All Speakers
Nicole Sahin
Founder & CEO, Globalization Partners
Nicole Sahin
Founder & CEO, Globalization Partners
Nicole Sahin’s mission is to eliminate barriers to doing business internationally and building global teams. As founder and CEO of Globalization Partners, she is recognized for having created an innovative solution that enables companies to hire great talent anywhere in the world, without the complexity of setting up international branch offices or subsidiaries. Businesses are able to bypass the legal, HR and tax complexities of hiring in another country, while getting all the benefits of a global team.
Sir Richard Branson
Legendary British Entrepreneur & Founder of the Virgin Group
Sir Richard Branson
Legendary British Entrepreneur & Founder of the Virgin Group
Richard Branson is a popular keynote speaker and one of the world’s best-known entrepreneurs.
Richard founded the mega-brand, Virgin, has become home to more than 400 companies, encompassing anything from gyms, gambling houses and bridal boutiques to fleets of planes, trains and limousines. The company has recently been pioneering space tourism: Virgin Galactic is slated to start carrying passengers into the thermosphere in the next couple of years.
Richard Branson is also a renowned philanthropist. He has pledged the next 10 years of profits from his transportation empire (an amount expected to reach $3 billion) to the development of renewable alternatives to carbon fuels. His Virgin Earth Challenge offers a $25 million prize to the first person to come up with an economically viable solution to the greenhouse gas problem.
Richard Branson has been involved in a number of world record-breaking attempts since 1985. Perhaps best known, in January 1991 Richard crossed the Pacific Ocean from Japan to Arctic Canada, the furthest distance of 6,700 miles. He broke all existing records, with speeds of up to 245 miles per hour in a balloon of 2.6 million cubic feet. Sir Richard’s latest entries into the Guiness World Records include being the oldest person to cross the English Channel by kiteboard and having the most followers on LinkedIn. In September 2013, he led 318 participants to set a new record for the largest number of kitesurfers to complete a one-mile course, in Hampshire.
Daymond John
Founder and CEO, FUBU; Presidential Ambassador for Global Entrepreneurship
Daymond John
Founder and CEO, FUBU; Presidential Ambassador for Global EntrepreneurshipDaymond John is a top business and motivational speaker who came from humble beginnings to become one of the most sought-after branding and marketing speakers in the country. Daymond John is an investor on ABC’s hit show, “Shark Tank,” Daymond John is the consummate 21st century renaissance businessman.
An entrepreneur in every sense of the word, Daymond John has come a long way from taking out a $100,000 mortgage on his mother’s house and moving his operation into the basement. John is CEO and Founder of FUBU, a much-celebrated global lifestyle brand, and a pioneer in the fashion industry with over $6 billion in product sales.
He is an award-winning entrepreneur, and he has received over 35 awards including the Brandweek Marketer of the Year, Advertising Age Marketing 1000 Award for Outstanding Ad Campaign and Ernst & Young’s New York Entrepreneur of the Year Award. John was named Presidential Ambassador for Global Entrepreneurship by the White House in 2015. His marketing strategies and ability to build successful brands has made him a highly influential consultant and motivational speaker today.
His marketing firm Shark Branding offers advice on how to effectively communicate to consumers through innovative means and connects brands with the world’s top celebrities for everything from endorsements to product extensions.
John is also an author of the best-selling books Display of Power and The Brand Within. His latest New York Times best-selling book is The Power of Broke: How Empty Pockets, a Tight Budget, and a Hunger for Success Can Become Your Greatest Competitive Advantage (January 2016).
In 2009, he joined the cast of ABC entrepreneurial business show the Shark Tank by acclaimed producer Mark Burnett. Millions of weekly viewers tune into the show as John demonstrates his marketing prowess and entrepreneurial insights.
Safi Bahcall
Author, LOONSHOTS; Ex-CEO (Biotech)
Safi Bahcall
Author, LOONSHOTS; Ex-CEO (Biotech)Safi Bahcall is the author of Loonshots: How to Nurture the Crazy Ideas that Win Wars, Cure Diseases, and Transform Industries, which combines physics, business, and history and reveals a surprising new way of thinking about the mysteries of group behavior. An international bestseller, Loonshots has been translated into 18 languages; selected as a best business book of the year by Bloomberg, Financial Times, Forbes, Inc., the Washington Post, and others;; and recommended by Bill Gates, Daniel Kahneman, Ed Catmull, Gen. Stanley McChrystal, and Malcolm Gladwell. It was the #1 most recommended book of the year in Bloomberg’s annual survey of CEOs and entrepreneurs.
Mountains of print have been written about culture. Loonshots identifies the small shifts in structure that explain why teams, companies, or any group with a mission will suddenly change from embracing new ideas to rejecting them.
Safi received his BA summa cum laude from Harvard, completed his PhD in physics at Stanford, and served for three years as a consultant at McKinsey and Company. In 2001, he founded a biotechnology company developing new drugs for cancer. He led the company's IPO and served as its CEO for 13 years. In 2008, he was named E&Y New England Biotechnology Entrepreneur of the Year. In 2011, he worked with President Obama’s council of science advisors (PCAST) on the future of national research.
Safi advises CEOs and leadership teams on strategy and innovation, and is working on his next book. He lives with his wife and two children in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Johnny C. Taylor, Jr
President and Chief Executive Officer, SHRM-SCP
Johnny C. Taylor, Jr
President and Chief Executive Officer, SHRM-SCP
Johnny C. Taylor, Jr., SHRM-SCP, is President and Chief Executive Officer of SHRM, the Society for Human Resource Management. With over 300,000 members in 165 countries, SHRM is the largest HR professional association in the world, impacting the lives of 115 million workers every day.
As a global leader on the future of employment, culture and leadership, Mr. Taylor is a sought-after voice on all matters affecting work, workers, and the workplace. He is frequently asked to testify before Congress on critical workforce issues and authors the weekly USA Today column, "Ask HR."
Mr. Taylor's career spans over 20 years as a lawyer, human resources executive and CEO in both the not-for-profit and for-profit space. He has held senior and chief executive roles at IAC/Interactive Corp, Viacom's Paramount Pictures, Blockbuster Entertainment Group, the McGuireWoods law firm, and Compass Group USA. Most recently, Mr. Taylor was President and Chief Executive Officer of the Thurgood Marshall College Fund.
He is the author of the national bestseller, RESET: A Leader’s Guide to Work in an Age of Upheaval, which delivers a candid and forward-thinking vision for leaders to reimagine their company cultures in a time of global upheaval and presents data-driven strategies to make the necessary foundational reset of all things work. Immediately upon its release in September 2021, RESET was in the top three of the Wall Street Journal’s list of best-selling hardcover business books. All author proceeds benefit the SHRM Foundation, which is committed to empowering HR as a social force for change.
He was appointed chairman of the President’s Advisory Board on Historically Black Colleges and Universities and served as a member of the White House American Workforce Policy Advisory Board during the Trump Administration. He is a Trustee of the University of Miami, Governor of the American Red Cross, and member of the corporate boards of Guild Education, iCIMS, and XPO Logistics (NYSE: XPO).
In 2020, Mr. Taylor received the Distinguished Executive of the Year Award from the Academy of Management, and he was named 2021 ALA Professional Society CEO of the Year by CEO Update.
He is a Fellow of the National Academy of Human Resources and is licensed to practice law in Florida, Illinois and Washington, D.C.
Kathleen Kennedy
Executive Director, MIT Center for Collective Intelligence; Senior Director, MIT Horizon
Kathleen Kennedy
Executive Director, MIT Center for Collective Intelligence; Senior Director, MIT HorizonKathleen is Executive Director of the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence, a multidisciplinary center which includes Collective Intelligence Design Lab and Pandemic Response CoLab. She also heads MIT Horizon, an initiative of MIT Open Learning. She is a venture partner at Good Growth Capital.
