Continuing the 20-Year Tradition
We’re proud to offer top revenue, sales, operations and customer success leaders continued relevant insights, powerful ideas and innovative transformation journeys from some of the world’s biggest and best practice organizations.
Hear what Fortune 2000 women practitioners, and their companies, are doing across their executive roles and imperatives as business leaders, industry experts and positive change agents.
Rubrik
Keynote Panelist
Wendy Bahr is Chief Commercial Officer at Rubrik. She is responsible for the Company’s Global indirect sales strategy and routes to market including: MSP, GSI and VAR Partner Channels, Hardware and Software Alliances, and Inside Sales teams.
Prior to Rubrik, Wendy served as Cisco Systems’ Senior Vice President of Global Partner Organization at Cisco Systems responsible for managing and supporting 60,000+ global partners who represents the company’s primary route to market. Encompassing system integrators, value-added resellers, distributors, services partners, independent software vendors, and technology partners, this global connected partner ecosystem accounts for more than 80 percent of Cisco’s revenue and is a unique differentiator in helping deliver business outcomes for customers and promoting growth.
In addition, Wendy led Global Virtual Sales and Global Customer Success with over 10B+ in revenue impact as well as Cisco’s Global Meraki Sales Organization. Under her leadership Meraki’s Cloud and SaaS revenue grew over 50%. Prior roles at the firm included Senior Vice President of Global & Transformational Partnerships and Senior Vice President of Americas Partner Organization. Bahr joined Cisco in 2000 and through 2006, she served as a Director of Sales for Service Provider and Federal Civilian Agencies.
Earlier in her career, Wendy was with Verizon for more than 10 years where she served as Director of Enterprise Sales. She is a coach and mentor for men and women in the technology industry and a passionate spokesperson for driving success by building diverse high performing teams.
Bahr was named one of the Top 50 Women in the Channel by VAR Business and is a multi-year CRN Channel Chief recipient. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in communications from Old Dominion University.
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Salesforce
Keynote Speaker
Tiffani Bova is the global customer growth and innovation evangelist at Salesforce, where as an industry thought leader, she watches overall market trends to uncover best practices on how to improve sales performance and enhance the overall customer experience.
Tiffani has extensive knowledge of go-to-market, sales and channel strategies. Prior to Salesforce, she spent 10 years at Gartner as a vice president, distinguished analyst and research fellow, covering sales transformation and indirect channel innovation. Over the past decade, she has worked with hundreds of technology companies to develop highly effective growth strategies and innovative go-to-market models. She won the Gartner Thought Leadership Award for her comprehensive body of work on the Future of Sales and has delivered more than 200 keynote presentations around the globe to over 250,000 people on sales transformation and business model innovation.
Before her time at Gartner, Tiffani spent 15 years in various sales and leadership positions, managing both start-up and Fortune 500 sales organizations, and she still considers herself a ‘recovering seller.’
Tiffani has been published in Forbes, Harvard Business Review and The Huffington Post. She was named one of the 50 Most Powerful and Influential Women in California in 2014 by the National Diversity Council, Top 50 Marketing Thought Leaders by Brand Quarterly Magazine, as well as Inc. Magazine’s 37 Sales Experts You Need to Follow on Twitter. She is a graduate of Arizona State University and The Executive Program at Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania.
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Pegasystems
Panel Moderator
Judy Buchholz is the Senior Vice President of Americas Sales for Pegasystems leading account relationship and pre-sales technical consulting teams across all industries and client segments. Her background and client relations prowess now help to enable a culture of innovation and delivery on business objectives and growth for this 35-year industry leader in software for digital transformation.
Prior to joining Pegasystems, Judy held numerous leadership roles at IBM. Most recently, she was the Managing Director for Citigroup where she consistently delivered world class business solutions to her clients by exploiting the breadth of IBM’s capabilities. During her tenure at IBM, Judy also the Managing Director for Morgan Stanley and was responsible for IBMs Global relationship and business results. During her tenure – Buchholz drove cloud, AI and mainframe modernization programs. In 2017, she held the position of GM for IBM’s Global Markets in strategy and solutions, leading a team of 1,000+ industry and presales architects globally in the firm’s transformation towards becoming a Cognitive Solutions and Cloud Platform Company.
