2021 P&G Alumni Network Global Conference

On the 12th & 13th of November 2021 the global P&G Alumni Network celebrates its 20th anniversary by bringing together the world’s top thinkers and doers in a dialogue with thousands of P&G Alumni and global P&G leaders.From the stage at P&G headquarters we will present the most innovative global, hybrid online conference in the world and we are inviting you to be a key part of the event.

Join us and get a chance to interact directly with some of the most dynamic thinkers and most successful business leaders in the world.

Announced Speakers

David Taylor

Executive Chairman of the Board, Procter & Gamble

David Taylor is P&G’s Chairman of the Board, President and Chief Executive Officer. He is a proven leader with over 40 years of experience across many of P&G’s core categories and markets. He and P&G’s leadership team are driving the transformation of P&G to return the company to sustainable, balanced growth and value creation.

David Taylor

Executive Chairman of the Board, Procter & Gamble

Prior to becoming CEO, he was group president of P&G’s Global Beauty, Grooming and Health Care sectors with a portfolio of leading brands such as Crest, Oral-B, Head & Shoulders, Olay, Pantene, SK-II, Gillette, Fusion, Mach 3 and Vicks. He also led P&G’s Family Care and Home Care businesses, both of which delivered consistent profit and sales growth under his leadership.

Taylor spent the first decade of his career in P&G’s Product Supply organization where he managed production and operations at a number of plants. His time in Product Supply gave him broad experience in manufacturing, logistics, engineering and supply chain operations. His track record of rigorous operational excellence is grounded in these pivotal early assignments.

In the early 1990s, Taylor transferred to P&G brand management, where he helped build many of the company’s core businesses including Baby Care, Family Care, Hair Care and Home Care.

He has led global businesses, living and working in North America, Europe and Asia. In addition, Taylor serves on the Board of Directors of Delta Air Lines, and he serves as the Chairman of The Alliance to End Plastic Waste, a CEO-led, cross value chain initiative to advance solutions to eliminate unmanaged plastic waste in the environment. He also serves on the boards of the U.S.-China Business Council, the Business Roundtable, the Consumer Goods Forum, and Catalyst. He is a member of the Board of Visitors at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business. Earlier in his career, Taylor was vice chair of the Greater China Quality Brand Protection Committee, a collaboration among top companies and the Chinese government.

Finally, Taylor is passionate about addressing food insecurity in the US. For eight years, he served on the Board for Feeding America, including two years as board chair. He continues to serve as a member of the Cincinnati Freestore Foodbank.

Rhonda V. Magee

Professor of Law, Mindfulness Teacher, and Multiracial Justice Educator/Advocate

Called by some the mother of the movement to integrate mindfulness, multicultural education and racial justice efforts, Rhonda V. Magee, M.A., J.D., is Professor of Law at the University of San Francisco, and has spent more than twenty years exploring the intersections of anti-racist education, social justice, and contemplative practices.

Rhonda V. Magee

Professor of Law, Mindfulness Teacher, and Multiracial Justice Educator/Advocate

She is an internationally sought-after public speaker, mindfulness teacher, practice innovator, storyteller, and thought leader on integrating Mindfulness into Higher Education, Law and Social Justice.

A student of a range of Buddhist traditions and a Fellow of the Mind and Life Institute, she has served as an advisor to a range of leading mindfulness-based professional development organizations, including the Mind and Life Institute, the University of Massachusetts Center for Mindfulness and the Center for Contemplative Mind in Society.

Magee’s award-winning book, “The Inner Work of Racial Justice: Healing Ourselves and Transforming Our Communities Through Mindfulness” (2019), was named one of the top ten books released for the year by the Greater Good Science Center and received similar recognition by Psychology Today and the editors of Mindful.org.

Paul Polman

Co-Founder and Co-Chair, IMAGINE

Paul Polman is co-founder and co-chair of IMAGINE. He was the CEO of Unilever (2009-2019) and a member of the UN Secretary General’s High-Level Panel, which developed the Sustainable Development Goals. As an active SDG Advocate, he continues to work with global organizations and across industry to push the 2030 development agenda.

Paul Polman

Co-Founder and Co-Chair, IMAGINE

Paul Polman works to accelerate action by business to tackle climate change and inequality. A leading proponent that business should be a force for good, Paul has been described by the Financial Times as “a standout CEO of the past decade”. As CEO of Unilever (2009-2019), he demonstrated that a long-term, multi-stakeholder model goes hand-in-hand with excellent financial performance. Paul was a member of the UN Secretary General’s High-Level Panel which developed the Sustainable Development Goals and which he continues to champion, working with global organizations and across industry to advance the 2030 development agenda. Paul’s new book, “Net Positive”, is a call to arms to courageous business leaders, setting out how to build net positive companies which profit by fixing the world’s problems rather than creating them. He Chairs IMAGINE, a social venture dedicated to systems change, and Saïd Business School, and he is Vice-Chair of the UN Global Compact as well as a B Team Leader. Paul is Honorary Chair of the International Chamber of Commerce, which he led for two years.

Monique Picou

Vice President, Global Server Operations and Technology Strategy, Google

Monique Picou

Vice President, Global Server Operations and Technology Strategy, Google

Monique Picou is VP, Global Server Operations & Tech Strategy at Google, where she leads development and expansion of server floor operations and data center materials, including strategies for technology, planning, staffing, product, process and capability for Google Cloud. With more than 28 years of experience in manufacturing, engineering, logistics, innovation, joint business planning, commercial negotiations, and new business development. She began her career with Procter & Gamble. She later became chief strategy and supply chain officer at Walmart, where she led enterprise strategy for Sam’s Club Enterprise and Club Brick & Mortar + Ecommerce Supply Chain.

Monique Picou advocates for women and people of color driving success through business leadership. She holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Southern University and an MBA from Florida Institute of Technology.

Brian McNamara

CEO, GSK Consumer Healthcare

Brian McNamara is CEO of GSK Consumer Healthcare, a company with a single-minded focus on improving everyday health and a portfolio of some of the world’s most trusted and best-selling brands including Sensodyne, Voltaren, Advil and Centrum. He holds authenticity, courage and inclusion as fundamentals to great leadership.

Brian McNamara

CEO, GSK Consumer Healthcare

Brian McNamara is CEO of GSK Consumer Healthcare, a company with a single-minded focus on improving everyday health and a portfolio of some of the world’s most trusted and best-selling brands including Sensodyne, Voltaren, Advil and Centrum. McNamara began his career at P&G, gaining extensive experience in product supply, brand marketing, and customer leadership. He holds authenticity, courage and inclusion as fundamentals to great leadership and outside of work, enjoys spending time with his wife and daughters and is an exercise enthusiastic; particularly running marathons, skiing and cycling.

Dr. Valerie René Sheppard

Founder and CEO, The Heartly Center for Mindfulness and Self-Mastery™

Dr. Valerie René Sheppard is a catastrophic-stroke survivor, self-mastery expert, and CEO of The Heartly Center for Mindfulness and Self-Mastery™. She helps people transform their lives from the inside out using her proprietary 4-step process and the other spiritual principles and practices.

Dr. Valerie René Sheppard

Founder and CEO, The Heartly Center for Mindfulness and Self-Mastery™

Dr. Valerie René Sheppard (P&G Pharmaceuticals Brand, 1994-2002) is a catastrophic-stroke survivor, self-mastery expert, and CEO of The Heartly Center for Mindfulness and Self-Mastery™. She helps people transform their lives from the inside out using her proprietary 4-step process and the other spiritual principles and practices in her multi award-winning, #1 international best-seller, "Living Happy to Be ME!: Dancing Your Soul Lightstyle©." Through The Heartly Center for Mindfulness and Self-Mastery™ and her 501(c)3 non-profit, Hearts Awakening™, Sheppard especially loves to serve emancipated foster youth, under-represented minority, low-income and 1st generation college students. She is preparing to expand globally the post-secondary self-mastery curriculum that she developed and successfully piloted at the University of California, Irvine. Sheppard received her PhD in Consciousness and Human Potential in 2021, is on the Board of the Evolutionary Business Council™, is a member of the National Society of Leadership and Success, and a recipient of its Excellence in Service Award. Other recognition includes the 2021 Barbara Marx Hubbard Outstanding Evolutionary Leader Award and the 2020 Platinum Mentorship Award. She is frequently a featured guest on podcasts, radio, and television shows as an expert on leadership, fulfillment, and happiness.

Marion Reimers

Sports Journalist & Activist

Marion Reimers is one of the most prominent figures in sports journalism in Mexico and in 2019 she became the first Mexican woman to be nominated for a Sports Emmy by the United States Television Academy. She is the main anchor of Central Fox on Fox Sports and recently published the book “¡Juega como niña!”.

Marion Reimers

Sports Journalist & Activist

In 2019 Marion Reimers is one of the most prominent figures in sports journalism in Mexico and in she became the first woman to act as commentator for the UEFA Champions League final and the first Mexican woman to be nominated for a Sports Emmy by the United States Television Academy.

Currently, she is the main anchor of Central Fox on Fox Sports. Reimers has written articles in The New York Times and her first book, “¡Juega como niña!”, was published in April 2021.

In May 2021, Reimers joined the minority investor group for the National Women's Soccer League team Washington Spirit.

She is the co-founder and president of VERSUS, a non-profit, non-governmental organization whose objective is to fight discrimination based on gender, class and race, in order to improve content in sports journalism.

Simon Anholt

Author, The Good Country Equation

Simon Anholt is a policy advisor, author and researcher. He has advised the Heads of State and Heads of Government of 60 countries, helping their countries engage more ethically, imaginatively and strategically with the international community. In his book “The Good Country Equation” he argues we can repair the world in one generation.

Simon Anholt

Author, The Good Country Equation

Simon Anholt is a policy advisor, author and researcher who has provided global leadership and innovation in the public, private and nonprofit sectors. His core expertise includes the design and development of approaches that track, analyse and influence perceptions and behaviours at the global scale.

He has advised the Heads of State and Heads of Government of 60 countries, helping their countries engage more ethically, imaginatively and strategically with the international community (including for example Bhutan’s groundbreaking “Gross National Happiness” initiative and the widely imitated “StartUp Chile” program). His original work on measuring and managing the images of countries has developed into a global industry. This work has been supported since 2005 by the “Anholt-Ipsos Nation Brands Index”, a research framework which has accumulated over a billion datapoints.

In 2014 he published the “Good Country Index” (GCI), a ranking that analyses how much each country on earth contributes to humanity and the planet. Via a custom-built online interface, users can manipulate 28,000 simultaneous variables. The GCI is one of only three external data sources referenced in the United Nations’ 75th Anniversary Report in 2021 and features in the Annual Report of the US Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy. Further work is being conducted, in partnership with UNDP, to combine data from the GCI and the Human Development Index, which will be presented at the COP26 Climate Summit in Glasgow later this year.

In 2016, he built the “Global Vote”, a digital platform that enables anyone anywhere to vote on the elections of other countries: a celebration and a demonstration of global interconnectedness and interdependence. Voters from 186 countries have so far participated in 31 elections.

