CONFERENCE SPEAKERS

Speakers
Alex Jimenez
Alex Jimenez
Chief Strategy Officer,
Extractable

Alex is Chief Strategy Officer at Extractable, a digital strategy, design, and data analytics consultancy focused on the future of financial services. His other recent experience includes leading technology strategic planning for the office of the CIO, at Zions Bancorporation, and managing Digital Banking and Payments Strategy and Innovation at Rockland Trust. He served as the Chair of the Consumer Bankers Association’s Digital Channel Committee, where I worked with Digital Banking leaders in the industry and visited Capitol Hill to meet with the Senate’s Banking Committee staff. His other experience includes positions in operations, program and project management, strategy development and implementation, business process improvement, marketing, and voice of the customer. I've worked at Zions Bancorporation, Rockland Trust, Bank of America, FleetBoston Financial, and Cigna Insurance.


Jeannette Spaulding
Jeannette Spaulding
Founder & CEO,
Strategy Everyday

Jeannette Spaulding is the Founder of Strategy Every Day, a consulting practice that develops game-changing strategies for growth-stage companies. She has spent her career leveraging a strategic mindset in order to tackle complex problems across a variety of industries, with a particular focus on financial technology. Most recently, she served as Vice President, Integration Technology at BNY Mellon and as Vice President within the Chief Operating Office of Bank of America’s Global Banking and Markets Technology division. Prior to that, she researched and developed multi-asset investment strategies for institutional investors at BlackRock. Her forward-thinking perspective enables her to drive innovation and new practices within any kind of organization.


Hemang Dave
Hemang Dave
Chief Architect and CTO,
IBM Services, North America

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.


David Tellez
David Tellez
Regional Lead Americas,
DNV GL

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.


Sanjay Bakshi
Sanjay Bakshi
Head of Program ,
Shell E4 Startup hub

Presently, heading Digital Innovation,Transformation and Data strategy for Asia Pacific. experience in agile design thinking business modelling and deployment. Experience in Digital Transformation and business consulting across all technology driven business models. E-commerce, incubating startup ventures, AI, IOT and business led Digital consulting and strategy road map for Asia pacific region. Extensive experience in global account P&L management, new business setup for emerging markets(India, China & SEA), international supply chain economics & value creation, Business Strategy, Divestment and Acquisition, Asset Integrity/growth of Retail network ,Proficient in large multi-million dollar deal design and delivery, Business Development of emerging International markets. Marketing (ATL & BTL), Oil manufacturing/blending model creation for South Asia markets, Retail Strategy & Operation management, Route to market alternative channel strategy.


Devyn Smith
Devyn Smith
Chief Executive Officer,
Arbor Biotechnologies


Ross Sleight
Ross Sleight
Chief Strategy Officer,
Somo Global

Ross is a Chief Strategy Officer at Somo and a true digital strategist. He’s fascinated by the relationship between the exponential growth of digital technology, the adoption and evolution of customer behavior and the transformation of business to adapt to these new landscapes. He has spent 25 years immersed in digital as the world has evolved from desktop to social to mobile to AR, VR, AI and beyond. 

Ross has been a founding member of six influential digital businesses including Somo, Virgin Games and Tribal DDB. He helped develop the first digital property for 10 Downing Street and has advised the Department for Culture, Media and Sport on interactive media development. He’s won numerous creative and effectiveness awards for digital strategy and been repeatedly voted in the top 100 digerati and top 50 in mobile by The Drum.

Today, as Chief Strategy Officer at Somo, one of the fastest-growing digital product agencies in the UK, he advises global brands such as Audi, Vodafone and Siemens Financial Services on solving business challenges from a truly customer-first perspective. He’s also an advisory board member to start-ups and scale-ups including inploi, yodomo, Molzi and OneQuestion, and a trustee of Compton Verney Gallery and Park. This allows Ross to apply corporate, cultural and entrepreneurial lenses to digital transformation strategies.


Barry Hoffman
Barry Hoffman
Chief Strategy Officer ,
ZeroLight

Barry Hoffman is currently Chief Strategy Officer at ZeroLight. ZerolIght is the leading cloud visualization platform for marketing and sales with clients ranging from global leaders like the VW Group  and BRP next to strong challengers like Lucid Motors. At ZeroLight the CSO manages to provide a continuous stream of innovations, world’s first and mutual value by combining its own unique proposition with strategic partners and lighthouse customers. Barry Hoffman worked for 23 years in multiple markets ranging from Telecommunications, Entertainment & Gaming next to automotive. Starting out in Data Science in the late 90s with senior roles at IBM and Orange, he combined his passion for startups, gaming and community building through three multi million dollar gaming platforms before joining ZeroLight.


Chris Huff
Chris Huff
Chief Growth Officer,
Kofax, Washington D.C

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.


Nabomita Dutta
Nabomita Dutta
Senior Director, Corporate Strategy and Business Development ,
Teladoc Health, Inc.

Nabomita Dutta is a Senior Director at Teladoc Health, the world's largest virtual care company where she focuses on corporate strategy and business development. She came to Teladoc via its $18.5 Billion merger with Livongo, the largest digital health deal of all time. She has deep experience at the intersection of healthcare and technology via prior roles at UnitedHealth Group, Oscar Health, and Uber Health leading strategy and partnerships, and consulting engagements with CVS Health and Kaiser Permanente. Nabomita received an MBA from the University of Michigan and Bachelors degrees from U.C. Berkeley.


Rishi Bhardawaj
Rishi Bhardawaj
SVP & Chief Operating Officer ,
PCTEL

Rishi is Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer for PCTEL, responsible for the company’s engineering, product line management, manufacturing, and supply chain functions. Previously, he served as Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Connected Solutions business, which included PCTEL’s antenna products and related wireless product development capabilities. Previously, he led Connected Solutions sales, strategic development, and product management and the company’s patent licensing efforts. Prior to PCTEL, Rishi held several RF and software engineering roles, developing data collection and data analytics tools for the cellular industry at SAFCO Technologies and Agilent Technologies, which acquired SAFCO.


Shekhar Gupta
Shekhar Gupta
Geography Head-US,
MarketsandMarkets

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.