In 2016, she worked as a lead organizer of The Engine (www.engine.xyz), a venture fund and accelerator program for tough tech startups which was built by MIT. Prior to that, she served as President and Chief Strategy Officer of MIT Technology Review, MIT’s global media company, and President of the MIT Enterprise Forum, MIT’s entrepreneurial support organization.
Kathleen is a frequent speaker at global conferences and very active in the innovation community. She serves on numerous selection committees including the Eisenhower Fellowships, the Lemelson-MIT prize and the MacArthur Foundation 100&Change competition. The Women of the Harvard Club named her as one of Boston’s Most Influential Women.
Dr. Parag Khanna
Managing Partner at FutureMap, Strategic Advisor to Governments and Global Companies, Bestselling Author, TED Speaker
Dr. Parag Khanna
Managing Partner at FutureMap, Strategic Advisor to Governments and Global Companies, Bestselling Author, TED SpeakerParag Khanna is a leading global strategy advisor, world traveler, and best-selling author. He is Founder & Managing Partner of FutureMap, a data and scenario based strategic advisory firm. Parag's newest book is MOVE: The Forces Uprooting Us (2021), which was preceded by The Future is Asian: Commerce, Conflict & Culture in the 21st Century (2019). He is author of a trilogy of books on the future of world order beginning with The Second World: Empires and Influence in the New Global Order (2008), followed by How to Run the World: Charting a Course to the Next Renaissance (2011), and concluding with Connectography: Mapping the Future of Global Civilization (2016). He is also the author of Technocracy in America: Rise of the Info-State (2017) and co-author of Hybrid Reality: Thriving in the Emerging Human-Technology Civilization (2012).
Parag was named one of Esquire’s “75 Most Influential People of the 21st Century,” and featured in WIRED magazine’s “Smart List.” He holds a Ph.D. from the London School of Economics, and Bachelors and Masters degrees from the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. He has traveled to nearly 150 countries and is a Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum.
Pete Tiliakos
HR Technology & Services Research Director, NelsonHall
Pete Tiliakos
HR Technology & Services Research Director, NelsonHall
Pete is part of NelsonHall's analyst team, which provides the most comprehensive and insightful coverage of HR outsourcing markets in the world. As HR Technology & Services Research Director at NelsonHall, Pete has shared responsibility for HR services and technology research globally and leads research in the areas of Payroll Services, Global Employer of Record Services, and HCM Technology. With more than 25 years of experience in HR outsourcing, offshoring, and shared services, his deep expertise spans the sourcing lifecycle and has assisted numerous organizations, of all sizes with HR transformation initiatives.
Diane Albano
Chief Revenue Officer, Globalization Partners
Diane Albano
Chief Revenue Officer, Globalization PartnersDiane Albano is Chief Revenue Officer at Globalization Partners, and has a history of record-breaking in organizations ranging from start-up to multi-billion-dollar enterprises. Under Diane’s leadership, Globalization Partners has improved quality of service and solution such that in 2020, the research firm NelsonHall named Globalization Partners an industry leader in global Employer of Record services.
Debbie Millin
Chief Operating Officer, Globalization Partners
Debbie Millin
Chief Operating Officer, Globalization PartnersWith more than 20 years of operational, project management, and client relationship experience across a variety of industries, Debbie pecializes in supporting companies experiencing rapid growth scale their systems and processes. Debbie helped grow Globalization Partners to be the No. 1 fastest growing women-led company in America, and has helped two different companies achieve the honor of No. 1 fastest-growing private company in Massachusetts — including Globalization Partners in 2017.
Nick Adams
Vice President EMEA, Globalization Partners
Nick Adams
Vice President EMEA, Globalization PartnersNick Adams is the Vice President of EMEA at Globalization Partners based in London, UK, where he leads the company’s international expansion into Europe. With a focus on building a strategic partner network and overseeing regional revenue operations, Nick comes to Globalization Partners with a wealth of experience scaling high growth businesses and is a firm believer in customer focus, integrity and teamwork; values that the company enshrines across the organisation in everything that it does.
Kevin Smith
Global Co-Chair of Emerging Giants Centre of Excellence for Private Enterprise, KPMG
Kevin Smith
Global Co-Chair of Emerging Giants Centre of Excellence for Private Enterprise, KPMG
Kevin is a partner and the global co-chair of KPMG’s Emerging Giants Centre of Excellence which aims to help and support the most exciting and fastest growing companies on the planet. He is also the EMA Head of KPMG Private Enterprise which is the firm’s dedicated sub-brand focussed on private businesses. Formerly the Chairman of KPMG in London, he was a founding partner of the Mayor’s International businesses in London and is an Advisory Board member of Global Tech Advocates. He is the sponsor of the KPMG Global Tech Innovator competition which will culminate in country winners attending a global final at Web Summit in Lisbon in November.
Jess Dodge
Vice President Revenue, Globalization Partners
Jess Dodge
Vice President Revenue, Globalization PartnersJess Dodge is Globalization Partners’ Vice President of Revenue; focused on leading both the Revenue Operations Team and Marketing Organization. Jess joined Globalization Partners in 2019 and is responsible for strategic growth planning and execution. She has led high-performing Sales and Marketing organizations for over 15 years and is establishing and growing Global Sales, Marketing and Operations in North America, EMEA, LATAM, and APAC.
Jess brings extensive experience in all aspects of Revenue including analytics, growth strategy, sales training, waterfall modeling, account-based marketing, digital marketing, compensation planning, customer engagement and more. Jess has been named one of Sales Hacker’s Most Dynamic Woman in Sales and received the Tech Target MVP Award for Marketing Excellence.
Russ Shaw CBE
Founder, Tech London Advocates & Global Tech Advocates
Russ Shaw CBE
Founder, Tech London Advocates & Global Tech Advocates
Russ Shaw CBE is the founder of Tech London Advocates and Global Tech Advocates. He originally founded Tech London Advocates in 2013 to ensure an independent voice of the technology community was heard, but with a focus on the private sector.
Since then he has been championing London as a global tech hub and campaigning to address some of the biggest challenges facing tech companies in the UK.
Global Tech Advocates, founded in 2015, is now present in 17 hubs around the globe, with over 12,000 members. In 2019 Russ launched the inaugural GTA Festival, taking place in China and bringing the international network together for the first time.
Russ was awarded a CBE in the Queen’s New Year Honours List 2021 for services to technology and to business in London. He is a founding partner of London Tech Week, a London Tech Ambassador for the Mayor of London and Advisory Board member for Founders4Schools and the Government’s Digital Skills Partnership. In 2019, Russ was recognised as a 'Tech Titan' in the Evening Standard's Progress 1000 list of London's most influential people.
Darren Ramskov
Vice President of North American Sales, Globalization Partners
Darren Ramskov
Vice President of North American Sales, Globalization PartnersDarren Ramskov is Globalization Partners’ Vice President of North American Sales. Darren joined Globalization Partners in Early 2016 and currently manages the company’s sales strategy and execution. Darren is responsible for the sales organization’s performance, sales effectiveness, and revenue goal attainment.
Prior to joining Globalization Partners, Darren has worked in many sales roles in the finance and real estate industries. His sales background includes raising capital for a private debt investment fund and helping companies with credit and working capital loans.
Outside of his professional capacity, Darren is an avid San Jose Sharks hockey fan and wine lover.
Giora Gil-Ad
CEO, CQ Global
Giora Gil-Ad
CEO, CQ Global
Giora has been navigating CQ Global for the past 7 years. Previously he led the Global Sales for Ransys Ltd. selling an advanced real-time customer experience management solution. He has held VP HR positions in global companies and is a seasoned executive with over 20 years of experience managing Sales, Business Development and Human Resources in Global companies.