In 2015, Judy served as GM of IBM Digital Sales where she led 4,000 sellers in 99 countries and 44 Digital Sales Centers throughout the world. The Digital Salesforce excelled in social selling skills and technologies used for broadening IBM’s reach to new clients and new buyers.
Buchholz previously held many prior senior roles in Financial Services. She partnered with Prudential as IBM Vice President, and led their Business Analytics and Digital Transformational projects, aiming to change their client experience. Judy also was the Vice President of IBM’s Wall Street sector for over 7 years, which included the largest investment Banks, Insurance Companies, and Stock Exchanges. She grew key business relationships while maintaining high customer satisfaction and repositioned the team in driving industry solutions and strategic partnerships.
Judy is the chair of the Iona College Woman’s Board and is an active member of the Women’s Bond Club and Women of Power & Passion. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Computer Science and an MBA in Finance.
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PayPal
Executive Panelist
Marcy Campbell is currently Vice President, Global Professional Services, & Digital Instore, Credit and Commerce Sales for PayPal. Prior to this role, Marcy was VP & GM Enterprise Sales for North America, Australia and ran Global Sales Operations for PayPal. Marcy has held roles as Vice President & GM for North America, Vice President Worldwide Sales & Accounts for Braintree, (a PayPal Division) and Vice President, North American Sales and Accounts for Braintree.
Prior to joining PayPal, Marcy led high-performance sales, business development, and marketing organizations for large and small enterprises including Qubole, Engine Yard, Netscape, and IBM. Marcy serves as on the Board of Directors for Zix Corporation (Nasdaq:ZIXI) a leading provider of cloud email security solutions. She is on the Board of Advisors for the Asian University for Women, and a mentor for the Cherie Blair Foundation.
Marcy holds a Bachelors of Arts in History and Communications from the University of Hartford in Hartford, CT, where she was summa cum laude, and a National Regent Scholar.
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Microsoft
Executive Panelist
Angela Cooper is GM – West Enterprise Sales, partnering with some of Microsoft’s most strategic and innovative customers to evolve their businesses.
Prior to this role, Angela led Worldwide strategy and operations for Microsoft’s Customer Success organization and was a key founder of this transformational team. Formed in 2017, it is one of the largest Customer Success teams in the industry and covers multiple cloud solutions across IaaS/PaaS and SaaS.
In 2016-17 she was the GM for the strategic US ISV partners, helping them with cloud transformation through technology and strategic partnerships.
In 2014-15 Angela led the Worldwide Server and Cloud businesses for Enterprise sales. Her primary focus was on Microsoft Azure where she set up the commercial model and pioneered Azure enterprise sales. She championed the deep investment in the Cloud Solution Architects and other strategies at the heart of the growth of Azure today. She also led sales for >$10bn of Microsoft’s Enterprise server businesses including Windows Server, Systems Center, SQL Server.
From 2010-2016 Angela held several leadership roles in EMEA, Worldwide and the Americas for Microsoft’s incubation sales organization. The mission of incubation sales was to grow the next $1bn businesses for Microsoft and was responsible for incubating several cloud businesses including Office 365, Intune and Azure as well as integrating nine acquisitions across multiple technologies.
She moved to Redmond corporate headquarters from the UK in 2008 having held several roles in the UK subsidiary as Head of Local and Regional Government and in the specialist sales organization as Infrastructure and Security sales manager. Prior to joining Microsoft in 2002, Angela spent 7 years at a start-up. She was the tenth employee and helped grow it to >500 people as she founded and led the managed security services division. A start-up and transformation specialist, Angela has built a range of businesses from the ground up including acclaimed managed security services, SGML/XML solutions and developer focused tools and has led teams across sales, marketing, customer success, support, consulting and R&D disciplines.
Cooper holds a double first Bachelor of Science degree in Geology and Management Science from The University of Keele and a Diploma in Marketing from the Chartered Institute of Marketing.
