance companies and solution providers. Mark is well known for his perspectives on innovative uses of technology in insurance and the future of the insurance industry. Mark leads the research program at SMA, and has exceptional knowledge and experience in all aspects of advanced technologies and solutions that provide value across the insurance enterprise – including data and analytics, customer communications, enterprise content management, and mobile technologies. Mark has held both technical and business roles in sales, consulting, marketing and business strategy, and has advised insurers around the world for almost 30 years. His roles have included IBM’s Global Insurance Strategist, Global Insurance Marketing Leader and Director of Global Insurance Executive Conferences. View Guest page
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Joana Breidenbach
Joana Breidenbach holds a PhD in cultural anthropology and is the author of numerous publications on the cultural consequences of globalization, including Seeing Culture Everywhere (University of Washington Press, 2009). After a five-month trip around the world with her husband and children, Joana co-founded betterplace.org in 2007. To date, the Berlin-based social business is Germany’s largest donation platform. Joana heads the betterplace lab, a think-and-do tank seeking to improve the social sector through the use of digital technologies. View Guest page
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Gerard (Rod) Brennan, CFE, PhD
Gerard (Rod) Brennan, CFE, PhD, is NA Risk & Internal Control Officer for Siemens. A passionate advocate of using technology to audit and monitor, he works with researchers around the world to develop a continuous auditing / monitoring culture and technology for Siemens. Rod successfully defended his PhD thesis on "The Use of Intelligent Software to Enable Continuous Auditing". His research work included the design and development of a proof of concept ERP (SAP) continuous auditing software model incorporating some of the latest continuous auditing research concepts. The model was co-developed with Rutgers Universities' Continuous Auditing Research Laboratory (CarLab). Rod is also an adjunct professor teaching advanced auditing and information technology in the Rutgers University MBA program. Previously, he worked as CFO for a foundation, as an SAP consultant, and in various accounting and controlling positions for a Fortune 500 US company. View Guest page
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Vic Briccardi
As President of RTS Consulting - Automation, Vic Briccardi is instrumental in setting vision and direction for the company. He is involved in strategically investing intellectual capital to maintain RTS’s manufacturing execution technology leadership position. To that point, RTS is “SAP’s Co-Innovation Partner for Energy Management”, fully vested in “IIOT / Big Data”, and the concept of “Building a Unit of ONE”. His intense focus, passion and thought leadership on delivering SAP manufacturing execution solutions which drive operational excellence has been a game-changer for many of RTS’s clients. Vic founded Real Time Systems Inc. (RTS) in 1992, providing shop floor control system engineered solutions to the manufacturing sector.
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Mike Brinker
“We are leaving the PC Era and entering the Mobile Era of computing, where smartphones, tablets, and other untethered devices will rule.” View Guest page
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Denise Broady
Denise Broady is responsible for Solution Marketing (SoMa) and Competitive & Market Intelligence (CMI) in the Industry Business Solutions at SAP. Her team owns the SAP messaging and positioning across 24 industries and 11 lines of business globally and connects the market trends, understanding the key competitors to deliver insights to customers, top executives, channels, and the SAP community. Denise recently led a strategic project in Demand Management optimizing the handshake between sales and marketing, and led a separate global team responsible for rolling out the global Demand Management framework, processes, KPIs, tools and governance model. Denise joined SAP through the TopTier acquisition with over 15 years of experience. Earlier, she gained hands-on SAP experience at Clarkston Consulting Group. Denise is the author of “GRC for Dummies” (2008) and “Driven to Perform” (2009), covering GRC, EPM, and BI topics. View Guest page
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BRobbins - JMiles - HMcCullen - AFrance
Benjamin Robbins, Palador; Joseph Miles, SAP; Hugh McCullen, Axxiome; Andrea France, Capgemini. View Guest page
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Florian Brody
Florian Brody, managing partner at Brody and Partners and a Principal at The Halo Agency, is a marketing strategist in the digital content, transactions, and payment space. He was Vice President Marketing at multiple Silicon Valley startups in mobile retail payments, targeted offers, digital media, and visual search; Director of Marketing at A9.com, an Amazon.com company; and headed Marketing Communications at YouSendit. Earlier, he was Director of Business Development at Red Herring Magazine. Florian co-invented the first electronic books and created groundbreaking digital publishing solutions in Europe and the US. A member of the Graduate Faculty of Art Center College of Design, Florian studied Computer Science and Linguistics at the University of Vienna. He is co-chair for the GABA media and entertainment chapter (German American Business Association), a member of the Cinémathèque Française, and was founding president of the Austrian Association of Scientists in N. America. View Guest page
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Brent Brown
Brent Brown, Director of Retail Solutions & Strategy for HP’s WW Enterprise Services Team spanning the entire HP portfolio, is responsible for the creation and development of retail solutions and services for all major retailer market segments. As a 25-year Retail veteran, Brent’s responsibilities include developing program initiative(s) and the deployment within North America and other global geographies (EMEA and APAC). Other areas of focus include partnerships with third party hardware and software vendors, professional service organizations, systems integrators with an overall emphasis on product and services demand generation. View Guest page
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Kerry Brown
Kerry Brown, SAP evangelist, thought leader, and Head of Strategy & Alliances for SAP Americas, helps companies achieve organizational competency with SAP to create value while becoming a best-run company. An international speaker on change management, learning, social and collaboration, Kerry interacts with diverse global occupational cultures and industries, including many Fortune customers. Previously, she worked directly for Coca Cola Enterprises, Baker Hughes, and CSR. Read her thoughts on the evolution/revolution of learning and change: http://scn.sap.com/people/kerry.brown/content View Guest page
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Morgan Browne
Morgan Browne is the Chief Executive at the IIS Group, one of Europe’s leading SAP Business One partners. IIS Group provides business management software, services and support to small and medium-sized enterprises across the globe. Since 2008, Morgan has led the company to become one of the most innovative SAP Gold Partners. Through the B1 Apps range – a series of SAP Business One modules – Morgan has overseen the development and delivery of number of add-ons and plug-ins that drive efficiencies for small businesses in the manufacturing, distribution, professional services and retail industries and improve business intelligence. Today, Morgan is responsible for the end-to-end management of development, sales, service and support activities. He continues to take a hands-on approach in the development of strategic relationships, ensuring flexibility and excellence in response to an increasingly demanding marketplace, with the goal of helping small businesses run simpler and better.
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B.J. Bueno
A dynamic young lecturer and creative strategist, B.J. Bueno has forged a reputation based on his insight and expertise in building brands. He has written several books on marketing and branding and is a sought-after speaker. In 2006, B.J. founded The Cult Branding Company, a brand modeling research firm located in Orlando, Florida. He is also a partner in Nonbox Consulting, a think tank that offers consumer insight strategies, leadership coaching, brand education and training, and creative development services. View Guest page
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Arnold Bueso
Arnold Bueso was born and raised in Honduras. He completed his primary and secondary education in an international private school before coming to the U.S. to attend Louisiana State University. He graduated with a bachelor of science in Agricultural Business and returned to Honduras where he worked for Cargill, an American multinational corporation. During his four years at Cargill Arnold worked in the operations and risk management departments of Cargill’s Honduras business unit. Initially he held management positions leading teams of associates in the operations division and later migrated to an individual contributor role with the business unit’s Risk Management and Sourcing department. Arnold decided to pursue his MBA and enrolled at Baylor University in June 2014. He is currently focusing his MBA in Finance as he has an interest in market dynamics and quantitative analysis. During his free time Arnold enjoys reading, trivia, cooking, playing sports, and scuba diving.
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Charlotte Bui
Charlotte Bui is the head of the Global Design Thinking team at SAP within the office of the CEO. The global team brings a design thinking mindset and methodology to customer sessions in all regions focusing on their needs. With her team, Charlotte oversees the management and creation of tools and techniques and provides training and communications for customer facing employees. Charlotte is also a Design Thinking practitioner using hands on experiences to expand and evolve the approach and to help SAP customers re-imagine new possibilities for their future. As design thinking includes visual and creative skills, Charlotte manages a shared service of design experts to generate powerful artifacts for customer engagements. Within the global design thinking team, key successes include training and enablement of over 3K members in the broader sales force, creation of hundreds of key customer assets, design and iterative development of the design thinking toolkit app and much more. View Guest page
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Dr. Gabriela Burlacu
Dr. Gabriela Burlacu is a Customer Insights Specialist in Global Innovation Enablement at SAP, developing methods and tools to assess and improve the value customers get from their SAP solutions. She received her doctorate in Industrial/Organizational Psychology from Portland State University, where she studied the motivational, attitudinal, and behavioral impacts of performance feedback. Although Gabby’s role at SAP involves engaging with companies broadly on issues and challenges related to managing their workforces, often this involves directly addressing the design and implementation of performance management systems that meet the needs of employees and managers. When Gabby is not on the frontlines of strategic talent management, she can be found boating, kayaking, and hiking in her hometown of Portland, Oregon.
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Megan Burns
Megan Burns, Principal Analyst serving Enterprise Customer Experience Professionals at Forrester, is a leading expert on measuring customer experience, benchmarking a company's ability to deliver great customer experience, estimating the ROI of a customer experience improvements, and getting executives to actively participate in the customer experience transformation. She manages Forrester's Customer Experience Index, an annual benchmark of the customer experiences delivered by more than 150 large US firms. Megan’s secondary coverage includes best practices for customer experience governance and creating customer-centric cultures. She has been quoted in The Wall Street Journal, Internet Retailer, and B2B Magazine. Before Forrester, Megan held positions at AT&T, Intel and IBM. View Guest page
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Oliver Bussmann
Oliver Bussmann is Executive Vice President and Chief Information Officer (CIO) of SAP AG. Since joining SAP in 2009, he has realigned the Global IT organization with SAP’s strategic objectives, transforming it into an agile organization to meet SAP’s growing business demands. His strategy development, execution, and client interaction were key factors in SAP Global IT winning the coveted the European IT Workplace of the Year 2012 Award, and the European CIO of the Year Award in 2012. Reported by Forbes, a recent study puts Oliver Bussmann at the top of the list of most socially active CIOs in the Fortune 250 and Global 250. He was named one of the “Top 25” Executives in Technology by the Wall Street Journal in 2011. Building SAP´s brand as a leader in this market, Oliver launched the CIO blog (www.sap.com/cio), built an extensive Twitter community (www.twitter.com/sapcio) and earned a mass of media mentions. View Guest page
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Tanguy Caillet
Tanguy Caillet, as an Executive Director, is part of the EY EMEIA Center of Excellence for Supply Chain and Analytics. In his role, he is currently leading the Supply Chain Planning topics, both EMEIA and Globally for EY. Over the past years, he has been strongly involved in getting the Integrated Business Planning and the Synchronisation concept topics off the ground, both from a business and an IT perspective at clients. With an Industrial engineer background, Executive MBA and APICS certification, he has worked in many industries including, CP, Retail, Automotive, Pharmaceuticals, Chemical and High-Tech.
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Shirley Calla
Shirley Calla has held fashion design and apparel merchandising positions with Koret, Notables, Calvin Klein Sport, and served as Executive Vice President, Merchandise and Design with the Kellwood brand Jax. A teacher on the Faculty of Design at Kwantlen Polytechnic University (KPU) starting in 1998, she is a member of the National Apparel Affinity Group, post-secondary educators in fashion design, marketing and manufacturing. She has been involved in curriculum development for KPU programs and currently teaches in the Bachelor of Design in Fashion & Technology Program, part of the new Chip and Shannon Wilson School of Design, named for the founders of lululemon. Shirley is studying in the Master of Education Program focusing on Creativity, Collaboration and Critical Thinking at Simon Fraser University, expanding on her unique combination of industry and educational experiences. View Guest page
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Russ Campanello
Russ Campanello is Sr. Vice President-Human Resources at iRobot Corporation (Nasdaq: IRBT) in Bedford, MA. He is responsible for developing the human resource strategies and delivering the HR products and services that maintain and enhance iRobot’s ability to attract and develop the talent necessary to support its mission of changing the world through robotic innovation. He has 25 years of leading HR organizations for firms such as Phase Forward Inc., Keane Inc., Genzyme Corporation, and Lotus Development Corporation. Renowned for his expertise on the strategic role of human resources in business, Russ was named to HR Magazine’s prestigious “50 for History” listing, which recognizes 50 outstanding individuals for their significant and lasting impact on human resource management. He was also named as one of the top 25 Workplace Visionaries of the past 75 years by Workforce Magazine. He is a leading innovator of the changing role of HR in the marketplace. View Guest page
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Michael P. Cangemi
Michael P. Cangemi, CPA, CGMA, author and business advisor, is the former President, CEO and Director of Etienne Aigner Group, Inc., and President and CEO of Financial Executives International (FEI). He currently serves as President of Cangemi Company LLC, focusing on technology for business, Continuous Monitoring and Analytics for GRC and Business Process Improvement. Michael is a Senior Fellow for the Rutgers University Continuous Audit Lab; serves on FEI’s Committee on Finance & Technology; and is a Senior Advisor to Oversight Systems, CaseWare RSM, and a footwear company. He recently published “The Benefits of CM”. His CAE experiences were published in his second book, “Managing the Audit Function”, which was translated into Chinese and Serbian. Michael was Editor-in-Chief of the IS Control Journal from 1987-2007. In 2000, The Cangemi Audit & IT Audit Library was established at the University of Mississippi’s Auditing Archival Center to store his collection of IT audit books. View Guest page
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Vicki Cantrell
Vicki Cantrell, SVP, Communities and Executive Director, Shop.org, is senior vice president, communities, and executive director of Shop.org at the National Retail Federation (NRF). She is responsible for providing strategic direction and management of Shop.org, NRF’s digital retail division. Additionally, she provides oversight for all NRF communities, including NRF’s CIO Council, CMO Council, the Association of Retail Technology Standards (ARTS) and Loss Prevention. Prior to joining NRF, Vicki served as the COO and CIO of Tory Burch during a period of extreme growth and expansion domestically and internationally. During her storied retail career, Vicki has also worked as CIO of Giorgio Armani Corporation and held positions of growing responsibility with Gucci Group, Party City and JCPenney. Among other honors, Vicki was named as one of the most prominent women IT executives by Executive Technology Magazine. View Guest page
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Vicki Cantrell
Vicki Cantrell is NRF’s Senior Vice President, Communities and Executive Director, Shop.org. She provides strategic direction and management of Shop.org, NRF’s digital retail division, as well as oversight for all NRF business-related communities, including NRF’s CIO Council, the Association of Retail Technology Standards (ARTS), Retail Advertising and Marketing Association (RAMA), and Loss Prevention. Previously, she was COO and CIO of Tory Burch during a period of extreme growth and expansion domestically and internationally. During her storied retail career, Vicki served as CIO of Giorgio Armani Corporation and held positions with Gucci Group, Party City and JCPenney. She is a respected industry leader and has been an active member of NRF and the NRF CIO Council for over ten years. Vicki was named as one of the most prominent women IT executives by Executive Technology Magazine. View Guest page
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Peter Cappelli
Peter Cappelli is the George W. Taylor Professor of Management at The Wharton School and Director of Wharton’s Center for Human Resources. A Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, he served as Senior Advisor to the Kingdom of Bahrain for Employment Policy from 2003-2005, and since 2007 is a Distinguished Scholar of the Ministry of Manpower for Singapore. HR Magazine named him one of the top 20 international thinkers, and he earned the International Association of Corporate and Professional Recruiters 2009 PRO award for contributions to human resources. Professor Cappelli’s recent research examines changes in employment relations in the U.S. and their implications. His book Managing the Older Work (with Bill Novelli) dispels myths about older workers and describes how employers can best engage them. Related work on managing retention, electronic recruiting, and changing career paths appears in the Harvard Business Review. View Guest page
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Gary R. Carini
Gary R. Carini serves as a Professor of Management and Associate Dean for Graduate Business Programs at the Hankamer School of Baylor University. He received his Bachelor’s degree from the University of California, Master’s degree in Public Administration from the University of Southern California, and Ph.D. from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. His book, Take Flight, will be available in Summer 2015. Gary teaches the global strategic management courses in Baylor’s Executive MBA programs in Austin and Dallas and has received numerous teaching awards throughout his career. For the past 20 years, he has served as a consultant and facilitator for Fortune 100 companies. The work focuses on how companies achieve and sustain a competitive advantage given the significant marketplace changes. Gary serves on the Governing Board of the Prison Entrepreneurship Program, an organization that seeks to redirect incarcerated men into legitimate enterprises upon release.
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Steve Carlotti
Steve Carlotti is the CEO of the Cambridge Group, a growth strategy consulting company owned by Nielsen. Steve has been in this role for about two years, growing the business by about 15 percent year-to-date. The Cambridge Group brings a unique perspective to growth strategy, combining a proprietary understanding of consumer or customer demand with business economics to identify and capture opportunities. Prior to the Cambridge Group, Steve was a Senior Partner at Prophet, a brand strategy consultancy, and spent nearly 20 years at McKinsey and Company, leading the Midwest consumer practice and the North American Branding Practice. Steve has been published in bigthink.com, The Huffington Post, TheAtlantic.com, and the McKinsey Quarterly. View Guest page
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Becky Carroll
Becky Carroll is the author of The Hidden Power of Your Customers: Four Keys to Growing Your Business Through Existing Customers (Wiley, July 2011). She is also the founder of Petra Consulting Group, a consultancy focused on social media and customer experience. Her client roster includes Fortune 100 companies Electronic Arts, HP, Fujitsu, and Ford. Previously, she was the Community Program Manager and social media strategist at Verizon. Becky is the Social Media Contributor for NBC/TV San Diego. She teaches the “Marketing via New Media” class at UC San Diego and is the author of top customer service blog Customers Rock! (http://customersrock.net). View Guest page
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Christopher Carter
Christopher Carter, CEO of Approyo, assists companies seeking knowledge and strategic focus to support their growth in the enterprise space using SAP HANA and Big Data. In 2005, Chris and his team created the first SAP cloud ever used by an SAP client. View Guest page
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Hilary Carter
Hilary Carter is a passionate advocate for greater leadership and accountability on Social Media networks. She is the founder of InTune Communications, a strategic communications firm that consults to businesses, senior executives, and community-based organizations on Social Media best practices and manages Social Media accounts. A communications thought leader, Hilary has been published in The Globe and Mail and more recently on Medium on topics such as the blockchain, digital finance, digital leadership, women in tech, and employee advocacy. Hilary holds a Master of Science in Management from the London School of Economics and is one of the few women holding the Certified Bitcoin Professional designation. She’s a huge fan of Snapchat and Twitter and is mesmerized by cryptocurrencies. Inspired by mobile technology and all of its possibilities, Hilary is committed to helping her clients not just to participate in the digital economy, but to thrive in it.
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Michael Casey
Michael Casey is a Managing Director in Accenture’s North America chemicals and natural resources industry group. With 20 years of business and IT experience gained on numerous large-scale SAP ERP implementations, Mike specializes in high-velocity delivery execution and complex systems design. He has been working at the forefront of defining the value proposition, architectural shifts and roadmaps for SAP’s new product strategy, and currently leads Accenture’s team focused on next-generation ERP. Mike is a thought leader in application architectures and conventional SDLC methodologies as well as alternative delivery approaches. And, as an innovator in the ideation and design of next-generation systems integration assets, methods and tools, he frequently represents Accenture at SAP events including SAPPHIRE and Best Practices for Chemicals.
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Nancy Casey
Nancy Casey is Global Vice President at SAP, where she leads the Customer Centric Merchandising and Marketing business solution area. Nancy manages strategy and development of software solutions which enable retailers to understand their customers and effectively drive beautiful customer experiences. Nancy has been at SAP for over 10 years. She has over 20 years of experience in the retail, consumer and software industries. Prior to SAP Nancy has held executive positions in numerous companies including Deloitte Consulting, Saks Fifth Avenue and several Silicon Valley startups. Nancy received her MBA from The Wharton School and her BA from Cornell University. View Guest page
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Maurizio Cattaneo
Maurizio Cattaneo is the Global Lead for Utilities and part of the global Energy and Natural Resources hub in SAP Services. An electronic engineer with experience as a customer before moving into consulting, he has a special interest in utilities since 1999. He has worked for the major consulting companies in ANZ, Middle East and in EMEA, for the past 8 years in SAP consulting services, mainly in delivery roles out of the UK. Maurizio has knowledge of the utilities value chain, has implemented SAP wall-to-wall, and has been involved in large customer service and billing projects. Recently, he became interested in the transformation of the energy sector, looking at the impact of renewables, smart metering and electric vehicles on the energy grid, as well as the dynamics of utilities in energy and water, another key resource that is becoming increasingly scarce and critical around the world. View Guest page
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Angus Champion de Crespigny
Angus Champion de Crespigny is a Senior Manager in EY’s Financial Services Office where he leads Blockchain strategy for the financial services industry. In his role, Angus brings together global teams to deliver engagements and develop services and thought leadership on blockchain and related technologies for financial services clients. In addition to institutional clients, Angus has advised a number of startups, regulators, governments, and is a frequent speaker at conferences internationally. Angus has published numerous articles and performed regular media interviews, specializing in the practical implementation of distributed infrastructure innovations and the development of new business models in the financial sector and beyond. Prior to this role, Angus has worked in regulatory compliance, cybersecurity, and as a software engineer.
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Henry Chesbrough
Dr. Henry Chesbrough created the theory and coined the term ‘open Innovation’. His concept was introduced in his award-winning book, “Open Innovation: The New Imperative for Creating and Profiting from Technology” (Harvard Business Press, 2003), and extended to business model innovation in his 2006 follow-up, “Open Business Models: How to Thrive in the New Innovation Landscape”. His newest book is “Open Services and Innovation: Rethinking Your Business to Grow and Compete in a New Era” (Jossey-Bass, 2011). With global economies shifting from manufacturing-focused to services-focused, openness - and its ability to deliver improved choices for customers and better economies for corporations - is a path that can turn commodity companies into trailblazers. Dr. Chesbrough is Executive Director for The Center for Open Innovation. View Guest page
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Alan Chow
Alan Chow, Chief Customer Officer Teradata Corporation, uses his extensive knowledge of Teradata’s technology, products, and services to advocate for customers and to ensure that the company’s customer strategy reflects customer needs and helps them to achieve strong business results and a high return on investment through their use of Teradata. Chow was one of the original Teradata database engineers who pioneered the development, professional services and customer support of what is now a multi-billion-dollar data warehouse market. View Guest page
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Bernard Chung
Bernard Chung is a senior director of global solution marketing at SAP. He is focused on marketing solutions and is passionate about helping organizations to successfully engage their audiences to orchestrate customer experiences that build customer intimacy. A seasoned enterprise software professional, Bernard has held various CRM product strategy, product management, and product marketing roles for more than a decade. In his current role as a senior member of the solutions marketing team at SAP, he is developing solution strategy, messaging, and field enablement activities. Prior to joining SAP, Bernard held database marketing and marketing operations roles at American Express and Wells Fargo Bank. He holds a mechanical engineering degree from the University of Washington and an MBA from Carnegie Mellon University. View Guest page
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Chris Cingrani
Chris Cingrani, a Senior Manager in Capgemini’s Business Information Management (BIM) group, is responsible for leading the SAP EIM practice within North America. For over a decade, he has been helping customers with the business and technical challenges and opportunities of planning and implementing Enterprise Information Management (EIM) initiatives within an enterprise environment. Previously, Chris served in sales and consultative roles at Informatica and Firstlogic/Business Objects; in a technical capacity at Ernst & Young LLP on technologies including Java, Visual Basic and multiple databases; and in sales roles at CDW and Morgan Stanley Dean Witter. View Guest page
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Tim Clark
Tim Clark (aka “The Blogfather”) is a seasoned business and technology writer located in Mount Olive, New Jersey. His stories have appeared in Variety, MAXIM, Forbes.com, IGN, MultiChannel News, Wall Street & Technology, ThomasNet and others. Tim crossed over to the “dark side” of corporate communications nearly a decade ago and now heads up SAP’s Brand Journalism program. He believes “authenticity matters” more than ever in the digital age. View Guest page
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Ruthbea Yesner Clarke
Ruthbea Yesner Clarke founded the Smart Cities research program at IDC in 2011 and serves as its global research director. The program researches the strategies and execution of Smart City technologies and non-technology best practice areas, such as governance, innovation, partnerships and business models essential for Smart City development. Her research includes the Internet of Things, Big Data and Analytics, cloud computing, mobility in public works, transportation, public safety, and citizen engagement. Ruthbea contributes to consulting engagements to support state and local governments' Smart City strategies and IT vendors’ overall Smart City market strategies. She joined IDC following work as a product manager in Internet start-ups in Silicon Valley. Prior to that, she worked in state social services as a director of programs. In 2016, she was presented with IDC's highest analyst award, the James Peacock Award, for her outstanding contributions in research.
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Carolyn Fitton Coad
Carolyn Fitton Coad is the Mobile Product Manager at SAP, where she focuses on mobile strategies including BYOD, BYOT, mobile app development and deployment strategy, and mobile security. She is the co-author of the first and second editions of “Enterprise Mobility for Dummies Book” (Wiley ) and was named the 2013 SAP Community Network Mobile Top Contributor. Carolyn lives in Toronto and enjoys cooking, sailing, skiing and volunteering. Visit her blogs on the SAP Community Network. View Guest page
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Jason Coffman
Jason Coffman, Deloitte Consulting – Manufacturing Principal, is based in Deloitte’s Detroit office focused mainly on Automotive OEMs and Tier 1 Suppliers. Jason has market eminence as a thought leader in Sales and Marketing (Vehicle, Parts, and Service) and business transformation through large scale Digital and IT enabled programs. He has published the following articles in 2015: Autonomous Cars and Automotive Manufacturing and Producing Electric Vehicles in an Evolving Market. Jason also serves on the executive board of Junior Achievement of Southeastern Michigan.
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Jen Cohen Crompton
Jen Cohen Crompton is CEO of Something Creative, the Philadelphia-based content marketing agency she founded in 2007. From its beginnings as a social media marketing company, Something Creative has evolved as content is the founding asset for effective social media and marketing strategies. Currently, Jen researches and provides content on tech-related topics such as big data, cloud, analytics, and mobility. She specifically blogs for SAP’s SCN and Business Innovations blogs and is currently working on a series about the future and how it relates to the innovative topics of the convergence of sports and analytics, disruptive technologies, the collaborative economy, and consumer empowerment. Jen is also an adjunct professor at Philadelphia University in the communications department. http://somethingcreativemarketing.com. View Guest page
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Eric Coker
Eric Coker is the solution manager for Ariba spend visibility and supplier management applications. In this role, he is responsible for the applications’ solutions strategy, roadmap, and customer success. Prior to his current role, Eric has operated in several capacities with Ariba including solutions marketing and strategic communications – directly supporting Ariba’s President. Before joining Ariba in 2011, he served in various product development roles for RBC Insurance and Old Mutual Group. Eric received his BBA in marketing from the University of Georgia in Athens, GA.
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Charlie Cole
Charlie Cole joined TUMI in 2015 as the Company’s Chief Digital Officer. In this role, he is responsible for overseeing and developing the brands’ national and international ecommerce and digital platforms. Charlie brings a mix of entrepreneurial and institutional knowledge to the Company with success in both fields, and a focus on creating structures to empower creativity driven by energy and objectivity. Prior to joining TUMI, he held various leadership positions, including serving as CEO of The Line, and head of e-commerce for Lucky Brand and Schiff Nutrition, the largest acquisition of a VMS company in the history of Wall Street. View Guest page
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Saul Colt
Saul Colt, Head of Magic at FreshBooks, was recently named as one of the iMEDIA 25: Internet Marketing Leaders & Innovators. He's been called one of Canada’s best community builders/experiential marketers. Chris Brogan once referred to Saul as “exactly who you want representing your company”. In a previous life, Saul launched Zipcar into the Canadian marketplace. He helped growFreshBooks.com from 250,000 customers to 4.5 million, and even knows what it is like to work for a large corporation from his former leadership role at Rogers Communications. View Guest page
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Edward Cone
Edward Cone is a Managing Editor and Senior Analyst covering business technology at Oxford Economics, which means he manages research projects about what works and what doesn’t, and what comes next in the IT world. Ed spent more than two decades as a journalist in New York, France, and North Carolina, including stints as a contributing editor at Wired, an editor and writer at Ziff Davis, and a staff writer at Forbes. He also free-lanced for a bewildering variety of publications on everything from rock-climbing to politics, and wrote a weekly opinion column for the News & Record in his hometown of Greensboro, NC. As one of the first journalists with a blog, he published the semi-popular Edcone.com for longer than seems reasonable. He still likes his 2003 case study (http://bit.ly/12nBJy) on the Howard Dean presidential campaign because it documents the dawn of the social media era and even gets some predictions right. View Guest page
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Floyd Conrad
Floyd Conrad is the Global Senior Director, Analytics Center of Excellence at SAP. He is a finance executive with over 25 years of experience in finance, accounting and performance management applications as both the vendor and customer in various industries. Floyd consults with finance executives on performance management systems. Floyd has served as Vice President Financial Systems, VP of Corporate Planning & Analysis, Corporate Controller and Consultant. As a customer, has implemented consolidations, planning and reporting systems globally. Floyd has extensive experience in the field of Business Planning. As a software vendor, he has developed and lead a high performing global team responsible for creating sales tools, enabling field, building pipeline and engaging in strategic deal support. Floyd is also active on the SAP speaking circuit being involved with events such as SapphireNow and Insiders. Floyd holds a BA in Accounting from Texas A&M University.
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Swen Conrad
Swen Conrad currently leads product marketing for the cloud-based SAP HANA solutions SAP HANA One and SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud. He is an expert on Big Data, cloud and IT management, and has worked in a variety of senior roles including pre-sales, consulting, program management, and marketing at Hewlett-Packard, Synopsys and SAP. Swen frequently speaks at industry events and participates on expert panels. He has authored a book on IT Business Management fostering the trend of running IT with a stronger view at business results. View Guest page
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Glenn Conradt
Glenn Conradt is the VP of Global Marketing and North America at CoreMedia, where he is responsible for global marketing and the North America business. He has 20 years of experience in North America, Europe and Africa in enterprise, business intelligence and portal technologies. Prior to CoreMedia, Glenn served as VP of Marketing at Tiburon, Inc., where he led the repositioning and re-branding of the company. He has also held executive management positions at Microsoft, Computer Associates, Sterling Software, Systemfabrik and Gentia Software. View Guest page
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Meghan Cook
Meghan Cook, Program Director, Center for Technology in Government, University at Albany/State University of New York, works with teams from government, corporate, and academic organizations to address information management challenges through a unique collaborative process focused on the policy, management, and technology issues in the public sector. In this role, she leads projects with local, state, federal and international governments in order to inform both research and practice of digital government. Meghan has over 16 years of experience in intergovernmental information management, public value analysis and planning, open government, open data, information sharing, community building, and public sector strategic investing. View Guest page
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Meghan Cook
As Program Director, Center for Technology in Government, University at Albany/State University of New York, Meghan Cook leads innovation initiatives that build capability in public sector organizations and agencies throughout the world. Through a unique and collaborative process, Meghan works side by side with international, federal, state and local government leaders to produce new knowledge and actionable results. With over 18 years of experience working on public sector innovation efforts, Meghan is considered an expert in digital government transformation. She has published numerous research and practice articles detailing how organizational capabilities, information policies, management practices, and technology choices intersect to shape government operations and services. She is a highly sought speaker and facilitator, having delivered over 200 thought-leadership and strategy development sessions for government leaders all over the world.
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Sharon Cook
Sharon Cook has 20 years of HR Systems experience. Her career began in Corporate Human Resources working in Staffing and Generalist roles prior to moving into Human Resource and Systems Management. She began her first SAP HCM implementation in the mid 1990’s and has continued with SAP and more recently SuccessFactors core HR and Talent applications. Areas of expertise include system optimization, process redesign, SAP/SF implementation, merger & acquisition onboarding, data migration and data management.
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Sarah Cooke
Sarah Cooke is recognized as an advocate for individuals and organizations who seek more meaningful and impactful work experiences. This comes from influence developed while at Dell, Herman Miller, Motorola and as well as experience as a social entrepreneur. Today, Sarah is an executive at Great Place to Work, partnering with clients to improve business performance through strengthened workplace culture. GPTW's approach to culture transformation is rooted in 25 years of research into exceptional organizations, refreshed annually through creation of the FORTUNE 100 Best Companies to Work For in America list. Sarah is a regular speaker at major conferences, such as South by Southwest, and corporate events. You can connect with her on Twitter at @sarah703. View Guest page
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Kevin Cox
Kevin Cox, Senior Director, SAP Marketing, is responsible for SAP HANA marketing. He was named one of the top digital marketers of 2011 by B-to-B, the Magazine for Marketing Strategists. He has been with SAP for over 7 years, leading various strategic marketing initiatives including SAP NetWeaver and SAP Business Intelligence Accelerator. View Guest page
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Richard Crespin
Richard Crespin is CEO of Crespin Enterprises, a boutique consulting firm advising businesses and non-profits on how to work together to solve big problems. Every non-profit is a business and every business has a social mission. “They just don't always know it or act like it,” so Richard helps firms find the unique social mission where they can make significant impact, and with non-profits to build programs that attract companies as partners and donors. On behalf of clients, he makes strategic introductions, translates the needs of businesses to NGOs and vice-versa, and structures outcome-oriented partnerships that amplify impact and get results faster at lower cost. Richard is a Senior Fellow of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation; a Senior Advisor to IO Consulting and the Institute for Public Private Solutions; advisor to the U.S. Global Leadership Coalition; and a member of the Executive Committee of the Board for the Corporate Responsibility Officers Association. View Guest page
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David Cruickshank
David Cruickshank is the Senior Director of Strategy and Operations for the SAP Co-Innovation Lab, responsible for multiple operational facets of the lab including co-innovation project development, project management and marketing. Prior to SAP, David was with Sun Microsystems serving as Solution Design Manager in Sun IT leading a team to deliver solution design and back line support required for client services development across a portfolio of software and services. Before Sun IT, he spent four years in Sun Services as program manager for Sun's global High Availability SLA program and led Sun Managed Security Services to market with Verisign. David's 20-year high tech career has spanned technology fields within the network computing industry. He earned an MS in Information Systems from the Leavey School of Business at Santa Clara University and a BS from Western Michigan University. View Guest page
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Will Crump
Will Crump, Founding Partner at DATUM LLC. With over twenty years invested in building high-performance, cross-functional teams to compete in global venues, Will brings a wealth of experience in team selection, alignment, motivation and organizational development. He has 8 years of data management experience in Data Governance, ERP Consolidation, Process Improvement and Master Data Management, and 7 years of senior executive experience in guiding business development, international expansion, partnerships, line of business profit and loss, and product development. View Guest page
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Bob Cummings
Bob Cummings, Head of SAP’s Industry Business Unit for Insurance, is responsible for SAP’s offering to insurance companies. He is a 20-year veteran in the SAP business, both with SAP Partners and, since 1994, in international roles at SAP. Bob was one of the original founders of the SAP Industry Business Unit for Insurance, which led to building-out an end-to-end insurance suite. In addition to SAP consulting, presales, development, and product management leadership roles, he served as an assistant to the SAP Executive Board driving strategic initiatives and campaigns. Previous roles include Vice President, Suite Integration Group; Vice President, Solution Management – Suite Optimization; Vice President, Global ERP Initiative – Board Office; Senior Director, EMEA Regional Industry Group; and Senior Implementation Consultant and Project Manager for large SAP implementations with multinational customers. View Guest page
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Tony Cusat
Tony Cusat is a member of ADP’s Multi National Senior Leadership Team. His global responsibilities include building out the support infrastructure and strategy for ADP’s Global HR and Talent solution powered by SAP SuccessFactors technology. This market solution has a unique industry-leading near real time integration with ADP’s Globalview Payroll application. Over the last three years, Tony has worked closely to ensure ADP’s focus of building repeatable proven processes across its global service organization while leveraging leading edge technology to help ADP’s MNC Global organizations unlock the potential of their people. Tony has over 20 years of experience with ADP in client-facing roles within its National Accounts division overseeing regional service and product support organizations. He is a member of the University of Scranton’s Presidents Business Council and has a passion for promoting the importance of teamwork by participating in their Career Coaches Program.
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Sunil Daluvoy
Sunil Daluvoy is Head of Business Development at Uber Technologies. Before this, he was Head of Business Development and Public Policy at Euclid Analytics, which turns in-store analytics into insights and answers for quick service restaurants, specialty retail, and large format stores. Previously, Sunil was Business Development at Google Access, where he assisted with Kansas City's launch of Google Fiber, developed product specifications for Google Wifi, advised the product team on the Spectrum acquisition, and led Google's FCC application for the experimental wireless license with Android. From 2006 - 11, Sunil was New Business Development at Google, working on the Google Wallet, Google Voice, Blogger, Search and Ads, Adsense, Webmaster Tools, Custom Search, and Android Teams. Before Google, he was Business Development Manager at Yahoo. He received a BA in Communications and Economics from Northwestern University and a law degree from the University of San Diego School of Law.
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[L to R:] Daniel Falvey, SAP; Katie Donovan, Equal Pay Negotiations, LLC; Josh Greenbaum, Enterprise Applications Consulting; Corrine Vitolo, SmartKage View Guest page
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Tom Davenport
Tom Davenport holds the President's Chair in Information Technology and Management at Babson College, where he teaches MBAs and executives about decision-making and analytics. He is also a Senior Advisor to Deloitte Analytics. His most recent book is Analytics at Work: Smarter Decisions, Better Results. In 2003, he was named one of the Top 25 consultants in the world by Consulting magazine. In 2007 and 2008, he was named one of the 100 most influential people in the IT industry by Ziff-Davis magazines. He directed research centers at Ernst & Young, McKinsey & Company, CSC Index, and Accenture. Tom has written, co-authored or edited 13 books, including the first books on analytical competition, business process reengineering, knowledge management, and the business use of enterprise systems. His articles and columns have appeared in the Harvard Business Review, Sloan Management Review, California Management Review, Financial Times, Information Week, and CIO. View Guest page
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Steve Day
Steve Day is a Solution Director with the SAP Cloud Analytics Center of Excellence. He spends his time helping customers transform their business with SAP Analytics for a sustained competitive advantage. Steve and his family live in the mountains of Vancouver, Canada and he has been with SAP for 6 years. Prior to SAP Steve was with Information Builders and has been in the world of Analytics for 15 years.
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Timothy Day
Timothy Day, Operation Excellence-Global Systems and Integration, is an IT leader at Johns Manville with a global focus on delivery operational excellence in the manufacturing space and its integration of the shop floor to SAP. Tim brings with him 16 years of SAP integrated manufacturing experience in supply chain, shop floor planning and execution, warehouse management, asset management, Mii integration and visualization into control systems, and manufacturing execution systems. His skills and knowledge have been developed though a range of companies from process industry to assembly manufacturing and include Titanium Metals Inc., Caterpillar engine division, GE Electromotive, Best Buy, and the three distinct division of Johns Manville. Tim has a B.S. in Chemistry, a Masters in Information Systems, and is a Six Sigma Black Belt. View Guest page
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Dina Dayal
As the Global Vice President for Digital Enterprise Platform Group at SAP, Dina Dayal is responsible for helping SAP customers re-imagine their business by transforming the way they leverage their SAP assets to enable the businesses to grow. Her area of focus has been the Digital Enterprise specifically around IoT and helping customers leverage not only their enterprise data but also data coming from sensors, social media and 3rd party data to generate ideas around improving their business processes, generating new business models and getting closer to the consumer. Before coming to SAP in 2014, Dina served as Global VP, IT at Newell Rubbermaid for 8+ years, during which time she helped to build the strategic direction from an IT and Business Enabler perspective. Previously, Dina held roles with Decision First Technologies, Home Depot, and served as a Consultant with KPMG for 9 years. Dina studied at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.
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Dennison DeGregor
Dennison DeGregor is the Worldwide Group Executive for CX Services at HP. He is responsible for next generation CX initiatives that change the way consumers access the brand, enabling the enterprise to drive business outcomes to new levels. Prior to HP, Dennis was the Chief Customer Officer at Bank of America, SVP and Chief CX Officer at Allstate, SVP and Chief CX Officer at Merrill Lynch and VP and Chief CX Officer at Qwest Communications. In his current role, he is responsible for CX strategy and operations that integrate people, process, Big Data, analytics, social, IofMe and digital customer care and marketing capabilities that drive the consumer-facing strategic transformation agenda. Dennis is the author of the breakthrough book, The Customer-Transparent Enterprise, which describes the new operating model required to engage and delight the 21st century social, mobile and digitally-connected consumer.
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David P Delaney, MD
David P Delaney, MD, is Chief Medical Officer of SAP America’s healthcare business. His responsibilities include providing market insight, clinical and medical informatics domain expertise, driving strategy, and engaging with senior leadership at current and prospective clients across the payer and provider market. Before joining SAP, David was Chief Medical Officer at MedAptus, a privately held provider of revenue cycle management solutions to leading medical centers. There he was responsible for business development and product management, successfully launching two major products during his tenure. Prior to that, David was Director of Web Development & Applied Informatics at Boston's Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, a core Harvard Medical School teaching hospital where he led development of a number of the medical center's highly visible, award winning applications. Additionally, he was Associate Director of Medical Critical Care and practiced as an intensivist there for twelve years.
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Mark Delisi
Mark Delisi, Director of Corporate Responsibility (CR) at CSC, is responsible for global CR reporting, strategy and integration of sustainability in CSC’s business and that of their clients. In his 16 years with CSC, he has held a variety of positions, including leading the Leadership Academy and working to increase strategic sales and support account development in the company’s internal sales training unit. Mark holds a Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering and a Master of Arts in Theological Studies. View Guest page
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Kathy B Dempsey
Kathy B. Dempsey, President of Keep Shedding! Inc., and founder of the Shedding Revolution, is an award winning author, keynote speaker and recognized change expert. She ignites organizations to SHED by empowering them with practical tools to adapt quicker and get results! As a former hospital executive, she strategically led Memorial Health Care System’s organizational development efforts to become one of the top 100 hospitals in America. Her most popular book, Shed or You’re Dead®: 31 Unconventional Strategies for Growth and Change, received a Writer's Digest International Book Award. Kathy’s 'signature story' is her transformation as an ER/trauma nurse who became the first health care worker in America to be diagnosed HIV positive as a result of workplace exposure, which made her a ‘poster child’ for the Center for Disease Control (CDC). Months later, all tests returned negative. Kathy has inspired thousands to SHED around the world, including Europe, Canada, Africa, and Mexico. View Guest page
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Sven Denecken
Sven Denecken is Vice President Strategy Cloud Solutions at SAP. He assesses customer and market requirements, and supports SAP´s cloud strategy. Sven’s decades of experience working with customers, and his network of SAP´s field organization and partners, allow him to bring client issues and challenges directly into the solution development process. This assures that next generation software solutions address customer requirements and help them gain competitive advantage. Sven supports the strategy of cloud and its alignment with SAP’s field organization and ecosystem, cooperating closely with the respective teams. Collaborating with market constituents and SAP´s cloud organization, he and his team facilitate and enable sustainable relationships between SAP, customers, industries, and partners. View Guest page
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Michael Wm. Denis
Michael Wm. Denis is the Vice President of Customer Engagement at InfoTrust Group, a company that provides content and knowledge management solutions for global aerospace, automotive, high-tech and media organizations. He has 24 years of experience in the aviation, aerospace, and defense industries, having held positions in engineering, operations, marketing, sales, and technology. His current research is on the fusion of advanced capabilities, such as prognostics and autonomics, and alternative delivery methods, such as software-as-a-service and business process outsourcing, focused on optimizing the profitability of capital-intensive, cash-flow-sensitive companies. Previously, Denis was a principal at Simat, Helliesen & Eichner, a senior manager at Accenture, and a surface warfare officer in the U.S. Navy. He has been published in Aviation Week, Aircraft Commerce and Airline Business, and is a bi-monthly columnist for the Aircraft IT Journal. View Guest page
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Frank Diana
Frank Diana currently leads efforts to define and enable the evolution of business (Enterprise of 2020) for TCS Global Consulting. Prior to joining TCS, he was Executive Vice President of enherent Corp., leading a business analytics growth initiative focused on leveraging advanced forms of analytics to deliver business outcomes. For Aelera Corporation, where he served as Chief Product Officer, he managed the development of a market facing social computing and advanced analytics platform. He served as CEO of Traxian, Inc., a Silicon Valley software start-up focused on B2B enablement of small and mid-sized businesses, and as Chief Technology Officer of Fujitsu Consulting, where he developed the company’s extended enterprise vision, serving as the face to the market and analyst community. Frank began his career at AT&T, holding senior roles including CIO for the company’s international financial operation. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in computer science from Rider College.
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- You Don't Own Me: What About My Data? - Part 2
- You Don't Own Me: But What About My Data?
- Game-Changers 2017 Predictions - Part 3
- The Innovation Explosion: Replicating a Special Century?
- The Rising Billions: Business Networks and the Digital Economy
- Business Networks and the Digital Economy: Ready for Digital Humanism?
- Emerging Paradigms and the Future of Business
Joe Dignan
Joe Dignan is Chief Analyst at Ovum, addressing the European public sector. He is a member of Ovum’s Industry Technologies team, which produces research and analysis on the use of technology in the education, government, health sciences, financial services, energy and sustainability, and telecoms industries. Joe’s area of expertise is transformation in government and the advances in ICT driving change in the European public sector. The focus of his research is the development of smart cities. He joined Ovum from Microsoft, where he was the World Wide Industry Managing Director for Local and Regional Government leading Microsoft’s nascent smart city value proposition. Joe has substantial experience in Government complemented by working for global public strategic transformation consultancies and blue chip suppliers such as EDS and Microsoft. He is a regular speaker at executive briefings, including keynotes at SmarterCities, eIndia, eDubai, and an expert speaker for the EC in China. View Guest page
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Chris Dinkel
Chris Dinkel has over 12 years managing, developing and implementing large-scale complex information systems. His extensive experience includes all phases of the SDLC of enterprise wide Data Warehouses, Business Intelligence solutions, Custom client/server and Web Applications. His prior background includes project management, ETL, business analysis, design, development, and administration of Data Warehouses supporting SAP, PeopleSoft, relational databases, and SAP BW/BusinessObjects systems. He has helped large and small enterprises build out robust reporting and analytic architectures that support operational, ad-hoc, and dashboard requirements. The hundreds of reports, analytics, metrics, and dashboards he has built are in global use. He is currently an IT Leader responsible for delivery of Business Intelligence and Data Analytics to the 45,000 professionals of the US Member Firms of Deloitte. View Guest page
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Lee Dittmar
Lee Dittmar is a Principal with Deloitte Consulting LLP and a senior partner in the Information Management Practice. He serves as National Sales Leader for the Deloitte Analytics Institute and the US Analytics practice. He is a recognized thought leader regarding how organizations can improve business performance and risk management by better aligning information management, technology and analytic capabilities with business needs. Lee founded and led Deloitte’s Sarbanes-Oxley and GRC consulting practices from 2003-09. Treasury and Risk Management magazine identified Lee on its 100 Most Influential People in Finance (2005, 2006, 2007) and Consulting Magazine named him one of The Top 25 Consultants in 2006. He leads the Information Management practice for the Energy and Resources industry practice, serving O&G and Utility clients. Lee serves as the lead consulting principal for key clients and plays leadership roles for several of Deloitte’s strategic alliances. View Guest page
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Jeff Doneghue
Jeff Doneghue is Director of Product Lifecycle Management & Engineering Services at BUNN in Springfield, IL. He has direct responsibility for BUNN’s strategic PLM planning and implementations. Jeff has implemented SAP ERP (PP, MM, WM, SD, FICO), SAP DMS, SAP CAD Integration and SAP PPM. He is currently implementing SAP ECM, expanding PPM to include strategic reporting and growing SAP Master Data usage to support multiple solutions. Additionally, Jeff has experience with engineering, new product development, business technology and process improvements at Siemens, Eaton Corporation and Honeywell.
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Matt Donovan
As the Vice President of GP Strategies Learning Solutions Group, Matt Donovan has more than 20 years of experience crafting training and development solutions with a focus on performance-driven learning. Leading the production of more than 300 custom online courses for several Fortune 500 companies, his team develops courseware for sales, marketing, manufacturing, clinical research, compliance, leadership, and ethics. Many of Matt’s courses employ a scenario-based approach focusing on reinforcing authentic work practice. He holds an M.S. in instructional systems technology from Indiana University.
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Paul Donovan
Paul Donovan is a Senior Director in Solution Management at SAP. In this role he oversees global programs in Marketing, Merchandising and Predictive Analytics. He consults and advises on future trends in Retail to SAP customers and prospective customers and drives future requirements into product.Paul is often featured in various publications on thought leadership issues. He has spent the last 20 years advising and consulting on technology solutions in both Retail and Consumer Products in areas such as Marketing Effectiveness, Pricing and Promotional Strategy and Consumer Insights. Previously he worked at DemandTec, SAS Institute and Ariba in a variety of roles in strategy, sales and consulting.
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Colin Dover
Colin Dover leads Solution Marketing for Enterprise BI Platform at SAP. Since first joining a London-based data warehousing company in the mid-1990s, Colin has accumulated over 17 years of experience in Enterprise Software, with various roles based throughout Europe and North America, and spanning a variety of technical and strategic roles at companies such as Brio, Hyperion and Oracle. In early 2010 he joined SAP, sold on the company's vision of innovation for Analytics. With an extensive background in Capital Markets, he took the role in the BI COE for Strategic Industries where he was responsible for both representing SAP’s BI portfolio, acting as an evangelist for SAP’s corporate strategy and vision for Analytics, and helping dozens of customers define their own BI strategies within Financial Services and Insurance. View Guest page
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Max Dower
The artist and founder of Unfortunate Portrait, Max Dower, started his apparel and artwork business after his drawings caught fire on Instagram. Forgoing the bar after completing a law degree, he "decided to roll the dice, and launch this company that I thought had infinite potential.” With 30,000+ Instagram followers, his LA-based company is scaling globally via online sales and retailers like Maxfield LA, Fred Segal, Joy in St. Moritz and Barvikhadream in Moscow. His art features mashups of celebrities; a top seller is “The T Party," a portrait of Mr. T, Ice-T, and rapper Pusha T. His illustrations are raw, almost child-like, delivered with a wit and edge that makes his subjects some of his biggest advocates. Reposts from Chris Rock, Ruby Rose, Skrillex, and James Franco have pushed sales. Max is a frequent contributor to ManRepeller.com. His artwork and business story have been featured on NPR’s Marketplace, fashion and art publications, and thousands of shares, posts and tweets.