Mairéad Divilly
Lead Partner- International Compliance Outsourcing Services, Mazars Ireland
Mairéad Divilly
Lead Partner- International Compliance Outsourcing Services, Mazars IrelandMairéad Divilly is the Lead Partner in Outsourcing and Compliance Services with specific responsibility for Outsourcing and Financial Management services in Mazars. Her professional experience spans audit, business advisory and outsourced accounting, payroll and financial management services to both the public and private sector, from multi-national companies to small, medium enterprises. She has extensive experience across various sectors, including distribution, retail, medical devices, pharma, foreign direct investment, SME and not-for-profit.
Mairéad acts as a mentor to many indigenous enterprises for the management and development of their businesses. Her work includes improving company profitability and advising on the future growth of the business. She also works closely with the Small Firms Association in providing a support service to its executive.
Mairéad is a non-executive director of Skillnet Ireland and represents the interest of the Small Firms Association on the Skillnet Ireland Board. Mairead also leads the CSR strategy at Mazars.
Mairéad lectures and writes extensively on corporate governance, the fundamentals of management and internal control procedures.
In September 2019, Mairéad received Skillnet Ireland's award for outstanding contributions at their 20th Anniversary Gala Dinner Celebration. In January 2020, Mairéad won the Services to Accounting & Finance category at the second Irish Women's Awards 2020. These Awards honour the talent and hard work of female professionals and entrepreneurs across the region. It celebrates the achievements of women entrepreneurs, businesswomen, professionals, civil servants, charity workers and others that make Ireland a great and more equal place to live and work.
Janet Coyle
Managing Director Business Growth, London & Partners
Janet Coyle
Managing Director Business Growth, London & PartnersJanet is Managing Director Business Growth at London & Partners, the business growth and destination agency for London. She leads the teams in London and internationally (in China, India, North America and Europe) to generate economic growth, which is resilient, sustainable and inclusive. This includes promoting London as a hub of diversity and a great place to innovate, invest and scale businesses. Janet was in the Computer Weekly Top 20 list of most influential women in tech in 2020 and named as one of the UK's 50 Leading Lights in Kindness in Leadership in 2019. Janet was previously a diplomat for the UK Government, serving in several posts including San Francisco, Capetown, Mumbai and Prague and ran London's business hosting programme during the London Olympic and Paralympic Games in 2012.
James Adkins
Head of Commercial, IRIS HR Consulting
James Adkins
Head of Commercial, IRIS HR ConsultingJames is the Head of Commercial for IRIS HR Consulting and is responsible for sales and commercial strategy across the division. He is a versatile commercial leader, accumulating a depth of experience along with a strong record for business development and growth across various market sectors.
Background in recruitment and technology industries, James has over 15 years of business growth experience, developing new brands, markets and territories, dedicating himself to a proactive service focused approach and leads commercial growth within the Global HR industry.
Having been at IRIS formerly MCN Global HR since 2018, James works closely with his clients to ensure that their strategic growth is achieved with minimum risk by providing an ‘eyes wide open’ approach in this fast paced environment where global business decisions change daily.
Betsy Bula
All-Remote Evangelist, GitLab
Betsy Bula
All-Remote Evangelist, GitLab
As an All-Remote Evangelist at GitLab, Betsy focuses on sharing the company's all-remote brand with the world, helping others embrace the future of work. Prior to joining the All-Remote Marketing team, she spent her career in employer branding and recruitment marketing for high-growth tech companies. When Betsy is not in her home office in Raleigh, NC, she loves spending time outdoors with her husband and their golden retriever.
Marc Coleman
Founder & CEO, UNLEASH
Marc Coleman
Founder & CEO, UNLEASHMarc Coleman is Founder & CEO of UNLEASH, the world’s #1 destination and marketplace for human resources, recruitment and learning leaders globally. Marc is passionate about building global communities that imagine, create and power the new working world. UNLEASH has served as a strategic transformation engine for the most powerful network of human resources leaders in the world. They represent the world’s leading employers and range from the Fortune 2000, public sector organizations, NGO’s to innovative start-ups and everything in between.
Marc has worked with UNLEASH contributors that include Sir Richard Branson, Arianna Huffington, Edward Snowden, Stephen Fry, Esther Perel, Simon Sinek, Baroness Susan Greenfield, Sir Bob Geldof, Rachel Botsman, Gary Vaynerchuk and many more. In 2019, UNLEASH was listed on the Inc. 5000 - the world's fastest growing companies with 212% yoy growth over 3yrs. Prior to UNLEASH, Marc worked in the US for Microsoft and Philips Sonicare and in Asia Pacific he worked across a portfolio of successful business and sporting events that included; FIFA World Cup, F1, The Rugby World Cup, The America’s Cup, APAC CEO Summit and World IT Congress.
Educated in Ireland, Marc has a Higher Diploma in Quality Control Management, Applied Biology & Physics, a BSc in Microbiology and an MSc in Biotechnology.
Shane Gray
SVP Sales & Business Development, Consultant, Investor
Shane Gray
SVP Sales & Business Development, Consultant, InvestorA veteran of technology business development and strategy with the uncanny ability to distill a complex issue into something that is clearly understandable, Shane has helped hundreds of businesses meet their objectives and grow. He jumped into the HRTech arena in 2014 with Clinch and established the firm as one of the hottest entrants in the Talent Engagement and Marketing sector exiting the company to Battery Ventures in 2020 and is now active an investor, consultant and advisor to a range of companies in the world of human capital.
Johnny Campbell
CEO/Co-Founder, SocialTalent
Johnny Campbell
CEO/Co-Founder, SocialTalent
Johnny Campbell is a serial disrupter in the world of hiring. As founder and CEO of SocialTalent, the world’s leading hiring skills platform, he works with some of the largest enterprises in the world (such as Cisco, Siemens and Ikea) to drive hiring excellence in their organizations. Hiring, for Johnny isn't just about finding and hiring great talent, it must include on-boarding and fully engaging new hires for it to be considered truly successful. He has presented these concepts at some of the world’s biggest hiring conferences across the world. His dedication is matched only by his enthusiasm, making him one of the most sought after speakers on the topics of hiring and talent.
Dario Acconci
Managing Director SEA, Hawksford
Dario Acconci
Managing Director SEA, HawksfordDario is the Managing Director for Southeast Asia at Hawksford whilst managing a strategic portfolio of clients in China and Hong Kong.
He started his career in Hong Kong in 2003 working for an international law firm and developed a deep experience in assisting foreign investments into China, Hong Kong and South East Asia advising clients in connection to various aspects ranging from corporate, commercial to labour law.
He has built a practice of multinational clients and a strong reputation of adviser to the board of several fashion and luxury brands.
Graham McKechnie
Global Tax Director, activpayroll
Graham McKechnie
Global Tax Director, activpayrollBased in Scotland, Graham is the Global Tax Director at activpayroll. Graham’s expertise lies in managing clients’ internationally mobile employee population in order to deliver process, cost and administration efficiencies together with employment tax guidance, support and advice covering all areas within the global mobility arena including immigration, employment law, international benefits, income tax, social security and payroll.
Graham has over twenty-five years of global mobility experience and heads up activpayroll’s Global Mobility Division. He is a qualified tax professional and a member of the Association of Tax Technicians (ATT)
Jill Neilson
VP of Global Services, Sequoia
Jill Neilson
VP of Global Services, Sequoia
Jill is Vice President of Global Services at Sequoia Consulting Group. Sequoia unifies the benefits, HR, retirement, and insurance services that companies need to better scale and protect their business. Jill leads a dynamic team of global benefits consultants, leveraging experts through the Sequoia Global Network in 130 countries.