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Wing Venture Capital
Executive Panelist
Didi Dayton is a partner at Wing Venture Capital responsible for Customer Markets and Programs.
Prior to Wing, Didi spent 20 years in the Cyber Security field specializing in building go-to-market strategies and establishing routes to market for hyper-growth organizations such as Websense, FireEye, Tanium and Cylance/BlackBerry. She has been instrumental in bringing four companies to a successful exit.
She successfully led sales and channel teams at various companies like Symantec, Arrow and Cylance/BlackBerry through 12 M&A and integration activities. Her focus and execution on operations, programs and alliances directly assisted FireEye with a successful IPO. She has been awarded the prestigious Channel Chief: The 50 Most Influential award four years running and, in 2019, the Power 100 Women of the Channel.
Didi holds a Bachelor of Arts from the American University of Paris. She speaks four languages.
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McAfee
Keynote Panelist
Lynne Doherty is executive vice president of global sales and marketing at McAfee. Lynne is responsible for the team that ensures that McAfee delivers a premium experience and strong security outcomes for our customers. Her customer-first team includes all sales, pre-sales, channel and marketing groups that support our Enterprise business.
Lynne has been leading sales organizations and driving positive business outcomes for customers for more than 20 years. Lynne joined McAfee from Cisco, where she most recently served as Senior Vice President of U.S. Commercial Sales — Cisco’s largest, single-market sales organization. In this role, she oversaw a team of more than 2,000 employees, drove $8B in revenue annually, serving 400,000+ accounts. Prior to this position, Lynne led Cisco’s Security Sales for the Americas, overseeing a $2B portfolio of products across the U.S., Canada and Latin America. With her extensive security and industry expertise, Lynne played a key role in the integration and go-to-market strategy efforts following Cisco’s acquisitions of Duo Security, Umbrella and Cloudlock.
Throughout her more than 15 years in various sales and leadership roles at Cisco, Lynne built a reputation for leading high-performing, international organizations that capitalized on competitive opportunities and cultivated innovative initiatives that disrupted markets and drove technology adoption.
Lynne holds a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics and Computer Science from Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and started her career as a programmer at Bell Atlantic before joining Sun Microsystems as a Regional Executive in Sales and Engineering.
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Dexcom Canada
Keynote Panelist
Laura has over 20 years of experience in the healthcare industry and the medical device space. As the Vice President and General Manager of Dexcom Canada, Laura is committed to improving patient outcomes and advancing innovations in health.
Before joining Dexcom in 2011, Laura led and managed teams at different healthcare and pharmaceutical organizations including Johnson & Johnson. Over the years, Laura has led large teams, to achieve revenue goals with impressive YOY sales growth, while managing significant budgets to meet profitability targets.
Laura holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Accounting and Finance from the University of Arizona. Her expertise spans Medical Devices, Sales, Management, Market Access, Trade and Recruiting. For Laura, the best part of her job is interacting with patients and seeing the difference Dexcom is making in their lives. Laura also enjoys yoga and is a fitness enthusiast.
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Otis Elevator
Panelist
As people flock to cities at a rapid pace, the world’s urban landscapes are transforming. Today’s buildings that are taller and denser than ever. At the same time, technology advancements are resetting our expectations for speed and personalization.
“This intersection of urbanization and the digital revolution is changing the way we work, live and play,” says Robin Fiala, who has nearly 30 years of Otis experience at regional and global levels. During this time, she has witnessed several notable changes in the industry, and believes that “today, the firm is really on the cusp of something big” with smart, connected elevators that create the ultimate passenger experience.
Fiala has led critical transformations, including both product and service innovations such as the launch of the flagship Gen2® elevator. Since joining the company in 1990 as a sales representative, she has held a variety of positions of progressively expanding responsibility that have given her unique perspectives on delivering customer value throughout the entire lifecycle of our products.
As the Vice President of Sales & Marketing, Robin leads global teams responsible for developing innovative market-leading products and services for Otis customers.