In 2017, he launched a pilot project to create the first digital nation, with a target of 700 million identified citizens. Using an AI-driven deliberation platform and blockchain-based voting, the project proved the viability of an entirely self-governing nation.

In 2018, Anholt created the “Good Leader Index”, a monthly review of the leaders who are currently doing the best (and worst) job of balancing their domestic and international responsibilities.

In 2019 he announced the “Good Generation”, a plan for the whole world to agree on a new set of values, virtues and skills that every country on earth will teach its children, so the next generation is empowered to run towards the global challenges instead of running away from them. The Good Generation compact will be crowdsourced via an AI-moderated, natural language online conversation between children, parents and teachers in 200 countries and territories.

He co-presents, with Prof. Nick Cull at the University of Southern California, the podcast “People, Places and Power”. Anholt is the author of six books on ethical geopolitics, Founding Editor Emeritus of the leading academic journal in the field he created, “Place Branding and Public Diplomacy”, and is a ten-times TEDx speaker. His first TED talk is the all-time most viewed TED talk in the Government category, with over 12 million views, and is ranked by viewers as the fourth “most inspiring” of all TED talks. His new book, “The Good Country Equation”, was described by Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein, the former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, as “a masterpiece”.

Anholt has a Master’s degree in computational linguistics, anthropology and medieval French and Italian literature from Oxford University. He read International Studies at the UK Defence Academy and holds an honorary Professorship in Political Science at the University of East Anglia. He served as Vice-Chair of the UK Foreign Office’s Public Diplomacy Board for 9 years, and as a Parliamentarian of the European Cultural Parliament. In 2009 Professor Anholt was awarded the Nobels Colloquia Prize for Economics by a committee of 10 Nobel economists, and in 2010 the Award for Excellence in Sustainable Development at the 7th Multicultural Forum in Paris.

Shelly McNamara

Chief Equality & Inclusion Officer at Procter & Gamble

Shelly McNamara is responsible for leading strategies to make P&G one of the most innovative, diverse and inclusive companies in the world. As a seasoned Human Resources leader, she actively champions diversity and inclusion, driving strategic and tactical shifts in talent systems to build a pipeline of outstanding diverse talent.

Shelly McNamara

Chief Equality & Inclusion Officer at Procter & Gamble

She has also served as a leader of the company’s LGBT+ affinity group and is an active member of P&G’s Corporate Women’s Leadership Team.

McNamara joined P&G in 1985 as a sales representative for the company’s food division. She has spent more than 25 years in Human Resources, with responsibility for a full range of HR work. She has deep expertise in organisation development, change management and transformation, employee relations and executive staffing and development. McNamara has served some of the company’s largest businesses in this capacity.

A year into her current role, she led the evolution of P&G’s diversity and inclusion strategy to equality and inclusion, which focuses on actions and outcomes for our employees, through our brands, with our business partners and in our communities.

She is business and people focused, results oriented, and widely recognised for the trusting, collaborative relationships she builds. McNamara is the author of “No Blanks, No Pauses: A Path to Loving Self and Others”.

Lisa Baird

Former Commissioner, National Women's Soccer League

Lisa Baird was named commissioner of the National Women’s Soccer League in 2020. Prior the joining the NWSL she held numerous leadership positions at the New York Public Radio, the United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee, the National Football League, IBM, GM and P&G, among others.

Lisa Baird

Former Commissioner, National Women's Soccer League

Lisa Baird was named commissioner of the National Women’s Soccer League (NWSL) in February 2020 and is responsible for overseeing all operations for the league, with a focus on growing revenues and audience while elevating the profile of the league globally. Since suspending the 2020 season on March 12th, 2020, two days after her first official day, Baird led a successful effort to return the NWSL as the first league to return to live sports in the NWSL Challenge Cup Tournament followed by the Fall Series.

As part of the Fall Series, teams competed for the Verizon Community Shield, in which the top three teams would receive a grant to donate to their small business of choice. Baird and her team signed several new corporate partners, negotiated pay and benefits continuation with the NWSLPA through the entire 2020 season and finished both 2020 competitions with not one single confirmed positive COVID test result, ensuring a healthy and safe environment for players, officials and staff. She also negotiated a successful announcement of Kansas City as a new franchise to enter in 2021 as well as Los Angeles and San Diego to enter 2022.

Prior the joining the NWSL, she most recently served as the chief marketing officer for New York Public Radio, a position she had held since 2018. Prior to her time with WNYC, Baird spent nearly a decade as the chief marketing officer of the United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee. In nine years on the job, Baird broadened and reshaped the USOPC’s marketing arm, facilitated nearly $1 billion in partnership agreements and increased sponsorship royalties by more than 30 percent.

From 2005-2007, Baird served as senior vice president of marketing and consumer products for the National Football League, where she directed the league's consumer products, direct marketing, e-commerce, entertainment marketing, and advertising programs.

From 1999-2005, Baird worked at IBM, first as vice president of advertising and then as senior vice president, worldwide marketing communications. She led IBM's global marketing communications initiatives, including advertising, sports marketing, direct marketing, events and digital marketing in over 70 countries. Additionally, she was responsible for the IBM e-business campaign, which won the 2006 Grand Effie award

From 1996-1999, Baird held a series of marketing positions at General Motors, including serving as chief creative officer of e-GM. Prior to that, she worked in positions with leading consumer products companies, including Warner Lambert, Johnson & Johnson and Procter & Gamble.

Baird received her BA and MBA from Penn State University and serves on the Board of Directors for USA Technologies, Fox Racing and Elite Sportswear.

Marc Pritchard

Chief Brand Officer, Procter & Gamble

Marc Pritchard is responsible for P&G’s brand building disciplines worldwide. He sets the company’s multi-billion-dollar media, marketing and advertising strategies, and leads marketing innovations that guide communication and brand building for P&G’s portfolio of trusted, quality brands.

Marc Pritchard

Chief Brand Officer, Procter & Gamble

Pritchard is a veteran of P&G for more than three decades, joining the company in 1982 as a cost analyst in the Paper Division, followed by a move into marketing in 1987 on the Sure anti-perspirant / deodorant brand. He has more than 20 years of progressive experience in the Beauty and Personal Care categories which earned his appointment to president of Global Cosmetics and Personal Care in 2003.

Known for his pioneering approach to product, commercial and operational innovation, he served as president of Global Strategy for two years, driving expanded productivity for P&G. He was appointed P&G’s chief marketing officer in 2008.

As P&G’s top brand builder, Pritchard believes in the power of brands to serve people with superior-performing products, while being both a force for good and a force for growth through ethics and responsibility, community impact, diversity and inclusion, gender equality and environmental sustainability. He continually leads P&G’s brand building reinvention and is a leading voice in the media, marketing and creative industry.

Katie Couric

Award-Winning Journalist, Founder of Katie Couric Media and Co-Founder of Stand Up To Cancer

Katie Couric is an award-winning journalist, New York Times best-selling author and a co-founder of Stand Up To Cancer, which has raised more than $600 million to support cutting edge collaborative science. In 2017 she founded Katie Couric Media, which works with purpose driven brands to create premium content that addresses important social issues.

Katie Couric

Award-Winning Journalist, Founder of Katie Couric Media and Co-Founder of Stand Up To Cancer

Katie Couric is an award-winning journalist, New York Times best-selling author and a co-founder of Stand Up To Cancer (SU2C). Since its launch in 2008, Stand Up To Cancer has raised more than $600 million to support cutting edge collaborative science and its research has contributed to nine new FDA approved therapies.

In 2017, she founded Katie Couric Media (KCM), which has developed a number of media projects, including a daily newsletter, a podcast, digital video series and several documentaries. KCM works with purpose driven brands to create premium content that addresses important social issues like gender equality, environmental sustainability and mental health.

Previous documentaries produced by KCM include: “America Inside Out with Katie Couric “, a six-part series for National Geographic; “Gender Revolution: A Journey with Katie Couric” for National Geographic; “Under the Gun”, which aired on EPIX; and “Fed Up”, available on iTunes, Amazon and YouTube. Couric was also the executive producer of “Unbelievable” on Netflix and is developing other scripted projects.

Couric was the first woman to solo anchor a network evening newscast, serving as anchor and managing editor of the CBS Evening News from 2006 to 2011, following 15-years as co-anchor of NBC’s Today show. She also hosted a syndicated show and served as the Yahoo Global News Anchor until 2017. Most recently, Couric was the first guest host of the iconic game show, Jeopardy!

She has won a duPont-Columbia, a Peabody, two Edward R. Murrows, a Walter Cronkite Award, and multiple Emmys. She was twice named one of Time magazine’s 100 most influential people and was a Glamour Magazine woman of the year three times. She has also received numerous awards for her cancer advocacy work; honored by both the Harvard and Columbia schools of public health, the American Cancer Society and The American Association of Cancer Researchers.

In addition to writing “The Best Advice I Ever Got: Lessons from Extraordinary Lives”, Couric’s memoir will be published in the fall of 2021.

Deeptha Khanna

Chief Business Leader, Personal Health at Royal Philips

Deeptha Khanna is Executive Vice President and Chief Business Leader, Personal Health and a member of the Executive Committee at Royal Philips. She is responsible for step-changing the role of Personal Health in supporting the health and well-being continuum for individuals, by delivering integrated, connected and personalized solutions that support healthier lifestyles and those living with chronic disease.

Deeptha Khanna

Chief Business Leader, Personal Health at Royal Philips

Deeptha Khanna is Executive Vice President and Chief Business Leader, Personal Health and a member of the Executive Committee at Royal Philips.

She is responsible for the end-to-end P&L of Philips’ €4 billion personal health portfolio spanning Oral Health care, Male Grooming, Beauty, and Mother and Childcare businesses, across sub-brands like Philips Sonicare, Philips Lumea, Philips Avent, and with a global footprint across more than 100 markets and an organization of more than 10,000 people.

She is chartered with step-changing the role of Personal Health in supporting the health and well-being continuum for individuals, by delivering integrated, connected, and personalized solutions that support healthier lifestyles and those living with chronic disease.

She is passionate about sustainability and represents Philips on the WEF’s Responsible Consumption forum. She is also spokesperson for digitization in health care in various forums. Prior to joining Philips, Khanna spent 5 years with Johnson & Johnson in various leadership roles in the Consumer Sector.

She joined in 2015 as Vice President for Baby care for Asia Pacific, based in Singapore and in early 2017, was appointed as Global President for Baby care, relocating to New Jersey. In this role, she was chartered with a turnaround mandate on the $2 billion Baby care portfolio, including flagship brands like Johnsons, Aveeno Baby, Desitin, Penaten.

