He brings a unique combination of Executive, Technical and Business acumen as a part of outcome based, proven track record. I am a practitioner of innovation and servant-leadership. He routinely interface with C-Suites and senior executives of Multi-national, Fortune 500 companies, including IBM. Client and IBM C-Suites look to me in helping them define innovation, strategy and vision. Recognized as a thought leader who has the foresight and ability to deliver strategic, multidimensional, and impactful innovation.
For over 15 years, Kiely has worked to help Fortune 100 and 500 companies, tech startups, social impact organizations, leading consultancies and universities to unlock human potential. She currently acts as Director of Innovation at Oracle Consulting and is co-founder of The Wild, an organization that facilitates connection, learning and growth for individuals, teams and organizations through unique experiences.
Pawan is part of the Strategy, Business Development and Operations team at IBM Watson Health’s Provider business. Prior to that Pawan spent 10 years with Thomson Reuters in the UK, US, and the Middle East. During his tenure he held positions in Finance, Sales, Corporate Development and Strategy. Pawan was a member of the team that initiated the Risk business at Thomson Reuters in 2008. He was eventually appointed as the Chief Strategy Officer of the business where he led several acquisitions and created new growth vectors. He then became the Managing Director of the Risk business for Africa, Russia and the Middle East. He is an alumni of The Georgia Institute of Technology and Georgia State University.
Scott Helfstein, PhD is the Head of Market Strategy and Thematic Portfolios at Morgan Stanley Wealth Management responsible for developing and communicating global investment advice as well as building and managing thematic portfolios. Scott is an Adjunct Scholar at the Modern War Institute at West Point and Senior Fellow at the Center for Cyber and Homeland Security at The George Washington University (GW). Before joining Morgan Stanley, Scott was Senior Investment Strategist in a global macro and relative value team at BNY Mellon Investment Management. He served as the Director of Research at West Point’s Combating Terrorism Center and as Assistant Professor in the Department of Social Science at the United States Military Academy from 2008 to 2014. He holds a Joint Doctorate in Public Policy and Political Science from the University of Michigan and a Master’s Degree in War Studies from King’s College, London. From 1999 to 2002, Scott was an investment banker at Credit Suisse First Boston. He also worked at the Federal Reserve Board of Governors from 1997 to 1999. Scott holds a Bachelor’s degree in Finance from GW, is a member of the Economic Club of New York, and was a Term Member in the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR).
Henry Bailey is the Chief Strategy Officer for Utegration LLC headquartered in Houston, TX. Bailey has more than 30 years tenure in the Utility Industry and in his current role, responsible for managing a team of Utility Solution Domain experts within North America. Responsibilities include solution and product strategy, roadmap alignment and go-to-market strategies for the utility market. From 2005 – 2018, Bailey worked for SAP and was the Global Vice President for the Utilities practice when retiring from SAP in September of 2018. Prior to SAP, Bailey was the Global Managing Director for Data Systems & Solutions, a department of Rolls Royce. Bailey is an inventor with several patents for the nuclear industry and a published author on business strategies with extensive background around customer systems, enterprise asset management, smart grid and electric vehicle charging within the Utility Industry sector. Bailey holds a BS in Computer Information Science and Robotics.
Omar Halaby heads Strategic Market Insights for the Siemens Healthineers USA commercial organization focused on driving knowledge awareness, generating actionable insights and penetrating new customer segments across Diagnostic Imaging, Lab Diagnostics, Enterprise/Digital Services, and Therapies. He leads a team that captures the key market and customer events of relevance in the USA (e.g. Partnerships/M&A, Policy/Clinical/Sites of care) and provides insightful suggestions, including marketing approaches, product launch preparedness, competitive positioning, new customer categories, etc. With a focus on external data, his team also spearheads external data visualization needs, such as market share, market trends, and install base, often using advanced visualization software. His background includes Strategic M&A pipeline management across the whole of the Siemens Healthineers Healthcare portfolio as well as Strategic Finance for the Diagnostic Division. Before joining Siemens, Omar worked for several years with small to midsized businesses in the Healthcare, Real Estate, and Banking Sectors, in various Corporate/Business Development, functions. He started his career at the Citibank Private Bank at their NYC Headquarters. He has over 10 years of healthcare experience.
