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Michael Roub
Managing Partner of Inflection 360
Michael Roub, California native, is a seasoned business executive with expertise in operations, finance, and development. He has demonstrated tremendous amounts of success within executive roles in start-up entities. Previously, he served as an investment banker where he honed his tangible skills in financial management and consulting. Starting of his professional career in the financial industry, he laid the foundation for the rest of his professional career. Moving forward, he was able to capitalize on countless opportunities in the private business sector.
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Philip F. Green
CFO & Partner of Brinker Capital
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Eric Kutcher
Senior Partner and Chief Financial Officer of McKinsey & Company
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Bob Sternfels
Partner of McKinsey & Company
Bob Sternfels is a senior McKinsey partner based in San Francisco. He currently leads a firm-wide effort to transform how McKinsey delivers value to its clients which includes widening McKinsey’s professional profiles, growing in new functional areas, and building out tools and assets to better enable client service. In effect, Bob leads McKinsey’s “new ventures” group. In terms of client service, Bob has worked with clients all over the world (North America, Europe, Africa, Asia) covering aerospace and defense, private equity, basic materials, medical devices, high tech, financial institutions, and consumer goods sectors. His experience ranges from strategy to operations to organization. Bob has been with McKinsey for over 20 years. Bob graduated with Honors from Stanford University and has a BA in economics and history. He was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University and has an MA in politics, philosophy, and economics.
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Sree Ramaswamy
Partner of McKinsey & Company
Sree Ramaswamy is a Partner at the McKinsey Global Institute (MGI), McKinsey’s business and economics research arm. He leads research on the economics of digitization and the economics of multinational corporations. He is responsible for shaping MGI’s research initiatives, leading research on trends in competition, technology, and global forces influencing multinationals. Sree is also a co-leader of MGI’s research on North America, and has authored reports and articles on the ongoing digital transformation of the US economy, on new investment opportunities, on opportunities and challenges for the NAFTA region, and the role of US multinational firms in the global economy. Sree is a frequent speaker at conferences, policymaker, business, and media roundtables, and media briefings on topics related to his core research and to MGI’s broader themes around global forces, technology, trade and investment, and the global and US economic outlook. His research is frequently cited in the Economist, Financial Times, Harvard Business Review, and Wall Street Journal among other publications. Prior to joining McKinsey, Sree spent a decade in the US telecom and aerospace sector. He worked in regulatory affairs and engineering research for broadband satellite networks and holds three patents. He has an MBA and Master’s and Bachelor’s degrees in engineering and telecommunications. Sree is based in Washington, DC.
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Greg Phalin
Director (Senior Partner) of McKinsey & Company
Greg Phalin is a senior partner in McKinsey & Company’s New York office, where he leads the retail banking operations and technology practice for North America and is a key leader of McKinsey’s service operations practice. Greg has over 25 years of experience in operations and technology, with a particular focus on credit cards, payments, retail banking, and property and casualty insurance, as well as retail, travel, and entertainment, high tech, and telecommunications. He is also a deep expert in technology-related issues and has assisted clients with IT strategy, IT architecture, big data management, application development and maintenance, infrastructure, and transformation program management and led dozens of large, complex technology programs for clients. Previously, Greg spent 19 years at Accenture, where he specialized in financial services operations and technology issues, particularly customer experience, operations, (customer service and back-office), technology, and outsourcing
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Hsiao Lee
Partner of McKinsey & Company
Hsiao-Lu received her PhD in Chemistry from Stanford University, where she applied single-molecule super-resolution cellular imaging to study live mammalian and bacterial cells in Nobel Laureate W.E. Moerner’s group. Her work imaging dynamic ion channel distribution on live neuronal cells was recognized by the PicoQuant Young Investigator award. Her work resolving mammalian cytoskeleton in 3D made the cover of Applied Physics Letters. As a postdoctoral fellow in Stem Cell Biology & Regenerative Medicine at the Stanford Medical School, Hsiao-Lu modeled Parkinson’s disease using human stem cells and stem cell-derived neurons. A passionate entrepreneur as well as scientist, Hsiao-Lu is a graduate of the Stanford Business School Ignite program and has been involved in several successful startups, both venture-backed and privately-funded, in roles ranging from co-founder to key executive of the leadership team. She is currently a consultant at McKinsey & company.
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Alberto Torres
Partner of McKinsey & Company
Adjunct Professor at IE Business School. Partner at McKinsey & Company.
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Venkat Atluri
Senior Partner of McKinsey & Company
Venkat is a leading expert on technology and the Internet of Things (IoT): the vast and emerging opportunities created by the network connectivity of devices, systems, and people. He draws on this expertise to guide clients through the design and deployment of the systems that power network-based businesses. Since joining McKinsey, in 2001, Venkat has partnered with top executives in a broad range of industries to set strategy, improve sales and marketing approaches, and develop new products and services. He also builds new businesses and guides them to the IPO stage. Keenly interested in the future of technology, Venkat has a special focus on cross-sector opportunities at the intersection of new technologies and existing business models. He also advises venture and private-equity investors, is a founding member of McKinsey’s New Ventures group, and leads McKinsey’s global IoT efforts. Examples of his work include: • building an IoT-based business for a technology leader • leading a business transformation to drive a step-change improvement for a global leader in enterprise technology • helping venture groups scale up businesses based on wireless technology • building a cross-sector business for an advanced electronics company • developing software-based business models for a consumer and industrial company Before joining McKinsey, Venkat held global leadership positions in digital business. He also worked in product development and management in Japan and at General Electric and 3M in the United States.
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Tarek Elmasry
Senior Partner and Global Co-Leader, Tech, Media & Telecom Practice of McKinsey & Company
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Adam Broitman
Associate Partner, Marketing of McKinsey & Company
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Liz Harrison
Partner of McKinsey & Company
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Naufal Khan
Senior Partner of McKinsey & Company
With over two decades of business and high-tech experience, Naufal Khan is driven by a desire to help companies leapfrog to digital leaders. He has made a career of working with retail, public sector, and transportation clients to unlock digital capabilities—leading to new services, products, operating models, and customer-facing campaigns. A global leader of McKinsey’s digital organization and IT strategy and organization segments, Mr. Khan works closely with C-level executives and management teams, counseling them on strategic and operational issues critical for business success. He provides strategic vision and hands-on expertise in driving and accelerating end-to- end digital transformations by thinking innovatively about digital strategy, business-IT collaboration, and overall technology organization, delivery, operations, and management.