Fiala is a tireless advocate for developing women and is a recipient of the YWCA Women Achievers award. She holds a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from Union College and an MBA from Fordham University.
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NetApp
Executive Panelist
Lori Harmon is a strategic leader who helps customers maximize their return, drives sales innovation and empowers teams in a digital era. She is also the author of the book 42 Rules for Building a High Velocity Inside Sales Team and a frequent speaker on topics related to sales, sales enablement, inside sales and AI in sales.
Currently, Lori is the Vice President of Global Cloud Digital Sales & Customer Success at NetApp.
Prior to NetApp, Lori was Vice President of Sales at BlackBerry, Ltd. Prior to BlackBerry Lori held a number of executive sales leadership positions at high tech companies such as Contrast Security, VeriSign, Melbourne IT, Interwoven, Brio Software and Network General.
Ms. Harmon holds a BS degree in Information Systems from Appalachian State University.
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Gong
Executive Panelist
Annelies Husmann is Head of Enterprise Sales at Gong focusing on some of the company’s largest and most complex clients.
Prior to taking on this role, Husmann spent 3+ years at Mode, a data analytics company with a highly technical enterprise sale, both scaling and leading “revenue-generation” teams.
Previously at AdRoll, she managed the B2B Sales and Account Management teams in both New York and the company’s headquarters in San Francisco.
Annelies brings her wealth of experience and knowledge of building and scaling businesses to Gong – where she’s currently focused on building out the enterprise sales motion, sales strategy and salesforce.
Husmann holds a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Texas at Austin.
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Walmart Connect
Executive Panelist
Alexis (Lex) Josephs is the VP of Sales & Ad Tech Partnerships for Walmart Connect. Lex joined Walmart in 2018 after an extensive career at Pinterest, Hulu, and NBCU where she held a variety of sales leadership roles.
Josephs is a full funnel sales executive with more than fifteen years’ experience leading ad sales teams. Throughout her career, she has launched new businesses in market, and has led minority businesses within a majority entity.
Lex is an active member of the media organization She Runs It and held a leadership position on the Stern Women in Business executive committee. She is a graduate of The University of Michigan in English and holds an MBA in Strategy and Entrepreneurship from NYU Stern School of Business. Lex served as President of her Executive MBA class for both terms.
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Zerto
Executive Panelist
Sofia Kaufman is a People and Culture leader with a passion in building and enabling winning cultures, effective teams and growing companies. She has deep experience in both private and public companies … start up phases through growth mode and acquisition…with strong emphasis on growing, global companies and specialized experience in talent management, rewards, people operations, coach/counseling, organizational development, and cultural transformation.
Sofia is currently the Chief People Officer at Zerto – the only all-in-one IT Resilience Platform, converging Disaster Recovery, Backup and Cloud Mobility in one simple, scalable platform.
Previously Kaufman was the Chief People Officer at Intralinks and held leadership roles at Eze Software, TripAdvisor and other global technology companies.
Sofia holds an MS/BA in Economics from Northeastern University.
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CAE Healthcare
Executive Panelist
Kathleen (Kathy) Kennedy joined CAE Healthcare as Vice President Global Sales and Marketing in June of 2017, following a 20-year successful career leading medical device sales teams in the Cardiovascular, Peripheral Vascular, AAA and Orthopedic markets. She currently oversees all of CAE Healthcare’s domestic, international and military sales as well as industry partnerships, and turnkey solutions.
Prior to joining CAE Healthcare, Kathy rose rapidly in successive senior management roles within Cordis Corporation, a former Johnson & Johnson company that was acquired by Cardinal Health. As Area Director of Corporate Accounts in the U.S. and Canada, Kathy forged strategic change while overseeing growth to $300M in annual sales. As an Area Director of Sales in the U.S., she expanded and restructured the sales team, ultimately directing a group of more than 140 sales managers and representatives who generated $200M in revenues.
Prior to joining Cordis, Kathleen worked AngioDynamics, Guidant and Biomet. She also founded KD Medical, an independent orthopedic product distribution company that she owned and operated, while she simultaneously acted as Principal Sales Director at Biomet. Kathy has a strong track record of building successful sales organizations, developing employee talent and overdelivering results. Her experience includes building high-performing, cross-functional specialty sales teams in highly competitive markets.