She completed the delivery of a massive restage for the Johnson’s baby brand, including end to end harmonization efforts, as well as a modern digital-first campaign “Choose Gentle”. Subsequently she was appointed in 2019 as Global President of Skin Health and Office of Marketing Value. This included responsibility for the $4 billion Skincare portfolio of iconic brands like Neutrogena, Aveeno, Clean and Clear, Dr. Ci:Labo, Dabao; as well as leadership of global marketing teams across digital, media, consumer care, insights and analytics, and e-commerce. She represented J&J on the Board of the ANA (Association of National Advertisers) in this capacity.

Prior to J&J, Khanna spent 17 years with Procter & Gamble across leadership experiences in Asia Pacific between 1998-2015. She started her career in 1998, joining P&G in Mumbai as an Assistant Brand Manager on their Femcare business, where she led the creation of one of P&G’s few successful mid-tier value propositions “Whisper Choice”. Subsequent P&G career highlights include a Head of Marketing role for P&G Indonesia where the market more than doubled revenue over a 3 year period; Marketing Director for Asia Head & Shoulders, where the region contributed more than 50% of global growth for the brand; and P&L leader for Haircare Japan, ANZ and Korea, with responsibility for a $1 billion P&L, where she advocated for stronger local innovation, creating a new brand “Hair Recipe” for the Japanese market.

Benno Dorer

Co-Founder & Chair, Second Mountain Foundation

Benno Dorer is passionate about growing businesses the right way - profitably, sustainably and responsibly. He calls this Good Growth. During his tenure as Chairman and CEO, The Clorox Company more than doubled total shareholder return, significantly outperforming its peer group. Today, Dorer works on giving back.

Benno Dorer

Co-Founder & Chair, Second Mountain Foundation

Benno Dorer is passionate about growing businesses the right way - profitably, sustainably and responsibly. He calls this Good Growth.

Under his leadership as Chairman and CEO, The Clorox Company was ranked no. 15 on the list of the 250 best managed companies in the US (WSJ / Drucker), no. 9 on the list of most inclusive and diverse US companies (WSJ), no. 7 on the list of most sustainable companies in the US (Barron’s) and the no. 1 most trusted and essential company in the US in 2020 (Harris Poll). The company more than doubled total shareholder return during the 6 years of his CEO tenure, significantly outperforming its peer group.

Dorer was no. 1 on the annual Glassdoor list of most popular US CEO’s in 2017, no. 39 on Forbes Magazine’s list of most innovative US CEOs in 2019, Out & Equal’s CEO Champion of the year in 2018 for his work in support of the LGBTQ+ community and a Most Admired Bay Area CEO in 2017 (Business Journal).

Today, Dorer works on giving back. He is focused on passing on his experience from more than 30 years in global business leadership as advisor, board director and coach and on his family foundation’s philanthropic efforts to help make the world a better place for current and future generations.

He also makes wine. Just for the pure joy (and unpredictability) of it.

Emily Chang

CEO China, McCann Worldgroup

Emily Chang is the CEO of McCann Worldgroup, China. Prior to joining McCann, she was the CMO for Starbucks China, where she led marketing, sales, loyalty, customer engagement and the digital ecosystem. Chang was also part of Apple, where she led Retail Marketing across APAC, opening new stores and designing customer experience as the brand entered China. A strategic business leader with over 22 years of experience, she began her career with eleven years at Procter & Gamble.

Emily Chang

CEO China, McCann Worldgroup

Emily Chang is the CEO of McCann Worldgroup, China. Prior to joining McCann, she was the CMO for Starbucks China, where she led marketing, sales, loyalty, customer engagement and the digital ecosystem (ecommerce, loyalty, payments, partnerships). Her teams helped open the Starbucks Shanghai Roastery and launched the brand’s delivery program. Before joining Starbucks, Chang was the CCO for InterContinental Hotels Group, Greater China, where she was responsible for all commercial functions across more than 320 hotels, six hotel brands, three loyalty programs, and a team of 5.200 S&M members. Her teams designed and launched new hotel brand HUALUXE and completed the acquisition of Kimpton Hotels. Her passion for crafting O+O branded customer experiences began at Apple, where she led Retail Marketing across APAC, opening new stores, and designing customer experience as the brand entered China. A strategic business leader with over 22 years of experience, Chang began her career with eleven years at Procter and Gamble. Chang also sits on the board of SOS Children’s Villages and last year took a year off to write a book called The Spare Room, the topic of her first TEDx Talk.

Silvia Davila

President Latin America, Danone

Silvia Davila is President for Latin America at Danone, which she joined in 2017. She started her career as Marketing Coordinator within McDonald’s Mexico before joining Procter & Gamble in 1992 and Mars Mexico in 2004. In 2014 she moved to Belgium as Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer for Global Food, to manage 12 global brands, leading their strategic development, planning cycle and brand evolution.

Silvia Davila

President Latin America, Danone

Silvia Davila was born in 1970 in Mexico. She graduated in Marketing from Unitec (Mexico) and holds a Master in Business Economics from ITESM (Mexico). She started her career in 1989 as Marketing Coordinator within McDonald’s Mexico before joining Procter & Gamble in 1992, where she grew in the Marketing function, from Brand Assistant to Regional Marketing Director. For one year (2003) she served as Professor, Strategic Marketing Planning at Tecnologico de Monterrey. In 2004 she joined Mars Mexico as Senior Marketing Director before being promoted General Manager Chocolate in 2007 and General Manager Pet & Global Brand Strategic Leader in 2010. In 2014 Davila moved to Belgium as Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer for Global Food, to manage 12 global brands, leading their strategic development, planning cycle and brand evolution. She joined Danone in October 2017 as Senior Vice-President Essential Dairy and Plant Based Latin America.

Alan G. Lafley

Founding CEO of The Bay Park Conservancy and leadingtowin.com

A.G. Lafley is a business mentor, non-profit leader, author, philanthropist and former Chairman of the Board and CEO of Procter & Gamble for 13 years. He believes great leaders are made, not born and that anyone can learn to become a better leader or strategist.

Alan G. Lafley

Founding CEO of The Bay Park Conservancy and leadingtowin.com

A.G. Lafley is a business mentor, non-profit leader, author, philanthropist and former Chairman of the Board and CEO of Procter & Gamble for 13 years. Lafley believes great leaders are made, not born and that anyone can learn to become a better leader or strategist.

He has evolved his business interests from large, public, multinationals to small business, freelancers and non-profits. Lafley consults on leadership and strategy and coaches experienced, new and potential CEOs.

He is co-author of “Playing to Win”, a practical approach to winning strategy and “The Game Changer,” a guide to turning innovation into strategic advantage. He has authored several Harvard Business Review articles on strategy, innovation and leadership including “What Only the CEO Can Do.”

While his primary interest is business, Lafley has shifted his personal leadership attention to private/public partnerships to accomplish major civic goals. He served as the founding chairman of Cincinnati Center City Development from 2002 to 2010, and currently serves as the Founding CEO of the Sarasota Bay Park Conservancy.

He has also devoted more of his energy and resources to philanthropy including arts and culture, education and scholarships, healthcare and social welfare, parks and recreation. Currently, he serves on the Boards of Snap, Inc., Tulco and Omeza

Debra Bass

President, United States and Global Chief Marketing Officer (CMO), Nuvo Group

Bass is President of the United States and Global CMO at Nuvo Group, an emerging leader in maternal fetal health with a bold ambition to reinvent pregnancy care for the 21st century. She is a growth-oriented business and team leader who has built iconic brands at some of the world’s most admired Fortune 50 companies.

Debra Bass

President, United States and Global Chief Marketing Officer (CMO), Nuvo Group

Bass is a growth-oriented business and team leader who has built iconic brands at some of the world’s most admired Fortune 50 companies. With roots in the fast-moving consumer goods industry and broad-based experience in healthcare, she made a bold move in 2018 to an early-stage health tech startup to leverage her collective industry experience, network and know-how to bring meaningful innovation to the underserved area of women’s health. She is currently President of the United States and Global CMO at Nuvo Group, an emerging leader in maternal fetal health with a bold ambition to reinvent pregnancy care for the 21st century with new technology, tools and practices that give every life a better beginning. In this capacity she is shaping and building the United States lead market and helped the company secure its first FDA clearance and land an enterprise contract with a progressive women’s health provider. In addition, she created and built Nuvo’s brand and helped the company secure prestigious industry recognition from CB Insights Digital Health 150 and the MedTech Innovators Showcase program. Before joining the Nuvo Group, Bass spent 15 years at Johnson & Johnson (J&J) Companies in a variety of commercial leadership roles, including President, Global Marketing Services at J&J Consumer Companies. In this capacity, she led a team of 200+ professionals to develop modern marketing capabilities and external agency and industry partnerships that helped accelerate profitable growth behind J&J’s $14 billion portfolio of global, regional and local consumer health brands. Prior to this role, Bass served as Global President of J&J’s $2 billion + Global Baby Care Franchise, where she delivered the long-term growth strategy for the Baby Care Needs State and architected a transformational turnaround of the iconic Johnson’s Brand. She shepherded the brand through a re-launch including new products, packaging, content, strategic partnerships and creation of an omni-channel footprint. She also held leadership positions in the Medical Device Sector at J&J Companies and in Pharmaceuticals at Bristol Myers Squibb Company. Before joining J&J, Bass gained general and brand management training at Procter & Gamble, working on iconic brands such as Tide detergent and Cover Girl Cosmetics. Bass is an active industry speaker and has presented at Cannes Lion’s Health, Modern Marketing Summit, New York Advertising Week and, most recently, the Women’s Health Innovation Summit. She was recently recognized as one of the “Top 100 Women in FemTech” and has been nominated to the Adweek Women Trailblazers Council. Throughout her career, Bass has been committed to advancing women’s leadership. While at J&J, she served on the Global Women’s Leadership Initiative Steering Committee and was an Executive Director of the #SeeHer industry initiative. She currently serves on the Global Steering Team of the P&G Alumni Women’s Forum. Bass holds a BA in Public Policy from Duke University and an MBA in General Management from the University of Michigan, Ross School of Business.

Ida Abdalkhani

Chief Catalyzer & Founder of Ability to Engage

Ida is the Chief Catalyzer & Founder of Ability to Engage, Inc., an award-winning boutique consultancy. A2E helps people feel understood by developing brand marketing communications and strategies, product ideas, and consumer research that connect on a deeper level.