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Lenny Mendonca
Senior Partner Emeritus of McKinsey & Company
Lenny Mendonca is the Chief Economic and Business Advisor to Governor Gavin Newsom of California. He is a Senior Partner Emeritus of McKinsey & Company and a Lecturer on Inequality at the Stanford Business School. He founded McKinsey’s U.S. state and local public sector consulting practice. He also oversaw their knowledge development, Chairing the McKinsey Global Institute and the Firm’s communications, including the McKinsey Quarterly. He served for a decade on the McKinsey Shareholder Council (its Board of Directors). He retired in from McKinsey in 2014. He was formerly the Chair of New America and Children Now, co-Chair of California Forward, and co-founder and Chair of Fusecorps. He was the Vice-Chair of Common Cause. He is the Chair Emeritus of the Bay Area Council and their Economic Institute, and was vice-chair of the Stanford GSB Advisory Council. He was a trustee at the Committee for Economic Development. He served on the boards of Fidelity Charitable, Western Governors University, UC Merced, The Educational Results Partnership, The College Futures Foundation, California Competes, The Opportunity Institute, Commonwealth Club, National Association of NonPartisan Reformers, and The Guardian.org. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Board of Trustees for Junior Statesmen of America, and the Advisory Boards of Y Analytics, QB3, the Haas Center at Stanford, Third Sector Capital, The CA Community College Chancellor’s Office, and the Public Policy Institute of California. He received his MBA and certificate in public management from Stanford. He holds an AB, magna cum laude, in economics from Harvard. He lives on the Half Moon Bay coast with his wife, Christine. They raised their two daughters, Allie and Rebecca, there and are the founders and owners of the Half Moon Bay Brewing Company, The Inn at Mavericks and the Pacific Standard Taproom. He is also Chair and primary owner of the Coastside News Group (Half Moon Bay Review).
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Mark Patel
Senior Partner of McKinsey & Company
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Dan Singer
Enterprise Partner, Leader of Sports & Gaming practice of McKinsey & Company
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Venkatesh Anant
Partner, Digital McKinsey of McKinsey & Company
Venky Anant joined McKinsey & Company’s Palo Alto office in 2011 and is a member of Digital McKinsey. His focus in the firm has been primarily around cyber-security, software/ startups and next generation infrastructure topics e.g., Cloud. Venky also co-leads the healthcare CISO roundtable, a group of 50+ CISOs who meet regularly to discuss key security related topics. Venky holds an M.B.A. from INSEAD, France, and a Masters in computer science.
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Mehdi Miremadi
Senior Partner of McKinsey & Company
Mehdi Miremadi is a partner at McKinsey & Company, where he serves technology, materials, and financial clients on a variety of strategy, artificial intelligence, and automation projects. A leader in automation, artificial intelligence, and machine learning, Mehdi co-leads McKinsey’s research on the impact of automation and artificial intelligence on the future of work as well as artificial intelligence potentials and limitations; he also co-leads McKinsey Digital Capability Center (DCC) in Chicago, intended as a hub to showcase best practices in digital and automation and cutting-edge technologies. His articles have appeared in Fortune, Harvard Business Review, and McKinsey Quarterly, among others.
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Paul Sheng
Senior Partner of McKinsey & Company
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Robert Schiff
Senior Partner of McKinsey & Company
Robert is a Partner in McKinsey’s San Francisco Office and co-leads Customer Experience in Banking.
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Brian Gregg
Senior Partner of McKinsey & Company
Brian leads the Marketing & Sales Practice on the West Coast and co-leads the Consumer Digital Excellence group. Brian has worked with multichannel retailers, consumer brands and online e-commerce players across categories such as fashion, electronics, apparel, footwear, financial services and grocery. He has deep experience in unearthing consumer insights, connecting these insights to an organization’s strategy, and operationalizing them quickly. Most recently Brian has helped his clients develop next generation CRM capabilities, build e-commerce and digital marketing strategies, and design 21st century marketing organizations. He has served clients in the United States, China, and Europe—and has worked across the consumer/retail value chain.
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Ramji Sundararajan
Partner of McKinsey & Company
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Jenny Cordina
Expert Partner of McKinsey & Company
Jenny collaborates with leading healthcare institutions to address a range of business challenges, from implementing retail-oriented strategies that engage consumers and increase revenue to leading performance and cultural transformations. Her specific area of expertise is helping clients use consumer insights better, thereby increasing their ability to attract and retain key customer segments as well as improve returns on sales and marketing investments. In the a post-reform environment, Jenny’s work with insurers focuses on assisting their transition to helping them take a more consumer-oriented environments business approach. For example, a recent client project for a national health insurer sought to better align operational delivery to consumer priorities and needs, which resulted in improved total overall efficiency and better stakeholder outcomes. She has recently managed many other performance transformation efforts, including a multi-year cost-containment initiative, an effort to implement lean operations, and an organizational transformation project to embed a performance culture and improve sustainability.
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Alexis Krivkovich
Senior Partner of McKinsey & Company
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Jonathan Gordon
Partner & Global Co-Lead Marketing Practice of McKinsey & Company
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Marc Singer
Senior Partner of McKinsey & Company
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Dilip Wagle
Senior Partner of McKinsey & Company
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Fidel Hernandez
Associate Partner of McKinsey & Company
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Pradip Patiath
Senior Partner of McKinsey & Company
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James Kaplan
Partner of McKinsey & Company
James Kaplan is the Principal at McKinsey
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Zachary Surak
Partner of McKinsey & Company
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Virginia Simmons
Senior Partner of McKinsey & Company
Virginia is the Managing Partner of McKinsey’s Midwest Office, which includes the Chicago, Cleveland, Denver, Detroit, Minneapolis and Pittsburgh locations Since joining McKinsey’s London Office in 1997 Virginia has worked primarily in the Retail and Technology sectors. She has worked extensively in Europe, Asia and moved to North America in 2006. Her work covers the full spectrum of issues facing companies including corporate strategy, finance, marketing, sales and operations. Recent areas of focus and innovation include digital, ecommerce and the application of big data in retailers’ marketing and merchandising arenas and in this capacity she serves on McKinsey’s Global Advanced Analytics Operating Committee and serves on the board of Periscope, McKinsey’s Solutions provider Virginia is a member of McKinsey’s Senior Partner Election Committee which is the global committee responsible for the evaluation and election of Senior Partners. Prior to joining McKinsey, Virginia worked as a Brand Manager at PepsiCo’s and as a Marketing Manager at Shell. Virginia holds a Bachelors in Natural Sciences and a Masters in Engineering from Cambridge University, England and was included on the university honors list. Virginia serves on several not-for-profit boards including Lurie Children’s Hospital, the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry and the Civic Committee of the Chicago Commercial Club.