Dr. Bill Mitchell is President and CEO of Aguila, a Foxconn company, and VP of Business Operations
- Americas for the Foxconn Corporation. He is known for his success in helping develop organizations with value-based cultures through exceptionable strategic planning. Over the past 25 years, Bill has worked with more than 500 corporations and organizations, helping develop best of breed practices to provide long-term success. He has served as the executive coach and corporate psychologist for many current leading corporations and provides unique insights in the development of policy, process and people that serve as a catalyst for systematic sustainable growth. Over 30 years of professional public speaking, Bill has motivated audiences in 47 states and 5 continents. He has designed and presented training in the areas of teamwork, ethics and leadership, communication, corporate culture and many more. Dr. Mitchell’s unique conversational style and subtle humor allow him to instruct, inspire, and impact audiences from all walks of life.
Senior business development manager, ten years engaged directly on the telecommunications
industry but also proactively involved and experienced in retail, manufacturing and healthcare industries. More than 15 years focused on helping businesses improving their business through technology and achieve their Digital Transformation objectives. Tania is a Senior Manager at Microsoft and previously worked for companies like Google and Gemalto, helping customers drive successful business strategies.
For the last 20+ years, Rick has led teams of experts to assist his clients tackle tough growth challenges in the face of accelerating and transformational change. He specializes in ensuring his clients optimize their investment and ultimately make the best possible business decisions related to their future revenue mix. MarketsandMarkets’s™ flagship competitive intelligence and market research platform, “Knowledge Store”, connects over 200,000 markets and entire value chains for a deeper understanding of the shifting revenue mix of our clients’ customers and their customers’ customers.
Parisa is currently heading the marketing in the Danish company DecideAct. DecideAct is a SAS software that helps enterprises implement their strategies more effectively and successfully. Over 18 years,
Parisa has started and grown several companies mainly in the health and wellness industry. She was a finalist for the TechCrunch ‘Best CEO 2016 Award` for her role as the CEO of WatchFit. Parisa has experienced building teams in multiple geographical locations and understands the difficulties in maintaining alignment in the organization, especially when facing cross-cultural challenges and barriers. She strongly believes that without the right processes in place for communication flow, failure is inevitable. This includes teams on all levels not only believing in the vision but also understanding how their work is contributing to the company’s strategy and ultimately its success.
David is the Regional lead for Americas and member of the Executive Leadership Team at DNV - the world leader in the TIC industry - providing clients with highly technical professional inspection, certification and advisory services with more than $3 bn in annual revenues and 15,000 employees around the world. David has responsibility for the North America and LATAM markets focusing on Supply chain, Product assurance, Healthcare and Digital solutions. Throughout his career, David has developed a special passion to not only design winning strategies, but also to work hard in ensuring their seamless implementation and execution. He had worked both at market, regional and HQ levels in several regions across the world with a wealth of multi-functional leadership experiences across several verticals. David received his MBA from The George Washington University, enjoys running and reading about science.
Timothy J. Galpin became the Assistant Director for Programs of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory on December 15, 2010. In addition to overseeing all government-sponsored technical work, he serves as Chief Strategy Officer as well as the Chief Quality Officer. Dr. Galpin chairs the internal Investment Strategy Team, which aligns resources to strategy at the enterprise level, as well as providing portfolio oversight across the Laboratory’s twelve mission areas. Dr. Galpin earned a Bachelor of Science
degree from the United States Naval Academy, a Master of Arts degree from Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar, and a Ph.D. from the University Of Maryland Baltimore County. He holds certificates in management from the University of Virginia and in national security from Harvard’s Kennedy School and
MIT Seminar XXI. He writes on defense and banking issues and serves on both nonprofit boards and federal advisory panels in acquisition and technology.
At MarketsandMarkets, Shekhar Gupta is leading US Central region and managing global client relationship for key strategic accounts with a focus on building and growing client services group. Shekhar has 20 years of consulting experience at various executive levels spanning from Technology Delivery, Business Development and Account Management, and has worked with client’s leadership across key business verticals in Finance, Insurance, Resources, Retail and Healthcare. Before joining MarketsandMarkets, Shekhar was Client Executive at Avanade (Accenture & Microsoft JV) leading Midwest region accounts. Shekhar is passionate about Customer Service Excellence through building strong client relationships and driving business value for both client and company.