Ida Abdalkhani

Chief Catalyzer & Founder of Ability to Engage

The A2E team also develops and facilitates innovation sessions, strategic meetings, and team effectiveness workshops. Clients include start-up companies, international government groups, and some of the world’s largest and most respected companies such as Clorox, ConAgra Foods, GSK, L’Oréal, McGraw Hill, Ogilvy, PepsiCo, Pfizer, Procter & Gamble, and Red Bull. Ida’s business acumen and journey from corporate, to backpacking, to entrepreneurship and teaching have led to her being featured on the cover of OSU’s alumni magazine, named a “52 Young Professionals to Know” in Columbus, Ohio, a P&G “40 Under 40” awardee, OSU “Early Career Achievement” recipient and “Top Professor in Entrepreneurship” in the nation. You may have also seen her work as a Tone Networks Expert, PBS show consultant, and Vistage International Speaker. Ida has taught both graduate and undergraduate courses in Creativity & Design Thinking and Marketing Strategy at the University of Michigan and The Ohio State University. She has served on various boards including, the Executive Team of the Global Board of Directors, Procter & Gamble Alumni Network; Global Board of Directors, Procter & Gamble Alumni Network Foundation; Advisory Board Member, Marketing, Key Bank Ann Arbor, Michigan; Board of Trustees, Ohio Business Week; and Global Board of Directors, Women Presidents’ Organization. She has also been a member of Forbes Agency Council, an invitation only organization for senior-level executives in successful PR, media strategy, creative and advertising agencies and holds seven patents across the US and Europe. She co-hosts the Learnings from Leaders podcast, her TEDx has been viewed over 250,000 times, and she has authored and been featured in various publications from Prentice Hall to Young Money magazine. As a certified Laughter Yoga instructor, she also enjoys getting people to find their “inner child” through laughter.

John E. Pepper, Jr.

Retired Chairman & CEO, Procter & Gamble

John E. Pepper Jr. spent a 40-year career in various positions at Procter & Gamble, including Chief Executive Officer and Chairman from 1995 to 1999 and Chairman of the Board from 2000 to 2002. He currently serves as Director Emeritus of the Board of the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, where he was CEO from January 2006 to May 2007, and is an honorary member of the board of the Cincinnati Youth Collaborative. He served as Chairman of the Board of the Walt Disney Company from January 2007 through March 2012.

John E. Pepper, Jr.

Retired Chairman & CEO, Procter & Gamble

John E. Pepper Jr. enjoyed a long career with Procter & Gamble where he held various positions, including Executive Officer and Chairman from 1995 to 1999 and Chairman of the Board from 2000 to 2002. He also served as a Director of Procter & Gamble from 1984 to 2003 and President from 1986 to 1995. Pepper currently serves as the Director Emeritus of the Board of the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center and was CEO from January 2006 to May 2007. He also served as Chairman of the Board of the Walt Disney Company from January 2007 through March 2012 and had previously served as a member of its board since January 2006. Pepper has devoted important effort over the past 30 years to early childhood and youth development and has been a former member of the Cincinnati Preschool Program Board of Trustees. He was a founding supporter of Every Child Succeeds (which provides home visitation to at-risk 0-3 year old children) and was a co-founder and currently is an honorary member of the board of the Cincinnati Youth Collaborative, one of the nation’s most successful mentoring and tutoring organizations. A native of Pottsville, Pennsylvania, Pepper graduated from Yale in 1960, where he served on the Board of the Yale Daily News. He later served as Fellow of the Yale Corporation from 1995 to 2003, including two years as Senior Fellow, as well as Vice President of Finance and Administration at Yale University from January 2004 to December 2005. Pepper also holds honorary doctorate degrees from Yale University, Xavier University, Mount St. Joseph College, St. Petersburg University (Russia), the Ohio State University, the University of Cincinnati and St. Joseph’s University. John E. Pepper Jr. and his wife Francie have four children and ten grandchildren and reside in Wyoming, Ohio.

Terry Stone

Managing Partner, Americas & Executive Sponsor of Inclusion and Diversity, Oliver Wyman

Terry Stone is the Managing Partner of the Americas and Executive Sponsor of Inclusion and Diversity at Oliver Wyman. She formerly led the firm’s global Health and Life Sciences practice group. Stone has extensive experience in the healthcare industry, including devising growth strategies, improving the cost and quality of healthcare services, establishing innovative partnerships across players in the healthcare sector, developing ACOs and other value-based solutions, and redesigning organizations to support their strategic transformations.

Terry Stone

Managing Partner, Americas & Executive Sponsor of Inclusion and Diversity, Oliver Wyman

Terry Stone is the new Managing Partner of the Americas at Oliver Wyman and remains the Executive Sponsor of Inclusion and Diversity. She formerly led the firm’s global Health and Life Sciences practice group. Stone has extensive experience in the healthcare industry, including devising growth strategies, improving the cost and quality of healthcare services, establishing innovative partnerships across players in the healthcare sector, developing ACOs and other value-based solutions, and redesigning organizations to support their strategic transformations. Prior to joining the Health and Life Sciences practice, she was a Partner in Oliver Wyman’s Financial Services Practice. Drawing on her cross-industry expertise, she co-developed IC on opportunities in healthcare for traditional financial services companies, which was published in the article "Healthcare and Financial Services". She has worked at Dell Computer, in the publishing industry and at a small B2B software start-up. She earned a BA in Chemistry from The College of the Holy Cross and an MBA from the Kenan-Flagler School of Business at The University of North Carolina. When not working on solving the challenges in healthcare, Stone can be found indulging her creative and domestic side. She has done a few interior design projects, renovates houses and has won an award for her urban garden landscape.

Katrin Seifarth

Business Coach & Moderator

Katrin Seifarth left P&G in 2008 to start her own training and coaching company, train effect. Today she coaches leaders and moderates and facilitates workshops and events for companies in various business sectors. Her mission is to release subconscious success and “happiness brakes” in individuals and teams, to empower inherent resources and maximize their performance.

Katrin Seifarth

Business Coach & Moderator

Katrin Seifarth joined P&G Germany as an Assistant Brand Manager in 1994. Before leaving in 2008 she was a Senior Manager for Relationship Marketing, responsible for the entirety of the German Interactive and Database business. Seifarth left P&G to start her own training and coaching company, train effect. Today she coaches leaders and moderates and facilitates workshops and events for companies in various business sectors. Her mission is to release subconscious success and “happiness brakes” in individuals and teams, to empower inherent resources and maximize their performance. Her approach touches on strategies and techniques that are easily put into practice. She has written three books (in German) and lives in Frankfurt, Germany. Seifarth graduated with a degree in Business Management from the European Business School (EBS). She is - amongst others - certified as a systemic business coach (EBS), NLP master, wingwave coach and trainer in reading facial expressions.

Scott Birnbaum

MORF Gallery CEO and Co-Founder

Scott Birnbaum is CEO of MORF Gallery, leading a team of award-winning artists that create highly collectible fine art with breakthrough technologies like artificial intelligence, robotics, and neuroscience. He previously led Samsung’s multi-billion-dollar display business in the Americas for more than a decade.

Scott Birnbaum

MORF Gallery CEO and Co-Founder

Scott Birnbaum is CEO of MORF Gallery, where he is fusing Silicon Valley, Hollywood and the art world. He leads a team of award-winning artists that create highly collectible fine art with breakthrough technologies like artificial intelligence, robotics and neuroscience. Birnbaum led Samsung’s multi-billion-dollar display business in the Americas for more than a decade. He is a driver of industry megatrends like the vidification of devices, bringing the movie theater experience to homes and pockets everywhere and enabling televisions that double as art galleries. His insights have been shared with the Harvard Business Review, CNET, ABC News, Fox Business, Bloomberg TV, the Wall Street Journal, Forbes and Fast Company. He also possesses a strong fascination with travel and his escapades include running with the Olympic Torch in China, the thrill of being chased by monkeys in Malaysia and being thrust inside one of the world’s biggest waterfalls in South America. Tapping into his passions for cycling and helping kids, Birnbaum and his son biked 550 miles from San Jose to Los Angeles creating Gears for Giving raising money and awareness for St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital.

Margaret Mary G. Wilson

Executive Vice President and Associate Chief Medical Officer, UnitedHealth Group

Margaret Mary G. Wilson

Executive Vice President and Associate Chief Medical Officer, UnitedHealth Group

Dr. Margaret-Mary Wilson, MD, is the Executive Vice President and Associate Chief Medical Officer at the UnitedHealth Group. Prior to joining UnitedHealthcare in 2008, Wilson was an associate professor of Internal and Geriatric Medicine at St. Louis University, Missouri, where she also served as director of Geriatric Ambulatory Services and director of the Ortho-Geriatric Service. Her experience also includes direct patient care, medical education, patient safety, quality improvement, risk management, and global healthcare systems management in a variety of healthcare settings in Africa, the United Kingdom, South America, and the United States. She is board-certified in Internal Medicine and Healthcare Quality Management, and completed a Clinical Cardiology fellowship at the Royal Postgraduate Medical School in Hammersmith Hospital, UK. Wilson is a member of the Royal College of Physicians of the United Kingdom and a fellow of the American Institute of Healthcare Quality, the American Board of Quality Assurance & Utilization Review Physicians and the National Postgraduate Medical College of Nigeria. Wilson also holds a Master’s in Business Administration with a specialization in Healthcare Management. Wilson has received numerous awards in medicine, including UnitedHealth Group’s inaugural Sages Interdisciplinary Collaboration Award, the Kathy Humphrey Award for Excellence in the promotion of cultural diversity in medical education, the St. Louis University William Osler Teaching Award for excellence in clinical teaching, the Gladney Diversity Award for outstanding performance as a medical educator and the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office’s Chevening Award. She received a 2019 Business of Pride award from the Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal and was named a 2018 “Woman Worth Watching” by Diversity Journal. In 2021, Wilson was named one of the Top 100 most influential African Americans in Business by the National Diversity Council and one of the Top 100 elite women in 2021 by Diversity Journal. Wilson has published more than 70 articles in peer-reviewed medical journals and textbooks.

Laura Tapia

Independent Board Member & Marketing Advisor

Laura Tapia

Independent Board Member & Marketing Advisor

Laura Tapia is an independent board member and marketing advisor, serving on numerous boards. Named by CNN’s Expansion among Mexico’s Most Powerful Women, she has also been recognized by the Advertising Age “Women to Watch” program as an editorial authority in marketing. After joining Procter & Gamble in 1990, Tapia spent more than 25 years in leading marketing roles at the intersection of innovation, customer-centric marketing and brand building. As a training/capability leader at P&G, she is a respected breeder of marketing professionals. She has used her expertise as a consultant transforming the performance of marketing organizations through skill development, strategic decision-making tools and training content development. She is also a specialist in media, digital and shopper marketing. Currently, Tapia is a member of the International Women’s Forum, Women Corporate Directors and the National College of Independent Board Members. She received a Bachelor’s degree in computer science from the Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico.

John Romeo

Managing Partner, Oliver Wyman Forum

John Romeo

Managing Partner, Oliver Wyman Forum

John Romeo is a Managing Partner and Head of the Oliver Wyman Forum, the firm’s platform for engaging key business, public policy and societal leaders to act on shared challenges and create positive impact in society. He also founded and continues to lead Oliver Wyman’s Private Capital business, working with leading Private Equity funds and alternative asset managers on business model strategy, deal generation, diligence and value creation. He has over 25 years of consulting experience advising the boards and senior executives of the world’s leading private and public sector organizations on strategy, organizational effectiveness, risk management and M&A. Romeo is a board member of Safe Horizon (the largest victims’ services agency in the United States) and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA), Chair of the London Data Commission, a member of Young Presidents’ Organization, Wall Street Journal CEO Council, MMC Advantage Advisory Council and the Investment Committees of Duke Royalty and Asta Capital Partners. He previously served on the boards of the Partnership for New York City, MMC Securities Limited and the European IPO Taskforce convened by EVCA, European Issuers and FESE. A regular conference speaker and author of articles, he has also contributed to numerous government and supranational taskforces on long term investing, securities and derivatives trading, fair and efficient markets, gender diversity, the future of cities and modernization of government. Before joining Oliver Wyman, Romeo worked in Equities at SG Warburg. He has a Master’s degree in economics from Cambridge University, where he was a Senior Scholar. “The issues we address in the Oliver Wyman Forum are global, span industries and involve the public and private sector. We’re here to make connections across data, people and insights, that create breakthroughs. We do that by building leadership communities to act on shared challenges.”