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Lynn Taliento
Partner; Senior Advisor of McKinsey & Company
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Michael Chui
Partner, McKinsey Global Institute of McKinsey & Company
Michael Chui is a San Francisco-based partner in the McKinsey Global Institute, where he directs research on the impact of disruptive technologies, such as big data, social media, and the internet of things, on business and the economy. Previously, as a McKinsey consultant, Michael served clients in the high-tech, media, and telecom industries on multiple topics. Prior to joining McKinsey, he was the first chief information officer of the City of Bloomington, Indiana, and was the founder and executive director of HoosierNet, a regional internet service provider. Michael is a frequent speaker at major global conferences and his research has been cited in leading publications around the world. He holds a BS in symbolic systems from Stanford University and a PhD in computer science and cognitive science and an MS in computer science, both from Indiana University.
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Jaana Remes
Partner of McKinsey & Company
Dr. Jaana Remes is an economist and a partner at the McKinsey Global Institute (MGI), McKinsey & Company’s business and economics research arm, based in San Francisco. Since 2003, Jaana has led MGI’s research on urbanization, productivity, competitiveness, and growth. Her latest research maps the deployment of smart city solutions and sizes the potential benefits to urban citizens’ health, safety, commute times, and other factors impacting quality of life. Jaana leads MGI’s Urban World research series that includes mapping of economic power of cities, identifying global consumer groups shaping global demand, and mapping of the global company landscape; as well as the patterns of urban growth across the Americas. Her long term research interests also include productivity prospects in the digital age, global growth prospects in an era of demographic decline, analyses of how different policies have contributed to industry competitiveness and growth; as well as in-depth assessments of the barriers to competitiveness and growth across a range of economies, including the US, Mexico, Brazil, Canada, UK, Finland, Sweden, and South Korea. She has led MGI’s research on energy, with a focus on understanding the microeconomic underpinnings of global energy demand and the opportunity to reduce energy consumption through higher energy productivity. She advises global business and government leaders on related topics and frequently contributes to policy debates through articles and conference presentations. Jaana has a Ph.D. on applied economies from Stanford University and an MSc degree in economics and philosophy from the University of Helsinki, Finland. She is a nonresident senior fellow at the Strategic Foresight Initiative of the Atlantic Council. She also serves on the Board of directors of Girl Scouts Heart of Central California.
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Marie Claude Nadeau
Partner of McKinsey & Company
Marie-Claude is a Partner in the San Francisco office of McKinsey & Company. She leads McKinsey’s Digital Payments service line for North America.
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Olivia White
Partner of McKinsey & Company
Olivia is a Partner in the San Francisco office of McKinsey & Company and a core member of the Firm Financial Services and Risk Management practices. She has worked extensively on financial inclusion topics in emerging markets as well as with a broad range of financial institutions in the US and Europe. She is co-leader of McKinsey Financial Inclusion Practice, and has experience working on financial exclusion topics in a range of countries including Uganda, Kenya, Ethiopia, India, Pakistan, China and Nigeria. She is an author of the recent McKinsey Global Institute publication, Digital Finance for All: Powering Inclusive Growth in Emerging Economies. She is a member of the Executive Committee of the Better Than Cash Alliance and on the Advisory Committee for the ProInspire Fellowship in Digital Finance. Olivia is also a leader in McKinsey risk practice, where she is a leader in our work on risk and financial technologies leads our service line in Enterprise Risk Management in North America. Olivia client work includes customer experience transformations in retail and small business financial services, strategy and diligence work for investors in digital financial services, and examination of sales practices in retail banking. She has also contributed to major research efforts looking at both the economics and risks associated with digital payments in emerging markets. These include an empirical analysis of the economics of mobile money in East Africa, an examination of the economics of payment systems around the world to understand implications and opportunities for financial inclusion, and an investigation into the risk associated with digitally-enabled payments in the developing world.
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Philip Bruno
Partner of McKinsey & Company
Philip co-leads McKinsey’s Global Payments Practice. He works extensively with financial services, nonfinancial, and technology firms on strategy and operations issues with a focus on payments, such as enterprise payments strategy, credit cards, emerging payments technology, payments infrastructure, and policy.
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Roland John
Senior Partner of McKinsey & Company
Senior Partner at McKinsey & Company.
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Katy George
Senior Partner of McKinsey & Company
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Tanguy Catlin
Senior Partner of McKinsey & Company
Tanguy Catlin is a Senior Partner in McKinsey’s Boston office in the Financial Services and Marketing & Sales Practices, where he leads McKinsey’s North American P&C practice and works with global leading institutions to meet the challenges of this changing industry. In this capacity, he has been driving the development of McKinsey’s capabilities to develop multichannel strategies, execute digitally enabled business model transformations, and drive large scale marketing and sales programs at financial services clients.
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Bo Finneman
Associate Partner of McKinsey & Company
Bo Finneman is a leader of the Marketing and Sales, and Consumer Retail Practices at McKinsey & Company. He serves clients on brand positioning, product design, digital marketing, and digital sales. FInneman also leads innovations in consumer insights through the consumer decision journey. He launched the Firm’s proprietary growth metric, the Customer Growth Indicator, and designed the Firm’s Profitable Growth Navigator, used to evaluate the growth potential based on a comprehensive set of market, consumer, and business insights and analyses. Finneman holds a B.S. in Finance and Marketing from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania
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Jennifer Stanley
Partner of McKinsey & Company
Jennifer specializes in go-to-market (GTM) transformations for B2B companies in a wide range of highly competitive industries, with particular emphasis on basic materials and OEMs. From the design of channel architecture to the reorganization of the sales force, including strategic key-account planning and the development of capability-building programs, she brings to her projects a rich foundation of practical experience and insights from years of McKinsey research. In her recent work, Jennifer assisted a multibillion global device manufacturer with the redesign of its GTM architecture and sales resource-deployment model; supported an industrial packaging firm in improving its global/key account strategy and corresponding management processes; helped an electronics firm launch a new direct-sales channel alongside its existing wholesale and retail distribution networks; and facilitated the implementation of a sales capability-improvement program for a multinational B2B services company while simultaneously guiding transformation of their GTM strategy. Jennifer is a frequent author who regularly speaks at industry forums. Prior to McKinsey, Jennifer held various sales and marketing positions, among them with a subsidiary of Trans World Airlines. She also taught sales management at the university level.
