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Adam Sharp

National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences

President & CEO

Ben Rhodes

National Security Action

Chair, Author & Former Deputy National Security Advisor

Bill Murphy

Cresting Wave

Managing Partner

Bob Evans

Evans Strategic Communications LLC

Founder and Principal

Brad Wilson

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina

CEO Emeritus

Charlene Li

Altimeter Group

Author & Senior Fellow

Craig Richardville

SCL Health

CIO

David Sable

WPP

Senior Advisor

Dr. Lynda Davis

US Department of Veteran Affairs

Chief Veterans Experience Officer

Fernando Machado

Restaurant Brands International

Global Chief Marketing Officer

Gene McCarthy

Top League Advisory

Founder & Principle

James Glover

Google

Senior Partner, Google Healthcare

Jamie Montemayor

General Mills

Chief Digital and Technology Officer

Jay Bhatt

American Hospital Association

Chief Medical Officer

Joanne Waldstreicher M.D.

Johnson & Johnson

Chief Medical Officer

Joe Schatz

TechCentrics

Managing Principal Cyber Security Strategy and Operations

John Mattison

Kaiser Permanente

Former CMIO

John Sculley

Apple & Pepsi

Former CEO

Karen Desalvo

Google

Chief Health Officer

Keith Reinhard

DDB Worldwide

Chairman Emeritus

Kristin Patrick

Sugar23

CMO

Maggie Chan Jones

Tenshey, Inc.

Founder & CEO

Michael Coates

Altitude Networks

CISO

Mike Howard

Microsoft

Retired Chief Security Officer

Patrick Carroll

hims & hers

Chief Medical Officer

Phil Fasano

AIG

Former Global CIO

Renee Wynn

NASA

Retired CIO

Rhonda Vetere

Herbalife Nutrition

CIO

Robert Bigman

2BSecure

Cyber Security Consultant

Sharen Jester Turney

Victoria's Secret

Former CEO

Steve Robinson

Chick Fil A

Former Chief Marketing Officer

Adam Sharp

National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences

President & CEO

Adam Sharp has forged a distinctive career of more than twenty years at the intersection of media, politics and technology. He currently serves as the President and CEO of the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, overseeing the annual presentation of the coveted Emmy® Awards for Daytime, Sports, and News & Documentary television, as well as achievements in television Technology & Engineering.

From 2010 through 2016, Sharp was Head of News, Government and Elections at Twitter, advising journalists, news organizations, candidates and government officials in more than 20 nations. He became the longest-serving member of the company’s global media team, and its most visible broadcast spokesperson.

He appears regularly as a noted expert and speaker on digital communications and marketing, political affairs and strategy, and issues related to “fake news” and misinformation. Recent appearances include events hosted by the New America Foundation, the George Washington University Graduate School of Political Management, the Harvard University Kennedy School of Government, and multiple corporate appearances. He is represented by the Leading Authorities speakers’ bureau in Washington, DC.

Sharp served U.S. Senator Mary L. Landrieu, D-La., from 2004 to 2009, first as a spokesman and later as Deputy Chief of Staff. He played an integral role in the creation of the Senate Centrist Caucus; the “Gang of 14” agreement to approve Supreme Court nominees and delay for nearly a decade the so-called “nuclear option;” bipartisan compromises on the federal budget and energy policy; and the federal response to Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.

He has also held leadership roles at NBC and C-SPAN, is currently a board member of the National Press Foundation and a Term Member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and is a former President of the bipartisan U.S. Senate Press Secretaries Association. He lives in his childhood hometown of Stamford, CT, with his wife and young daughter.

