Spotlights

Andy Blandford is a global executive who creates and executes strategies for industrial companies that grow sales and increase operating profitability. Andy has led start-ups, turnarounds and rapid growth for businesses around the world. He is a builder and leader of global, functionally diverse teams inspiring them to execute and deliver outstanding results.

Ron Pitcock has been a technology entrepreneur for over 40 years. He is an innovative tech and operations leader known as a “catalyst” experienced in consulting, internet, satellite, cellular, cable, wireless, for-profit and nonprofits. He has a history of turning around marginal operations, streamlining domestic and global units, and significant increases in profitability and ROI. He is currently a Partner for CyberRisk Solutions, LLC, which serves private & public companies, government and education institutions.

Marisa Santoro is an American career leadership trainer and confidence skills expert empowering professionals to move into higher levels of leadership roles across the corporate, healthcare, real estate, education, training, writing, music and coaching industries. She is a recognized keynote speaker serving Diversity and Cultural Inclusion Initiatives and Employee Resource Groups.

Danillo Figueiredo is an experienced Global Distribution and Operations executive. He has led global structures with teams allocated in different countries and different time zones. He has conducted successful mergers and acquisition integration leading logistics workstream, and he has delivered consistent results improvement as a distribution center general manager.

Claire Babineaux-Fontenot is an agile, high-impact leader with a record of building inclusive, high performing teams. She is an accomplished change agent with quantifiable evidence of business advantages and competitive differentiation.

Rich Lindahl is a highly accomplished business leader with an outstanding record of achievement as a financial officer of publicly-traded companies.

Harry Broadman’s thirty-five-year career has centered on identifying and structuring complex cross-border investment and trade transactions in emerging markets that incorporate innovative approaches to exploit first mover advantages and mitigate commercial and governance risks.

Susy Korb is a brand marketer who infuses business strategy with vision, creativity and innovation. Known as an energetic and enthusiastic leader, she establishes compelling narratives that create lasting emotional bonds. She is results oriented, agile and adept in a wide variety of working environments. Most recently, she was the Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) at TOMS, an apparel and fashion company. Here, she established a marketing strategy based on shared humanity, empathy and joy to unlock future growth.

Alan Starling is an innovative and goal-driven executive leader who builds teams and develops people to transform IT infrastructure and build operations that are grounded in effective process and skilled leadership. He possesses deep practical experience with IT security and risk management, technology strategy and transformation, high availability IT operations, organization development, and leadership development. He balances operational discipline and flexibility to respond to enterprise-wide business dynamics to deliver predictable, effective and efficient technology solutions. He is recognized as a turn-around strategist who can quickly diagnose problems and lead teams to immediate improvement.

Tadd Wilson is building a vertical brand and business for Arise Virtual Solutions as Vice President of Retail and e-Commerce. Arise’s platform blends crowdsourcing, brand affinity, and virtual technology to enhance customer experience across voice, email, live chat, text, and social media.