Deborah Majoras

Chief Legal Officer and Corporate Secretary, Procter & Gamble

Deborah Platt Majoras is the Chief Legal Officer and Corporate Secretary for Procter & Gamble. She leads a global legal department of over 500 lawyers and other professionals, responsible for the broad scope of legal, government relations, and brand protection functions for all of P&G. She also serves as a primary resource to Directors for governance and process issues.

Deborah Majoras

Chief Legal Officer and Corporate Secretary, Procter & Gamble

Deborah Platt Majoras is the Chief Legal Officer and Secretary for The Procter & Gamble Company, which she joined in 2008. In that position she leads a global legal department of over 500 lawyers and other professionals, responsible for the broad scope of legal, government relations, and brand protection functions for all of P&G and its 90,000 employees. As Corporate Secretary, she serves as a primary resource to Directors for governance and process issues. She is a member of the Company’s Global Leadership Council and Equality & Inclusion Council. She also serves on the Board of Directors of Valero Energy Corporation, where she chairs the Nominating/Governance and Public Policy Committee. From 2004-2008, Majoras served as Chairman of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission. During her tenure, she focused on ensuring data security and protecting consumers from emerging frauds, and she served as Co-Chair of the President’s Identity Theft Task Force. She also worked to implement sound antitrust policy regarding intellectual property, increase the efficiency and transparency of the merger review process, and strengthen cooperation among antitrust agencies around the world, serving on the Steering Committee of the International Competition Network. For her work at the FTC, Ms. Majoras received several honors, including security solutions provider RSA’s 2007 Award for Excellence in the Field of Public Policy and the International Association of Privacy Professionals’ 2007 Privacy Leadership Award. Prior to the FTC, Majoras served at the United States Department of Justice Antitrust Division from 2001-2003, first as Deputy Assistant Attorney General, and then as Principal Deputy. In that role, she directed the Division’s civil and regulatory antitrust programs, led key enforcement, policy and management actions, participated in global antitrust initiatives with 100 other antitrust agencies, and represented the division in interactions with the White House, members of Congress, and other enforcement agencies. Majoras’ career as an attorney began with a judicial clerkship with the Honorable Stanley S. Harris in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. Following that, 1991, she joined the international law firm, Jones Day, becoming a partner in 1999. Her outside activities include serving on the Executive Committee of the United States Golf Association and on the Boards of The Christ Hospital Health Network (Chair, Compensation & Governance Committee), and the Cincinnati Legal Aid Society (2nd Vice President). She is a member of the Association of General Counsel (past President) and the Leadership Council on Legal Diversity, where she served on the Board for several years. In 2020, Majoras received the Cincinnati Business Courier’s “Women Who Mean Business Award,” and in 2014, the National Law Journal named Majoras to its list of 50 Outstanding General Counsel. Majoras graduated from Westminster College in her home state of Pennsylvania in 1985, earning a Bachelor of Arts degree, summa cum laude. She earned her law degree in 1989 from the University of Virginia, where she graduated Order of the Coif and was an articles editor on the Virginia Law Revie.

Jon R. Moeller

President and Chief Executive Officer, Procter & Gamble

Jon Moeller will be P&G’s President and Chief Executive Officer, succeeding David Taylor, effective November 1, 2021. Currently, Jon is P&G’s Vice Chairman and Chief Operating Officer.

Jon R. Moeller

President and Chief Executive Officer, Procter & Gamble

Jon has been an integral part of P&G's leadership team for well over two decades, developing strategies that P&G people are executing with excellence to drive the Company’s growth today. P&G’s positive momentum and return to balanced growth and value creation reflect the underlying strength of these strategic choices and the organization. As the Company’s Chief Operating Officer today, he has profit/loss responsibility for P&G’s Enterprise Markets (Latin America, India, Middle East, Africa, Southeast Asia and Eastern Europe). He also leads the Company’s Investor Relations, Information Technology, Global Business Services, Sales, Market Operations, Purchasing, Manufacturing, and Distribution efforts. Jon held the role of P&G’s Chief Financial Officer for more than 12 years, leading P&G’s Finance & Accounting, Tax, Treasury, Corporate Strategy, Business Development and Investor Relations functions. He managed P&G’s global Duracell, Salon Professional, Retail Hair Color, Prestige Fragrances and Retail Hair Color businesses for a multi-year period as those businesses were transitioned for sale. Since joining P&G in 1988 as a cost analyst, Jon has held various senior leadership roles in categories, sectors and regions, including assignments in China, as the Company’s Treasurer, Global Beauty, Health, Feminine Care Finance VP, and Corporate Forecasting & Analysis. He has led major merger and acquisition operations, including the Merck KGaA acquisition and the divestitures of P&G’s coffee, snacks, pharmaceuticals, battery and prestige beauty businesses. Jon previously served on the Board of Directors for Monsanto for eight years and was Chairman of that Board’s Audit Committee. He is active in the business, civic and cultural leadership of Greater Cincinnati, serving in an advisory role on local Boards and is a Trustee Emeritus and Former Chairman of the Cincinnati Art Museum Board of Trustees.

Sarah Woods

Executive Director P&G ALUMNI FOUNDATION

Sarah Woods

Executive Director P&G ALUMNI FOUNDATION

Sarah Woods is the Executive Director of the P&G Alumni Foundation and the Founder and President of VenturePotential, LLC. She is a senior executive marketing professional and a non-profit leader who is valued for her strategic and financial acumen and as a team-builder, spokesperson, fundraiser and friend-raiser. Woods worked at P&G for 14 years in Marketing and Finance, from 1990-2004. Based in Hunt Valley, Maryland, she helped manage Cosmetics International, Cover Girl (expansion into China and the Baltics, licensing growth, in-store merchandising re-launch and brand management), the shutdown of Clarion, the acquisition of Max Factor, and Cosmetics financial forecasting and analysis. Her subsequent consulting includes leading the marketing for a cybersecurity contractor, private school and biotechnology non-profit. A year ago, Woods joined the P&G Alumni Foundation as Executive Director. She splits her time between the Foundation and her consulting firm, VenturePotential, where she has successfully grown SMBs, emerging-growth ventures, startups and non-profits. Woods has an MBA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Kenan-Flagler School of Business and a BS in Honors Biochemistry and BA in Chemistry at North Carolina State University as a J.T. Caldwell Scholar. She serves The Family Tree as a Board Member, Marketing Co-Chair, former Board President and former Gala Chair. She also serves The Cybersecurity Association of Maryland, Inc as a Board Member and Chair of the Marketing Committee and she serves as the Marketing Advisor to the Women in Cybersecurity Critical Infrastructure Community. Woods co-founded Essential Hugs, a grassroots non-profit to support essential workers during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Gary A. Bolles

Author, The Next Rules of Work, and Chair for the Future of Work, Singularity University

Gary A. Bolles writes and lectures around the world on the future of work, learning and organization. He is the author of The Next Rules of Work: The Mindset, Skillset, and Toolset to Lead Your Organization Through Uncertainty (Kogan Page, 2021). Bolles is dedicated to helping individuals, organizations, communities and countries collaborate on effective strategies to ensure that all people can have access to meaningful work and lifelong learning opportunities.

Gary A. Bolles

Author, The Next Rules of Work, and Chair for the Future of Work, Singularity University

Gary A. Bolles writes and lectures around the world on the future of work learning, and organization. He is the author of The Next Rules of Work: The Mindset, Skillset, and Toolset to Lead Your Organization Through Uncertainty (Kogan Page, 2021) and has nine courses on LinkedIn Learning with a total of over 850,000 learners, including “Learning Mindset” and “Learning Agility”. As Chair for the Future of Work for Singularity University, Bolles helps people understand the impact of exponential change on the world of work and education. As a partner in the consulting agency Charrette LLC, he helps organizations, communities, educators and governments develop strategies to meet the needs of tomorrow’s workers and learners. And as a co-founder of eParachute.com, he helps job-hunters and career changers with programs inspired by “What Color Is Your Parachute?”, the world’s enduring career manual. Bolles is the former editorial director for six technology publications, a serial entrepreneur and a former Silicon Valley executive. Bolles is dedicated to helping individuals, organizations, communities and countries to collaborate on effective strategies to ensure that all people can have access to meaningful work and lifelong learning opportunities.

Yen Hsieh

Owner, FlavorDrive

Yen Hsieh has developed winning food products for over 35 years, including the successful global expansion of Pringles. Hsieh is currently the owner of FlavorDrive, a consulting company that focuses on the creation of food prototypes and flavor development. Hsieh integrates food science knowledge, consumer insights and culinary skills to develop unique products for consumers all around the world.

Yen Hsieh

Owner, FlavorDrive

Yen Hsieh was a Research Fellow who led the flavor development work that led to the successful global expansion of Pringles. She has developed winning food products for over 35 years, earning 17 patents for her innovative work while at P&G. Hsieh integrates food science knowledge, consumer insights and culinary skills to develop unique products for consumers all around the world. Her extensive knowledge of food ingredient functionality, global trends and food regulations has given her just the right tools to develop great tasting products for global and regional tastes. In particular, Hsieh is a proven expert in food product prototyping and flavor development, with in-depth knowledge of ingredient functionalities and specific applications to achieve desired end results. This includes a deep understanding of various starches’ functionality and their impact on baked goods’ texture and mouthfeel. Hsieh built an extensive flavor development capability that enhanced the speed of global expansion. This included developing and training an internal flavoring/formulation group that delivered global formulation needs. She also worked extensively with many external international flavor companies. Hsieh possesses an intensive knowledge of global food and flavor regulations borne from over 26 years of experience working with internal and external regulatory experts on domestic and international projects. Hsieh spent 26 years at Procter & Gamble in Research & Development, with nearly 20 years spent in the Food & Beverages sector and 6 years in the IAMS Pet Food business. Hsieh’s prototyping and flavor development expertise contributed to the billion dollar and global success of the Pringles brand at Procter & Gamble. While at P&G, Hsieh was one of the first women promoted to the title of “Research Fellow”. Hsieh is currently the owner of FlavorDrive, a consulting company that focuses on the creation of food prototypes and flavor development. She has worked with major food companies as well as local businesses in developing healthy, nutritious products and prototypes. She is well versed in current medical studies on health, nutrition and weight control. She has a BS, MS and PhD in Food Science from Michigan State University and was a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

David Roberts

Technology Disruption & Exponential Leadership Expert - Singularity University

David Roberts is considered one of the world’s leading expert on business disruption, exponential technology and exponential leadership. His passion is to help global leaders transform and develop new intentions for global good.