Dr. Lynda Davis

US Department of Veteran Affairs

Chief Veterans Experience Officer

Dr. Davis is nationally recognized for her leadership in the development and implementation of significant and sustainable programs that successfully support the full spectrum of quality of life support and services for military personnel, veterans, their families, caregivers and survivors. A former Army Signal Officer and the mother of a veteran, Dr. Davis serves as the Chief Veterans Experience Officer for VA.
Her previous government tenures included serving the Department of Defense as the Deputy Undersecretary of Defense for Military Community and Family Policy (MCFP), and at the Department of the Navy as the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Military Personnel Policy (DASN MPP). She also served as the designated lead for the joint Department of Defense (DoD) and VA response to the recommendations of Commission on Care for America’s Returning Wounded Warriors. In that role, Dr. Davis promoted the consistent delivery of highest quality, comprehensive care and support by creating the DoD and VA Recovery Care Programs, initiating the use of comprehensive, family inclusive Recovery Care Plans and launching the National Resource Directory.
Prior to joining the VA, Dr. Davis served as the Executive Vice President at the Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors (TAPS), where she was the Executive Director of the Military and Veteran Caregiver Network (MVCN), and as the CEO of a service disabled veteran owned small business specializing in education, training and health and human services.
A former clinician at a VA Medical Center, Dr. Davis served on the faculty of the Departments of Psychiatry and Public Administration at the University of Southern California where she earned a Ph.D. and a Masters of Public Administration with a specialization in Human Services Administration; she also holds a Masters of Arts in Community Clinical Psychology.
Dr. Davis’ voluntary service includes service on the Boards of the Veterans Advisory Council on Rehabilitation (VACOR), the Defense Advisory Committee on Women in the Military Service (DACOWITS), the Elizabeth Dole Foundation, Student Veterans of America, the Virginia Wounded Warrior Program, and the National Council for Adoption.

John Sculley

Apple & Pepsi

Former CEO

After earning his MBA in 1963, and taking advantage of his interest in math and statistical modeling, Sculley worked in market research for a New York advertising agency. Four years later, as big corporations began moving their marketing operations in-house, he joined the Pepsi-Cola Company as a trainee. Sculley describes his first few months at Pepsi as a whirlwind of different jobs in different cities as he learned the rules of corporate culture and the ropes of the soft drink industry. By 1970, at age 30, he was Pepsi’s youngest vice president of marketing, managing a staff of 75. In 1977, after heading the company’s International Foods division and then serving as senior vice president for US sales and marketing, he was named the youngest ever President of Pepsi-Cola.

Sculley credits his years at Pepsi for the evolution of his marketing approach. He says, “My ideas about marketing revolved around building the best possible consumer experiences and then helping find the most creative ways to tease a consumer’s curiosity to become our loyal user.” In his 1987 book, Odyssey, Sculley says that it was a speech by anthropologist Margaret Mead that inspired the revitalized Pepsi Generation campaign. Mead noted that the single most important factor for marketers since the end of World War II was the emergence of an affluent middle class. Sculley focused on how Pepsi could tap into the children of this generation by associating Pepsi via television with the Baby Boomers’ lifestyle activities. The Pepsi Challenge was another consumer-experience-centered campaign, designed to capture the surprise of Coca-Cola drinkers when they discovered that they had chosen Pepsi over Coke in a blind product taste test. By the time Sculley left Pepsi in 1983, the Pepsi brand had become the largest-selling consumer packaged goods brand in America, surpassing Coca-Cola in market share.

The partnership of Steve Jobs and John Sculley has been well-documented in Sculley’s own book, in countless interviews, and, most recently, in the biography of Jobs written by Walter Isaacson, published shortly after Jobs’ death in late 2011. Why did Jobs hire Sculley? Says Sculley, “Steve wanted to be CEO, but the Apple board felt he wasn’t ready. Steve was still over a year away from launching the Mac and the company needed the aging Apple II to continue to provide cash flow for the next three years.”

Today, John Sculley is focused on sharing his considerable experience with corporate executives, “serial entrepreneurs,” and third-wave companies that are not afraid to take risks, to adapt to change, or to use technological advances to achieve their goals.