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Centauri Health Solutions
Executive Panelist
With 25 years of strategic revenue-generating experience, Sophia Kim oversees business development, sales and marketing operations at Centauri … a leading healthcare technology and services organization recognized as one of the best in the industry.
Most recently, Sophia served as VP of Strategic Accounts for MHK, leading business development for their cloud-based care, quality and compliance software solutions for health plans, ACOs, PBMs and specialty pharmacies.
Prior to that, Kim was SVP of Sales Operations and Enablement for Change Healthcare, directing sales analytics, operations and enterprise programs, proposals, demos and strategic advisory for sales systems, tools and processes.
Earlier in her career, she worked as a consultant with Accenture, focused on health and life sciences and as a director for Medicaid Marketing and Sales for Kaiser Permanente’s national Program Office based in Oakland, California.
Sophia is a graduate of Barnard College of Columbia University.
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Roku
Executive Panelist
Alison Levin is the Vice President, Global Ad Revenue and Marketing Solutions at Roku – the worldwide pioneer of streaming to the TV. Its #1 streaming platform is used by millions of consumers in North America, Latin America and in parts of Europe including the UK, Ireland, and France. As the first ever ad sales hire for this global giant, Levin has pioneered upfront deals with some of the largest ad agencies and holding groups, and has been instrumental in growing Roku’s impressive client portfolio.
Alison’s team is responsible for driving new products and go-to-market strategy for the overall advertising business. Prior to Roku, she was a senior account executive with YuMe, a provider of digital video brand advertising solutions that drive inventory monetization, managing key accounts for its ad tech business.
Previously, Alison has held sales positions with IAC and BusinessWeek. She holds a B.A. from Boston University.
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Whirlpool
Panel Moderator
Lynn Moersch is newly promoted to VP/GM of Sales & Marketing after leading Whirlpool’s Sales Strategy and Operations teams for the past 4 years. Whirlpool Corporation is the world’s leading manufacturer and marketer of major home appliances. The company markets Whirlpool, Maytag, KitchenAid, Jenn-Air, Amana, Brastemp, Consul, Bauknecht and other major brand names to consumers and builders in nearly every country around the world.
Lynn has 20 years of experience in transformative strategy planning and execution. She joined Whirlpool in 2014 as the Home Depot Sales Director before being promoted to Senior Director for Sales Strategy and Operations in March 2016, and most recently promoted to VP/GM Sales & Marketing. Prior to joining Whirlpool, Lynn held positions of increasing responsibility in both Sales and Marketing at Nestle.
In June 2018 Lynn was appointed Co-Lead of Whirlpool’s Women’s Network. As Whirlpool’s largest ERG, Women’s Network is at the forefront of creating a more inclusive work environment for all employees and Lynn is dedicated to making Whirlpool the best place for women to work.
Moersch earned her Bachelor’s degree from Michigan State University and her MBA from Oakland University.
Lynn’s philosophy is that work done well helps us become the best version of ourselves: When you work hard, pay attention to the details of your work, and do a good job, you grow in a number of virtues, including patience, diligence, perseverance and integrity. Every time you grow in virtue you become a better version of yourself. – Mathew Kelly
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Tektronix
Keynote Panelist
Tami Newcombe was appointed President of Tektronix in 2019. This worldwide leader designs and manufactures test and measurement solutions that break through the walls of complexity, and accelerate global innovation. Initially, Tami served as the firm’s Commercial President leading global sales and marketing.
Newcombe has over 25 years of experience at Fortune 500 technology companies across progressive leadership roles in sales, operations, marketing and engineering.
Prior to joining Tektronix, Tami was the Vice President for Commercial Sales at Cisco. She began her tenure there in 1999 and held various positions of increasing scope as sales manager, operations director, and vice president.
Prior to Cisco, Newcombe served in sales, marketing, and product development roles at Analog Devices and IBM. She holds a BS in electrical and bio engineering from Syracuse University as well as an MBA from Union College.