David Roberts

Technology Disruption & Exponential Leadership Expert - Singularity University

1. David Roberts is considered one of the world’s leading expert on business disruption, exponential technology and exponential leadership. His passion is to help global leaders transform and develop new intentions for global good. 2. He was educated as a Harvard M.B.A. and M.I.T. B.S. in Computer Scientist & Engineering and majored in Artificial Intelligence and Bio-Computer Engineering. 3. He began his career as a military officer and decorated Special Agent. 4. He was the Distinguished Graduate of the Special Operations Training Course and served in multiple roles as a Career Officer in the Executive Branch of the U.S. Government. 5. He led the development of some of the most complex systems every built to include multi-billion dollar, revolutionary, secret spacecraft and a founder of the U.S. Drone Program where he later served as a Mission Operations Commander. 6. He served as a senior executive or military officer in 5 National Agencies and as Special Assistant to the Director of the largest information program in the U.S. budget. 7. He served as Vice President of Singularity University, two-time director of their Graduate Studies Program, Faculty for ten years, and the Distinguished Faculty member for five. 8. His award winning high-tech ventures have received over $100 million dollars in funding from Silicon Valley’s top investors to include Kleiner Perkins, Vinod Khosla, Cisco, Oracle, Accenture, and In-Q-Tel. 9. He is Chairman of the world’s leading Quantum Computing software company, 1QBit. 10. He was the Founder and President of FireDrop and Zaplet which merged with Metric Stream where he also served in all three companies as Board Director. 11. He is Founder and CEO of GEDI Training a new kind of organization that is transforming education by uniquely training leaders for extraordinary, lifetime, human performance through character training and exhilarating global experiences from elite combat warriors, human performance experts, and renowned physicians. 12. He is the Founder of Exponential Leadership, an organization dedicated to transforming global leadership potential through courage, compassion and integrity. 13. He is the founder of the Global Inspirational Goals, a proposal made to the United Nations to adopt, in addition to the Sustainable Development Goals, global goals that inspire the best of human potential so that we are not just focused on solving global problems. 14. He was an Investment Banker in the Mergers and Acquisitions Group at Goldman Sachs Headquarters. 15. Harvard, Stanford, and Berkeley’s Business schools have written and taught case studies on David’s leadership, management, and decision-making. Pictured front page Wall Street Journal. USA Today, The New York Times, Business Week, Fortune Magazine, CNN… 16. He has been pictured on the cover of the Wall Street Journal and written about in USA Today, The New York Times, Business Week, Fortune Magazine, CNN and others. His Startups have received multiple awards to include Top 50 Private Companies in the World, Red Herring Top 100 Private Companies in the World, USA Today’s Tech Reviews Best Picks, Internet World’s Net Rising Stars, Red Herring’s Catch, Internet Outlook’s Investors Choice Award, Enterprise Outlook Investors Choice, Best of the Web from PC World. 17. His fascination with technology began in the fourth grade after building a hovercraft (early drone) to carry his sister to the bus stop, powered by what was formerly his mother’s vacuum cleaner, and fortunately limited by the length of an electric power cord.

Sangita Pokwal

Program Coordinator, ACA

Sangita Pokwal is a Bhutanese refugee from Nepal who immigrated to the United States in 2009 through the UN refugee resettlement program. She is an Asian Community Alliance program coordinator tasked with executing several ACA programs within her community.

Sangita Pokwal

Program Coordinator, ACA

Sangita Pokwal is a Bhutanese refugee from Nepal who immigrated to the United States in 2009 through the UN refugee resettlement program. In 2010, she and her husband moved to Cincinnati from Pennsylvania in search of a new life and work. In 2016, Pokwal participated in a computer literacy class given by Asian Community Alliance (ACA). The program was the first grant given to ACA by the P&G Alumni Foundation. After earning a certificate of attendance for completing the eight weeks of classes, she found that the training was extremely helpful in providing information in problem solving by utilizing the internet and YouTube. The knowledge gained not only helped her build confidence and capacity, but it also allowed her to help others in her community as well. In addition, she took the ACA’s PANDA job training program for in-home care, another program supported by the P&G Foundation grant. With these accomplishments, she was hired by ACA to become a program coordinator to execute several of ACA programs within her community.

Joseph Jimenez

Former Chief Executive Officer, Novartis

Joseph Jimenez held the position of Chief Executive Officer of Novartis, one of the world’s leading pharmaceutical companies, from 2010 to 2018. Under his leadership, Novartis developed one of the largest pipelines of self-originated drugs in the industry, driven by a strong commitment to R&D.

Joseph Jimenez

Former Chief Executive Officer, Novartis

Joseph Jimenez held the position of Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Novartis, one of the world’s leading pharmaceutical companies, from 2010 to 2018. Under his leadership, Novartis developed one of the largest pipelines of self-originated drugs in the industry, driven by a strong commitment to R&D. Jimenez also transformed the company’s portfolio to focus on innovative patented medicines under Novartis Pharmaceuticals and Novartis Oncology, generics under Sandoz, and eye care devices under Alcon. Prior to serving as CEO of Novartis, Jimenez held the position of Division Head, Novartis Pharmaceuticals. He joined Novartis in 2007 as Division Head, Novartis Consumer Health. Jimenez is currently a member of the Board of Directors of General Motors Company and The Procter & Gamble Company. Additionally, he serves on the Boards of Century Therapeutics and Graphite Bio. He graduated in 1982 with a bachelor’s degree from Stanford University and in 1984 with a Master of Business Administration from the University of California, Berkeley, both in the United States.

Arianna Huffington

Founder & CEO, Thrive Global

Arianna Huffington is the founder and CEO of Thrive Global, the founder of The Huffington Post and the author of 15 books. In 2016 she launched Thrive Global, a leading behavior change tech company with the mission of changing the way we work and live by ending the collective delusion that burnout is the price we must pay for success.

Arianna Huffington

Founder & CEO, Thrive Global

Arianna Huffington is the founder and CEO of Thrive Global, the founder of The Huffington Post and the author of 15 books, including Thrive and The Sleep Revolution. In 2016, she launched Thrive Global, a leading behavior change tech company with the mission of changing the way we work and live by ending the collective delusion that burnout is the price we must pay for success. She has been named to Time Magazine's list of the world’s 100 most influential people and the Forbes Most Powerful Women list. Originally from Greece, she moved to England when she was 16 and graduated from Cambridge University with an MA in economics. At 21, she became president of the famed debating society, the Cambridge Union. She serves on numerous boards, including Onex and The B Team. Her last two books, Thrive: The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Life of Well-Being, Wisdom, and Wonder and The Sleep Revolution: Transforming Your Life, One Night At A Time, both became instant international bestsellers. Most recently, she wrote the foreword to Thrive Global's first book Your Time to Thrive: End Burnout, Increase Well-being, and Unlock Your Full Potential with the New Science of Microsteps.

Andrew Wessels

Founder and CEO, The Marque

Andrew Wessels is the Founder & CEO of The Marque, which has grown into a global brand serving clients in the US, UK, Europe, Asia and the Middle East. Wessel’s entrepreneurial work ethic is complemented by an innovative mindset and a natural feel for communication and collaboration.

Andrew Wessels

Founder and CEO, The Marque

Andrew Wessels is the Founder and CEO of The Marque. Wessels first conceived of the idea for The Marque when, after researching former mentors and colleagues online, he realized information about individuals is often unorganized, inaccurate, and outdated. Seeing a significant gap in the market, he set out to build a digital profile management platform that provides leaders in their field with an accurate, current, and clearly presented online profile that offers privacy and security from unwanted solicitation. Today, The Marque is the leader in digital profile solutions for successful individuals. A Marque Profile is a crucial digital asset that serves as the foundation of an individual’s digital communications strategy, allowing them to present themselves in the digital world as they would in their everyday lives. The Marque has grown into a global brand that serves clients in the US, UK, Europe, Asia and the Middle East. The Marque’s services extend beyond its digital profiles to include digital audits, athlete profiles, foundation pages and dedicated services for boards and companies. It also offers a digital briefcase, which, in addition to a profile and a digital audit, offers clients valuable peace of mind with consistent real-time online reputation monitoring and expert digital partners. Wessel’s entrepreneurial work ethic is complemented by an innovative mindset and a natural feel for communication and collaboration. After leaving behind a first-class cricket career in his native South Africa, he ventured to the UK where he held senior roles at J.P. Morgan and Carphone Warehouse (later Frontiers Capital). Moving his focus to innovative startups, Wessels assisted in the launch of Marquis Jet in Europe (later sold to NetJets) following their launch in the US, and served as CEO of Storm Solutions, a telecommunications business which he successfully exited in 2012. .

Kathy Gramling

Americas Consumer Products and Retail Leader, EY

Kathy Gramling is the Americas Consumer Products and Retail Leader for EY with 25+ years experience in the consumer goods and retail industry. In her role as Americas Consumer Industry Leader, she sets the strategy and go to market priorities across North and South America for retail and consumer products clients. Prior to joining EY, Kathy spent 3 years in Paris and 10 years in London leading teams across Europe and Africa.

Kathy Gramling

Americas Consumer Products and Retail Leader, EY

Kathy has more than 25 years’ experience in the consumer goods and retail industry. In her role as Americas Consumer Industry Leader, she sets the strategy and go to market priorities across North and South America for retail and consumer products clients. Kathy is a keen strategist and nimble transformation architect. She solves client’s most pertinent issues by blending deep business process understanding and technology solutions. She serves as global client service partner for some of the most important consumer products and retail clients. Kathy has significant experience across multi-channel strategy, consumer insights and supply chain transformation. Prior to joining EY, Kathy spent 3 years in Paris and 10 years in London leading teams across Europe and Africa. Kathy received her bachelor of arts degree from the College of William and Mary and her MBA from the American Graduate School of International Management, Thunderbird.

Andrew Swinand

CEO Publicis Groupe Creative U.S.

Andrew Swinand

CEO Publicis Groupe Creative U.S.

Andrew Swinand is the CEO of the Creative Group across all Publicis agencies, as well as the CEO of Leo Burnett. Andrew is also the co-founder of Abundant Venture Partners, a Chicago-based incubator dedicated to improving the human condition through investments in healthcare and technology. Andrew became CEO of Leo Burnett when they acquired two companies he founded, which were focused on personalized content and search analytics. Being a serial entrepreneur, Andrew has founded nine companies and had seven exits. Prior to Abundant, Andrew was president of Starcom Mediavest Group, placing over $43B in advertising through 110 offices around the globe. He has worked with a large range of clients including Procter & Gamble, Samsung, Oracle, Walmart, Microsoft, Nintendo, and Disney. Before SMG, Andrew worked in brand management at Procter & Gamble, helping to launch their first venture into ecommerce. He began his professional career at BBDO and is a graduate of the Wharton School of Business. He proudly served his country as a platoon leader in the US Army. Andrew was named the “Top 100 in Advertising” by 4A’s, was inducted into the American Advertising Federation Hall of Achievement in 2008 and is on the board of the Ad Council. He was recognized by Advertising Age as a “Media Maven,” by Mediaweek as one of the industry’s “Power 50” and appeared on Crain’s Chicago Business “40 Under 40” list. Andrew is also engaged in multiple social impact companies and partnerships that focus on wellness and mental health through the American Heart Association, education and youth development through Off the Street Club and healthcare reform through Abundant Venture Partners.