Chuck Mollor
Founder and CEO, MCG Partners
Chuck Mollor
Founder and CEO, MCG PartnersChuck Mollor is founder, CEO, executive coach, and advisor at MCG Partners. He is the author of his new and best-selling book, The Rise of The Agile Leader. Can You Make the Shift? achieving Amazon’s #1 best seller in management. MCG Partners specializes in leadership and talent optimization, aligning business and people strategy for maximum results.
For over 35 years, Chuck has advised, coached, and consulted executives and organizations across industries, from startups to Fortune 500 and not-for-profit organizations. In his former role as a global CEO, and as a member of several executive teams, Chuck has a breadth of experience with general management, entrepreneurial endeavors, and P&L responsibilities. He has run, built, started, and restructured several businesses.
Chuck is a graduate of executive programs at The Harvard Business School, MIT Sloan School of Management, and The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He has a BA in political science and a minor in business administration from Merrimack College. Chuck has served on several boards, is a Cranberry Grower-Owner of Ocean Spray, and is a fundraiser and rider for the Pan-Mass Challenge (PMC), a 192-mile bike ride for the fight against cancer. Chuck and his wife, four children, and three dogs live in greater Boston, MA.
Liliana Kellett
Senior Sales Executive, Culture Amp
Liliana Kellett
Senior Sales Executive, Culture Amp
Liliana Kellett is a Senior Sales Executive at Culture Amp and Co-Founder of a regenerative cattle farming enterprise in Australia. She leads the Mid Market APAC team in achieving its mission of making the world a better place to work through improving the Employee Experience. Her experience in HR Tech spans across ten years at Culture Amp, ADP and LinkedIn, Liliana was also an Olympic Swimmer for Argentina in Beijing in 2008, previously managed a boutique hotel in Costa Rica and earned her MBA at the Universidad del CEMA in Buenos Aires.
Liliana also champions the Argentine Chamber of Commerce in Australia and currently works remotely from her farm in NSW with her husband and two children (and many animals).
Dr. Susan Hanold
Vice President, HR Strategic Advisory Services, ADP
Dr. Susan Hanold
Vice President, HR Strategic Advisory Services, ADP
Dr. Susan Hanold is a talent strategy expert and thought leader with more than 20 years of results-based leadership experience as an executive coach and organization development expert. As a vice president in ADP’s Strategic Advisory Services group, Susan collaborates with clients to build talent strategies that improve employee engagement, retention and drive organizational change.
Susan was selected as one of the “Top Women in HR Technology,” by Recruiting Daily, nominated on the “2020 Most Inclusive HR Influencer List,” by Social MIcole and received the 2019 Readership Award by Training Industry Magazine.
Prior to joining ADP in 2012, Susan served as vice president of organizational development with Bear Stearns, created the coaching model for YUM! Brands and served as a change management consultant at Accenture. She currently serves on the Human Capital Executive Research Board.
Susan has created and delivered global human capital management workshops for many of the Fortune 500 covering key areas such as M&A best practices, HR transformation and talent trends.
Recent publications include:
- Forbes, "5 Ways to Keep Employees Engaged”
- Training Industry Magazine, “Mastering M&A through Learning and Development”, “Solving the Skills Gap and Supercharging Your Leadership Pipeline” and “Amid a Retention Crisis,Returnto the Basics by Investing in Your People”
- Recruiter.com, “Recruiting Gen. Z, a Pragmatic, Dynamic, and Digital-First Generation”
Susan earned a Bachelor of Science degree from Texas Tech University. She also holds a Master of Science and Doctor of Philosophy in Leadership Development with a minor in Industrial Engineering from Texas A&M University.
Tim Sanders
VP of Customer Insights, Upwork. NY Times bestselling author
Tim Sanders
VP of Customer Insights, Upwork. NY Times bestselling authorTim leads customer insights at Upwork where he helps businesses implement better ways of working through the adoption of on demand talent solutions. He began his career as an early stage member of Mark Cuban's broadcast.com and, once acquired, he became the chief solutions officer at Yahoo!. He is also the author of five books, including the New York Times bestseller, Love is the Killer App.
Somen Mondal
Co-Founder, Ideal: a Ceridian Company
Gordon Dudley
CEO/Founder, RDI Worldwide
Gordon Dudley
CEO/Founder, RDI Worldwide
Gordon Dudley is the founder of RDI Worldwide in South Korea, where he manages a multi-cultural team of specialists supporting global clients. Based in Seoul since 2010, originally from the UK, Gordon has worked in four countries and speaks three languages. Since working in large MNCs since 2005 he is attempting to bring customer level service to recruiting to enable companies to enhance their employer brands.
RDI was established originally in the UK in 1996, to help people work better in global companies through better job matching and professional development programs. Through a special focus on global leadership RDI is cultivating multi-cultural agility in NE Asia region.
David Harrison
Commercial Director, Americas, Immedis
David Harrison
Commercial Director, Americas, ImmedisSkilled Business Development and Account Management Leader. Documented success in revenue growth, team culture and operations through EMEA, Asia, Australia, New Zealand and North America.
Extensive experience selling and managing relationships in enterprise sales (today), mid-market and a small business environment.
Christina S. Ahn
Managing Director, Morgan Philips Korea
Christina S. Ahn
Managing Director, Morgan Philips Korea
Christina Ahn is the Managing Director of Morgan Philips’ Korea office. With over 18 years of HR consulting and executive search experience in Korea, U.S. and Greater China, she brings insight and expertise on a wide range of talent and leadership solutions to client organizations. Christina specializes in C-level executive recruitment across all industries, with a specific focus on placing senior bilingual and global talent for domestic and global clients.
Prior to executive search, Christina held leadership roles at Mercer and PwC where she helped clients solve complex business problems with practical talent and organizational solutions. As a strong advocate of equity diversity & inclusion, she is dedicated to supporting clients’ diversity goals through cohesive and sustainable leadership recruitment strategies.
Born in Seoul, raised in the US with extensive professional experience in Greater China, Christina is fully bilingual in Korean and English with in-depth understanding of the cultural nuances involved in complex cross-border leadership requirements of client organizations.
Christina earned her BS in organizational studies from Northwestern University and a master’s in Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. She has also completed doctoral studies at The University of Hong Kong and holds certification in leadership assessment.
Ronii Rizzo
Managing Director, Global Employer Services, BDO
Ronii Rizzo
Managing Director, Global Employer Services, BDO
Ronii Rizzo heads the BDO USA Global Payroll and Employment Tax Group. In this role Ronii aids clients with various services in setting up, reviewing, advising and supporting US and global payroll obligations especially in the cases of cross border and traveling employees and contractors. She also serves as the Chair for the Customized Payroll Services Center of Excellence which coordinates a global team of BDO payroll professionals for benchmarking and detailing best practices as related to payroll compliance obligations. Ronii has experience in the practice of expatriate tax and has used this expertise to bridge the gap between the world of tax and payroll compliance. Ronii is a frequent speaker and teacher for many professional organizations such as the American Payroll Association, Financial and Tax Executives Institute, and Global Payroll Management Institute.
Gavin Hockey
Division Vice President - Sales, Asia Pacific, ADP
Gavin Hockey
Division Vice President - Sales, Asia Pacific, ADPGavin Hockey was appointed to the role of ADP Division Vice President, Asia Pacific Sales for Global Enterprise Solutions International (GESi) in September 2016. He currently leads our APAC Sales Organization, working closely with his Regional Operation leaders in Australia/New Zealand, North Asia, South East Asia, and India, along with the APAC Sales Operations and Business Consulting groups to drive sustainable sales growth across the region.
Previous to his current role, Gavin spent eleven years away from Australia on a number of international assignments with ADP, during which time he held senior sales roles in North America, Europe and Asia Pacific.