Vijay Khera heads Client Services for MarketsandMarkets with a charter to build a deeper understanding of the clients and their business and ensure they gain maximum value from their engagement with MarketsandMarkets. In this role, Vijay and his team manages various research and consulting engagements with clients across US, Europe and the rest of the world. Prior to this, Vijay held leadership positions with Mu Sigma Inc, a big data analytics and decision sciences company; GlobalLogic, a digital product engineering services company and Infosys Technologies. Vijay has over 22 years of rich experience playing client and market-facing roles, building cross-cultural teams across global locations and running business operations
In his role as Chief Strategy Officer, Chris develops and drives the company’s global strategic initiatives, Intelligent Automation (IA) thought leadership and cross-functional horizontal integration. Chris is intently focused on helping clients realize maximum return on investment by seamlessly integrating and delivering a single unified IA platform that leverages the vast array of intellectual property in the Kofax portfolio to include Robotic Process Automation (RPA), advanced capture, intelligent-optical character recognition (I-OCR), machine learning, advanced analytics and workflow orchestration. Integrating these capabilities into a single unified IA platform provides clients a true Digital Workforce that adds capacity without headcount. This enterprise approach drives future IA platform features and strategic alliances centered on ensuring the security of the platform and client data, supporting scalability and sustainment and maintaining an open platform that promotes easy integration with Cognitive and Machine Learning solutions to accelerate client adoption of Artificial Intelligence.
Mr. Ajoy C. Mahtab is the Worldwide VP of Marketing at Becton, Dickinson and Company, a medical technology company that is improving medical discovery, diagnostics and the delivery of care. As a leader in patient and healthcare worker safety and technologies that enable medical research and clinical laboratories, the company provides innovative solutions that help advance medical research and genomics, enhance the diagnosis of infectious disease and cancer, improve medication management, promote infection prevention, equip surgical and interventional procedures and support the management of diabetes.
With an MBA from Kellogg Graduate School of Management and over 20 years of extensive Healthcare and packaged goods marketing and sales experience, Ajoy has the privilege of helping 50,000 associates in over 50 countries strive to fulfill BD's purpose of “Advancing the World of Health” by improving the quality, accessibility, safety and affordability of healthcare around the world.
Flemming Videriksen founder and CEO of DecideAct. Flemming has for more than 25 years been a strategic and trusted advisor to top organizational leaders around the world. His specialties are strategy implementation & design, leadership, and cultural change. He is an experienced CEO and entrepreneur.
He is committed to end years of stagnation in the executive suite and modernize leadership through technology. Ensuring strategic governance through powerful technology to support alignment, engagement, and strategy implementation. He is a philosopher at heart, though a very action-oriented one. Flemming has over the decades, experienced both success and falling to the ground. These experiences, good and bad, have sharpened his business acumen considerably. He is straightforward and to the point, and focus is always to decide and then act upon it. If there’s an elephant in the room he’ll address it. Flemming is fully committed to making strategy walk the talk.
Shailendra Singh (Shelly) is a member of MarketsandMarket's board. He focuses on global sales and client services functions, as well as commercial optimization at MarketsandMarkets. He has years of expe¬rience in global delivery and outsourcing sector in the IT/ Consulting/Analytics/Big Data sectors. Prior to MnM, he was leading the global sales, client services and commercial ef¬fectiveness functions for Mu Sigma, a unicorn company and a leading global provider of Decision Sciences and Big Data analytics solutions.
Babak Roushanaee is Director of Enterprise Strategy at NETSCOUT. He is responsible for assessing the impact of new technologies and processes, make recommendations to the business on strategy alignment, and develop best practices for field and internal adoption. In his role, he closely works with the C-Suite, Strategic Planning, Product Management, Corporate Development, the CISO and the CIO.
Babak is an active member of the Open Networking User Group’s Monitoring and Analytics (M&A) working group where he has held the co-chair position. He has been the editor of content for M&A working group since its inception.
Prior to NETSCOUT, Babak has spent the better part of two decades in Principal Architect and Service Delivery Management roles at CA Technologies, HP Software, Verizon, and JPMorganChase. His consulting work spans roughly ten percent of fortune 500 and some of the largest government agencies on the topics of performance engineering, capacity planning, enterprise management, security, and compliance. Mr. Roushanaee holds a B.S. EE from Northeastern and M.Eng. EE from Cornell Universities both in Electrical Engineering and was the recipient of a National Science Foundation Fellowship.