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Steve Van Kuiken
Senior Partner of McKinsey & Company
Steve Van Kuiken is a senior partner at McKinsey & Company.
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Liz Hilton Segel
Director ,Senior Partner of McKinsey & Company
Liz is a member of the leadership team of McKinsey’s Media and Entertainment Practice and leads the business-to-consumer (B2C) capabilities of the Marketing & Sales Practice. Since joining the firm in 1992, Liz has largely focused on consumer marketing, strategy, and performance improvement in subscription media businesses. She has served clients across the media industry in newspapers, magazines, cable networks, cable operators, internet service providers, internet content players, and gaming. She also serves major marketers on growth and marketing spend effectiveness. She recently helped a US cable operator revise its go-to-market strategy to accelerate high-speed-data revenue growth; developed strategic insights into trends in video and cross-platform advertising to assess opportunities for advanced advertising in the US cable industry; and worked with a large cable operator to craft a marketing strategy and develop programs to improve customer experience operations designed to increase market penetration and increase customer lifetime value.
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Harrison Lung
Partner of McKinsey & Company
Harrison is passionate about helping telecommunication clients capture the full benefits of large-scale digital transformations, using his in-depth knowledge of IT, operations, and networks to help them achieve impact at scale. Although he focuses on clients in Asia, Harrison also serves clients in Europe and North America. His other specialties include wireless technology assessment, analysis, recommendation and evolution, network and cybersecurity, lean operations, and due diligence.
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Stefan Knupfer
Senior Partner of McKinsey & Company
Stefan Knupfer is the Senior Partner at McKinsey & Company
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Julius Genachowski
Managing Director and Partner of The Carlyle Group
Julius Genachowski is a Managing Director at The Carlyle Group, which he joined in 2014. He served as Chairman of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission from 2009 to 2013. He held senior executive positions for about eight years at IAC, which owned and operated Internet and media companies including Expedia, Ticketmaster, and USA Network. Also prior to the FCC, he was engaged with several public and private companies in the technology, media, and telecommunications sector as a board member, investor, or advisor. He is a senior fellow at the Aspen Institute, and has taught a joint class at Harvard Business and Law Schools. Earlier in his career, he was a law clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Justice David H. Souter, and worked in Congress for the Select Committee on the Iran-Contra Affair and for then-Representative Charles Schumer. He is currently a member of the President’s Intelligence Advisory Board. Mr. Genachowski currently serves as a director of Mastercard, Inc.
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John Redett
Partner of The Carlyle Group
John Redett is a Managing Director focused on opportunities in the global financial services sector. He is based in New York. Mr. Redett is a former Vice President, Financial Institutions Group at Goldman Sachs. Prior to that he was a Vice President, Financial Institutions Group at J.P. Morgan. Mr. Redett was also a Vice President and Associate, Financial Institutions Group at Credit Suisse First Boston. Mr. Redett earned his M.B.A. from New York University and his B.S. from the University of Colorado.
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Pamela L. Bentley
Partner of The Carlyle Group
Pamela L. Bentley is Carlyle’s Chief Accounting Officer. Ms. Bentley is based in Arlington, Virginia. Prior to joining Carlyle in 2005, Ms. Bentley was a Vice President of Finance and Investor Relations at TNS, Inc. (NYSE: TNS) and a Senior Manager at Arthur Andersen LLP in Washington, D.C. Ms. Bentley received her B.B.A. from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She is a CPA and member of the AICPA.
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Andrew Marino
Partner of The Carlyle Group
Andrew Marino is a Managing Director and the Chief Operating Officer of the Natural Resources group, focusing on Carlyle’s investments and strategy in the Energy and Natural Resources sectors. From 2004 until 2012, Mr. Marino was a member of the U.S. Buyout team where he focused investments in the Chemical, Metals and Energy sectors. Prior to joining Carlyle, Mr. Marino was a Vice President at Morgan Stanley where he focused on mergers, acquisitions and restructuring assignments in a variety of industries in both the US and in Europe. For several years prior to business school, Mr. Marino lived and worked in Hong Kong and China identifying private equity investments in China and Southeast Asia. Mr. Marino is a graduate of Dartmouth College and received his MBA from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School. Mr. Marino serves on the Boards of Discover Exploration Limited, VARO Energy, and PQ Corporation. Mr. Marino also serves on the Board of Trustees of Capital City Public Charter School.
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Jonathan Bylin
Partner of The Carlyle Group
Jonathan M. Bylin is a Managing Director focused on investor relations. Mr. Bylin is based in New York. Prior to joining Carlyle, Mr. Bylin was the Director of Product Management at Dubin & Swieca Capital Management, LLC, where he was responsible for product development and marketing for the firm’s multi-manager hedge fund business. Prior to that, Mr. Bylin was a Vice President in charge of product development and marketing for Carlyle Asset Management Group, where he helped create and manage the firm’s multi-manager hedge fund program. Prior to this, Mr. Bylin was the North American Product Manager for Goldman Sachs’ Hedge Fund Strategies Group and worked for Bloomberg LP as a Sales and Analytics Representative. Mr. Bylin received his M.B.A. from the University of Michigan Business School. He received his B.A. from Brown University. Mr. Bylin is a registered lobbyist in California and New York City. From 1999 to 2004, Mr. Bylin held Series 3, 7 and 63 licenses. He currently holds Series 63 and 82 licenses.
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Kathy Savitt
Founding Partner of Perch Partners
Kathy Savitt is the founding partner at Perch partners. She is the founder and former Chief Executive Officer of Lockerz. In her role as CEO of Lockerz, Kathy spent her time relentlessly focused on creating a unique online experience for millions of Lockerz members in 195 countries. Kathy’s entrepreneurial spirit was evident early in her career, as she founded her first company, an integrated marketing communications firm called MWW/Savitt, before she turned 30. She then moved on to serve in key senior-level executive positions in retail, e-commerce, content and social media. At Amazon.com, Kathy held the role of vice president of strategic communications, content and entertainment initiatives. She was also executive vice president and chief marketing officer at American Eagle Outfitters, Inc., where she led both the global marketing efforts of the company’s portfolio of brands, and the digital and e-commerce channels. In recent years, she became both obsessed with and inspired by youth culture, particularly the most disruptive group in modern history, Generation Z (born between 1992-2010). She soon discovered the tremendous opportunity in creating a company geared precisely for their specific behaviors and needs.
