Adolf Allesch | Founder and CEO of Emergence Advisors LLC
Adolf Allesch, for 25 years, has specialized in enabling modern business processes and designing delivery innovation for Big 5 Consulting Firms as a consultant, partner and practice leader. Adolf’s expertise culminates from past Global SAP Enterprise Transformation Executive and Consulting Practice Leader Roles at IBM, Capgemini, Ernst & Young, Deloitte Consulting and EDS.
Michael Radziemski | Global Chief Information Officer
Michael Radziemski is a strategic and operational technology leader in the global financial services industry with a highly successful career working in high profile banking, insurance, and investment management firms. He has been able to bring consistent value to enterprises through his broad technology expertise and by playing a key role in technology strategy and the overall strategic planning process as a business partner to the CEO and member of the senior management team. Mr. Radziemski has effectively executed on strategy by investing in internal technology structures to enable high growth business models, as well as by prudently scaling back in order to survive in crises environments. He has gained high-level exposure to the merger and acquisition (M&A) process in his work with Citibank and Bankers Trust and deep international market perspective setting up a global technology organization at Citibank.
Jeff Russakow | Transformational CEO, Executive, and Board Member
Jeff Russakow is a transformational executive officer with over 20 years of operating and general management experience across the enterprise, mid-market, and consumer tech segments; across software, the internet/digital media, communications, and hardware. Recently, Jeff was the Chief Executive Officer at Gimbal and has had deep experience in public companies, growth and private equity mid-caps, and venture-backed start-ups, as a general manager and as a leader in the global field, service, operations, and product organizations.
Andrew Anker | Experienced Asia Pacific Technology Transformational Executive
Andrew Anker is an experienced Senior leader driving business transformation through innovative technology adoption and addressing cyber security agenda across the Asia Pacific region. With over 25 years’ experience managing cross-functional teams geographically dispersed across Asia Pacific, Mr. Anker drives change in a positive way within different cultures and industries.
Jim Routh | Chief Security Officer at Aetna
Jim Routh is the Chief Security Officer and leads the Global Security function for Aetna, one of the nation’s leading diversified health care benefits companies, serving an estimated 46.7 million people. He was formerly the Global Head of Application & Mobile Security for JP Morgan Chase. Prior to that he was the CISO for KPMG, DTCC and American Express and has over 30 years of experience in information technology and information security as a practitioner, management consultant and leader of technology, analytic and information security functions for global firms.
Pranav Patel | Global Business Leader, Entrepreneur and Board Member
Pranav Patel is a results-driven Executive with strong background in growth acceleration, business transformation, and change leadership. He’s a dynamic and curious leader with experiences in product, services and software (SaaS) businesses across multiple industries including Healthcare, Aviation, Energy, Batteries, Manufacturing & Automation Systems, and Wireless / Semiconductor. Mr. Patel possesses a strong international background, including Board membership in an Asian-based company.
Gary Burnette | Vice President of Enterprise Data Integration (Chief Data Office) at IBM
Gary Burnette has worked in IBM for over twenty-five years in a broad range of roles including software development, product management, product marketing, IT business/financial operations and IT transformation.
Wayne Morris | Chief Marketing Officer at Skytap
Wayne Morris is an energetic, disciplined, and innovative strategic thinker with experience leading within growth-oriented businesses. He is a successful Chief Executive of a global public company and the founding CEO of a software start-up with extensive international and multi-discipline experience. Mr. Morris is an active executive in multiple M&A transactions and an excellent communicator able to relate to and influence colleagues, customers, partners, board members and industry advisors.
Pat Toole | Senior Integration Executive at The Weather Company, an IBM Business
Pat Toole is a high-performing Executive with 23 years of executive management experience. He has in-depth knowledge of applying information technology to transform businesses. Pat consistently delivers shareholder value by focusing on a superior client experience delivered by engaged employees.
Eric Kuisch | Geschäftsführer Technik (CTO) at Vodafone Germany
Dr. Eric B. Kuisch joined the Vodafone Germany Board in October 2013, reporting to the CEO.
Eric leads complex business transformations and delivers sustainable results in a high-pressure, competitive environment by shaping and accelerating multi-focus teams to achieve their best performance with ambitious but achievable goals, both collectively as well as individually. Highlights in his career proving this capability were the introduction of 3G and 4G and IT Transformation at KPN, as well as the recent post-merger integration of Kabel Deutschland after their acquisition by Vodafone Germany.