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Howard Dresner
Howard Dresner is Chief Research Officer at Dresner Advisory Services, LLC, an independent advisory firm. He is a well-known authority in the areas of Business Intelligence and Performance Management with more than 30 years of IT industry experience. Previously, he spent 13 years at Gartner, where he was a Research Fellow and Lead Analyst for BI. He also served as Chief Strategy Officer at Hyperion Solutions. Howard is the author of Profiles in Performance – Business Intelligence Journeys and the Roadmap for Change (John Wiley & Sons, November 2009) and The Performance Management Revolution: Business Results through Insight and Action (John Wiley & Sons, November 2007). He publishes several landmark research studies each year: The Wisdom of Crowds Business Intelligence Market Study ® and The Mobile Business Intelligence Market Study. www.business-intelligence-study.com. View Guest page
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David Dreyer
David Dreyer is a Solutions Principal for Manufacturing in SAP's NA Center of Excellence, after serving for ten years in IT leadership capacities with Harley-Davidson Motor Company. Most recently David served as ERP Design Lead in Harley-Davidson's Center of Excellence, focused on strategic manufacturing applications and integration. Prior to that, he was responsible for the manufacturing applications R&D team and deployment of enterprise-wide Visual Manufacturing systems. He began his career in public accounting as a CPA, successfully managed the turnaround of a technology start-up, then moved into consulting for IT innovation, including an engagement with Harley-Davidson that led to his role there. At SAP’s Center of Excellence he serves as a thought leader and catalyst for change to manufacturers who need to embrace the implications of the digital economy for their business, and transform their thinking and approach to successfully adopt the digital manufacturing mandate. View Guest page
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Adrian Drury
Adrian Drury leads Ovum’s Consumer IT & Integrated Media team, covering the impact of IT consumerization on the engagement model for enterprises with their employees, customers and the opportunity for industry value chain re-engineering. He has published studies looking at smart device application development, device distribution strategies, marketing automation and customer lifecycle management, and process re-engineering innovation strategy. Adrian also leads the Media & Broadcast technology team, covering technology, IT, networking and commercial strategy in the convergent broadcast, media and telecoms industries. Previously, he was a founding employee and Head of Strategy and Business Development at The Cloud, Europe's largest wireless hotspot network. View Guest page
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Raluca Druta
Raluca Druta is the HCM analyst for TEC (Technology Evaluation Centers). She holds a graduate diploma in computer science, and brings in-depth knowledge of various industries and their related business fields to her research. In addition to her experience as a consultant for IT firms in the areas of conflict management resolution and recruiting and staffing, Raluca has also implemented feedback management software and trained end users and administrators in higher education institutions. She is proficient in project management, and has a working familiarity with employee issues common to higher education, IT, retail, and manufacturing. Previously she was a professional services consultant with the Montreal-based feedback management software provider eXplorance. Blog: www.technologyevaluation.com/research/author/4/3456469. View Guest page
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Renée L Duff, Esq.
Renée L. Duff, Esq. has been an intellectual property attorney for 17 years and has been involved in the business side of intellectual property for over 25 years. And long before ever even hearing the term “Intellectual Property,” she was, and still is, busy creating it. Renée’s experiences ranging from personal, business, law firm and in-house counsel perspectives, give her a unique combination of insight that makes her a respected resource on issues related to both the commercial and legal sides of intellectual property. Currently, Renée has a private practice, Renee L. Duff, P.C., that caters to small businesses, entrepreneurs and other creative individuals that have intellectual property assets as the main focus of their business. She is also Of Counsel to Lackenbach Siegel, LLP, which is perennially ranked as one of the top trademark firms in the country. More: www.RLDPC.com. View Guest page
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- Legal Lessons for Women Business Owners: Clear Your Legal Clutter for the New Year
- Legal Lessons for Women Business Owners - Part 4: Dont Make a Federal Case Out of It
- Social Selling, Social Media and The Law: How's Your Brand Doing?
- Legal Lessons for Women Business Owners - Part 3
- Legal Lessons for Women Business Owners - Part 2
- Legal Lessons for Women Business Owners - Part 1
Dave Duggal
Dave Duggal is the founder of EnterpriseWeb (www.enterpriseweb.com). His company offers an award-winning application platform for dynamic, distributed, data-driven business processes. The Platform enables organizations to flexibly connect end-to-end solutions across silos, partners, technologies and protocols. Dave is an inventor on several awarded patents and author of numerous academic papers, articles and blog postings. He is a regular conference speaker (CloudExpo, SemTech, EDW, GoTo Con, TM Forum, BPMnext, etc). Dave is co-chair of the Dynamic Composition and Coordination (Integration and Orchestration) Task-Group for the Industrial Internet Consortium and is an active member of the TM Forum.
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Lynne Dunbrack
Lynne Dunbrack is Research Vice President for IDC Health Insights. She manages a group of analysts who provide research-based advisory and consulting services for payers, providers, accountable care organizations, IT service providers, and IT suppliers that serve those markets. Lynne also leads the IDC Health Insights' Connected Health IT Strategies program. Previous roles include Product Manager for MA-SHARE, LLC, one of the nation’s first clinical data exchange demonstration projects; Director of Product Management at NaviMedix, Inc. (now NaviNet) and the Director of HIPAA Compliance. Lynne has been quoted by The Wall Street Journal, Investor's Business Daily, and The New York Times. She blogs in the IDC Community (http://idc-insights-community.com/health). Lynne holds a B.A. from the College of the Holy Cross, and an M.B.A. with a concentration in healthcare management and an M.S. in Management Information Systems from Boston University's Graduate School of Management.
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David Dunn
David Dunn is Vice President, Business Development for the Rolta OneViewTM product in the chemical industry. Prior to joining Rolta, Mr. Dunn held numerous senior industry positions in the specialty chemical and plastics industries and as an industry lead for SAP in chemicals. He has a strong background in the manufacturing, operations and product development and commercialization areas. Mr. Dunn has a degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Missouri, Columbia. View Guest page
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Gregory J. Dunn
Gregory J. Dunn manages the Global Product Management Group for Sybase, Inc, leading the efforts for hosted and business solutions focusing on B2C services within the mCommerce, Telco and Enterprise-related verticals. He began his career at the divestiture of AT&T, where at Pacific Telesis his milestone achievement was launching the first statewide 900mhz messaging system in the US. As Director of Product Management for Verizon Wireless at Bell Atlantic Mobile, he oversaw data and Internet product launches, including the successful BREW service offering. At start-up venture Inphomatch (Mobile 365), he served as Vice President, Carrier Services and Vice President, Americas, and helped launch the first inter-carrier messaging platform in the US. Greg was part of the key executive team that saw the successful acquisition of Mobile 365 by Sybase in November 2006. View Guest page
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Dawn Duross
Dawn Duross is a Senior Director in Cisco’s Global & Strategic Partner Organization, responsible for managing the global partnerships for both SAP and Deloitte. She and her team drive executive alignment, partner strategy, and Go to Market activities to drive business outcomes in key technology areas such as Data Center, Cloud, and Collaboration. Previously, Dawn was Senior Director of Cisco’s US Public Sector & Solution Integrator Partner Organization, and Operations Director for federal channels and government system integrators. She has served on the Cisco Gender Diversity Operating Committee and co-hosted the Women’s Channel Leadership Conference. In 2006, 2007, 2008, and 2010, she was listed among the 50 Most Powerful Women of the Channel by Everything Channel (formerly CMP Channel). Dawn holds a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering from Oakland University (Michigan) and a Master’s in journalism and public affairs from American University (Washington, D.C.) View Guest page
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Rick Dutta
Rick Dutta, CEO and Chairman of Nexvisionix, a company focused in the Retail BI and Analytics space, is a serial entrepreneur with over 25 years of experience in the high tech industry. In 1990, Rick founded his first company, Nexgenix, an IT and interactive marketing services company. He took it to $100m in revenue before it was sold to a PE company. In 2002, Rick co-founded Equinox, a financial services BPO company subsequently sold to IFlex, which is currently a division of Oracle Corporation. Through his holding company, Rick’s current passive and active investments include mobile, telecommunications and software segments. He serves on a number of boards, including the University of California Irvine Chancellor’s Chief Executive Roundtable, and as an advisory board member within several schools within UC Irvine. View Guest page
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James Van Dyke
James Van Dyke, Founder and President of Javelin Strategy & Research, has over twenty years’ experience in electronic commerce, financial services, security and payments. Javelin provides leaders with strategic and factual insights on customer transactions. Previously, he was Research Director of financial services and payments efforts for Jupiter Media Metrix; served as product director for an Internet encryption system used by Global 1000 commercial banking firms; provided Internet products strategy at Hewlett Packard; and launched an Internet banking and payments system. James presents at the US House of Representatives, Federal Reserve Banks, and professional venues. His comments reach over 40 million people globally each year though NPR, The Wall Street Journal, Business Week, The Economist, Forbes, USA Today, The New York Times, The San Francisco Chronicle, Financial Times and American Banker. View Guest page
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John Edelman
John Edelman was appointed in 2010 as Managing Director, Global Engagement and Corporate Responsibility at Edelman, the world’s largest PR firm. He leads the firm’s global citizenship initiatives including corporate social responsibility, volunteerism, corporate philanthropy, community engagement, supplier and partnership engagement, environmental sustainability, and corporate reporting. He also co-leads the Global Diversity Advisory Group with Claudia Patton, Chief Talent Officer. Previously, John served as Managing Director, Global Human Resources since 1995, and as Vice President and General Manager in the Edelman office in Dallas. The Edelman firm has 67 offices and more than 4,800 employees worldwide, plus affiliates in 30 cities. The firm was named Advertising Age magazine’s top-ranked PR firm of the decade in 2009; AdWeek’s PR Agency of the Year in 2011; and The Holmes Group’s 2012 Silver Sabre for PR Agency Citizenship. View Guest page
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Richard Edwards
Richard Edwards, a principal analyst at Ovum, established his reputation as a research analyst in 2003. The “knowledge worker” remains the primary focus of his research stream, and his knowledge and expertise in the areas of enterprise collaboration, knowledge management, social business and the consumerization of corporate IT have helped Ovum’s clients in industry and commerce to reap the business benefits of an ever-changing IT landscape. Richard has over 25 years’ experience in the IT industry across a range of industry sectors, including pharma, finance, and engineering. Prior to becoming an analyst, Richard was a technology management consultant with Capgemini, advising multinational clients on matters relating to enterprise content management and knowledge worker strategy. Richard’s deep understanding of corporate ICT issues were developed while working as a technical consultant for the IT services division of a large international manufacturing company. View Guest page
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John Elder
John Elder leads Elder Research (www.datamininglab.com), America’s largest and most experienced data mining consultancy. Founded in 1995, and with offices in Charlottesville, VA and Washington, D.C., Elder Research has solved projects in a huge variety of areas of mining data, text, and links. John has co-authored three books on practical data mining, ensembles, and text mining; two won PROSE awards for top book in mathematics or computer science. In addition to being the author of data mining tools, a discoverer of ensemble methods, the chair of international conferences, and a popular keynote speaker, John is best known for explaining complex analytic concepts with clarity, humor, and enthusiasm. He has degrees in Engineering (Systems, UVA + Electrical, Rice) and is an occasional Adjunct Professor at UVA. He was honored to be named by President Bush to serve five years on a panel to guide technology for national security View Guest page
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Daniel Elliott
Daniel Elliott is Program Manager at CDC Development Solutions, an international development organization, whose mission is to reinvent how public, private, and social interests converge to address global challenges. One way in which they do this is through the design, implementation and impact measurement of International Corporate Volunteer programs for over a dozen corporations. Daniel is the key client manager for SAP’s Social Sabbatical Program and was responsible for helping SAP launch the pilot teams deployed to Brazil, South Africa and India in 2012. Previously, Daniel was the Director of International Research at Greenberg Quinlan Rosner, a political consulting and public opinion research firm. He was named one of the “Top 99 Under 33” Foreign Policy leaders by the Diplomatic Courier Magazine in 2011 and has been published in the Council on Foreign Relations. View Guest page
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Timo Elliott
Timo Elliott is a senior director and global innovation evangelist for SAP. He has presented to IT and business audiences in over 40 countries around the world, explaining the business impacts of new technology, and sharing the lessons learned from leading-edge deployments. He blogs on Forbes, ZDNet, and timoelliott.com, tracking innovation in business analytics and Big Data. Timo joined SAP through the acquisition of BusinessObjects, where he was the eighth employee, 23 years ago.
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John Ellis
John Ellis is a 25-year software developer and business development veteran, formerly the Global Technologist for Ford’s connected car business unit as well as an executive with Motorola. John has delivered award-winning products and programs including opensource.motorola.com, SmartDeviceLink, MyFordMobile, developer.ford.com. He actively consults to OEMs, tier 1’s and investment advisory firms on the space where automotive, software, consumer and mobility intersect.
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Herb Engert
Herb Engert serves as the Americas Leader of Growth Markets (GM) for EY, a world leader in advising, guiding and recognizing entrepreneurs through the firm’s flagship Entrepreneur Of The Year® awards program. He brings more than 20 years of experience in both public accounting and the private sector to his role. Throughout his career, Herb has led a variety of transactions, including private and public debt and equity offerings, initial public offerings (IPOs), and mergers and acquisitions. He began his career at Arthur Andersen in Washington., D.C. where he advised internet and technology clients. Herb has served on the boards and committees of the John F. Kennedy Center for Performing Arts, the Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts and the Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship.
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Jeremy Epstein
Jeremy Epstein, CEO of Never Stop Marketing, has 20 years of international marketing experience. Most recently, he was VP, Marketing at Sprinklr which grew from a $20 million valuation and 30 people to $1.3 billion valuation and 900 people in 3 years. Previous work experience includes Microsoft and consulting to firms such as Johnson & Johnson and two NY Times best-selling authors. Jeremy spent 3 years living and working in Frankfurt, Germany, and Tokyo, Japan. Jeremy is the author of numerous whitepapers and a book, “It’s ALL on the Blog, DON’T Buy the Book,” published “Blockchains in the Mainstream: When Will Everyone Else Know?”, and has presented to hundreds of audiences in 15 countries. Jeremy currently works with some of the most innovative companies in the blockchain space including OpenBazaar and Storj. He also facilitates the Decentralized Marketing Network, a peer-to-peer community. View Guest page
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Jon Essig
Jon Essig, Senior EPM Solution Director at Simplefi, is an experienced BPC solutions expert with focus on consolidations, analytics and financial planning. He is a recognized industry expert, speaker and author. Jon has architected many solutions, working with c-level execs, corporate finance, regional business units, and IT to create a company-wide vision. His has delivered consolidations as well as planning models for Sales, Operations, HR, CapEx, and Expenses. Jon has 7-8 years of experience with OutlookSoft/BPC Solution in Industry as well as Consulting. He also has ten years of experience in various financial roles, including: consolidations, financial analysis, audit, SOX, financial closes, tax, and forecasting / budgeting. Jon earned a BS degree in Finance from Northern Illinois University and is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA).
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Susan Etlinger
Susan Etlinger is an industry analyst at Altimeter Group, where she works with global companies to develop both social data and intelligence strategies that support their business objectives. Susan has a diverse background in marketing and strategic planning within both corporations and agencies. A frequent speaker on social media and analytics, she has been extensively quoted in outlets including Fast Company, BBC, New York Times and The Wall Street Journal. Read her “Thought Experiments” blog at susanetlinger.com View Guest page
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ETreharne - ABennell - VSrinivas - AAbbatiell
[L to R:] Eleanor Treharne-Jones, Truste,com; Alex Bennell, Capgemini; Val Srinivas, Deloitte; Anthony Abbatiello, Deloitte. Eleanor Treharne-Jones, Truste,com; http://www.voiceamerica.com/guest/25703/eleanor-treharne-jones Alex Bennell, Capgemini; http://www.voiceamerica.com/guest/25947/alex-bennell Val Srinivas, Deloitte; http://www.voiceamerica.com/guest/25660/val-srinivas Anthony Abbatiello, Deloitte; http://www.voiceamerica.com/guest/27369/anthony-abbatiello View Guest page
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Anne B. Evans
Anne B. Evans is Vice President for Global Strategic Resources at Ashoka and a member of the Ashoka Leadership Group. She provides global planning and coordination of Ashoka’s relationship with SAP. Anne has been a social entrepreneur, Executive Officer of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., and a Partner at the MAC Group (now Gemini Consulting), focusing on the financial services and telecommunications industries. She has also consulted to and serves on the boards of a variety of for-profit and nonprofit organizations. In 2001, Anne co-founded the Kenya Education Fund to support secondary-level education of nomadic and other poor children in Kenya. She now serves on its board, in addition to her work with Ashoka. www.Ashoka.org. www.kenyaeducationfund.org. View Guest page
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Bob Evans
Bob Evans is Vice President of Strategic Communications for SAP. He joined the company in April 2011 and late last year helped create a new 50-person team within the Marketing organization called Customer Central, which celebrates SAP’s customers through stories of their innovations and success. Bob also writes a widely read column for Forbes.com on business innovation. Before joining SAP, Bob covered the business-technology world as primary analyst and blogger for InformationWeek. View Guest page
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FDiana -BGiamanco - JAto - NRobinson
[L to R:] Frank Diana, TCS; Barbara Giamanco, Social Centered Selling; Jackie Ato, SAP; Nick Robinson, SAP. Frank Diana, TCS; http://www.voiceamerica.com/guest/26349/frank-diana Barbara Giamanco, Social Centered Selling; http://www.voiceamerica.com/guest/26455/barbara-giamanco Jackie Ato, SAP; http://www.voiceamerica.com/guest/27310/jackie-ato Nick Robinson, SAP; http://www.voiceamerica.com/guest/26089/nick-robinson View Guest page
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Nigel Fenwick
Nigel Fenwick is Vice President, Principal Analyst at Forrester. He focuses on the role of CIO as a business leader influencing business strategy and performance. His research focuses on the IT-to-BT transformation, business and technology strategy, social technology strategy, and technology trends and their impact on competitive advantage. Previously, as practice leader for Forrester's IT Leadership Boards, he grew the business more than 300% in four years and built a high-performing team delivering outstanding service to senior IT professionals while tapping into the collective wisdom of the Leadership Boards members. Nigel's early career focused on helping companies reengineer the business process through emerging technology, as a senior consultant for the UK's National Computing Center (NCC). He went on to join Reebok UK as executive director, management information services (CIO; founded an eCommerce research business; and ran a GPS commercial fleet tracking systems business. View Guest page
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Jim Fields
Jim Fields is Vice President of Customer Experience Marketing for SAP, where he is responsible for innovating new models of engagement and generally finding margin between the organizational silos. Jim is a frequent blogger, brand journalist, speaker at industry events, and mentor to early talent.
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Kai Finck
Kai Finck is Senior Vice President of Line of Business Solutions for Corporate Functions, comprising SAP’s solutions for Human Resources, Finance, Enterprise Asset Management, Real Estate, IT and Commodities Management. He joined SAP in 1998 as a developer in the Industry Business Unit Automotive. In 2001, he took over responsibility for the Strategic Custom Development Project with the German Armed Forces, resulting in a differentiating Industry Solution for Defense Forces & Public Security. Kai was then appointed Vice President for the Development Unit Manufacturing Industries & Defense, and two years later was named Senior Vice President for the Development Area PLM, Industries & Asset and Mobile. Prior to joining SAP, Kai was an officer in the German Air Force responsible for Aircraft Maintenance. View Guest page
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JP Finnell
JP Finnell is Head of Mobile Strategy, NA Services for SAP. Previously, he consulted to enterprise, technology, and carrier clients as General Manager of Mobility Professional Services at Nokia and Managing Partner of Mobility Partners. JP played a founding role in Mobile Monday Mid-Atlantic, one of 100+ chapters in the world’s leading mobile community. His research on collaboration and enterprise mobility has been published by GigaOM Pro. JP is a conference speaker at CITE (Consumerization of IT in the Enterprise), e2, SAPPHIRE NOW, as well as local chapters of ASUG, SIM and Mobile Monday. He was a Fellow at the Joseph H. Lauder Institute of Management & International Studies, where he received an MA from the University of Pennsylvania. He holds an MBA from the Wharton School and a BS from Georgetown University. View Guest page
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Quentin Fisher
Quentin Fisher is Associate VP, Global Analytics Leader – Manufacturing & Public Services Industries at HCL Axon. Quentin's 20 years of experience cover IT consulting, manufacturing & supply chain consulting, and manufacturing operations. His executive client advisory experience spans a Fortune 500 client base in manufacturing, government, defense, construction, pharmaceuticals, communications, energy, consumer products, professional services, utilities, and transportation. Quentin has led global distributed delivery practices of over 600 consultants and managed P&L's over $100 M USD. Previous leadership roles at CSC include Big Data & Analytics Leader for Manufacturing and SAP; COO for North America and India ERP consulting practices; Global SAP Mobility and Business Analytics Practice Leader; Federal Consulting Supply Chain Leader. He earned the prestigious Technical Excellence Award Winner at CSC. Under his leadership, CSC won innovation SAP partner awards in Mobility and HANA. View Guest page
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Quentin Fisher
Quentin Fisher is Associate VP, Global Analytics Leader – Manufacturing & Public Services Industries at HCL Axon. Quentin's 20 years of experience cover IT consulting, manufacturing & supply chain consulting, and manufacturing operations. His executive client advisory experience spans a Fortune 500 client base in manufacturing, government, defense, construction, pharmaceuticals, communications, energy, consumer products, professional services, utilities, and transportation. Quentin has led global distributed delivery practices of over 600 consultants and managed P&L's over $100 M USD. Previous leadership roles at CSC include Big Data & Analytics Leader for Manufacturing and SAP; COO for North America and India ERP consulting practices; Global SAP Mobility and Business Analytics Practice Leader; Federal Consulting Supply Chain Leader. He earned the prestigious Technical Excellence Award Winner at CSC. Under his leadership, CSC won innovation SAP partner awards in Mobility and HANA.
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Carolyn Fitton
Carolyn Fitton, Mobility Manager at Sybase, an SAP Company, has diverse experiences in marketing and enterprise mobility strategy. She drives sales and marketing initiatives across the Sybase and SAP ecosystem, educating stakeholders on enterprise mobility solutions, and helps lead go-to-market strategy and promotion of enterprise mobility products. Carolyn worked at Microsoft from 2007-2010 with their information worker products (CRM, office, sharepoint, VoiP), and at Sybase, where she sold originally mobile smart phone PIM sync software, mobile web site and database tech, and legacy AvantGo technology. Carolyn wrote Enterprise Mobility Guide for Dummies to help business people make sense of mobility, explain its impact and value, and offer simple ideas and tips for embracing mobility to improve operations and become competitive. View Guest page
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Richard Fleming
Richard Fleming is a partner in Bain & Company’s New York office, where he is a member of the Financial Service and Performance Improvement Practices. He joined the firm in 2001. Richard has worked across a number of industries including financial services, manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, restaurants, airlines and telecommunications. His experience covers strategy development, operational performance improvement and program management, supported a bank post-merger integration program. Led streams focused on contact centre performance and customer experience improvement, and wealth management. Prior to Bain, Richard was a Manager at Accenture in Europe. He holds an MBA from Australian Graduate School and a BA honors in Physics from Oxford University. View Guest page
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John H. Fleming, Ph.D.
John H. Fleming, Ph.D., is Chief Scientist, Marketplace Management for Gallup and co-author of the book Human Sigma: Managing the Employee-Customer Encounter. John was instrumental in the development of Gallup's CE 11 customer engagement program. He is Chief Scientist for Gallup's Marketplace Management and HumanSigma practices, which set worldwide standards for Gallup's brand measurement and customer engagement management applications. He also leads Gallup's Business Impact Analysis Consulting Group, and serves as an internal and external consultant on issues related to research design, analysis, and complex modeling. John has published research articles and book chapters in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology; Social Cognition; Journal of Experimental Social Psychology; and Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. Before joining Gallup, he spent six years on the psychology faculty at the University of Minnesota. View Guest page
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Dr. Patti Fletcher
Dr. Patti Fletcher is a seasoned business executive, award-winning marketing influencer, board member, angel investor, author, and presenter. She writes for drpattifletcher.com, Inc., The Guardian, and has contributed to and been featured in Time Magazine, Al-Jazeera, Forbes, Newsweek, Xconomy, The Muse and many more. Patti advises corporate executives and board members from lean start-ups to Fortune 100s, from small community organizations to large global non-profits. She is an advocate and a sought-after speaker on the topics of leading large-scale cultural change, transformational leadership, brand building, cultivating high performance teams, women on boards, women in the c-suite, and women in high growth entrepreneurship. As a futurist, Patti is currently working with SAP SuccessFactors to help change how the world thinks about equity in the workforce.
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- CHRO: New Roadmap to the Boardroom? - Part 2
- Humanizing HR: Is Technology the Answer?
- HR, Globalization, and Localization: More than Meets the Eye - Part 2
- CHROs and People Strategies: New Year Resolutions and Beyond - Part 2
- Digital Winners: Making Digital HR Real
- Female Entrepreneurs: Overcoming Hurdles to Success
- Diversity and Inclusion Minus the Blame and Shame
- Gender Equity in Business: Is It the Age of the Woman Yet?
Tom Foley
Tom Foley, the Global Health Solutions Strategy Manager for LenovoHealth, is focused on coupling technology with workflows and the different stakeholders across the continuum of care. He has over 30 years of experience in information technology across many industries. His career started as the lead system programmer in the national automation of the UPS telephone center from paper to electronic format, and was involved in other innovative initiatives at UPS including the prototyping of the first Package Confirmation device. As well, Tom served as the Data Network Design Manager during the initial deployment of one of the first national wireless data networks,. For the last 15 years, he has held leadership roles with leading EHR vendors. He has been involved in several strategic initiatives such as migrating EHR platforms from client server to cloud-based models, rollout of Health Information, Patient Portals/Patient Engagement, and rollout of Direct Messaging to 43,000 subscribers.
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Jennifer Ford
Jennifer Ford is the Executive Director for the N. American Presales Design Thinking Team at SAP. She has been a creative and engaged SAP colleague for 12 years in various Market Units within N. America working with industries including Industrial Manufacturing & Components, Automotive, Consumer Packaged Goods, Wholesale & Distribution, Mining, Public Sector, Utilities and Higher Education. SAP uses Design Thinking internally and has for the last decade. Through various iterations of the different techniques, we began working with our customers on the methodology and mindset approximately three years ago and Jennifer was an early adopter and practitioner. Prior to SAP, she was with JD Edwards for 6 years, focused on selling enterprise resource planning applications in the Midwest. Jennifer started her career in software as an implementation and education specialist for a niche automotive supplier, Future3 in Livonia, MI, after graduating from the University of Michigan-Dearborn.
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David Fowler
David Fowler is the Senior Director for Services Marketing at SAP America Inc. Dave’s career in Information technology has spanned 25 years and has largely focused on IT for Manufacturing and Supply Chain. In his nearly eight years with SAP, Dave has focused on Marketing and Marketing Leadership in a variety of customer facing roles. Outside of his career, Dave is an avid outdoorsman, backpacker and scout leader. View Guest page
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Thomas Fox
Thomas Fox has practiced law in Houston for 25 years. He is now an independent consultant, assisting companies with anti-corruption and anti-bribery compliance and international transaction issues. He was most recently the General Counsel at Drilling Controls, Inc., a worldwide oilfield manufacturing and service company. Tom was previously division counsel with Halliburton Energy Services, Inc., where he supported Halliburton’s software division and its downhole division. He is the author of the award-winning FCPA Compliance and Ethics Blog and the international best-selling book, “Lessons Learned on Compliance and Ethics.” He has also published the book “Best Practices Under the FCPA and Bribery Act” and the ebook “GSK in China: A Game Changer in Compliance.” Tom writes and lectures across the globe on anti-corruption and anti-bribery compliance programs. View Guest page
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Andrea France
Andrea France, Retail Industry Principal, Fashion Apparel and Footwear, has been with SAP for over 15 years, working in the fashion retail and wholesale verticals. With more than 25 years of buying, merchandising, store operations and technology systems experience in the apparel, footwear, and accessories market, she applies vast fashion industry expertise, focusing on technology as a driver of strategic growth through operational excellence in supply chain, wholesale and retail integrated systems. Before SAP, Andrea worked in technology project management, implementation and consulting for JBA Software, managing various apparel, footwear and retail clients. Her fashion retail background began at a privately held independent shoe retailer. A former Chair of the American Apparel and Footwear Association’s Supply Chain Product Innovation Leadership Committee, she now serves on the Executive Committee and is on the Advisory Board of Between Friends Chicago, a domestic violence agency. View Guest page
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Mark Frank
Mark Frank is Deloitte Consulting’s U.S. Automotive SAP Practice Leader, responsible for project delivery, practice operations and business development. He is an experienced Engagement Principal with over twenty-five years of large-scale SAP systems implementation experience. In addition to his outstanding project management track record, Mark has broad expertise in Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP). Mark has predominantly served clients in automotive, industrial products, hi-tech and global manufacturing industries. He has held various leadership positions in Deloitte’s SAP and Technology practices. View Guest page
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Janis Fratamico
Janis Fratamico is the Marketing Leader, East Market Unit for SAP. With more than 20 years of marketing experience in the enterprise computing and consulting services markets, Janis has played a key role helping shape the strategy and go-to-market approach for key business units at Bloomberg, IBM, PricewaterhouseCoopers and KPMG. Janis joined SAP in 2016. Most recently, she was the Head of Global Relationship Marketing for Bloomberg LP. Prior to that, Janis spent 12 years with IBM, leading the marketing for IBM’s Consulting Business in North America for 10 years and later as the Global Marketing Director for the Distribution Sector. Janis is a repeat Breast Cancer Three-Day walk participant and led the Saturday Enrichment Program (a joint IBM/SAP program) at inner city Philadelphia elementary schools. She was a mentor in Bloomberg’s Read Ahead Program. Janis earned her bachelor’s degree in Communications from Pennsylvania State University.
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Steve Freeman
Steve Freeman is the Vice President of Operations at Decision First Technologies (DFT), an Atlanta-based business analytics consultancy focused on data governance, real-time analytics, and predictive analysis. DFT has been a leader in business analytics since its founding in 2001 and is a seven-time partner of the year for SAP BusinessObjects. Steve is responsible for Decision First’s go-to-market strategy and services execution across all vertical markets. A business analytics veteran, Steve has held numerous senior leadership roles with business intelligence firms including Cognos, Endeca, and BusinessObjects. View Guest page
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Aviva Freudmann
Aviva Freudmann directs business research studies in Continental Europe, the Middle East and Africa for the Economist Intelligence Unit, based in Frankfurt, Germany. She has 35 years of experience as a journalist, researcher and editor covering a variety of industries, including healthcare, financial services, insurance and risk management, transport, logistics, energy and environmental protection. Aviva was previously Editorial Director, Canada Bureau Chief and European Editor of the Journal of Commerce, a US newspaper; where she began her career as an insurance reporter in Washington, DC. She is also former Associate Editor of Energy Daily, a US publication focused on the energy industries. View Guest page
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Curtis Fry
Curtis Fry, Vice President of Technology & Support and a co-founder of Navigator Business Solutions (NBS), holds a degree in Engineering. He started his career designing and working in the custom configuration of commercial jet aircraft before transitioning into the world of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP). With Navigator and SAP, this background of engineering and make-to-order manufacturing is complemented with Curtis’s expertise in all areas of information technology. He excels in business analytics and has worked with many companies to develop and deploy various KPI’s and information to help guide business strategies. View Guest page
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Tim Fuller
As EY’s Global SAP Go to Market Leader, Tim Fuller works with the leadership and sales teams to strengthen existing offerings and define new ones. He oversees global sales and accounts planning. Tim joined EY from SAP where he served as the senior vice president of the Accenture SAP Business Solutions Group (ASBSG). Tim has more than 30 years of progressive experience in the software and technology industry including solution sales, business development and operations.
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Patrick Furlong
Patrick Furlong, Director of Policy and Communication for InVenture, is passionate about the intersection of storytelling and social change. InVenture unleashes the potential of developing entrepreneurs to lift themselves and their communities out of poverty by leveraging mobile technology to create credit scores for unbanked individuals around the world. Prior to InVenture, Patrick spent two years working in the nonprofit sector in Chile, Bolivia, and Ecuador. He then worked for City Year Los Angeles, in charge of City Year operations in Boyle Heights, a low-income community in East Los Angeles. He most recently worked at the Price School of Public Policy at the University of Southern California as the Assistant Director of Recruitment and Admissions, recruiting graduate students in public policy and urban planning, and creating and managing the school’s social media outreach strategy. Patrick was a New Leaders Council Fellow in 2011. www.inventure.org. View Guest page
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Karen Furtado
Karen Furtado, a Partner at Strategy Meets Action, is a well-known expert in core systems. Insurers turn to Karen for modernization guidance because of her expertise on the most effective uses of technology in policy administration, rating, product configuration, billing, and claims. With deep understanding of maturing and emerging technologies, Karen helps insurers innovate for competitive advantage. She has held various leadership positions including Insurance Practice Director at Collaborative Consulting and Vice President of CGI’s Insurance Practice. Karen is frequently quoted in leading insurance trade journals, and has been a keynote speaker at major conferences such as ACORD LOMA Forum, IASA and ISOTECH. Karen holds a Bachelor of Science from Springfield College.
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Sathish Gajaraju
Sathish Gajaraju, CTO for Sensify Inc., has 25 years of a unique blend of leading PE and VC back technology startups, turnaround of late stage PE backed companies in IoT space, Software Engineering, Cloud based Intelligent Analytics and Data Analysis experience. He has been actively involved in the commercial launch of multiple SAAS and mobile apps for enterprises. He has built IoT solutions for Item Level Tracking for Retail & Hospitality and Manufacturing & Logistics. His work experience includes Retail, Hospitality, Healthcare, Law Enforcement, Hi-Tech & Manufacturing verticals. Sathish is recognized for BPR that increases revenues or savings of at least 30%. Over and above, he has set up and run remote/offshore software delivery organizations in India, Malaysia, Singapore & Australia. His strengths are strategic and long-range planning, as well as setting product and technology strategies for Enterprise, B2C and B2B environments.
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Nataraj "Ganpy” Ganapathy
Nataraj "Ganpy” Ganapathy heads the HCM and the Mobility practices at Cogent Integrated Business Solutions Inc. He is an accomplished Human Capital Management practitioner with over 16 years of executive, business development and product development experience in SAP across multiple industries. Ganpy is well-qualified to drive resolutions for complex delivery challenges and to develop long-term business development strategies for technology-oriented service organizations. He has a strong, successful track record of design and development of Human Capital processes and implementation of technology solutions for projects ranging from small (100 employees) to large scale (100,000 employees). Ganpy has designed and implemented SAP process solutions for different areas in Human Capital such as payroll, PA/PD, OrgMgmt, time management, ESS/MSS, benefits and enterprise mobility. He has authored white papers, is an avid blogger, and has been a speaker at ASUG and SAP Insider conferences. View Guest page
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Louise W. Gane
Louise W. Gane, MS, is a Genetic Associate at the University of California Davis M.I.N.D. Institute, working with the Fragile X Treatment and Research Center under the Directorship of Dr. Randi Hagerman. She has worked with more than 1500 patients with fragile X associated disorders (FXD) over 25 years. She is currently Co-PI on the fragile X Newborn Screening project under the NIH-funded University of Washington Center of Excellence. Louise works on the NIH-funded: Genotype Phenotype studies in Fragile X; DOD-funded study: A Controlled Double-Blind Cross-over Trial of Ganaxolone in Children with Fragile X Syndrome; HRSA-funded: An Open Resource for Autism iPSCs and their Derivatives; and other FXTAS-related studies. She is a member of the Fragile X Clinical and Research Consortium (FXCRC) and National Fragile X Foundation (NFXF) Scientific & Clinical Advisory Board. Louise is a past member of the NFXF board and in 2004 received the NFXF Jarret Cole Clinical Services Award View Guest page
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Jorge Garcia
Jorge Garcia is Senior BI and Data Management Analyst at Technology Evaluation Centers (TEC). He has more than 20 years of experience in all phases of application development, database and data warehouse (DWH) design, plus more than 9 years in project management, covering best practices and new technologies in the BI/DWH space. Prior to joining TEC, Jorge was a senior project manager and senior analyst developing BI, DWH, and data integration applications with Oracle, SAP Business Objects, and data integration. He has worked on projects related to the implementation of BI solutions for the private sector, including banking and services. He has also worked with some of the most important BI and DWH tools on the market. Jorge is a member of the Boulder BI Brain Trust, a gathering of leading BI analysts, experts, and practitioners who attend half-day presentations from interesting and innovative BI vendors. View Guest page
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Amanda Gardiner
Amanda Gardiner is Director of Partnerships at Pearson. She develops collaborations that support Pearson's engagement in the global education agenda, and represents the company in the Global Business Coalition for Education, the Learning Metrics Task Force, and on the Board of the Global Partnership for Education. Before joining Pearson, Amanda worked at the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) leading an initiative encouraging multinational companies to support the UN Millennium Development Goals. She was previously Program Director at the International Business Leaders Forum (IBLF) in London, where she advised corporate executives on responsible business practices in developing countries and also led the Secretariat for the Voluntary Principles on Security and Human Rights in the Extractive Industry. Amanda has been a consultant for UNESCO, the European Cultural Foundation, and the City Literary Institute, focusing on the role of culture and the arts in development. View Guest page
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Mark Gardner
Mark Gardner, a principal with Deloitte Consulting, serves as global leader of Deloitte’s Manufacturing Consulting practice and serves on Deloitte Consulting’s US Talent Development Council. Mark has over 30 years of consulting and industry experience in the automotive and manufacturing industries and serves manufacturing clients on a global basis. He has extensive experience in strategy development, operations improvement, business transformation, merger integration, business analytics, organization change, and information technology transformation. Previously, Mark was an engineer at NASA in Houston, TX, specializing in space suit systems and operations. He developed spacewalk procedures, conducted flight crew training related to spacewalk procedures and spacesuit operations, and performed space shuttle flight operations mission support. Mark has an MBA from the Kellogg School at Northwestern University, and a BS in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Notre Dame. View Guest page
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Sara Gardner
Sara Gardner is Chief Technology Officer for Hitachi Insight Group – Hitachi’s global IoT business unit that combines IT and OT expertise from across its broad portfolio of companies. She collaborates with engineering, research, strategy and business teams across the Hitachi group of companies to drive both Internet of Things and Big Data technology strategy. She was formally a founding executive of the US IoT business unit and has been with Hitachi for 5 years. Sara has close to 30 years of experience overall in the data management industry working primarily in data management and analytics. Her expertise includes Big Data, IoT, Data Warehousing, Analytics, Storage and Cloud. Prior to HDS she held Product Management, Strategy and Product Marketing leadership positions at Oracle, HP and Ingres. She holds a Computer Science degree and is passionate about data of all shapes and sizes and the undoubtedly transformative impact of the Internet of Things.
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Kathy Gates
Kathy Gates, Chief Information Officer at the University of Mississippi (UM), served as project manager for UM's SAP student system implementation. Previously, she worked as a software developer for AT&T Bell Laboratories, as a technical consultant for the Mississippi Center for Supercomputing Research, and as the Director of Academic Computing and Enterprise Applications at UM. She holds M.S. degrees in Mathematics and Computer and Information Science from Ohio State University and a Ph.D. degree in Engineering Science from the University of Mississippi. In addition to being active in EDUCAUSE, Internet2, and SAP HERUG, Kathy is involved in many initiatives related to technology and higher education. Areas of focus include SOA architectures, mobile computing, and Web applications that interface with SAP. Her underlying objective is always to advance the University's mission through the smart, innovative use of technology. View Guest page
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Barbara Giamanco
Barbara Giamanco heads up Social Centered Selling. She is the co-author of “The New Handshake: Sales Meets Social Media” and authored the Harvard Business Review article, “Tweet Me, Friend Me, Make Me Buy”. Known internationally as a thought leader in Social Selling, Barb is a sought-after Sales and Social Media advisor and speaker. She has a proven, 30-year track record in generating sales and capped a corporate career at Microsoft, where she led sales teams and coached executives. Through the years she has sold $1B in sales. Barb has spent the last 10 years learning what works and what doesn’t when implementing social media as part of a business and sales strategy. She is consistently recognized as a Top Sales and Business Blogger, a Top 25 Influential Leader in Sales, a Top 25 Sales Influencer on Twitter and one of Top Sales World’s Top 50 Sales and Marketing Influencers for the 3rd year in a row. Her LinkedIn profile ranks in the Top 1% of all profiles viewed.
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Kevin Gilroy
Kevin Gilroy is Senior Vice President of Global Indirect Channels at SAP. He joined SAP in 2010 as the senior vice president of ecosystem and channels for SAP North America, responsible for strengthening SAP’s competitive advantage, and leading the high-growth SME organization and the partner ecosystem. Prior to SAP, Kevin was president of Arrow Electronics Enterprise Computing Solutions division, where his responsibilities included the launch of a small and midsize business division. He also served as board member, president and CEO of OnForce, an online marketplace for buyers and sellers of IT services. Kevin spent 24 years at HP, where his most recent position was senior vice president of HP’s worldwide small and medium business segment. Kevin has been honored by CRN magazine as one the 25 most innovative channel executives and was named 2005 Channel Executive of the Year by Everything Channel Magazine. Kevin served as Secretary and Board member of Comptia. View Guest page
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Kevin Gilroy
Kevin Gilroy is Senior Vice President of Global Indirect Channels at SAP. His responsibilities include Channel Sales and Programs across all global indirect channels. Kevin joined SAP in 2010 as the Senior Vice President of ecosystem and channels for SAP North America, leading the high-growth SME organization and the partner ecosystem. Prior to joining SAP, he was President of Arrow Electronics Enterprise Computing Solutions division, where his responsibilities included the launch of a small and midsize business division. He also served as board member, president, and CEO of OnForce, an online marketplace for buyers and sellers of IT services. Kevin spent 24 years of his professional career at HP, where his most recent position was Senior Vice President of HP’s worldwide small and medium business segment. He has been honored by CRN magazine as one of the 25 most innovative channel executives and was named 2005 Channel Executive of the Year by Everything Channel Magazine. View Guest page
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Dan Gingiss
Dan Gingiss is the head of Digital Customer Experience and Social Media at Discover. In this role, Dan oversees the design and development of the company’s flagship website, Discover.com; manages the customer experience and VOC across all digital channels; and leads the company’s social media strategy and execution. Previously, he held Director roles in Rewards, Cardmember Acquisition, Products & Benefits, and Diners Club International. Dan holds a B.A. in psychology and communications from the University of Pennsylvania, and a Master of Business Administration in Marketing and Operations from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. View Guest page
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Greg Girard
Greg Girard, Program Director, IDC Retail Insights Merchandising, Marketing, and Retail Analytics Strategies, leads IDC’s Global Omnichannel Retail Analytics Advisory Service. His research helps retailers find opportunities to improve their ability to make decisions with current, accurate, comprehensives, and trusted analytics. He explores opportunities to improve customer engagement with better analytics in merchandising, marketing, fulfillment, and commerce. Since great analytics are useful only if applied well, Greg focuses on people and processes as well. He has been involved in retail technology for 20 years as an analyst, retail technology executive, and co-founder of a social media collective intelligence start-up. Early in his career, he was a road-warrior management consultant. He earned an undergraduate degree in philosophy at Boston College and a graduate degree in urban planning at the City University of New York. Greg also pursued a graduate degree in philosophy. View Guest page
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Michael Gliedman
Michael Gliedman, Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer for the NBA (National Basketball Association), directs all technology initiatives relating to the collection, cataloging, storage, archiving and retrieval of NBA assets. Through a new partnership with SAP, Michael was instrumental in the league’s unveiling www.NBA.com/Stats, an unprecedented statistical destination on NBA.com providing access to the league’s entire official statistics history, back to the inaugural 1946-47 season. His teams provide technical infrastructure and on-the-ground support for more than 50 major events a year, including NBA All-Star, playoffs, finals, and NBA Global Games. Michael has helped drive technical marketing partnerships with IBM, Dell, Oracle, AT&T, Research In Motion, Verizon, Lenovo, HP, Akamai, Cisco, and SAP. Prior to the NBA, he was Senior Vice President of Application Development for infoworks, a Viacom technology service supporting MTV Networks and Showtime Networks. View Guest page
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Chrissy Glover
Chrissy Glover is the Employer Brand Marketing Manager at Opower, a global SaaS company based in the highly competitive Washington DC and San Francisco recruiting markets. With more than 8 years of experience in HR and Marketing, she currently specializes in social recruiting strategies, employer branding, recruitment digital marketing, and targeted recruiting campaigns. In 2014, Chrissy was named a Glassdoor Talent Warrior, recognizing her as one of the top ten most cutting-edge talent acquisitions professionals. San Francisco Business Times has featured her as a “People on the Move” in the Bay Area.
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Ashish Goel
Ashish Goel is the VP and Regional Head for Life Sciences at Infosys in Europe. He is responsible for shaping the Infosys field force and go-to market strategy for the industry segment. He has very rich experience in Business Transformation, IT Strategy, Outsourcing and Talent Management. Ashish is passionate about innovation and has a strong track record of delivering business outcomes exceeding internal objectives and customer expectations consistently over years. In his two decades of professional experience, Ashish has amassed very rich international experience having worked extensively in US, Asia, Australia and Continental Europe before moving to UK and now lives in London. View Guest page
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Kai Goerlich
Kai Goerlich, SAP SE, Research Director and Digital Futures, SAP Marketing. Kai analyzes trends and creates future scenarios to develop thought leadership around society, economy, business and technology. He joined SAP in 1997 and worked several years as a competitive and market analyst for SAP‘s consulting unit. Before SAP, Kai worked as a public relations consultant in international PR agencies and as a biologist at universities. He is a member of the Advisory Board for the Corporate Foresight Certification Program at the European Business School in Oestrich-Winkel, Germany.
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Ashifi Gogo
Ashifi Gogo founded Sproxil® in 2009 and currently serves as the company's Chief Executive Officer. Under his leadership, Sproxil developed its award-winning Sproxil Defender™ technology that has been used over 22 million times by consumers in 5 countries to verify the authenticity of their products and earn instant rewards for their loyalty. Former US President Bill Clinton described Sproxil as “a genuinely remarkable achievement... (it's) empowering... putting people in charge of their own healthcare.” Sproxil’s Defender™ is applicable to virtually any tangible product and it is now used in many industries including automotive, garment and fast-moving consumer goods. Ashifi currently serves on the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Social Innovation and on the Meta-Council on the Illicit Economy. He holds a US Patent, earned a Ph.D. from Dartmouth College and a B.A. from Whitman College. He is Dartmouth's first-ever Ph.D. Innovation Fellow.
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Jack E. Gold
Jack E. Gold is Founder and President at J.Gold Associates, LLC, a technology industry analyst firm. His 40-plus years in the computer and electronics industries include work in imaging, multimedia, technical computing, consumer electronics, software development and manufacturing systems. He is a leading authority on mobile, wireless and pervasive computing, advising clients on business analysis, strategic marketing and planning, architecture, product evaluation/selection and enterprise application strategies. Prior to J.Gold Associates, he held positions with META Group, Digital Equipment Corp. and Xerox. View Guest page
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Jeff Goldberg
Jeff Goldberg is a Managing Director in Accenture’s Retail North America business and a member of the Global Retail Leadership team. Jeff has direct responsibility for some of Accenture’s most significant client relationships. Jeff is also responsible for leading Accenture’s retail and fashion partner ecosystem focused on developing, maintaining and extending relationships with strategic and emerging technology partners, directing associated investments and managing retail-centric industry analysts. Building on Jeff’s leadership and involvement in significant SAP-centric accounts in North America, he is also responsible for defining and leading Accenture’s Global Retail and Fashion SAP collaboration program. Jeff joined Accenture in 1991 after earning both Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees in Computer Science from Northern Illinois University. When not supporting his clients, Jeff enjoys traveling and is an avid wildlife photographer.
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Jim Goldfinger
Jim Goldfinger leads the CRM Customer Value Network at SAP. In this capacity, he manages a vibrant community of thousands of active SAP CRM stakeholders including customers, value added partners, and product specialists. One of the early pioneers of the CRM industry, Jim has spent the last 25-plus years in a variety of roles spanning product management, sales, marketing, and professional services. He has personally led the implementation of over 100 CRM projects worldwide and is a frequent author and speaker at industry events. View Guest page
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Nathan Golia
Nathan Golia is Senior Editor of Insurance & Technology (I&T). He joined the publication in 2010 as associate editor and covers all aspects of the nexus between insurance and information technology, including mobility, distribution, core systems, customer interaction, and risk management. Nathan is a frequent speaker and moderator at live and online events held by both I&T and third parties. A veteran of the trade press, he worked as a database marketing reporter and copy editor for Direct Marketing News, as well as an assistant editor for The Toy Book, before coming to I&T. He is a graduate of SUNY College at Buffalo and a proud Western New York native. View Guest page
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Nathan “Nate” Golia
Nathan “Nate” Golia is Senior Editor of Insurance & Technology (I&T). He joined the publication in 2010 as associate editor and covers all aspects of the nexus between insurance and information technology, including mobility, distribution, core systems, customer interaction, and risk management. Nathan is a frequent speaker and moderator at live and online events held by both I&T and third parties. A veteran of the trade press, he worked as a database marketing reporter and copy editor for Direct Marketing News, as well as an assistant editor for The Toy Book, before coming to I&T. He is a graduate of SUNY College at Buffalo and a proud Western New York native. View Guest page
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Li Gong
Li Gong is Vice President of Product in SAP AppHaus, an SAP product innovation team in Silicon Valley, CA. He is passionate about using smart and simple-to-use technology to improve people's lives. Li launched the My Runway initiative and mobile app in the U.S. and China with the goal of making online and offline fashion shopping easier. He has also worked in the areas of helping the bottom billion of poor people and intercultural relations. Li holds a Ph.D. degree in communication (consumer psychology and human-computer interaction) from Stanford University. View Guest page
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Tim Good
Tim Good is a Managing Director in Accenture Strategy and leads its Talent & Organization practice in EALA (Europe and Latin America). He specializes in global HR strategy and transformation creating innovative HR solutions, researching trends, and developing Accenture’s HR practitioners to deliver business results to clients. Tim advises leading firms on how to build high performance businesses that drive optimization and growth through human resources and talent management strategies. He has co-authored several articles on trends reshaping the future of HR, the future of performance management and how digital impacts the workforce of the future. Originally from the UK, Tim now lives with his family in Heidelberg, Germany. He was educated at the University of Oxford from which he holds an MA.
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Marie Goodell
Marie Goodell is Senior Director of Marketing at SAP and co-leads Big Data Marketing across the database, information management, and analytics teams. She is engaged with customers on Big Data projects that deliver unprecedented insight for real-time business. In addition, Marie is involved in the SAP Palo Alto Grants project, supporting education and non-profit groups that focus on improving the learning experience for underserved youth in the areas of mathematics, science, or information technology. Prior to joining SAP, Marie worked in marketing leadership roles at Adobe, Oracle and IBM. In her free time, Marie teaches Hatha Yoga at the Integral Yoga Institute in San Francisco, where she tries to connect the body, mind, and spirit. View Guest page
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Dennis Goodhart
Dennis Goodhart is the Principal and Founder of IP Network Consulting. With over thirty years of experience as an executive consultant, he is adept at designing and implementing innovative workable cost effective state-of-the-art business technology solutions. As a global telecommunications and IT industry professional, Dennis has developed, negotiated, implemented, and managed mission critical projects for major financial companies including NASDAQ, Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch, and JP Morgan Chase; domestic and international communications carriers; broadcasting and media companies; and other Fortune 500 and mid-sized firms. As a sales executive, he has worked for global and domestic carriers and major telecommunications manufacturers such as Nortel and Network Equipment Technology. Dennis founded and was a Managing Partner at Aseismic LLC, a research and software start-up applications company. View Guest page
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Dr. Richard Goodwin
Dr. Richard Goodwin is a Senior Researcher at IBM’s T. J Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, NY. He applies his background in artificial intelligence and mobile robotics to improving customer insight, experience and engagement for both retail and business customers. Previously, Richard worked on tools to improve knowledge sharing for IBM’s SAP consultants and on agent-based optimization for steel mills and paper mills. He has published more than 40 scientific papers, is a winner of the Wagner Prize in Operations Research, and holds 13 U.S. patents. View Guest page
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Vishy Gopalakrishnan
Leveraging context – location, presence, preferences, buying/browsing history – has been around. But the immediacy of consumption that mobile provides, combined with tools to drive real-time, deep, relevant insights, makes the creation and delivery of Right Time Experiences possible today.” View Guest page
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Greg Gorbach
Greg Gorbach is a vice president and industry analyst at ARC Advisory Group, where he heads a team focused on the digital transformation taking place throughout the industrial space. This transformation is powered by technologies such as machine learning, predictive analytics and Big Data, cloud computing, mobility, low-cost sensors, edge intelligence, network connectivity, enterprise analytics platforms, and more. Greg thinks, writes, and consults about the digital transformation of industrial companies and the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT). He provides clients in a number of manufacturing vertical markets with strategic advice in transforming manufacturing operations. Prior to ARC, Greg has experience in manufacturing, industrial automation, and industrial software companies.