Lisa Caldwell

Americas Business Consulting Leader, EY

Lisa Caldwell is the EY Americas Business Consulting Leader. She directs the strategy, sales, service delivery, operations and financial performance of the EY Consulting services in the US, Canada, LATAM and Israel. Lisa is a featured speaker and Forbes contributor on trends in manufacturing including product innovation, digital transformation and supply chain resiliency.

Lisa Caldwell

Americas Business Consulting Leader, EY

Perry Li

General Manager, QuickDecision

Perry Li

General Manager, QuickDecision

Perry Li is the General Manager of QuickDecision, a leading and innovative consumer research company in China. Li is responsible for the company’s global client service and research product innovation. He is a well-known expert of Brand Strategy and Consumer Research in China. QuickDecision is recognized as their most innovative research partner by more than 200 top clients including, among others, P&G, Unilever, Mars, Tencent, GSK, PepsiCo. QuickDecision uses cutting-edge media recruiting and AI-enabled research tools to disrupt conventional research, providing authentic, efficient and actionable solutions to its clients. Perry is the former General Manager of P&G CMK (Consumer and Market Knowledge) with 20 years experiences in P&G. Over this time, he has worked as the CMK head of P&G Asia Baby Care, Global Strategy Development and P&G Taiwan/Hong Kong Market.

Jacqueline Wu

Founder of FryDay Consulting

Jacqueline launched FRYday Brand Consulting Institute since 2019 with focus on branding proposition and key brand asset management for Consumer Brands originated from China to become sustainable lovemark. She and her team have helped multiple fast-growing China brands like Bananain, Ramen Talk, Super Monkey, Keep etc.

Jacqueline Wu

Founder of FryDay Consulting

Jacqueline has rich brand building experience in FMCG across MNC (P&G, PepsiCo, Sanofi), Unicorn Startup (LittileRedBook), Post investment management (Hillhouse) and recently her own consulting firm to bring customized brand framework and service to enable local brands to flourish. She launched FRYday Brand Consulting Institute since 2019 with focus on branding proposition and key brand asset management for Consumer Brands originated from China to become sustainable lovemark. She and her team have helped multiple fast-growing China brands like Bananain, Ramen Talk, Super Monkey, Keep etc.

Fares El Sayegh

Senior Vice President at Procter & Gamble

Fares El Sayegh

Senior Vice President at Procter & Gamble

Fares El Sayegh is the Senior Vice President of Product Supply, Go-To-Market Operations, Europe, Global Supply Network Operations and Manufacturing Capacity. He first joined P&G in 1988 and in his 33 years with the company has held several positions all over the world. His career with P&G has taken him from South Africa to Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Yemen, and now Switzerland. Born in Lebanon, he graduated from The Catholic University of America with a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering.

Ed Tazzia

Principal, Sycamore and Company

Tazzia is a principal with Sycamore and Company, a management consulting firm. He has spent nearly 25 years in client-side roles from entry to executive with some of the best-known firms in the world. His professional experience includes marketing and general management positions in packaged goods and high-tech, retail and sports marketing.

Ed Tazzia

Principal, Sycamore and Company

Tazzia is a principal with Sycamore and Company, a management consulting firm. He has spent nearly 25 in client-side roles from entry to executive with some of the best-known firms in the world. His professional experience includes marketing and general management positions in packaged goods and high-tech, retail and sports marketing. Tazzia started his career at Procter & Gamble and spent ten years in brand management roles, including seven in new products. Later, he was named the Vice President of Marketing for the North American Soccer League, the professional soccer league that brought Pele to North America. He returned to consumer-packaged goods with Vlasic Foods, a subsidiary of Campbell’s Soup Company, eventually being named Vice President of Marketing. His time there included a stint as General Manager of Campbell’s US Hispanic Business Unit where he led a team marketing Hispanic cuisine to both Hispanics and the general market. In 1991, Tazzia was named Vice President of Marketing for Silo Electronics Stores, the US subsidiary of the Dixon’s Stores Group, the world’s largest electronics retailer. The combination of classic packaged goods and electronics retailing led to his recruitment by IBM where he was eventually named the global marketing executive on the IBM commercial PC business, a worldwide $5B business. Tazzia was a regular contributor to Brand Week and the Global Marketer, has been published in AdAge and other trade journals and has spoken at both industry conferences and colleges including Wharton, Columbia, Northwestern and Michigan State. From 2008 to 2018 he was the Dean and coordinator of the US Marketing Communication College that taught marketing and communications concepts to the Department of State, the Department of Defense, USAid, and other US Government agencies. Starting in 2016 this work extended to global NGOs in concert with Facebook. Ed co-authored “Crafting Persuasion” a marketing handbook for the non-marketer and wrote “Starting Over” a job search primer. Tazzia is a founding board member and has served as the Chairman of the 45,000 member global P&G Alumni Network since 2003. Tazzia is a graduate of Michigan State University with a BA in Advertising

Lisa Gevelber

Chief Marketing Officer, Americas Region at Google

Lisa Gevelber

Chief Marketing Officer, Americas Region at Google

Lisa Gevelber founded and leads Grow with Google, which is Google’s $1 billion commitment to economic opportunity for all. Since 2017, Grow with Google has helped over 6 million Americans and tens of millions globally grow their skills, careers, and businesses. One of her most significant contributions is the creation of Google Career Certificates, which provide access to in-demand, high paying jobs for people without college degrees. These certificates have provided significant upward mobility to tens of thousands and counting. Gevelber also leads Google for Start-ups, which levels the playing field for underrepresented founders and helps start-ups thrive across every corner of the world. Gevelber has over 30 years of experience in General Management, Marketing, and Product Management including over 20 years in Silicon Valley. Her career spans from early-stage start-ups to Fortune 50 companies, including Google and Procter and Gamble. As a member of the global leadership team of Google’s Ads and Commerce business, she led Marketing globally for eight years, helping the business grow from ~$30B to $130B+. For the past 11 years she has also been the Chief Marketing Officer for the Americas Region at Google; accountable for new user acquisition, retention and revenue, brand and reputation efforts, and launching products in new countries

Terrence Wang

General Manager of China Market, Anker Innovations

Terrence Wang is currently the General Manager of China market at Anker Innovations. He's been practicing building brands from scratch via direct-to-consumer and digital-focused models at both global and local level since he joined Anker as Head of Global Marketing in 2015.

Terrence Wang

General Manager of China Market, Anker Innovations

Sue Allchurch

Chief of Outreach and Engagement United Nations Global Compact

Sue is currently Chief of Outreach and Engagement United Nations Global Compact Sue spent most of her career running consumer brands, latterly Lipton tea, Surf and Skip detergents and Laundry Innovation globally in Unilever. In all roles Sue led sustainable development and social purpose as a core part of the brand and product development.

Sue Allchurch

Chief of Outreach and Engagement United Nations Global Compact

Sue spent most of her career running consumer brands, latterly Lipton tea, Surf and Skip detergents and Laundry Innovation globally in Unilever. In all roles Sue led sustainable development and social purpose as a core part of the brand and product development. As Global Vice President of the Unilever Marketing Academy, Sue joined the private-public partnership on Hand Washing delivering training on behavior change campaigns. In 2014 Sue made a move to work in the public sector to run marketing for Save the Children UK. Sue was born in Pakistan and raised Hong Kong. As a teenager, she worked for UNHCR in refugee camps working with children who had arrived from Vietnam.

Matt Story

Vice President, Visa

Matt Story

Vice President, Visa

Matt Story is Vice President at Visa, leading the organization’s strategic global brand partnerships and advocacy strategy. He and his team are utilizing purposeful partnerships and advocacy programs, such as Visa ‘She’s Next’ grant program, to increase access for Visa’s global stakeholders and enable them to thrive. With degrees in Computer Science and Computer Engineering from Washington University in St. Louis, Story combines his engineering education with experience in brand marketing from Procter & Gamble and digital strategy from Razorfish, Denuo, and Publicis Groupe to creatively design and execute innovative marketing programs. As an active advocate of diversity, equity and inclusion for all organizations, Story hosts the “What’s Your Story?” podcast where he sits with people of color leaders to hear their unique stories and learn how they have turned their lived experiences into superpowers. Story is also a proud husband to Rebecca Story, CEO/founder of Bloomi, and dad to daughters Alani (12yrs old) and Mia (1 yr old). When not spending time with his family, he enjoys running, riding Peloton and watching basketball of any level from to middle school up to the WNBA.

Judy Okten

Founder, BonJu Smoothies and the Hive & Well Business Consultancy

Judy Okten is a marketing leader and food start-up founder turned coach. She is the founder of BonJu Smoothies & Juices and The Hive & Well Business Consultancy. Okten’s background as a corporate marketeer and entrepreneur gives her deep insight into the unique challenges faced by business owners and professionals.

Judy Okten

Founder, BonJu Smoothies and the Hive & Well Business Consultancy

With 17 years of experience in top tier marketing firms and building her own company, Judy Okten is a marketing leader and food start-up founder turned coach. She is the founder of BonJu Smoothies & Juices in 2016 (sold in 2019) and The Hive & Well Business Consultancy, both based in Geneva, Switzerland. She also coaches individuals and teams, with specialized experience with start-up founders, professionals, and working women. In 2021, Okten launched 100plus SA, a health tech company on a mission to extend and expand our healthy years of life through technology. The company raised a seed round of 2.5 million and is currently hiring its team and building its first digital product. It aggregates health data and turns it into a personalized plan for optimized vitality that will be provided to clients and doctors to enable them to remotely monitor and keep people on a track to extended health. Okten’s background as a corporate marketeer and entrepreneur gives her deep insight into the unique challenges faced by business owners and professionals. She supports leaders in deepening their self-awareness, cultivating self-compassion, creating healthy habits, strengthening their communication and resiliency mindset. Her clients think of her as their trusted advisor and guide that has contributed significantly to their growth and development. Okten holds an Honours Bachelor of Commerce from Ryerson University and is a certified Health & Wellness coach from the Institute of Integrative Nutrition. She is also certified in Plant Based Nutrition from Cornell University, and Plant Based Professional Cooking from Rouxbe Culinary School. Okten lives in Geneva with her husband and 2 daughters, Ayla and Lily. When she’s not coaching, consulting, or speaking, you will find her reading, running, travelling, making green smoothies, or learning real life lessons from her daughters!