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Executive Panelist
Ms. Personette is Vice President of Twitter Global Client Solutions, where she leads Twitter’s partnerships with top marketers and agencies worldwide. She oversees a team of regional business leaders as well as Twitter’s global teams focused on client partnerships, agencies and brand strategy.
Previously Sarah was the Chief Operating Officer of Refinery29, where she oversaw business strategy and development, customer revenue, business marketing, growth and analytics, creative services, and research.
Prior to this, Personette served as the Vice President of Facebook’s Global Business Marketing team from 2014 through 2017, responsible for providing their customers with innovative and effective marketing solutions for their businesses. She also built and led Facebook’s Global Agency Team.
In earlier roles, Sarah was the US President of Universal McCann Worldwide, Inc. and Senior Vice President at Starcom Mediavest Group.
Since 2016, Personette serves as a corporate director for Build-A-Bear Workshop (BBW), a publicly traded small cap specialty retail company. In her philanthropic work, she is a director of Northwestern University’s Alumnae Board and a board member of All In Together.
Ms. Personette received the 2016 Next Generation of Women in Communications recognition from NYWICI and was inducted into the American Advertising Federation’s Advertising Hall of Achievement in 2015. In 2014, she was named one of Advertising Age magazine’s top “40 Under 40” marketing stars.
Sarah holds a degree from Northwestern University.
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MilliporeSigma
Keynote Panelist
A changemaker, partner and visionary, Mitzi Rettinger leads Office-based Digital Sales & the Global Digital Transformation for MilliporeSigma. Overseeing the development and execution of a transformational customer-centric sales organization, Mitzi champions using information and technology to bring together a robust business model design and commercial strategy empowering the digital workplace to excel in the ever-evolving digital marketplace.
A trained Scientist, Mitzi’s lab experience and passion for the customer underpin her deep understanding and fuel her ability to develop the market, drive profitable, sustainable above market revenue growth, and improve market positioning.
Excelling in start-up, turn around and high growth businesses across the Life Science industry, Mitzi has 25 years of experience leading cross-functional teams. She consistently delivers solutions that matter to the scientific community including successfully leading Commercial organizations through digital transformation.
Adept at translating the value technology brings to business, her focus is on modernizing strategy, processes, and tools to clear the path for Innovation in Sales and a differentiated customer experience. Her success inspired MilliporeSigma to shift its strategic direction to expand its digital/virtual sales organization globally.
Bringing warmth, a laugh, customer focus and scientific expertise, Mitzi continues to be a sought-out guest lecturer and expert panelist in industry events and forums.
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Kimberly-Clark
Keynote Speaker
Tracy Robertson currently serves as Kimberly-Clark Professional’s Global Vice President of Customer Experience. In this role, she is responsible for all aspects of customer experience, digital dexterity and sales effectiveness to ensure the delivery of a high-quality, end-to-end experience across the entire customer journey.
Prior to joining KCP, Tracy spent 10 years at GE in various global commercial leadership roles. During her last two-years at the firm she was part of a mission-based team driving a company-wide project to define the strategy and implementation of GE’s Commercial and Customer Digital Transformation. Called upon to manage change, Robertson delivered measurable results by comprehensively analyzing products, marketing, communications, and sales programs and then implementing continuous improvement, training, and culture initiatives in global, highly-matrixed organizations.
Tracy has an undergraduate degree in Communications and a M.B.A. from Syracuse University.
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Unity
Executive Panelist
Julie Shumaker is Vice President of Revenue, Operate Solutions at Unity, the world’s leading real-time 3D development platform reaching 3 billion devices worldwide. This expansive platform powers more than 50% of all new mobile games and 70% of all VR/AR experiences.
Julie drives global revenue-related activities derived from Unity’s Operate Solutions: offerings that enable developers success by providing products and insights to build profitable businesses. This remit encompasses Sales, Customer Success, Sales Operations and Business Development teams managing across a portfolio of services including monetization products, player engagement tools, cloud services and advertising.