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China Gorman
China Gorman has held strategic business leadership roles in the human capital management sector for more than 25 years. Currently CEO of the CMG Group, a consultancy supporting solutions providers in the human capital management sector, she is a sought-after speaker and thought leader in the broad human resources marketplace. Data Point Tuesday at www.ChinaGorman.com has quickly become one of the most-read HR blogs. Well known for her tenure as Chief Operating Officer and interim CEO of SHRM, China also held the posts of President of DBM North America, and President of Lee Hecht Harrison, the global consulting division of Adecco, which became the performance leader in its industry under her leadership. View Guest page
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Reuven Gorsht
Reuven Gorsht is a strategy and transformation executive with over 15 years of experience in the enterprise software and professional services industries. As Global Vice President of Customer Strategy at SAP, he is responsible for SAP's Global Go-to-Market (Sales Strategy), Sales Planning, and Sales Communications initiatives. He works with senior leadership teams to optimize and innovate the way the company positions its solutions and engages with customers. Prior to joining SAP, Reuven held progressive leadership roles in business and operations strategy. Outside of his role, he advises start-up companies, blogs on business strategy and transformational topics, and speaks at industry events. View Guest page
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Jan Grasshoff
Jan Grasshoff is Senior Vice President of Talent, Leadership, and Organizational Design at SAP. He is responsible for the HR Centre of Excellence, which develops and implements global policies and practices in the areas of talent and people development, leadership and organizational design. Jan has been with SAP since 2002 in various executive management positions, most recently leading the global Customer Solution Adoption team. Previous roles include the global lead of the Service Portfolio Management function for SAP Services. Prior to that, he created and managed the SAP Global Delivery organization which grew in revenue and employee base 30-fold under his leadership. His professional career started in financial institutions, where he held roles in private and investment banking in Australia, South Africa and Germany. View Guest page
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Dr. Van Gray
Dr. Van Gray is currently Professor of Management, Director of Planning and Accreditation, and Associate Director for the Center for Nonprofit Studies at Baylor University’s Hankamer School of Business. He serves on the MBA core faculty and teaches the Operations Strategy courses in the Executive and Core MBA programs of the school. An active consultant in the field of manufacturing planning and control, Van has provided education and assistance to numerous Fortune 100 and 500 firms.
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Joshua Greenbaum
Josh Greenbaum grew up in the shadow of the Motor City during the era of muscle cars and pennies per gallon gasoline. He has over 30 years of experience as a computer programmer, system architect, author, consultant, and industry analyst. He began his career at the dawn of the PC, database, and enterprise software markets, and has observed first-hand the evolution of the products and technologies that drive enterprise innovation today. Josh works extensively with end-user organizations to align their business and technology strategies, as well as assisting vendors with understanding the needs and requirements of their customer and prospect bases. Josh is frequently quoted in the technical and business press. He blogs at www.eaconsult.com/blog-ematters. View Guest page
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Paul Greenberg
Paul Greenberg is the Managing Principal of The 56 Group, LLC, a consultancy focused on the strategy, programs, systems and outcomes of customer engagement and CRM. He is the author of CRM at the Speed of Light, which has been through 4 editions, is available in 9 languages, and is often called the "Bible of CRM." Paul is currently writing a new book on customer engagement called "The Commonwealth of Self-Interest," to be published by Harvard Business Press in very early 2016. Nicknamed the "Godfather of CRM," Paul is highly active in the industry, through his work and his writing for multiple venues including ZDNet and CRM Magazine. He also chairs CRM Evolution, the annual CRM Magazine get-together for the CRM industry. Paul loves the Yankees and pretty much most all of the world's animals, too, and thinks highly of good food and spirits and the spirit of the people in his industry.
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Harry Greenspun, MD
Harry Greenspun, MD is the Director of the Deloitte Center for Health Solutions, focusing on the critical issues in the transformation of health care globally. Prior to Deloitte, he served as Chief Medical Officer for Dell Inc., after serving as Chief Medical Officer for Northrop Grumman Corporation. Named one of the “50 Most Influential Physician Executives in Healthcare” by Modern Healthcare, he has served on the advisory boards for the World Economic, Anthem, Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS), The Wireless-Life Sciences Alliances, and Georgetown, Tufts, and George Mason universities. As HIMSS Government Relations Roundtable chairman and co-chair of the task force publishing “Enabling Healthcare Reform Using Information Technology,” he has made recommendations to the executive branch and U.S. Congress. He holds a medical degree from the University of Maryland, and completed his residency and fellowship at the Johns Hopkins University Hospital. View Guest page
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Jane Griffin
Jane Griffin, Deloitte Analytics Americas Leader, understands the challenges businesses face as they struggle to make sense of their data. “It seems as though the Information Age is quickly becoming the ‘What Do We Do with All This Information?’ Age.” Jane brings her vast experience to help clients use business analytics to drive smarter decisions and better results. With more than 30 years of information technology experience, focusing primarily on business analytics, enterprise information management and business intelligence, she speaks internationally on master data management, data warehousing, data quality and enterprise information strategy. Jane’s experience also includes starting her own information management company and establishing the data management and business intelligence practices for two large consulting organizations. View Guest page
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Robert Grimes
Robert Grimes is a Senior Director within Solution Management, Value Added Solutions at SAP. He has worked in the banking-related software and consulting industry for 15 years across a global reach of banking customers. Currently he works on the SAP Financial Services Network, a cloud-based connectivity, integration and value applications platform, to facilitate the interaction of banking services between financial service providers and their corporate customers. This platform will revolutionize the way financial institutions and corporate customers interact with each other on a day-to-day service basis, to extend the corporate supply chain into the financial supply chain for a full end-to-end process between business-to-business and business-to-bank. Previously, Robert worked with Misys, a global Banking Software company, and with Accenture, a market leading consultancy group, as a banking industry consultant. View Guest page
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Raimund Gross
Raimund Gross, SAP SE, Innovation Manager Blockchain, has been working with new technology and trends for more than 20 years. He is part of the SAP Innovation Center Network and evaluates emerging technologies and trends for a living. Raimund has a passion for innovation. How to drive adoption of new technology and trends within an enterprise keeps him busy and engaged. His belief is that change – be it digitization or others – needs to be driven mindfully within existing structures to be successful. While doing so he enjoys working across silos, topics and cultures to build creative, novel solutions. Since 18+ months, Raimund is engaging cross-industries and lines of business to find synergies, detect patterns and shape the future SAP direction around blockchain. He is one of the SAP experts and spokespersons for the topic. http://www.digitalistmag.com/digital-economy/digital-futures/2016/11/01/making-next-moves-with-blockchain-04602290 View Guest page
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Stefan Guertzgen
Stefan Guertzgen has served as Senior Director for Industry Solution Marketing Chemicals at SAP for eight years, globally responsible for driving industry thought leadership, strategic portfolio decisions and overall positioning and messaging, as well as executive messaging programs for key stakeholders along SAP’s entire Chemical solution portfolio. Previously, he worked for 11 years in the chemical Industry at Chemtura in various positions comprising R&D, Global Business Development, Business Process Management and Sales & Operations Planning. He spent seven years in Pre Sales and Management Consulting for the process industry focused on business operations, working for AspenTech, AT Kearney, and SAP Business Transformation Consulting. Stefan holds a PhD degree in Chemicals from the Max-Planck-Institute for Coal Research at Mülheim/Germany and has been granted a 1-year post-doctoral fellowship for the University of Berkeley/California from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. View Guest page
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Robin Carey, Social Media Today
Mick Collins, SAP
Nancy Casey, SAP
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Jeremy Cox, Ovum
Monique Hesseling, SMA
Josh Greenbaum, EAC
Matt Healey, TBR
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Shahar Larry, Demaya
Greta Roberts, Talent Analytics
Andrea France, SAP
Benjamin Robbins, Palador
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B.J. Bueno, The Cult Branding Company
Gerry Brown, Ovum
Michael P. Cangemi, Cangemi Company
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Eric Gunther
As the Head of Strategy and Operations for SAP’s North America Innovation Office, Eric Gunther is responsible for driving innovation programs and new customer engagement processes to increase customer business value. Prior to this position, Eric has held other leadership roles at SAP in Industry Value Engineering, Operations and the Strategic Customer Program both in North America and Asia Pacific. Before joining SAP, Eric was a general manager for a manufacturing company, did mergers and acquisitions, ran a product development practice at a consulting company and was in the U.S. Air Force, where he was the manufacturing manager on a joint NASA / Air Force launch vehicle program.
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Parveen P. Gupta
Parveen P. Gupta, LLB, MBA, Ph.D., is the Professor and Department Chair of Accounting at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, PA. He has more than 25 years of experience as a researcher, speaker, and an advisor on Governance, Risk, Controls and Compliance. He is a former U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Academic Accounting Fellow (2006-07) with contributions to various Sarbanes-Oxley related projects. He currently teaches a national award-winning course on Governance, Risk and Controls. His numerous research articles have been published in leading journals and monographs in related areas. His advisory experience includes working with clients in manufacturing, biotechnology, financial services, energy, and public accounting industries. In 2000 and 2003, Dr. Gupta was recognized by his graduate students as the Outstanding MBA Professor of the Year. During 2005 he received the American Accounting Association’s prestigious “Innovation in Accounting Education” award. View Guest page
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Amanda Gutterman
Amanda Gutterman is CMO at ConsenSys, a venture production studio and custom software development consultancy building decentralized applications (DApps), enterprise solutions, and developer tools for blockchain ecosystems, focused primarily on Ethereum. Forbes Magazine listed Amanda on its 30 Under 30 in Media list, and Inc. as one of 30 Under 30 Movers and Shakers in the Content Industry. Previously, Amanda cofounded Slant, a “decentralized” media platform. She also served as Special Projects Editor at The Huffington Post and worked at The New Yorker. She grew up in Washington, D.C. and is a graduate of Columbia University. Her work has been cited by Business Insider, Digiday, Tech Crunch, The New York Times, Politico, and more.
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John Hack
John Hack is a Vice President in SAP’s User Experience and Design organization. The d.Studio team engages in leading edge opportunities that contribute to next generation user experiences. John has three decades of experience developing and implementing innovative business information systems for both early stage companies and large corporations. He joined SAP in 2007 through acquisition. Since then, he has led project teams developing innovative designs using emerging technology, most recently the NFL Scouting application used by teams to analyze and evaluate player performance. John has an S.B. in Economics from MIT and an M.S. in the Management of Technology from NYU/Polytechnic University of New York.
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Dr. Oliver Haferbeck
Dr. Oliver Haferbeck is the Head of Diabetes Care Germany for Roche Diagnostics Germany, responsible for inventing and testing new business models and creating a sustainable business. Previously, he served as Head of Product-management and International Sales, DB Vertrieb GmbH, German Railways, Co-Operations, working with more than 1000 partners along the mobility-chain and developing new markets in Middle East and Asia. Prior to that role, he was the Head of Marketing and Services, DB Fernverkehr, Region South of Germany, responsible for more than 3000 employees and the services on board long-distance trains, including inventing the first class service in ICE-trains. Dr. Haferbeck is an alumni of the University of St. Gallen. In addition to being a widely published author on mobility and the mobility chain, he is the author of the book, Employee Satisfaction (in German). Listen to his interviews on the medical device market at www.accu-chek.de.
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Maria Haggen
Maria Haggen was chosen out of 14,000 applicants for SAP’s Sales Academy program, and is top 1% of early talent. Her focus is on improving SMEs’ growth through innovative enterprise software solutions. She graduated in summer 2015 from Florida International University with a double major in Finance and Marketing and a Certificate in Social Media and E-Marketing Analytics. During college she worked full time and was involved in professional organizations including The American Marketing Association (AMA), Association of Latino Professionals in Finance and Accounting (ALPFA), Student Government Association (SGA), Alternative Breaks (aB). She served on The City of Doral Youth Council Advisory Board, as an Ambassador for Ford Motor Company Millennials, and was the youngest Constant Contact Authorized Local Marketing Expert. Maria is Co-founder of Community Networker, a marketing and public relations company developing new ideas and project innovations to the Hispanic community.
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Chris Hallenbeck
Chris Hallenbeck leads SAP HANA’s go to market globally. Chris has spent most of his career solving the Big Data technical problems of today and applying algorithms to solve tomorrow’s business problems. Before coming to SAP, he was a Vice President of Products for DemandTec, one of the first SaaS-based Big Data analysis companies, led the technology consultants group for Siebel’s Interactive Selling division, and was a data warehousing expert for Oracle.
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Avner Halperin
Avner Halperin is a veteran entrepreneur and high tech executive. Avner is the CEO and Co-Founder of EarlySense, a company that is bringing to market a paradigm changing contact-less medical sensing and analytics provider. EarlySense solutions are installed in dozens of hospitals globally, with over a quarter of a million patients monitored and hundreds of documented saves of patient lives. This technology is now introduced to the home digital health and wellness market. Prior to EarlySense, Avner was VP Marketing at Radcom (NASDAQ: RDCM), and VP of Business Development at Lenslet. Avner teaches University courses on management and the hi-tech industry and is a prolific inventor with over 20 issued US Patents to his name. He holds an M.Sc. in Applied Physics from Tel Aviv University and an MBA from the MIT.
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Linda Hamilton
Linda Hamilton, CPA owns an accounting firm that works with domestic and international businesses, nonprofit entities and high-net-worth individuals. In addition to tax services, the firm provides remote CFO/Controller services, strategic business advisory services such as financial reviews and goal setting, KPIs and benchmarking, and business coaching. Linda specializes in helping businesses and nonprofits unlock the financial intelligence and big data locked in their accounting files, and focus on the details of their business in order to make important decisions on strategic planning, growth, succession, and the impact of taxes on decisions. Linda has been treasurer of the New York Women’s Agenda for five years. She serves on the Women Presidents’ Organization (WPO) and Enterprising Women Magazine advisory boards, and on the Financial Women’s Association (FWA) board. Linda is a member of the AICPA, NYSSCPA, and NYSSCPA Partnership and LLC Tax Committee, NATP, and NSA. View Guest page
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Andy Han
Andy Han is the Senior Vice President of Product Development at NextLabs. He has extensive experience in enterprise software, specializing in application infrastructure and security products. Andy has also led the teams that developed NextLabs' leading Information Risk Management Software and Solutions for SAP PLM and SAP Business Suite to address the challenges around Export Control and Intellectual Property Protection.
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Rachel Happe
Rachel Happe is a co-founder and principal at The Community Roundtable, a company dedicated to advancing the business of community by providing education, training, research and advisory services to community and social business leaders. Rachel has over fifteen years of experience working with emerging technologies including enterprise social networking, ecommerce, and enterprise software applications. She has served as a product executive at Mzinga, Bitpass, and IDe, and as IDC’s first analyst covering social technologies. Rachel started her business career as an analyst at PRTM. She serves on the Enterprise 2.0 Conference Advisory Board and as an Isis Parenting Fellow. Follow Rachel at http://www.informationweek.com/thebrainyard and http://www.thesocialorganization.com. View Guest page
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Rob Harles
Rob Harles, Global Head of Social Media for Bloomberg LP, is responsible for developing and managing Bloomberg’s social media efforts and initiatives across the globe. He joined Bloomberg in September 2010 from Sears Holdings, where he was Vice President of Social Media. There, he was responsible for building Sears’ social media strategy, including creating the MySears community which now has over 1M registered members, making it one of the largest retail communities in the world. Previously, Rob was SVP and member of the Senior Operating Team for comScore Networks, in charge of the Retail, Travel and Technology client services practice. He began his career as a consultant in the Chicago office of McKinsey & Co. View Guest page
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John Harrison
John Harrison is a senior solution specialist with SAP’s Industry Business Solution: Chemicals. John has over 20 years of experience in the process industry where he has been instrumental in the design and implementation of systems for the manufacturing, logistics, maintenance, quality management, and costing areas. He holds both the CPIM and CIRM designation from the APICS society. John received his Bachelor's degree in mathematics from the University of Waterloo, Canada. His current focus with in SAP is everything to do with supporting production operations for Chemical companies which includes: Enterprise Asset Management, Production Costing, Human Capital Management, Mobility (particularly in hazardous locations), Internet of Things, and of course Production Planning and Execution. View Guest page
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Jeff Hattendorf
Jeff Hattendorf is COO of Macrospect, Inc., which he co-founded with Randy Marvel in 2005. Jeff possesses twenty years of experience designing and implementing business systems – focusing the last ten years on SAP’s enterprise performance management (EPM) software. During his career, he has served in development, process engineering, project management, solution design and engagement leadership roles. He currently oversees and support Macrospect’s project teams through leading practice reviews, solution design, and client management. Jeff’s teams have successfully implemented solutions to support key financial planning, analysis and reporting (management and regulatory) processes across several industries. This includes work with Agrium, Canadian Pacific Railroad, The Estée Lauder Companies, FMC, PepsiCo, Philips, Texas Instruments, Union Pacific and many others. He emphasizes brilliantly boring implementations with his team and his clients, which is key to Macrospect’s success.
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Matt Healey
Matt Healey is a principal analyst in TBR’s Software Practice, focusing on customer buying behavior, enterprise software markets and IT services. He leads TBR’s SourceIT program, a groundbreaking research initiative that analyzes customer buying behavior by vertical industry. He manages various engagements across TBR’s Software Practice, directing research that delivers valuable insights into customer behavior in competitive markets. His expertise and insight into vendor strategy enables the software team to deliver on highly analytical consulting engagements and maximize efficiency and revenue for vendors. Matt is a key contributor to TBR’s Corporate IT Buying Behavior & Customer Satisfaction Study: Services & Support research. He is frequently interviewed for Channel NewsAsia. Prior to TBR, Matt was based in Singapore and tracked the software and services markets across Asia. He has held IT analyst positions and built a knowledge base around vendors’ support services strategies. View Guest page
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Uwe Heckert
Dr. Uwe Heckert is a Senior Vice President SAP Solutions of T-Systems’ Systems Integration unit, responsible for all SAP-related project and AMS business on a global scale. He is a member of the Management Committee Systems Integration at T-Systems International. Previously, as SVP Operations Development and a member of the Management Committee ICT Operations, he was responsible for portfolio and solution management, including SAP solutions, and for further developing and implementing the global production strategy within the operations business of T-Systems. Before T-Systems, Dr. Heckert was a senior engagement manager for McKinsey's Business Technology office, supporting ICT providers and ICT users in developing and implementing ICT strategy, and in realizing or turning around critical software development, consolidation, and implementation projects. View Guest page
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Elizabeth Hedstrom Henlin
Elizabeth Hedstrom Henlin, a senior analyst at Technology Business Research (TBR), tracks trends and provides strategic insight to vendor business models. Her areas of focus include enterprise software and applications as well as business intelligence. Elizabeth leads TBR’s corporate coverage of vendors including Oracle, SAP, SAS and Microsoft and is the lead analyst on TBR’s Business Intelligence Software Vendor Benchmark. She is involved in numerous custom consulting projects for TBR clients and new market ventures. She has been quoted by various media sites including InformationWeek, TheStreet.com, eWEEK and The Wall Street Journal. View Guest page
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Elizabeth Hedstrom Henlin
Elizabeth Hedstrom Henlin, a senior analyst at Technology Business Research (TBR), tracks trends and provides strategic insight to vendor business models. Her areas of focus include enterprise software and applications as well as business intelligence. Elizabeth leads TBR’s corporate coverage of vendors including Oracle, SAP, SAS and Microsoft and is the lead analyst on TBR’s Business Intelligence Software Vendor Benchmark. She is involved in numerous custom consulting projects for TBR clients and new market ventures. She has been quoted by various media sites including InformationWeek, TheStreet.com, eWEEK and The Wall Street Journal. View Guest page
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Patrick Heffernan
Patrick Heffernan is the practice manager for TBR’s Professional Services Practice, where he cultivates and manages projects covering topics ranging from management consulting to firms’ financial advisory services, as well as emerging technologies and consulting issues. Patrick’s responsibilities tap his expertise in competitive intelligence, strategy, and global political-economic impacts on business cycles and consulting vendors. Prior to joining TBR, Patrick was part of a Big Four firm’s competitive intelligence team, conducting field work and analysis. His professional career started in diplomacy, with Middle East postings as a foreign service officer with the State Department and counterterrorism assignments with the National Security Council and the U.S. Department of the Treasury. Patrick received a B.A. from Washington and Lee University and an M.A. in foreign affairs from the University of Virginia.
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Martin Heisig
Martin Heisig, SAP Vice President and Chief Architect, is the head of the Enterprise Architecture office at SAP and reports directly to SAP's Chief Information Officer. Martin is responsible for SAP’s internal IT roadmap and the adoption of innovation. Since 2007, he has been a member of the SAP High Tech Executive Advisory Council. Prior to his current appointment, he had global responsibility for the operation of SAP’s internal business application landscape, IT security and quality management, and held previous positions including Director of Product Systems Services, responsible for SAP’s internal development environment. View Guest page
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Natalie Helbig
Dr. Natalie Helbig is a senior research associate at the Center for Technology in Government at SUNY Albany. She is currently engaged in a number of projects looking at the use of information to improve governance and the author of a number of articles examining the changes opening government is bringing to public management. She teaches courses in Public Administration and Public Management at Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy. View Guest page
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Rob Henning
Rob Henning, Partner and Co-Founder of ESPartners, has spent much of the past 15 years advising SMEs in developing countries on how to enhance their competitiveness. Based in Geneva, Switzerland, he advises corporate, government and international donor clients on a range of entrepreneurial solutions for prosperity including business strategy, SME finance, cluster and value chain competitiveness, and private sector development policy. Prior to founding ESPartners, Rob was a Director with OTF Group, the first venture-backed advisory firm focused on emerging markets. During his eight years there, he developed a particular expertise in the application of business strategy and innovation to solve competitiveness challenges in fragile economies such as Haiti, Rwanda, and Afghanistan. Previously, Rob worked for the Peace Corps in West Africa, supervising micro-credit and small enterprise development programs in Benin and Guinea-Conakry. www.espartners.co. View Guest page
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Christine Hertzog
Christine Hertzog, Managing Director of the Smart Grid Library, is a consultant, author, and professional explainer with over 20 years of experience managing successful introductions of transformational innovations in new technologies, services, and business models and processes for partners and clients. Her firm provides strategic insights, business development guidance, project roadmaps, and customized information through consulting services, benchmarking, reports, and publications. Clients include Smart Grid technology and service startups, established industry vendors, utilities, and investment firms. She is the author of the Smart Grid Dictionary, and co-author of The Smart Grid Consumer Focus Strategy. She is the first Smart Grid Advisor in Residence at Plug and Play Tech Center, a premier technology incubator in Silicon Valley and serves on the Editorial Advisory Boards of ElectricityPolicy.com, the Energy Collective, and Agrion’s Smart Grid Council. View Guest page
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Philipp Herzig
Philipp Herzig is a researcher and developer at SAP, Germany. He holds a B.Sc. in Computer Science, M.Sc. in Information System Research, and is currently a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Technology Dresden and SAP. Philipp is the author or co-author of multiple publications and numerous patents across various domains, including gamification. In addition, he is now the content owner of SAP’s internal gamification trainings that have been passed by hundreds of employees worldwide. Formerly, Philipp worked for several IT companies, including IBM. When not doing ‘IT-related stuff’, he performs with several bands as guitarist, harp, and banjo player, and singer. View Guest page
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Monique Hesseling
Monique Hesseling is a Partner at Strategy Meets Action (SMA) focused on roadmaps and helping companies expand business opportunities based on data insights and analytics. She has over 25 years of experience in the insurance industry and has held senior leadership positions in marketing, product development, sales, operations, R&D and Business Intelligence for the ACE Group, Zurich Insurance Group, ACORD and Mutual of Omaha. She has worked on BI initiatives, data warehousing, customer insights efforts, market segmentation and product development projects. She applies experiences from different markets around the world to companies and by assisting in global development/expansion planning. A Dutch citizen and a permanent US resident, she holds a BBA from Nyenrode University (Netherlands), studied Organizational Psychology at the University of Leiden, and recently completed a Masters in Applied Science in Environmental Policy and Management at the University of Denver. View Guest page
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Bryan Hicks
Bryan Hicks focuses on go to market for SAP’s IoT solution Predictive Maintenance and Service. He is responsible for business development, partner engagement and sales enablement. He has over 7 years of experience in product development and commercialization of emerging technologies. Prior to working in product, Bryan worked in Research and Development for NASA and Cornell University covering topics ranging from nanoelectronics and nanofabrication to infrared lasers and fiber optics. He holds a Masters in Electrical and Computer Engineering and MBA from Cornell.
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Volker G. Hildebrand
Dr. Volker G. Hildebrand, Vice President for CRM Solutions at SAP, has two decades of experience as a CRM expert, researcher, author, professor, and software industry professional. With a doctorate in business economics, an MBA from the University of Mannheim, and a degree in business and technology from the University of Stuttgart, he has been an instructor and pioneering researcher on how to optimize the relationship between a customer and its suppliers. He has served as a CRM consultant for large international companies and held SAP leadership positions in sales, marketing, and product management for CRM and e-commerce applications. Volker is the author of several books and over 100 articles on CRM. Database Marketing & Computer Aided Selling was published in 1993. His articles have appeared in the German edition of the Harvard Business Review, absatzwirtschaft (Germany’s leading sales and marketing journal), the CRM Project, HMD, Marketing ZFP, and SAP Insider journals. View Guest page
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Sarah Hill
Sarah Hill is currently an MBA student at Baylor University. She is obtaining an emphasis in marketing and human resources. She procured her undergraduate degree in marketing at Union University where she was the leader of the business club, Enactus. Between her time at Union and Baylor, Sarah spent a year at a leadership program in Tyler, Texas. She has also spent a summer interning at an advertising agency in her home city of Little Rock, Arkansas. Sarah holds a leadership position in Baylor’s graduate business association. In summer 2015, Sarah will be a marketing intern at Essilor, the eyeglass lens manufacturing and marketing company in Dallas, Texas.
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Andy Hilton
Andy Hilton, Vice President, Communications, Content & Brand, plays a key role in helping give ADP, an HR technology and services leader, its voice in the marketplace. In this role, Andy leads a centralized communications, content marketing, brand and events team responsible for shaping ADP’s narrative and getting that story in front of audiences that matter. He joined ADP in July 2014. Before ADP, Andy led communications and corporate marketing efforts for the Water Solutions business of Xylem Inc., based in Stockholm, Sweden. Xylem was created following its spinoff from ITT Corporation in October 2011. Prior to the spin-off, Andy led ITT’s corporate public relations function, and served as the company’s chief spokesperson. He joined ITT in 2006. Andy cut his teeth in communications working with two great PR agencies, Ketchum and Peppercomm. And he is a proud Syracuse University alumnus. View Guest page
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Steve Hilton
Steve Hilton is the Managing Director at MachNation, the leading insight services firm for the Internet of Things, Internet of Everything, connected things, analytics and M2M. His primary areas of expertise include competitive positioning, marketing media development, cloud services, small and medium businesses and sales channels. Steve has 20 years’ experience in technology and communications marketing. Prior to founding MachNation, he built and ran the IoT/M2M and Enterprise practice areas at Analysys Mason. He has also held senior positions at Yankee Group, Lucent Technologies, TDS (Telephone and Data Systems) and Cambridge Strategic Management Group. Steve is a frequent speaker at industry and client events, and publishes articles and blogs in several respected trade journals. He holds a degree in economics from the University of Chicago and a Master’s degree in marketing from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management. View Guest page
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Nadine Hoffmann
Nadine Hoffmann has over 20 years of experience in banking solution management at a senior level for financial services. She is a global solution manager for innovation and the key contact and expert for all SAP’s financial services distributed ledger technology activities globally. Her primary focus is the cooperation and co-innovation with partners and customers including proof of concepts for innovative topics. Nadine acts especially as a blockchain facilitator and advocate, supporting customers on their innovation way especially focusing on financial services. As the former solution owner for SAP Payment Engine – the centralized payment processing solution within SAP – she also influenced the payment strategy for SAP financial services solutions. Prior to SAP, Nadine worked in the banking sector for cooperative banks.
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Drew Hofler
Drew Hofler is Sr. Director, Solutions Marketing, Ariba Network and Financial Solutions. In this role, he is responsible for Ariba’s Network and Financial suite of solutions including AribaPay, the groundbreaking new B2B Payment solution from SAP and Ariba. Drew brings almost 20 years of financial services, operations and software industry experience to SAP. Prior to joining the company, he served as Vice President, Treasury Product Management for PNC Bank and Director, Payment Systems at Tier Technologies. Drew began his career at Thrivent Financial. He has been interviewed and quoted widely in finance and supply chain industry publications around the topics of eInvoicing, Shared Services, dynamic discounting, working capital management, payment and the Networked Economy, and has published a number of articles on these subjects. View Guest page
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Jeanne Holm
Jeanne Holm, Evangelist for Data.Gov (open government flagship project for the White House, managed by GSA), leads collaboration and builds communities with the public, educators, developers, and international and state governments in using open government data. She is Chief Knowledge Architect at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, driving innovation through social media, virtual worlds, gaming, ontologies, and collaborative systems, including the award-winning NASA public portal (www.nasa.gov) and pioneering knowledge architectures within DoD. Jeanne is a Fellow of the United Nations International Academy of Astronautics and a Distinguished Instructor at UCLA, with over 130 publications. She has been awarded the NASA Exceptional Service Medal for leadership twice, three Webby’s from The International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences, three best practice awards from the APQC, and led NASA to an unprecedented four global Most Admired Knowledge Enterprise (MAKE) awards. View Guest page
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Tim Hood
Tim Hood is Global Vice President of Strategic Technologies, Chief Solution Architect for Retail at SAP. He has more than 25 years of experience in the software industry. Tim held leadership roles in development, architecture and product management organizations during his career. Since 1999, Tim has been focused on providing innovative solutions to the retail industry. Tim is the solution management lead for strategic technologies in the retail industry including In-Memory technology, analytics, mobility, and cloud platforms. Aligned with the strategic technology platforms, Tim is also responsible for ISV partnerships in retail. Tim has been active in the retail industry, including working with NRF-ARTS since 2001, joining SAP in 2006 through the acquisition of Triversity, where he was the lead of the product development organization. View Guest page
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Neil Hooper
Neil Hooper, VP Mobility Sales, SAP America, leads a team of Mobility Architects who are responsible for mobility sales across SAP America’s Northeast region as well as the national Financial Services and Insurance practice. He is responsible for coordination with recent acquisitions of Sybase and Syclo as well as the SAP and Partner services teams to drive mobility for SAP customers. Prior to SAP, Neil ran Global Sales and Channels for Silicon Valley startup Good Technology, taking them to a successful exit with the purchase from Motorola. At Motorola, Neil ran global sales for the Good Technology Group, integrating into Motorola’s global channels. Neil also has held a series of successful leadership roles at Manugistics and Oracle’s Numetrix Group. View Guest page
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Peter Hoppenfeld
Peter Hoppenfeld is widely recognized as the “go to” attorney and advisor in the representation of direct marketers, speakers, authors, information marketers, “thought leaders,” entrepreneurs and domestic and international training companies and their founders in all aspects of their legal and business affairs. Peter is a seasoned transactional, commercial attorney with direct marketing, internet marketing, distribution, licensing, marketing, branding and operational expertise. On a daily basis, Peter helps marketers, authors, speakers, entrepreneurs, and thought leaders create effective marketing, merchandising and expansion strategies. His mission is to rapidly, smartly and strategically grow people’s businesses, reach and revenues. Peter’s been described as “a lawyer who understands marketing and a marketer who happens to be a lawyer”. www.peterhoppenfeld.com.
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Bill Hou
Bill Hou is a VP in SAP’s Customer Engagement and Commerce solutions focused on Cloud for Customer, SAP’s fastest growing cloud offering, and has over 20 years of industry and software experience. At Siebel Systems, Bill ran Service and Call Center Products, Siebel’s largest product line, and championed an acquisition that expanded the definition of CRM into the Self Service space. With Oracle’s soon-after acquisition of Siebel Systems, Bill stayed with Oracle as VP of Self Service Products, leading the product strategy and product management of the first applications built on Oracle Fusion Middleware. He served as VP/GM of the Service and Support Division at Agilent Technologies and as service manager for the Northeast US and China for GE Medical Systems (now GE Healthcare). Prior to Siebel, he led business development and M&A for GE Medical Systems’ Service business. Bill is the founder of WEMKE Capital, LLC. He earned a BSE from Princeton University and a Masters from MIT.
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Peter Howes
Peter Howes has 40 years of experience in HR as a practitioner, academic and consultant. For the past 30 years, he has specialized in workforce planning, reporting and analytics. Over the past 25 years, Peter has developed the Infohrm program, a membership-based program that provides 160 global companies with a workforce planning, reporting and analytics solution that complements the functionality of their HRIS. In 2010, Infohrm was acquired by SuccessFactors, the world’s fastest growing business software company. Peter is a Life Fellow of the Australian Human Resources Institute. In 2003, he earned the Outstanding Alumni Award for the Business Faculty at Queensland University of Technology. Peter has regularly spoken at conferences and workshops in Europe, North America and Australia. View Guest page
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Jesús Hoyos
Jesús Hoyos is a CRM industry analyst, advisor, speaker, influencer, consultant and blogger for the Latin American region (JesusHoyos.com, LLC). Jesús started his CRM career as consultant in 1990 at Data Code, now SemaTree, a CRM software vendor. He is Partner and co-founder of Solvis Consulting, a consulting firm that specializes in providing services in the execution of Customer Relationship Management strategies. At Solvis, he has worked with high profile international companies in Canada, United States and Latin America executing CRM strategies and implementing many business solutions. Before founding Solvis, he was the Regional Domain Partner for Customer Management Solutions in Latin America for Cambridge Technology Partners. Jesús is also co-founder of Customers Forever, LLC, a company dedicated to promote CRM in Latin America, and co-founder of the Social Media Club Mexico City. View Guest page
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Stephanie Huber
Stephanie Huber is a senior consultant for business intelligence at Deloitte Consulting with extensive experience providing a strong business and technical background on HANA data modeling, Design Studio dashboards, Lumira and Tableau analytics, WebIntelligence, Crystal Reports, and the BusinessObjects Enterprise platform. As a current member of the ASUG Crystal Reports Influence Council, she contributes to the strategic direction of the product and offers valuable insight on future releases. Stephanie has an in-depth understanding of SAP HANA, ERP, BW, and the SAP HANA cloud platform, honed in a variety of industries including manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, logistics, and finance. She is consistently engaged on mission critical projects whose success is dependent on her skills in all stages of the development cycle: requirement analysis, design, development, testing, deployment, and end-user training abilities.
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Tim Hughes
Tim Hughes is a transformational leader, best-selling author and top 10 Social Media influencer. With a background in sales and sales management, Tim has been involved in Social Media for over 8 years, having built a following on Twitter of 180,000, to become the number one most influential social seller. He is also an internationally renowned speaker, blogger and writer. With the disruption in the market from Cloud and Social, 3 years ago he was involved in the European transformation of the sales and marketing teams at one of the largest tech companies in the world, and across 2,000 people. Many of his Social Selling learning’s are shared in his bestselling book “Social Selling: Techniques to Influence Buyers and Changemakers”. Not just about Social Selling, this transformation provided a complete new way of working for sales and marketing teams. Tim is the co-founder of Digital Leadership Associates http://www.social-experts.net.
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Dr. Steven Hunt
Dr. Steven Hunt is Senior Vice President of Value Realization at SuccessFactors where he guides development and implementation of technology-enabled solutions to maximize workforce engagement and productivity. Steven has over 20 years of experience designing systems for human resource applications including performance management, staffing, employee development, culture change, workforce transformation, and succession planning. A recognized expert on strategic human resources, he has played a pivotal role in the implementation of systems that have improved productivity and engagement of millions of employees working for hundreds of companies ranging from small startup organizations to the largest employers in the world. He is the author of “Commonsense Talent Management: Using strategic human resources to increase company performance” (Wiley Press, 2014) and “Hiring Success: The art and science of staffing assessment and employee selection” (Wiley Press, 2007). View Guest page
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Kathy Hutson
Kathy Hutson is Global Insurance Segment Leader for IBM Global Insurance, specializing in technology solutions that help insurers develop compelling customer experiences and winning distribution strategies. She has over 14 years of experience in the Financial Services Industry working with insurance companies globally, including roles at Citigroup, the New York State Insurance Department, and McKinsey & Company. Kathy has a Master’s Degree in Public Policy from the Harvard Kennedy School and a Bachelor of Arts in Economics and English from Lafayette College. View Guest page
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Kathy Hutson
Kathy Hutson is Global Insurance Segment Leader for IBM Global Insurance, specializing in technology solutions that help insurers develop compelling customer experiences and winning distribution strategies. She has over 14 years of experience in the Financial Services Industry working with insurance companies globally, including roles at Citigroup, the New York State Insurance Department, and McKinsey & Company. Kathy has a Master’s Degree in Public Policy from the Harvard Kennedy School and a Bachelor of Arts in Economics and English from Lafayette College. View Guest page
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Rebekah Iliff
Rebekah Iliff is the Chief Strategy Officer for AirPR, a technology platform to increase PR performance. Previously, she was the CEO of talkTECH Communications, one of the fastest growing tech PR firms in the United States. She is currently a columnist for Mashable, Inc., and Entrepreneur, and her contributing writing can be seen in everything from Forbes to the Huffington Post. Rebekah also frequently moderates and participates on panels focused on the future of PR and big data. In 2014, she was named by Dell as a "Dell Influencer" and has been asked to sit on industry panels and think tanks dedicated to innovation, technology trends, PRTech, and social good. In 2015, Onalytica, the leading influencer relationship management software company, cited her as one of the Top 100 PR Influencer’s in the world. She holds a B.A. in Philosophy from Loyola University Chicago, and an M.A. in Organizational Management and Applied Community Psychology from Antioch University at Los Angeles. View Guest page
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Rick Imber
Rick Imber is the National Vice President for the Extended Supply Chain Center of Excellence. He has over 17 years’ experience at SAP and has worked in all areas of SAP software solutions, in several different capacities from solution engineering, to product management and sales. Rick not only leads the North America Go To Market efforts for S/4HANA, he also has extensive experience in product lifecycle Management, environmental health and safety, enterprise asset management, supplier relationship management and enterprise mobility. Rick holds a Bachelor’s of Science degree in Mathematics and Computer Science from the University of California, San Diego. View Guest page
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[L to R:] Ingmar Christiaens, EY; Elizabeth Duffy, SAP; Hilary Carter, InTune Communications; Dan Berthiaume, Chain Store Age View Guest page
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Vinay Iyer
Vinay Iyer, Vice President of Global Marketing at SAP, brings more than 20 years of experience as an engineer, product manager, sales and business development manager, and marketer to this book. Prior to SAP, Vinay held roles in product marketing and product management for over five years at Siebel Systems in the United States and in Europe. He is a frequent speaker at customer engagement conferences and is now championing SAP’s rapid growth in the overall customer experience management space. Vinay holds a master’s degree in Electrical Engineering and an MBA from the Wharton Business School. View Guest page
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Edward “EJ” Jackson
Edward “EJ” Jackson is senior vice president and general manager of SAP Anywhere at SAP. He is responsible for the overall business and product strategy and execution for SAP Anywhere, a front-office, mobile-first SaaS solution that enables small businesses to run virtually every element of their business from any device or location. EJ joined SAP in 2014 as the general vice president of product strategy and delivery for SAP’s small business solutions group. Previously, he was CEO and founder of Provade, Inc., a vendor management system SaaS solution provider serving Fortune 1000 companies, acquired by Pinnacle Group in 2011. He holds U.S. patent 14/027,945 for Provade’s vendor management system software. Prior to Provade, he founded SkillsVillage, acquired by PeopleSoft in 2001. He also served as vice president of strategy at Elance. EJ holds a dual bachelor’s degree in business administration and computer science from the University of New Mexico.
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Jeff Jackson
Jeff Jackson, a Director at Deloitte Consulting LLP, leads Deloitte’s Technology practice at the Cleveland office. He has more than 22 years of industry and consulting experience in IT Enabled Transformation and Supply Chain management, supporting global clients in Manufacturing, High Tech, Retail and Financial Services. His recent focus is on the development and deployment of the SAP Service Parts Management solution including Service Parts Planning and Extended Warehouse Management applications. Jeff led the development of the overall implementation strategy, deployment plan, definition and development of the global common processes, and initial implementations for the global deployment of the solution. He has led multiple large-scale SAP Transformation programs domestically and globally. Jeff’s expertise is developing implementation roadmaps to support business transformation and enabling transformation through the successful implementation of SAP technology. View Guest page
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Sam Jaffe
Sam Jaffe is a research manager at IDC, responsible for researching, writing and editing qualitative and quantitative reports and presentations on connected vehicle technologies, energy storage, electric vehicle integration onto the grid and drivetrain developments. Recent research includes analysis of the lithium-ion battery industry, EV market penetration forecast, and connected vehicles taxonomy. He also provides custom consulting, advisory and research services. Sam is a frequent contributor to clean energy and connected vehicles blogs in the IDC Energy Insights Community (http://idc-insights-community.com/energy) and IDC Manufacturing Insights Community (https://idc-insights-community.com/manufacturing). Previously, he ran his own consulting company, Panea Energy Ltd., specializing in business development advice in energy storage and renewable energy. Before Panea, he was a journalist for Wired, Scientific American, The Scientist, BusinessWeek and The Wall Street Journal. View Guest page
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Sudha Jamte
Sudha Jamte is the CEO of IoT Disruptions, Author and Instructor at Stanford Continuing Ed School. She is a globally recognized entrepreneurial mobile product leader with 20-plus years of experience building Consumer Mobile and eCommerce Products. Sudha loves shaping new technology ecosystems and helping businesses drive Digital Business Transformations. She is the author of two IoT books, “IoT Disruptions” and "The Internet of Things Business Primer” and teaches the first IoT Business course at Stanford Continuing Ed School. Sudha is a champion for STEM programs and Girls Who Code, and hosts mentor programs for kids at Devcamps and Hackathons. She has been a venture mentor at MIT and Director at Bay Area Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and Google+ Meetups. Sudha also actively contributes to TechCrunch, Mashable, GigaOm and Venturebeat as a respected technology futurist. She is an advisor for Blockchain University and Barcelona Technology School.
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[L to R:] Joe Barkai, Industry Analyst; Susan Lucas-Conwell; Bianca McCann, SAP; Puneet Suppal, SAP. Joe Barkai, Industry Analyst. http://www.voiceamerica.com/guest/26231/joe-barkai Susan Lucas-Conwell, Growth Resources Inc.; http://www.voiceamerica.com/guest/26299/susan-lucas-conwell Bianca McCann, SAP; http://www.voiceamerica.com/guest/25538/bianca-mccann Puneet Suppal, SAP; http://www.voiceamerica.com/guest/25697/puneet-suppal View Guest page
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Bill Jensen
Bill Jensen, Mr. Simplicity, makes it easier to do great work. He teaches companies and teams to succeed by doubling their productivity while also pursuing their passions. He has spent the past 25 years studying how work gets done. (Much of what he’s found horrifies him.) Bill is an internationally-acclaimed thought leader who is known for extremely useful content, and his passion for making it easier for everyone to work smarter, not harder. His first book, Simplicity, was the Number 5 Leadership/ Management book on Amazon in 2000. His new book is Future Strong, which maps the five choices each of us must make to be ready for the disruptions and craziness that lie ahead. Bill’s personal life fantasy is to bicycle around the globe via breweries. Bill is also an IBM Future of Work Futurist.
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JHattendorf - JSchmidt - OPettiford - NKaufman
Jeff Hattendorf, Macrospect; Jack Schmidt, SAP; Owen Pettiford, CompriseIT; Nina Kaufman, Esq., AskTheBusinessLawyer.com. View Guest page
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Erich Joachimsthaler
Erich Joachimsthaler is founder and CEO of Vivaldi Partners Group (http://www.vivaldipartners.com), a global consulting firm that works to help unlock innovation and growth opportunities for brands and businesses in a digitally connected world. Erich is a thought leader with more than 40 published articles and the author of two of the most important books on brands: Brand Leadership, The Next Level of Brand Revolution (co-written with David Aaker) (Free Press 2000) and Hidden in Plain Sight: How to Find and Execute Your Company's Next Big Growth Strategy (Harvard Business School Press 2007). Erich is actively engaged in many consulting projects for leading companies and brands. He also continues to do extensive research on global brands, technology, and the formulation of corporate and business-unit level strategies. A sought-after speaker, he conducts executive-level conferences and workshops around the world in English, German, and Spanish. Erich has also held academic faculty positions in top universities in the US and Europe. View Guest page
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Chris Johnson
Chris Johnson is a senior partner at Mercer responsible for growth of Mercer’s Career services across EuroPac, which includes HR technology implementation and transformation, reward and talent management provided to multi-national and large, complex national clients. With 25 years in consulting, Chris has worked with major organisations in the public, not for profit, and private sectors in Africa, Asia, Europe, and US. He has extensive experience advising on delivery of business performance improvement through organisational change enabled by aligned people management programs. His consulting covers government, financial services, pharmaceuticals, retail, transportation, telecommunications, and utilities. His private sector clients are typically the Global 500. Prior to Mercer, Chris was responsible for workforce reform, employee relations and reward for 500,000 employees in the UK Civil Service. In his early career, Chris was a trades union official and graduated as a civil engineer.
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Curtis Johnson
Curtis Johnson is President of the Citistates Group, which for 25 years has produced reports for leading newspapers on the strategic issues facing regions. He is managing partner of Education Evolving, a Minnesota-based organization with roots to the pioneering days of state policies on school choice, to the invention of the idea of chartering schools, and the start of the movement of teacher professional practices. Curt has been a teacher, community college president, head of a public affairs research organization, policy adviser and chief of staff to a Minnesota governor, and board chair of one of America’s only two regional governments. He co-authored Century of the City, based on a 2007 global conference sponsored by the Rockefeller Foundation, and Disrupting Class, explaining how the industry of schools is being disrupted by changing learning models, and how school districts and the chartered sector can respond. The book ranked #14 on Newsweek’s 2009 list of 50 must-read books. View Guest page
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Mark Johnson
Mark Johnson is President and CEO of Loyalty 360. He is committed to bringing loyalty to the forefront as a critical marketing strategy by creating an unbiased, market-driven clearinghouse and think tank through with which users and loyalty providers can interact and collaborate. Mark is driven to give members the expert insight and guidance they need to develop strategies and implement programs that effectively engage their customers and employees and build stronger relationships with them. He has significant experience in selling, designing and administering prepaid, loyalty/CRM programs, as well as data-driven marketing communication programs. He received his start in loyalty program design while at Fifth Third Bank in Cincinnati, OH where he developed the bank’s open (merchant-based gift card) and closed (MasterCard) system stored value programs (Premiere Issue). View Guest page
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Whitney Johnson
Whitney Johnson is a leading thinker on driving innovation via personal disruption, having co-founded Clayton Christensen's investment firm, Rose Park Advisors. She is a former double Institutional Investor-ranked analyst at Merrill Lynch. After spending years exploring the theory of disruption and how it applies to investing, Whitney has concluded that companies can only disrupt when people do. Whitney is a regular contributor for the Harvard Business Review and Linkedin. She speaks and coaches at Fortune 100 Companies, top tier educational institutions, and industry conferences. Recently, her work was recognized by Thinkers 50, which named her as a finalist for the 2013 Future Thinker Award, and the Wall Street Journal dubbed her one of 20 Money Thinkers to Follow View Guest page
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Andrew Jones
Andrew Jones is an analyst at Altimeter Group, where he focuses on social media management and cross-channel customer engagement. For the past three years, he has helped define the Social Media Management industry and worked on reports related to social management and measurement. Andrew has worked with dozens of clients to define social business strategy and advise on technology selection. Previously, he worked at digital agency iCrossing, now part of the Hearst Corporation, where he managed accounts for several Fortune 500 companies. Prior to iCrossing, Andrew worked at a series of technology, marketing, and research organizations. Andrew served in the Peace Corps, where he helped to develop infrastructure programs in a rural district between Costa Rica and Panama. He speaks German and Spanish and plays soccer. Recent research: Scaling Social Business: How Brands Manage Complex, Distributed Programs. Frameworks: Five Use Cases for Social Media Management. View Guest page
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Dr. Katherine Jones
Dr. Katherine Jones, Research Director, HCM /TM Technology, Bersin & Associates, focuses on research on the underlying technologies and services that support the management of a global workforce, including HR, hiring, performance management, succession and leadership, and strategic workforce planning. She is a veteran in enterprise workforce and talent management applications, and a recognized expert in cloud computing. Previously, Katherine was a research director for eight years at Aberdeen Group, establishing its Human Capital Management practice, focusing on research and consulting services in HR, talent acquisition, workforce management, ERP, and mid-market companies. Following Aberdeen, she was Director of Marketing for NetSuite, Inc., a SaaS-based ERP solution provider. A widely published writer on talent management, technology and business practices, Katherine was a university dean, involved in academic administration, research, and teaching, prior to her high tech career. View Guest page
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Kim Jones
Kim Jones is Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Curriki, a non-profit focused on improving education through technology for children. Previously, Kim was an executive with Sun Microsystems for over 20 years. Prior to her role as President and Managing Director for Sun UK & Ireland, she was Vice President of Global Education, Government and Healthcare, providing advanced technologies and services to key constituencies in the public sector, and establishing education as an independent line of business for Sun. During her leadership, Curriki was incubated in the education development community of Java.net, better known as the Global Education and Learning Community. Kim gave testimony before the US Congressional Web-based Education Commission. A member of the MIT Open Courseware Industry Advisory Council, Kim has earned the Sun Leadership Award, the YWCA Award for Women in Business, and in 2006 was inducted into the Women in Technology International Hall of Fame. View Guest page
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Andrew Jones, Ph.D
Andrew Jones, Ph.D is an organizational consultant, educator, writer, and co-owner and partner at Conjunctured Coworking. He is a Lecturer of Management, Organizational Behavior, and Corporate Social Responsibility in the McCoy College of Business Administration at Texas State University. He has consulted with firms in the software, food and beverage, construction, advertising, sports management, coworking, and for-profit education industries. Andrew has published three books: The Innovation Acid Test: Growth Through Design and Differentiation (Triarchy Press 2008), I’m Outta Here: How Coworking is Making the Office Obsolete, with Todd Sundsted and Tony Bacigalupo (NotanMBA Press 2009), and The Fifth Age of Work: How Companies can Re-design Work to be More Innovative in a Cloud Economy (Night Owls Press 2013). Read his M-Prize winning story on Nomatik Co-working: www.mixprize.org/hack/nomatik-coworking?challenge=19296#footnote2 View Guest page
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David Jonker
David Jonker, Sr. Director, Big Data Initiatives, drives innovation and go-to-market initiatives across SAP’s Big Data solutions, including data management, analytics, and applications. In this role, David is driving SAP’s efforts to incorporate DNA-based testing into SAP supply-chain solutions. Previously, David led go-to-market and product management efforts for Sybase’s data management and analytics product lines, including solutions for Big Data, data warehousing, cloud, mobility, and embedded systems. David’s career also includes more than 10 years in software engineering roles. He has a degree in Systems Design engineering from the University of Waterloo, Canada.