Karen Desalvo

Google

Chief Health Officer

Karen B. DeSalvo, M.D., M.P.H., M.Sc., is Chief Health Officer at Google Health. She is an Adjunct Professor of Medicine and Population Health at the University of Texas at Austin Dell Medical School and Senior Fellow at the Bipartisan Policy Center. She is a nationally recognized health policy leader working at the intersection of medicine, public health, and information technology to improve the health of people and their communities. DeSalvo was an instrumental leader in the effort to re-engineer health care in Louisiana following Hurricane Katrina. This included a multi-sectoral collaborative to drive a community based and focused model grounded in primary care, enabled by health information technology, and supported by a value-based payment. She served as Assistant Secretary for Health (Acting) and National Coordinator for Health Information Technology at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in the Obama Administration. While at HHS, she launched Public Health 3.0, a vision for 21st century public health. DeSalvo was previously the New Orleans Health Commissioner. Prior to that role, she was Vice Dean for Community Affairs and Health Policy at Tulane School of Medicine and Chief of General Internal Medicine and Geriatrics. She is co-convener of the National Alliance to Impact the Social Determinants of Health (NASDOH). She serves as a director on the board of Welltower, is a member of the Verily Life Sciences Advisory Board and a Commissioner on the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC). She served on the Humana Board of Directors from 2017 to 2019. Dr. DeSalvo is the current President of the Society of General Internal Medicine and is the Honorary Vice President, United States, for the American Public Health Association. She is a member of the National Academy of Medicine where she serves on the Culture of Health Board, was a member of the Committee on Integrating Social Needs are in to Health Care and the NAM/RWJF Assessing Community engagement in Health and Health Care. She earned her M.D. and M.P.H. from Tulane University, and M.Sc. from the Harvard School of Public Health and was a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation General Physician Faculty Scholar.
Before joining HHS, she served as the City of New Orleans Health Commissioner from 2011–2014. While there, she transformed an out-of-date health department into one that has since achieved national accreditation, and restored health care to devastated areas of the city, including leading the establishment of a new, state-of-the-art public hospital.

Prior to her work for the City of New Orleans, Dr. DeSalvo was a Professor of Medicine and Vice Dean for Community Affairs and Health Policy at Tulane University School of Medicine. She led efforts in post-Katrina New Orleans to build an innovative model of neighborhood-based primary care and mental health services for low-income, uninsured and other vulnerable individuals, one that now boasts a sophisticated health IT infrastructure. She earned her medical doctorate and master’s degree in public health from Tulane University, and master’s in Clinical Epidemiology from Harvard School of Public Health.

Kristin Patrick

Sugar23

CMO

Kristin Patrick has a passion for building 21st-century brands and businesses that envelop the consumer across content, product, and experiences. Building on a successful 20+ year career, Kristin sits at the intersection of content and commerce.

Kristin recently launched a unique venture creator group within Sugar23 where she is incubating new businesses, making equity investments into existing companies, and revitalizing some of the world’s most iconic brands. Kristin is sought after because of her distinctive perspective building companies and brands that capture the imagination of the zeitgeist.

Named one of the “Top 50 Women in Brand Marketing” by Brand Innovators in 2015 and 2016, Kristin has developed a distinguished reputation for being a disruptive, trend-setting brand steward – breaking the barriers between pop culture and brands by creating universal relevancy across sports, fashion, technology, and music.

Most recently, Kristin was the CMO, Global Brand Development at PepsiCo, where she was responsible for delivering the company’s long-term global growth strategy and expansion plans. She was also tasked with building global plans and programs across existing and new categories, touchpoints, and experiences to build and leverage global equity and enhance PepsiCo’s global relevance.

Kristin was similarly responsible for leading the company’s digital agenda and for creating multi-media brand storytelling and content. As such, she was named to the 40 Over 40 Digital Marketers Campaign list. As part of her responsibilities, Kristin oversaw the groundbreaking Creators League Studio, PepsiCo’s proprietary content development facility. She oversaw relationships with the music and entertainment communities and put into place the Uncle Drew film created and based upon a piece of intellectual property owned by PepsiCo. Kristin began her career at PepsiCo as the first-ever appointed Global Chief Marketing Officer for brand Pepsi. During her tenure Kristin was responsible for establishing the largest global campaign in the history of the Pepsi trademark, fusing the worlds of sport, music, fashion and art/design in support of Pepsi’s annual football program.

Prior to joining PepsiCo, Kristin was the Chief Marketing Officer for Playboy Enterprises where she worked to extend the brand into new categories and launched new digital initiatives, including gaming and an e-commerce hub. Previously, Kristin served as Executive Vice President of Brand Strategy at William Morris Endeavor, where she was the mastermind behind Polaroid’s revolutionary collaboration with Lady Gaga – blending the iconic history of the Polaroid brand and instant film with the digital era.

Always at the forefront of her industry when it comes to pioneering authentic and inspirational global marketing campaigns, Kristin brought Project (RED) to the GAP as Vice President of Strategy and Innovation. The partnership blended consumer social responsibility with fashion and music, creating a cutting-edge marketing initiative for the company. In addition to GAP, Kristin held several other leadership positions at Liz Claiborne, NBC Universal, Calvin Klein, The Walt Disney Company and Revlon where she served as the Vice President for Brand Strategy and New Product Initiatives. While at Revlon, Kristin created and led a global promotional partnership with MGM linked with the international blockbuster, “Die Another Day,” that included advertising support, an integrated marketing campaign as well as in-store and online promotions for the 20th installment of the Bond franchise – reinforcing Revlon’s “Unforgettable Women” position as an exciting brand that celebrates women.

