Jon Bond

Co Chairman and Chief Tomorroist

The Shipyard

Jon Bond is one of the advertising and marketing industry’s most recognized thought leaders and entrepreneurs. He has developed several significant companies and marketing concepts over his 30-year career. He was Co-founder and CEO of Kirshenbaum Bond and Partners (KBP). In 2010, KBP sold to MDC. Billings were approximately $1B at the time and clients included BMW, Citi, Victoria’s Secret, Target, Wendy’s, and the Coca Cola Company. The company also spawned Media Kitchen and Varick (one of the first trading desks). From 2010 to 2012, Jon was CEO of Big Fuel (now part of Publicis), one of the world’s largest social media agencies. Big Fuel’s clients included General Motors, Gatorade, Chase, and T-Mobile.

Jon has also been an investor / advisor to Simplifi, Klout, Crimson Hexagon, Data Xu, Victors & Spoils, White Ops, Sonobi, and Accordant media.

Anthony Scriffignano, Ph.D.

SVP, Chief Data Scientist

Dun & Bradstreet

Anthony Scriffignano in an internationally recognized data scientist with experience spanning over 35 years, in multiple industries and enterprise domains. Dr. Scriffignano has extensive background in linguistics and advanced algorithms, leveraging that background as primary inventor on multiple patents worldwide. He provides thought leadership globally. Recently, he briefed the US National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee regarding reports to the President on Big Data Analytics, Emerging Technologies Strategic Vision, and Internet and Communications Resilience. Additionally, Scriffignano provided expert advice on private sector data officers to a group of state Chief Data Officers and the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. He also served as a forum panelist and keynote speaker at the World Internet Conference hosted by Chinese President Xi Jinping in Wuzhen, China. He was recently published in CIO. com, Huffington Post, The Hill, PCWeek (Russia), Mint (India) and quoted in various publications including Forbes Insights, China Daily, Xinhua, Taiwan News and Bangkok Post. He was profiled by InformationWeek and by BizCloud, and is a frequent CXOTalk guest. He regularly presents at business, government and academic venues globally regarding emerging trends in data and information stewardship, the “Big Data” explosion, artificial intelligence, multilingual challenges in business identity and malfeasance in commercial settings.

Joe Bilman

Chief Digital Officer & Head of Product Development

Harland Clarke Holdings, Valassis & Harland Clarke

Joe Bilman is Chief Digital Officer of Harland Clarke Holdings, a wholly owned subsidiary of MacAndrews & Forbes, and oversees the growth strategy for $4B in assets including Harland Clarke, Valassis, RetailMeNot and Scantron. His role is to help identify strategic growth opportunities for HCH’s portfolio companies including M&A, product innovation and business optimization. He is also Head of Product Development for Valassis and Harland Clarke.

Recently, he was Chief Digital Officer and Global Head of Business Development at American Media Inc., where he had P&L responsibility for AMI’s digital business and oversight of all business development activities. Prior to AMI, Bilman was acting Head of Product for Softcard, a pioneering joint venture between Verizon, AT&T and T-Mobile in the mobile payments space.

Previously, he was Chief Product Officer for Fox Mobile Group, a division of Newscorp, where he ran product in 34 countries. In this position, he transformed Jamba, the world’s largest mobile content company and a wholly owned asset of Fox Mobile, and created Bitbop, the world’s first on-demand TV and movie subscription service for mobile devices

Joe Bilman earned an MFA in computer art and a BFA in film and video from New York’s School of Visual Arts. In 2010, he was named one of “The Digital Power 50” by The Hollywood Reporter.

Saskia Steinacker

Vice President and Global Lead Digital Excellence

Bayer

Saskia Steinacker was named Head of Digital Excellence in February 2017. In this capacity, she leads Bayer’s digital transformation in close collaboration with the Board of Management. Together with the divisions and functions she developed the company’s Digital Agenda with a focus on new business models to accelerate new growth. The Digital Agenda enables the organization through a shift of mindset and culture, optimized technology, rapid processes, effective partnerships and expert knowledge on data.

Form 2013-2016 she lead the global digital IT function for Bayer and prior to this the Bayer North America Marketing & Sales IT unit. In both roles she successfully optimized the technology portfolio of the company to enable business strategies efficiently and reduced the time to market significantly. 

In 2004 she joined Bayer and held a succession of roles in Marketing, ranging from Multichannel Marketer to Head of Dialog Marketing for Diabetes Care. In this capacity she redesigned the customer interaction of the unit and launched a state-of the art CRM program.

She graduated from Ecosign Academy with a degree in Communication Design and holds a Master in Business Administration from Liverpool University.

Ananya Chadha

Innovator

TKS

Ananya Chadha is a 16 year-old blockchain developer from Toronto. She has developed two cryptocurrencies and crowdsale (ICO) smart contracts with the ERC20 tokens framework set by Ethereum. She also won the Cryptochicks Hackathon, with her project putting Genomic data on the blockchain.