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Tom Julian
Tom Julian is the Director of Strategic Business Development for The Doneger Group. A veteran of the fashion industry for more than 20 years, he was the founder and president of brand consultancy Tom Julian Group for five years. His prior roles include trend director positions with major advertising agencies. Tom is a branding expert who brings a strategic discipline to Doneger’s retail and merchandising consulting practice, working with department stores and specialty chains. Follow Tom on thedonegergroup.tumblr.com. View Guest page
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Olli Kähkönen
Olli Kähkönen, MSc, is Senior Payments Infrastructure Expert for Nordea Bank. A banker for the past 35 years, his career covers major sectors in financial institutions at home and abroad. Assignments include periods of establishing banks in London and Stockholm. Externally, Olli has been active in the SWIFT board, ISO 20022 as co-representative for Finland, and currently serves on the EBA Clearing board. He is co-creator of the ISO 20022, 11649, Structured Creditor Reference to Remittance Information standard. View Guest page
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Gerald C. (Jerry) Kane, Ph.D.
Gerald C. (Jerry) Kane, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Information Systems at Boston College’s Carroll School of Management. His research interests include exploring the role of information systems in social networks, organizational applications and implications of social media, and the use of IT in healthcare organizations. Dr. Kane has received grants from the National Science Foundation (CAREER) and from the US Army for his research on social media. He has twice been nominated by Boston College as the U.S. Professor of the Year. His published research has appeared in MIS Quarterly, Information Systems Research, Organization Science, Marketing Science, and Harvard Business Review, among other academic journals. Jerry received his Ph.D. from the Goizueta Business School of Emory University and M.B.A. in Computer Information Systems from Georgia State University. View Guest page
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Alon Kantor
Alon Kantor, Vice President of Business Development at Check Point, leads the company's worldwide partnerships and acquisition activities. He is responsible for building an ecosystem of security solutions that work with and integrate with the Check Point solutions, as well as leading the Check Point’s M&A activities. Since joining the company in 1998, Mr. Kantor has served in various roles in Check Point's R&D organization and was involved in the development of many of the company's products over the years. Mr. Kantor holds a B.A in Computer Science and an L.L.B - both from the Tel Aviv University.
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Mario Kaphan
Mario Kaphan is the founder of Vagas Tecnologia, the Brazilian market leader in e-recruitment solutions. Vagas means ‘jobs’ in Portuguese. Its mission is to be the all-encompassing tool for businesses to attract, source and select the right employees. The Vagas value proposition is based on software tools to manage the recruiting process, candidate sourcing and employer branding. Vagas envisions a world where people can choose the best companies to work with and companies can choose the best people to work with them. Mario is the driving force behind Vagas’s singular design for a radically open, free, and entrepreneurial organization— managing without managers. Vagas.com has no hierarchy, titles, or formal rules. Individual “members” enjoy a remarkable degree of autonomy and collegiality. All work is done in small, self-managed teams, and decisions are made via reasoned debate and consensus—an initially laborious process practiced daily, that yields powerful alignment and agility. View Guest page
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Jeff Kaplan
Jeff Kaplan is the Managing Director of THINKstrategies, the only strategic consulting firm focused entirely on the business implications of the transition of the technology industry from a product-centric to services-driven solution model, including Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing and Managed Services. THINKstrategies helps IT/business decision-makers with sourcing strategies; solution providers with go-to-market strategies; and venture firms with investment strategies. Jeff is also the Founder of the Cloud Computing Showplace, the largest vendor-independent online directory and best practice resource center regarding SaaS, Platforms-as-a-Service (PaaS), and Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), including Managed Services. He is the host of the Cloud Innovators Summit executive forum series, including the Connected Cloud Summit, Cloud Channel Summit and Cloud Analytics Summit. Jeff began his career as an industry analyst at IDC, Dataquest and META Group.
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Bridget Karlin
Bridget Karlin is the Managing Director of the Internet of Things (IoT) Strategy and Technology Office at Intel Corporation. She is responsible for Intel’s IoT Platform Product Marketing and for managing the IoT commercialization and product marketing strategy across Intel's assets, including development of strategic business objectives, driving industry and partner marketing alignment to deliver foundational IoT technologies for IoT solutions and services. Bridget also works closely with global government agencies and organizations to help drive policy and programs that leverage IoT to deliver value through business and social transformation across a global marketplace. Previously, Bridget served as the General Manager of the Intel Hybrid Cloud business, managed Intel’s Datacenter Software portfolio synergies, held executive management positions with CompuCom, KPN/Getronics, Redleaf Venture Capital, Union Bank, and was President and co-founder of Thinque Systems.
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Nina Kaufman, Esq
Nina Kaufman, Esq. is an SBA Women in Business Champion and Entrepreneur.com legal expert—not just your ordinary business attorney. Forbes Magazine calls Nina “One of the 25 Most Influential Women Tweeting about Entrepreneurship.” A Mets fan by marriage, former stand-up comic, and professional speaker, Nina has a particular passion for showing owners of service businesses how to stop feeling stuck in their business, and address legal issues in the context of a business model that provides personal and financial freedom. She has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, U.S. News & World Report, Crain’s NY Business, HuffingtonPost.com, The New York Law Journal, and the American Bar Association Journal. TV appearances include MSNBC’s Your Business, Fox′s Good Day NY, and Better.TV. Nina hosts the Business Breakthrough podcast, and has contributed articles to publications and media outlets including Enterprising Women. Info: www.AskTheBusinessLawyer.com www.BusinessExponential.com. View Guest page
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- Legal Lessons for Women Business Owners: Clear Your Legal Clutter for the New Year
- Legal Lessons for Women Business Owners - Part 4: Dont Make a Federal Case Out of It
- Build A Business, Not Just a Job
- Legal Lessons for Women Business Owners - Part 3
- Legal Lessons for Women Business Owners - Part 2
- Legal Lessons for Women Business Owners - Part 1
- Encore: Success Secrets for Entrepreneurial Women - Part 2
- Success Secrets for Entrepreneurial Women - Part 2
- Success Secrets for Entrepreneurial Women
Dan Kearnan
Dan Kearnan is the Marketing Director for SAP Data Warehousing at SAP Americas. With more than 15 years experience working with large and mid-size companies to help define and plan their BI and DW strategies, he brings extensive knowledge in business intelligence, enterprise resource planning and data warehousing applications to his current role. Dan works within a larger group at SAP to help shape, define and communicate SAP's business intelligence and data warehousing strategies. View Guest page
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Peter Kearns
Peter Kearns is a Senior Manager in the Supply Chain Management SAP practice at Accenture. Of his 20-plus years of experience in asset management consulting and logistics, more than 17 have involved SAP consulting in the U.S., Norway, Sweden, Singapore, New Zealand, South Africa, and Canada. Peter has focused extensively on mobile assets including rail and air, and has worked with the oil and gas (upstream and refining), mining, and defense industries. Prior to Accenture, he was the Solution Director (Middle Market) for the Optimal Solutions Mining All-in-One SAP solution. Earlier, he worked in the defense industry in aircraft design, structural analysis, and system engineering. He has worked on various airline SAP EAM implementations including Air New Zealand, Singapore Airlines, and Delta. He also worked for the Singapore Ministry of Defense as a solution architect for the MOD implementation including Joint, Air Force, Navy, and Army. View Guest page
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Robin Kearon
Robin Kearon works on strategic relationships that grow Kore’s business. He has 25 years of experience in practice management and business development. He’s served as a leading SAP partner, led North American operations at a publicly traded IT services company, and created a global delivery and reseller ecosystem for a leading software firm.
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Jeff F. Kelly
Jeff F. Kelly is Principal Research Contributor for The Wikibon Project and IT Blogger at SiliconANGLE. An experienced IT industry analyst and journalist with a deep understanding of the business analytics and data management markets, Jeff also has covered the networking, mobile computing and Green IT markets, as well as the financial media industry. As Wikibon's lead business analytics and Big Data analyst, he conducts market research on and writes about data warehousing, business intelligence tools, and advanced data analytics. View Guest page
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Ben Kepes
Ben Kepes is a technology evangelist, investor, commentator and business adviser. His business interests include a diverse range of industries from manufacturing to property to technology. As a technology commentator in traditional media and extensively online, Ben covers the convergence of technology, mobile, ubiquity and agility, all enabled by the Cloud. Areas of interest extend to enterprise software, software integration, financial / accounting software, platforms and infrastructure, as well as articulating technology simply for everyday users. As a globally recognized subject matter expert and influential technology thinker, his commentary has been published on ReadWriteWeb, GigaOm, The Guardian and other publications. Ben is an active member of the Clouderati, a global group of Cloud thought leaders, and speaks at conferences and events around the world. He has strong opinions as to what IT needs to do to be an enabler for business transformation. View Guest page
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Karen Kerrigan
For a quarter of a century Karen Kerrigan’s leadership and advocacy have helped foster U.S. entrepreneurship and global small business growth. She is president & CEO of the Small Business & Entrepreneurship Council. Karen regularly testifies before the Congress and meets with the President’s advisors on key issues impacting entrepreneurs. She’s been appointed to numerous federal advisory boards including the National Women’s Business Council. She has been called America's “entrepreneurial envoy” for her work overseas. Karen is a founding member of the World Entrepreneurship Forum, and former chair of the Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE). From 2001 to 2014, she was named a Top 100 Small Business Influencer. CEO World Magazine named Kerrigan a Top Ten Power Woman in Crowdfunding in 2011. Inc. Magazine put her on its “Best Friend” for small business list, and The Hill newspaper once described her as “the hardest working woman in show business.” View Guest page
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Neeru Khosla
Neeru Khosla is Co-Founder and Executive Director of CK-12 Foundation, a non-profit launched in 2006, which aims to reduce the cost of textbook materials for the K-12 market both in the US and worldwide. She wants the rigor and accountability of for-profit models to apply to non-profits. Neeru is a member of the Board at The Nueva School in Hillsborough, California, where she has served since 1997, caters to gifted and talented students, and is internationally recognized. She is on the Advisory Board of the American India Foundation, and previously served as trustee of the Pacific Vascular Research Foundation and Connexions, a Rice University open-source project. Neeru is a founding member of the K-12 Initiative of the D-School (Hasso Plattner Institute of Design) at Stanford University. She also serves on the National Advisory Board for DonorsChoose, an organization dedicated to addressing the scarcity and inequitable distribution of learning materials in U.S. public schools. View Guest page
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Brian Kilcourse
Brian Kilcourse is recognized as one of the top retail technology leaders in the United States. He is a managing partner at Retail Systems Research LLC (“RSR Research”), a company focused on delivering research, strategies, and knowledge for the extended retail industry. Formerly President & Chief Executive of Retail Systems Alert Group (RSAG), Brian is a recognized leader in retail technology practices. He has authored research reports on Cross-Channel Retailing, Supply Chain, Customer Data Security, Business Intelligence & Analytics, Mobility, IT Governance, Workforce Management, Services Oriented Architectures (SOA) and Software as a Service (SaaS). Previously, Brian was SVP and CIO at Longs Drug Stores from 1993-2002.One of the top retail CIOs in the United States during his tenure there, he was named one of the Premier 100 IT Leaders by Computerworld magazine and by Information Week as leader of the #1 retail IT shop in 2001. View Guest page
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Brian Kilcourse
Brian Kilcourse is recognized as one of the top retail technology leaders in the United States. He is a managing partner at Retail Systems Research LLC (“RSR Research”), a company focused on delivering research, strategies, and knowledge for the extended retail industry. Formerly President and Chief Executive of Retail Systems Alert Group (RSAG), Brian is a recognized leader in retail technology practices. He has authored research reports on Cross-Channel Retailing, Supply Chain, Customer Data Security, Business Intelligence & Analytics, Mobility, IT Governance, Workforce Management, Services Oriented Architectures (SOA) and Software as a Service (SaaS). Previously, Brian was SVP and CIO at Longs Drug Stores from 1993-2002.One of the top retail CIOs in the United States during his tenure there, he was named one of the Premier 100 IT Leaders by Computerworld magazine and by Information Week as leader of the #1 retail IT shop in 2001. View Guest page
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Brian Kilcourse
Brian Kilcourse is recognized as one of the top retail technology leaders in the United States. He is a managing partner at Retail Systems Research LLC (“RSR Research”), a company focused on delivering research, strategies, and knowledge for the extended retail industry. Formerly President and Chief Executive of Retail Systems Alert Group (RSAG), Brian is a recognized leader in retail technology practices. He has authored research reports on Cross-Channel Retailing, Supply Chain, Customer Data Security, Business Intelligence & Analytics, Mobility, IT Governance, Workforce Management, Services Oriented Architectures (SOA) and Software as a Service (SaaS). Previously, Brian was SVP and CIO at Longs Drug Stores from 1993-2002.One of the top retail CIOs in the United States during his tenure there, he was named one of the Premier 100 IT Leaders by Computerworld magazine and by Information Week as leader of the #1 retail IT shop in 2001.
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Cindy King
Cindy King, Program Director of the City of Edmonton’s Workspace Edmonton Initiative, is finding effective ways to support the organization through transition and change management. She has extensive experience in both the private and public sectors. Prior to joining the City of Edmonton, Cindy was a Director in the Office of the Corporate CIO at the Government of Alberta and previously worked for the Alberta Workers’ Compensation Board, KPMG Consulting, and General Electric Aerospace. She is passionate about applying technology to solve business problems. View Guest page
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Hannah King
Hannah King is currently an MBA student at Baylor University, pursuing a dual Masters in Business Administration and Masters of Information Systems degrees. She is also a full-time employee at Baylor, working as the Academic Scheduling Coordinator in the Office of the Registrar. When not occupied by her studies or working, Hannah spends time with her husband, a PhD student at Baylor, and their dogs. She also enjoys teaching REFIT as a dance fitness instructor.
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Steve King
Steve King is a founding partner at Emergent Research, where he leads ongoing research to identify, analyze and forecast the trends and shifts impacting business and society. His research interests include the future of work, globalization of small and mid-sized enterprises, and the resurgence of small manufacturing. Previously, Steve held executive, general management, and marketing positions with large and small corporations, including Vice President of Corporate Marketing for Macromedia, Vice President and General Manager Asia-Pacific for Lotus Development Corporation, and Vice President of Marketing for Isys Corporation. A Senior Fellow and board member at the Society for New Communications Research and an advisory board member at Pond Ventures, he has served on the fiduciary or advisory boards of over a dozen companies. View Guest page
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Sheryl Kingstone
Sheryl Kingstone is the director of Yankee Group's Enterprise Research group and a well-known industry analyst in the mobility and CRM markets, with over 18 years in the high-tech market. She helps enterprise clients make decisions on the use of technology, business processes and information to boost sales and optimize top-line business performance. Previously, she consulted with enterprise software companies in the areas of B2B e-commerce, CRM, e-services and Internet infrastructure on company and product positioning, acquisitions and IPO strategies for Blanc & Otus. She was awarded the 2006 CRM Influential Leaders Award and was the first female to be inducted in the CRM Hall of Fame. View Guest page
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Kimberly Knickle
Kimberly Knickle, practice director for IDC Manufacturing Insights, is responsible for research and analysis of business and IT issues related to manufacturers. She manages the IT Priorities & Strategies service, which focuses on hot topics that are changing the way manufacturers buy and use IT, such as big data and analytics, cloud, mobility, social business, and environmental sustainability. Kim also manages the Product Lifecycle Strategies research, including PLM, Smart Services & Aftermarket Strategies, and the Connected Vehicle, and contributes to the group's Supply Chain service. She regularly contributes to the IDC Insights Community blog on the IDC Manufacturing Insights Community and tweets (@kimknickle) about business and IT. Kim has more than 20 years of experience in market research and the IT industry. She is a graduate of Boston University's School of Management, where she earned her MBA degree. View Guest page
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Esteban Kolsky
Esteban Kolsky is the Principal and Founder of ThinkJar, an advisory and research think-tank focused on customer strategies. He has spent over 22 years in customer service and CRM consulting, research, and advisory services. During his eight years at Gartner, he coined the terms for EFM (enterprise feedback management) and CIH (customer interaction hub). He also researched and wrote on the social networking topics that led to today’s revolution, and assisted Fortune 500 and Global 2,000 organizations in CRM deployments. Mr. Kolsky now advises vendors and organizations how to extend customer interactions from the CRM niche to the entire organization to become Social Businesses. View Guest page
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Nicholas Kontopoulos
Nicholas Kontopoulos is part of SAP Global CRM Solution Marketing team, where he is responsible for developing the SAP go-to-market strategy for Line of Business Sales and Enterprise Mobility for Sales, Service and Marketing. Nicholas has over 20 years of experience working across a broad range of Industry Verticals in primarily Sales and Business development roles. During the course of his career, Nicholas has passionately pursued business strategies that both harness and intelligently exploit the power of available technologies, both within the businesses he has worked and for those clients he has served. Prior to joining SAP Nicholas worked as a Sales Management Director within The Capita Group who are the United Kingdom’s market leader in providing Business Process Outsourcing services. View Guest page
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Marisa Kopec
Marisa Kopec leads SiriusDecisions’ Portfolio Marketing, Strategic Communications, and Product Management services, delivering research and advice to help product marketers and managers succeed. Before SiriusDecisions, Marisa spent 12 years with Gartner, most recently as a managing vice president and product marketing leader for Gartner’s High-Tech and Telecom Programs business unit. Prior to this role, Marisa was vice president of global corporate marketing, where her accomplishments included launching a new brand strategy and architecting the development of the company’s first customer-centric data warehouse. She also instituted Gartner’s first data privacy policies and processes, and held the title of Chief Privacy Officer. She began her career at Modem Media, creating online promotional strategies for clients including Ford Motor Co., Godiva, JCPenney and Sears. Marisa received an MBA in marketing from the University of Connecticut and BA from the College of the Holy Cross.
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Deanna Kory
With over 30 years of experience in the real estate industry, Deanna Kory has built a reputation as a hard-working broker with the intellect, knowledge, sensitivity, and expertise to assist clients in realizing their real estate goals. Along with her team, Deanna has sold well over $1.5 billion of residential real estate in Manhattan in the last decade alone. Her team has grown to become a unified and strong presence throughout the city. Deanna was named one of the Top Women in New York Real Estate by Tri-State Weekly and was among the top three salespeople in Corcoran since 2007. She was honored among the city’s real estate elite by Avenue magazine in 2008 and 2009. Deanna consistently ranks within the list of top brokers nationwide every year. A Phi Beta-Kappa graduate of Oberlin, Deanna has been an Upper West Side resident for more than 33 years. View Guest page
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Mike Kosonog
Mike Kosonog is a Detroit-based partner in Deloitte’s Audit and Enterprise Risk Services practice with more than 18 years of internal controls, security, and compliance experience in a variety of sectors and, in particular, energy and resources, and consumer and industrial products. Mike has a broad base of experience from serving clients in external audit, internal audit, and consulting/advisory roles for clients. His area of specialization revolves around risk control and compliance. He has deep experience in assessing and reviewing control environments, addressing critical client remediation needs, providing recommendations, and supporting numerous compliance initiatives. Mike is currently serving as Deloitte’s National Alliance Leader for SAP Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC). View Guest page
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Gwynne Kostin
Gwynne Kostin is Director, Mobile in the Office of Citizen Services & Innovative Technologies at the U.S. General Services Administration. She works with federal agencies to clear a citizen-centric path for mobile access to government. In her previous role as Director of GSA's Center for New Media and Citizen Engagement, she launched the government's free, policy-compliant "build-a-blog" platform apps.gov NOW and the contest platform challenge.gov. As Director of New Media for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Gwynne drove new technologies to solve business problems, creating the department's first social media strategy, developing a cross-agency web communications model for disaster response, and leading new media communications and strategy for the department's 22 agencies. Prior to public service, she spent ten years in new technologies, including founding a successful Internet start-up in an association and leading strategic Web communications in health care and education. View Guest page
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Tom Koulopoulos
Tom Koulopoulos is chairman of the 25-year-old Boston-based think tank Delphi Group. Tom is also a columnist for Inc.com, an adjunct professor at Boston University Graduate School of Management, an Executive in Residence at Bentley University, the past Executive Director of the Babson College Center for Business Innovation, and past Executive Director of the Perot Systems Innovation Lab, which was acquired in 2009 by Dell Computer. Tom is acknowledged as one of the industry’s leading futurists. He is the author of ten books and founder of Delphi Group, a 20-year-old Boston-based think tank, which was named one of the fastest growing private companies in the US by Inc. Magazine. Delphi provides advice on innovation practices and methods to Global 2000 organizations and government agencies.
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Allan Krans
Allan Krans is a senior analyst within TBR’s Software Practice, with focus on cloud services, enterprise security, storage and software markets. He is the project lead for multiple engagements in the software space, directing research that delivers valuable insights into the alignment between customer behavior and the competitive marketplace. He provides analysis and insight on EMC, Microsoft, IBM Software and Symantec as well as contributes to quarterly benchmarking activities, including the Software Vendor Benchmark and the Market Landscape – Public Cloud. Allan is frequently quoted in industry publications such as The Boston Globe, eWEEK, Investor’s Business Daily and BusinessWeek. Prior to joining TBR in 2002, Allan held a project management role supporting the distribution model for a Fortune 100 insurance company. View Guest page
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Michael Krigsman
Michael Krigsman, CEO of Asuret, Inc., a consulting company dedicated to reducing technology implementation failures. A recognized authority on the causes and prevention of IT failures, he is considered an enterprise software industry "influencer” and is frequently quoted in the press on IT project and related CIO issues. Previously, Michael was CEO of Cambridge Publications and has been involved with hundreds of software development projects for small startups to Fortune 500 organizations. He serves on the Board of the America's Cup Hall of Fame and the Herreshoff Marine Museum in Bristol, RI. View Guest page
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Mariano Kristensen
Mariano Kristensen, a Technology Manager at SAP AG in Europe, co-founded the Customer Advisory Office for the EMEA Region at SAP, where he was responsible for the implementation of new strategic products for customers. Working with IT managers and CIOs, Mariano develops strategies for turning future technological innovations into profitable solutions. Earlier in his career, Mariano joined Swedish Ericsson in 1997 where he held various positions in the area of IT and headed a team of enterprise architects at L.M. Ericsson. In 2004 Mariano started his career at SAP Denmark as Principal Consultant in the area of NetWeaver. Shortly after, his international profile resulted in many international assignments for leading European companies all over EMEA. Today, based in Copenhagen, he is working for the Global Business Development in Database & Technology Group, helping customers understand the value of and creating roadmaps for the adoption of Database & Technology Solutions. View Guest page
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Robert Kugel
Robert D. Kugel CFA, is SVP & Research Director - CFO and Business Research at Ventana Research. Rob heads up the CFO and business research focusing on the intersection of information technology with the finance organization and business. His research agenda includes the application of IT to finance and business process optimization – particularly continuous accounting and continuous planning; control systems and analytics; and price and revenue optimization. Previously, he was an equity research analyst at several firms including First Albany Corporation, Morgan Stanley, and Drexel Burnham, and a consultant with McKinsey and Company. Rob was an Institutional Investor All-American Team member and on the Wall Street Journal All-Star list. Rob has experience in aerospace and defense, banking, manufacturing and retail and consumer services. Rob earned his BA in Economics/Finance at Hampshire College, an MBA in Finance/Accounting at Columbia University, and is a CFA charter holder.
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Sascha Kuhlmann
Sascha Kuhlmann, Director Enterprise Architecture, SAP America, Inc. and a member of the Opengroup board of directors, helps customers drive strategic business and IT alignment. Sascha and his team have developed or been part of developing impacting methodologies around Enterprise Architecture and SOA, including Global SAP’s Enterprise Architecture Framework (EAF)-TOGAF 8.1, business-driven SOA roadmaps, Business Architecture Building Blocks, Competency Maturity Models and Business Model Heat Maps. He has lectured on Enterprise Architecture, Portfolio Management, Service Design & Modeling, and Value Management. Since 2008, he is the point of contact for ASUG’s (American SAP Users Group) Enterprises Architecture Special Interest Community. He is also a member of the SAP University Alliance, which consist over 900 universities developing a global EA curriculum. View Guest page
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Janaki Kumar
Janaki Kumar is the Head of Strategic Design Services, America in SAP’s Design and Co-Innovation Center. She leads a team of designers who work directly with customers to transform their user experience. She has over a decade of experience building, coaching, and leading high performance teams to deliver design-led innovation. Janaki is the co-author of the book, Gamification at Work – Designing Engaging Business Software. She has a Masters degree in Information Systems from Boston University and has authored 20 intellectual property patent applications of innovative user experiences.
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Krishna Kumar
Krishna Kumar is an entrepreneur, innovator, visionary and architect with proven expertise in taking a concept to a market-leading industry-recognized commercial product. Within a short period, he has commercialized the product, secured beachhead customers and made the company profitable with 300% quarter-over-quarter growth. Prior to AppOrchid, Krishna was founder and CEO of Space Time Insight and later CTO, a company with over 52M in VC financing. Under his leadership, Space Time Insight created a market called Situational Intelligence. Krishna has extensive experience in building management teams, acquiring marquee customers and securing multiple multi-million dollar deals. He has also successfully envisioned and implemented product roadmaps. Krishna holds two patents on Big Data and has filed for seven patents in the field of Cognitive Computing and 'Internet of Things'. Previously, he was the Vice President of Ness, a Nasdaq listed company, spearheading their SAP practice. View Guest page
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Pankaj Kumar
Pankaj Kumar, Product Manager for SAP Cloud Platform, has been a tinkerer all his life. Give him anything with knobs and dials (physical or virtual) and he can spend days playing with it. Prior to this, Pankaj was in SAP Consulting helping companies move from selling products to products as a service. When not working he can be seen behind a book or kindle or listening to podcasts. He moved to San Francisco bay area in the go-go nineties of Dot Com era and still is fascinated with the immense natural beauty of it even with all the techies roaming around. View Guest page
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Saj Kumar
As Vice President of Digital Transformation and Internet of Things (IoT), Saj Kumar is responsible for delivering sustained value to SAP’s Customers by bringing together SAP’s IoT technologies, innovations, solutions and services. The APJ IoT office drives key initiatives that deliver SAP’s innovations around Internet of Things to our customers. Saj has been with SAP for over 9 years in several roles and was previously Head of Strategic Customers for SAP Asia Pacific & Japan. Saj Kumar is an Industry veteran, starting his career over 28 years ago working with simulation systems. He has many years of direct experience designing and implementing supply chain solutions in the manufacturing industry and has a keen interest in applying constraint-based planning techniques to solve complex manufacturing problems. He has worked with many High-Tech, CPG and Industrial Machinery companies in Supply Chain, Manufacturing and Procurement projects.
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Sanjay Kumar
Sanjay Kumar currently leads the global telecom practice at Hortonworks, helping service providers leverage Hadoop for data at rest and NiFi for data in motion to transform their data assets into a force of business growth and competitive differentiation. He is a telecom industry veteran with extensive experience in the strategy and execution of next generation data-centric industry solutions for enhancing customer experience, real-time target marketing, optimizing network operations and the delivery of new digital services for service providers and network operators.
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Tom Kurtz
Tom Kurtz, Global Director, SAP HANA Services, SAP Americas, has spent the better part of the last decade supporting consulting organizations and customers with their Business Intelligence and data efforts. Prior to his current role, Tom served as the Global Director, Business Intelligence Services for SAP. Leveraging his nearly 20 years experience in the software and software consulting sector, Tom regularly works with the SAP Consulting organization globally on deployments of business intelligence and HANA. His previous roles include Director of Sales Operations at Bravanta, Associate Director at Cambridge Technology Partners, and Senior Consultant at Accenture (Andersen Consulting). View Guest page
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Hadi Labarang
Hadi Labarang is the Managing Director at FSHN, formerly known as BAYFashion magazine, the largest fashion publication in Northern California. FSHN uses a revolutionary approach in connecting brands and fashion-conscious consumers by leveraging their strong online presence and reach of the fashion community. Hadi is also the founder of MyMuseBox.com, a subscription website that offers women the opportunity to sample beauty products from international brands and gives a portion of the proceeds to fund educational projects and access to clean water for children and families in Cameroon (Africa). Hadi has spent most of her life in Saudi Arabia and France, and now resides in San Francisco. View Guest page
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Polly LaBarre
Polly LaBarre is cofounder and editorial director of the MIX (Management Innovation eXchange), a pioneering open innovation project dedicated to reinventing organizations for the 21st century. She is the co-author of the bestselling book Mavericks at Work: Why the Most Original Minds in Business Win and was a member of the founding team of Fast Company magazine (where she was senior editor for a decade). Polly’s writing has appeared in a range of publications and she has delivered hundreds of keynote addresses around the world and has served as business and innovation correspondent for CNN. View Guest page
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Fabiana Lacerca-Allen
Fabiana Lacerca-Allen, President of Ethiprax, a compliance consulting firm, is a speaker and author on leadership and legal/compliance. She has more than 25 years of experience working for leading companies such as Elan, Bristol Myers Squibb, Microsoft, Merck among others in legal and compliance leadership roles including Chief Compliance Officer and corporate board member. She has counseled and represented clients in a broad range of questions, including strategic business initiatives around the world, ensuring compliance with laws and regulations and corporate policy.She has negotiated corporate integrity agreements, deferred prosecution agreements or consent decrees or implemented them globally. She is well recognized in the industry and is a frequent speaker . http://hispanicexecutive.com/2013/fabiana-lacerca-allen/; http://www.theguardian.com/women-in-leadership/2015
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Mike Lackey
Mike Lackey is Vice President of Solution Management, LoB Manufacturing at SAP Labs. He joined SAP in 2008 through the acquisition of Visiprise and has global responsibility for Solution Management, LoB Manufacturing. With previous roles at Visiprise, NetVendor and Teradyne Manufacturing Software Group, Mike’s unique set of knowledge covers both manufacturing software and design collaboration, along with over 20 years of experience in the high tech sector. Early in his career, he was a manufacturing engineer with DCA/Attachmate, gaining invaluable first-hand knowledge and understanding of how SAP’s Manufacturing Product Portfolio helps companies improve their business. View Guest page
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Dan Lahl
Dan Lahl, Senior Director of Product Marketing, Intelligent Enterprise for Sybase, has been with Sybase since 1995 and in high tech for almost 30 years. In addition to bringing to market Sybase SQL Server, Sybase ASE and Sybase IQ, Dan has evaluated emerging technology areas for Sybase, leading to EII, ETL and GRID technology purchases for the company. View Guest page
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Mark Landrosh
Mark Landrosh, SAP PLM & Visual Enterprise Solution Manager, brings his professional experience together to work with customers and developers in the SAP PLM/Visual Enterprise Solution Management group. His background experience covers mechanical and electrical product development from concept to release, discrete manufacturing, product lifecycle management, and information technologies. Over his career, Mark has held various positions as product engineer, CAD Manager, IT Manager, Services Director and Partner Director.
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Marianne Langlois
Marianne Langlois, in her role as a Global Process Executive at NorthgateArinso (NGA), provides leadership and oversight for all global HRO processes within the outsourcing organization. She is responsible for best practice delivery excellence around the HRO process regarding operational practices, product development inputs, performance measurements and continuous improvement to industry standards. Throughout her career at NGA and her prior roles at Convergys, Marianne has become an expert in HRO, BPO, Change Management, Vendor Management, and Talent Management. View Guest page
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Alex Lapusan
Alex Lapusan is currently the CEO and Founding Partner of Zitec.com. Zitec is a tech lab, with a team of over 80 online specialists assisting businesses with custom projects and startups to build their disruptive products. Zitec is also actively investing in such companies – two startups in San Francisco, one in New York, and one in Romania. As such, in the past three years Alex has filled in as CIO or CTO for Media Ventures and Zipongo.com. Before co-founding Zitec in 2003, Alex was a software engineer with United Management Technologies, umt.com View Guest page
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Melissa Lea
Melissa Lea is Chief Global Compliance Officer for SAP Group Companies. She joined SAP in 2002 as Compliance Manager for Human Resources in the U.S. In 2005, she took over Legal Compliance for SAP’s Americas Region. In 2007, she relocated to Walldorf, Germany and accepted her current role. Melissa reports to SAP’s General Counsel, with a dual reporting line to the Audit Committee of the SAP AG Supervisory Board. She manages a team of 26 attorneys located in high risk and high business volume geographies throughout SAP’s subsidiaries. Her team specializes in international laws related to bribery and corruption prevention, competition law, revenue recognition and U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) regulations, international trade compliance, international employment law, and white collar crime. Melissa oversees a network of 83 local subsidiary compliance officers in SAP’s subsidiaries globally. In the U.S., she is a member of the Florida and Pennsylvania state bars. View Guest page
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Anthony Leaper
Anthony Leaper is a software, marketing and sales enthusiast, currently heading the Business Development of SAP’s Enterprise Social Business Organization. With a personal, almost manic, bias to exceed his customers’ expectation, Anthony has the opportunity to influence and get software developed that helps SAP customers improve their customer insight and intimacy in a way that delights and exceeds their expectations Prior roles include leading Go to Market and Solution Management activities for the SAP CRM and Business Suite, and Head of CRM On Demand Product Management for EMEA at Oracle. Before Oracle’s acquisition of Siebel, he was Siebel’s Chief Technology Director for EMEA and was universally recognized as a leading authority on Siebel’s technology and architecture. As a founding member of the Siebel European Sales organization, Anthony specialized in aligning “the art of how people wanted to interact with people” to “the science of technically what was possible.” View Guest page
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Brent Leary
Brent Leary is a CRM industry analyst, advisor, author, speaker and award-winning blogger at BrentLeary.com. He is co-founder and Partner of CRM Essentials LLC, an Atlanta-based CRM advisory firm covering tools and strategies for improving business relationships. In 2009 he co-authored Barack 2.0: Social Media Lessons for Small Business. Recognized by InsideCRM as one of the 25 most influential industry leaders, Brent is a past recipient of CRM Magazine's Most Influential Leader Award. He serves on the national board of the CRM Association, advisory board of the University of Toronto's CRM Center of Excellence, and editorial advisory board for The Atlanta Tribune. He also writes for CRM Magazine, Inc.com and MyCustomer.com. Brent hosts the "One on One" conversation series at SmallBizTrends.com, teams up with Paul Greenberg on the CRM Playaz video show, and hosts Technology for Business Sake on Atlanta’s News Talk 1160 am radio. View Guest page
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Brent Leary
Brent Leary, co-founder and Partner of CRM Essentials LLC, is a CRM industry analyst, advisor, author, speaker and award-winning blogger. CRM Essentials is an Atlanta-based CRM advisory firm covering tools and strategies for improving business relationships. Clients include Microsoft, IBM, Oracle, Intuit, and SAP. In 2009, Brent co-authored “Barack 2.0: Social Media Lessons for Small Business”. Named as one of InsideCRM’s 25 most influential industry leaders, Brent also received CRM Magazine's Most Influential Leader Award. He serves on the CRM Association national board; the advisory boards of the University of Toronto's CRM Center of Excellence and Social Media Today; and The Atlanta Tribune editorial advisory board. He writes for CRM Magazine, Inc.com, and Direct Marketing News. Brent co-hosts the "One on One" conversation series on the CRM Playaz show at SmallBizTrends.com with Paul Greenberg, and hosts “Technology for Business Sake” on Atlanta News Talk 1160 AM radio. View Guest page
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Kijoon Lee
Kijoon Lee is VP of Technology & Innovation Marketing at SAP. He is responsible for a portfolio of new applications that address big data challenges and connect enterprises to consumers in key industries such as retail, sports, media and entertainment. Previously, Kijoon led thought leadership and customer co-innovation initiatives for business network transformation and was also part of the SAP NetWeaver marketing team. Prior to SAP, he was a senior analyst at Cornerstone Research, where he conducted statistical and economic analysis for telecom and high-tech companies engaged in complex litigations such as antitrust and intellectual property cases. View Guest page
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Russ LeFevre
Russ LeFevre is Vice President, Industry Marketing for SAP, managing a team responsible for global go-to-market strategy and marketing program content for multiple industries, spanning public sector, education, defense, healthcare, oil and gas, utilities and mining. Russ has over 24 years of business development, strategy, marketing, sales and management experience with information technology providers, from entrepreneurial start-ups to established, large companies. Prior to SAP, he worked at PeopleSoft, J.D. Edwards, and H.T.E.. He began his career working for the U.S. federal government and formerly held a Top Secret Clearance. A frequent speaker on government policy, management and technology issues, he has contributed to industry, analyst and media organizations, including IQPC, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, the JFK School of Government at Harvard University, Gartner, IDC, Federation of Tax Administrators, Federal Computer Week, and Public CIO. View Guest page
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Mark Lenke
Mark Lenke is the Global Director, CSC Big Data and Analytics, Manager of Pre-sales for CSC business on five continents. Currently a Partner with over 25 years of information systems experience, he serves as a trusted-advisor for clients advising on solution architecture. Mark has spent the last 15 years designing, implementing, and managing business intelligence and data repository solutions in multi-vendor, and domestic and international environments for Fortune 500 companies. Based on his intimate knowledge of finance systems, customer service, and manufacturing operations within organizations, along with the utility and value of sensor data, machine-to-machine, geo and social media content, Mark has provided strategy guidance to executives. View Guest page
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Alicia Lenze
Alicia Lenze serves as head of Global Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) at SAP SE, where she is responsible for technology donations, charitable giving and corporate volunteering. She also oversees SAP’s key partnerships in the policy and opinion-elite space, including SAP’s partnership with the World Economic Forum (WEF). Previously, she was director of corporate media relations and workplace communications. An American citizen, Alicia has lived in Germany for 12 years. She joined SAP in 2004 and is based out of Walldorf, Germany. Alicia previously worked at Apple in Cupertino, CA and attended the University of Virginia. View Guest page
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Gerd Leonhard
Gerd Leonhard is a global citizen of the future who spends his life travelling through worldwide meetings, workshops and conferences on transformational change. A star speaker on topics of major strategic importance – from digital disruption to business remodeling to specific vertical scenarios across public and private sectors – Gerd is a rare hybrid of artist and scientist, with a pioneering background in digital music ecosystems and a head start in the disruption game. “I’ve been a Futurist for more than 15 years, with more than 1500 engagements for over 800 clients in 50+ countries, and an estimated global audience of 1.5 Million people. I focus on 5- to 10-year future scenarios, yet my work is becoming increasingly ‘nowist’, i.e. about the here-and-now, because ‘the future is already here – it’s just unevenly distributed’ (William Gibson). My main theme is the future of technology and humanity.”
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Alan Lepofsky
Alan Lepofsky is Vice President and Principal Analyst at Constellation Research, Inc. As a lead analyst on Constellation's research theme, The Future of Work, Alan focuses on how enterprise collaboration software/social business software can help people Get Work Done. Since 1993, he has been designing, marketing and helping customers deploy software solutions that enable people to connect with their peers and openly share information. Prior to joining Constellation, Alan spent 3 years as Director of Marketing at Socialtext, helping prospects and customers understand how social software can be used to improve core business processes. Before that, he spent 14 years in a variety of roles at IBM/Lotus, ranging from product management in the Lotus brand to supporting the IBM Business Partner ecosystem. He's an active blogger and speaker in the "Enterprise 2.0/Social Business" community, where he shares his thoughts on the business benefits of open communication and collaboration. View Guest page
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Marc Lesser
Marc Lesser is the CEO, founder and board member of SIYLI.org and author of Know Yourself, Forget Yourself. Marc is a long-term Zen student and teacher and has also authored Less: Accomplishing More By Doing Less, and Z.B.A. Zen of Business Administration; How Zen Practice Can Transform Your Work and Your Life, published by New World Library. Marc is founder and CEO of ZBA Associates LLC, a company providing executive coaching, consulting, and keynote speaking services to businesses and non-profits. Clients include Google, Twitter, The City of San Francisco, Stanford, and Global Fund for Women. He was the founder and former CEO of Brush Dance, a publisher of greeting cards, calendars and gift items, with spiritual themes and artwork. He spent 15 years taking Brush Dance from an idea in his garage to a multi-million dollar publishing company, with distribution throughout the U.S. and the world. Marc facilitates retreats for CEO’s, business leaders, and management teams. He has been co-leading Company Time retreats for business leaders for the past 10 years. He was a resident of the San Francisco Zen Center for 10 years and was former director of Tassajara Zen Mountain Center. Marc received his M.B.A. degree from New York University and his Undergraduate degree in psychology from Rutgers University. He is a long-term member of Social Venture Network. View Guest page
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Carl B. Lewis
Carl B. Lewis, General Manager for Vision33 Total Care, is an experienced consultant and respected advisor responsible for managing the backbone of Vision33’s national customer service offering. Vision33 is an award-winning, SAP Gold Channel Partner offering solutions to small and midsized enterprise (SME) customers. As the America SAP User Group (ASUG) Program Chair and first chairperson of the SAP Business One Resellers Partner Advisory Council (PAC), Carl plays an essential role in the development of partner programs. Previously, he served as General Manager of the Pacific Northwest Region for Vision33 and Director of Professional Services and Support for Omega Business Solutions. View Guest page
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Rae Leyshon
Rae Leyshon, Senior Director Industry Marketing for Retail at SAP, is based in Paris. She has worked for SAP for 11 years in various roles, all within the retail industry. Prior to SAP, Rae worked for Retek, a software company based in Minneapolis, and before that, for Oracle. With her marketing, sales and re-sales roles experience, she has worked in global roles for companies in the retail sector. A strategic thinker and results-oriented collaborator with deep knowledge of the retail industry, Rae has a proven ability to deliver high quality marketing assets and programs. View Guest page
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Malin Liden
Malin Liden leads an organization within SAP Marketing responsible for community driven innovation. The goal of her organization is to work with the SAP ecosystem and audiences in an inclusive model to deliver a simplified, world-class SAP experience regardless of digital channel. Her team identifies, tests and pilots new ways to communicate with buyers in the digital age and social economy. Malin is a pragmatic and innovative leader who is known for challenging the status quo. She is passionate about people development and leadership as key disciplines for sustainable business success and believes strongly in mentoring and coaching as powerful ways to achieve diversity and excellence. She reports to a global organization, but is also a member of the APJ Field Marketing Leadership team.
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Scott Liewehr
Scott Liewehr is the President and Principal Analyst at the Digital Clarity Group (DCG), a research and advisory firm focused on helping leaders navigate digital transformation, as well as the elected President of the Content Management Professionals Association. Scott believes digital content is transforming the enterprise, and strives to provide pragmatic advice and clarity to help organizations through the change. He hosts CMS-Connected, a monthly webcast on the relevant news and best practices of the content management industry. Prior to DCG, Scott was the Lead Analyst of the Web Content Management practice at the Gilbane Group. Scott has an interest in helping children with autism and autism-spectrum disorders, and is a board member at the School for Language and Communication Development in NYC. View Guest page
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Paul Lippens
Paul Lippens, Controller for Maui Jim Sunglasses, was born and raised in the US Midwest. After earning a BA in Accounting, he worked for Square D, Schneider Electric and Bomag Americas before joining Maui Jim in 2006. Maui Jim, Inc., is the world’s fastest growing and largest independent polarized sunglass maker, with over 700 employees worldwide and 12 international offices. The company began selling sunglasses on the beaches of Maui, Hawaii in the 1980s. Realizing that their sunglasses could not protect against Hawaii’s severe glare without distorting the beautiful island scenery colors, they developed PolarizedPlus® to wipe out the glare while stoking the colors. From an original line of 7 styles, the company now offers more than 90 styles and over 300 SKUs. Maui Jim world headquarters are in Peoria, Illinois, but ‘spiritual headquarters’ will always be in Maui. View Guest page
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Maribel Lopez
Maribel Lopez, founder of Lopez Research, offers deep industry knowledge and expertise to provide research, analysis and strategic insight to the communications industry. Over the past two decades, she has observed, commented on and engaged in the massive shifts in communications technologies. She has worked directly with the service provider community as well as with equipment, device and software vendors. Prior to founding Lopez Research, Maribel was a respected analyst for more than 10 years at Forrester Research, most recently as Vice President of the tech industry strategies group. She also worked as an analyst for International Data Corporation, and gained practical marketing and operations experience while at Motorola and Shiva Corp. View Guest page
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Michael Lortz
Michael Lortz leads SAP’s Global Governance, Risk, and Compliance Product Marketing team. His team is responsible for crafting and delivering the positioning and messaging; collateral and sales tools; and thought leadership and demand generation marketing programs for SAP’s GRC portfolio. Having been in the GRC field since 1998, Michael has worked with customers on a broad range of risk, compliance, control, and security projects. An expert and a patent holder in the field of continuous monitoring for fraud and misuse, Michael has over 24 years of enterprise software experience. He has worked for enterprise software companies during his entire career. View Guest page
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Brittany Lothe
Brittany Lothe, Head of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) for SAP AG, leads social investment globally for SAP. The SAP social investment portfolio includes talent, technology and capital investments. Brittany also has operational oversight for CSR-related governance, fiscal reporting, executive engagement and various communications. From 2003-2005, she oversaw the SAP America Political Action Committee (PAC) and grassroots involvement. Before joining SAP in 2003, Brittany served as a finance director for Vince Biskupic for Attorney General, and held campaign and legislative roles in the State of Wisconsin and Washington, DC. As part of her commitment to civic involvement, she is an active member of Junior League of San Francisco and is co-advisor of the Lothe Family Endowment and Lothe Family Charitable Fund. Brittany holds an M.A. degree in United States Foreign Policy from the School of International Service at American University. View Guest page
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David Ludlow
David Ludlow is Group Vice President of Solution Management at SAP, focusing on the global Human Capital Management solution strategy and direction for SAP. He leads the team responsible for determining the future strategy of the SAP solutions portfolio that enables organizations to perform better by enabling employees to better manage their careers and performance, managing a borderless global workforce, and delivering HR services as efficiently as possible. David has been with SAP for over 14 years and has more than 20 years of experience in the HR/HCM solutions space, holding various positions in product management, product marketing, and product strategy. Previously he has held leadership positions at Ceridian Employer Services and Tesseract Corporation. View Guest page
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Yvette Lui
Yvette Lui is the Director of Global Data and Audience Partnerships at Facebook, leading a group that builds partnerships around audience solutions. Yvette and team work with third parties to deliver personalized marketing at scale that drive business outcomes for omnichannel marketers. Prior to this role, Yvette led Facebook’s North America Mid-Market Sales team, and before that she spent six years at Google leading Agency Development, Strategic Partnerships for Google Checkout, and Social Media Advertising Sales. Yvette serves on the Executive Committee of the DMA Board of Directors, and was named a Marketing EDGE Rising Star in 2014. She holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration from the University of California at Berkeley. View Guest page
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Scott Lundstrom
Scott Lundstrom, IDC Group Vice President and General Manager - Health Insights, Financial Insights, Government Insights, is a long time industry analyst focused on the transformative and disruptive nature of technology, IT driven business innovation and change in a variety of industries and settings. He is an expert on the emerging third platform, and speaks regularly on the future of cloud, analytics, mobility and social media to transform and radically alter the process and services offered in the marketplace. Prior to IDC, Scott was the Senior Vice President of Research and CTO of AMR Research, where he managed the industry research practice and supported specific vertical industries. Prior to AMR, Scott worked in commercial software development roles in the development tools, integration, ERP and analytics markets. He holds an MBA in Information systems from the NYU Stern School of Business, and an undergraduate degree in information technology from Northeastern University. View Guest page
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Amber Mac
Amber Mac is an entrepreneur, television host, speaker, and bestselling author. She co-hosts the CTV/BNN TV show AppCentral, airing in Canada, Australia, and South Korea; is a regular contributor on CTV News Channel; and writes weekly for Fast Company on social business, digital productivity, and how to work smarter. In reviewing her book, Power Friending, the Miami Herald called Amber Mac, “a virtual Swiss Army Knife of networking ... she demonstrates a deep and practical understanding of the necessity of extending one’s personal and professional presence online.” Amber’s career began at Razorfish-San Francisco during the dot-com boom. Online, she has spearheaded and co-hosted The Social Hour on TWiT.tv network and commandN.tv, reaching approximately 100,000 viewers and listeners a week. Clients of her company, Konnekt Creative Digital Engagement, launched in 2007, include Tony Robbins, Discovery Channel, Microsoft, Canada Goose, American Dental Association, and Genumark. View Guest page
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Kerrie MacPherson
Kerrie MacPherson is a senior professional in Ernst & Young LLP’s Financial Services Office (FSO), NY. She serves as Global Client Service Leader on large clients in the financial services industry. Kerrie is a passionate executive sponsor of EY Entrepreneurial Winning Women—a leadership program designed to help female entrepreneurs scale their businesses. Kerrie previously served as GCSP on other large financial services clients and also as Americas Leader, Transaction Support for the EY organization and has a long history of involvement in initiatives in support of women both within EY and the broader community. Kerrie is an active Board member at City Harvest and currently chairs the Governance Committee and sits on the Executive and Audit Committees. She drives many Diversity and Inclusion Initiatives at EY and represents the Firm on the 30% Club Steering Committee. Kerrie is a frequent speaker on topics involving women entrepreneurs and the value of diversity and inclusion.
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Dan J. Mahowald
Dan J. Mahowald, Vice President, Enterprise Mobility, SAP Americas, Inc. Dan leads the North America Mobility Sales team and works with SAP’s Mobility Development Organization and Americas Executive Team to formulate mobility strategy. Prior to SAP, Dan held executive management positions at Siebel Systems, Inc. and Onyx Software Corporation. He founded the non-profit foundation www.connectedEDU.org to educate high school students on core business disciplines and leadership principles. View Guest page
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Arvind Malhotra
Arvind Malhotra, T. W. Lewis Scholar and Associate Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship at University of North Carolina Kenan-Flagler Business School. Dr. Malhotra’s research includes studying successful innovative organizational and interorganizational structures; adoption of innovative technologies, such as wireless, by consumers and organizations; and management of knowledge in interorganizational contexts. He has consulted, conducted applied research or led executive development workshops with the U.S. Navy, U.S. Air Force, IBM, ExxonMobil, Primax Properties, Sprint, RosettaNet Consortium, American Golf Corporation, Cisco, ING Direct and Cargill Sweeteners. He has received Best Paper Awards from MIS Quarterly, the top information science journal; the Journal of Services Research and Journal of Knowledge Management; and the prestigious Society for Information Managers. View Guest page
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Subhro Mallik
Subhro Mallik is an Associate Vice President and Head – Life Sciences, Americas and Europe for Infosys. Since joining Infosys in 1998, Subhro has held multiple leadership positions in complex areas such as client management and delivery in the Life Sciences and Infrastructure business units. He has worked on large, complex strategic initiatives for clients across multiple services offerings such as management consulting, IT, and BPO services across the globe.
