Maria Azua | Senior Vice President, Distributed Hosting Services at Fidelity Investments
Maria Azua is currently the Senior Vice President, Distributed Hosting Services for Fidelity Investments, the second largest mutual fund and financial services group in the world. She is responsible for end-to-end IT infrastructure services related to Cloud, Physical Infrastructure, Virtualized Servers, Storage, Network, Data Centers, Databases, Middleware, Web Services, IT operations and Level 3 support. Her team consists of around 300 associates in the US, 300 associates in India, and a small team in Ireland.
Dr. Pamela Drew | Senior Aerospace and Defense Executive
Dr. Pamela (Pam) Drew is a globally focused P&L executive with a distinguished and progressive career path that includes top-level executive positions with world-class aerospace and defense companies. She is a highly accomplished and respected business leader with a proven track record of successfully leading businesses of large scale and complexity, with as many as 8,000 employees and annual business volume of up to $3 billion in annual revenue.
Robert Gehorsam | Partner at Valence Ventures | Business Development at ustwo
Robert Gehorsam is an advisor to early stage companies in digital media, ed-tech, games, Internet of Things and related fields, and consults with clients such as the US Air Force’s eSchool, University of Texas and the MIT Media Lab on learning technology, Science of Learning applications and strategy. He is also a venture partner with NYC-based Valence Ventures and serves on the Advisory Board of the George Lucas Educational Foundation’s research division. For over 30 years, he has led organizations that are breaking new ground in games, educational technology, and digital media.
Lisa Haynes | Chief Financial Officer at Mortgage Bank Association
Lisa Haynes is an accomplished finance and accounting executive with over 30 years’ successful experience in both large and small companies. She is a strong leader with a proven ability to build high performing teams, lead through change and deliver results.
Elevating Cybersecurity on the Boardroom Agenda – Is Your Board Engaged?
GCA Studios Presents GCA Host Jay R. Taylor, CEO of EagleNext Advisors who previously created Strategic Risk Management for General Motors Company’s CEO and Board. In the second of a series of one-to-one interviews, Jay highlights ways in which Game Changers are helping Boards and senior executives think differently about business risk and the role that effective governance and oversight plays in achieving profitability, growth and other strategic objectives. In Episode 2, Jay interviews Hira Advani on the ways in which the Board can challenge management in a constructive way to have them create a program that is more tightly aligned with its business risk profile. This is critical to Board and Company effectiveness.
Don Lopes | Retired IBM Vice President and General Manager | Current Advisor, Interim Executive, and Board Member
Don Lopes has over thirty years in the International and Technology field including General Manager level assignments in enterprise sales, business development, consulting, offering and market development, Profit & Loss (P&L) management, and operational management. Mr. Lopes has extensive experience working with CEO and C-level executives on transformation, re-engineering, information technology systems, and processes; enabling their businesses to improve operational results and grow revenue faster than the competition.
Congratulations Tadd Wilson on joining ShopRunner as Vice President, Business Development
Game Change Agency offers their congratulations to GCA Member, Game Changer Tadd Wilson on joining ShopRunner earlier this year as Vice President, Business Development!
Jason Gartner | Vice President of Aspera at IBM
Jason Gartner is an exceptional leader that combines business, strategy, and technology. His core strengths are in combining strategic investment and innovation while building new businesses and modern large-scale development. He is an aggressive transformational leader that pushes boundaries of traditional thinking and building new processes and business lines that focus on providing technologies for customers through direct and indirect engagement.
Congratulations to Lonne Jaffe on his role as Managing Director for Insight Venture Partners
Game Change Agency offers their congratulations to GCA Member, Game Changer Lonne Jaffe on his role as Managing Director for Insight Venture Partners!
Jocelyn Greenky | CEO and Founder of Sider Road Media | Office Culture, Politics & Diversity Expert
Jocelyn Greenky Herz honed her craft from her days as a senior executive at some of the world’s biggest names in media and consumer goods such as Hachette Filipacchi, Philip Morris, and Wenner Media to co-founding and leading companies as CEO or COO such as the international design and event firm, Colin Cowie Enterprises, SiderRoad Media and start-up BriteBean Technology.