Alberto Alvarez

CEO, LDM Holding

Alberto Alvarez is the CEO of LDM Holding, a group of companies focused on marketing and AdTech innovation. He focuses on identifying trends and understanding where the future of marketing and is a strong believer in the transformative power of AI.

Alberto Alvarez

CEO, LDM Holding

Alberto Alvarez is the CEO of LDM Holding, a group of companies focused on marketing and AdTech innovation with +180 employees and presence in 7 countries and clients across Americas, under the motto Future Proof your Success. LDM Holding owns: i) LDM: One of the most relevant and innovative digital marketing agencies in LATAM, ii) Mediam Group: The 1st Official Google Representative, iii) Future Media: Developing the new advertising ecosystem around Digital TV (AVOD, FAST, OTT) and iv) AdTech Investments: Venture fund focused on AdTech driven by Artificial Intelligence. As the leader of the Holding, he focuses on identifying trends and understanding where the future of marketing & its key client’s industries are heading and he is a strong believer in the transformative power of Artificial Intelligence (AI). Besides his role as CEO, he leads the innovation team focused on developing, commercializing, and investing on AI, AdTech, automation and new digital media and technologies. With more than 15 years of experience in marketing, Alvarez has held senior level positions in companies such as P&G and Agora technologies in Silicon Valley. Driven by his experience on strategic thinking, innovation, and digital marketing he is part of Boards of Directors or Advisor to the Boards of Tech companies, and he is frequently invited as a speaker in corporate and public events such as TEDx. Alvarez believes we are living in an accelerated transformation driven by technology and people are not quite getting it. He is constantly looking to understand what's coming and how to be ready, under the premise that the reality of today is different from the reality of the past and will definitely be different from the one of the future. His personal quote “If you are not moving forward, you are moving backwards. The world is moving ahead regardless of you”

Alexandra Mitsotaki

Co-Founder & President, World Human Forum

Alexandra Mitsotaki is Co-Founder and President of the World Human Forum, a global citizen initiative which has its symbolic base in Delphi. In 1998 she founded the Greek affiliate of ActionAid, the international organisation against poverty and injustice, ActionAid Hellas. In 2014 she cofounded Action Finance Initiative, the first microcredit organisation in Greece with partners ActionAid Hellas and Adie France. She teaches seminars on Political Economy of Development at the Institute of Political Studies of Paris as a guest speaker.

Alexandra Mitsotaki

Co-Founder & President, World Human Forum

Alexandra Mitsotaki holds a Bachelor’s degree in Political Studies from the Institute of Political Studies of Paris and a Postgraduate degree on Development Issues. She worked at the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), where she specialised further in poverty issues in the developing world. She is a profound believer in civil society mobilisation and in citizen responsibility and their capacity to hold governments accountable at all levels of civic engagement. In 1998 she founded the Greek affiliate of ActionAid, the international organisation against poverty and injustice, ActionAid Hellas. Since 2009 she chairs the Hellenic Cultural Centre in Paris, with the aim of establishing a tool of cultural diplomacy for Greece in the Francophone world. Reacting to the financial crisis in Greece, in 2014 she cofounded Action Finance Initiative, the first microcredit organisation in Greece with partners ActionAid Hellas and Adie France. In 2017 she cofounded and is the President of the World Human Forum, a global citizen initiative which has its symbolic base in Delphi. She is a member of the High Level Roundtable Committee of the New European Bauhaus, an initiative of the European Commission aiming to connect the European Green Deal to our living spaces. She teaches seminars on Political Economy of Development at the Institute of Political Studies of Paris as a guest speaker. “It always seems impossible until it’s done.” Nelson Mandela

Ihsan Leggett

Director of Product, James Hardie

Ihsan Leggett is the Director of Product at James Hardie as the brand pivots from a B2B to a B2C company. Leggett is a brand builder and innovator who loves a great challenge. He has always had an entrepreneurial streak and a fierce desire to serve consumers in new ways.

Ihsan Leggett

Director of Product, James Hardie

Ihsan Leggett is the Director of Product at James Hardie as the brand pivots from a B2B to a B2C company. Leggett is a brand builder and innovator who loves a great challenge. Leggett entered product management at Medline Industries, where he helped grow multiple operating room brands. After pursuing an MBA in Marketing and Management at the Kellogg School of Management, he began his career at P&G and led part of the Bounty brand and launched the brand’s first Olympics campaign. He was then promoted to lead the Luvs brand and turned a declining brand around with the iconic 1st Kid 2nd Kid campaign. He then joined P&G Ventures to help enter Procter into new categories. He has always had an entrepreneurial streak and a fierce desire to serve consumers in new ways. Leggett moved to Chicago in 2018 to be closer to family and worked across multiple consumer start-ups, including real estate, hospitality, and fishing products. He lives in Lincolnwood, IL, with his wife Dawna and their two kids, Zara and Sennett. Together they are launching a franchise location of True REST Float Spa in Skokie, IL. Their goal is to help bring wellness to the community and show their kids the responsibility of business ownership. In addition, Leggett is pursuing an advanced certificate in Design Thinking from IDEO.

Lorraine Twohill

Chief Marketing Officer, Google

Lorraine Twohill, Chief Marketing Officer at Google, manages a global team responsible for telling the evolving story of Google’s brand, driving revenue growth, and helping billions of users discover and make the most of Google’s products every day. Her teams oversee global marketing across some of the world’s most used and loved brands.

Lorraine Twohill

Chief Marketing Officer, Google

As Google’s Chief Marketing Officer, Lorraine Twohill manages a global team responsible for telling the evolving story of Google’s brand, driving revenue growth, and helping billions of users discover and make the most of Google’s products every day. Her teams oversee global marketing across some of the world’s most used and loved brands—Search, Android, YouTube, Chrome, and Hardware. Twohill has also helped drive Google’s social impact focus on education, economic opportunity and inclusion, and the company’s crisis response strategy. Previously, Twohill led Marketing for Google in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Twohill graduated from Dublin City University with a joint honors degree in International Marketing and Languages. She has been named Adweek’s Grand Brand Genius, Business Insider's Most Innovative CMO, one of the world’s 50 Most Powerful Moms, Cannes Creative Marketer of the Year, and has spoken at the United Nations on empowering women through digital tools. A native of Carlow, Ireland, Twohill lives in the Bay Area with her husband and two children, and their dog, Coco.

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2021 P&G Alumni Awards Winners

The P&G Alumni Network recognizes P&G Alumni leaders who continue to make an impact in their industries and communities, during and beyond their service at P&G.The awards ceremony will take place during the 2021 P&G Alumni Network Global Conference.

Claude Meyer

Community Service Award Winner

For an individual who has made a significant contribution of their time, effort, and expertise to the community in which they live. The award can reflect a single event or a lifetime of work.

Claude Meyer

Community Service Award Winner

Claude Meyer, a French national, has been deeply involved in providing home care centers for handicapped children and adults in Belgium for years. He has worked for the cause of mental disability for 12 years with the Nonprofit Constellations (Non-profit Association) of which he is vice-president. They have already opened six homes that accommodate people (180 residents) with mental disabilities and we have five others in development.

Janet Reid

Diversity & Inclusion Award Winner

For an individual who has delivered exceptional results by leveraging a diverse workforce and an inclusive culture. This person is a proven leader and role model who has inspired others to drive equality and to lead inclusively in the workplace and/or in society.

Janet Reid

Diversity & Inclusion Award Winner

In her lifetime of work starting in 1980 as P&G’s first black, female Ph.D. and continuing through today, Janet Reid has transformed management globally through her ground-breaking work in the areas of equality, diversity, and inclusion. After leading P&G’s journey into equality, diversity, and inclusion, she left the company to found Global Lead Novation’s which worked on the subject in over 50 countries and every continent except Antarctica.

Bracken Darrell

The Innovation Award Winner

For an individual who has contributed a significant innovation to the world of business during their career. This is an award to recognize creativity that has been translated into business success.

Bracken Darrell

The Innovation Award Winner

Innovation comes in many forms. There are those who invent and those who create the environment that not only allows innovation but also drives innovation from concept to market. Bracken Darrell has had a long career and a history of innovation with P&G, GE, Braun and Whirlpool in leadership roles, but his work since taking over a struggling Logitech company is the best evidence of his ability to drive design and innovation from the brainstorming session to the marketplace.

Ifeoma Okafor-Obi

John E. Pepper Humanitarian Award Winner

For an individual who has made a significant contribution to the human condition through their time, effort or expertise, whether this was a single event or a lifetime of work. This award is intended to recognize actions that go well beyond efforts in a single community or location and serve mankind as a whole.

Ifeoma Okafor-Obi

John E. Pepper Humanitarian Award Winner

Ifeoma is currently the Director of Operations in The Tony Elumelu Foundation. The Tony Elumelu Foundation uses a $100 million commitment from its founder to empower 10,000 African entrepreneurs over 10 years. The TEF Entrepreneurship Program selects, trains, and empowers African Entrepreneurs to start-up businesses in their communities, creating jobs and improving livelihood while reducing at risk population.

Deborah Dana

Early Achievement Award Winner

For an individual who, in the early stages of their career, has shown outstanding potential based on early achievements in innovation, entrepreneurship or general management. This awardee empowers those around them and makes a meaningful impact on the markets they serve, representing the best of P&G Alumni.

Deborah Dana

Early Achievement Award Winner

Deborah worked for P&G Mexico from January 2005 - July 2006 as Brand Assistant for Trial and Promotions in the Marketing department. She co-created Kiwilimon, the largest digital cooking platform in Mexico, with over 4 million monthly visits that interact with recipes, videos and tips. Kiwilimón currently has over half a million registered loyal users and over 13,000 cooking recipes.

Douglas Meng

John G. Smale General Management Award Winner

For an individual who has made a significant contribution to the world of business whether the result of a single event or concept or the compilation of a lifetime of achievements.

Douglas Meng

John G. Smale General Management Award Winner

Douglas Meng Chong is the founder and CEO of Catala Decorations Co. Ltd. He was a marketing research manager at P&G China from 1991 to 1994, and successfully applied P&G’s values and management principles such as integrity and honesty, data driven approach, and technological innovation, to decorations industry, especially in painting service.

Lisa Baird

The McElroy Award Winner

Procter & Gamble has long been recognized as the preeminent consumer company in the world and it desires to maintain this position. This is specifically not a “Marketer of the Year” award to be focused solely on the marketing function nor on a single time period. Rather, this award is intended to recognize significant contributions to the art and science of satisfying the consumer whether that is the result of a single event or concept or the compilation of a lifetime of achievements.

Lisa Baird

The McElroy Award Winner

Lisa Baird is the poster child for McElroy award as she has proven her understanding of the consumer in perhaps the widest range of industries imaginable. After starting her career and P&G and then at Warner Lambert, Lisa was named one of the first true brand directors at General Motors serving in a number of positions at including the Pontiac Division, Corporate marketing, Chevrolet Sales, and on the company's first e-commerce initiative.

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