Kristin holds a B.A in Business from Emerson College. She resides in New York City and Los Angeles with her daughter Olivia.

Maggie Chan Jones

Tenshey, Inc.

Founder & CEO

Maggie Chan Jones is the Founder and CEO of Tenshey, Inc., a tech-enabled executive coaching company that helps more women advance into leadership roles and the boardroom. She is also a seasoned C-level executive, board director, CMO advisor and angel investor, who specializes in marketing, business transformation and technology. Previously, Maggie was the first woman to become chief marketing officer (CMO) at SAP, the world’s largest enterprise application software provider. In this role, she was responsible for global advertising and brand experience, sponsorships, audience marketing, strategic events, and field and partner marketing functions across 180+ countries. During her tenure, Maggie led the brand transformation of SAP to becoming the world’s 21st most valuable brand, delivered double-digit growth in marketing contribution to business, and advanced talent skills development for the digital economy. She was an executive sponsor for diversity and inclusion, and a member of the SAP Innovation Roundtable.
Prior to joining SAP, Maggie served as the inaugural CMO of the North America region at Level 3 Communications. Before that, she spent over seven years at Microsoft, where she was the marketing director of U.S. Cloud Services and Office 365. Previously, Maggie held leadership and marketing positions at Sun Microsystems and ADIC.
Maggie is frequently recognized as an industry thought-leader in the cutting-edge technology and marketing space with a deep commitment to strengthening leadership teams, and creating a more inclusive, gender equal corporate landscape. She was a recipient of the Women of the Decade in Marketing, Branding and Communication award by Women Economic Forum in 2018; was named one of the top 20 World’s Most Influential CMOs by Forbes in 2017; was acknowledged for creativity and
storytelling by the CMO Club Awards; and was named a Top Ten Most Interesting B2B Executives, and Woman of the Year, among other accolades.
Maggie received her undergraduate degree in business management from Binghamton University and holds a Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree from Cornell University where she serves on the Board of Directors for the Johnson NYC Club. In 2019, Maggie was appointed to the Board of
Directors at cybersecurity software company Avast (LSE: Avst). Maggie resides in New York City with her husband and their four-legged kid, a miniature poodle named Charlie.

Mike Howard

Microsoft

Retired Chief Security Officer

Mike Howard, Former Chief Security Officer (CSO) for Microsoft Corporation, held global responsibility for vital security functions including; operations, investigations, risk mitigation, crisis management, executive protection, security technology, strategy, intelligence, and employee awareness. Mike was the CSO of Microsoft for 16 years.
Mike led development of Microsoft’s interconnected Global Security Operations Centers (GSOCs), which oversee Global Security monitoring and response, and have become well known in the security field as a leading model for conducting operations globally. Looking to the future, Mike has steered Microsoft Global Security in the transition to a Virtual Security Operation Center (VSOC), leveraging the power of mobility and the cloud.
The GSOCs, which were based in the United States, the UK and India, became well known in the security field as a leading model for conducting operations globally.
As a security leader, Mike contributed to the field through key roles in numerous industry organizations: CSO Roundtable Advisory Board, Past President; International Security Management Association (ISMA), Past President; Security Industry Association (SIA), Board of Directors (former); and U.S. State Department Overseas Security Advisory Council (OSAC), Technical Threats and Risk Committee (Former Head)
Mike speaks regularly as a subject matter expert on security and leadership while using his extensive security background to help drive industry innovation. He has been profiled in the security press, including Security Technology Executive and Security magazines. And was named one of the most influential people in security by Security 500 in 2010 and 2013, and the #2 Most Influential person in Fire & Security in 2013 by IFSEC. Mike received the Don Walker Award in 2018 from the ASIS Board of Directors for Enterprise Security Executive Leadership.
Mike spent 22 years with the Central Intelligence Agency, finishing as a Chief of Station. Mike also worked in the CIA’s Office of Security and served on the security staff of the Director of Central Intelligence. He worked in the Counterterrorism Center, ran global programs, and served in assignments around the world. He was executive officer for the Office of Military Affairs and a special investigator for the Office of Inspector General.
Mike also served as a law enforcement officer with the Oakland, California, police in the late 1970s. He holds a BS in criminal justice administration from San Jose State University with a minor in Sociology.