Jason Born is the innovation lead for Emerson’s Cold Chain business at The Helix Innovation Center. In his role, he seeks to harness the collective creativity within The Helix to drive business breakthroughs that disrupt the HVACR industry.
Prior to Emerson, Jason was an innovation catalyst for Procter & Gamble at the Clay Street Project, an innovation lab that worked across a broad range of businesses including Tide, Charmin, Gucci, and Pringles. As a practitioner of innovation, he has partnered with leaders on tough business challenges, from organizational design to product development and marketing strategy.
Before the Clay Street Project, he was an award-winning industrial designer in the consumer goods and health care industries. He has guided human-centered designs that have impacted consumers and business profits alike. His experience as an industrial designer has been vital in helping business leaders creatively shift thinking and drive change within their organizations and brands.
Jason graduated from the college of DAAP at the University of Cincinnati with a degree in industrial design.
Jason Born is the innovation lead for Emerson’s Cold Chain business at The Helix Innovation Center. In his role, he seeks to harness the collective creativity within The Helix to drive business breakthroughs that disrupt the HVACR industry.
Prior to Emerson, Jason was an innovation catalyst for Procter & Gamble at the Clay Street Project, an innovation lab that worked across a broad range of businesses including Tide, Charmin, Gucci, and Pringles. As a practitioner of innovation, he has partnered with leaders on tough business challenges, from organizational design to product development and marketing strategy.
Before the Clay Street Project, he was an award-winning industrial designer in the consumer goods and health care industries. He has guided human-centered designs that have impacted consumers and business profits alike. His experience as an industrial designer has been vital in helping business leaders creatively shift thinking and drive change within their organizations and brands.
Jason graduated from the college of DAAP at the University of Cincinnati with a degree in industrial design.
Matthew Gold serves as Chief Strategy Officer for Cars.com. In this position, Gold is responsible for the strategic direction of the company, including overall strategy, business development / strategic partnerships, and management of Cars.com’s network properties. Working with all functions within the business, Gold’s focus is implementing consonant strategies that explore new areas for growth.
Gold joined Cars.com in 2018 from Alphabet, where he was most recently Head of Strategy & Operations for YouTube’s Emerging Markets Product Partnerships organization. In that role he helped increase penetration of YouTube into its next billion users. Previously, he served on the leadership team for Google Consumer Surveys, where he helped build a two-sided marketplace for an emerging market research business within the Alphabet ecosystem. Gold began his career as a consultant at McKinsey & Company, where he advised Fortune 500 companies and private equity funds on strategy, operations, and organizational design issues. He was also a Fellow at the McKinsey Global Institute.
Bryan Reid is a Senior Director of Enterprise Architecture for CA Technologies - A Broadcom Company. His focus is to leverage "Design Thinking" to synthesize Corporate Strategy, Agility, and Innovation - underpinned by driving Digital and Agile Management Transformations, so business outcomes are accelerated. He brings over 20 years of global experience, having worked for Motorola Solutions (e.g., Digital Justice), Time Warner Cable - Wireless (e.g., New Product Development), and CA Technologies - "Modern Software Factory." Bryan previously held positions as VP - Customer Experience (CX) & Innovation and VP - Product Management for Program & Project Management, where he is considered a Subject Matter Expert (SME) and thought-leader. He is an alumnus of The University of Georgia.
Stephen Wilson has a rich history of innovation in Medical Technology & Expert Systems. He is currently the Senior Director of Global Strategic Innovation for Hologic Inc. In this role, his team oversees the front-end funnel of Ideation for all six franchises of the Breast & Skeletal Health Division which include: Screening Systems, Interventional Platforms, Skeletal, Connected Services, Ultrasound and Breast Surgery. Over twenty-five years of experience in Medical Technology and numerous roles from Principal Engineer to Program Management and the Managing Director of a Center of Excellence in Singapore have given Stephen a profound appreciation for the priceless value of the Voice of the Customer. He coaches Marketing & Technology leadership teams to Think Bigger and to constantly iterate and strive for commercializing “Insight Driven Innovations”.