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Justin Tomboulian
Senior Partner of Sales & Marketing of Annik
Justin brings nearly 14 years of niche global experience in the IT industry with software and systems product management, architecture, development, deployment and operation, all with focus on process and system excellence. Formerly, he was IT Director for Microsoft Japan, where as an expert in Pacific Rim cross-cultural business connection, he managed overall Japan sales & marketing business infrastructure strategy & successful enterprise-wide solution implementation to enable higher workforce productivity, reduce costs, and fuel revenue growth. Based in Seattle, Washington, Justin is originally from Vancouver, Canada and earned a Bachelor of Commerce in M.I.S. with a concentration in Japanese from the University of Calgary.
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Kenna Baudin
Partner, Head of US Private Equity, Board and CFO Specialist of Egon Zehnder
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Martha Josephson
Partner of Egon Zehnder
Martha Josephson, based in Palo Alto, focuses on technology and communications and leads Egon Zehnder’s global Digital Media Practice, a pioneering specialty she launched in 1996. Martha serves many of Silicon Valley’s best-known and emerging enterprises, with a focus on hyper-growth digital media companies. She is especially engaged in sourcing digital talent for consumer and other non-digital companies seeking to evolve digitally. She conducts both senior management and board director searches, and provides board effectiveness consulting. In 2011, Martha was named to Fortune Magazine’s Executive “Dream Team” Start-up group. She was acknowledged in “How Google Works” (2014) by Eric Schmidt and Jonathan Rosenberg as “not technically a Googler, but as true a partner as can be found.” Martha is also an official and enthusiastic Commentator for “The Information”, an online publication taking deep-dives into technology and media. Martha was previously a consultant for McKinsey & Company, based in New York, where she focused on major turn-around efforts and post-merger integration for Consumer companies. Other past roles include Managing Editor of the “Asian Venture Capital Journal,” a media and conference company based in Hong Kong, and Executive Director, Hong Kong Venture Capital Association, a business networking group. Martha earned an AB from Princeton University, graduating Phi Beta Kappa and Summa Cum Laude, and an MBA from Columbia Graduate School of Business. She serves on the Advisory Board of “Pave”, a company devoted to mentorship and financial support for very high potential people, early in their lives. Martha is also an Advisor to “CollegeFeed,” a networking platform that connects companies to college students beginning their careers.
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Evan Zawatsky
Partner / Fractional CFO of Wells Group of New York
Evan Zawatsky is a partner of Wells Group and specializes in CFO and Controller services. At Wells Group, he has served as the VP of Finance at Draper James, interim Controller at Daily Harvest, and consultant CFO at Snowe, FEED, and State Bags, among others. Currently, he consults with 20+ organizations in consumer goods & services, healthcare, food & beverage, and financial services. Evan began his career in audit at KPMG, where he earned his CPA, and later joined Ernst and Young’s Advisory group. After completing his MBA, Evan spent four years as an independent consultant while partnering with Nomad Financial and Catalant, focusing on working with start-ups in finance, accounting and management consulting engagements. He consulted 100+ start-ups in tech, consumer goods & services, healthcare, and manufacturing, while also working with Anheuser-Busch’s ZX-Ventures, Estee Lauder and Covanta Energy. Evan received his BS in Accounting from the University of Delaware and MBA from UNC Chapel Hill’s Kenan-Flagler Business School.
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Michael Silverstein
Senior Advisor, Former Senior Partner and Executive Committee Member of The Boston Consulting Group
Michael is a senior partner and managing director in BCG’s Chicago office. He is a leader of BCG’s Consumer practice, and originated many of our qualitative and quantitative research methodologies. His latest book, The $10 Trillion Prize, shows how companies can capitalize on the biggest growth opportunities in the global consumer business: the newly affluent consumers in China and India. Michael has also presented a TED talk on The Future of Food as part of a series of talks curated by TED and BCG. Michael’s groundbreaking research with 20,000 women in 21 countries led to the popular 2009 book, Women Want More coauthored with BCG partner Kate Sayre and published by HarperBusiness. This book is the story of the rising female economy—a $5 trillion global growth opportunity. Michael’s prior research focused on luxury goods and discount products and led to two other books: Trading Up (2003) and Treasure Hunt (2006) Michael has been a BCG Fellow since August 2010. His current research topic is code-named Boomerang. It is the story of how rising affluence among Chinese and Indian consumers will put pressure on the supply of consumer products, commodities, energy, and water. He has begun active qualitative and quantitative research in India and China, comparing and contrasting consumption growth patterns across markets. A book and film documentary are scheduled for early 2012. In addition, Michael serves multinational clients in the retail and consumer products businesses. He is an expert in understanding and responding to consumer needs and dissatisfactions and helping large consumer companies to grow. Silverstein is the author of two Harvard Business Review articles and more than 20 BCG publications. He has been extensively quoted by the media, including CBS, ABC, NBC, CNBC, Fox News, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the London Times, the Economist, and the Washington Post. During his 30 years at BCG, Michael has been a member of the BCG executive committee and has served as the global leader of BCG’s client service initiative and the Consumer practice. Prior to joining The Boston Consulting Group, Silverstein worked at United Press International as a reporter and later in new product development. He holds an MBA with distinction from Harvard Business School and a BA in economics and history from Brown University.
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Amber Grewal
Managing Director & Partner, Global Talent of The Boston Consulting Group
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Vladimir Lukic
Partner and Managing Director of The Boston Consulting Group
Vladimir Lukic is a member of The Boston Consulting Group’s Global Advantage, Industrial Goods, Operations, and People & Organization practices. Since joining BCG in 2006, Vladimir has focused much of his work on strategy, operations, and organization. His case experience spans a wide range of industries, such as industrial goods, transportation and logistics, technology, and media. He is a coleader of BCG’s digital agenda and has helped found and grow BCG’s advanced analytics and geoanalytics capabilities. Vladimir’s client engagements have included a number of strategic planning, transformation, and organization change projects—from developing growth strategies for large diversified industrial conglomerates, to executing complex postmerger-integration efforts, to running multiyear digital and advanced-analytics transformation efforts for leading companies in many different industries. He is also a member of BCG’s Gamma team, which creates competitive advantages for organizations by unleashing the power of signals hidden deep within large and complex data sets. BCG’s Gamma team conceptualizes, builds, and deploys advanced analytic solutions that can transform the trajectories of organizations in 12 to 24 months. Before joining BCG, Vladimir was at Gisdata in Zagreb, Croatia, where he worked on business development across southeastern Europe and on implementation of complex IT solutions.