Phil Fasano

AIG

Former Global CIO

Philip Fasano is a visionary thought leader, award-winning corporate executive and Fortune 500 board level business
strategy expert who brings more than 20 years of experience in the financial services, technology, insurance and healthcare
industries. He is widely respected as an expert on technology innovation, risk management, financial growth and oversight,
corporate governance, cybersecurity, and public policy, among others.
Currently serving as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) at Bay Advisors LLC, a strategic advisory firm he founded, Fasano is
considered an influential voice in the push to evolve how companies create, market and use technologies to transform future
growth and profitability, customer engagement and sales, internal and external operations, and ultimately to provide products
and services that productively transform our world. Current advisory clients include Virtual Rehab, Open Data Group, Zenefits,
NeoEyed, Espressive, Semefone, Microstrategy, Emirates Airlines and Genpact.
In addition, Fasano is working directly to fill advisory or board roles within the portfolios at numerous venture capitalist fund and
private equity firms, including SymphonyAI, Wing, Sierra Ventures and others. He also serves on the boards of the New York
Institute of Technology, New York Academy of Medicine, OpenData Group, and Fornetex.
Fasano is a sought-after award-winning media spokesperson who has been interviewed and quoted by numerous prestigious
national media, including Forbes, Fortune, The Wall Street Journal, Reuters, The New York Times, CIO Magazine, US News
and World Report, InfoWorld, San Francisco Business Times, The Denver Post, Modern Healthcare, Technology Week,
Healthcare Executive, ComputerWorld and TedMed, among many others.
Prior to founding his new consultancy, Fasano served as the first Global Chief Information Officer (CIO) and Executive Vice
President (EVP) at the Fortune 500 global insurance company American International Group (AIG). At AIG, he worked as a
part of the Executive Leadership Team and led AIG Technologies as Chairman of the Board of Directors. In these roles, he
guided global technology strategy, capabilities and operations for more than 65,000 employees within 120 countries, including
the USA, UK, Japan, as well as many in continental Europe, among others.
Fasano also served in many other key leadership roles at Fortune 500 companies. Prior to AIG, he served as CIO and EVP at
Kaiser Permanente (KP), the largest managed care organization in the United States. At Kaiser, his role had COO
responsibilities in addition to IT, successfully drive the turnaround of technology capabilities and overseeing all central
operations, including marketing, strategy, company vision and innovation. Described as the “Steve Jobs of Healthcare,” Fasano
is the author of Transforming Health Care: The Financial Impact of Technology, Electronic Tools, and Data Mining (2013, John
Wiley & Sons), a futurist perspective on how technology is transforming the healthcare industry and what it will mean for future
investors and entrepreneurs.
Before joining KP, Fasano served as Senior Vice President (SVP) and Chief Business Information Officer at Capital One, CIO
and SVP at J. P. Morgan Chase, CIO and EVP at Deutsche Financial Services, and Managing Director of Global Trading and
Private Banking at Bankers Trust, to name a few.
During his career, Fasano served on many Boards (member or peer) for innovative companies and organizations, including
Cisco Systems, Oracle, Sprint, Hewlett-Packard Company, CIO Strategy Exchange, Infoblox, NCIRE:The Veteran’s
Health Research Institute, Diamond Exchange and McKinsey & Company.
Under Fasano’s leadership, Kaiser’s IT initiatives received numerous awards, including upwards of ten Continuous Availability
Awards from Uptime Institute (a globally recognized advisory organization), four consecutive years from Computerworld for 100
Best Places to Work in IT and Top 12 Green-IT Organizations, and a Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society
(HIMSS) Davies Award, (the top award for healthcare IT excellence across all aspects of care delivery). While at AIG, Fasano
was awarded the CIO 100 Award for IT innovation that drives business results and the ACORD Case Study Award, an
internationally recognized insurance industry award for a business process improvement in data governance, standards, and
data risk. Fasano was inducted to the CIO Hall of Fame, the summer of 2017.
In his spare time, you will find Phil enjoying life with family and good friends. He lives in Virginia and Northern California with his wife, Judy and five adult children.