Prior to Unity, Shumaker served in various executive roles including VP of Ad Sales & Studio E GM for Zynga; SVP & GM for RockYou Media; SVP Sales & Marketing for 4Info; and SVP Global Sales / GM Games Group for Double Fusion.
Julie has been recognized in Advertising Age’s “Women to Watch” report and named a “Top 25 Executive to Watch in Digital Entertainment” by Digital Media Wire. She serves as the Co-Chair of the IAB Games Committee committed to advancing the gaming ecosystem as one of the most valuable mediums for advertisers in digital.
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Forbes
Keynote Panelist
Jessica Sibley oversees all revenue operations for Forbes, including the company’s industry-leading BrandVoice, Insights, and ForbesLive platforms, as well as direct sales, programmatic, paid social, brand strategy, integrated marketing, demand-gen, licensing and more.
An accomplished media and advertising executive, Sibley has a proven track record of leading and motivating high-performing sales teams. She was instrumental in helping Forbes close out the decade with two of its best years on record, and she is passionate about delivering true ROI for clients. Under her tenure, Forbes set back-to-back records in 2018 and 2019 for the number of premium custom content campaigns created for clients and established new benchmarks for the number of ForbesLive and custom events held each year. Jessica has also established new opportunities for clients around signature Forbes franchises, such as the Forbes 400, Under 30, ForbesWomen and more.
Prior to Forbes, Sibley held significant leadership positions at global media companies, including Condé Nast, Bloomberg Businessweek, and The Wall Street Journal.
Jessica serves on the Board of Directors for The Ad Council, The Business Marketing Association (BMA), Board of Advisors, Her Campus, Spoon University, and College Fashionista. She is a C-Level Member at Chief and an Investor and Board Member of Prota Fiori a sustainable luxury women’s footwear brand with attainable price points and composed of certified sustainable materials.
Sibley is a graduate of Hobart and William Smith Colleges.
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Resilience Leadership
Keynote Speaker
Dr. Taryn Marie is a foremost international expert on resilience, in both leadership and life. She is the former Head of Executive Leadership Development at Nike, Global Leadership Development at Cigna, and founded Resilience Leadership, where she serves as the Chief Resilience Officer (CRO), leveraging over a decade of research on resilience, that gave birth to the empirically-based framework, The Five Practices of Particularly Resilient People, for executive coaching, top-team effectiveness, high potential leadership programs and workshops, and inspirational keynote addresses. She is a sought-after coach for executives, athletes, musicians, and actors who are looking for an edge by way of understanding and harnessing their inherent resilience. Dr. Taryn Marie is the author of “Flourish or Fold: The Five Practices of Particularly Resilient People” and is featured in the forthcoming documentary “Breaking Free”, both expected to release in 2021.
Dr. Taryn Marie is a Co-Founder of Resilience Element 75 (RE75), focused on making resilience accessible across the world through film and wearable technology as well as serving as a Marshall Goldsmith Top 100 Coach (MG100) globally. Her groundbreaking research on resilience has been showcased in publications such as Forbes, Ariana Huffington’s Thrive Global, Ladders, LA Progressive, and Welum Magazine’s Women Who Inspire Worldwide, on television broadcasts, and featured online by Happify, eMindful, and Powerful Universe.
Dr. Stejskal received an undergraduate degree in psychology from the University of Michigan along with a master’s in Marriage and Family Therapy (MFT) and a doctorate degree from the University of Maryland, College Park. She completed pre- and post-doctoral fellowships at Virginia Commonwealth Medical University. She serves as an ambassador for The African Community and Conservation Foundation (ACCF) as well as multiple non- and for-profit boards.
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Johnson & Johnson, Medical Device North America
Executive Panelist
Lori Tierney serves as Vice President, Commercial Operations for Medical Devices North America at Johnson & Johnson. In this role, she is accountable for managing a team of 250+ commercial operations professionals responsible for critical capability builds and business continuity across MD including Strategic Sales Planning and Deployment, Sales Force Enablement, Customer Relationship Management, Enterprise Data Strategy, Commercial Operations Acquisition Integration and Creating Cost to Serve profitability analytics and Total Cost Transformation Provider Solutions in partnership with the Supply Chain Deliver team. She supports North America Orthopedics, General and Specialty Surgery, Cardiovascular and Neurovascular Surgery business units.