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Pierfrancesco Manenti
Pierfrancesco Manenti leads the IDC Manufacturing Insights research practice in EMEA and is the global lead for the Operations Technology Strategies advisory service. He provides insights, consulting and advisory support to leading manufacturers and specialty IT vendors into the key challenges and trends affecting manufacturing industries, including Automotive, Machinery, Wearing Apparel/Fashion, CPG, and High-Tech – with particular attention to the EMEA region. Pier specializes in Manufacturing Operations, Supply Chains, and Product Life-Cycle strategies. He regularly contributes to the Operations Technology blog on the IDC Manufacturing Insights Community (http://idc-insights-community.com/manufacturing) and tweets (@PierManenti) about business and IT issues relevant to Manufacturing Operations, Supply Chain, Product Lifecycle, IT strategies. A senior executive with about 20 years of industry experience, Pier is a thought leader with a strong focus on the business value of technology in manufacturing. View Guest page
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Michael Maniccia
Michael Maniccia is a Specialist Leader with Deloitte Consulting, LLP in Los Angeles, with over 30 years of experience working to improve the quality and cost of health plans delivered by large employers. Mike has led the development and execution of multi-year health program strategies that address care delivery and management, program costs, benefit design, vendor strategies and employee health promotion. He has linked health strategies to total rewards, talent and workforce management initiatives. He is the point person nationally for Deloitte’s engagements with employer-based wellness programs. Mike began his career in the insurance industry working with employer health contracts, plan design and implementation. He has served as a consultant for 25 years, first with a clinician-led managed care firm, and for 15 years with Deloitte. Mike is a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley.
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Jonah Manning
Jonah Manning is the CEO and Founder of PeopleOps Consulting. He is a serial founder who exited his first company in 2005 at the age of 23. Jonah is very active in the private equity space and is the loudest voice in what he feels is a major shift that is about to hit critical mass in the way companies buy.
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Ralph Marcello
Ralph Marcello is a Principal in Deloitte’s Life Sciences Consulting practice and serves as Deloitte’s BioPharma leader. He has over 20 years of experience, including developing and executing strategic and operational initiatives broadly across the Life Sciences value chain. Ralph has led the development and assessment of innovative collaborations for discovery and early development, led global operating development and design, and executed large scale R&D business model transformations. He has also helped major and mid-sized BioPharma companies expand their markets organically and through M&A, increase their products and services, and develop and execute global operating strategies. Ralph has served over 20 LS clients and has had many leadership roles in LS and across Deloitte. He holds an MBA from Cornell’s Johnson School where he was a Park Leadership Fellow, and aMS and BS degrees in Chemical Engineering from The University of Rochester.
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Michael Margolis
Michael Margolis is an educator, anthropologist and narrative strategist. As CEO of Get Storied, he advises corporate leaders on messaging, disruptive innovation, and complex change adoption. His clients include Google, Deloitte, Facebook, NASA, venture capitalists, and high-growth startups. Over 15 years, Michael has shared his approach with tens of thousands, across 12 countries and 4 continents, who all want to learn -- how tell a better world-changing story. He’s been featured in Fast Company, TIME, and Inc Magazine and speaks regularly at conferences including TEDx, SXSW, and Zappos Insights. Michael is also the author of the Amazon #1 best-seller, Believe Me: A Storytelling Manifesto for Change-Makers and Innovators. You can find him on Twitter @getstoried with over 250,000 followers or enjoy his free email course program at www.getstoried.com/redpill. Michael is left-handed, color-blind, and eats more chocolate than the average human. View Guest page
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Roque Marinho
Roque Marinho is the Director of Enterprise Business Intelligence for Cobb EMC, the second largest EMC in the US. A provider of electricity and gas for about 460,000 households, Cobb EMC is innovative in its use of analytical tools that support the organization. The BI team supports data management, data cleansing, data analysis, and data validation. Mr. Marinho was technical team leader on project Reprint, which earned the “2011 PMI Project of the Year.” He is a frequent guest speaker for companies, universities, and associations. A CalPoly Tech graduate with 20 years of experience in BI, business analysis, and data integration, Mr. Marinho defines BI as “information that provokes action!” View Guest page
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Norman Marks, CPA, CRMA
Norman Marks, CPA, CRMA is Vice President, Evangelist at SAP, focusing on governance, risk management, internal audit, compliance, enterprise performance, and the value of information. Prior to Business Objects’ acquisition by SAP, he was their Vice President of Internal Audit responsible for internal auditing, risk management, the Sarbanes-Oxley Section 404 (SOX) program, and license compliance. Norman has been chief audit executive of major global corporations since 1990, and is a globally-recognized thought leader in the professions of internal auditing and risk management. He is the author of the Institute of Internal Auditors’ “Minimize Costs & Increase the Value of Your Sarbanes-Oxley 404 Program”, described as “the best Sarbanes-Oxley 404 guide out there for management”. He has been honored as a Fellow of the Open Compliance and Ethics Group, and as an Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Risk Management. View Guest page
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Mario Martinez Jr
Mario M. Martinez Jr. is the CEO of M3Jr Growth Strategies, LLC, and is a leading #SocialSelling Evangelist & Keynote Speaker. Counted among some of the top Social Selling leaders in the world, Mario teaches sales leaders, reps, and business owners how to grow company revenues, develop an engaging personal brand, and attract today’s modern buyer using social networks! He has spent the last 72 consecutive quarters in Sales and Leadership, growing and managing hundreds of millions of dollars a year in sales revenue in the Global, Enterprise, Commercial, SMB and Public Sector segments. As a sought-after keynote speaker, he has spoken to crowds of up to 20,000 listeners, and has been asked to speak by brands such as LinkedIn, SAP, and Cisco Capital, to name a few. Follow Mario on LinkedIn at www.LinkedIn.com/in/mthreejr, on Twitter at www.twitter.com/M_3jr and view his website at www.m3jr.com.
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Carrie Maslen
Carrie Maslen is Global Vice President of Small and Medium Enterprises (SME) at SAP. She joined SAP’s North America partner team in 2010, and subsequently moved to a global role responsible for developing partners. Her current responsibility is to ensure that SME’s can compete and grow by taking advantage of SAP solutions. Prior to SAP, Carrie spent over 20 years at Hewlett Packard and five years consulting independently. She was an adjunct professor at the University of Maryland’s School of Business and a guest lecturer at the University of Chicago’s Business School. Carrie has been recognized as one of the ‘100 Most Powerful Women of the Channel’ in 2011, 2013, and 2014, as one of the ‘100 People You Don’t Know but Should’ in 2011, and as one of the ‘Women of the Channel’ in 2014. Carrie contributes to the SAP innovation blog series.
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Nola Masterson
Nola Masterson is the Managing Director of Science Futures Management Company, LLC, a 30-year old investment and advisory firm. She is a biotechnology industry leader and successful visionary thinker with more than 40 years of business experience in the life sciences industry and in venture capital investments. Previously, Nola was a Venture Partner with TVM Capital GmbH, and co-founder and President of Sequenom, Inc. Her affiliations include: chairwoman, board of directors, Repros Therapeutics Inc.; chairwoman emeritus, BayBio Institute; member, American Diabetes Association Leadership Board for Silicon Valley; board member, Stillheart Institute. View Guest page
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Bryan W. Mattimore
Bryan W. Mattimore is cofounder and “Chief Idea Guy” of the Growth Engine Company, www.growth-engine.com, a sixteen-year old strategic innovation agency based in Norwalk, Connecticut. A cum laude graduate of Dartmouth, Bryan has written three books on business ideation and innovation process including Idea Stormers, How to Lead and Inspire Creative Breakthroughs, from Wiley Jossey-Bass; and 21 Days to a Big Idea, from Diversion Books. In his innovation consulting career, Bryan has managed over two hundred successful innovation projects, leading to over $3 billion in new sales for a wide variety of Fortune 500 clients, including Kraft, Unilever, Ford, AT&T, BNY Mellon, LVMH, Merck, and Pepsi. https://www.linkedin.com/in/bryan-mattimore-2aa04b1 Articles and interviews: http://growth-engine.com/media.
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Lorraine Maurice
Lorraine Maurice, Senior Director, Global Indirect Channel Marketing at SAP, is a results-oriented leader with an impressive track record in communications, social media, channel marketing and business development within high tech and telecom industries. For over 25 years, she has defined and managed complex go-to-market channel strategies and developed compelling messaging and content for each step of the buyer’s journey. Lorraine has a strong balance of entrepreneurial thinking and corporate governance, and effectively brings together the right mix of people, resources, and processes to meet the most complex challenges. View Guest page
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John Mayerhofer
John Mayerhofer is Vice President of Innovation at SAP Labs, where he designs programs to cultivate grass roots and open innovation, helps to design apps for sustainable design decision making, and leads the Future of Education research initiative. He was formerly an active volunteer at the Cradle-to-Cradle Innovation Institute, advising on charter, funding, entity formation, and intellectual property. As Advisory Council chair, he provided input on standards development processes, operations, and innovation community development. Design Revolution (www.D-Rev.org) is a non-profit technology incubator whose mission is to improve the health and income of people living on less than $4 a day. John has 20 years of experience delivering and bringing to market software-driven solutions (internet services, mobile, media, platform, enterprise applications, security, cloud, social media) for Oracle, Gain, BroadVision, Westbridge, and VoiceIndigo. View Guest page
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Daniel Mayo
Daniel Mayo is the practice leader for Ovum’s global financial services technology team, covering the retail and corporate banking sectors and financial markets industries. He specializes in core systems, payments and compliance, and IT spending/ investment trends across North America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific and has experience working in both the European and North American theatres. Daniel has authored and/or managed research and analysis studies across the retail, private and corporate banking, and financial market technology sectors, and has worked closely with leading US and European financial institutions around IT benchmarking, investment strategies, and IT governance. He has extensive research experience with and knowledge of financial institutions and the supporting vendor community across Europe and the US. He is frequently quoted in both US and European press. Daniel holds an MA and BA in Economics from Cambridge University.
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Thomas “Tom” F. McAllister
Thomas “Tom” F. McAllister brings a 35+ year financial services career to his role as a Senior Industry Principal in the Financial Services group at SAP America, Inc. He has held C-level positions on both the client and vendor sides of the banking, financial services, and information technology industries. Prior to SAP, Tom was COO Americas and Corporate Senior Vice President for System Access, a global provider of retail, wholesale and treasury systems to the financial services Industry. His executive leadership roles have included CIO and Head of Operations, Bank of Ireland U.S. Holdings; CIO, Capital City Bank Group; Head of Global Services, Sanchez Computer Associates; System Services Manager, NCR Corporation; and Vice President, Banking Solutions and Field Services Hub, SAP America, Inc. Tom is the author of industry articles on business transformation and solution migration within the shifting bank processing landscape. View Guest page
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Nicole McCabe
Nicole McCabe is a Senior Director of Global Diversity & Inclusion at SAP, and is a transformation leader who leverages diversity & inclusion to drive business change. She is responsible for the creation and execution of programs that support SAP’s overall target of 25% women in leadership by 2017. Nicole has over 20 years of marketing, M&A, and technology experience. Nicole’s programs have been recognized inside and outside of SAP, including an ongoing Women’s Professional Growth webinar series which she Executive Produces to support career development for women. This series has had over 9,000 participants in 2 years, and a reach of 43 countries. She is the founder of Women@SAP, an internal community that is 9,600 members strong. View Guest page
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Richard McCammon
Richard McCammon, CEO at Delego Software, is a foremost expert in electronic payment security and SAP integration. In 1994 Richard began working with the SAP system. In 1997, he became an independent consultant working with major corporations in Canada. In this role, Richard saw an opportunity to produce world class payment card integration software for merchants using SAP, giving way to the Delego Suite of products. Delego Software was certified as a solution by SAP in early 2000. Richard was the driving force behind Delego Software and creating solutions for Fortune 5000 companies. He has presented to the American SAP User Group (ASUG), SAPPHIRE NOW & ASUG Annual Conference and SAPInsider. Richard is a key influencer in card-not-present best practices and processes as a leading member of ACT Canada’s Strategic Leadership Team defining the future of Authentication and Tokenization. He holds Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Chemical Engineering from the University of Waterloo.
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- Encore: Game-Changers 2017 Predictions -- Part 2
- Game-Changers 2017 Predictions -- Part 2
- Bitcoin/Blockchain: Hype or Hope for a New Secure Cryptocurrency?
- Security Breach Threat Analysis and Intelligence: Just Voodoo or Real?
- Fighting Cyber Crime Part 2: Staying One Giant Step Ahead
- Beyond IT: Your Fight Against Cybercrime
- Data Security Breaches Part 5: Your Digital Transformation - Security First!
- Data Security Breaches Part 4: Wising-Up to Real-Life Impacts
- Data Security Authentication in the Age of Credit Card Breaches - Part 3
- Data Security in the Age of Credit Card Breaches – Part 2
- Data Security in the Age of Credit Card Breaches
James McClelland
James McClelland is the Senior Global Director of SAP Utilities & Energy Industry Solution Marketing. His responsibilities include sales strategy and go-to-market programs for the global utility industry; supporting the interaction between sales force and key industry segment customers to ensure effective, ongoing product and solution communication; acting as market advocate and spokesperson for utilities strategy, including customers, prospects, industry groups, partners and analysts; driving sales and pipeline generation programs for global industry community; product strategy and direction; and all media, publication and analyst relations. He was previously Regional CRM Sales Manager of North American Strategic Accounts at Oracle Corporation, and Senior Director of Solution Selling at Siebel Systems before it was acquired. Prior to 2000, James held management and executive positions with SAP Utilities in Asia Pacific and the Americas. He has worked in the utilities industry for over 25 years managing industry applications and creating business strategy for utilities deregulation.
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Jen McClure
Jen McClure is the senior director of social media strategy for Thomson Reuters, the world's leading source of intelligent information for businesses and professionals in the financial, legal, tax and accounting, healthcare and science and media markets, powered by the world's most trusted news organization. She also serves as president of the board of directors of the Society for New Communications Research, a nonprofit research and education foundation that focuses on the latest developments in media and communications. A communications professional with over 25 years in media and communications, Jen’s career includes journalism, market and media research, media relations, PR, strategic communications and publishing. Twitter @jen_mcclure. View Guest page
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Kevin McCollom
Kevin McCollom is Global Solution Owner for SAP GRCS. He and his team are responsible for market requirements roll-in and solution go-to-market. In close collaboration with SAP GRC Product Development, he and his team are also globally responsible for general management of all SAP GRCS solution aspects including solution strategy and roadmap. Mr. McCollom has held this role since 2011 and has been part of the SAP GRC management team since 2007. Kevin has over 30 years of Enterprise software experience and has been with SAP since 1996. During that time, Kevin has held several strategic positions. He is also the former CEO and co-founder of Revenue Analytics Incorporated, a Michigan-based consulting firm specializing in strategic planning and consulting to health-care institutions. He holds his degree in Information Technology, Summa Cum Laude, from Walsh University. View Guest page
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Kevin McConnell
Kevin McConnell, Machine Learning Solutions, GTM at SAP, is responsible for packaging, pricing and helping partners, customers and SAP build solutions with Predictive Analytics. He started in the direct sales organization in 2014, then moved to the global team in 2015. Before joining SAP, Kevin held various leadership positions creating and driving solutions built with advanced analytics. These include Director of Analytic Alliances at HP Enterprise, Director of Industry Solutions for SAS, CRM Analytics Management Consulting at Cognitive Box. Kevin has a degree in Finance and Economics from Millersville University of Pennsylvania.
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Bruce McCuaig
Bruce McCuaig, B Comm. CA, CRMA, CCSA, is Director, Solution Marketing for SAP Governance Risk and Compliance Solutions. Prior to SAP, roles included Vice President, Risk and Compliance with Thomson Reuters, and a partner in CARD®decisions, a small software and consulting firm with a global practice in risk management and control design acquired in 2004 by Paisley/Thomson Reuters. Bruce has served as Chief Auditor of a major oil company and in senior finance and accounting positions in the oil and gas business. He has extensive experience advising clients in implementation of enterprise risk management initiatives and the use of GRC technology in risk management initiatives. Bruce has written extensively on GRC for 15 years, recently contributing to Sawyer's Guide for Internal Auditors, 6th edition (IIA Research Foundation). Bruce served on the board of a $130 million not for profit home health care organization as Board Chair, Audit Committee Chair and Finance Committee Chair. View Guest page
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Eileen McDargh
Eileen McDargh is CEO, Chief Energy Officer, The Resiliency Group. Since starting her consultancy practice in 1980, Eileen has become known as a master facilitator, award-winning author of seven books, and internationally recognized keynoter and executive coach. She draws upon practical business know-how, life's experiences and years of consulting to major national and international organizations ranging from global pharmaceuticals to the US Armed Forces, from health care associations to religious institutions. Executive Excellence magazine continually ranked her as one of the top 50 thought leaders in self-leadership development. Britain-based Global Gurus International named her to the World’s Top 30 Leadership Professionals following a global survey of 22,000 business professionals. Eileen’s election into the CPAE Speaker Hall of Fame places her among the top 3% of speakers in the US. She is a recommended expert through the Sloan Work and Family Research Network at Univ. of Penn.
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Barbra McGann
Barbra McGann is a Managing Director, Research at HfS Research. Barbra is passionate about helping organizations articulate their vision for impact and their strategy for achieving it. Her scope of work covers the business process outsourcing and emerging “as a service” market, particularly for Health Care, Life Sciences, and Government. Barbra’s background includes 20 years at Accenture where she tracked, analyzed, and advised on market and competitive moves and meaning, and worked with Accenture leadership to develop strategies for growth. Currently at HfS Research, she is working on an analysis of the business process support services market for Healthcare, to be published as an HfS Blueprint in 2015
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Jill McGillen
Jill McGillen, best known for her weekly work advice column, “Ask Jill,” and her skills as a presenter, trainer and consultant to Bay Area and global organizations, founded San Francisco-based Next Turn in 2001 in the midst of a highly successful business career. She now shares her passion for leadership training and team building. Jill is one of 15 individuals in the United States certified as a Wiley DiSC® behavioral style instructor. She created the Calm in Conflict™ resolution e-learning program, and is an active blogger. Jill has been a guest lecturer on Leadership, Conflict and Influencing at the University of San Francisco and Golden Gate University. She holds a Master’s Degree in Instructional Technology. View Guest page
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Sheila McGovern
Sheila McGovern is a Partner in the Human Capital Management consulting practice of IBM Global Business Services. She is the global SAP SuccessFactors leader for IBM and is responsible for thought leadership, go-to-market activities and delivery for all SuccessFactors consulting engagements worldwide. In Ms. McGovern’s 20+ years of experience, she has assisted clients with transformational initiatives across Supply Chain, Financial and HR functions. In her years specializing in HR, she has assisted clients with complex, global HR transformation initiatives encompassing HR organizational and service delivery model changes, organizational change management, process standardization, and the implementation of enabling technology.
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Scott McKain
Scott McKain helps organizations create distinction in every phase of business and teaches how to deliver an “Ultimate Customer Experience®.” He creates captivating presentations and bestselling books which clearly reveal how to create more compelling connections between you and your customers, and how to stand out and move up, regardless of the economic climate in your industry. One of about 150 living members of the Professional Speakers Hall of Fame, he was recognized by Social Media Marketing Magazine as one of the 50 most influential marketing authors on Twitter, and by GenJuice, a leading resource for emerging professionals, as one of the “Top 25″ people for Gen Y and Millennial leaders to follow on Twitter. In his book, Create Distinction, Scott shows how organizations and professionals create differentiation in the marketplace. In his earlier career as a broadcast journalist, two million people saw his commentaries each week in the United States, Canada, and Australia. View Guest page
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Greg McStravick
Greg McStravick is the President of Database and Data Management at SAP, leading development and go-to-market teams for SAP’s core digital innovation platform—SAP HANA—as well as Sybase databases (including ASE and IQ), EIM, Middleware, and HANA Vora. Formerly, Greg led the go-to-market teams and strategy for some of SAP’s largest and fastest growing businesses including SAP HANA Platform, Analytics, Database, and HANA Cloud Platform. With more than 20 years of progressive experience as a leader in technology solution sales management and strategy, Greg has held senior leadership positions throughout SAP, including President, U.S., where he was responsible for driving customer success and developing new opportunities for SAP to expand its business across the entire U.S. region.
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Bill Medsker
Bill Medsker began his career as a production manager in feature films working with, among others, director Brian de Palma, actors Robert DeNiro and Dennis Hopper, and the American Film Institute. He shifted into television commercial production as an Assistant Director for clients as diverse as Sony, Microsoft, the U.S. Army, General Motors, AT&T, McDonald’s, Budweiser, Kodak, Hallmark, Proctor and Gamble and Nintendo. He has managed the delicate balance between advertising agencies, directors, technicians, and talent, including a partnership with director Michael Grasso. In 1991 he became President of Velocity Films, a division of Harmony Holdings. In 1995 he joined Johnson Burnett Productions, a bi-coastal production company with 100+ commercials annually. Since 2005 he has worked with Prologue(LA) Film World(Milan) and directors John Frankenheimer, and Kyle Cooper. Recently, Bill has worked with Sandy Smolan on sponsored documentaries for non-profits such as the Gates Foundation.
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Dr. Arie Meir
Dr. Arie Meir is a Technology Program Manager in Google.org, the philanthropic arm of Google. Arie is a part of the technical team of Google.org which focuses on applying engineering know-how and product expertise to help social entrepreneurs use technology to tackle some of the world's largest challenges.
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Amr El Meleegy
Amr El Meleegy is a Sr. Director of Product Marketing at SAP. Amr joined SAP in 2010 and focuses on evangelizing SAP HANA applications including SAP S/4HANA, SAP’s next generation business suite. He received his MBA from the Haas School of Business at Berkeley and earned his Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Cairo University. Before joining SAP, Amr held various engineering and presales roles in the telecom industry. View Guest page
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Ahsiya Posner Mencin, Ph.D
Ahsiya Posner Mencin, Ph.D. is Co-Founder and Director of the PULSE Volunteer Partnership at GSK. She worked in international development, corporate social responsibility, leadership development and organizational change for over 15 years in the public and private sectors, and at grassroots and policy levels. She joined GSK in 2006 in the R&D Strategy Office, and then designed and launched the PULSE Volunteer Partnership in 2009, motivated by the opportunity to bridge public and private sectors towards achieving positive sustainable change, especially in the health and education arenas. Ahsiya received her doctorate in International Relations from The Fletcher School at Tufts University. She worked for various NGOs in the US, Africa and the Middle East, and also taught at the high school and university levels, before pivoting to the private sector. View Guest page
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Alan F Mendel
Alan F. Mendel, Vice President of Strategic Consulting, Sales and Marketing, Co-Founder of LeverX, Inc., is responsible for the company’s strategic consulting practice, sales and corporate marketing. He is a recognized worldwide authority, author and frequent speaker on methodologies and technology solutions for product lifecycle management (PLM) throughout the extended enterprise and supply chain. He works with mid-sized and large enterprises to identify product lifecycle challenges and how to adopt PLM industry best practices and leverage their SAP solution investments to meet business objectives. Alan has spent almost three decades consulting internationally on the development, use, implementation, and market for solutions to address the product lifecycle. He has assisted SAP since the mid-1990s in the specification, development and worldwide launch of SAP PDM and PLM programs. Alan has a B.S. in Design Engineering and Technology from Brigham Young University.
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Daniel Meszaros
Daniel Meszaros, Prime Mover Portal, Mobility and UX for Maersk Group, works in the Group HR IT function within The Maersk Group, a Danish business conglomerate. Apart from being responsible for the SAP HCM Netweaver self-service portal (ESS & MSS) at Maersk, he is also heading up two HCM mobile app implementation projects. Daniel believes that creating an engaging user experience always starts with the user interface. In his job he aims to ensure that all products reaching end users are easy to use, and have a modern and appetizing look and feel. View Guest page
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Sherryanne Meyer
Sherryanne Meyer is a work in progress! She has been a Human Resources specialist, Technology Manager, a writer and speaker – and currently serves as the expert for Human Resources business processes and technology at Americas’ SAP Users’ Group (ASUG). Her passion is connecting people and ideas to create meaningful and sustainable change in business. Sherryanne is the author of the High Heeled Standards blog (www.highheeledstandards.com) and is also the volunteer Vice President of Power Chords Music – Mentors for our Youth [www.powerchordsmusic.com].
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Jonathan Middup
Jonathan Middup is a partner in Ernst & Young’s Fraud Investigation and Dispute Services. He has been carrying out fraud, bribery and corruption, and regulatory investigations for the last sixteen years, leads the investigation team outside London and is head of Anti-Bribery and Corruption in the UK. Jonathan has liaised with government and enforcement bodies across the world including the SFO, FSA, Department of Justice, SEC and FBI. He is a forensic accountant who speaks and is published regularly on fraud issues. View Guest page
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Joe Miles
Joe Miles, SAP Global Vice President, Life Sciences Industry, utilizes his diverse business and consulting background with Life Sciences companies to lead SAP’s global life science practice. Joe has helped life science companies enable key business processes to achieve their operational objectives, regulatory compliance mandates and strategic financial goals. This includes automating and extending enterprise business processes through innovative new technologies such as enterprise mobility and in-memory computing, which analyzes billions of records with sub-second response times to put real time performance metrics on a mobile device anywhere in the world. Those innovations improve performance, reduce inefficiencies and mitigate risk across the enterprise. Joe holds a Masters degree in operations management from Loyola University of Chicago and a Bachelors in business administration from the University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign.
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- The Behavior Side of Preventive Medicine: Workplace, Employees and Pharma
- Pharma and Preventive Medicine: Future or Failure?
- Health Wearables – Just Hype or Revolutionary for Patients?
- Counterfeit Medical Products: Stop the Madness
- Pharma and Technology – Part 2
- Pharma and Technology: Higher Outcomes, Lower Costs
Robert M. Miller
Robert M. Miller has been the executive director of the National Fragile X Foundation since 1999. He has 40 years of experience as a teacher and administrator in the fields of early intervention, special education, mental health and nonprofit/human service. His work has included programs for children from abuse and neglect backgrounds, as well as work in economically disadvantaged areas of the U.S. Robert was instrumental in the formation of the Fragile X Clinical & Research Consortium, and in the Collaboration to Promote Self-Determination, a national collaboration formed to improve the lives of all adults with intellectual disabilities. In addition to his activities at the national level, Robert has worked with a number of groups and organizations throughout the world on the establishment of national parent support networks and clinics for Fragile X. View Guest page
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Jessica Miller-Merrell
Jessica Miller-Merrell is the Founder of Bloging4Jobs.com, a workplace resource for HR professionals and business leaders. The site was listed as a top 75 career resource by Forbes Magazine. Jessica is the president and CEO of Xceptional HR, a digital workplace technology and consulting agency, and a published author of Tweet This! and most recently The HR Technology Field Guide. Jessica is listed as the 7th most powerful woman on Twitter. Because of vast industry expertise and knowledge, Jessica’s professional opinions and expertise are sought after and sourced by publications and media including: Forbes, CIO Magazine, CBS, Entrepreneur Magazine, and SHRM’s HR Magazine.
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Elizabeth Milne
Elizabeth Milne has over 20 years of experience improving the software solutions for multi-national, multi-billion dollar organizations. Her finance career began working at Walt Disney then Warner Bros in the areas of financial consolidation, budgeting, and financial reporting. She subsequently moved to the software industry and has held positions including implementation consultant & manager, account executive, pre-sales consultant, solution management team at SAP, Business Objects and Cartesis. She graduated with an Executive MBA from Northwestern University’s Kellogg Graduate School of Management. In 2014 she published her first book “Accelerated Financial Closing with SAP.” She currently manages the accounting and financial close portfolio for SAP Product Marketing. View Guest page
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Tim Minahan
Tim Minahan is Senior Vice President, Network Strategy and Chief Marketing Officer for Ariba, an SAP Company. A pioneer in business-to-business collaboration, he created the market for business networks and the vision for the networked economy – a world in which companies leverage the power of social and business networks and advanced analytics to enhance collaboration, insights, and productivity. Tim is responsible for the strategy behind the Ariba Network, the world’s largest and most global business network, and for the design and execution of effective messaging, go-to-market programs, and marketing initiatives to fuel its growth. He joined Ariba from Procuri, Inc., where he served as senior vice president of Marketing. Prior to Procuri, Tim served as chief services officer at Aberdeen Group, where he helped build Aberdeen’s Supply Chain Research practice. Tim has thrice been named one of Supply & Demand Chain Executive’s Industry Pros to Know.
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Dr. Ann Mirabito
Dr. Ann Mirabito is Associate Professor of Marketing at the Hankamer School of Business at Baylor University where she teaches the MBA Marketing Strategy and the EMBA Healthcare Marketing courses. Ann has won several teaching awards including the Rachel Hunter Moore Award for Outstanding Woman Faculty at Baylor University. A nationally recognized scholar on the use of marketing science to improve consumer well-being, her research is published in Harvard Business Review, Journal of Service Research, MIT Sloan Management Review, as well as Annals of Internal Medicine and other leading business and medical journals. Her research focuses on ways people perceive risk, quality, value, and fairness, particularly in healthcare contexts. Dr. Mirabito holds a PhD from Texas A&M University, an MBA from Stanford University, and a BA from Duke University. She has an extensive corporate background including executive responsibilities at Time Warner, Frito-Lay, and other companies.
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Jillian Mirandi
Jillian Mirandi is an analyst in TBR’s Software Practice and is responsible for reporting on the software and cloud landscapes. Her research is focused on customer and vendor deliverables around go-to-market strategy, investment strategy, geographic strategy, competitive intelligence and product comparison. Prior to joining TBR, Jillian was a research analyst at OpenView Venture Partners, an expansion stage venture capital firm with a focus on high-growth software, cloud, Internet and technology-enabled companies. At OpenView, she researched sub-$10-million companies in the emerging and high-growth markets, such as cloud, to determine strong venture capital investments. Jillian initiated and worked with the firm’s partners to close the investments of Balihoo and Kareo. Jillian’s analytical commentary has been quoted by sources such as InformationWeek, eWEEK, and company and analyst blogs. View Guest page
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Kevin Mitchell
Kevin Mitchell is a Core 2 MBA student with a concentration in Finance at Baylor University. He also attended Baylor for his undergraduate degree, majoring in Economics. A fun-loving, "football fanatic", Kevin played collegiate ball at Baylor for five years, originally starting as a walk-on. In his free time, he enjoys binge-watching House of Cards and The Walking Dead. After MBA graduation, Kevin plans to immediately start work with a company where he can add value.
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Scott L. Mitchell
Scott L. Mitchell is the chair of OCEG, a global nonprofit community with over 40,000 members, creating authoritative resources for achieving Principled Performance by integrating the governance, assurance and management of performance, risk, compliance and ethics (GRC). He is also an angel investor with exits to NCSOFT, DHX Media, SkillSoft, and SonicWALL/Dell. View Guest page
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Lori Mitchell-Keller
Lori Mitchell-Keller is senior vice president of SAP’s Global Industry Business Unit for Retail, leading solution management for all SAP Retail solutions. Her team focuses on delivering end-to-end solutions that help customers build unified channels, consumer-driven supply networks, consumer insight, and integrated merchandising and marketing. Previously at SAP, Lori led Line-of-Business Solution Management for Idea-to-Delivery, overseeing delivery of end-to-end solutions in supply chain management, product lifecycle management, manufacturing, procurement, operational performance management, and business networks. Before joining SAP, she spent ten years in leadership positions with Manugistics, most recently as chief marketing officer and senior vice president of product management, product marketing, and corporate marketing. Earlier in her career, she worked in supply chain management roles for Baxter Healthcare, Allegiance Healthcare, and AT&T Consumer Products Laboratories. View Guest page
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Kaustav Mitra
Kaustav Mitra is the VP and Global Program Lead for SAP Startup Focus. He has over 10 years of leadership experience in a managed services firm plus hands-on experience in every aspect of startup and post-startup businesses. Kaustav’s 24 years in technology cover various aspects of the IT industry, including P&L management, CxO level communications, contract review and negotiation, key account management, team leadership and collaboration, strategic marketing / business development, and recurring revenue business models. His broad industry and product management technology expertise focuses on system design, systems administration, and needs analysis. Kaustav’s previous roles include Director, TIP Chairman Projects for SAP, General Manager and Senior Consultant at mitra IT, and VP, Strategy and Business Development at F. A. Systems. View Guest page
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Sina Moatamed
Sina Moatamed is the Principal Consultant for Unified Clouds, where he helps mid-sized and large enterprises with their cloud computing efforts. In his previous role as CIO of a mid-sized manufacturing company, Sina restructured all IT infrastructures to the cloud through the use of Software, Platform and Infrastructure as a Service offerings , transforming the IT department from traditional IT delivery to an agile service-focused partner of the business. In 2010 he received the Managing Automation Progressive Manufacturing 100 award and in 2011, the CIO 100 award for executing business strategies with agility by leveraging cloud services. Sina wrote the blog series, “Building a Cloud Ecosystem,” describing strategies for engaging cloud services. He has appeared as a panelist at Bloomberg, SAP, and Inc. Magazine conferences. View Guest page
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Lil Mohan
Lil Mohan is an entrepreneur and academician with a passion for bringing great technology products and services to life. As a member of the faculty at University of Chicago Booth Graduate School of Business, he brings a variety of experiences from his work at Amazon, Intel, Infosys, Motorola, and two successful high-tech startup companies: Junglee and Snapstick. In his career so far, he and his teams have successfully brought to market several new products and services into the E & M-Commerce, Retail, Mobile SaaS, and Digital Media & Entertainment sectors. Lil was General Manager of Amazon's mobile platform BU, where he and his team built and brought to market the world’s first retail M-Commerce application Amazon Anywhere, enabling customers to find and buy products on their mobile devices. Lil has a PhD from Purdue University, an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad and a BS in EE from the Indian Institute of Science.
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Sean Molloy
Sean Molloy is Industry Solution Principal for the Industrial Machinery & Components, Automotive, and Mill Products industries at itelligence, Inc. With over 25 years of manufacturing industry experience, Sean is responsible for industry thought leadership which, he and many talented professionals collaborate to create industry solutions for manufacturers and bring them to market. Additionally, he is responsible for creating personalized digital transformation roadmaps for Industrial equipment OEM’s and manufacturing organizations that employ & operate machines in their production facilities. Sean has been a speaker at many industry events and has published on Manufacturing.net and in Contract Manufacturing & Packaging Magazine. He blogs at http://itelligencegroup.com/us/author/seanmolloy.
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Joel Monegro
Joel Monegro is an investment analyst at Union Square Ventures (USV), where he focuses on developing the firm’s blockchain thesis and investment strategy. USV is widely recognized as a blockchain thought leader among venture capital firms. The firm’s investments in blockchain companies span multiple markets and applications of the technology, from online wallets and exchanges like Coinbase and GDAX to decentralized marketplace protocols like OpenBazaar. Before joining the firm in 2014, Joel worked for the government of the Dominican Republic as Manager of the Digital Economy Department, responsible for public programs to support the local startup ecosystem and developing policy around areas such as cybersecurity, internet access, and digital payments.
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Felipe Monteiro
L. Felipe Monteiro is an Assistant Professor of Management at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. He holds a Ph.D. in Strategic and International Management, LL.B. (JD equivalent) cum laude, M.Sc. in Business Administration, and MRes in Business Studies. Previously, Professor Monteiro was a Fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), and a Senior Researcher at the Harvard Business School’s Latin American Research Center. Prior to academia, he was a Senior Analyst at Banco do Brasil, advising foreign companies investing in Brazil. His research focuses on knowledge processes within multinational corporations (MNCs), and how MNCs access external knowledge across organizational, technological and geographic boundaries. He has received the “Goes Above and Beyond the Call of Duty” Teaching Award for outstanding contributions and commitment to educational excellence in the MBA core curriculum, and the Wharton Undergraduate Excellence in Teaching Award. View Guest page
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Chris Moore
Chris Moore is the Chief Information Officer at the City of Edmonton, Canada, providing vision and leadership of the city’s information and technology direction. Chris continues to partner with local and global organizations to foster Edmonton’s role as a technology leader. In addition to being a founding member of the World eGovernments Organization, he has spoken to audiences all over the world about his experience and ideas for technology in government. Chris has fulfillment and freedom in his work and as a leader desires to see those around him attain fulfillment and freedom as well. Described as transformational, innovative, disruptive and refreshing, he is an advocate of an Open Ecosystem, Open Gov and Open Data. Chris desires to see his team embrace innovation, pursuing the possible and building the future together. View Guest page
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Naima Mora
Naima Mora reached international fame and broke into the world of high fashion modeling after winning the title of America’s Next Top Model (2008). An all-time ‘fan favorite’, she has shot photo spreads and landed on the covers of high profile magazines around the world. Naima has walked the runway for some of fashion’s top designers and been the face of world-known cosmetic lines such as Cover Girl. She is also an emerging singer/songwriter and front woman for the band Galaxy of Tar; a published author (“Model Behavior” is her first book); and has taken on the challenge of connecting with people through her music, literary pursuits, and online and in social media, sharing young people’s stories of how and why they are able to achieve impossible pursuits and overcome great adversity. Naima uses her evolving brand Model Life™ to share that collective voice. Technology plays a significant part in how she engages with people all over the world. View Guest page
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Brian Moran
Brian Moran, Founder & CEO of Brian Moran & Associates, is dedicated to helping entrepreneurs to run better businesses. Brian is leveraging his 20-plus years of experience in publishing magazines for business owners (The Wall Street Journal, Inc. magazine, Entrepreneur magazine) to assist entrepreneurs with everything from social media to accessing growth capital to expanding into the global marketplace. In August 2012, Brian was given the prestigious Lou Campanelli Award at SCORE’s national conference in recognition for his years of service in the small business market. In 2012 and 2013, Brian was named one of the top 100 SMB Influencers in the country by Small Business Trends & Small Biz Technology. He is a graduate of Marquette University’s School of Journalism. www.SmallBusinessEdge.com View Guest page
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Jennie Moreau
Jennie Moreau uses theatre training to coach executives and create dynamic leadership, team building, and communications workshops. She also trains speakers virtually and in face to face sessions. Representative clients include Americas’ SAP Users’ Group (ASUG), Stanford dschool, Steel Dynamics Inc., Depression BiPolar Support Association (DBSA), Public Communications Inc. (PCI), Dominican University, Diamond Consultants, and speakers for TEDxiit. Jennie has worked extensively as an actor onstage, and in film and television. In New York, she worked at such theatres as Manhattan Theatre Club, Second Stage, and Minetta Lane. In Chicago, she has performed at Steppenwolf, the Goodman Theatre, and Victory Gardens. She has done numerous commercials, episodic television shows, and independent films, and has taught actors at Acting Studio Chicago, Victory Gardens Theatre and Act One Studios.
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Mike Morel
Mike Morel joined SAP in the Business ByDesign team in November 2010. Previously, Mike was a manufacturing manager on the factory floor and a vertical marketing director at various companies including Hewlett Packard, BEA, ILOG, and Adobe. He has also been a marketing consultant, working with small-to-medium sized companies to develop go-to-market strategies. His extensive experience is in ERP, Supply Chain and PLM. View Guest page
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Ella Morgulis
Ella Morgulis works on solution management team for Duet Enterprise software developed jointly by SAP and Microsoft. She engages with customers , partners and sales force to help close deals and successfully implement solutions built on Duet Enterprise platform. She also works on marketing materials and social media marketing, publishing blogs on SAP SCN pages. Prior to earning her MBA degree, Ella worked in various technical roles at a various startups in Silicon Valley, and as a project manager at Autodesk. She holds a civil engineering degree from the Moscow Railroad University and MBA from Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley. Ella manages http://scn.sap.com/community/duet-enterprise, moderates http://www.linkedin.com/groups/Duet-Enterprise, and manages the Facebook Duet Enterprise page and YouTube SAPDuetEnterprise channel. View Guest page
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Henry Morris
Henry Morris, Senior Vice President for IDC's Worldwide Software and Services research groups. Dr. Morris started the Analytics and Data Warehousing research service at IDC, and coined the term "analytic applications" in 1997. He led a major study on the financial impact of business analytics, examining the ROI of analytics projects at 43 sites in North America and Europe. He is now exploring the relationship between business intelligence and business process automation - "intelligent process automation" - and the requirements for unified access to structured and unstructured data. Dr. Morris has been quoted in and written for Forbes, Computerworld, and KMworld, on trends in business intelligence, business performance management, data warehousing, knowledge management, and enterprise applications. View Guest page
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Lauren Moser
Lauren Moser is currently an MBA/M.Div candidate at Baylor University. Prior to pursing her MBA at Baylor, Lauren worked as an organizational development intern for OtterBox in Fort Collins, CO where she also received her undergraduate degree in business management at Colorado State University. She currently serves as the community service chair for the Graduate Business Association and is a member of the Baylor MBA case competition team. Lauren will enter seminary in the Fall of 2015 and hopes to pursue a career in organizational development consulting for churches and faith-based non-profits after graduation.
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Christophe Mouille
Christophe Mouille has been with Accenture for more than 25 years and has held numerous leadership positions within Accenture’s SAP practice. In his current role, he is responsible for driving Accenture’s SAP business globally. Christophe has worked on some of the world’s largest and most complex SAP implementations with a focus on business transformation. He is focused on expanding the Accenture SAP business across Accenture’s key industry segments and geographies, building upon Accenture’s SAP methodologies, assets and tools, and continuing to deliver new and innovative business solutions. Christophe maintains Accenture’s executive relationships with SAP and leads a team of more than 42,000 SAP practitioners around the world. View Guest page
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Martin Mrugal
Martin Mrugal is a Global Executive with SAP, leading the Manufacturing Industries and Solutions business globally. Previously he served as National Vice President and General Manager responsible for Mid-sized Enterprise Solutions and Products, directing the North American strategy, launch and execution of the new Business ByDesign software as a service (SAAS) solution. Martin joined SAP in October 1998 as a Business Development Manager - Manufacturing, playing a pivotal role consulting with SAP manufacturing customers to transform their businesses using SAP software solutions. Client deliverables included detailed studies on total cost of ownership, return on investment and business strategy. Prior to SAP, he spent 12 years at Consolidated Rail Corporation (Conrail), where he successfully started new lines of business, analyzed complex supply chains for industrial manufacturing companies, and developed new distribution strategies and facilities. His clients he included DuPont, GM, Ford, Chrysler and American Honda. View Guest page
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Emily Mui
Emily Mui is a Sr. Director of HANA Cloud Product Marketing at SAP, with more than 13 years of product management and product marketing experience in business intelligence and data warehousing. At BusinessObjects and SAP, she led several successful product suite launches, managed BusinessObjects User Conferences and BI tracks for SAPPHIRE NOW, and served as the lead BI contact with ASUG. Emily was also the SAP lead for many “Xcelsius” (SAP Dashboards) community activities. Her areas of expertise include dashboards, visualization, mobile BI, real-time BI, predictive analysis, big data and cloud computing. Emily has also worked passionately with customers and partners to share their successes. She holds a B.S. in managerial Economics from U.C. Davis and an M.S. in Industrial Administration (MBA) from Carnegie Mellon University. View Guest page
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Karuna Mukherjea
Karuna Mukherjea is currently a Senior Director of Product Marketing in SAP’s Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) team. She has extensive experience with Finance and EPM applications. Karuna specifically focuses on new technologies like Cloud and Mobility and how it relates to Finance. She is a regular speaker at SAP events and other industry marketing events and webinars mostly commonly speaking on Finance and Analytics Innovation topics. Prior to joining SAP she spent a decade at Oracle responsible for product management and strategy of BI applications for Finance Organizations. She holds an advanced degree in Accounting as well as an MS in Finance.
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Arnab Mukherjee
Arnab Mukherjee is a Senior Technical Lead, reporting to the IT Director for Enterprise Applications at Varian Medical Systems. Arnab is responsible for Application Support and executing projects in the sphere of SAP PLM Applications. Areas under his purview at Varian include the SAP Engineering Change Record, SAP PLM CAD Integration, EHSM for Product Compliance, and SAP Visual Enterprise. Arnab has nine years of expertise in the SAP domain, six of which are on transformation and global SAP implementation projects and three in the SAP PLM domain. Prior to joining Varian, Arnab was a Senior Consultant with the SAP practice at Deloitte Consulting, where he was part of four major transformation projects. Arnab presented Varian’s PLM story at the 2014 SAP Insider event in Las Vegas and was very well received. He is due to speak at the SAP EHS conference in New Orleans in Feb. 2015 around how Varian uses SAP EHS for managing its product compliance requirements.
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Surya Mukherjee
Surya Mukherjee is a Senior Analyst for Ovum’s Information Management team, responsible for the analysis of enterprises’ business intelligence technology investment priorities, market forecast models, and product and vendor evaluations, as well as the delivery of research-based consulting projects relating to the information management software markets. Prior to joining Ovum, Surya worked as a strategy analyst with Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, the global consulting and auditing company. He has authored a series of competitor research pieces on business intelligence (BI) and keynoted for Ovum’s Big Data conference. Surya has also explored the software-as-a-service (SaaS) aspect of many traditional applications and initiated the coverage of SaaS BPM. At Deloitte, he closely tracked the semiconductor, semiconductor equipment, packaging and test, and materials sectors globally. Prior to Deloitte, Surya was an analyst in Evalueserve, a leading research company in India. View Guest page
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Barry Murphy
Barry Murphy, a Co-Founder and Principal Analyst with The eDJ Group, is a thought leader in information governance, eDiscovery, records management, and content archiving. Previously, Barry was Director of Product Marketing at Mimosa Systems, a leading content archiving and eDiscovery software, and Principal Analyst for eDiscovery, records management, and content archiving at Forrester Research. Barry is an active member of AIIM (Association for Information and Image Management) and ARMA (formerly Association of Records Managers and Administrators). View Guest page
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Ina L. Mutschelknaus
Ina L. Mutschelknaus is a Director of Solution Management with SAP BusinessObjects’ Enterprise Information Management products, working on information governance and end-to-end use scenarios. Her nearly 15 years of experience with EIM include managing data cleansing, matching, profiling and assessment, Master Data Management (MDM) and user experience. Ina also runs the EIM Influence Council, a customer council providing bi-weekly feedback to SAP. She is the SAP leader for both the ASUG Data Governance Special Interest Group and the ASUG Data Management Special Interest Group. View Guest page
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Haig R. Nalbantian
Haig R. Nalbantian is Senior Partner at Mercer and a founder of its Workforce Sciences Institute. A labor economist, he has been instrumental in developing Mercer’s unique capabilities to measure the economic impact of human capital practices, applied in projects he directed for leading organizations worldwide. Previously, Haig was at National Economic Research Associates, Inc. and taught economics at New York University, where he was a research scientist at its C.V. Starr Center for Applied Economics. A leading authority on human capital measurement and management, he co-authored the prize-winning book on evidence-based human capital management, “Play to Your Strengths” (McGraw Hill, 2004). His HBR article (with Rick Guzzo), “Making Mobility Matter”, won the Academy of Management’s 2010 Award for Outstanding Practitioner-Oriented Publication. In 2012, he co-authored the World Economic Forum-Mercer study, Talent Mobility Good Practices: Collaboration at the Heart of Economic Growth. View Guest page
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Lauren Nelson
Lauren Nelson, Analyst at Forrester Research, focuses on the infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) space. Since mid-2011, she has published market overviews on both public and private IaaS clouds, the future of cloud standardization, and evaluating cloud computing as a green technology. Over the past three years, Lauren has conducted hundreds of end-user interviews and vendor product demos for this space. View Guest page
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David Nero
David Nero is Director of Technology for the City of Boston Department of Innovation and Technology (DoIT). DoIT is the City of Boston’s enterprise technology organization that provides solutions to empower business partners across City departments and deliver services more efficiently and effectively. DoIT is focused on connecting the City, engaging and empowering citizens, improving business processes, working collaboratively and continuously innovating. David’s role allows him to cross all facets of the organization and provide leadership in developing strategies for business solutions and core technology investments. He participates actively in driving critical projects to successful completion, and is spearheading efforts to develop and sustain an Open Data platform as well as a Business Analytics/Data Management platform. View Guest page
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William “Bill” Newman
William “Bill” Newman, Managing Principal and Co-founder of Newport Consulting Group, is an author, professional speaker, writer and consultant with over 25 years of experience in strategy and IT planning across multiple industry sectors. A Certified Management Consultant since 1995, he has led consulting practices at Booz & Company, DMR Consulting, KPMG BearingPoint, and Grant Thornton. His strategy work with high growth companies – software start-ups, services firms, associations and green techs – has made him a leader in developing mindshare and market share in North America, Europe and globally. Bill was a national board member of the Institute of Management Consultants (IMC USA), and currently serves on the Michigan Association of Certified Public Accountants (MACPA) Management Consulting Taskforce and the McKinsey Quarterly Executive Panel. He is a recognized SAP BusinessObjects Influencer by the Americas SAP User Group (ASUG) in EPM, GRC, Sustainability and mobile computing. View Guest page
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Eric Newmark
Eric Newmark is the Program Director of commercial life sciences research at IDC Health Insights, based in Boston, Massachusetts. He provides research-based advisory and consulting services, as well as market analysis on key topics across the commercial life science spectrum, including areas such as supply chain, channel management, sales, marketing, and revenue management. Prior to IDC, Eric’s career touched several aspects of the life sciences, including application development, management consulting, and technical project management. He is a widely recognized thought leader, quoted by such media outlets as Investor's Business Daily, CIO Insight, Supply & Demand Chain Executive, RFID Journal, Bio-IT World, and Pharmaceutical Commerce. Eric holds a BS degree in MIS and Finance from Babson College, as well as an MBA from the Boston University School of Management, with a certification in Strategic Business Analysis.
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Bob Nicols
Bob Nicols, AXIOM Sales Force Development CEO, has 34 years of experience in sales, sales management, executive management and sales force development. He founded Burton Training Group, now AXIOM Sales Force Development, in 1990 after being a top and highly recognized performer in sales, sales management and executive positions in the technology sector. He has managed and mentored thousands of sales people, sales managers and senior managers and been responsible for hundreds of millions of dollars in sales. For more than 21 years he has developed and delivered sales programs that have become the standard for many Fortune 100 companies including AT&T, BellSouth, Disney Enterprises, Alltel, Verizon and ESPN. AXIOM programs have been implemented in over 30 countries. Bob is the developer of AXIOM’s “Selling Sciences ProgramTM” and co-author of the “Selling Sciences” CD series. View Guest page
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Tinna C Nielsen
Tinna C. Nielsen, an anthropologist and social entrepreneur, passionate about designing societies, organizations, cultures, and behavior to be inclusive, is the Founder of Move The Elephant For Inclusiveness www.movetheelephant.org and Co-Founder of Inclusion Nudges Global Community of Sharing www.inclusion-nudges.org. She is an internationally recognised specialist in inclusion and diversity, and designing behavioural and cultural change. The World Economic Forum selected Tinna as a Young Global Leader in 2015, to be a part of a community defining solutions on global challenges for the next 6 years. She is also the co-chair of the World Economic Forum Global Future Council for Behavioural Science. Together with business partner Lisa Kepinski, the inclusion nudges approach was named ‘Top 10 Diversity consultants’ by the Global Diversity List supported by the Economist. Tinna is a fellow at the Royal Society of Arts and works as a volunteer for the UN Global Compact and UN Women. View Guest page
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Mark Noronha
Mark Noronha is the Startup Engagement Lead, Startup Focus Program @ SAP. He is responsible for enabling startups building (Big) Data, Intelligence, Predictive & Real Time products bring their innovation to SAP’s Enterprise customers. In a career spanning almost twenty years in the Silicon Valley, his experiences have had him create, transform and manage Enterprise and consumer-focused organizations at the intersection of Design, Data &Technology. Mark is also a Co-Founder of Raaya Design, an Innovation & Design firm based in San Francisco. He has a Bachelor of Computer Engineering Degree from the University of Pune, India, and is an avid reader, loves the outdoors, questions, answers and problems that need solving.