Gavin is a 29-year ADP sales veteran. Since joining in 1992, he has taken on challenging assignments and formed actively engaged teams in multiple locations worldwide. Most recently as Senior DVP of Multinational Corporations & Upmarket, Global Enterprise Solutions (GES) North America, where he grew sales by an astonishing 30%, drove $133 million USD in total sales. Other successes include the turnaround of National Account Sales Midwest organization where he achieved a very successful 14% compound annual growth rate during his three years in the role.
From the Australia business to the complexity of the European and North American Multinational Corporations, Gavin has always created a culture of high energy, high performance and highly engaged sales teams.
Gavin lives in Melbourne, Australia with his wife and 3 children and his interests include cycling, gardening and spending quality time with his family when he’s not travelling. He also holds a Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) in International Business from Cumberland University, Lebanon, Tennessee, USA.
Mark Hedley
Vice President, Talent Recruiting, Globalization Partners
Mark Hedley
Vice President, Talent Recruiting, Globalization PartnersMark Hedley is Vice President of Talent Recruiting for Globalization Partners. In this role Mark works with Customers and Partners to help them to grow their businesses through global expansion and access to global remote talent. This is an area of passion for Mark having lived and worked internationally for his entire career.
Mark has extensive international experience on both the client and provider side of Talent Acquisition and HR Outsourcing having served in senior global and regional roles with Korn Ferry, Deutsche Bank, Citibank, and prior to that on the provider side with leading HR Outsourcing and Global Mobility firms. Mark has lived and worked on four continents and spent much of his career in Asia before relocating to London in January 2018.
Casey Abel
Executive Director, HCCR
Casey Abel
Executive Director, HCCR
Talent market entrepreneur with over 11 years of experience in executive search, technical recruitment, and large-scale recruitment project execution in Japan and the broader APAC region. Accountable for all commercial operations globally for HCCR’s suite of talent-related solutions. Founded or launched 3 businesses from zero in Japan.
Reika Phung Dzupinka
VP, APJ Head of Sales Ecosystem and Operations, Ceridian
Reika Phung Dzupinka
VP, APJ Head of Sales Ecosystem and Operations, Ceridian
Reika is the Head of Sales Ecosystem for the APJ region at Ceridian. She comes with over 15 years of commercial experience with expertise in Strategy, Operations and Sales having worked in top-tier consulting and high-growth tech. Before joining Ascender, Reika was Head of Mid Market Sales at Linkedin for Australia and New Zealand. Prior to moving to Sales, Reika was Head of APAC Sales Operations playing a key role in the company’s annual financial planning and forecasting, developing go-to-market strategies and managing internal sales policies. Reika started her career at Bain & Co, specialising in strategy cases across multiple industries. Reika holds an MBA from INSEAD and Bachelor of Aeronautical Engineering and a Bachelor of Science from University of Sydney.
Sachin Goklaney
Chief Commercial Officer, PayGroup
Sachin Goklaney
Chief Commercial Officer, PayGroup
Sachin has been with PayAsia since 2015 in the role of Chief Finance Officer and was appointed to the role of Chief Commercial Officer of PayGroup in July 2017. Sachin has over 20 years of experience in senior finance and operations roles in Singapore and Australia. Based in Singapore, Sachin is a Chartered Accountant (ACA) and holds a Bachelor of Commerce (UNSW).
Christin Bleil
Director of Global People Resources, Globalization Partners
Christin Bleil
Director of Global People Resources, Globalization PartnersChristen is a dynamic HR practitioner who has been a critical part in growing the Globalization Partners organization from 10 employees to 300 over the course of 4 years. Christen oversees the areas of Global HR Operations, Compensation & Benefits, HR Compliance, Learning & Development, and Community & Culture.
Sarah Thapa
Managing Director, The Migration Agency
Sarah Thapa
Managing Director, The Migration Agency
Sarah Thapa is an award-winning immigration lawyer and CEO of The Migration Agency, an immigration firm based in Sydney helping companies to access talent from around the world with immigration solutions. As many companies have struggled to adapt to global mobility restrictions during the Covid-19 pandemic, Sarah and her team have been partnering with clients to extend the opportunities to move talent and boost their workforce.
Sarah recently founded TMA Digital, a software platform designed to support and streamline immigration and visa application processes. Her commitment to make a difference extends past the boardroom as co-founder and director of charity FONA, which plays an important role in creating educational hubs in developing communities in Nepal.
Alastair Kendrick
Director at AK Employment Tax Services Limited
Alastair Kendrick
Director at AK Employment Tax Services LimitedAlastair is considered a leading employment tax specialist. He worked with HMRC for 20 years and spent 10 years an HM Inspector of Taxes. On leaving HMRC in 1989 Alastair worked for 10 years at KPMG and nearly 7 years at EY. In both organisations Alastair had National responsibility for employment tax matters. Following his career at EY Alastair worked in a number of smaller firms before moving into his own practice in 2017.
Alastair deals with all aspects of employment taxes and is regularly used to deal with disputes with HMRC. He is considered a particular expert on status of workers and IR35. He also helps the construction industry with the construction industry tax scheme.
Alastair is frequent writer and lecturer on tax matters. He owns the chapter of the Bloomsbury Tax investigation manual on employer compliance. He is also used regularly by the media to speak on tax issues. He is also used in the capacity of an expert witness before the Courts. His firm is a member of the APPG Taxation group.
Outside of work Alastair is a keen sports person. He is a former marathon runner and triathlete who now enjoys being a parkrun world tourist. He is also a keen golfer.
Wendy Muirhead
Vice President of Ceridian Europe
Wendy Muirhead
Vice President of Ceridian EuropeWendy is responsible and accountable for the commercial and strategic growth of Ceridian Europe. Having spent most of her career working with organisations undertaking Global HCM and Payroll transformation, she has a wealth of industry experience.
As a strong advocate for identifying value through shared insights, Wendy is cultivating a collaborative culture within Ceridian which is delivering tangible benefits to her team and customers alike.
Paul French
Director at Intrinsic Executive Search
Paul French
Director at Intrinsic Executive SearchPaul French is the Co-Founder of Intrinsic Executive Search Ltd, a Boutique Executive Search firm that supports Leaders in SaaS firms to scale internationally.
His clients are often VC or PE backed SaaS companies that need to hire strategic senior level commercial executives to drive international revenues and new client acquisition. His Search projects range from individual hires to complete start up teams.
Jackie Breslin
Director HR and Compliance Services at TriNet
Jackie Breslin
Director HR and Compliance Services at TriNet
Jackie Breslin is Director HR and Compliance Services at TriNet, a leading provider of comprehensive human resources for small and midsize businesses. In her current role Jackie leads a team dedicated to helping clients navigate compliance challenges, workplace investigations and complex employee-relations issues. Additionally, she specializes in providing HR services to businesses, including policy development, performance management advice, onboarding and retention strategies and guidance on employee engagement techniques.
She is a seasoned professional with more than 25 years of HR experience. Prior to joining TriNet, Jackie spent eight years in the healthcare industry leading HR. She is a Society for Human Resources Management Senior Certified Professional and holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration and economics from St. Mary’s College of California.
Suki Fuller
Founder Analytical Storyteller
Suki Fuller
Founder Analytical StorytellerSuki Fuller is a speaker on intelligence (strategic, competitive and national security), tech trends, connected data, social networks, surveillance, security, privacy, and the ethics of technology.
Suki has worked as an intelligence advisor for nearly two decades, in areas such as chemical engineering, security and living. She has worked globally (MENA, EU, China, UK and US) within Academia, National Security, Law Enforcement, and Private Corporations and also served twelve years in the U.S.Army Reserves. She is a leading expert on the social implications, human rights and civil liberties of technology, particularly facial recognition and surveillance, recognised for her early adoption of new technologies. Her areas of focus lie within agile competitive and emergent strategies.