Her broad background and depth of knowledge across the commercial spectrum in Biopharmaceuticals, Medical Device & Diagnostics and Health Information Technology Solutions brings a unique and very relevant skillset to Commercial Operations in Med Tech. Her successful experience in in-line, global and strategic marketing, coupled with sales and sales management has enabled partnerships with supply chain, process excellence, enterprise strategy and strategic planning to activate end-to-end thinking and deliver commercial solutions in many varied therapeutic areas, portfolios and business models. Additionally, Lori’s experiences from P&L accountable line leader roles to roles of increasing enterprise strategy and operations enables her to deliver passionate performance thru people.
Prior to joining Johnson and Johnson, Lori worked at AstraZeneca, Endo International and Centocor, where she held positions of increasing responsibility across Commercial in Operations, R&D, Sales and Marketing and Functional and Enterprise Strategy. These vast and varying experiences developed her into a thought leader and change agent poised to serve the ever-changing needs of Provider Customers and the Patients they serve as well as the business of healthcare.
She holds both a BS from Drexel University and an MBA from Villanova University.
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Allegiance Bank
Keynote Panelist
Stacy Tiger serves as Executive Vice President, Chief Human Resources and Experience Officer of Allegiance Bank and Allegiance Bancshares, Inc. in Houston, Texas.
Stacy has more than 20+ years of management experience in customer and employee engagement, organizational development, talent management, and learning and development.
Tiger is the recipient of numerous certifications including Brain Based and Leadership Coaching, Emotional Intelligence, Gallup Engagement & Strengths Coach, Emergentics, and Crucial Conversations.
Most recently, Stacy served as SVP & Director of Talent and Organizational Development at BOK Financial – one of the strongest, most vibrant financial institutions in the U.S., fueling economic growth and security across the American Midwest and Southwest.
Tiger holds a B.S. degree in Public Relations/Education, an M.Ed. in Adult Education and a Ph.D. in Workforce Analytics.
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STANLEY Security
Keynote Panelist
Deborah K. Wintner joined STANLEY Security, a division of Stanley Black & Decker, as Vice President of Human Resources in May of 2018, where she has devoted her time establishing HR strategy and organizational capability in alignment with the business strategy.
Deborah brings over (25) years of dedicated and proven experience as a strategic business partner, driving results by leading large-scale change across industries. She has extensive experience as a Human Resources visionary leading organizational change though skilled organizational development and design strategies, partnering with executive leadership to drive big-picture business objections, and translating targets into actionable implementation to grow organizational capability.
Prior to STANLEY, Deborah held the position of Vice President of Human Resources – Corporate and Global Oilseeds with Archer Daniels Midland, one of the world’s largest agricultural processors and food ingredient providers with 33,000 employees globally. Here, she led the strategy and execution of the $25 billion Global Oilseeds business unit restructure, resulting in a realigned organization for increased productivity, poised for continued growth.
Deborah held the position of Vice President of Human Resources – Americas with Allegion/Ingersoll Rand, a provider of security products and solutions for home and businesses with 8,000 employees globally. Deborah led the combined organization and integration of the residential and commercial organizations during the $2.2 billion Allegion spinoff of $13.3 billion Ingersoll Rand in 2013, driving growth and innovation through internal capability analysis.
She also served as Vice President of Human Resources – Hospital Division at Kindred Healthcare/Rehab Care, the largest U.S. provider of post-acute healthcare, where she developed and led the HR strategy, programs, policies, and services.
Deborah began her career at Bristol Myers Squibb, where she spent (15) years in both Medical Devices and Pharma/Nutrition, leading complex management through multiple divestitures, leadership, and organizational transformations.
Deborah holds a B.A. in occupational safety engineering from Indiana State University and a M.S. in organizational development from Pepperdine University.
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