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Elvia Novak
Elvia Novak is a New Jersey-based Director in Deloitte’s Audit and Enterprise Risk Services practice with more than 25 years of experience with 19 focused on internal controls, security, and compliance experience in a variety of sectors and, in particular, life sciences, consumer & industrial products. Elvia has a broad base of experience from serving clients in external audit, internal audit, and consulting / advisory roles for global clients. Elvia has leveraged her prior experience in supply chain and manufacturing to help her clients secure and control their global SAP deployments. Elvia’s area of specialization revolves around risk control and compliance. Elvia has deep experience in information technology audits, assessment of control environments and addressing critical client remediation needs, providing recommendations, and supporting numerous compliance initiatives.
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Sean O'Driscoll
Sean O'Driscoll is the co-founder and CEO of Ant's Eye View, leading efforts to evolve and recruit the best talent to meet client demands. He works with enterprise clients covering the financial services, insurance, computer hardware, software, network, telecom, retail, food and beverage, and professional services industries. Experienced in working with senior level executives in marketing, corporate communications, support and business operations, Sean focuses on envisioning, transformation and strategic direction. Previously, in his 15-year career at Microsoft Corporation, he was most recently General Manager, Community Support Services, responsible for developing social media and community-based support models and leading the global Microsoft MVP program to award amazing individuals in technical communities around the globe who share a passion for technology and the spirit of community. Sean is co-chair of the influencer council for the Word of Mouth Marketing Association. View Guest page
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Sean Patrick O’Brien
Sean Patrick O’Brien is Global Vice President for Urban Matters & Public Security at SAP, with responsibility for SAP’s global strategy, solutions portfolio, eco-system and go to market activities in relation to smart cities and public safety/security. His focus is the launch of a new SAP Urban Matters program for best run cities, including urban innovation around cloud, mobile, analytics, real time and next generation government strategy. Previously, Sean led a regional SAP business startup for public security across the EMEA region, working with public security clients in the UK, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, South Africa, Netherlands, Nordics, Romania, Poland and the European Union, including police, disaster management, ministry of interiors, intelligence, fire, and border agencies. In his early career, Sean worked in the SAP UK public sector division, and was a Military Scientist in the Royal Army Medical Corps and a Senior Police Officer. View Guest page
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Sean Patrick O’Brien
Sean Patrick O’Brien is Global Vice President for Urban Matters & Public Security at SAP, with responsibility for SAP’s global strategy, solutions portfolio, eco-system, and go-to-market activities in relation to smart cities and public safety/security. His focus is the launch of a new SAP Urban Matters program for best run cities, including urban innovation around cloud, mobile, analytics, real time and next generation government strategy. Previously, Sean led a regional SAP business startup for public security across the EMEA region, working with public security clients in the UK, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, South Africa, Netherlands, Nordics, Romania, Poland and the European Union, including police, disaster management, ministry of interiors, intelligence, fire, and border agencies. In his early career, Sean worked in the SAP UK public sector division, and was a Military Scientist in the Royal Army Medical Corps and a Senior Police Officer. View Guest page
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Chris O’Connor
Chris O’Connor is co-founder and CEO at Taptera. A builder at heart, he enjoys creating teams, systems and companies. He is passionate about improving employees’ relationships with their software and had 15 years’ experience bringing innovative IT solutions to Fortune 500 companies. During his 8 year tenure at Genentech, Inc., Chris held various senior roles including Associate Director of Cloud and Mobile Solutions and Principal Systems Architect. Chris holds a BSc. in Nuclear Engineering from the University of Illinois. View Guest page
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Anthony R. O’Donnell
Anthony R. O’Donnell, Executive Editor, Insurance Innovation Reporter, has been an observer and commentator on the use of information technology in the insurance industry for nearly 15 years. As a reporter he has followed industry technology trends in the property/casualty, life and annuities, and health insurance sectors. In 2013, Anthony founded Insurance Innovation Reporter (IIR), an online magazine reporting on technology disruption in the insurance industry. He has published in many media brands including Insurance & Technology, Bank Systems & Technology, InformationWeek and Claims. As a contributing editor to The Economist, he recently authored the Economist Intelligence Unit reports, “The Way Forward, Insurance in an Age of Customer Intimacy and Internet of Things” (Oct. 2014), and “How Mobile Is Transforming Insurance: From Protector to Partner” (Jan. 2015).
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Michael O’Farrel
Michael O’Farrel is the founder of The Mobile Institute and Vice-Chairman at ooober. He is co-author of the Mobile Internet For Dummies book and serves on the board of the Mobile Experience Innovation Centre. Over the last 20 years, Michael has played a key strategic role in the launch of innovative new mobile products and services internationally with organizations including Accenture, Google, Microsoft, Nokia, RBC Financial, and Visa, and with mobile network operators globally including Bell, Rogers, Telus, and Vodafone. Michael’s specialties include mobile strategy, mobile industry advisor, mobile industry alliances and partnership. In his spare time, he loves golfing, fishing and playing tennis, as well as visiting the theatre. View Guest page
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Michael O’Farrell
Michael O’Farrell is the founder of The Mobile Institute and Vice-Chairman at ooober. He is co-author of the Mobile Internet For Dummies book and serves on the board of the Mobile Experience Innovation Centre. Over the last 20 years, Michael has played a key strategic role in the launch of innovative new mobile products and services internationally with organizations including Accenture, Google, Microsoft, Nokia, RBC Financial, and Visa, and with mobile network operators globally including Bell, Rogers, Telus, and Vodafone. Michael’s specialties include mobile strategy, mobile industry advisor, mobile industry alliances and partnership. In his spare time, he loves golfing, fishing and playing tennis, as well as visiting the theatre. View Guest page
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Tim O’Malley
Tim O’Malley, President of EarlySense Inc. for two years, has steered the company into commercialization of the innovative EarlySense Sensor based, Contact Free Patient Monitoring System, designed to assist healthcare professionals in avoiding adverse events with patients. Tim's career started at Siemens Medical Systems, where he spent 16 years and held positions in Technical Support, Technical Management, Sales, Marketing and General Management. He has been privileged to work with innovative technologies dedicated to helping clinicians improve patient care. He was also CEO of a public sensor-based NIBP Company, and has successfully led commercial teams. Through his career, Tim has worked with clinicians and healthcare systems to develop intersections of care between patients, caregivers and technology, which when applied through proper process management has proven to produce incredible results in patient care, outcome improvements, patient well-being and favorable cost positions.
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Fergus O’Reilly
Fergus O’Reilly is Chief Solution Expert for the SAP Billing and Revenue Innovation Management solutions and takes care of product strategy for that area of the SAP portfolio. He joined SAP in 2009 when SAP acquired Highdeal, where he was the CTO. Originally from Ireland, Fergus is based in the south of France. Hear Fergus and Camille Mendler of Informa chat about M2M during the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Feb 2012: www.youtube.com/watch?gl=US&v=8dsfksMCAeo. View Fergus’ whiteboard talk on the challenges of monetizing the hyperconnected world: www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPQyqrZDeng. View Guest page
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Barbara Ocain
Barbara Ocain, Global Strategic Advisor, SAP SuccessFactors, has a diverse background including CHRO for multinational organizations, psychologist, board member, and court appointed mediator and working at market leaders including SAP, Siemens, Time Warner, and LexisNexis. She holds significant in-depth expertise in the areas of legal compliance, global human resources, leadership development and training, labor and employee relations, and strategic organizational planning enabling rapid business growth. Barbara earned her MA and Ed.S. in Education from Georgia State University, and her J.D. from the University of Denver School of Law where she received the John Phillip Linn Labor Arbitration Law Award and the American Jurisprudence Labor Law Award. Barbara is a frequent speaker globally on topics of human resources regulatory compliance, HCM globalization and localization, employment litigation, and data privacy. View Guest page
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Brian Ocampo
Brian Ocampo is a senior manager in the Advisory Services practice of Ernst & Young LLP, with over 16 years of experience as a business process and internal controls professional. He assists organizations in transforming their risk and compliance functions to better manage and control risks across the enterprise in a well-coordinated manner. From a technology perspective, he has extensive experience in SAP governance, risk, and compliance SAP controls and security. Brian possesses a well-integrated knowledge of finance, IT, and compliance. His experience spans many sectors with a focus on life sciences, consumer, and industrial products and media and entertainment companies.
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Tanya M Odom
Tanya M. Odom is a global consultant, coach, writer, author, and thought leader. She has worked globally as a consultant and facilitator for over two decades focusing on areas including: Innovation and Creativity, Civil Rights, Diversity and Inclusion, Teambuilding, Mindfulness, Coaching, Inclusive leadership, Girls’ Leadership Development, and Youth Empowerment/mentoring. Tanya’s unique portfolio career has allowed her to work in the education, private sector/corporate, not-for-profit/NGO, law enforcement, and university/college arenas. She is the co-author of "Evaluation in the Field of Education for Democracy, Human Rights and Tolerance.” Tanya is a frequent contributor to the Huffington Post, where she has written posts about diversity, leadership, self-compassion, and mindfulness. Tanya also writes for cnn.com. Tanya’s work and commentary has also appeared in several publications including Diversity Woman Magazine, Bloomberg News, and The Village Voice.
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Rohit Ohri
Rohit Ohri graduated from Northeastern University in 2006, and has worked in Higher Education IT since graduation. He currently works at Boston College ITS and is an Evening MBA Student in the Carroll School. View Guest page
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Akin Oladipo
Akin Oladipo is a highly motivated individual whose personal belief rests in creating value. He believes that the purpose of each individual is to add value to everything and everyone in his or her environment. Presently an MBA candidate at Baylor University, he was previously an Operations Officer in Guaranty Trust Bank in Nigeria, starting as a teller and later heading the customer service unit of a branch. He achieved the highest rating in the bank and won an award for the Most Focused Transaction Officer. He also led a team of transaction officers across three states in Nigeria. Prior to that, he worked as an Accounts officer in Oshodi Local Government, Lagos, Nigeria where he performed outstandingly and was personally referred by the Local Government Chairman. For Akin, the most important question is ‘Why?’. Arnold loves digging deep into issues and seeing beyond the surface. He is regarded as an insightful person who sees things other people will overlook.
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Dror Orbach
Dror Orbach, COO, Illumiti, is an international high-tech executive with more than 30 years of experience in management consulting, business operations, software development, IT architecture, marketing and product management. As Chief Operating Officer, Dror shares the day to day oversight of Illumiti’s business with the CEO. He is responsible for Illumiti’s Consulting operations, Customer Support, Marketing, R&D, Human Resources, Administration and IT. Dror is also a member of the Supervisory Board of United VARs, a global alliance of SAP channel partners comprising more than 30 resellers of SAP solutions covering more than 70 countries. Dror’s past work experience includes senior executive positions at Amdocs (NYSE: DOX), Accenture (NYSE: ACN) and a number of other software and services companies. Dror has worked with customers and colleagues in Canada, United States, South Africa, France, Israel, and the United Kingdom. He holds a M.Sc. in Computer Science and a B.Sc. in Mathematics.
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Dan Ortega
Dan Ortega, Senior Director of Product Marketing for Mobility Products for Sybase, an SAP company. Dan’s 25 years of experience includes senior level marketing with Fortune 500 technologies for Wang Labs and Sun Microsystems, where he was responsible for product management/marketing for secured communications and enterprise software systems. Previously, at Centigram Communications, he introduced mobile services to markets in Europe, Asia/Pac, Latin America, and the Middle East. For over a decade, Dan was a VP of Marketing for a series of successful start-ups in the mobile and analytics domains. View Guest page
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Tobias Ortwein
Tobias Ortwein, PAC (Pierre Audoin Consultants) Germany, Senior Vice President, Project Services & SAP Services Markets, focuses on the global project services market. He is in charge of PACʼs SAP Services Research Program at the global level and delivers strategic consulting to clients. From 2006-08, he served as Managing Director of PAC Germany, responsible for PACʼs entire business in the Germany/ Austria/ Switzerland region. Previous roles include Account Manager at Unilog-Integrata and Branch Manager for Amadeus IT Consulting, both in Munich, Germany. His areas of expertise include the project services industry, marketing and strategic consulting projects, M&A consulting, and key account management. View Guest page
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Thomas Otter
Thomas Otter is the Vice President of Product Management for Employee Central at SuccessFactors, an SAP Company. In May this year, he joined SuccessFactors from Gartner, where he was a Research Vice President covering human capital management (HCM) technology. He was also Gartner's lead analyst on SAP from 2009 to 2011. He has a strong background in HCM trends and technologies, including core HR, payroll, talent management and workforce analytics. He also has a deep interest in shared services and business process outsourcing, and new technologies such as social software, mobile, analytics and cloud computing can improve HR and overall organizational performance. Thomas also has experience European HCM compliance issues, such as data protection law. Prior to joining Gartner, Thomas worked at SAP in a variety of roles, including business development, sales and key account strategy. He has extensive experience in global HR technology deployments, especially with larger multinational organizations. He grew up in South Africa, has worked in the US and the UK, but now lives in Heidelberg, Germany. Thomas holds an LLM in Computer Law, a PDM in HR Management and a BA (hons) in Political Science.
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[L to R:] Otto Schell, GM; Mike Wittenstein, Storyminers; Jennifer Engelhardt, IBM; Larry Stolle, SAP View Guest page
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Alaa Owaineh
Alaa Owaineh, Senior Analyst, Energy and Sustainability Technology at Ovum. Alaa focuses on the utilities industry and the role of information technology in its transition to greater economic and environmental sustainability and efficiency. Previously, he was an Analyst at Datamonitor Technology and Ovum for five years, then left in 2009 to pursue a Master’s degree in Business Strategy and the Environment at Birkbeck College. He also worked for BBC Media Action at Bush House researching the use of IT to facilitate international development. Returning to Ovum in 2012, he is applying his experience as a technology analyst and his knowledge of business sustainability to his work. Alaa is also pursuing a PhD on the greener future of the utilities sector at the University of Surrey. View Guest page
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Dr. Josef Packowski
Josef Packowski is co-founder and CEO of the CAMELOT Consulting Group, a management consultancy for value chain management focusing on the pharmaceutical, chemical and consumer goods industry. CAMELOT started in the US and Germany 20 years ago and is today an internationally operating partner organization with over 1,400 consultants. Since 1992 Josef dedicated his professional mission to consulting and supply chain management (SCM) where he holds a doctoral degree in business and information technology. He is actively involved as a lecturer for SCM at the Mannheim Business School. He is a recognized visionary leader for supply chain management and has worked with designated industry clients throughout the globe. Due to his industry expertise, Josef is a regular speaker at international supply chain conferences. A recent area of focus has been his latest publication "LEAN Supply Chain Planning” envisioning a paradigm change in planning and coordinating Supply Chains. View Guest page
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Deidre Paknad
Deidre Paknad is the CEO and co-founder of Workboard, which helps companies operationalize and achieve their strategies with greater velocity and agility. She works directly with large enterprise customers on digital transformation and sustainable agility – her great fun and joy. Workboard is the third company Deidre has founded and led as CEO. Her last company, PSS Systems, helped organizations navigate treacherous conflicts in litigation rules and IT practices. It was acquired by IBM in 2010, where Deidre went on to lead a very high-growth global business for several years. Deidre has a long history as a thought leader with 17 patents, as founder of an industry organization for corporate CIOs and GCs that IDC calls a “think tank.” She has twice been inducted into the Smithsonian Institution for innovation. She has lived in Palo Alto, the epicenter of change, for 20 years.
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Dr. Paul Pallath
Dr. Paul Pallath, Chief Data Scientist & Senior Director with the Advanced Analytics Organization at SAP, has over 20 years of experience in Machine Learning. Paul has several research publications in the field of Machine Learning & Data Mining in International Journals and conferences, and has also invented several patentable ideas. He has a Master’s Degree in Computer Applications with Gold Medal, and PhD in Machine Learning, both from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi.
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Nish Pangali
Nish Pangali leads Technology and Acceleration Programs within SAP’s Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) organization. Her approach to the company’s mission of ‘helping the world run better’ is to leverage the power of SAP to build capacity of global NGO’s and Social Enterprises, and accelerate their mission and impact. Nish started her career in the non-profit sector, consulting on education reform initiatives. After returning to school to receive her M.B.A, she continued developing her business and leadership skills at several Bay Area companies including SAP, before transitioning to the CSR organization. View Guest page
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Dr. Theresa A. Pardo
Dr. Theresa A. Pardo is a globally recognized expert on Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Innovation in government. She serves as Director of the Center for Technology in Government at the University at Albany, State University of New York, and holds research professor appointments in Public Administration and Policy and Informatics. Under her leadership, the Center works closely with government, civil society, research, and industry teams to carry out applied research and problem-solving projects focused on the intersection of policy, management, and technology in the governmental context. She is president-elect of the Digital Government Society and serves on national and international advisory and editorial boards. Her written work received the 2008 Best Paper of the Year Award from the Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, and Best Paper Award in the E-Government Track at the 2009 Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. View Guest page
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Sam Parikh
Sam Parikh, Managing Director SAP Practice, Deloitte Consulting, is a seasoned leader in Deloitte’s Technology practice. Sam brings a strong business and finance background with over 20 years of experience driving large-scale Finance Transformations enabled by SAP. As a collaborative leader, he works closely with finance leaders through all aspects of the transformation – from developing a vision and an integrated design through successful implementation and user adoption. Sam is a hands-on coach and mentor, skilled in leading change and guiding programs with complex risks and stakeholder implications. He also brings deep experience in architecting SAP transformation programs including developing/selling a case for change, evaluating application portfolio, aligning leadership vision with transformation objectives and leading programs through successful completion. Currently Sam leads Deloitte’s S/4 HANA Finance Capability for the West Coast SAP practice.
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Simon Paris
Simon Paris, Global Head of Banking at SAP, is responsible for SAP´s end-to-end footprint and ambition in the banking market, which today covers more than 3,000 banking clients. Simon´s management team incorporates all industry, development, support, partner and other SAP organizations. Leveraging SAP´s unparalleled set of solutions, capabilities and global capacity, the overall objective for Simon and the banking leadership team is to help banking customers in two main dimensions: transform their legacy core applications to meet the industry drivers of regulatory compliance, reduced cost and complexity, and increased customer centricity; and accelerate their modernization, standardization and innovation to more rapidly address the IT drivers of cloud, big data, mobile, consumerization of IT and social media. View Guest page
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Bob Parker
Bob Parker is a group vice president at IDC, responsible for the research direction at IDC Manufacturing Insights and IDC Retail Insights. These industry business units provide global, fact-based research and analysis on best practices and the use of information technology that helps clients improve their capabilities in key process areas. Bob blogs regularly in the IDC Insights Community (http://idc-insights-community.com). Before IDC, he served as a research vice president at AMR Research, launching the most successful new program in the company's history - e-commerce research. Previously, Bob was Managing Director at TDI, a technology-based company that included distribution, systems integration, and Internet Service Provider (ISP) business units. He was also corporate CIO at Eastern Technologies, a manufacturer serving the defense and commercial vehicle industries, and division CIO at the Acoustic Research business unit of International Jensen.
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Jewell Parkinson
Jewell Parkinson serves as a member of the North America Management team providing HR leadership across the region for all board areas as well as leading the HR Business Partner organization. In this capacity, Jewell leads with credibility and acts as a trusted advisor providing consultation and delivery of solutions which enhance organizational capability, develop amazing talent, support leadership development initiatives linking people and business strategy to results. Jewell is a 19-year veteran of SAP and has spent the vast majority of her career as an HR Business Partner supporting various cross functional business units at both the regional and global level. She has a thorough understanding of the SAP business and the intricacies of the business environment. Jewell earned her BA in Psychology and Business Administration from Millersville University of Pennsylvania and a Masters of HR Development at Villanova University. Jewell is based in Newtown Square, Pennsylvania.
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David Parrish
David Parrish is SAP’s Senior Global Marketing Director for the Industrial Machinery & Components industry. Before joining SAP, David held various product and industry marketing positions with J.D. Edwards, PeopleSoft, and QAD going back to 1999. Prior to J.D. Edwards, Dave held transportation, warehouse, manufacturing, purchasing, and materials management roles in the industrial, automotive, and medical device sectors. Dave has a B.S. in Advertising from the University of Illinois-Urbana, an MBA in Transportation Management from the University of Colorado-Boulder, and a Certification in Production and Inventory Management (CPIM) from the American Production and Inventory Control Society (APICS). View Guest page
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Sanjay Parthasarathy
Sanjay Parthasarathy invests in early stage startups, with recent investments in Buuteeq, GaMa, DocSuggest and Skift. He is currently working on a startup called Indix. Sanjay was at Microsoft for 19 years, most recently as corporate VP of the Startup Business Accelerator, a new division he created to focus on building startups for Microsoft. From 2000-07, he was corporate VP of the Developer & Platform Evangelism Group, where he built the D&PE division from 0 to over 1,500 people worldwide and grew Microsoft’s developer tools business from $500 million to $1 billion. Sanjay served as regional director of Microsoft South Asia from 1996-98 and directed Bill Gates’ first-ever visit to India in 1997, which led to a massive expansion of Microsoft’s activities and investments in India and had a catalytic effect on the Indian software industry. Sanjay was the Tamil Nadu Cricket Association junior school cricketer of the year in 1980 and a recipient of the S.W. de Allwis Trophy. View Guest page
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Susanne Passante
Susanne Passante is Vice President of Business Integration Services for Day & Zimmerman, reporting directly to the CIO. Suzanne is a dynamic senior leader with proven leadership capabilities to help businesses realize and sustain the full potential of organizational, process and technology changes. She has extensive experience in organizational development, process optimization, project management, HR shared service operations, technology implementation, and measuring ROI. A highly skilled change leader with an energetic, hands-on style, Suzanne has a passion for supporting business leaders and developing high-performing teams to achieve extraordinary results aligned to the business’ strategic goals. She is currently part of a strategic business initiative using design thinking as the catalyst to transform core business processes enabled by SAP. View Guest page
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Sameer Patel
Sameer Patel is the GM/Global VP for SAP's Enterprise Social Software Business. Sameer leads "Project Robus", SAP next generation social software products. Previously he worked with some of the leading organizations in the world helping them execute business objectives via the use of social and collaborative concepts and technology. Sameer has been cited in publications such as CNBC Business, The New York Times, CIO.com and Forbes on the promise and pitfalls of collaboration, and trends in enterprise and social software. He blogs at http://www.pretzellogic.org View Guest page
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Dr. Terry Paulson
Dr. Terry Paulson is a Ph.D. psychologist, national columnist, professional speaker and author of the popular books, "The Optimism Advantage," "They Shoot Managers Don't They," "Leadership Truths One Story at a Time," and "Making Humor Work." Dr. Paulson hosted ECI’s business television series, “Quality from the Human Side”. His presentations help organizations, leaders, and teams leverage the optimism advantage and make change work! Since founding Paulson and Associates, Inc, Dr. Paulson conducts practical and entertaining programs for companies such as Boeing, IBM, 3M, Johnson & Johnson, Merck, NASA, Nintendo, SONY, Starbucks, Wal-Mart, Warner Bros., and hundreds of hospitals, government agencies, and associations. He is a Past President of both the National Speakers Association and the Global Speakers Federation. Business Digest has called him “the Will Rogers of management consultants.”
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Bryan Pearce
Bryan Pearce joined Ernst & Young (EY) upon graduation in 1981 and was admitted into partnership in 1991. He launched the Corporate Finance & Entrepreneurial Services practice in the Caribbean. In 2001, he helped design and launch the US firm’s new Venture Capital Advisory Group initiative. In 2010, he assumed leadership of the EY Entrepreneur Of The Year® Awards program (EOY) and firm-related entrepreneurship initiatives in the Americas. Bryan is responsible for the EOY program operations in 26 markets in the US, and five in Canada, Latin America and Israel, including driving nominations, sponsorships, independent judging, an EOY alumni organization and on-line community with 8,000+ US members and entrepreneur public policy initiatives. He sits on the Ivey Business School advisory board and is board chair of the Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship, New England. Bryan is a sought-after commentator by Bloomberg, Wall Street Journal, CNN Money, Inc, Portfolio.com, and CBS View Guest page
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Aaron Peavy
Aaron Peavy received his Bachelor of Business Administration and Master of Taxation from Baylor in the spring of 2011. He worked as a CPA for an accounting firm in Houston for two and a half years preparing and reviewing tax returns for corporations and partnerships. Shortly after being promoted to senior associate, Aaron decided to return to Baylor to obtain his MBA. He is currently planning to pursue a career in managerial consulting after graduating from Baylor in December 2015. In summer 2015, Aaron is traveling to Zambia with several Baylor MBA students and faculty to participate in an MBA course at a local university. He hopes to aid Zambian students by providing valuable insights and key resources in order to further their learning. Aaron was born in Texarkana, Arkansas.
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Steve Peck
Steve Peck, SVP Global Strategic Initiatives, SAP SE, serves as a proxy for SAP’s President of Global Customer Operations where needed and leads strategic global programs and partnerships focused on accelerating customer value and innovation in the digital world. Steve recently launched SAP's Sports and Entertainment industry globally, which showcases SAP on the world’s biggest stage with partnerships including the NFL, NBA, NHL, German National Soccer Team, McLaren, etc. Previously, Steve was CEO of Axon Americas where he drove 48% YoY growth prior to a successful cash exit. Prior to Axon, Steve was successful in multiple executive roles at SAP including SVP, Americas Ecosystem and President, SAP Public Services. Steve serves on the multiple corporate boards and on the board of visitors at Towson University. He is active in multiple charities including the LLS, Fisher House Foundation and Els for Autism.
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Kamesh Pemmaraju
Kamesh Pemmaraju, Head of Cloud Research at the Sand Hill Group, is co-author of the critically acclaimed "Leaders in the Cloud" research study. He has been recognized in the top 50 bloggers on cloud computing and in CloudTP's best cloud computing blogs list. Kamesh helps enterprises and technology vendors accelerate their transition to the cloud. He has consulted at Fortune 1000 companies including GE, GM, Motorola, HP, Microsoft, NASD, Sun Microsystems and Siemens. View Guest page
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Don Peppers
Recognized for over 20 years as one of the world’s leading authorities on customer-focused business strategies, Don Peppers is an acclaimed author and a founding partner of Peppers & Rogers Group, the world’s premier customer-centric management consulting firm. Don has personally counseled or consulted for many of the world’s largest firms including Microsoft, Bank of America, British Airways, T-Mobile, Merck, HP, Syngenta, USAA, Saudi Telecom, Singapore Telecom, Absa Bank, and GM. The Times of London included Don on its Top 50 Business Brains list. Accenture’s Institute for Strategic Change listed Don as one of the 50 “most important living business thinkers” in the world. With co-author Martha Rogers, Ph.D., Don’s international best-sellers have collectively sold over a million copies in 18 languages. Peppers’ and Rogers’ latest book, their ninth, is Extreme Trust: Honesty as a Competitive Advantage (Penguin 2012). Don is one of the 60 most-followed LinkedIn members, globally. View Guest page
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Carlos Pereira
Carlos Edmar Pereira is the CEO of Livox, a company focused on creating innovative solutions for people with disabilities. Millions of people with disabilities can't speak, including 15 million just in Brazil. People with disabilities are the group with the highest risk of school exclusion. Most will never learn how to read, write or do complex concepts like Math. Carlos is the father of 8-year-old Clara who, due to a medical mistake during her mother’s labor, has Cerebral Palsy. Since Clara’s birth, Carlos has looked for alternatives to help her and others with disabilities by creating a more equitable society. Livox, the app he created, is the evolution of alternative communication. Livox adjusts itself according to the user's disability and enables them to do much more than just speaking – through a tablet. Livox has already reached 15,000 people with disabilities in Brazil and is ready for the Spanish and English speaking markets.
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Natalie Petouhoff
Dr. Natalie Petouhoff is a Social Media ROI guest lecturer at UCLA Anderson School of Business, Adjunct Professor, Measure of PR and Marketing at Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California, and Leadership and Organizational Change Management & ROI Adjunct Professor at Pepperdine University. Previously, she was Chief Strategist and Evangelist in Digital Communications, Social Media, Measurement and ROI practices with Weber Shandwick. As a Forrester Analyst, she wrote the world's first social media ROI model for PR, marketing and customer service. Her practical thought leadership helps companies understand their changing needs and the bottom-line value of acquiring and retaining loyal customers in a competitive, social marketplace. View Guest page
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Greg Petroff
Greg Petroff is the Chief Experience Officer at GE Software and General Manager of the User Experience Center of Excellence (UX CoE) for GE. The UX CoE is charged with elevating the quality of digital experiences created by GE for its customers. At GE, Greg is leading efforts to define the human interface to the Industrial Internet, connecting people to machines and systems in meaningful ways.
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Kai Petzelt
Kai Petzelt is Senior Director of Product Marketing at SAP. He is responsible for the creation and communication of messaging and positioning for the CRM solutions portfolio for the Customer Service line of business. Kai has accumulated 20 years of experience in marketing, strategy, and business management positions across high-tech, chemicals, and life sciences in multinational corporations across Europe and North America. Kai is a frequent speaker at industry events and webinars, and blogs regularly about all things related to customer engagement. A native of Germany, Kai is now a Silicon Valley transplant. View Guest page
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Chuck Pharris
Chuck Pharris, Director, Manufacturing Solutions Marketing at SAP, has over 15 years of experience in manufacturing industries, driving sales and marketing at a large controls systems company, overseeing corporate-wide refinery automation and supply chain management at large integrated national petroleum company, and conducting research for the US Department of Energy. He has worked in all areas of petroleum supply chain including risk management and trading analysis, crude supply, product distribution, logistics, and refinery processing and automation. Chuck communicates manufacturing and economics news on twitter @chuckpharris. View Guest page
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Michael Pinedo
Michael Pinedo is Julius Schlesinger Professor of Operations Management in the department of Information, Operations and Management Sciences at the Stern School of Business at New York University. From 1982-1997, he taught in the Industrial Engineering and Operations Research department at Columbia University. His research focuses on the modeling of production and service systems, and, more specifically, on the planning and scheduling of these systems. Recently, Michael’s research has focused on operational risk in financial services. He authored the books, “Scheduling: Theory, Algorithms and Systems'' and “Planning and Scheduling in Manufacturing and Services'', and co-authored “Queueing Networks: Customers, Signals and Product Form Solutions''. Michael actively participated in the design and development of systems at Goldman Sachs, Philips Electronics, and Siemens. He is associate editor of Management Science and of the Journal of Operational Risk, as well as other journals. View Guest page
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Prashant Kulkani, TechMahindra; Kevin Wheeler, Futurist; Julia Goga-Cooke, G Consultancy; John Evarts, Mediafly. View Guest page
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Shannon Platz
hannon Platz is responsible for revenue growth of the SAP Digital Enterprise Platform portfolio through indirect channels. She sets the portfolio strategy across the SAP channel ecosystem, including the cross-industry, market competitiveness, SAP technical innovation, and sales strategies. For over 20 years, Shannon has led high-performance organizations – including sales, professional services, product management and corporate strategy – to incubate and scale for revenue growth, market leadership, and competitive differentiation. She is an active executive coach and mentor to female professionals. Prior to joining SAP, Shannon held executive roles with Oracle, Business Objects, private-equity start-ups, and EDS (HPE). A published author and international speaker, she serves on several boards/committees focused on the advancement of women. She holds a B.B.A. in Management and Marketing from the Baylor University Hankamer School of Business.
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Steve Player
Steve Player serves as the North America Program Director for the Beyond Budgeting Round Table (BBRT) and works with BBRT member companies to implement continuous planning processes. He has over 30 years of experience with improving performance management and implementing strategic planning processes. He is also the Managing Director of Beyond EPS Advisors, a Business consulting firm, and founder of ABM SMART. He is the co-author of Future Ready: How to Master Business Forecasting and Beyond Performance Management as well as five other books. He writes the “Finance Transformation” column for Business Finance Magazine featuring CFO interviews from leading organizations on innovative finance and planning processes. View Guest page
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Sanjay J. Poonen
Sanjay J. Poonen is President and Corporate Officer of the Product Go-to-Market Division and Head of the Mobile Division for SAP AG, responsible for SAP’s Mobile, Analytics, Database and Technology products. He is a member of the leadership teams for both Global Customer Operations and Technology & Innovation Products, dually reporting to Bill McDermott co-CEO and Vishal Sikka, CTO and Board Member of SAP AG. He joined SAP in 2006, helping to drive solutions to the market-leading position SAP has today. From 2009-10, he also served as executive vice president and general manager of Business Analytics, Line of Business Solution Sales. Before SAP, he was vice president of Line of Business Operations at Symantec, driving the merger integration of VERITAS and Symantec. He holds master's degrees from Harvard Business School and Stanford University, and a bachelor's degree from Dartmouth College. View Guest page
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Mal Poulin
Mal Poulin has been in the corporate learning and workforce performance field for over 35 years. Currently as Senior Director of Strategy and Market Relations for ANCILE, Mal focuses on market trends and needs of partners and customers to achieve business value with technologies to enable their strategies. The goal is always to enable adoption of change by the workforce – software, process, environment, and organization. For the 15 years prior to ANCILE, Mal was in similar business development roles at RWD Technologies and SAP Education driving new components of the portfolio and business solutions for partners and customers. For the preceding sixteen years, Mal held several positions in Education Services at Digital Equipment Corporation beginning as a technical classroom instructor and ending with management of alliances with Microsoft and other global partners. Mal holds a degree in Mathematics from The Catholic University of America in Washington, DC.
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Cheryl Pray
Cheryl Pray is the Executive Director of the Els for Autism Foundation. With a master’s degree in Philanthropy, Cheryl’s career spans over 20 years working in the nonprofit world. Prior to joining the Els Foundation last year, she held senior leadership positions in philanthropy at The Nature Conservancy, Johns Hopkins University, and Gallaudet University. View Guest page
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Jérôme Pugnet
Jérôme Pugnet is a Director of Solution Marketing for SAP GRC Solutions. He has more than 9 years of experience in Risk and Compliance Management, Business Process Control, IT Governance, Fraud and Audit Management domains, in particular in the Financial Services industry. Jérôme also has over 15 years of previous experience on financial software and ERPs, in implementation engagements and pre-sales advisory roles. View Guest page
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Chris Pullig
Chris Pullig is Associate Professor and Chair of Marketing in the Hankamer School of Business at Baylor University. He has a PhD in Business Administration with a Major in Marketing and a Minor in Experimental Statistics. Chris’s research and teaching are focused on consumer attitudes and decision-making with a special emphasis on three areas: Understanding brand value in the global marketplace: how brand value is created, measured, protected, leveraged; Consumer evaluation of pricing strategies; and Consumer welfare and pro-societal issues. He has published research in journals such as the Journal of Marketing, Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, Journal of Consumer Psychology, Journal of Retailing, Journal of Business Ethics, Journal of Business Research, Journal of Public Policy and Marketing, and others. He is a regular reviewer for the Journal of Marketing and Journal of Consumer Research. Prior to academia, Chris was an executive for 13 years in the retail industry.
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Evan Quinn
Evan Quinn, Senior Principal Analyst at ESG Global, has seen many sides of the IT equation, serving in roles spanning software development to product management, competitive intelligence to communications, industry analysis to product marketing, and Basic Assembly Language to database management, Java, and the cloud. His experiences enable him to understand and incorporate the many points of view held by IT vendors, buyers, and users. Prior to joining ESG, Evan worked as an industry analyst at firms including IDC and Gartner, and held communications, competitive intelligence, and product marketing positions at tech vendors such as Symantec, HP, and Oracle. He was a product manager and development manager in banking at Chase Bank and Bank of Boston (now Bank of America) for 15 years. View Guest page
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Gavin Quinn
Gavin Quinn is the Founder and Chief Technologist at Mindset. Previously leading R&D labs at Target, his passion for design and innovation facilitated a digital revolution at some of the world’s largest enterprises. Outside of his work with clients he is deeply involved with R&D at Mindset, relentlessly writes about technology, and speaks regularly at conferences across the globe. View Guest page
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Anders Raft
Anders Raft is a Project Manager at Art of Crime, co-responsible for a successful global rollout of a quest-based MMO for tweens in 2013. He is also responsible for monetization of the product vis-à-vis the users. From 2009-10, Anders was an online professional poker player. From 2006-10, his career centered around I-gaming in various parts of Europe (London, Malta, Vienna). Roles included project manager at Antech Invest A/S in Copenhagen; e-gaming manager of poker, casino and games at Interwetten Ltd., Vienna; marketing manager at Betfriends/Nextpoker, Malta; poker product owner and manager at Bet24, London; marketing executive at Sportingbet plc, London. Anders is a multi-skilled product manager with a flair for identifying and implementing simple solutions to complex problems with a hands-on, lead-by-example style, which fosters a culture of teamwork, shared mission and a dedication to excellence. View Guest page
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Gopal RajGuru
Gopal RajGuru is a sales educator, consultant, university professor, and the founder and Managing Director of Innovate+Grow Group since 2000. His passion is educating people – to help them fix problems, improve performance, and differentiate from competitors. Innovate+Grow Group provides consulting, coaching and training to help clients at each phase in their value chain, including optimizing their customer engagement model, and educating their sales teams to capture the value they create through more effective negotiation. Previously, Gopal led a team of consultants at PwC focused on year 2000 project management, optimization and audit. One global project he led involved assessing the year 2000 readiness of more than 19,000 external suppliers in 100+ countries. Prior to PwC, Gopal was the Managing Director of international operations for an American software company, with teams covering EMEA and Asia-Pacific, generating revenues exceeding $100 million. View Guest page
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Raghu Ramanathan
Raghu Ramanathan, the Global General Manager and Senior Vice President for Services Industries for SAP, is responsible for a 2Bn$ software and services business at SAP. His customers in the travel and transportation industry serve over 2 billion travelers every year. A global citizen who has lived on three continents and over 10 countries, Raghu is very active in defining the future of passenger travel with his customers. He is also a passionate traveler who likes a good adventure.
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Padman Ramankutty
Padman Ramankutty, CEO at Intrigo, is a well-known supply chain and enterprise strategist with deep expertise in new technologies deployment. He has over 20 years of experience in the ERP & SCM space and serves on the boards of venture-backed companies. He is also an advisor to several clients in the SAP space. Prior to Intrigo, Padman was co-founder and CEO of Bristlecone, an IT services company he spearheaded for over eight years. He is utilized extensively by SAP Development and SAP Ventures to provide due diligence on business software/systems. View Guest page
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John Ramsell
John Ramsell, Vice President of Mobility for SAP. John speaks frequently on trends that impact business mobility, and shares expert guidance on adopting mobility as a strategic priority. His past experience encompasses the purchase and deployment of ERP software and the marketing and development of industry-specific applications. At SAP, John has been instrumental in developing the relationship with RIM, as a customer and a co-innovation partner. His sales management and consulting experience span both mobility and services. View Guest page
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Prof. Ashok Ranchhod
Prof. Ashok Ranchhod, BSc., MSc., MBA, PhD, FCIM, works as a Reader in Marketing Communications at the Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton, and holds various Visiting Professorships and an Emeritus Chair at Southampton Solent University. In 2011 he completed his role as the Director of the Mudra Institute of Communications Ahmedabad (MICA), the top Communications School in India. He also completed the Management Leadership in Education Programme at Harvard University. Ashok also ran his own biotechnology company. He has published more than 60 papers and done consultancy work for major organizations. Currently, as the Director of the Games Design Hub, he leads a team of researchers looking at the role of games in art, health, business, social good and education. Ashok and Calin Gurau co-wrote “Marketing Strategies: A Contemporary Approach”, now in its second edition, published by FT Pearson. View Guest page
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MR Rangaswami
MR Rangaswami is the founder of Sand Hill Group and Publisher of www.SandHill.com, a leading voice for the software and tech ecosystem. He is an “angel” who has invested in 35 companies in the past 15 years. A veteran of Silicon Valley where he has been active for 30 years, MR enjoys being both a cheerleader and critic. He has hosted the prestigious Enterprise and Software series of conferences and has published critically acclaimed research reports on cloud computing and enterprise mobility. MR’s 2012 predictions can be viewed at http://sandhill.com/article/where%E2%80%99s-the-money-quantifying-software%E2%80%99s-2012-outlook/. He has been featured on the front page of the Wall Street Journal. Twitter: @mrsandhill. View Guest page
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Michael Rasmussen, J.D.
Michael Rasmussen, J.D., OCEG Fellow, CCEP, GRCP, CISSP, is the Chief GRC Pundit at GRC 20/20 Research, LLC. He is an internationally recognized pundit on governance, risk management, and compliance (GRC) – with specific expertise on the topics of enterprise GRC, GRC technology, corporate compliance, and policy management. With more than 18 years of experience, Michael helps organizations improve GRC processes, design and implement GRC architecture, and select technologies that are effective, efficient, and agile. He is a sought-after keynote speaker, author, and advisor, and is noted as the “Father of GRC” — being the first to define and model the GRC market in February 2002 while at Forrester. View Guest page
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Stuart Ravens
Stuart Ravens, Ovum, Principal Analyst, Energy & Sustainability Technology, has worked in Ovum’s commercial verticals team since May 2008, and is responsible for the utilities workstream. He collaborates closely with analysts within Datamonitor’s Energy & Sustainability business unit as well as horizontal analysts within the wider Ovum group, to provide both vendor and utility clients with superior technology analysis. Recent research projects include Optimizing Customer Engagement in Smart Meter Deployments; Profiting from Smart Meter Communications Networks; Great Britain Smart Meter Infrastructure: Analysis of Potential Architectures; BI and Analytics: Making the Smart Utility Intelligent; Customer Satisfaction, Smart Meters and the Utility Billing Process; Billing Presentment and the Changing Utility Billing Landscape; Smart Meters Create a Huge Opportunity for Data Services in Utilities; Trends to Watch in Utilities Technology 2011. View Guest page
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Brian Raymond
Brian Raymond is Director of Technology Policy at the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) where he works with NAM members, the Administration and Congress to shape and advance pro-manufacturing technology policy including cybersecurity, telecommunications, R&D funding, and IP protection. Prior to joining the NAM, Brian spent more than 15 years in the government and private sector working on technology policy. For more than eight years he was in IBM’s Washington office, where he led numerous legislative campaigns. He left IBM to launch the government affairs office of NetApp Corp., a Silicon Valley technology company. Brian also served as deputy chief of staff for a leading member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, where he was responsible for technology and telecommunications issues. View Guest page
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Surendra Reddy
Surendra Reddy is the founder and CEO of Quantiply Corporation, a cognitive intelligence company. Surendra was most recently the Chief Technology Officer leading Cloud and Big Data futures research at Xerox PARC. He founded and launched Big Data Foundry, a data sciences open innovation platform in collaboration with PARC, CISCO, and Hitachi. Prior to PARC, Surendra served as the General Manager and CTO for SIOS Technology group companies, where he was responsible for defining global cloud and Big Data GTM strategy and guiding the 200+ strong engineering organization. Previously, he was Vice President of Cloud R&D at Yahoo, CTO and VP of Engineering at Amitive, and the founder and CTO of Optena. He spent more than seven years at Oracle running the database software engineering group. Surendra received his MBA from Northwestern University and his Bachelor of Technology in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, India.
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Ken Redler
Ken Redler is Chief Technology Officer and a partner at cSubs, based out of Montvale, NJ. cSubs provides an industry-leading information management and e-commerce application for the enterprise, allowing companies to acquire, manage, and optimize information resources, electronic content, licenses, and contracts. Ken is the chief architect of applications and services at the firm, responsible for new product development, strategy, and technology. Prior to joining cSubs, Ken was President and CEO of Comvision, a New York web application development firm he co-founded in 1994.
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Greg Reh
Greg Reh is a principal at Deloitte Consulting LLP and leads the Firm’s Global Life Sciences practice, responsible for the delivery of all consulting services to the portfolio of life sciences clients, practice operations and the development of solutions, methods and research related to the transformation of life sciences companies. Greg has more than 25 years of experience in the life sciences, process manufacturing, consumer and government sectors. His consulting career has spanned such topics as technology strategy, integration solution development and implementation of emerging and disruptive technology. His clients have included multinational pharmaceutical, biotechnology and chemical manufacturing organizations. Previously, Greg held positions at a government research lab and was a lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania. Greg holds an MS from the University of Pennsylvania, and a BSME from Drexel University.
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Victor Reyes
Victor Reyes helps organizations create competitive advantage through talent, improve the strategic impact and efficiency of their human resources (HR) function, and address people and organizational issues associated with major transformations and transactions. In his twenty years as a management consultant, he has helped clients align functional and business strategies, develop new service delivery models, and leverage data, analytics, and emerging technologies to transform employee experience and optimize people decisions and investments. As a member of IBM’s Global Talent & Engagement Center of Competency, he focuses on how to bring advanced analytics and cognitive computing to HR. Prior to joining IBM, he was a partner at KPMG LLP, an accounting, tax, and advisory firm, where he founded and led the US HR Optimization practice; was a senior engagement manager with Wipro Technologies and American Management Systems; and held sales, marketing, and product management roles for AT&T. Victor holds an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School and a B.A. in Government from Harvard College and is a certified Senior Professional in Human Resources (SPHR). He is based in Washington, DC.
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Susan Reynolds
Susan Reynolds is Global Vice President of Partner Ecosystem at SAP. She focuses on creating the sales and program architecture to explode the reach of the new SME solution SAP Anywhere. With a focus on how digital selling is changing the way partners work with SME customers, she frequently speaks on the impact of SaaS and digital economics on channel business models. Prior to SAP, Susan held a number of marketing and channel positions at Hewlett Packard, where she was a leader in the Solution Partner Organization for HP’s commercial hardware and software solutions. Susan has been named one of CRN’s “Women of the Channel” for each of the last 6 years, recognizing the most influential woman in the IT channel. Her background also includes leadership in the non-profit sector, including two terms as Board President for Turning Point Center for Youth and Family Development. Susan holds an MBA from the University of Chicago and an undergraduate degree from the University of Texas at Austin.
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Dante Ricci
Dante Ricci, Director, SAP Federal Innovation, helps government organizations remove complexity and do more with less to achieve their objectives. Dante has over 15 years of experience in technology, with roles in operations, finance, and product management. He recently served as a Solution Director, working with customers to incorporate new requirements into new solutions, and managing product roll-out and go-to-market initiatives. Dante has experience working for both Defense and Federal Civilian agencies and has spent time working in Higher Education. He serves on the Corporate Leadership Board for the Capital Area Leukemia and Lymphoma Society ‘Light the Night Walks’. He is a native of Fairfax, Virginia, and a graduate of Longwood University. View Guest page
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Craig Rich
Craig Rich is a Partner in the IBM Global Business Services SAP Practice and is the North American SAP Data and Analytics Leader for IBM. With over 16 years of experience implementing data and analytic solutions for large enterprises, Craig is a global subject matter expert in business analytics and optimization for the IBM SAP Practice, providing thought leadership and advisory support for large SAP Transformation Programs across IBM. He has a proven track record of successfully managing and delivering complex SAP performance management programs for numerous clients, including many Global 100 companies. Craig provides program management, quality assurance, and technical architectural reviews to help clients realize the benefits of the Globally Integrated Enterprise. Most recently, he led a multi-phased business information finance operating model transformation program for a large building materials discrete manufacturer. View Guest page
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Riva Richmond
Riva Richmond is a New York-based senior technology editor at The Economist Intelligence Unit. She has reported and written about technology more than a decade, much of that time focused on information security and privacy issues. Prior to her current position, Riva was a freelance journalist writing for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Entrepreneur.com and other national publications. She was previously a reporter covering technology companies at Dow Jones News Service.
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Frank Richter
Frank T. Richter heads SAP’s global Order-to-Cash Process Management team. He is based in Walldorf, Germany (near Heidelberg). 20+ people in 7 countries work on the team and manage the O2C processes (including electronic payments) for various lines of business. The responsibilities of the team include supporting acquisitions and new business models. As well, the team focusses on continuous process improvement, process automation and standardization. Frank has more than 20 years of experience in the IT industry. Prior to his current position, he was in charge of SAP’s License Compliance program. Before joining SAP in 1995, he was working for IBM, Siemens Nixdorf, Robert Bosch GmbH and others in Germany and the US. Frank holds a degree in Economics and Computer Science from the University of Applied Sciences in Karlsruhe (Germany) and Waterford Institute of Technology (Ireland). View Guest page
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Rob Ried
Rob Ried, Senior Manager at Deloitte Consulting, is an experienced leader and manager with expertise in combining business, finance, and technology; skilled in shaping and delivering positive change across an organization while supporting alignment with executive goals. Rob is passionate about value capture and process automation. He is certified in SAP FI/CO, BW, and BPC. Rob has held positions within ASUG and TDWI, and had speaking engagements at SAPPHIRE, SAP Financials, and Dreamforce.
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Falk Rieker
Falk Rieker, Global Head of Banking Business Unit, is responsible for the Banking solution strategy and solution management teams at SAP and is part of SAP’s Global Leadership Team for Banking. With over 20 years of experience and thought leadership in the Banking and Software Industry, he speaks at international banking conferences and has had articles published and quoted in American Banker, BS&T, Wall Street and Technology, and other leading industry publications. For several years, Falk has been part of the sales leadership team in North America. Key achievements include 100+ net new customers, the successful integration of Business Objects, and solution innovation with industry leaders like JP Morgan Chase and Bank of America. He joined SAP in 1999 from BHF Bank (Deutsche Bank Group), where he worked in the Office of the CFO. Falk holds an MBA in Banking and Marketing from the Bavaria State University in Bayreuth, Germany.