Suki is Founder of Miribure a strategic and competitive Intelligence consultancy, Co-Founder and Senior Vice President Europe of DC Analytics, and Analytical Storyteller for design consortium Group of Humans.
She is an advisor, mentor and judge for various programs including Community Growth Ventures, Shell Springboard and European Bank of Reconstruction and Development, amongst others. Her insights regularly feature on BBC World News, BBC’s The One Show, the Financial Times, Forbes, The Next Web (TNW) and Computer Weekly, amongst others.
Suki is a board member for Tech London Advocates & Global Tech Advocates, a Fellow of The Council of Competitive Intelligence Fellows and the Former Chair of the Membership Advisory Committee (MAC) for Strategic Competitive Intelligence Professionals (SCIP).
She has received several accolades for her work, including being listed in Computer Weekly’s Most Influential Women in UK Tech Top 20, and listing in their Top 50 for three consecutive years (2019, 2020, 2021); Financial Times’ Top 100 Most Influential Black, Asian, Minority, Ethnic Leaders in UK; Black Powerlist Top 30 Titans of Tech; Tech Nation’s 50 Most Inspiring and influential Black voices in UK Tech; London Tech Week’s 30 Changemaker to watch.
As a speaker, she uses storytelling to take her audience on a journey, from data gathering and analysis to a point of understanding their next potential chapter. She is also available as a host and moderator.
Lisa Dennis
President, Knowledgence Associates
Lisa Dennis
President, Knowledgence Associates
Lisa Dennis is a global marketing and sales strategist, consultant, and author. Her consulting practice focuses on value proposition and messaging development, marketing strategy, ABM, and sales enablement content and programs. She is a mentor at Techstars and has coached over 70 start-ups on developing clear, differentiated value propositions that drive engagement with investors and new customers. She is the author of Value Propositions that Sell: Turning Your Message into a Magnet that Attracts Buyers. and her upcoming book The Messaging Playbook: Win Deals with Content and Conversations that Matter (Spring of 2022). She works with enterprise companies in technology, manufacturing, professional services, healthcare and more, including Akamai, FedEx, HP, IBM, Microsoft, Salesforce, SAS, Tufts Health Plan, and Verizon.
Dhaval Gore
Head of Mayor's International Business Programme at London & Partners
Dhaval Gore
Head of Mayor's International Business Programme at London & Partners
Dhaval heads up the award-winning Mayor's International Business Programme, at London & Partners, which supports ambitious high-growth (scale-up) London-based tech companies with their international growth plans. We provide a programme of services to help accelerate their international growth: mentoring; workshops & events; peer to peer networking; international trade missions; corporate and investor engagement. Prior to this role, Dhaval was leading London & Partners sector strategy and activities in fintech, cyber security, blockchain and the wider B2B tech enterprise.
Rick Pizzoli
CEO and Founder, Sales Force Europe
Rick Pizzoli
CEO and Founder, Sales Force EuropeRick Pizzoli, CEO and Founder of Sales Force Europe, has 25 years' experience bringing tech companies to new European markets with a mix of executive sales outsourcing, lead generation, international strategy, channel sales, inside sales and regional sales management, all with a focus on leveraging local sales expertise with existing networks.
Filipe Lousa
Director of Privacy and Compliance, Globalization Partners
Filipe Lousa
Director of Privacy and Compliance, Globalization PartnersFilipe Lousa is the Director of Privacy and Compliance at Globalization Partners. Filipe has more than 15 years of experience in the field of Privacy and Data Protection, advising companies at an international level, across multiple jurisdictions. Before joining Globalization Partners, he was lead EMEA & LATAM Privacy Legal Counsel at Dell Technologies, as well as Global Privacy Consultant for Dell´s Marketing and Consumer & Small Business units. He holds a LLM and he is a Data Protection Officer (ECPC-B DPO) certified by the European Centre of Privacy and Cybersecurity (ECPC) of Maastricht University, The Netherlands. Filipe is a member of the International Association of Privacy Professionals and the European Association of Data Protection Professionals, as well as a regular invited speaker at international Privacy summits and events.
Paul Bennett
Co-founder, Perchpeek
Paul Bennett
Co-founder, PerchpeekPaul Bennett is the co-founder of Perchpeek, the digital relocation agent.
Prior to founding Perchpeek, Paul was a business development executive at Amazon. During this three years there, he moved from B2B sales to the team that launched Amazon’s Treasure Trucks into the UK. He led the Treasure Trucks’ biggest ever, Star Wars-themed event in Trafalgar Square, in partnership with Disney and Samsung, which attracted over 10,000 attendees.
Perchpeek was created in 2018 when Paul and his two co-founders, Oliver Markham and Dr Aasis (Ace) Vinayak, realised how painful relocating can be. Their combined experience in business development, machine learning and real estate led them to create a UK property marketplace, dubbed ‘Tinder for renting’. In 2020 they pivoted the business in response to the specific pain points many people experience when relocating. Perchpeek now provides an end-to-end relocation service for a new generation of relocators - those who can work from anywhere - as well as helping some of the world’s top companies attract and retain top talent.
Paul studied PPE at Oxford, gaining two blues in Field Hockey whilst there. Post-university, he helped organise travel expeditions like driving rickshaws across India. He is a keen ultra marathon runner, winning the 100km Jurassic Coast Challenge race in 2019.
Joe Batten
Head of Business Development and Partnerships, Hubble
Joe Batten
Head of Business Development and Partnerships, HubbleJoe is a sales and growth specialist, responsible for business development and partnership growth at Hubble—the world’s first platform to search for, set up, and manage your hybrid workplace. Having expanded into 23 markets in 6 months, Hubble have helped hundreds of companies provide workplace solutions for their globally dispersed teams, advising on combinations of full-time office and on-demand working solutions to suit each unique business.
Cheyenne Horvat
Senior People Operations Manager at RapidSOS
Cheyenne Horvat
Senior People Operations Manager at RapidSOSMy name is Cheyenne Horvat and I am the Senior People Operations Manager at RapidSOS, a lifesaving technology company based out of NYC.
At RapidSOS I lead a team of three with a focus on the entire team member experience from onboarding, perks, and benefits to name a few both stateside and internationally. We currently have members in the US, United Kingdom, Canada, Mexico, and Argentina.
I’m passionate about connecting with people in a meaningful way and working towards building out a culture where people can bring their authentic selves to the workplace. I took many routes to finally hit my destination in People. I was a Case Manager for child protective cases that worked in engaging families to be their own self-advocates. I was an Executive Assistant so that I can get a high-level scope of how businesses run. Ensuring that I can communicate effectively from interns to C-Suites.
Now I've found my way in People Operations and couldn’t be happier making sure members feel their absolute best in the workplace.
In my spare time I love traveling, meme culture, music and BTS!
Dipesh Mistry
COO, Vayda
Dipesh Mistry
COO, VaydaDipesh is the COO at Vayda, a start-up making the regenerative future of farming accessible today. At Vayda he leads strategy, finance operations, business operations, and everything talent - including the birth and expansion of the company in a remote world across the US, Canada, and Brazil. Previously, Dipesh was the Chief of Staff at Koru, a venture incubator, and a Project Leader at the Boston Consulting Group.
Cyrus Sullivan
Director, Anavate Partners
Cyrus Sullivan
Director, Anavate PartnersCyrus Sullivan is a technology and strategy consultant who serves as a Director at Anavate Partners, a boutique consulting firm focused on cloud solutions for enterprise planning needs. Cyrus leads expansion at his firm through the management of partnerships and growth as well as the development of teams abroad utilizing the Globalization Partners Platform. In his previous experiences, Cyrus has worked in Tokyo as an enterprise consultant, worked with the Department of Interior, and grown organizations via his expertise in human capital. Cyrus holds degrees in Marketing and Sustainable Supply Chain from Arizona State University. Cyrus in his free time is an avid reader, loves to travel, and enjoys spending time with friends, family, and his two Persian Cats, Stanley, and Walter.