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David Martin
Partner & Managing Director of The Boston Consulting Group
David Martin is a Partner and Managing Director in the Boston Consulting Group’s Dallasoffice. He is a core member of BCG’s Technology, Media and Telecommunicationspractice, where he advises clients on topics from strategic growth and business modelinnovation, to operational improvement and organizational restructuring. In addition tohis client-facing activities, David also leads the TMT practice’s topics on emergingtechnologies (e.g., Artificial Intelligence, Virtual and Augmented Reality, MachineLearning), serves on its Consultant Development Committee, and led the BCG Texas’recruiting and hiring efforts for Consultants in 2013 and 2014. Outside of work, David serves on the International Task Force for the Dallas RegionalChamber. The International Task Force advises the DRC’s international economicdevelopment program of work, and supports the development of key internationalmissions. David received his MBA with honors from Duke University, with dual concentrations inStrategy and Corporate Finance. He also attended Duke’s Trinity College of Arts andSciences, where he graduated magna cum laude with a bachelor’s degree in ComputerScience. While at Duke, David lettered three years on its NCAA Division IA Football teamand served on its Undergraduate Judicial Board.
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David Ratajczak
Partner & Managing Director of The Boston Consulting Group
David is a Partner and Managing Director and leads BCG’s Digital Marketing Accelerator in North America. David has significant experience in driving growth in companies of varying size and industry. He brings more than 10 years of experience in marketing analytics, pricing, promotion effectiveness, and digital marketing optimization.
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Justin Rose
Partner and Managing Director of The Boston Consulting Group
Justin Rose is a Managing Director & Partner in the Chicago office of The Boston Consulting Group. He is a member of the firm’s global Industrial Goods Leadership Team and leads BCG’s Digital efforts for Industrial clients globally. He has extensive experience in helping to shape the strategy of global automotive companies as well as advising cabinet level government officials on major policy decisions. In addition to serving clients, Justin has authored BCG’s recent publications on mobility, including The Reimagined Car. He also co-authored the recent book titled “The US Manufacturing Renaissance: How Shifting Global Economics Are Creating an American Comeback”.
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Mary Martin
Partner and Managing Director of The Boston Consulting Group
Mary Martin is a Partner and Managing Director in the Dallas office of the BostonConsulting Group. She joined BCG in 2010. She focuses her work in the consumer sector,with particular emphasis in the restaurant industry. She has deep expertise in DemandCentric Growth and consumer insights, as well as delivery and restaurant operations anddigital in the restaurant sector. Mary is a member of the Dallas Regional Chamber’s Talent Attraction Council, which isfocused on the DRC’s mission of helping the Dallas region attract critical talent to fuelgrowth in the region. Prior to joining BCG, Mary worked at the J.C. Watts Companies, a cross-industry strategyand business development consultancy. Mary earned her MBA from Columbia Universityand graduated at the top of her class, awarded with the Shuchman-Hulbert Award inMarketing for performance and potential in the field of marketing. Mary holds a Bachelor’sof Arts in Government from Patrick Henry College, where she graduated Summa cumLaude.
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Thomas Taylor
Partner & Managing Director of The Boston Consulting Group
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John Rose
Senior Partner and Managing Director of The Boston Consulting Group
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Ian Frost
Senior Partner and Managing Director of The Boston Consulting Group
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Jody Foldesy
Partner & Managing Director of The Boston Consulting Group
Strategic advisor on topics of growth strategy, digital strategy, and M&A for leading global enterprises seeking to achieve breakout growth and deliver superior returns.
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Phillip Andersen
Partner and Managing Director of The Boston Consulting Group
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Neal Zuckerman
Partner and Managing Director in the New York Office of The Boston Consulting Group
Neal Zuckerman is a partner and managing director in the New York office of the Boston Consulting Group (BCG), a global management consulting firm and advisor on business strategy with 81 offices in 45 countries. His professional advisory work is centered on media and entertainment companies, with a particular focus on supporting the transformation of media companies into sustainable, digitally-oriented businesses through growth strategies, business development and large-scale change. Prior to BCG, Zuckerman served in related roles at Time Warner and McKinsey & Company. Zuckerman is a resident of Garrison, NY (the station from which he commutes on Metro-North), and was appointed as Putnam County’s representative to the Metro North Railroad Commuter Council (MNRCC) in 2010 by Governor David Paterson and nominated by then-County Executive Bob Bondi. Zuckerman is a member of the Philipstown Planning Board, a trustee of the Desmond-Fish Library, and a former president and trustee of the Putnam County Historical Society. He is also the former chair of the New York Public Radio Community Board of Advisors. Prior to his business career, Zuckerman was a Captain in the U.S. Army, serving as a helicopter pilot and in various staff roles. He holds a B.S. in history from the United States Military Academy at West Point, NY, and an M.B.A. from the Harvard Business School.
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Sesh Iyer
Senior Partner of The Boston Consulting Group
Sesh Iyer is a senior partner in the Technology Advantage, the Technology, Media & Telecommunications, and the Energy practices. He leads BCG’s work in the Americas in lean services and operations in technology and IT, cloud computing, and the firm’s work with the IT Capability Maturity Framework (IT-CMF). He is a member of BCG’s Big Data and Advanced Analytics advisory board. Since joining BCG in 2008, Sesh’s client work has focused on the high tech, IT services, energy, and financial services sectors. He has worked extensively in North America, Europe, and Asia, helping clients transform their businesses and their IT functions. His expertise spans a wide range of topics, including business strategies, large-scale technology-enabled change, and competitive advantage through the use of technology and data. Sesh anchors on bringing people together into high performance teams to deliver material and long-lasting impact to BCG’s clients. He believes in the art of exploration and the science of experimentation to translate ideas into real outcomes. Prior to joining BCG, he worked at a Motorola, Accenture, the Software Engineering Institute, and two start-up firms. SESSIONS
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Massimo Russo
Managing Director and Sr. Partner of The Boston Consulting Group
Massimo Russo is a core member of the Technology Advantage practice at The Boston Consulting Group, and a member of the firm’s Industrial Goods; Operations; Technology, Media & Telecommunications; and Strategy practices. He became a BCG Fellow in 2017. As a Fellow, Massimo is using his experience counseling clients on technology to develop a perspective of the Internet of Things and its impact on business. Massimo helps clients build competitive advantage through technology, with a focus on industrial clients. Since joining BCG in 2001, he has advised clients across a number of sectors, including automotive, engineered products, and technology. Before joining BCG, Massimo worked at GE Aircraft Engines, leading its Destroy-Your-Business.com group. He started his career as a product development engineer for Product Genesis.