Currently, she’s focused on the intersection between blockchain and other exponential technologies including Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCIs). She is the youngest BCI developer in the world. Recently, she developed a brain-computer interface that uses brain waves to turn on and off music with the user’s thoughts, and controlled a remote control car with her brain. She is now sponsored by Microsoft for BCI development. Her mentors and advisors represent some of the leading companies in the blockchain and emerging tech industries. http://www.ananyac.com/

Greg Paull

Co Founder and Principal

R3

Greg is the co-founder of R3, a globally minded independent marketing consulting firm. Prior to establishing the firm in 2002, Greg led marketing and agency teams in the US, Europe, and Asia-Pacific. Originally from Australia, he has helped build a new breed of best practice and measurement tools and processes to help marketers improve performance. In the past 15 years, R3 has expanded to manage global relationships with Unilever, Samsung, Pfizer, Coca-Cola, Visa and Colgate-Palmolive. Greg recently co-authored the book Global CMO: Best Practice in Marketing Effectiveness & Efficiency Around the World.

Jessica Pointing

Quantum Computing Researcher

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Jessica Pointing is a student at Harvard University studying physics and computer science, after spending her first two years of university studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Jessica has been doing quantum computing research at Harvard and MIT. She has interned as a software engineer at Google, management consultant at McKinsey & Company, investment banker at Goldman Sachs, and strategist at Morgan Stanley. She is the founder and editor-in-chief of Optimize Guide, a blog about life optimization, which has been read by more than 190,000 people and founded the Now Know Organization, which received funding from Google to teach technology to young people. She also founded the Harvard College Quantum Computing Association. Jessica was the winner (audience vote) for the Quantum Matters Science Communication Competition, and has been invited to talk about quantum computing at conferences, including IBM’s conference in Las Vegas and the Neo conference in Arizona. She has been awarded the McKinsey Women’s Impact Award, MIT Award for Distinguished Achievement in Leadership, and has been named a Google Anita Borg Scholar and John Harvard Scholar. She is also a Microsoft Scholar, Palantir Scholar, Adobe Research Scholar, Morgan Stanley Scholar, Goldman Sachs Scholar, Society of Women Engineers Scholar and Society of Geophysicists Scholar.

Eugene Kolker

VP & Chief Data Officer, IBM Services

IBM Corp.

Eugene has an extensive Data Science, Analytics and Innovation experience. He serves as a catalyst in data-driven transformation towards significant revenue and ROI, cost-effective use of resources, and high-quality, enhanced customer experience.

Eugene Kolker is the Vice President and Chief Data Officer of IBM Services. Prior to IBM, he was the Chief Data/Analytics Officer at Seattle Children’s. Previously, Eugene was the Founder and President of BIATECH Innovation Center, which was acquired by Seattle Children’s.

He published over 130 papers in 40 different journals, with the top papers among the most cited in data science. Dr. Kolker is also affiliated with New York University and University of Washington.

In 2015, Eugene was awarded by HIMSS with their ‘HIT Innovators Award’, as one of three leaders improving healthcare through IT. He was placed into the ‘Top 25 Chief Data/Analytics Officers’ by LinkedIn and ‘Top 16 data-driven geeks to watch’ by HIMSS. In March 2018, Eugene was named one of the ‘Top 50 Data and Analytics Professionals’ by Corinium Global Intelligence.

Gina Papush

Global Chief Data & Analytics Officer

QBE Insurance Group

Gina Papush is the Global Chief Data & Analytics Officer for QBE Insurance Group, one of the top 20 global insurance and reinsurance carriers. Gina is recognized for proven leadership and expertise in analytic innovation and data-driven strategies that accelerate business growth in complex environments. During her 20+ year career, she successfully built leading decision analytics and information management capabilities across diverse industries and business models, delivering significant business results.

As a Global Chief Analytics & Data Officer for QBE, Gina is spearheading the development of big data anlaytics and decision science capabilities for the firm globally. Prior to joining QBE, Gina headed the mortgae decision analytics and management team for Citigroup’s Global Consumer Banking unit and held various leadership positions within financial services and consulting industries. Her experience includes leading data science, information managemt, customer analytics, research, and strategic business planning for retail banking, consumer lending and credit, traditional and digitial retail, health care and pharma, manufacturing, and entertainment industries. She began her career in the field of environmental statistics.

Gina has served as Advisory and Executive Board member for data analytics/AI and insurtech start-ups. She holds an M.S. in Statistics from the University of Maryland, where she also completed her Ph.D. qualifications.

Richard Kramer

Founder, Managing Director

Arete Research

Richard is the main founder of Arete (formed in 2000), the pioneer of the independent equity research space (prior to the Wall Street scandals of 2001-2003), and is based in London. For over 20 years he has focused on the wider mobile internet space, including smartphones, digital consumer products, advertising technology and other internet services. He is a frequent and highly-rated speaker at industry conferences, known for his frank dissection of industry hype and willingness to offer critical as well as positive comments on leading tech companies. His team includes Muzhi and Rocco and he regularly supports interns to give them a leg up in the technology space. Prior to founding Arete, Richard was for four years #1 ranked technology analyst in Europe at Goldman Sachs, and prior to that, worked for Nortel and at a prestigious Columbia University economics think tank.