Trayc Keevans
Global Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) Director, Morgan McKinley
Trayc Keevans
Global Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) Director, Morgan McKinleyExperienced Global Foreign Direct Investment Director with a demonstrated track record of delivering in the staffing and recruiting industry. Currently responsible for devising and executing the FDI strategy for our global business in Ireland, UK and Singapore. Skilled in advising global companies on their Talent Strategy, Revelant Talent Solutions, Permanent, contractor & Temporary Hiring, Contingent Workforce Management Solutions, HR Consulting, Executive Search, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), and Event Management. Qualified Accounting Technician, CIPD professional and currently holds a Life and Executive coaching qualification.
Dalia Turner
VP of People, Feedzai
Dalia Turner
VP of People, FeedzaiA passionate human resources professional with over 18 years of international HR experience across Asia, North America, Australia and now Europe. Dalia has worked across different industries to drive and implement a winning HR culture that has had an impact on business results through strategic partnership with senior leadership.
Espen Vestli
Business Area Director, Azets Insights AS
Espen Vestli
Business Area Director, Azets Insights ASEspen is the Director Large Accounts at Azets. He has 25 years experience in the BPO, IT, Finance, Accounting and Payroll industries. He has advised many large enterprises entering the Nordics. Managed and owned by Private Equity since 2006.
Adam Hopewell
Head of Global Talent, Behavox
Adam Hopewell
Head of Global Talent, BehavoxAlthough originally from a very small island off a rather small island (Alderney part of the UK Channel Islands) over the last 20+ years Adam has lived and worked in more than a dozen countries, enabling business growth globally through leading collaborative People & Talent innovation/development for companies and clients from Start-Ups to F500 multinationals.
His experience includes serving as a Country Manager in China for EF Education Corporate supporting rapid operational growth across 60 cities; serving as Head of Group HR for The Goldstone Group in India supporting the scaling of their global services; serving as the VP of Strategic HR for Abu Dhabi University designing over $10M in Talent initiatives; serving as the Talent Director for The Savola Group innovating People systems across their multi-Billion USD Central Asian operations; serving as the Global Talent Strategy Director for ReSource Pro architecting new Talent tools for the 5,000 employee InsurTech and BPO company; and he currently serves as the Head of Global Talent for Behavox, a hyper-growth global FinTech company which has already won multiple awards for applied AI and is headquartered in New York & Montreal.
His education includes an MBA studied at HULT Boston, and he is an SPHR & GTML with professional qualifications from some of the leading institutes in global Talent Management, HR/OD and L&D. The impact and innovation of his work has been formally recognized by Governments including those of the UAE, India, New Zealand and the USA; publications such as The Economist; and with professional awards including being selected as an “HR Game Changer” by Workforce USA, a “Talent Trailblazer” by Chief Learning Officer USA, and as a CIPD UK “People Management Awards” finalist.
His greatest passions are for serving the innovative development of organizations and talented communities by bringing to reality generative visions of the future of work, and for treasuring his family who all currently live in Alexandria in Virginia.
Lauren Bailey
Founder of Factor 8, The Sales Bar, and #GirlsClub
Lauren Bailey
Founder of Factor 8, The Sales Bar, and #GirlsClubLauren Bailey, known to many as “LB”, is the Founder of three successful performance improvement brands: Factor 8, The Sales Bar, and #GirlsClub. A proud “AA-ISP Most Influential” recipient for the past 10 years, she’s also been billed as a Top Coach and Top Woman in Sales. Before entrepreneurship, Lauren led sales divisions in the technology sector and built multiple sales training departments, ultimately being recruited to design onboarding programs to launch Inside Sales in over 15 countries for IBM and SAP. Her mission is to change lives by helping more people find confidence and success in sales. Known on the speaker circuit for her candid style and spunk, look for LB to make you laugh, keep things moving quickly, and help you take immediate action with her tactical tips.
Kyle York
Co-founder, CEO and managing partner at York IE™
Kyle York
Co-founder, CEO and managing partner at York IE™Kyle York is co-founder, CEO and managing partner at York IE™ where he sets the vision and leads the vertically integrated strategic growth and investment firm helping reshape the way companies are built, scaled and monetized. Kyle works closely with entrepreneurs, operators and investors to help them realize their shared ambition to build good companies, create new jobs, grow generational wealth and impact the world.
Advising and investing in over 100 startups over the past decade, Kyle is an active board member for Blustream, Lytica, CloudApp, Forcivity, TorchPro & chairperson for Canvs AI. Kyle is a co-founder of 3rd generation family business, YORK Athletics MFG., an ecommerce footwear brand in Boston. Kyle’s most successful startup engagement to date is Fastly ($FSLY) who IPO’d in 2019 and peaked north of $12B. Current York IE portfolio highlights include Auditoria, Finmark, Metadata and Vetro.
Previously, Kyle was the vice president of product strategy for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and general manager for Oracle’s Dyn Global Business Unit, focused on growing Oracle’s cloud market position and leading Dyn operations. Founders and talent from Oracle acquisitions StackEngine, Wercker, DataScience.com and Zenedge reported into Kyle’s strategy and marketing organization. Prior to joining Oracle, Kyle was an executive with Dyn since 2008, primarily as Chief Revenue Officer. During his years there he spearheaded corporate strategy, growth, and go-to-market, scaling to $100M annual recurring revenue, 5000 enterprise customers, one million paid users, $100M fundraised, 500 global employees, and 11 executed M&A transactions, which led to its strategic acquisition by Oracle in 2016. Kyle past served as an independent board member for Datanyze (ZoomInfo), Assent Compliance (Warburg Pincus) and Flowtraq (Riverbed).
As an expert in the global internet, cloud, SaaS, IaaS, and technology markets and trends, Kyle has been featured in publications including the Wall Street Journal, Entrepreneur, the New York Times, TechCrunch, USA Today, and Wired, and on broadcasts such as NPR’s All Tech Considered, NBC’s Today Show and PBS’s Frontline. He has been a guest speaker at many conferences worldwide educating and inspiring audiences.
Kyle has spent his entire career working in the internet and enterprise software industries driving growth for subscription business models. Prior to joining Dyn, he spent six years at vertical SaaS company WhippleHill Communications (EdTech), which was acquired by Blackbaud in 2014. Kyle has a BS in marketing from Bentley University.
Ramsey Pryor
Founding partner at Port of Entry
Ramsey Pryor
Founding partner at Port of EntryRamsey is currently the founding partner at Port of Entry, a global expansion consultancy. He's a founding member of the International Mastermind operator network and he hosts the International Expansion podcast. Prior to starting Port of Entry, Ramsey led International Expansion and Sales at Branch Metrics 5 years, building the company's international presence and revenue in London, Berlin, Brazil, Bangalore, Singapore, Seoul, Tokyo, Beijing and Sydney. Branch is currently the third Fastest-Growing Company in North America on Deloitte's 2020 Technology Fast 500 list.
Prior to Branch, Ramsey has held various leadership roles in Product Management, Marketing and Business Development at companies including IBM, Outblaze, and Register.com. He started his career as a consultant at Accenture and holds an MBA from IESE Business School in Barcelona and a BA in Economics from Northwestern University.
Brennan McEachran
CEO and Co-Founder of Hypercontext
Brennan McEachran
CEO and Co-Founder of HypercontextBrennan McEachran is the CEO and Co-Founder of Hypercontext, a suite of tools to help leaders and their teams streamline objectives, meetings and morale into one workflow. He has spent more than a decade in the leadership and employee engagement space building apps to create better relationships between managers and their teams.
Allen C. Koski
CEBS, President, Insured Nomads Inc.
