CONFERENCE SPEAKERS

Speakers
Joshua Kanter
Joshua Kanter
Chief Marketing Officer,
Encora

Joshua Kanter is an accomplished Chief Marketing Officer, experienced in leading the Marketing and Customer Experience functions across B2B and B2C businesses. As Encora’s CMO, Kanter is responsible for all aspects of the company’s customer engagement strategy, direct marketing strategy, digital consumer engagement, loyalty marketing, marketing technology, customer analytics and brand creative strategy. Kanter has previously served as the Chief Marketing Officer at PetSmart and International Cruise & Excursions, and Senior Vice President of Marketing Strategy at Caesars Entertainment. Earlier in his career, he was an Associate Partner at McKinsey & Company where he focused on the Loyalty Strategy and Customer Lifecycle Management practices in several service industries, including hospitality, financial services, telecommunications and retail.


Skyler King
Skyler King
Vice President of Sales - North America,
MarketsandMarkets

Skyler King is a VP of Sales in North America with MarketsandMarkets. He has a passion for helping companies understand and evaluate how new technologies like AR & VR are gaining traction, and how these advancements are creating change, challenge, and opportunity within their ecosystem.


Sandra Moran
Sandra Moran
Chief Marketing Oficer,
Workforce Software

Sandra Moran is the Chief Marketing Officer at Workforce Software where she leads the global marketing organization’s demand creation, brand, and go-to-market strategy. Sandra is a high impact marketing executive and transformational leader with a proven ability to formulate and execute marketing strategies that drive business growth. As a global-minded and enthusiastic leader, Sandra is experienced at developing a company’s capability to continually identify what customers value in order to uncover new areas of growth.


Analisa Dominic
Analisa Dominic
Chief Marketing Officer,
Opengear

Analisa Dominic is responsible for leading the global marketing organization within Opengear. With more than 30 years’ experience in the telecommunications industry, where she has held positions in sales, marketing, product development and management. A result focused leader, she specializes in developing creative, integrated go-to-market strategies to increase revenues of existing and new product portfolios.

Prior to working at Opengear, Analisa held marketing and product development management roles at Ericsson, Telstra Global, BT Global Services, AT&T and IBM. She has been instrumental in the development and deployment of several innovative, first-to-market products and applications, and has developed creative, integrated go-to-market strategies increasing revenues of existing and new product portfolios.

Analisa holds a Master of Science in Marketing with honors from Rochester Institute of Technology.


Randy Frisch
Randy Frisch
Chief Marketing Officer,
Uberflip

Frisch is the CMO and Co-Founder of Uberflip, a content experience platform that empowers marketers to create content experiences at every stage of the buyer’s journey. He has defined and led this movement, prompting marketers to think beyond content creation and truly put their customers first by focusing on the experience. This movement has fuelled an annual conference, Conex: The Content Experience, that brings together 750+ passionate marketers, and a North American-wide Conex Tour.


 Matthew Royse
Matthew Royse
Marketing Director,
Syntax

Matthew Royse is the marketing director for Syntax, a leading global managed cloud provider for mission-critical applications.

He is a creative, strategic, and visionary thinker with more than 20 years of marketing experience who can help a company successfully conceptualize, develop, and implement revenue marketing, digital marketing, and demand generation strategies and programs in a global, fast-paced, and unpredictable environment. Matthew has a track record of creating high-performing teams, successfully managing outside agencies, growing the brand, and building the sales pipeline. He can balance strategic thinking with execution.

Before Syntax, he was the director of marketing communications at Forsythe Technology, a Sirius Computer Solutions company, and served as a publicist at the National Geographic Channel in Washington, D.C. Matthew taught social media and digital marketing classes at Duke University


Kerry Desberg
Kerry Desberg
Chief Marketing Officer,
Impartner Software

Kerry Desberg joined Impartner in 2015 and leads the development and execution of the company's global marketing strategy. Desberg brings more than 30 years’ experience across the B-2-B and B-2-C marketing and communications spectrum to the CMO role and has worked with some of the world’s top Fortune 500 corporations and agencies, including Procter and Gamble, Owens Corning, Danaher and Lockheed Martin and Fleishman Hillard.

Desberg is widely known in the channel, having led the company’s presence at industry events worldwide throughout her tenure with the company. Desberg serves on The Channel Focus Women’s Leadership Council Advisory Board, and was recently recognized as one of CRN’s 2020 Women of the Channel and as Global CMO of the Year by Enterprise IT World, 2020.


Adam Bleibtreu
Adam Bleibtreu
Chief Marketing Officer,
ASGN

Bleibtreu is Chief Marketing Officer for both On Assignment, Inc. (ASGN), a leading provider of IT and professional services in the technology, digital, creative, fields across commercial and government sectors, and Creative Circle, a specialized staffing agency that makes hiring creative and marketing professionals easy. Bleibtreu’ s career has been classified as non-traditional. He has been a successful entrepreneur, Co-Founding Gas Station TV, one of the largest digital signage networks in North America. He also found success as a TV executive (supporting the launch of WB network and its shows), a fashion and footwear marketer and is an award-winning commercial director and documentarian.


Adam Morgan
Adam Morgan
Executive Creative Director,
Adobe

Adam Morgan is an Executive Creative Director at Adobe, with experience in creativity, strategy, and storytelling for 25 years. In 2020, AdWeek named him one of the “Creative 100”—the top inspiring creative minds in marketing, media, and culture—in the world. He’s the author of the book, “Sorry Spock, Emotion Drives Business,” that proves the value of creativity and design with hard science. He’s a keynote speaker at conferences and events on the topics of creative leadership and content creation. And the host of the video podcast, Real Creative Leadership, that offers inspiration and guidance on the day-to-day job of being a creative leader.


Lalit Wadhwa
Lalit Wadhwa
EVP & Chief Technology Officer,
Encora Inc.

Lalit Wadhwa is an accomplished engineer with over 25 years of wide-ranging experience in modern and emerging technologies. He is a recognized thought leader and frequent speaker on a wide range of important technology topics, including cloud adoption, data science, data products, AI and predictive analytics & digital services. 

As Executive Vice President & Chief Technology Officer, Lalit focuses on the use of advanced technical tools and methods in Encora’s client services while raising awareness of the company’s thought leadership through external speaking engagements. He co-leads Encora’s Technology Practices Areas, in support of the company’s sustained growth. Previously, Lalit was Vice President of Advanced Analytics at Wesco Distribution, where he was responsible for building the company’s data, advanced analytics & digital capabilities across supply chain & operations.


Damon Harrell
Damon Harrell
Vice President, Marketing,
Alkermes

Damon Harrell currently serves as Vice President of Marketing for the Psychiatry Franchise at Alkermes. With over 25 years of pharmaceutical experience, he has held a broad range of positions across multiple therapeutic areas, multiple geographies and product lifecycle responsibilities including new products, product launches, line extensions and patent expiration. Mr. Harrell sits on the board of the St. Francis House. He holds bachelor’s degrees from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.