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Ursula Ringham
Ursula Ringham is Director, Global Indirect Channels, EcoSystem and Channels at SAP. She joined SAP in 2012, focused on creating SME customer and partner success stories. Today, she markets content to the SME. Prior to SAP, Ursula was a consultant building sales teams and helping market organizations build better brand identity. Ursula began her career at Adobe Systems and Apple working in developer relations, helping small and midsize companies bring products to market. Ursula is a graduate of the University of California, Davis with a degree in International Relations. View Guest page
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RLeFevre - MWezkowsi - CMark - PSaporito
[L to R:] Russ LeFevre, Cisco; Martin Wezowski, SAP; Chris Mark, SAP; Pat Saporito, SAP. Russ LeFevre, Cisco; http://www.voiceamerica.com/guest/26680/russ-lefevre Martin Wezowski, SAP; http://www.voiceamerica.com/guest/24154/martin-wezowski Chris Mark, SAP; http://www.voiceamerica.com/guest/24980/chris-mark Pat Saporito, SAP; http://www.voiceamerica.com/guest/18949/pat-saporito View Guest page
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Ben Robbins
Ben Robbins is the Principal at Palador, a company that has provided innovative enterprise solutions and strategic initiatives for mobility, app development, and data integration since 2005. Ben is one of the top 50 Mobile Influencers on Twitter and the author of top 50 must-read IT blogs by BizTech. He is also a regular contributor to various national and international newspapers and tech blog, including The Guardian, Enterprise Mobility Forum and remotelyMOBILEblog.com. Ben is passionate about technology and also loves running, reading, and snow sports. View Guest page
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Benjamin Robbins
“Why wouldn't you want to work from your mobile device?” View Guest page
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Greta Roberts
Greta Roberts’ early career was spent selling software for world-class innovators like Lotus, Netscape, Webline, and Cisco Systems. In this role, it was easy to measure who performed well and who struggled, and clear that some sales reps “just did better” than others - naturally. It seemed it could be incredibly useful to businesses to measure the “it factor,” making certain roles easy for some vs. others. In researching available solutions, there seemed to be consumer tools measuring “personality”, and business solutions tracking hire date, pay scale, etc., “but no business solution measuring people traits in a way that could be useful and, predictive of business performance.” This led Greta to create Talent Analytics, a company that utilizes the discipline of analytics to understand human traits in a way that is useful for businesses. Today, more than 450 companies use her SaaS solutions to quantitatively measure, value and allocate natural traits of their employees. View Guest page
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Jacqueline Robinson
Jacqueline Robinson is the Training Lead for DTE Energy’s billing system replacement project. Her previous role was the Digital Channel Strategy Manager in the Customer Service organization which included launching a new website and a proactive outbound customer communication program. Before joining the customer service organization, she worked in various roles in IT including managing the self-service channels, the customer billing system, implementing a new customer communication platform and a customer relationship management system. She has been with DTE for nine years. She is a Community Facilitator for the Utilities SIG for Americas’ SAP Users’ Group (ASUG). Jacqueline holds a bachelor’s degree in aerospace engineering from the University of Michigan and a master’s degree in engineering management from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
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Eva-Maria Roe
Eva-Maria Roe leads global solution management for the airline industry at SAP. In this role she is responsible for developing a strategy for the industry, covering a wide area within the SAP portfolio, and working closely with customers and translating their requirements to marketable solutions. She also supports sales opportunities, initiated and now chairs the AirOps user group for airlines, and speaks at industry events and customer engagements. Her main focus in the last few years has been on defining how technology innovations can become enablers for new business processes in the airline industry. Previously, since joining SAP in 1993, Eva worked in various development departments in Germany and was based in Shanghai for six months supporting SAP’s engagement with local universities. View Guest page
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Shawn Rogers
Shawn Rogers has more than 19 years of hands-on IT experience, with a focus on Internet-enabled technology. In 2004 he co-founded the BeyeNETWORK and held the positions of Executive Vice President and Editorial Director. Shawn guided the company's international growth strategy and helped it grow to 18 websites around the world, making it the largest and most read community covering the business intelligence, data warehousing, performance management and data integration space. Previously, Shawn was Internet Business Development Director at Thomson Media (now SourceMedia), President of Achieve Communications and a partner at DMReview magazine (now Information Management). At the latter, he was Vice President as well as Publisher and Editorial Director of DMReview.com, a leading business intelligence and data warehousing website. Shawn's passions are rooted in the online world, focusing on analytics, social media, business intelligence, enterprise 2.0, SaaS and open source. View Guest page
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Jason Rose
Jason Rose is head of Business Intelligence (BI) Solution Marketing at SAP, leading go to market activities for the industry’s leading on-premise and cloud-based BI solutions: SAP BusinessObjects. With over 12 years in BI and performance management, Jason drives crisp customer communications, tailors market messages and grows SAP’s thought leadership position in BI. Since joining BusinessObjects in 2005 and holding leadership positions in both sales and marketing, he has been helping customers solve critical business issues through the application of information and putting in place the right incentives. Jason is a frequent speaker at conferences and analyst events on analytics and the impact of information on corporate performance and decision making. View Guest page
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Paula Rosenblum
Paula Rosenblum, a Managing Partner of Retail Systems Research (RSR) has more than 25 years of experience in the retail industry as both a practitioner and an analyst. She is well known for her pragmatic approach to retail. She combines thought leadership with her practical experience in her writing, speaking, and advisory engagements. Prior to joining RSR, Paula built the research practice at RSAG, served as Vice President of Aberdeen Group's Retail Research practice, and was a retail research director for AMR Research. Previous to that, she spent over 20 years as a retail technology executive including several years as a CIO with Domain Home Fashions and iParty. View Guest page
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Lisa Joy Rosner
Lisa Joy Rosner is Chief Marketing Officer at social intelligence company NetBase, working with the largest brands in the world—including Coca-Cola, Kraft and HP—as they transform their approach to understanding consumers’ desires. Before NetBase, she was vice president of Worldwide Marketing at BroadVision Inc. and vice president of Marketing at MyBuys, where she worked with Sears, Wal-Mart and Circuit City. Previously, she worked in the business intelligence market at Brio, DecisionPoint and Oracle. Lisa Joy is an active blogger and guest columnist on social media topics. She has served on the marketing advisory board for the Silicon Valley Red Cross and the Wornick School, as well as the Content Committee of Shop.org, the AMA and Benchmark. A guest lecturer at the Hass School of Business, Stanford and the Tuck School of Business, she is often quoted in The Wall Street Journal, Mashable and Giga-Om. She was named the Gold winner of the Great Minds Award by the ARF in 2011. View Guest page
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Tee Rowe
C. E. “Tee” Rowe is President and CEO of the Association of Small Business Development Centers, a nationwide network of over 1,000 centers providing free, confidential counseling and low cost training to small business owners. A graduate of Dartmouth College (AB, Russian Language/Literature, 1983) and the Tulane University School of Law (JD, 1989), Mr. Rowe has a long history of legislative and advocacy experience on behalf of the small business community. Prior to ASBDC, he served as Associate Administrator for Congressional and Legislative Affairs for the US Small Business Administration (2005-09); Assistant Administrator for Congressional Affairs and Assistant General Counsel for Legislation and Regulation at SBA (2001-05); and Counsel to the Committee on Small Business in the US House of Representatives (1991-2001). In the latter role, he was responsible for drafting most of the major small business legislation passed by the US Congress. View Guest page
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Carlos Russell
Carlos Russell, Ternium Risk Management Director, is a business / technology professional, with over 25 years of experience in dealing with technology-enabled strategic and operational change in global organisations. Previous roles include senior positions at PricewaterhouseCoopers, Capgemini Consulting and E&Y in the UK, Latin America, Europe, US, Asia and Africa. Over the last 5 years, Carlos heads up a LATAM capability focusing on business and technology risk management, cybersecurity and cybercrime prevention for Ternium, a steel manufacturing company based in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
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Peter Russo
Peter Russo, Senior Director, Marketing at SAP, has supported SAP Rapid Deployment solutions since 2011. Prior to SAP, Peter spent over 10 years as the lead application software analyst in the U.S., as well as a global contributor to the SAP Services Research Program. On the consulting side, he has been involved on U.S. and global projects for software suppliers around ecosystem assessment, best practices analysis, and execution of localized partnership strategies. View Guest page
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Alan S. Louie, Ph.D.
Alan S. Louie, Ph.D. is Research Director for IDC Health Insights' Clinical Development, Strategy and Technology research service with coverage of innovation and best practices in pharmaceutical R&D and a further emphasis on technology and innovation in clinical development, business analytics, translational research, and personalized medicine. He has authored more than 160 reports on innovation in the life sciences and blogs in the IDC Community. Previously, Dr. Louie led applied biotechnology programs as Senior Manager at Arthur D. Little, Inc., managing laboratory-based technology development programs. Over the course of his career, he has been responsible for the development and commercialization of more than 30 products for a variety of industries, including many first-in-class offerings. A speaker at top industry events, he has been quoted in the Boston Business Journal, The Boston Globe, Drug Discovery News, The Scientist, and The Wall Street Journal. View Guest page
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Layla Sabourian
Layla Sabourian is an active lifestyle blogger and the SAP Marketing lead on My Runway, SAP's new fashion app. She has a background in fashion and marketing, speaks four languages fluently, and holds an MA degree in International Relations from the University of Westminster in UK. Layla has presented and moderated panels at UC Berkeley, Fashion Tech Week, Google, the United Nations, and the White House. View Guest page
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Tim Sackett
Tim Sackett, SPHR is the President of HRU Technical Resources a leading IT and Engineering Staffing firm headquartered in Lansing, MI. Tim has 20 years of combined Executive HR and Talent Acquisition experience, working for Fortune 500 companies in healthcare, retail, dining and technology. Tim is a highly sought after national speaker on leadership, talent acquisition and HR execution. He also is a prolific writer in the HR and Talent space, writing for Fistful of Talent and his own blog The Tim Sackett Project. He is a lifelong workplace advocate for Diet Mt. Dew fountain machines and hugs.
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Hillel Sackstein
Hillel Sackstein, President & CEO, founded Virtual Graffiti, Inc, as an e-commerce software development company in 1999. Within a few years, he shifted the company's core focus to the fast-growing network security market. Under his leadership, Virtual Graffiti has experienced tremendous growth into a multi-million dollar, international, IT Solution Provider. Hillel is involved in many day-to-day operations as well as key vendor and customer relations, and has created a fun and focused company atmosphere that encourages growth. View Guest page
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Nicole Sahin
Nicole Sahin is CEO of Globalization Partners, a global employment solutions company which helps companies rapidly expand into more than 180 countries without establishing new subsidiaries. The company has been named the #6 fastest growing private company and #1 fastest growing female-led company in America. The company has an all-female management team. Prior to launching Globalization Partners, Nicole was an early employee and Managing Director of High Street Partners, a consulting firm that supported US companies expanding into dozens of countries. The company sold for approximately $100 million in 2014 and is now Radius. Nicole has also owned a business in the Caribbean, and is a co-founder of the Sweet Life School, an elementary school in rural Cambodia that helps kids in a village leap over the digital divide by giving access to the tools of the 21st century. Nicole holds an MBA.
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Gabi San Martin
Gabi San Martin is a sophomore at Boston College, where she is studying International Studies with a concentration in Political Science. In 2012, she began taking business classes as part of a business minor at the Carroll School of Management at Boston College. She is currently in Professor Jerry Kane’s Social Media for Managers class, and is a Teaching Assistant for his Computers in Management course. For the past two years, Gabi has participated in Boston College student government, working in campus entertainment to plan and implement various on-campus events. View Guest page
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Deepa Sankar
Deepa Sankar, Director, BI Product Marketing SAP, has over 15 years of experience in the technology sector. She has held various roles in IT, product management, and marketing with a focus on analytics and BI strategy. She is a frequent speaker and blogger on topics related to BI strategy and BI adoption. She is passionate about helping customers to take their BI programs to the highest level of competency and create an information-driven culture in their organization. Currently, Deepa is a key member of Business Intelligence Product Marketing at SAP. Deepa’s words of wisdom: “Think BIG, and you can start small.” View Guest page
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Prakash Santhana
Prakash Santhana, Director, Deloitte Financial Advisory Services LLP, worked in the fraud/risk management groups of large credit card issuers and payment startups for 18 years prior to Deloitte, and co-founded an investment management company focused on detecting insider trading. He has extensive experience in the types of fraud committed and the analytics to detect fraud at the point of sale including credit and debit card fraud, ACH fraud, check fraud, online fraud, and online application fraud. Prakash managed global fraud reporting and analytics for one of the largest global credit card networks, and was a contributing member of their global fraud council of issuers, acquirers and merchants. He now focuses on helping domestic and international banking clients mitigate fraud by employing sophisticated fraud detection and prevention methods. Prakash invented an ‘out-of-band’ fraud prevention solution that Deloitte is developing to help card issuers combat non-face-to-face fraud. View Guest page
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Pat Saporito
Pat Saporito is a senior director in the Global Center of Excellence for Analytics at SAP, where she helps customers improve business performance. Prior to SAP, she led Teradata’s Insurance & Healthcare Consulting Team and was Director of META Group’s Insurance Research Service. She has over 20 years of experience in analytics, data warehousing and information management. Pat is on the faculty of the International Institute for Analytics, co-founded by Tom Davenport. She speaks at industry conferences and is a regular contributor to the Best Review Technology Insights column as well as the SAP Decision Factor Blog. Pat holds the Chartered Property Casualty Underwriter designation and is the author of the new book, Applied Insurance Analytics: A Framework for Driving More Value from Data, Technologies & Tools, published by Pearson/FT Press, available on Amazon in print and electronic versions. View Guest page
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Chandran Saravana
Chandran Saravana, Senior Director, Advanced Analytics SAP, brings over 20 years of experience in the technology sector. He has held various roles in consulting, research & development, product management and marketing with a focus on analytics and big data. He's written numerous papers and is a frequent speaker on topics related to analytics, artificial intelligence, big data and cloud. Prior to SAP, Chandran consulted “C" level executives on the consulting engagements and advised on Cloud, Big Data, IoT and Analytics Strategy and Technology direction. Chandran holds MBA from Martha and Love School of Business, Masters in Physics and Post Graduate Diploma in Computer Applications from Bharathidasan University.
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Kim Saxe
Kim Saxe is Director of the Innovation Lab at The Nueva School, a lecturer at Stanford University, a board member of the Institute for Applied Tinkering, and a former engineer and R&D director. A pioneer in Design Thinking and Design Engineering in education, Kim has invented and taught constructivist, project-based curricula across all subject areas in grades K-8. She translates Master’s-level mindsets and methodologies of Design Thinking into compelling experiences for younger students. Kim directs the Design Thinking, Design Engineering, and Entrepreneurship programs at Nueva. She continually reinvents Nueva’s 4,000 sq. ft. Innovation Lab, designed in partnership with Stanford’s Institute of Design (d.school), and oversees the award-winning, competitive robotics and Tech Challenge teams. Kim created and piloted a student engineering curriculum for 4th-6th grade students at Nueva. She was one of four speakers invited to present at a Design Thinking Conference in Singapore. View Guest page
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Barbara Schaedler
Barbara Schaedler is Interim Head of Operations, Global Communications at SAP. View Guest page
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Pieter van Schalkwyk
As the Founder and CEO of XMPro, which is used by two Fortune 10 companies, Pieter van Schalkwyk oversees a team of experts who obsess over helping customer solve complex industrial IoT challenges. He earned his Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering and his Master’s Degree in Information Technology. He has accrued nearly twenty years of IT and software development experience and more than ten years of engineering experience, having first been employed as a plant engineer and maintenance manager by a large chemical manufacturer. Pieter brings a unique mix of engineering and IT skills to solve the unique challenges of Industrial IoT solutions in asset intensive industries. Pieter is currently serving as a co-chair for the Industrial Internet Consortium’s (IIC) Ecosystem task group and is also a co-presenter on the recent openSAP Imagine IoT course. When Pieter is not hard at work, he enjoys working out and in 2015, he completed a 70.3 Ironman in Australia.
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Otto Schell
Within GM, Otto Schell is the Global SAP Business Architect and SAP CCoE Lead. The position owns and integrates the SAP Enterprise Architecture approach on design, deployment, operation and continuous improvement of GMs SAP business process landscape. Furthermore ensure the alignment across GM business process requirements, standardizes products, services and content based on a common “meta-model” towards GM business process vision and to enable real time scenarios. As a Member of the Board of Directors of German Speaking User Group (DSAG), Otto Schell leads the Resorts Business Process and Industries Solution, Globalization and Innovation (Transformation / Industry 4.0). He is also the main contact to international SAP User Groups. Within the DSAG community, he fosters discussions on IoT, Industry 4.0 to build awareness on transformation opportunities. View Guest page
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Tamara Schenk
Tamara Schenk serves as research director for CSO Insights, the research division of Miller Heiman Group. She enjoyed more than twenty years of experience in sales and service in different industries on an international level. She started her career in 1992 with own business, selling and implementing software solutions for the automotive industry. She had continued her career in different consulting and sales roles before she joined T-Systems in 2005, covering various roles from strategy implementation to business development. Then she evolved sales enablement from a program to a strategic function. Before joining CSO Insights in January 2014, she led the global sales force enablement and transformation team also covering a holistic development program for frontline sales managers. At CSO Insights she connects the dots between experience, research, and client engagements to drive sales performance and sales force transformation in an effective and sustainable way. Tamara is a recognized blogger, speaker and thought leader with the global sales and sales enablement community and is a regular contributor to, and subject matter expert for TopSalesWorld.
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Nance L Schick, Esq.
Nance L. Schick, Esq. is an attorney, arbitrator, and mediator based in New York City. She is the founder of The Law Studio of Nance L. Schick. Her holistic, integrative approach draws from her experience as a human resources supervisor, as well as her legal and EEOC training. She is creator of the Third Ear Conflict Resolution process, author of DIY Conflict Resolution: Seven Choices and Five Actions of a Master, and an award-winning entrepreneur, who has been acknowledged by the New York Economic Development Corporation/B-Labs (Best for NYC 2015 finalist), U.S. Chamber of Commerce (2015 Blue Ribbon Small Business), Enterprising Women Magazine (Honorable Mention, 2014 Woman of the Year awards), and Urban Rebound NY/Count Me In (2013 Pitch Competition finalist). Most recently, she was invited to serve as ICERM Representative to the United Nations and will attain her certificate in Ethno-Religious Conflict Mediation in March.
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- Legal Lessons for Women Business Owners: Clear Your Legal Clutter for the New Year
- Encore: Game-Changers 2017 Predictions -- Part 2
- Game-Changers 2017 Predictions -- Part 2
- Legal Lessons for Women Business Owners - Part 4: Dont Make a Federal Case Out of It
- Legal Lessons for Women Business Owners - Part 3
- Legal Lessons for Women Business Owners - Part 2
- Legal Lessons for Women Business Owners - Part 1
Henner Schliebs
Henner Schliebs is a Director for Solution Marketing at SAP. With over 10 years of analytics experience, he is responsible for driving the adoption of Analytics Solutions from SAP portfolio across all departments (outside of IT), tearing down silos. His credo for 2013: "Everybody should be an analyst – and everybody should have the chance to make better decisions through Analytics." Henner has held various roles in the analytics area with several software vendors, including consulting and presales across all industries as well as roles in management consulting. View Guest page
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Jack Schmidt
Jack Schmidt started his career at Johnson and Johnson (J&J) and he has spent his entire career of over 25 years in the Life Science Industry working in Pharmaceuticals, Biotech and Medical devices. At J&J, he worked in Strategic Planning and developed optimization algorithms to improve Supply Chain planning metrics and developed a Supply Chain Performance Management model. He also lead the greenfield start-up of a pharmaceutical manufacturing and packaging plant which employed a lean production philosophy and high performance work team concepts. At SAP, Jack is responsible for identifying emerging industry trends and guiding SAP solution investments in these innovation areas. This includes automating & extending enterprise business processes through new capabilities such Pharma Supply Chain serialization, Patient Engagement solutions and Predictive Analytics for actionable insight. View Guest page
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Bernhard Schweizer
Bernhard Schweizer is Head of SAP Health Link, a solution improving the care process of chronic diseases by connecting patients and doctors based on medical sensor data. SAP Health Link is run as an Entrepreneurship Project within the SAP Innovation Center Network. Bernhard has developed the Health Link concept by driving customer co-innovation on data as a service. Previously, he was Managing Director of InnovationLab GmbH, a joint venture of SAP, Roche, BASF, Merck, and four other shareholders, which was based on a concept developed by Bernhard. InnovationLab brings together researchers from business and science for joint research and knowledge transfer. View Guest page
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Geoff Scott
Geoff Scott is the Chief Executive Officer for the Americas' SAP Users' Group, the world's largest community of SAP professionals. He has more than two decades of experience as a chief information officer and senior IT leader. Prior to his selection as CEO of ASUG, Geoff served as the Chief Information Officer for TOMS Shoes. This role included leading the implementation of SAP for TOMS in September 2012, with a team of more than 100 people. Geoff also served as the Chief Information Officer at JBS, the world's largest meat processor and distributor, and held senior leadership positions in marketing and sales, HR, and healthcare at Ford Motor Company. Geoff has more than 20 years of ERP experience, including seven years of extensive SAP implementation and operations experience covering global operations. He has served on philanthropic boards and was the founding member of the Denver CIO Executive Council. He holds a BA in accounting and an MBA from Michigan State University. View Guest page
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Gray Scott
Gray Scott is a New York based futurist, techno philosopher and emerging technology experts. He is the founder and CEO of SeriousWonder.com. Gray is frequently interviewed about the future of emerging technologies by major media outlets including the Discovery Channel, CBS News, Al Jazeera America, FOX News, The Washington Post, Psychology Today, and the New York Post. He is a contributing author to the new book, The Future of Business (July 2015, Fast Future Publishing).
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Nuno Sebastiao
Nuno Sebastiao, CEO, brings his experience in infrastructure and services as well as corporate management skills to FeedZai. Previously, Nuno led the development of the European Space Agency Satellite Simulation Infrastructure. Prior to his tenure there, Nuno was a co-founder at Evolve Space Solutions, a services company working in the Aerospace domain. Nuno holds an MBA from London Business School. View Guest page
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Kerry Brown, SAP.
Jeff Tanner, Baylor University.
Stacey Perrin, SAP.
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Gary Cokins, Analytics-Based Performance Management.
Frank Rust, SOMMERRUST.
John Ragsdale, TSIA.
Jaco Van Eeden, Deloitte.
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Florian Brody, SAP.
Nataraj "Ganpy" Ganapathy, Cogent Integrated Business Solutions.
Reuven Gorsht, SAP.
Falk Rieker, SAP.
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Kaan Turnali, SAP.
Steve Player, Beyond EPS Advisors.
Andrew Sherman, Jones Day
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Sherryanne Meyer, Air Products and Chemicals; Sven Denecken, SAP; W. David Stephenson, Stephenson Strategies.
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Dr. Steven Hunt, SuccessFactors; Tim Barker, Datasift; Brent Leary, CRM Essentials; Justin Locke, Author.
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David Fowler, SAP Services; Dr. Ashok Ranchhod, Gamification Researcher; Hansen Lieu, SAP; Gopal Rajguru, Innovate+Grow Group.
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Jayson Mayden, MarkOne; Jeremy Epstein, Sprinklr; Ingrid Bernaudin, SAP.
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Anneke Seley
Anneke Seley is CEO and founder of Reality Works Group (formerly Phone Works), a global sales strategy and implementation services and content development firm that delivers revenue results in today's new Sales 2.0 reality. With unique expertise in phone/online/social selling, Reality Works Group has helped over 450 clients increase revenue at decreased cost using Sales 2.0 practices – measurable, predictable, scalable selling combined with better engagement and relationships with customers. Anneke is the co-author of Sales 2.0: Improve Business Results Using Innovative Sales Practices and Technology. She started her career as the 12th employee at Oracle and designed the company’s now multi-billion dollar USD global inside sales organization. Anneke was an AA--‐ISP’s 2011 Lifetime Achievement Award recipient, and in 2012 was named one of AA--‐ISP’s Top 25 Most Influential Inside Sales Professionals and SLMA’s Twenty Women to Watch in Sales Lead Management. View Guest page
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Rich Seltz
Rich Seltz is a vice president of digital transformation at SAP. He is responsible for helping chemical and industrial companies understand how digital capabilities will create new business model innovations. Before joining SAP last November, Richard was a Supply Chain leader, a global Chief Information Officer, and a global General Manager for Chemical companies including Rohm and Haas, Dow, and Chemtura. He also spent a decade as a partner-level management consultant focused on strategy, business process reengineering, and technology. Much earlier in his career, he was a US Peace Corps volunteer in Armenia. Richard is a graduate of Wharton with an MBA in Finance and Strategy.
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Deva Senapathy
Deva Senapathy is a strategic senior technology leader and market development executive who orchestrates enterprise transformations through technical solutions, business savvy, and sound decision-making. He is a change agent and business development leader with more than 18 years of consulting and outsourcing experience. Deva has extensive experience in incubating and developing market share in the information services, publishing, travel and hospitality, and professional services segments. At Infosys, he plays an important role in positioning the company as a major global systems integrator. Deva holds a Bachelor of Technology in aerospace engineering from IIT, Chennai, and an MBA from Mumbai University.
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Kimberly Senior
Kimberly Senior is the Executive Director – Professional Development for AT&T Business Solutions Sales organization. In her role, Kimberly is responsible for strategy, planning and implementation of programs and tools that support the core sales competency development for AT&T's global business to business sales organization. Kimberly has nearly twenty years of experience leading sales team and customer operations in addition to roles in Marketing, Communications and Strategic Planning. View Guest page
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Pam Seplow Silberstein
Pam Seplow Silberstein joined SAP America in 1998 and in her 17-plus years has held a variety of roles both at a regional and global level. In each position, Pam always focuses on leveraging her skills and passions around the intersection of developing people and business process. In her current role of Global Head of Career and Talent Management, Pam is responsible for setting corporate direction and vision regarding Performance, Talent, Succession Management and Career Development. Pam assumed this responsibility in June 2013 after serving two years as the Global Head of Leadership Experiences where she was responsible for designing and delivering experiences aimed at increasing the overall leadership capabilities at all levels of the organization. Prior to this role, Pam lived in Germany for 3.5 years where she was the head of Learning and Talent Management for SAP EMEA. Before SAP, Pam held HR Positions at Mellon Bank and Bloomingdales. View Guest page
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Neal Shact
Neal Shact is the Founder and CEO of CommuniTech Services, a company focused on deploying contact centers and Communications Enabled Business Processes (CEBP}. He is also a consultant focusing on business strategy and advanced technologies, the former founder of the International VoIP Council, now part of the IMS Forum, and a frequent contributor to the No Jitter and UCStrategies websites. Neal was recognized as a Top 100 Voice in the IP Communications Industry by Internet Telephony magazine. He is a sought after speaker on the subjects of CEBP, Unified Communications, and VoIP. He is also the Track Chair of Innovation and Entrepreneurship for the Real-Time Communications Conference at the Illinois Institute of Technology and serves on the Board of Directors of the Cutting Edge Foundation, a not-for-profit group supporting the Department of Surgery at the University of Illinois Medical Center. View Guest page
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Dinesh Sharma
Dinesh Sharma, Vice President, Cloud Marketing, SAP, has over 20 years of experience in the high-tech industry. A recent addition to the executive staff at SAP, he is responsible for cloud messaging and positioning of applications, platforms and strategy. As the industry embraces the disruptive change that is cloud computing, Dinesh is leading SAP's efforts to bring a consistent business-centric view of how the cloud will impact the enterprise today. View Guest page
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Jason Shepherd
Jason Shepherd is the Director of Strategy and Partnerships for Dell’s Internet of Things (IoT) division which is developing solutions for commercial use cases in buildings, manufacturing, transportation, and logistics. He manages a team of industry SMEs and has overall responsibility for the Dell IoT Solutions Partner Program, a curated community of Industrial IoT technology providers. He started his career at Dell as an engineer and then worked at several tech startups where he gained broad experience spanning product design to sales engineering. He returned to Dell in 2006 to manage Precision mechanical engineering before being tapped to lead a R&D team that pitched new solution concepts to senior leadership. Prior to his current role Jason was a technologist in Dell’s Office of the CTO where he developed numerous software innovations and helped lead the strategic core team that triggered Dell’s entrance into the IoT space. He is named on 12 granted and 13 pending US patents.
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Joan Sherlock
Joan Sherlock, the Sr. Director of Worldwide Cloud Marketing Programs for SAP, is responsible for maximizing marketing innovation techniques to educate and inform companies throughout the world on the advantages of moving to the cloud. She has driven marketing initiatives for companies throughout Silicon Valley, including Apple Computer, Hewlett Packard and Sun Microsystems. Joan’s game-changing predictions for 2012 will be around building killer content, the explosion of mobile marketing, and how to deal with new privacy desires of the online community. View Guest page
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Andrew Sherman
Andrew Sherman is a Partner in the Washington, D.C. office of Jones Day, with over 2,700 attorneys worldwide. He is a recognized international authority on the legal and strategic issues affecting small and growing companies. Andrew is an Adjunct Professor in the Masters of Business Administration (MBA) program at the University of Maryland and Georgetown University, where he has taught courses on business growth, capital formation and entrepreneurship for over 23 years and won teaching awards. Brian has authored 26 books on the legal and strategic aspects of business growth and capital formation. Recent titles include the best-selling Mergers and Acquisitions from A to Z, 3rd edition (AMACOM 2010); Harvesting Intangible Assets, Uncover Hidden Revenue in Your Company’s Intellectual Property (AMACOM, 2011); Raising Capital, 3rd edition (2012); Essays on Governance (2012); Buying For Impact: How Buying From Women Will Change the World (co-authored with Elizabeth Vazquez, 2013). View Guest page
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Eric Siegel, Ph.D.
Eric Siegel, Ph.D., founder of Predictive Analytics World and Text Analytics World, and Executive Editor of the Predictive Analytics Times, makes the how and why of predictive analytics understandable and captivating. In addition to being the author of Predictive Analytics: The Power to Predict Who Will Click, Buy, Lie, or Die, Eric is a former Columbia University professor who sang to his students, and a renowned speaker, educator, and leader in the field. He has appeared on Bloomberg TV and Radio, Fox News, BNN (Canada), Israel National Radio, Radio National (Australia), The Street, Newsmax TV, and NPR affiliates. Eric and his book have been featured in Businessweek, CBS MoneyWatch, The Financial Times, Forbes, Forrester, Fortune, The Huffington Post, The New York Times, The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, and WSJ MarketWatch. View Guest page
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Chris Silva
Chris Silva is an industry analyst focusing on Mobile at San Mateo, CA based Altimeter group. A 10-plus year veteran of the research industry, Chris focuses on innovations in and implications of mobile technology for enterprises, users and brands. Previously, he served as Senior Vice President of Research and Service Delivery at IANS Research, a boutique firm focused on disruptive security technology. As a Senior Analyst covering Enterprise Mobility at Forrester Research, he pioneered research on the implications of ubiquitous mobility. In addition to being a frequent speaker at major industry events such as Interop, Chris is frequently quoted in publications such as CNBC, Forbes, The Wall Street Journal. He has been featured on National Public Radio discussing implications of mobile technology. www.makemobilework.com. View Guest page
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Jerry Silva
Jerry Silva is research director for IDC Financial Insights responsible for the global retail banking practice. Jerry's research focuses on technology trends and customer expectations and behaviors in retail banking worldwide. Jerry draws upon over 25 years experience in the financial services industry to cover a variety of topics, from the back office, to customer channels, to governance in the technology shops at financial institutions. His work for both institutions and vendors gives Jerry a broad perspective in technology strategies. Previously, Jerry ran his own technology consulting company, PG Silva Consulting, assisting both vendors and institutions with the development, marketing, acquisition and deployment of technology solutions in financial services. His banking background includes 16 years of direct experience running technology shops and transformational projects for First Chicago, BayBank, and BankBoston.
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Ralph Silva
Ralph Silva is a VP of Banking Strategies for HfS Research, covering the strategic imperatives of universal banks throughout EMEA. A broadcaster appearing daily on the BBC, CNN, CNBC and Bloomberg TV, Ralph has also presented at IPO roadshows and industry shows including SIBOS, European Banking industry fair, CBIT, and FinExpo. His research focuses on the primary issues affecting diversified global banks, global IT providers, consumer goods and the retail industry. He has written extensively on channel management, branding and marketing, strategic imperatives, CRM, cross border issues, global regulations, sourcing, industry consolidation and payments. Ralph’s career began as an investment banker managing the IPO process for financial and IT companies in Toronto, followed by managing a $400 million small cap portfolio in California. He became a Gartner analyst focused on the financial services industry, and served as the first full-time analyst for TowerGroup in Europe. View Guest page
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James Sinclair
Enterprise tech entrepreneur James Sinclair, principal of EnterpriseJungle, has two decades of deep enterprise innovation experience for global giants including IBM, EDS and Diageo. His long held belief that large companies can and must deliver new products and ideas into their ecosystem quickly and iteratively led to him creating frameworks for some of the world’s largest enterprises, to make this possible. In recent years, his focus has been on their flagship product, EnterpriseAlumni, the market-leading Alumni and Retiree Management Platform for enterprises. It enables their customers to access the most qualified and verified contingent talent pool available - their alumni.
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Deb Smallwood
Deb Smallwood is the founder of Strategy Meets Action (SMA), a strategic advisory services firm offering research, advice, and consulting for insurers and solution providers in the insurance industry. Deb’s mission is to help insurers make wise technology investments and maximize the business value through the power of innovation enabled by technology. She helps insurers re-think and re-energize while aligning their business and IT plans for competitive advantage. Highly respected and acknowledged as an industry leader for her strategic thinking, thought-provoking research, and consulting skill, Deb is a frequent keynote speaker at major insurance industry events. She is also a recognized contributor to insurance and technology publications and media outlets. View Guest page
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Sandy Smolan
Sandy Smolan is an award-winning director whose work spans features, documentaries, television, and commercials. His critically acclaimed debut feature film, “Rachel River", was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival and took awards for Best Cinematography and a Special Jury Prize for actress Viveca Lindfors. His 12 Stones documentary, about the transformation of illiterate women in southern Nepal, won the Jury Prize for Best Short Documentary at the Tallahassee and Newport Beach Film Festivals. His most recent film, The Human Face of Big Data, won the Jury Prize for Best Cinematography at the Boston International Film Festival. His television director credits include the Middle Ages series pilot, movies, mini-series and episodes of over 50 network series including Brothers & Sisters, Ally McBeal and Northern Exposure. His company, Luminous Content, collaborates with corporations, NGO’s and foundations to explore technology’s role in transforming lives. View Guest page
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Derek Snaidauf
Derek Snaidauf is a Senior Manager, Advanced Analytics with Deloitte Transactions and Business Analytics in Chicago. During his 15 year management consulting and professional services career, Mr. Snaidauf has helped clients across industries realize their strategies by leveraging big data, analytics, process improvement, and technology solutions. Mr. Snaidauf is a recognized expert in data science and advanced analytics, and he specializes in helping organizations proactively identify rare events with significant impacts, such as product quality and safety issues, fraud, financial crimes, network intrusions, capital project overruns, and equipment failures. View Guest page
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Carl Snyder
Carl Snyder is a Senior Industry Principal in the Financial Services division for SAP in North America. His focus in on retail banking solutions – including core banking and the customer experience. His role is to provide retail banking subject matter expertise to the sales team, marketing department and the product organization. Carl came to SAP in 2009 with more than 22 years in the banking industry. Most recently, he was the President of the Zions Internet Bank at Zions Bank. Previously, he was the EVP and Director of Retail Bank Operations for Zions Bancorporation. Tom’s banking career has been focused in the retail banking space, with experience in driving branch and bank profitability by implementing efficiency programs, retail pricing strategies and sales initiatives. He is also an Adjunct Professor of Business Strategy and Operations Management at the University of Utah. View Guest page
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Frank Sofia
Frank Sofia is the Chief of Staff to the EVP of HR for SAP’s Global Sales and Services responsible for the HR Business Partner organization focused on global, regional and country specific enablement of all respective business leaders and employees focusing on culture, talent and leadership for more than 30,000 people worldwide. Frank is an integral part of the HR Leadership Team overseeing the Office of the CEO, led by Bill McDermott, and SAP’s largest organizational unit, Global Customer Operations (GCO) led by President and Executive Board Member Robert Enslin. Frank’s passion is to uniquely amplify SAP’s culture and behaviors through employee-centric programs. He has piloted and executed initiatives such as the SAP 360 Feedback Program, Build your Brand, Talent Win Plans, and Talent Roundtables. Prior roles include Director of Human Resources for North America Strategic Industries, leadership positions in SAP’s Talent COE, and senior consultant for North America and Global GCO. View Guest page
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Susan Wilson Solovic
Susan Wilson Solovic, ”THE Small Business Expert”, is an award-winning serial entrepreneur, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Amazon.com top 100 and USA Today bestselling author, media personality, sought-after keynote speaker, and attorney. MoneyTransferComparison.com named Susan a 2015 Business Excellence Award Winner; Dunn & Bradstreet Credibility Corporation named her a 2015 Top Small Business Influencer; and SAP named her #7 on its “Top 51 Potential Human Influencers”. Susan consistently ranks in the top 5 of the “Top 100 Small Business Experts to Follow on Twitter.” She has written four bestselling books, all translated into multiple languages. Susan is a former small business contributor for ABC News and hosted a syndicated radio program, It’s Your Biz. She appears regularly as a small business expert on Fox Business, Fox News, The Wall Street Journal’s “Lunch Break”, MSNBC, CNN, and CNBC. Susan serves as Media Director for the Small Business & Entrepreneurship Council.
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Justin Somaini
Justin Somaini heads the SAP Global Security unit in the board area of Products & Innovation, reporting to Bernd Leukert, member of the SAP Executive Board. With more than 17 years of information security experience, Justin is responsible for SAP’s overall security strategy, ensuring that SAP and our customers have a consistent and convenient security experience and establishing SAP as a recognized and trusted leader in the industry. He develops, implements, and manages SAP’s overall policies, standards, and guidelines in accordance with the SAP Security Strategy as well as ongoing SAP security initiatives to meet the emerging international IT and cyber security environments and data protection and privacy laws worldwide. Prior to SAP, Justin’s roles included Chief Trust Officer at Box, Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at Yahoo!, CISO of Symantec, Director of Information Security at Verisign, and advisor to Qualys, Palo Alto Networks, Sentinel Labs, SourceClear, Solve Media. View Guest page
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Dan Somers
Dan Somers is co-founder and CEO of Warwick Analytics, where he leads business development since 2011. Dan is also an angel investor and a partner at Boundary Capital, an early-stage technology venture capital fund, since 2009. Previously, Dan was the founder and CEO of videoconferencing provider VC-Net, which he started in 2000 and exited in 2011 in a trade sale. Dan’s early career was a management consultant for LEK Consulting. He has won and been shortlisted for numerous entrepreneurial awards including a finalist for Entrepreneur of the Year in 2006. He is a member of the Royal Society of Arts. View Guest page
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Brian S. Sommer
Brian S. Sommer has over 30 years experience in management consulting with a particular focus on ERP software, business process re-engineering, strategic consulting and business ecosystems. His consulting experience crosses most for-profit industries. He has presented to the executive committees of over 100 of the Fortune 500. Previously, as a global leadership partner with Accenture (nee Andersen Consulting), Brian established and ran their worldwide centers of excellence for Finance and HR, and served as Worldwide Director for their Software Intelligence Unit. He has sold, led and performed quality assurance roles on projects globally, working in Switzerland, Venezuela, Argentina and other countries. Brian is a frequent guest lecturer at major universities including Harvard Graduate School, Wharton School of Business and Arizona State University. He has been published dozens of times in leading business and IT publications including the Wall Street Journal Europe. View Guest page
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- Game-Changers 2014 Predictions – Part 1
- How Smart is BI Without a Strategy? – Part 4
- Coffee Break with Game Changers By SAP
- How Smart is BI without a Strategy? – Part 3
- Part 2: How Smart Is BI Without A Strategy?
- 21st Century CIO Makeover: The Reveal
- Subsidiaries: Smart Game-Changer or Global-Size Headache?
Reza Soudagar
Reza Soudagar, Senior Director for CRM Solution Marketing at SAP, has more than two decades in business consulting, IT strategy, and the development of customer relationship management (CRM) solutions. He held senior leadership positions at Accenture and Oracle, serving clients in high-tech and communications industries, and was responsible for a number of products in Oracle's CRM suite. Currently, Reza is an executive in SAP's global marketing unit and focuses on customer experience. He earned Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Electrical Engineering from the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne and completed an executive education program at Harvard Business School. View Guest page
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Mimi Spier
Mimi Spier, Senior Director, Solution Marketing, SAP, has spent the last 20 years strategizing, building, launching, implementing, and evangelizing software applications for world-class enterprise companies like Oracle, BusinessObjects, Hyperion, and SAP. In her current role at SAP, Mimi is responsible for driving cross-portfolio innovation, GTM, and marketing strategy across Analytics, Big Data, Mobile and IofT. Previously, Mimi was responsible for the overall SAP strategy and GTM for Mobile Analytics, and for integrating and extending the BusinessObjects solutions into the SAP 24 Industry GTM strategy. She is recognized as a thought-leader in the Analytics and Big Data space, speaking across the globe and strategizing with customers. Mimi serves on the Board and is an Officer of the Anti-Defamation League. View Guest page
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Mimi Spier
Mimi Spier has spent the last 18 years strategizing, building, launching and implementing software applications for world-class enterprise companies, like Oracle, BusinessObjects, Hyperion and SAP. In her current role at SAP as Head of Solution Marketing for Mobile Analytics, she is responsible for the strategy and marketing for Mobile Analytics. Previous roles include integrating independent product portfolios into one integrated story, marketing strategy and roadmap for SAP Business Analytics, and bringing to market dozens of applications for Industry Analytics Marketing. Mimi brings to her role deep industry knowledge, a proven ability to deliver results and build new products by bringing innovation, vision, marketing execution, organizational alignment and inspiration to teams and businesses. She is also a Certified Public Accountant in California. View Guest page
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Rajeev Srinivasan
Prof. Rajeev Srinivasan is an adjunct faculty in Innovation at the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore. He is a member of the National Taskforce on Innovation, and was earlier a member of panel that created India’s first Intellectual Property Rights policy. He is also Chief Consultant at an electronics hardware incubator, funded by the Indian Government to encourage electronics products from India. Rajeev was formerly an employee of Bell Labs in New Jersey. He spent many years after that in Silicon Valley in a variety of marketing, product management, and strategy positions before returning to India. Rajeev graduated from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, and the Stanford Business School.
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Deb Stambaugh
Deb Stambaugh is Vice President, Human Resources at SAP. Deb has crafted a non-linear career that has run the gamut from B2B marketing to now a leadership position in SAP HR. She has had experience in Leadership and related pillars of workforce dynamics like employee engagement, and reputation building by focusing on alignment to purpose and meaning. Deb has a passion and belief in the responsibility of social impact of large organizations and doing well by doing good. Deb completed an externship with the (RED) organization and is currently leading efforts around culture building to enable strategy inside of SAP.
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Birgit Starmanns
Birgit Starmanns is a senior director for product marketing with SAP Marketing, SAP S/4HANA and SAP Fiori, with a focus on the business audience including finance. She has over 24 years of experience across product and solution marketing, solution management, strategic customer communities and consulting. Her functional experience is in finance, including core SAP ERP and enterprise performance management, as well as customer relationship management. Prior to joining SAP, she was a principal in management consulting organizations, including Price Waterhouse and several boutique firms, redesigning business processes and implementing SAP R/3 and R/2 for numerous Fortune 500 and SME companies. Birgit holds a BA and an MBA from the College of William and Mary. She is the author of many articles for the Financials Expert, and the coauthor of the SAP Press book, Accelerated Financial Closing with SAP and the SAP Labs guidebook, Product Costing Scenarios Made Easy. View Guest page
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Scott Steadman
Scott Steadman is Senior Director Mobile of Innovations at SAP Labs LLC. His prior positions were Direct Solution Management Mobile Platform, and Director, Mobile Applications. Scott has been working at SAP for 16 years focusing on leading-edge customer solutions including Employee Portals and Carbon footprint applications to Mobile and User Experience. Outside of work, Scott is an avid sailor, cyclist and triathlete raising money for the Multiple Sclerosis Society and Leukemia Lymphoma Society. Currently, Scott is training and raising money for the AIDs Lifecycle Ride, a 475-mile bicycle ride from San Francisco to Los Angeles. View Guest page
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Susan Steele
Susan Steele is a seasoned Global Chief HR Officer who advises C-Suite leaders on workforce strategies that increase revenues, enhance profitability, expedite process efficiencies and create sustainable organizational change. Susan, an Executive Partner in IBM’s Global Talent & Engagement Center of Excellence, had held Chief HR Officer, Chief Learning Officer and Chief Recruitment Officer roles at WPP, Deloitte and Linklaters. Her early career was in P&L leadership roles at investment banks JPMorgan Chase and HSBC and with the NASDAQ/PHLX derivatives exchange. Susan is a frequent commentator on the evolving nature of the workplace and the importance of employee experience design. She has been interviewed by Forbes and The Economist and chaired CHRO roundtables and conferences. Born in the US and now based in New York, Susan has spent more than 50% of her life living abroad; she has worked in Europe, Africa, Middle East, Asia Pacific and the Americas and speaks fluent French.
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Doug Stephens
Doug Stephens is one of the world’s foremost retail industry futurists. His intellectual work and thinking have influenced many of the world’s best-known retailers, agencies and brands including Walmart, Google, Home Depot, Disney, BMW, Citibank, and Intel. Doug is also listed as one of the retail industry’s top global influencers by Vend.com. Prior to founding Retail Prophet, Doug spent over 20 years in the retail industry, holding senior international roles including the leadership of one of New York City’s most historic retail chains. He is the author of the groundbreaking books, The Retail Revival: Re-Imagining Business for the New Age of Consumerism (2013) and Reengineering Retail: The Future of Selling in a Post-Digital World (2017). He is also the nationally syndicated retail columnist for CBC Radio and his unique perspectives have been featured in The New York Times, The BBC, Bloomberg Business News, TechCrunch, The Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal and Fast Company.
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Sue Stephenson
Sue Stephenson leads The Ritz-Carlton social responsibility program, Community Footprints®. Reporting to the President & COO, she is charged with expanding the company’s global corporate citizenship efforts through multi-faceted initiatives focused on child well-being, hunger and poverty relief, and environmental responsibility. Community Footprints is integrated into the company’s long range plan, operations, service values and business priority metrics. Sue spearheaded Succeed Through Service®, a skills-based mentoring program deployed in over 100 underserved communities that has impacted the lives of over 18,000 children. Succeed Through Service Toolkit is available on an open source, non-proprietary basis. Sue serves as Vice-Chair of the Executive Committee of IMPACT 2030, a private sector led global collaboration with the United Nations and other stakeholders, designed to leverage employee volunteering to help advance the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals. View Guest page
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Greg Stimpson
Greg Stimpson is Vice President of Solutions at Method360. After graduating with a Master’ degree in Organizational Management, Greg opted to stay in his current position as the manager of training delivery for an existing SAP implementation. This job morphed into a role configuring FI/CO solutions for the finance team. Over 20 years later, Greg is still on the path, though it has further evolved from FI/CO, to Business Planning and Simulation, then Integrated Planning and currently SAP Enterprise Management Solutions. Greg has been working with Method360 for over a decade. He enjoys his current assignment working with Lam Research. View Guest page
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Eric Stine
Eric Stine is Senior Vice President and General Manager of SAP’s Strategic Industries Financial Services business in North America. At SAP since 2001, he has worked with North American and global clients on transforming their businesses with world class industry solutions. He and his team oversee and represent the Banking, Capital Markets and Insurance industries, delivering solutions that help financial services providers manage risk and regulatory compliance, reduce cost and complexity throughout their business, and better serve their customers. Together, they are improving capital allocation, innovating new solutions and business processes and creating new opportunities for families and businesses by bringing banking, investment and insurance services to previously un- and under-served communities. Eric and his team maintain industry-based offerings, productized services and best practices designed to drive customer implementation success and maximize the value from SAP products. View Guest page
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Penny Stoker
Penny Stoker is the VP of People Services and Transformation with AstraZeneca. She currently leads the implementation of a global transformation of HR, including established outsourced HR services and technology for 57,000 employees, across 100+ countries in 26+ languages. She has developed the organization design for the retained HR function, including full process documentation for standard global processes, role definitions and capability profiles. Prior to this role, Penny was the VP of Global HR Services, where she managed a staff of about 330 in three countries. She created and managed Global HR Services comprised of Assisted Services, HR Technology, Supplier Management, Recruitment and Employment. View Guest page
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Larry Stolle
Larry Stolle, Sr. Director of Global Marketing for the automotive industry at SAP, has been in the automotive industry for over 45 years, beginning as an automobile technician, moving through roles in dealership fixed operations management before moving to and automotive manufacturer. While at the manufacturer, Larry held field service and sales positions before taking regional and corporate staff positions. He made the transition to information technology in 1988 and has held global leadership roles in IT at an OEM, IBM and SAP. At IBM, Larry led the automotive retail book of business and was deeply involved in the early days of telematics and remains so today. He holds a patent from his tenure at IBM for dealer to manufacturer communications. At SAP he has authored blogs and articles on telematics, its uses and potential value for quality, operational efficiency and safety. Larry’s work has been published in Motor World magazine. He has never stopped being a “car guy” though! View Guest page
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Steve Strauss
Steve Strauss is the USA TODAY small business columnist and the best-selling author of 17 books including The Small Business Bible. He runs several businesses under the Strauss Group umbrella, including Strauss Content Company, Strauss Law Firm, and Strauss Syndication. He is also an international speaker covering trends and changes in business and entrepreneurship. More about Steve at MrAllBiz.com and TheSelfEmployed.com.
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Petra Streng
Petra Streng is a Solution Manager in SAP’s Industry Business Unit for Life Sciences with focus on R&D and Regulatory topics, including real-world evidence data collection, clinical data warehouses, and Big Data. Petra is a Medical Computer Scientist from the University of Heidelberg. She joined SAP initially as a developer for SAP’s Hospital Information Management solution and has meanwhile supported SAP’s Life Sciences and Healthcare customers around the globe for more than 20 years.
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Keith Strodtman
Keith Strodtman is President for the North American region at NorthgateArinso (NGA), responsible for all of NGA's client relationships, business development, sales and operations in the US and Canada. As a leading independent consultant, analyst and thought leader in the HR services industry, Keith brings over 20 years of extensive experience to NGA. Most recently, he owned and operated Strodtman Consulting, LLC., an independent consulting firm, and served as research fellow at HfS Research, the leading analyst authority and knowledge community for the global services industry. During this time, Keith advised several companies on their HR service delivery strategies. View Guest page
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Shaun Stuger
Shaun Stüger serves as the Chief Operating Officer of BoodsKapper LLC, where his responsibilities and influence extend throughout the organization, including strategic planning and execution, corporate management, product development, marketing, business development and sales, technology deployment, and customer and network operations. Prior to BoodsKapper, Shaun was a Strategy and Business Development Senior Consultant at Cosmic Advanced Engineered Services, in Colorado. He served as an Air Force Officer for over 25 years in satellite operations, engineering, and procurement and retired honorably as a Colonel in 2015. Shaun spent 2 years in Silicon Valley working for a supply-chain technology start-up. He has a Computer Science Bachelors from Boston University, MS from Pepperdine University in Technology Management, MS in Strategic Studies from the Air War College in Montgomery, AL, and is pursuing a Global Executive MBA jointly through NYU Stern and London School of Economics.
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Tom Suder
Tom Suder is President and Founder of the advanced mobility solutions company Mobile Government Solutions, known as Mobilegov, which he launched in July 2011. Tom also serves as a strategic advisor for the University of Central Florida’s Institute for Simulation & Training (IS&T), representing the university's interests in Washington, D.C. He is responsible for establishing academic agreements and grants between UCF and the government for research and development into the policies, procedures and best practices required for the successful federal implementation of mobile technology. Tom earned the “2011 Rising Star Award,” co-sponsored by Federal IT industry publications Federal Computer Week (FCW), Government Computer News (GCN) and Washington Technology, honoring individuals in the public and private sectors who have made an early and substantive mark in the government IT community. Tom writes for AOL Government and serves on the publication's Editorial Advisory Council. View Guest page
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John Sullivan
John Sullivan is the Director of Innovation in the NA Analytics Center of Excellence at SAP. John has spent his career leading companies through continuous improvement processes, growth and retrenchment cycles by uncovering strategic challenges and developing solutions that mitigate and control those business influencers. His work in predictive and prescriptive analytics has spanned from preferred vendor lead-time strategies, human resources discrimination identification, supply chain optimization, naval surface weapons strategy, and nuclear energy human performance factors & root cause investigations. His undergraduate degree is in Analytical Chemistry and he has a Masters in Management Science / Operation Research from Duke University.