Julie Hall is known for helping the most admired companies and brands in the world create new ways to launch products, connect with consumers, communicate complicated issues, adopt innovative business practices, increase sales, or deal with crises or issues. A recovering Agency-side executive, Hall spent most of her 25 year career in leadership positions at global advertising and public relations firms. She was most recently General Manager of global public relations agency Weber Shandwick. She currently dedicates her time to gender pay equity and women's empowerment and leadership development through her work with The Commonwealth Institute and other leadership board organizations.
Dr. Rajni Aneja is a Connection Science Fellow, health care strategist, public speaker, transformative change agent with expertise in population health management and digital health. She serves as an advisor to variety of health and wellness organizations. Dr. Aneja encompasses various vantage points as a clinician, executive, advisor, entrepreneur, speaker and technology advocate serving in senior leadership roles like chief medical officer for WebMD health, EVP of Joslin and strategic executive, transformation leader at Humana and most recently contributed to build digital consumer strategy at Novartis. Dr. Aneja is spreading the vision for strategy and innovation across different spectrums of health care Dr. Aneja received her MD from Research Medical Center in Kansas City and MBA from University of Massachusetts.
Shwen is co-founder and GM/Head of Open Innovation for the Novartis Biome -- a digital innovation lab powered by Novartis. He brings over a decade of experience leading digital strategy and driving innovation in commercial, communications, and clinical organizations, both on the client-side and at leading creative agencies. Shwen is a recognized pioneer in digital health and social pharma, as well as a well-respected industry thought-leader who was named a Top 40 “Healthcare Transformer” by MM&M in 2015 and a PR Week and MM&M "Health Influencer 50" in 2017 & 2018. He sits on various advisory boards, including: Google (Healthcare), SXSW (Health), MM&M Healthcare Transformers, conversationHEALTH and the Digital Health Coalition.
Scott Helfstein, PhD is the Head of Market Strategy and Thematic Portfolios at Morgan Stanley Wealth Management responsible for developing and communicating global investment advice as well as building and managing thematic portfolios. Scott is an Adjunct Scholar at the Modern War Institute at West Point and Senior Fellow at the Center for Cyber and Homeland Security at The George Washington University (GW). Before joining Morgan Stanley, Scott was Senior Investment Strategist in a global macro and relative value team at BNY Mellon Investment Management. He served as the Director of Research at West Point’s Combating Terrorism Center and as Assistant Professor in the Department of Social Science at the United States Military Academy from 2008 to 2014. He holds a Joint Doctorate in Public Policy and Political Science from the University of Michigan and a Master’s Degree in War Studies from King’s College, London. From 1999 to 2002, Scott was an investment banker at Credit Suisse First Boston. He also worked at the Federal Reserve Board of Governors from 1997 to 1999. Scott holds a Bachelor’s degree in Finance from GW, is a member of the Economic Club of New York, and was a Term Member in the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR).
Pawan is part of the Strategy, Business Development and Operations team at IBM Watson Health’s Provider business. Prior to that Pawan spent 10 years with Thomson Reuters in the UK, US, and the Middle East. During his tenure he held positions in Finance, Sales, Corporate Development and Strategy. Pawan was a member of the team that initiated the Risk business at Thomson Reuters in 2008. He was eventually appointed as the Chief Strategy Officer of the business where he led several acquisitions and created new growth vectors. He then became the Managing Director of the Risk business for Africa, Russia and the Middle East. He is an alumni of The Georgia Institute of Technology and Georgia State University.
For over 15 years, Kiely has worked to help Fortune 100 and 500 companies, tech startups, social impact organizations, leading consultancies and universities to unlock human potential. She currently acts as Director of Innovation at Oracle Consulting and is co-founder of The Wild, an organization that facilitates connection, learning and growth for individuals, teams and organizations through unique experiences.
He brings a unique combination of Executive, Technical and Business acumen as a part of outcome based, proven track record. I am a practitioner of innovation and servant-leadership. He routinely interface with C-Suites and senior executives of Multi-national, Fortune 500 companies, including IBM. Client and IBM C-Suites look to me in helping them define innovation, strategy and vision. Recognized as a thought leader who has the foresight and ability to deliver strategic, multidimensional, and impactful innovation.