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Andrea Gallego
Managing Director & Partner of The Boston Consulting Group
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Zia Yusuf
Senior Partner & Managing Director – Silicon Valley of The Boston Consulting Group
Zia Yusuf is the Senior Partner & Managing Director at Boston Consulting Group (BCG)
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John Perkins
Managing Director & Senior Partner of The Boston Consulting Group
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Christy Carter
Managing Director & Partner of The Boston Consulting Group
Christy Carter is the Managing Director & Partner at Boston Consulting Group
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Riddhish Dubal
Managing Director and Partner of The Boston Consulting Group
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Akash Bhatia
Partner & Managing Director of The Boston Consulting Group
Akash is a Partner in the San Francisco office. Akash is a core member of the Technology Advantage and Technology, Media & Telecommunications practice areas. Akash focuses on data (small and big), digital and emerging technologies (e.g. IoT)
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Meg Kedrowski
Managing Director & Partner of The Boston Consulting Group
Meg Kedrowski is the Managing Director and Partner at Boston Consulting Group.
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Yves Morieux
Senior Partner and Managing Director of The Boston Consulting Group
Yves Morieux intervenes on a worldwide basis as an expert in corporate transformation and leads the firm’s global development of approaches to help corporations create the structural and behavioral conditions for competitive advantage. He is a BCG Fellow and director of the Institute for Organization where he created BCG’s new approach to the management of complexity (Smart Simplicity) Prior to joining BCG, Yves Morieux was a Director in a private research and counseling practice that specialized in the application of state-of-art results from social sciences to corporations, public organizations and markets Yves Morieux lectures in the advanced programs of the Paris Institute of Political Science and was social science expert for the French National Research Agency (ANR). He has published a book, various scientific articles or book chapters, and is frequently featured in business articles on organizational evolution (e.g. The Economist, Harvard Business Review, Wall Street Journal, Fast Company, Le Monde)
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Michael Greehan
COO & Partner of Cue Ball, LLC
COO at Cue Ball, LLC and Owner, Cue Ball, LLC.
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Anand Shah
Partner, US FS Banking and Ops Leader of KPMG International Limited
Anand Shah is a Partner from the KPMG Atlanta office aligned to the Financial Services Banking Practice. Anand currently serves as the KPMG US Banking Technology leader focused in the Banking Transformation (Retail and Commercial), Lending, Digital, and Advanced Analytics. Over the course of 22 years in the consulting industry, he has served as Engagement Partner on several large scale end-to-end banking transformation initiatives at several Top 20 US and global banks, ranging from Merger Integration, Enterprise Risk, Core Bank systems replacement, and multiple Loan transformation initiatives. Anand Shah also serves as a thought leader, having driven multiple banking use cases leveraging the power of data to drive cost optimization and revenue generation via Analytics, while enhancing the overall customer and employee experience.
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Shivani Sopory
Partner of KPMG International Limited
Shivani Sopory is the Partner at KPMG.
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Tomas Otterstrom
Partner and Advisory of KPMG International Limited
Tomas Otterström is the Global Lead of KPMG’s Sustainable Finance Services. He also leads KPMG’s Responsible Investment and Sustainability Services in Finland and Sweden. Tomas has over 20 years’ consulting experience and a solid knowledge of business management, responsible investment and asset management, ESG in investor relations, climate finance and markets, ESG Due Diligence and environmental economics. He has supported financial sector actors with integrating ESG in their investment processes and corporates with integrating sustainability in business strategies and key business processes.
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Scott Jones
Partner of KPMG International Limited
Scott is a Partner in KPMG’s Strategy group, leads the firm’s Semiconductor Practice for Advisory and has nearly 20 years of experience working with semiconductor and other high tech companies. He began his career at Intel in finance and later became a program manager in the Enterprise Product Group. After departing Intel he covered the Semiconductor sector at JPMorgan for the #1 ranked equity research team on Wall Street. Later he joined AlixPartners to lead their Semiconductor Practice and the Digital Transformation for the Technology, Media and Telecom sector. Scott is recognized as a thought leader in the Semiconductor industry with a series of publications on R&D Efficiency, Portfolio Management and Operations. He has also led numerous panels and delivered presentations on advanced technology topics such as 3D/2.5D TSV, EUV, 3D NAND, and AI at industry and client events. He has worked with a large group of clients across the high-tech landscape including: Intel, Qualcomm, GlobalFoundries, ARM, Western Digital, Xilinx, Lam Research, VMware, HP Enterprise, Microsemi, Allegro Microsystems, Microchip Technologies, KKR, CVC, Veritas Capital, One Equity Partners and others.
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Lindsay Farnsworth
Partner of KPMG International Limited
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Jim Adams
Partner, National Aerospace and Defense Leader at KPMG LLP of KPMG International Limited
Jim Adams is a principal with KPMG in the Industrial Manufacturing Strategy practice bringing over 20 years of experience in aerospace & defense, energy, technology, and highly engineered products and services. He specializes in strategy-based transformation, corporate strategy / corporate development, acquisition support, and improving company and product competitiveness, including operations / margin improvement Prior to joining KPMG, Jim was with PwC Strategy& (formerly Booz & Company) for over 12 years. His most recent role was the U.S. Aerospace and Defense strategy practice leader for Strategy&. Previously, Jim worked at Boeing for about ten years with roles in engineering, operations, and program management. He also spent two years with Berkeley Space Sciences Laboratory where he assisted in design and manufacture of ultra-violet sensors for space-based observation. Jim also had a short tenure with Toyota Financial Services in the Treasury group as a Senior Derivatives Analyst. Jim earned a MBA from UCLA Anderson School of Management and a MS in Engineering from UCLA (he was a Hughes Fellowship recipient for his MS in Engineering). Jim’s undergraduate degree is from the University of California Berkeley with a BS degree in Engineering. Jim is also a U.S. Army veteran.