Allen C. Koski
CEBS, President, Insured Nomads Inc.Allen has been actively involved in developing and supporting international healthcare, global wellness, dental, disability and travel medical plans for multinational employers ranging from the Fortune 100 to emerging multinationals for over 30 years. He has met with groups which include international assignees, traveling executives, local nationals, and medical providers with trips to 75+ countries including China, India, Turkey, Chile, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Czech Republic. He has consulted and advised on global initiatives tailored to the employer’s workforce, goals and budget
He is a featured presenter at the IFEBP Global Certificate Series where he presents biannually on “Comparative Healthcare Systems” and the “Fundamentals of Global Benefits Programs”. He has attained CEBS Fellowship Status from ISCEBS. He has written various articles, notably “Culture, Infrastructure and International Health Benefits Delivery” in Benefits Quarterly; and “Expatriate Benefits for a Changing Global Economy” in Benefits & Compensation Solutions; “Critical Conditions – Seeking Suitable Health Care in China” in Mobility. His latest is “Implications of Underwriting International Medical Insurance” in Newsbriefs based upon an ISCEBS Symposium Presentation.
Allen was a Senior Vice President at United Healthcare Global and prior to that instrumental in the growth and development of Cigna Global in roles that ranged across sales and sales leadership. Prior to those roles, Allen was an Account Representative in the International Department of Travelers Insurance in NYC; and a Staff Assistant and Scheduler for the U.S. Congressman in New Haven, CT. He was on the Board of Directors of the National Foreign Trade Council (NFTC) the oldest trade association advocating an open, rules based international trade system.
Allen currently resides in Wilmington, Delaware with his wife and two children and is a graduate of Drew University in Madison, N.J.
Insured Nomads is the first Insurtech in global benefits, offering a full portfolio of insurance solutions for the globally mobile including international health, life and disability, and travel insurance. Uniquely positioned with innovative technology to empower an easy and efficient customer experience. Serving clients around the world, with numerous customer service points, operating a lean and agile enterprise with strategic partners around the globe. Insured Nomads focused People, Technology, Informatics and Service. Available direct and through select brokers/intermediaries. Please visit www.insurednomads.com for more information.
Liam Martin
CO-Founder, Co-Organizer & CMO Time Doctor, Staff.com and Running Remote Conference
Liam Martin
CO-Founder, Co-Organizer & CMO Time Doctor, Staff.com and Running Remote ConferenceLiam is a serial entrepreneur who co-founded Time Doctor and Staff.com — one of the most popular time tracking and productivity software platforms in use by top brands today. He is also a co-organizer of the world's largest remote work conference — Running Remote.
Liam is an avid proponent of remote work and has been published in Forbes, Inc, Mashable, TechCrunch, Fast Company, Wired, The Wall Street Journal, The Next Web, The Huffington Post, Venturebeat and many other publications specifically targeting the expansion of remote work. The mission statement that feeds all the products and services that Liam is involved with stem from empowering workers to work wherever they want, whenever they want.
Liam has an undergraduate and graduate degree in Sociology from McGill University. He lives in Canada but travels 3-6 months out of the year due to his ability to work wherever and whenever he likes. He chooses a new place to travel a few times a year but usually spends time in Austin, Las Vegas and Ubud each year and loves to encourage others to work remotely on his travels.
Lanie Denslow
World Wise Intercultural Training & Resources
Lanie Denslow
World Wise Intercultural Training & ResourcesLanie Denslow is a cultural competence and business protocol consultant who founded World Wise Intercultural Training & Resources after observing that culture varies significantly around the world and profoundly influences the conduct of business. An international speaker, (China, England, Germany, Russia, South Africa) she is also the author of World Wise What to Know Before You Go and co-author of Working with Americans. She served as the Director of International Affairs for the Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising and as president of Protocol & Diplomacy International. Lanie is a graduate of the Protocol School of Washington, holds a BS from Antioch University and both an MBA and Masters of International Business from Pepperdine University.
Joan Groleau
Senior Director, Partner Marketing
Joan Groleau
Senior Director, Partner MarketingJoan Groleau is the Senior Director, Partner Marketing with Globalization Partners. She has a career-long history of accomplishments in all aspects of business development and marketing management, encompassing channel sales and marketing, business enablement, and partner account development. Over the course of her career, she has directed global marketing focusing on driving transformation and change to rebuild and grow new customers; as well as created and deployed integrated plans and regional campaigns to maximize new business and deal registration. In addition, she has conceptualized and executed innovative approaches and processes for enablement and joint demand programs to drive partner-led demand initiatives and field marketing.
Robert Glazer
Founder & CEO, Board Member
Robert Glazer
Founder & CEO, Board MemberRobert Glazer is the founder and CEO of Acceleration Partners, a global partner marketing agency and the recipient of numerous industry and company culture awards, including Glassdoor’s Employees’ Choice Awards two years in a row. He is the author of the inspirational newsletter Friday Forward, and the #1 Wall Street Journal, USA Today and international bestselling author of four books: Elevate, Friday Forward, How To Thrive In The Virtual Workplace and Performance Partnerships. He is a sought-after speaker by companies and organizations around the world and is the host of The Elevate Podcast.
Andy Winthrop
Director, EY APAC Operating Model Effectiveness (Indirect Taxes)
Andy Winthrop
Director, EY APAC Operating Model Effectiveness (Indirect Taxes)Andy has more than 13 years experience with assisting multinationals on VAT, Customs and Global Trade compliance issues in international restructuring projects. Andy has advised on the establishment of regional and global supply chain management structures, around different headquarter and or procurement locations and in a variety of industries, such as mining and industrial products, consumer goods and high tech.
Sam Barrett
Assoc. Partner, EY APAC Operating Model Effectiveness
Sam Barrett
Assoc. Partner, EY APAC Operating Model EffectivenessSam has over 15 years experience across the globe in international taxation and operating model effectiveness. Sam works with the founders of fast growth, mainly tech sector companies, to help them professionalize, plan for, and structure their operating models as they expand internationally, ensuring common pitfalls are avoided and commercial strategy is aligned with compliance and efficiency. Sam works with many players in the ecosystem including corporates, governmental agencies and authorities and VCs to facilitate the growth of these companies.
Joseph Christofanelli
Director, EY Asia Pacific Tax Centre - Global Incentives, Innovation & Location Services
Joseph Christofanelli
Director, EY Asia Pacific Tax Centre - Global Incentives, Innovation & Location Services
Over 35 years of experience negotiating, structuring, and implementing global tax incentives to support business expansion, relocation, new developments and R&D. Currently working with Asia inbound and outbound projects providing global incentives and site selection services.
Jay Smith
Director, EY APAC Operating Model Effectiveness
Jay Smith
Director, EY APAC Operating Model EffectivenessJay has over a 10 years experience in advising multinationals as well as family and privately held enterprises in designing and implementing tax aligned operating models in Asia Pacific. In addition Jay has helped companies enter new markets by advising on an appropriate legal entity structure, contractual framework, transaction and business model, assist in applying for relevant cash grants and incentives and assist in the overall business and operating model design.
Tara Vasdani
Principal Lawyer and Founder, Remote Law Canada
Tara Vasdani
Principal Lawyer and Founder, Remote Law CanadaCharles Ferguson
General Manager, Asia Pacific, Globalization Partners
Charles Ferguson
General Manager, Asia Pacific, Globalization PartnersAs General Manager and head of Globalization Partners business in Asia, Charles is responsible for establishing scale and efficiency for the company’s business expansion in one of the most dynamic markets in the world. Charles was most recently group Chief Commercial Officer for Tricor Group, a leading business expansion specialist in Asia, with global knowledge and local expertise in business, corporate, investor, human resources & payroll, and corporate trust & debt services.
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VP of Global People Operations at ZEDEDA
Cleo Valeroso
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Deputy General Counsel, Globalization Partners
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