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Meaghan Sullivan
Meaghan Sullivan is the vice president of Global Channel Marketing at SAP. She is tasked with accelerating global indirect revenue through channel marketing practices with a focus on VARs and Distributors. Meaghan focuses on Partner-Lead Demand Generation activities to provide SAP partners with innovative programs, campaigns and resources that enable them to more efficiently market their SAP solutions and services. Prior to SAP, Meaghan was vice president of channel strategy at HP. Before joining HP in April 2008, she held various business and market development positions at Motorola, Pillar Data Systems and BakBone Software. Meaghan also served as senior manager of Strategic Alliances at Veritas and worked in Product Marketing as strategic account executive at Quantum Corporation. She studied international business, economics and Japanese at the University of Puget Sound in the U.S. View Guest page
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Paula Sullivan
Paula Sullivan works for CSC, a global IT business solutions company, and is part of a global team who lead on Corporate Responsibility across the world. Paula has led the way at CSC on CR, introducing the company's first Environment and Carbon Footprint Programme, and taking CSC to Platinum ranking level on the BITC CR Index, the leading responsible business index in the UK. A Chartered Safety Practitioner and Environmental Specialist, Paula is an advocate of community engagement, through bringing companies together to create social value in their local community. View Guest page
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Jason Sumner
Jason Sumner is a senior editor with the Economist Intelligence Unit, the business-to-business research arm of the Economist magazine. He covers financial services, corporate finance, technology, telecoms, energy and the environment. Reports he has edited include M2M – Rise of the machines – as well as the digital divide and how enterprise customers view their telco operators. Previously, Jason was an editor with CFO magazine, covering corporate finance. Prior to that, Jason covered knowledge management and business technology for other publications in London. View Guest page
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Puneet Suppal
Puneet Suppal is a seasoned executive who is at heart a solution strategist specializing in SAP-centric solutions. He is an active evangelist for reinventing business models and propagating solutions that recognize the impact of in-memory computing, enterprise mobility, and enterprise cloud solutions. From his nuanced viewpoint on business technology and innovation, Puneet publishes on these topics regularly, and is a frequent presenter at SAP events worldwide. Currently, as a member of the Database & Technology (SAP HANA) team at SAP, he is driving go-to-market efforts for SAP Business Suite powered by SAP HANA. With 20-plus years of experience in a variety of industries, Puneet is experienced in leading global teams. View Guest page
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Puneet Suppal
Puneet Suppal is a seasoned solution strategist with 20-plus years of experience in a variety of industries and in leading global teams. He is an active evangelist for reinventing business models and propagating solutions that recognize the impact of in-memory computing, enterprise mobility, and enterprise cloud solutions. From his nuanced viewpoint on business technology and innovation, Puneet publishes on these topics regularly, and is a frequent presenter at SAP events worldwide. Currently, as a member of the Customer Innovation & Strategic Projects team at SAP, he is driving adoption of the SAP platform through co-innovation efforts with customers solving Big Data problems and leveraging the Internet of Things. View Guest page
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Kate Tallant
Kate Tallant is a Director at FSG, a nonprofit consulting firm and think tank specializing in strategy, evaluation, and research. She helps organizations develop solutions to address the most pressing social issues, with a concentration in education, workforce development, financial security, and entrepreneurship. Kate has led more than 30 engagements advising multinational corporations, foundations, international NGOs, and school districts on strategy, program design, market analyses, and evaluation. Clients include Microsoft, Intel, Intuit, SAP, The North Face, BlackRock, Target, PATH, The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and Mercy Corps. She has authored papers and blogs on shared value, global education, higher education reform, and opportunity youth. Prior to FSG, Kate worked as a strategy consultant at Booz Allen Hamilton. She began her career as an educator in the San Francisco Unified School District, developing and managing support services for at-risk high school youth. View Guest page
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Bill Tallent
Bill Tallent, CEO of Mercury Intermedia, has been applying cutting edge technology since college in 1962. In 1980, after two decades at a large Fortune 500 company, he began creating and operating small businesses. With a career that spans mainframe computers, mini-computers, personal computers and the Internet, Bill believes “mobile computing is larger than all three preceding computing classes”. He notes, “These days, I’m having a great time working with a bunch of very smart younger guys, watching them create astonishing products while contributing my years of experience on the business side. I’m having the time of my life innovating in this spectacular new field of mobile.” The staff at Mercury Intermedia calls Bill their ’70-year-old teenager’. View Guest page
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Srikanth Tamma
Srikanth Tamma is a Senior Manager in Deloitte Consulting LLP’s Technology Practice and is a leader in his firm’s SAP Finance Transformation and SAP S/4HANA Teams. He has spent 10 years in corporate environment (finance, accounting, indirect taxation, corporate planning) and an equal amount of time in consulting, focusing on technology-enabled finance transformation projects. He is currently leading the finance area of a global SAP S/4HANA implementation. Srikanth frequently writes articles in various SAP forums such as SAPinsider and SCN.
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Manish Tandon
Manish Tandon, Executive Vice President and Head of the Life Sciences & Services at Infosys, is responsible for crafting and delivering business and technology solutions while working with a globally distributed set of associates. Manish is a Member of the Boards of Infosys Lodestone and Infosys Public Services. Previously, Manish was Global Delivery Head of IT services for the Financial Services and Insurance (FSI) unit, responsible for nearly 35 percent of Infosys revenues. Prior to working in FSI, he reinforced the testing business for Infosys, doubling revenues in three years. Since joining Infosys in 1996, he has performed multiple roles in business unit management, delivery management, sales and client relationship management. Manish’s 22 years of industry experience, including three years as an entrepreneur. He has a Bachelor’s degree in engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, and a postgraduate diploma from the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore.
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Costanza Tedesco
Costanza Tedesco, Global Vice-President, Brand Experience at SAP, is responsible for shaping and strengthening the SAP brand. Her teams drive the translation of SAP’s business strategies into branding strategies – in areas such as advertising, visual identity systems, digital design, product naming, brand architecture, and media planning. Costanza has driven a multi-year program to “transform” the SAP brand, increasing its value by more than $7B over her tenure. SAP is now ranked as the #24 most valuable global brand, ahead of Nike and Amazon [Source: Interbrand’s “Best Global Brands” ranking for 2012]. She joined SAP in 2002 after serving as Executive Group Director at Ogilvy, in charge of the IBM Global Services business. She also had significant experience in packaged goods, managing brands as diverse as Zantac (for Warner-Lambert) and Spaghetti’Os (for the Campbell Soup Company). Costanza holds a BA in Economics from Princeton University and an MBA from Harvard Business School. View Guest page
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Jamie Tedford
Jamie Tedford is the Founder and CEO of Brand Networks, which he bootstrapped until 2012 when he sold a minority share to leading private equity firm AEA Investors for $68 Million. The company powers upwards of $500M in advertising spend for half of the Fortune 100 and 17 of AdAge’s 25 Most Advertised Brands. The Brand Networks Platform is the world’s first cloud-based marketing software with a relevance engine at its core, designed to help marketers deliver native content and programmatic advertising seamlessly across leading social platforms including Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram and Pinterest. Previously, Jamie was SVP, Marketing and Media Innovation at Arnold, Havas’ leading global creative and media agency. Recognized as a pioneer in the growing “Word of Mouth” industry, Jamie is a founding board member of the Word of Mouth Marketing Association. His commentary on emerging media trends has been featured in the New York Times, WSJ, TechCrunch and MediaPost. View Guest page
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Andrew Tessler
Andrew Tessler, Senior Economist, Oxford Economics. His 15 years experience as an economist include the New South Wales Treasury and Booz Allen Hamilton in Australia. He previously served as a law enforcement intelligence officer. Andrew’s work has covered economic appraisals, valuations, rate of return studies, market analysis and program reviews for diverse sectors including the arts, law enforcement, transport, infrastructure, and the environment. Recently, he provided an analysis of the impact of real-time systems for SAP. View Guest page
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Gaurav Tewari
Gaurav Tewari is an Executive Director at SAP Ventures, focusing on growth and later-stage investments within Software/SaaS, Internet, Digital Media, Mobile, and Technology-Enabled Services. SAP Ventures has funded and helped build over 100 companies globally since 1997. Prior to SAP, Gaurav was a Principal of Boston-based Highland Capital Partners, leading early and growth-stage investments, and has held numerous board seats. Previous roles include Corporate Strategy executive at Microsoft Corporation and Management Consultant with McKinsey & Company. Gaurav began his career in engineering, operations, and product management roles at Microsoft and IBM Research. He received his MBA from the Wharton School, graduating as Valedictorian (Ford Fellow), and earned Bachelors and Masters degrees in Computer Science and Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He is a co-inventor on 9 issued US technology patents. Twitter: @GTMIT. Personal blog: www.Tewari.com. View Guest page
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Robert Thiele
Robert Thiele is senior director at OpenText and in charge of OpenText's portfolio of SAP solutions in the Americas since 2014. This portfolio is sold and supported by SAP as SAP Solution Extensions. Since 2007 Robert Thiele has been working closely with SAP and SAP customers especially in the areas of digital customer engagement and commerce, omnichannel communications, warehousing and logistics, and billing, and various industry solutions including utilities. He has 20+ years of experience in international enterprise IT markets, business development, marketing and channel sales. Prior to joining OpenText (StreamServe) in 2004, Robert held various management positions in marketing, strategic alliances and business development in CRM, business process integration, and SAP hosting companies.
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Jeremy C. Thomas
Leveraging his experience with design thinking, Jeremy C. Thomas works with companies large and small to push boundaries by challenging convention. He is involved in his own projects as Carom, as well as with SAP to drive Envision workshops. He embraces a philosophy of innovation to ensure being present in every moment to create the most value for the most people. Carom brings together a network of seasoned thinkers, modelers, ideators and business architects that believe innovation is a discipline, not a result. Our experience guides us, but our vision always leads us. Our team is invested in yours, working alongside the talent you’ve assembled to help direct energy and resources to the right places. We bring a diversity of perspectives, experience and skillsets to teams poised to act on what comes next—or sometimes, what comes first. There, at the inception of innovation, we work to focus your thinking, discover new paths, and to shape the ideas that will transform our world.
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Adie Tomer
Adie Tomer is a Senior Research Associate and Associate Fellow at the Brookings Metropolitan Policy Program and a member of the Metropolitan Infrastructure Initiative, focusing on metropolitan transportation usage patterns, including personal and freight modes, and the intersections between transportation and technological development. Adie has managed and co-produced multiple groundbreaking studies on the relationship between personal travel trends, spatial form, and transportation technology. As chief architect of a national study to measure access to jobs via transit, Adie worked alongside Microsoft executives and Danish transportation modelers to explore the relationships between urban development patterns, transit agency technologies, and service levels. Previously, Adie worked at the New York County District Attorney’s Office, advising senior executives on policy-relevant matters and operational business decisions. View Guest page
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Travis Tompkins
Travis Tompkins, Deloitte Consulting, LLP – Senior Manager, SAP Analytics, helps lead Deloitte’s SAP Analytics Practice. He has nearly 25 years of experience with business analytics and has supported finance transformation, sales forecasting, and supply chain optimization efforts. He uses a “measures that matter” approach to drive disruptive change through analytic insights. Within the SAP space, he provides thought leadership on ECC, S4, BW on HANA, native HANA modeling, data integration, predictive / prescriptive modeling, and cognitive decision making. Currently, Travis is working with Fortune 100 Pharmaceuticals clients who are looking to innovate and optimize while still addressing pre- and post-merger restructuring of systems, organizations, and processes. His previous roles included extensive thought leadership in data warehousing, customer analytics experience in pharmaceuticals and fashion retail (e.g. SAP, Oracle, Netezza, Microstrategy).
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Barry Trailer
Barry Trailer is a managing partner and co-founder of CSO Insights, a sales effectiveness research and benchmarking firm. In addition to more than thirty years of professional selling experience, Barry has been president of Miller-Heiman, a respected sales training firm, and Goldmine, a well-known CRM application. Barry has conducted seminars with hundreds of companies, including HP, Sun Microsystems, Oracle, and Hitachi Data Systems. He has been a keynote speaker at dozens of sales events presenting Sales Mastery. In addition, Barry has been a regular contributor to CRM magazine, CustomerThink.com and, has been twice published in the Harvard Business Review. With Jim Dickie, he co-authored, The Sales & Marketing Excellence Challenge, and is author of the novel Sales Mastery. View Guest page
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Don Trotta
Don Trotta joined SAP in 2009 as Global Head of Financial Services Industry responsible for SAP’s Banking and Insurance solutions globally. In 2012 he was named Senior Vice President and Global Head of Banking Industry Development. A key player in the financial services sector for over 25 years, Don has served as Chief Information Officer and Chief Technology Officer for top-tier global financial institutions including Barclays, Citigroup, and Chase Manhattan. At Barclays, he was Group Chief Information Officer and led the organization that provided global technology support covering retail, commercial, credit cards, and corporate services. For five years prior to Barclays, Don was the Chief Technology Officer for Citibank North America. He founded and chaired the Citibank’s Global Operations and Technology Council which governed Citibank’s technology and operations activities globally. He currently serves as Vice Chairman of the Board for The Banking Industry Architecture Network. View Guest page
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Isaac Tucker
Isaac Tucker has been at BlackLine for nearly 10 years in a variety of roles. Currently he is BlackLine’s Vice President of Product Management and is responsible for product investment, corporate strategy, and forward looking innovation/R&D. He is passionate about Continuous Accounting and finding new ways to make his customers happy.
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Dr. Paul Tunnah
Dr. Paul Tunnah founded pharmaphorum media in 2009, a company that drives better communication, connection and collaboration between the pharmaceutical industry and other healthcare stakeholders. Prior to this, Dr. Tunnah attained a BA in Biochemistry and DPhil in Biological Sciences from Oxford University, before working in commercial consulting for Datamonitor, IMS Health and SmartAnalyst.
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Kaan Turnali
Kaan Turnali is Global Senior Director, Business Intelligence (BI) at SAP. He is responsible for the development, oversight, and execution of strategy for the BI platform across SAP’s Global Customer Operations (GCO) Reporting & Analytics Platform. In addition, Kaan manages special mobile BI projects for the Office of the CEO and the GCO senior management team. Prior to joining SAP in 2006, Kaan worked as a senior BI consultant specializing in strategy, design, and development of enterprise BI solutions for SMB and Fortune 500 companies. His background and experience in the integration of business and technology span over two decades. He is an adjunct professor, teaching BI in the Doctor of Business Administration program at Wilmington University. He is also a contributor to blogs at Forbes, The Decision Factor, Business Trends, and Business Innovation. View Guest page
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Jonathan E. Turner, CFE, CII
Jonathan E. Turner, CFE, CII is Senior Director, Global Compliance Investigations, Wright Medical Technology and Founder and Managing Director, Wilson & Turner Incorporated. He has a strong background in complex and sensitive investigations, corporate fraud, employee dishonesty, money laundering and computer crime cases. Jonathan has been retained to provide expert testimony regarding fraud, on behalf of governmental, public and private organizations. He is also an Adjunct Professor in the Business School at the University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill and for the University of Memphis Criminology Department. Jonathan has lectured on fraud, money laundering, and fraud investigation for the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, American Society for Industrial Security, CPA Societies, professional groups and private companies. He has authored more than 40 articles and “Money Laundering Prevention: Deterring, Detecting, and Resolving Financial Fraud” ( Wiley June 2011). View Guest page
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Laz Uriza
Laz Uriza is a Senior Solution Principal for the SAP Extended Supply Chain Center of Excellence. He was born and raised in Mexico City. Growing up, his career was influenced by the O&G and Consumer products industry. Laz has over 10 years of experience in Supply Chain. Since joining SAP in 2011, he has worked in various areas of SAP software solutions, in several different capacities, starting from an MBA Leadership rotation program, to product/program management, and Center of Excellence. Laz not only contributes to the North America Go To Market efforts for S/4HANA, he has extensive experience in Internet of Things, business analytics, supplier/customer relationship management, and enterprise mobility. Laz holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Industrial Engineering and Business Management from Universidad Anahuac in Mexico City, as well as an MBA from Rice University in Houston.
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Mike Valdés-Fauli
Mike Valdés-Fauli is president of JeffreyGroup, a marketing communications agency with five offices in four countries, and clients including Airbus, American Airlines, Clorox, Coca-Cola, Diageo, Johnson & Johnson, Target, T-Mobile, UnitedHealth Group and Volkswagen. He manages the agency’s new business development efforts, client service and staff over 105 employees. Previously, Mike was an Account Director at Conexión PR, helping found the boutique firm’s Miami office and run the GE and Ford Motor Company accounts. Other experience includes serving as a publicist for the Latino division of Universal Pictures in Los Angeles and working on political campaigns with Fleishman-Hillard in Washington D.C. An accomplished writer and media commentator, Mike has been featured in CNN, Univision, Telemundo, The Miami Herald, AdWeek, PRWeek and Minorities in Business. He was recognized by PRWeek as one of the industry’s “40 Stars Under 40.” View Guest page
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Alexandra Van der Ploeg
Alexandra van der Ploeg joined SAP in 1999, in charge of management development for SAP Switzerland. Over the next decade, she held various managerial positions in Human Resources. For the past three years, she has managed global CSR programs at SAP AG, developing and implementing the Power of Small competition. In addition, she is responsible for the Yunus Social Business Initiative in Haiti, implementing an infrastructure for social businesses to foster long-term economic development in Haiti, in cooperation with Peace Nobel Prize Laureate Professor Yunus. Alexandra has lived in numerous countries, including Russia and Brazil, and speaks six languages. View Guest page
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Nicolette “Nico” van Exel
Nicolette “Nico” van Exel, Director, Corporate Social Responsibility, SAP AG, drives private sector engagement in social innovation. She currently heads global social investments and NGO partnerships in SAP’s corporate social responsibility group, with a primary focus on entrepreneurship in emerging and developing economies. Prior to SAP, Nicolette worked at Business for Social Responsibility (BSR), a global leader in corporate responsibility, managing consulting teams in the consumer products, ICT and Financial Services industries. Before BSR, she headed the corporate social responsibility solutions team at Intertek in the UK. Prior to BSR, Nicolette worked as a sales leader at the analyst firm Forrester Research in the UK, where she pioneered sustainability concepts with key Forrester accounts, leading to full time career in sustainability and corporate responsibility. She is a designated mentor and advisor for Endeavor, supporting high-impact entrepreneurs in emerging economies. View Guest page
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Rick Varner
Rick Varner is a strategy and transformation leader, advisor and mentor specializing in modern technology delivery and the shift to digital strategies. He serves as a Sr. Executive Partner for Gartner Inc., a premier technology research and advisory firm. Previously, Rick was Global CIO for Cooper Standard, a $4B automotive parts supplier with 82 operating locations in 19 countries. He served as Division CIO for Terex, a $10B diversified equipment company. Rick led IT for the Seattle based Genie business segment. Previously, Rick was Division CIO for Medtronic, a $12B medical device company. In this role he led the divestiture, of the Seattle based Physio-Control business unit across 32 countries. As Division CIO for Delphi, a $28B automotive parts supplier, Rick was responsible for the Electronics and Safety division; Delphi’s 31 technical centers and the Asia Pacific regional operations. Rick is a Professional Engineer, active volunteer and experimental aviation enthusiast.
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Guillermo B. Vazquez
Guillermo B. Vazquez, Specialist Leader / Senior Manager at Deloitte LLP, is a senior technology executive, leading multimillion dollar SAP global programs with Fortune-500 companies. He has extensive experience defining enterprise architecture strategy and solutions advising C-level executives in business intelligence requirements in the adoption of SAP HANA, cloud, mobile and Big Data solutions. Guillermo’s latest research include simulation with algorithms to optimize operations using IoT, Big Data, in a Data Fabric, cognitive and In-Memory architectures. He is the author of several SAP In-Memory and Business Intelligence articles with more than ten thousand readers. He has global implementation experience in long term projects living in the US, Australia, Saudi Arabia, Japan, Mexico and the United Kingdom. Guillermo holds a Masters in Technology Management with specialization in Enterprise Technology Strategy from the University of Pennsylvania and The Wharton School.
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Schalk Viljoen
Schalk Viljoen is a transplanted South African, now living in Germany. He has been in the IT industry for 22 years, with roles ranging from technical support, pre-sales, sales, marketing and communications to general management. Currently Schalk works for SAP’s Cloud Business Unit and is responsible for external Social Media, which combines his love for technology with his love of socializing. What “keeps him up at night” is the challenge of using social media for business development while staying true to the principle of Community. Schalk hangs out at the best social media watering holes and can be found at Twitter, Linkedln and Facebook. The SAP Cloud communities are on SAP Community Network (SCN), Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, YouTube and Slideshare. View Guest page
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Devin Virta
Devin Virta, Sr. Mobility Account Executive, Healthcare at SAP, has 23 years of experience on the vendor side of the healthcare industry, holding various sales and sales management positions in the pharmaceutical, biotech and medical device sectors. Prior to joining SAP, he spent 11 years at Medtronic, primarily responsible for growing a neuromodulation therapy (InterStim) for pelvic floor disorders from a nascent therapy to a standard of care. Devin is familiar with multiple sales environments in the healthcare industry including the operating room, physician office and hospital administration, and understands the implications of HIPAA, CMS (Medicare) and private pay reimbursement, universal precautions and aseptic technique. He has a broad view of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) and its impact on industry. View Guest page
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Julio Viskovich
Julio Viskovich is a highly respected thought leader in the social selling training industry and author of Sellarketing - A Tweetable Book on Social Selling. He is one of Forbes Top 30 Social Selling Influencers and has spent the last 5+ years working with Microsoft and HootSuite as training their sales teams before joining rFactr as VP of Marketing and Social Selling. Julio also teaches social media and digital marketing courses at Thompson Rivers University. View Guest page
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Kat Vorotova
Kat Vorotova is Co-Founder / Co-CEO of Try The World, the fastest growing online retailer of specialty food. By partnering with Michelin star chefs and companies such as Conde Nast, Try The World delivers curated packages of ingredients, snacks, and beverages from around the world to loyal subscribers across the US. Prior to launching, Kat traveled to over 25 countries as a global strategy consultant at Thomson Reuters and Weight Watchers, and ran a dining club and food blog for adventurous eaters. Kat and co-founder David Foult met at Columbia Business School, and instantly connected over their passion for food and travel. After completing an incubator at Google in 2013, their first product, the Valentine's Day Paris Box, went viral and sold out in 2 days. Since then, the company raised over $4.5m in venture funding. Since 2014, Try The World has imported and sold over 5 million products from dozens of countries, and is opening a pop-up store in the World Trade Center in New York.
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Frantisek “Frank” Vrabel
Frantisek “Frank” Vrabel, a serial entrepreneur with Silicon Valley experience, is CEO of Prague-based startup Semantic Visions. The world leader in semantic analysis and open source data processing, the firm runs an SAP HANA-based web mining system. Its solution provides an unprecedented view of what is going on in the world at any moment, by rapidly and seamlessly analyzing unstructured content - maximizing 500 million documents and 25 billion metadata elements. Previously, Frank was a founder and CEO of semantic web technology pioneer Newstin, later acquired by Semantic Visions. Acclaimed by the British government as a technology of exceptional potential, Newstin won the 2008 Red Herring Global Award and 2009 Word Summit Award. A world-class mountaineer and extreme skier, Frank has provided strategic advisory for Cubic Defense and leadership for a 40,000-strong Czech government organization. He has dealt with business and political leaders in more than 25 countries. View Guest page
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Ross Wainwright
Ross Wainwright is the Global Head of Financial Services for SAP, managing the Services line of business, and overseeing a global team of over 600 consultants, sales contributors, and an integrated field support team. He is part of the Global Banking Senior Leadership Team. In his previous role as Chief Operating Officer for SAP North America, Ross provided leadership for License Sales and Services Operations, Pre-Sales support, Value Engineering, and the Mobility, Line of Business and Business Analytics organizations. For close to 4 years, he served as Executive Vice President of Services for North America, a part of SAP’s global Services organization. Prior to joining SAP in 2002, Ross served in senior sales management positions at Parametric Technology Corporation (PTC), where he represented the company’s mechanical engineering and product life-cycle management solutions for the high tech vertical. View Guest page
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Vincent Walden
Vincent Walden is a Partner with Ernst & Young’s Fraud Investigative and Dispute Services practice, based in their New York office. He specializes in forensic technology, business intelligence, and fraud detection analytics. He leads a national team of skilled forensic technology and data mining professionals, and has over sixteen years of experience handling the information management, forensic analysis, and electronic discovery needs for large-scale, complex litigations, investigations, and proactive anti-fraud and compliance programs. A CPA and a Certified Fraud Examiner, Vincent has written several publications that have been featured in ABC News Online, The Economist, FRAUD Magazine, Internal Auditor Magazine and Compliance Week. He taught a course on anti-fraud analytics at the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners Global Annual Conference in June 2013. View Guest page
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Richard Walker
Richard Walker is a Principal at Deloitte Consulting with over 19 years of experience in consulting focused on technology strategy and transformation in the financial services industry. He has led numerous engagements covering IT strategy and business alignment, IT operating model design and implementation, and technology-driven operations transformation. Richard has led client projects in treasury services, cash management, and trade finance to streamline and automate processes, improve on-boarding times, and support enhanced information. He has also led merger-driven and transformation-driven IT programs for regional and top financial institutions including pre-acquisition operations and technology due diligence, post announcement operations and technology integration planning, and post-close operations and technology conversion and integration. View Guest page
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Charles Wallace
Charles Wallace is senior vice president and chief information officer (CIO) for Solenis and is responsible for leading the company’s global information technology (IT) group. Before joining Solenis in 2014, he was senior vice president and CIO at Ashland Inc. and was Vice President and CIO for business technology systems at Keystone Foods. Wallace was previously employed by Rohm and Haas Company, where he held positions of increasing responsibility since joining the company in 1992. Wallace is an active supporter and board member of a number of organizations, including NPower PA, the African American Museum of Philadelphia, YMCA, United Way of SEPA and Red Cross SEPA. He has been recognized by several leading industry organizations, including CIO Magazine’s “Ones to Watch 2008,” Black MBA Magazine’s “Top 50 Under 50 2008” and, most recently, “Smart CXO Magazine 2012.”
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Michael Walton
Michael Walton is a Senior Management and Principal Manufacturing IT consultant with Atos North America Integrated Manufacturing, specializing in the IT enablement of corporate, manufacturing, and supply chain processes. He is currently responsible for technological direction, operations, and customer delivery for the Atos organization and offering. His experience spans business case development, budgeting, planning, software and equipment selection, implementation, support, operations, and project and program governance. Mike’s skills include a deep knowledge of portfolio management, contract management, strong leadership, the ability to meet demanding deadlines, management of strict budgets, development of cost savings, and clear communication within teams as well as with all levels of management organizations. View Guest page
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R "Ray" Wang
R “Ray” Wang is a Principal Analyst and CEO at Constellation Research Group. He previously was a founding partner and research analyst for enterprise strategy at Altimeter Group and the author of the popular enterprise software blog, "A Software Insider’s Point of View". With viewership in the millions of page views a year, Ray’s blog provides insight into how disruptive technologies and new business models impact the enterprise. Ray’s background in emerging business and technology trends, enterprise apps strategy, technology selection, and contract negotiations provides his clients and readers with the bridge between business leadership and technology adoption. View Guest page
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Rebecca Wang
Rebecca Wang is a member of the small but mighty community engagement team within HP’s Sustainability and Social Innovation team. She is responsible for employee engagement in the community for HP’s 320,000 employees around the globe. Her specific responsibilities include creating and managing the company’s global skills-based / pro bono volunteering program. Additionally, Rebecca works closely with the HP Company Foundation during times of disaster to engage employees through giving and volunteering. Prior to joining HP in 2010, Rebecca spent several years focused on raising her children and donating her skills to her local community and the public schools her sons attend. She is very familiar with employee engagement and disaster relief in her previous role with Cisco Systems and the Cisco Systems Foundation between 2000-2007. Rebecca holds a Communications degree from UC Berkeley and a Master’s degree in Kinesiology from the University of Michigan. View Guest page
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Dan Ward
Dan Ward is the author of The Simplicity Cycle: A Field Guide To Making Things Better Without Making Them Worse (HarperBusiness, 2015) and F.I.R.E.: How Fast, Inexpensive, Restrained and Elegant Methods Ignite Innovation (HarperBusiness, 2014). Prior to launching Dan Ward Consulting, he served for more than 20 years as an engineering officer in the US Air Force, where he specialized in leading high-speed, low-cost technology development programs and retired at the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. While on active duty, he helped establish the Air Force Research Laboratory’s rapid innovation process and led multiple projects from the design phase through testing, fielding, and user training. Dan holds three engineering degrees and received the Bronze Star for his service in Afghanistan. He is a Non-Resident Cybersecurity Fellow with the New America Foundation.
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[L to R:] W. David Stephenson, Stephenson Strategies; Sandi Webster, Consultants2Go; Patrick Heffernan, TBRI; Sana Salam, Sodales Solutions View Guest page
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Jayne Dixon Weber
Jayne Dixon Weber has served as the Support Services Coordinator for the National Fragile X Foundation (NFXF) since 2007. In this role, she talks and emails with parents around the world, helping them with whatever issues they are having. In addition to assisting in the creation of the NFXF’s Adolescent & Adult Project, Jayne authored the book, “Transitioning ‘Special’ Children into Elementary School” and is the editor for the book, “Children with Fragile X Syndrome.” She has presented at many conferences and is the co-leader for the LINKS parent support group in Colorado. Jayne has two children— an adult son who has fragile X syndrome and a ‘typical’ daughter. View Guest page
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Sandi Webster
Sandi Webster is a principal of Consultants 2 Go, LLC (C2G) – a certified, minority, women-owned, management consulting firm that provides marketing and analytics consultants on an interim basis or as an outsourced project to Fortune 500 companies in the Financial Services, Telecom, Insurance, Retail and Pharma industries. The award-winning C2G is on the Inc. 500|5000 Fastest Growing Companies in America list for three consecutive years and in the running for 2014. Sandi, her business partner, Peggy McHale, and her employees are ex-financial services and telecom employees who utilize their vast marketing and analytics knowledge to service the needs of Fortune 500 and mid-size clients. Her business model is to repurpose women who left leadership positions in Corporate America due to lack of a flexible work arrangement or to take care of family. In 2009, she co-authored Black and White Strike Gold, a book of 52 nuggets to help small business owners grow to the million dollar mark. View Guest page
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- Encore: Game-Changers 2017 Predictions -- Part 2
- Game-Changers 2017 Predictions -- Part 2
- Success Secrets for Entrepreneurial Women Part 3: Looking Back and Ahead
- Encore: Success Secrets for Entrepreneurial Women - Part 2
- Success Secrets for Entrepreneurial Women - Part 2
- Success Secrets for Entrepreneurial Women
Pamela Weiss
Pamela Weiss is an executive coach and mindfulness meditation teacher. She is the founder of Appropriate Response and creator of the award-winning Personal Excellence Program (PEP), ten-month a human development process offered to hundreds of leaders around the globe. Pamela has worked with dozens of executives, managers and teams within a wide variety of corporate and non-profit organizations, including: Genentech, Roche, Pixar, Oracle, Salesforce.com, the Metta Institute and the Center for Executive Development at UC Berkeley. She is a Buddhist practitioner and teacher for over 25 years, currently teaching through San Francisco Insight and Spirit Rock Meditation Center, where she is on the teaching team for the Community Dharma Leader program. Pamela is known for her clarity, accessibility, pragmatism and warmth. She has the ability to articulate complex ideas and processes in simple, elegant forms that are both practical and profound. Download her guided meditations and talks at www.appropriateresponse.com/dharma/guidedmeditations. View Guest page
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Evan Welsh
Evan Welsh, Head of Sustainability and CSR Corporate and Product Media Relations at SAP, started at SAP on Valentine’s Day, and says, “It’s been a love affair ever since”. His primary area of focus consists of telling the SAP story to leading media around the world, focusing increasingly on social media and regularly giving presentations on the topic. Prior to SAP, he served as director of public relations and communications for The Franklin Institute Science Museum in Philadelphia, PA. Evan has also taught English and writing courses at Arcadia University in Glenside, PA. Growing up, he lived in Switzerland for nine years and graduated from the Kantonsschule in Zofingen. In July 2012, he spent one month in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, participating in SAP’s first social sabbatical program. View Guest page
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Jane Wesman
Jane Wesman, President of Jane Wesman Public Relations, Inc., is one of the country’s foremost experts on book publicity and marketing. She is the author of Dive Right In – The Sharks Won’t Bite: The Entrepreneurial Woman’s Guide to Success. For twenty years, Jane has been advising women to “Dive In” and has not stopped yet. As President of the NYC chapter of the National Association of Women Business Owners, Jane has developed an extremely successful mentoring program and monthly networking and educational events. As a book marketing expert, Jane has launched such bestsellers as Stephen Covey’s The Eighth Habit, Charles Schwab’s You’re Fifty Now What?, Marcus Buckingham’s The One Thing You Need to Know, and Spencer Johnson’s Who Moved My Cheese. Her articles on business and marketing have appeared in American Bookseller, Inc., Professional Performance, Enterprising Women, foxbusiness.com, and womenentrepreneur.com. She has spoken at the Stern School of Business and other venues.
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Benjamin Wesson
Benjamin Wesson is the Vice President of Product Management for the SAP NetWeaver Cloud in the Core Technology and Innovation Platform team at SAP. He brings over 15 years of experience to this role. Benjamin previously launched Dexterra (Antenna), a mobile middleware company, and the Salesforce Force.com platform. Prior to Salesforce, he held product management and engineering roles at PeopleSoft (Oracle), Siebel (Oracle) and other companies. View Guest page
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Dave Westrom
Dave Westrom is Senior Vice President Business Development at ThingWorx, a PTC Business. He is responsible for the development and management of ThingWorx global strategic partners and select global strategic accounts. Prior to ThingWorx, Dave was Vice President of Strategy and Business Development at BL Healthcare, a provider of remote healthcare monitoring solutions, where he was responsible for corporate strategy, global sales and marketing. Dave also served as an advisor to the Managing Director and CEO of SoftDEL. Prior to BL Healthcare, Dave was a Global Account Director with SAP Americas. Dave joined SAP as the result of the SAP acquisition of Lighthammer, where he was Vice President of Business Development and Strategic Accounts. He has also successfully held executive level positions in sales and marketing with Invensys, Wonderware, Pavilion Technologies, and ABB. Dave holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Maryland.
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David White
David White, Aberdeen Group, has 20 years experience in the software industry, including roles in development, systems engineering, consulting, product management, product marketing and industry marketing. At Aberdeen, he is a Senior Research Analyst in the Business Intelligence practice with a major focus on understanding the business value derived from the use of Business Intelligence (BI), and how organizations use BI to drive strategic and operational change. View Guest page
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Christine B. Whittemore
Christine B. Whittemore is Chief Simplifier of Simple Marketing Now LLC, an inbound marketing strategy consultancy helping organizations get found online using social media and content marketing. An active social media enthusiast, Christine established her marketing blog, Flooring The Consumer, about the retail experience and marketing to women in June 2006. It is listed in the AdAge Power 150 and the BuyerZone Top 20 Business Marketing Blogs. She publishes the Content Talks Business Blog, online marketing advice and best practices - http://simplemarketingnow.com/content-talks-business-blog/. She presented on lead generation with social media at the MarketingProfs B2B Forum 2011 and on content curation at Info360 2012. Christine serves on the Columbia Business School’s Alumni Club of New York Board of Directors as Co-President and is a member of the Surfaces Education Advisory Council. Marketing blog: http://simplemarketingnow.com/blog/flooring-the-consumer. View Guest page
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Fiona Williams
Fiona Williams, Partner, Deloitte & Touche LLP, has more than 26 years of experience in information security consulting, organization and process improvement, information systems auditing, and application design and implementation. She has organized and led multidisciplinary teams for assessing, designing, implementing, and testing the security and control environment for a broad range of enterprise projects. Fiona has assisted clients with Sarbanes-Oxley, section 404 requirements for their ERP implementations. View the podcast “Unlocking Business Value with a Balanced Approach to Governance, Risk, and Compliance (Deloitte)” at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzLlH5voMZ8 View Guest page
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Karie Willyerd
Karie Willyerd is the Workplace Futurist in the HR line of business for the SAP Cloud. Prior to that she was the cofounder and CEO of Jambok, a video social collaboration platform acquired by SuccessFactors in 2011 and now part of the SAP Jam platform. While Karie was the Chief Learning Officer for Sun Microsystems, she and her team won over 50 awards for learning excellence, including being named by ASTD as the #1 BEST in the world. She is the coauthor of the bestseller, The 2020 Workplace and has written dozens of articles, including a feature in Harvard Business Review on Mentoring Millennials. She blogs for Harvard Business and Forbes, and is an advisor to the business school at Colorado State University and the Center for Effective Organizations at USC. She serves on the board of City Year, Silicon Valley. Karie is at work on her next book -- Stretch: How to Future Proof Yourself for Tomorrow’s Workplace, to be published in September, 2015. View Guest page
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Todd Wilms
Todd Wilms, Senior Director and founding member of the Global Social Media Audience Marketing Team at SAP. Todd’s team helps SAP’s 47 solutions and 28 industries reach their appropriate audiences around the globe through social media marketing. They develop the strategy, help to execute the program, and then create repeatable processes to support other teams’ success. A 20-year marketer, Todd has held executive product and marketing leadership roles with best-known brands including eBay/PayPal, Citrix, PeopleSoft, and agency George P. Johnson. An avid writer, he is currently blogging on Forbes and his team blog at Socialb2p.com. View Guest page
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Todd Wilms
Todd Wilms is the Head of Social Business Strategy at SAP. A 20-plus year marketing executive, he has held leadership roles with some of the best known brands in the world, such as eBay/PayPal, PeopleSoft, agency GPJ, and IBM. Todd is a recognized industry influencer in social media and is widely quoted around the globe. He shares his views on Forbes, the CMO Club, and Brand Innovators. Todd is seriously considering getting a dog in 2014. View Guest page
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Todd Wilms
Todd Wilms heads the strategy for SAP’s DiSCo organization (Digital, Social, and Community) to help SAP achieve its goal of becoming a world class social enterprise. Prior to joining SAP, he held executive leadership roles for some of the best known brands in the industry, including PayPal/eBay, Citrix, IBM, and PeopleSoft. A frequent contributor on Forbes, Todd is a widely quoted thought leader in the marketing space. View Guest page
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Philippe Winthrop
Philippe Winthrop is the VP of Corporate Strategy at VeliQ, a Rotterdam-based enterprise mobility company offering the only true mobility Platform as a Service (mPaaS) that helps organizations enable the mobile workplace. Philippe is responsible for evangelizing VeliQ’s vision for a SaaS-based enterprise mobility platform, as well as helping to define the company’s overall strategy. He is the founder of the Enterprise Mobility Forum (EMF), the first and largest social network exclusively dedicated to enterprise mobility. Prior to creating EMF, he spent more than 15 years in the analyst/influencer community working at companies such as IDC, Aberdeen Group and Strategy Analytics. View Guest page
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Mike Wittenstein
Mike Wittenstein is the founder and managing principal at Storyminers, an experience, service, and business design consultancy known for its game-changing work with leading service brands. A world-class expert on experience, service, and business design, Mike has helped over 400 organizations in 25+ countries make their experiences better—to the tune of $1.5B in value created. As an eVisionary, he started IBM’s first experience and service design practice and helped establish the international Customer Experience Professionals Association. By his own admission, Mike is a designer who can’t draw. His clients include Air Canada, Apple, Best Buy, BlackRock, Clorox, Delta Air Lines, Holiday Inn, IBM, LeasePlan, McDonald’s, Party City, Publix, Safeway and Zaxby’s. Mike enjoys helping companies discover, design, and deploy their future-state experiences and leading Study Tours. He earned an MBA from Thunderbird, BA from the University of Florida, and studied in Brazil and Russia.
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Friderika “Frida” Wollweber
Friderika “Frida” Wollweber is the founder of Fashion Seduction Blog (www.fashionseduction.com), dedicated to her style and interest in luxury fashion. Frida discovered this passion while growing up in a family specializing in leather accessories and watching her grandfather make handbags. She is now starting her own handbag label, Cucuka (www.cucuka.com). Frida gained luxury retail experience working in Germany and London for Prada, Burberry and Mulberry. Having worked for Prada in Selfridges, named the world’s best department store four years in a row, Frida is conscious of the service she delivers, and expects the same when shopping for herself. This focus led her to the London College of Fashion, where she studies Customer Relationship Management and how new media sources such as Twitter, Facebook, and blogs, can help fashion luxury brands support in-store customer relationship building. View Guest page
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Chris Worman
Based in Eastern Europe since 2006, Chris Worman, Director of Program Development for TechSoup, has been exploring new ways of approaching social change through technology in the region. Perhaps most interesting has been localizing TechSoup’s Challenge model, which sources innovative social benefit technologies. Since 2010, more than 400,000 individuals have visited Challenge sites, approximately 3 million have been reached through social media, 1,000 ideas have been pitched, and 60 have been selected, built, launched and mentored (example: http://bit.ly/ZosTIi). Before bringing TechSoup into Romania in 2009, Chris launched Romania’s first community foundation and spent several years in the Carpathians establishing social enterprises. He is a board member of the Grantmakers East Forum and a frequent speaker on citizen-driven movements, NGO and social-enterprise development, and the roles of technology and philanthropy in social change. View Guest page
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Jon Wurfl
Jon Wurfl at SAP helps retailers manage the most valuable asset of their business: their shoppers. By leveraging his domain expertise in CRM business strategy and technology, Jon helps companies innovate their business transformation by using e-commerce, loyalty management, marketing, social media, mobility. His goal is to help businesses drive their top and bottom line upward. View Guest page
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Sam Yen
Sam Yen was named Chief Design Officer of SAP in June 2014. He will continue his work to drive a new era of commitment to design and user experience at SAP and, above all, listen to customers´ needs and roll that conversation into tangible results. High profile projects are SAP Fiori, SAP Screen Personas and SAP´s UX design services. Previously, Sam was the Global Head of Design and User Experience, and before that he led the SAP AppHaus, an innovation team tasked with building new solutions, establishing new markets, and reaching new users. Sam joined SAP as a senior member of the Design Services Team, a multi-disciplinary group in the Office of the CEO tasked with accelerating the adoption of Design Thinking as a process for innovation and development of internal and external SAP products. Before SAP, Sam co-founded Covigna, Inc., an enterprise software company that delivered contract management solutions. Sam has a Ph.D. in Design Theory and Methodology from Stanford University.
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Fred Yentz
Fred Yentz is a highly sought-after public speaker on the Internet of Things, known for his industry insights, engaging delivery, contagious energy and vision. He brings over 25 years of business and engineering leadership with Telit, ILS Technology, RadiSys and IBM. Fred Yentz joined Telit (formerly ILS Technology) as SVP and COO in 2007. Prior to Telit, he served as GM of RadiSys, overseeing global sales, marketing and professional services for the Enterprise, Communication and Commercial divisions. Earlier, Fred held engineering, new business development and management positions at IBM. Mr. Yentz holds degrees in engineering from Michigan Technological University, an MBA and Masters in CIS from the University of Miami. He serves on the Board of the Telecommunications Industry Association.
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Mark Yolton
Mark Yolton is the Senior Vice President of Digital, Social, and Communities at SAP, the world leader in enterprise software. His responsibilities include managing and leading the SAP Community Network, SAP.com, SAP’s presence on social media, the community-based TechEd event series, and social media tools and governance. Mark joined SAP seven years ago, by way of Sun Microsystems, PeopleSoft, Oracle, and Unisys, where he held field, regional, and headquarters roles in marketing, communications, the web, and eBusiness. He is a frequent speaker and blogger and can be found online @MarkYolton, on the SAP Community Network, and on LinkedIn. A recent interview with Mark is featured in the MIT Sloan Management Review. View Guest page
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Mike Yost
Mike Yost is President of MESA International, a global, not-for-profit industry association. He brings over 25 years of industrial, commercial, and management experience to this role. Mike has held various leadership roles in automation and industrial software businesses, including Manufacturing Solutions Leader for GE-Intelligent Platforms’ Production Management Software business, and commercial positions with Activplant Corporation and Rockwell Automation. He has specialized in the Manufacturing Execution (MES), Manufacturing Intelligence (EMI) and Operations Management software arenas since 1999. For the past two years, Mike has led MESA International to improve its ability to help manufacturers make sense out of the role of modern information technologies in their manufacturing operations. He holds a B.S. degree in Industrial Engineering from Pennsylvania State University. His affiliations include MESA International and the Smart Manufacturing Leadership Coalition. View Guest page
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Jason Yotopoulos
Jason Yotopoulos, Founder & President of mach49, has over 20 years of international business experience as a corporate executive and venture capitalist. He most recently completed ten years as a member of SAP’s global senior leadership team, managing an 800-person innovation organization across 32 countries. As Executive Vice President and Head of Global Research at SAP, he ran the global R&D and innovation unit, exploring emerging IT trends and transforming applied research into tangible prototypes, customer pilots and game-changing solutions. Previously, Jason headed SAP’s Global Business Incubator, which he proposed, designed, and established in 2008. The Incubator built new lines of business and launched internal startups from idea through to commercialization. He also served as Vice President of the Corporate Strategy Group, and created and ran the M&A Strategy Group. Jason holds a BS in Engineering from Stanford University and an MBA from Stanford’s Graduate School of Business.
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Dale Young
Dale Young currently leads IBM's GBS SAP Global Center of Competency driving Emerging Solutions & Technology; Project Deployment; Strategic Solutioning; and the Lab for SAP Solutions. He has been responsible for the delivery of SAP architecture and enterprise strategies, data and analytics strategies, centers of excellence, enterprise portal strategies, and solutions across North America and Europe. In this role, Dale has led some of IBM’s largest strategy and transformation projects across industry-leading banking, insurance, electronics, and pharmaceutical/medical device manufacturers in Europe and North America. Additionally, he has pioneered some of IBM’s latest advances in SAP Methodology & Tools including the use of iRise across the full lifecycle of SAP implementations to improve the quality and completeness of designs and accelerate solution delivery. Prior to joining IBM, Dale held various senior management roles in the information and technology services industry. View Guest page
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Mico Yuk
Mico Yuk is an SAP Mentor/BI Influencer and Director of Sales and Business Development at Benchmarkers Business Intelligence, a company she co-founded to represent the consulting and services side of EverythingXcelsius.com (“Xcelsius Gurus” network), which she founded in 2008. A computer engineer by degree, Mico has been designing and implementing enterprise dashboards for major corporate clients since 2006 and is considered one of the world’s top Xcelsius dashboard developers. She has implemented executive dashboards for SAP BusinessObjects Global Services clients including Allstate, Pfizer, Aviva Canada, McKesson, Ryder Logistics, Digicel Jamaica, Qatar Gas, St. Jude Medical, Walgreens, Chiquita, US Airforce, SAP Global Marketing, Amtrak, BOA, and Schering Plough. Mico was named as one of the Top 50 Analytics Bloggers to follow by SAP. She hosted the Xcelsius Gurus Reception at the 2010 & 2011 ASUG/SAP BusinessObjects User Conference in Orlando, FL. Visit micoyuk.com. View Guest page
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Hillel Zafir
Hillel Zafir is the co-founder and president of HMS Technology group, a global technology company helping SMEs achieve operational excellence. Hillel is an accomplished executive with a strong record of driving strategies, initiatives, and processes that generate dynamic gains in financial performance and operational efficiencies. He is an expert in leveraging business planning and information technology to reduce costs and improve productivity. He is also a recognized leader in business automation and an astute problem solver possessing the vision and leadership to maintain businesses at the forefront of cutting-edge technology. Hillel was awarded Top 25 Information Managers status by Information-Management.com in 2012.
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- Data Security Breaches Part 5: Your Digital Transformation - Security First!
- Data Security Breaches Part 4: Wising-Up to Real-Life Impacts
- Data Security Authentication in the Age of Credit Card Breaches - Part 3
- Data Security in the Age of Credit Card Breaches – Part 2
- Data Security in the Age of Credit Card Breaches
Yasmina Zaidman
Yasmina Zaidman is the Director of Strategic Partnerships at Acumen, where she leads engagement with strategic corporate partners and institutions that share Acumen’s commitment to supporting entrepreneurial approaches to tackling poverty. She was the lead architect for a $10 million partnership launched in February 2015 with Unilever to enhance livelihoods for smallholder farmers. Yasmina has worked with leading corporations across industries, including with SAP, GE, Goldman Sachs and the IKEA Foundation. She initiated and managed the Water Portfolio at Acumen, and led its Communications work for six years. She has worked in the arenas of international development, corporate sustainability and social entrepreneurship for the past 18 years. Yasmina received a BA from Vassar College and her MBA from Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business with a certificate in Public Management.
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Marlyn Zelkowitz
Marlyn Zelkowitz is an evangelist for Internet of Things, Cloud, and Mobility to drive public sector outcomes. She leads the SAP Future Cities team in North America, leveraging more than 20 years’ public services experience, including implementing major technology and policy initiatives for public organizations in Latin America, North America, Europe and Asia. Prior to joining SAP in August 2008, Marlyn served as the Public Sector Value Creation Lead for IBM Global Business Services, focused on delivering tangible business value to government organizations through people, process, and technology changes. Fluent in Spanish and Portuguese, she holds an MBA in Finance from the Wharton Graduate School of Management, and MA in International Studies from the University of Pennsylvania, where she was a Lauder Fellow.
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Gerlinde Zibulski
Gerlinde Zibulski has worked in various roles for SAP since 1999. She started as an HR Consultant implementing SAP HR at customers, then moved into Technology Product Management specializing in Security. She worked 12 years in Security at SAP and leads the Security Product Management since 2009. Gerlinde is responsible for SAP’s security products in the area of identity management, authentication and Single Sign-On, Cloud Identity Management, Threat Detection, Security Vulnerability Code Scans and Secure Mobile Document Management. She has multi-cultural experience from her three-year-plus years stint as a Security Product Manager for SAP Labs, Palo Alto, and a half-year as an SAP Fellow at SAP CIS, Moscow. Gerlinde holds a Masters degree in Economics from Private University Witten/Herdecke.
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- Bitcoin/Blockchain: Hype or Hope for a New Secure Cryptocurrency?
- Security Breach Threat Analysis and Intelligence: Just Voodoo or Real?
- Data Security Breaches Part 5: Your Digital Transformation - Security First!
- Data Security Breaches Part 4: Wising-Up to Real-Life Impacts
- Data Security Authentication in the Age of Credit Card Breaches - Part 3
- Data Security in the Age of Credit Card Breaches – Part 2
Emanuel Ziegler
Emanuel Ziegler is the lead architect of the SAP HANA Platform for Healthcare and Life Sciences. Starting from a background in numerical simulations in cosmology, he joined the SAP HANA core development team in 2010 at the advent of SAP HANA's first public release. Since 2012, he has worked with multiple co-innovation partners on bioinformatics topics ranging from a first draft of the human proteome and its comprehensive public database Proteomics DB over cancer research, to plant genomics. His focus currently lies on the combination of genomic with clinical data within the SAP HANA Platform for Healthcare and Life Sciences. Besides the algorithmic challenges, Emanuel is very interested in the visualization and interactive analysis of molecular data.
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Ben Zimmerman
Ben Zimmerman is a Partner in the Advisory Services practice of Ernst & Young LLP. He supports Risk innovation and transformation efforts and leads the SAP Risk Transformation services in the Americas. Ben has over twenty years in supporting clients in SAP driven transformations. His experiences include strategy, organization development, project advisor, quality assessment, project management, and risk analytics design and implementation. From an Industry perspective, Ben has focused, over the last ten years in Automotive & Transportation, Oil & Gas, and Technology.
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