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Lisa Daniels
Managing Partner KPMG & Risk Consulting Partner of KPMG International Limited
Lisa Daniels is the Managing Partner KPMG & Risk Consulting Partner at KPMG.
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Judith Venturino
Partner of KPMG International Limited
Judith Venturino is Partner @ KPMG.
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Michael Mackiewicz
Partner of KPMG International Limited
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Jacob Pszonowsky
Principal (Partner) of KPMG International Limited
Jacob Pszonowsky is the Partner Advisory Board member (volunteer) at Ping Identity.
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Jacob Pszonowsky
Principal (Partner) of KPMG International Limited
Jacob Pszonowsky is the Partner Advisory Board member (volunteer) at Ping Identity.
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Mark Zawacki
Founder & Managing Partner of 650 Labs
Mark has founded two successful strategy consulting firms: Milestone Group (2001) and 650 Labs (2012). He has advised more than 300 clients globally on a myriad of growth and revenue-related initiatives including business strategy, innovation, new product development, acquisition targeting, business and corporate development, alliances/partnering, go-to-market strategies and international expansion. His clients have included Tata, NTT, Microsoft, McDonalds, MasterCard, Cisco, JPMorgan Chase, Intel, SAP, British Home Stores, GSMA, SMART, Volvo, Novartis, AstraZeneca, SITA, Norsk Hydro, Occidental Petroleum, Union Bank of Switzerland, Swisscom, Rabobank, VeriSign and Symantec as well as a number of private equity and venture capital firms. Prior to 650 Labs and Milestone Group, Mark spent nearly a decade as a strategy consultant with the CSC Index, the strategic management consulting division of Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC). Variously based in Amsterdam, London, Sydney and San Francisco, Mark’s work at CSC Index focused on corporate strategy, organizational change and leveraging technology for business advantage. Mark has consulted in 50+ countries around the world and traveled to more than 70+ countries to date. Mark holds a B.Sc. Marketing from the University of Colorado and an MBA from the University of Rochester, William E. Simon Graduate School of Business.
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Natalie Hanson
Principal (Partner), User Experience of ZS Associates
Natalie Hanson serves as principal at ZS, where she leads the User Experience practice.
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Eddie Hartman
Partner of Simon-Kucher & Partners
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Steve Rosen
Senior Partner of Simon-Kucher & Partners
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Wei Ke
Managing Partner of Simon-Kucher & Partners
Wei Ke, Ph.D. is a Partner based in Simon-Kucher & Partners’ New York and Toronto offices. He currently heads the Financial Services Practice in North America and serves as the President of Simon-Kucher Canada. Wei has advised leading financial institutions in North America and Europe on product innovation, pricing strategy, marketing & promotional tactics, customer value management, risk management, value communication, sales effectiveness, consumer behavioral biases, and big data analytics for both sides of the balance sheet. Wei is a frequent speaker at banking and fintech conferences in the US, UK and Canada, and is regularly published in leading financial services journals, including Bank Accounting & Finance, BAI Banking Strategies, American Banker, and Mortgage Finance Gazette, on both sides of the Atlantic. Wei is currently also an adjunct professor for pricing and marketing analytics at Columbia Business School and at Queen’s University Smith School of Business. Wei received a Ph.D. in Decision, Risk, and Operations from Columbia Business School, and a B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering & Applied Mathematics, summa cum laude, from Columbia University.
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Alex Zinin
Managing Partner of Pr3vision Consulting
Alex Zinin is the Board Member at Pr3vision Consulting.
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Marty Cagan
Partner of Silicon Valley Product Group
Marty Cagan is the founding partner of the Silicon Valley Product Group, and was previously an executive at several Silicon Valley technology companies including Hewlett-Packard, Netscape Communications, America Online, and most recently eBay. Before founding the Silicon Valley Product Group to pursue his interests in helping others create successful products through his writing, speaking, and training, Marty was most recently senior vice-president of product management and design for eBay, where he was responsible for defining products and services for the company’s global e-commerce trading site. Marty began his career at Hewlett-Packard Laboratories conducting research on software technology, and building several software products for other software developers. After HP, Marty joined a then young Netscape Communications Corporation, where he had the opportunity to participate in the birth of the Internet industry. Martin worked directly for co-founder Marc Andreessen, where he was vice-president for Netscape’s platform and tools, and later e-commerce applications, and worked to help Internet start-ups and Fortune 500 companies alike to understand and utilize the newly emerging technology. During his career, Marty has personally performed and managed most of the roles of a modern software product organization, including product management, software development, product marketing, user interface design, usability engineering, technical writing, software testing, engineering management, and general management.
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Christopher Jones
Partner of Silicon Valley Product Group
Chris is a product executive with 25 years building and leading product teams that defined new product categories at startups to F500 software companies including Lookout, Symantec, and Vontu. A holder of multiple patents, he has discovered and developed new products in consumer and enterprise mobile, web, and platform services. Before joining Silicon Valley Product Group, Chris was the VP of Product for Lookout and the Senior Director of Product for Vontu (later purchased by Symantec). At both companies, Chris built the product organizations from the ground up and led the effort to discover and deliver multiple category-leading products in Data Loss Prevention (DLP) and consumer mobile security. Earlier, Chris founded and ran Medicineman Product Design, an agency providing product discovery, design and implementation services for nearly 50 consumer and enterprise software companies, including Netscape, Tibco, Hewlett-Packard, Sun Microsystems, JP Morgan, and Stanford University. Medicineman provided design and discovery for multiple new product initiatives for Netscape’s client and server businesses. The company also designed and implemented nearly a dozen administrative and end-user interfaces for TIBCO’s entire middleware and portal engine product line. Chris started his career as a software developer for Trilogy working on their core sales configurator. Chris graduated from Stanford with a B.S. in Computer Science.
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Kut Akdogan
Partner of Gaussian
Kut is a founder of HERO, a home health appliance. He spent time at Bain & Company in the healthcare and tech practices, and also created several local platforms like Almond and Storyfractals. He is a Partner at Gaussian, a technology holding company, and runs its investment and incubation arm, Newton Three.
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About Gaussian: Gaussian Holdings is a diversified technology holding company based in New York focusing on physical industry tech.