John Hall

Former Congressman for NY's 19th District, Musician, Songwriter, Co-Founder of Orleans, and

Author of “Still the One: A Rock'n'Roll Journey to Congress and Back”

John Hall is looking forward to the CDO Summit, as he’ll tell some stories, play songs and talk with anyone interested in communication, music, science, public service, and optimism.

His memoir, STILL THE ONE: A ROCK’n’ROLL JOURNEY TO CONGRESS AND BACK tells the story about the man best known as the founder of the band Orleans, with hits including “Still The One,” and “Dance With Me.” John co-wrote Janis Joplin’s “Half Moon,” Steve Wariner’s #1 country hit “You Can Dream of Me,” and also “Power,” which became the theme of the NO NUKES concerts in the 1970s. John has collaborated in the studio or on the stage with Little Feat, Jackson Browne, Bonnie Raitt, Graham Nash, Chet Atkins, Carly Simon…

His environmental concerns led him into community activism, which also got him on the road into politics, first serving in the Ulster County, New York legislature, then as trustee and president of the Saugerties school board. Hall won a seat in Congress in 2006, and returned to music in 2011 with Orleans.

John’s optimism comes through in stories from his life in the musical and political worlds in STILL THE ONE: A ROCK’n’ROLL JOURNEY TO CONGRESS AND BACK.

Benjamin Jankowski

Senior Vice President, Global Media

MasterCard

Mr. Jankowski is the Senior Vice President, Global Media. In this role, he is responsible for managing the MasterCard investment in marketing communications. This includes working with our global, regional and local marketing teams as well as agency partners to drive engagement and preference among MasterCard’s core constituents.

Having worked for many agency networks such as Omnicom, WPP, and Havas, Mr. Jankowski has a vast experience with helping drive business success of some of the world’s leading marketers such as Chase, Citibank, Dell, GE, Johnson & Johnson, Nestlé, PepsiCo, Procter & Gamble, and Xerox.

Mr. Jankowski holds a B.A. in Communications from Temple University in Philadelphia, PA. He has also taught periodically on advertising topics at Temple.

Michelle Froah

Vice President of Digital Transformation

Samsung Electronics America

Michelle Froah, VP of Digital Transformation at Samsung Electronics America (SEA), is an accomplished executive marketer with over two decades of experience in building brands and innovation from end to end. Recognized by Brand Innovators as one of the ‘Top 100’ Women in Brand Marketing in 2017, Michelle was also named on their ‘Women to Watch’ list for the year.

At SEA, Michelle is helping to enhance direct relationships with consumers with positive digital experiences across the consumer experience journey. In this role, she is tasked with transforming the way the brand goes to market by bringing together the marketing team, sales team, and data platform teams to build deeper consumer relationships.

Her passion for building brands in a digital world led to her appointment as a Mobile Marketing Association APAC Board Member in 2013. She is also on the Regional Board and Founding Member of The Marketing Society New York and Singapore. In addition, Michelle continues to act as Chairman of Brandable Pte. Ltd, a marketing and branding consultancy based in Singapore.

Prior to joining Samsung, Michelle served as Asia Pacific Senior Regional Marketing Director for Kimberly-Clark International where, as the regional CMO, she was responsible for marketing capability and innovation across the region. She joined Kimberly-Clark as the Global Feminine Care Director where she helped build Kotex to a $1 billion global brand.

Sean Atkins

Sr. Advisor, Evolution Media

Former President, MTV

Sean Atkins is currently a Senior Advisor to Evolution Media a growth equity firm backed by TPG and CAA. Previously, Sean served as President leading the turnaround, brand re-invention and digital innovation for MTV. Prior to MTV, he served as the General Manager & Executive Vice President of Digital Media and Strategy (Chief Digital Officer) at Discovery Communications where he expanded Discovery into new digital products and businesses in video, commerce and education.

Earlier experiences include HBOGo’s development at HBO, heading programming and development at Yahoo!, funding new ventures at Vulcan and building startups at Mediaconnex, Time Warner and A. Smith & Co. Atkins first started his career at the Walt Disney Company where he launched some of their first efforts on the Internet and expanded Disney Channel internationally.

Atkins has his MBA in Entrepreneurship from the University of Southern California and his Bachelor of Arts in Film / TV Production & Marketing from California Lutheran University.

David Chivers

President & Publisher

Register Media

David Chivers is president of Register Media and The Des Moines Register and a regional president for The USA TODAY Network. He is known as an innovative product and marketing strategist with an exceptional track record in growing revenue and profits for fast-growing consumer product and services companies. Globally minded data-driven and design-focused, David and his teams have profitably driven more than $3B in online revenues. He’s done this by analyzing market trends and emerging technologies to drive new product innovations and deeper customer engagement. David has built his career at the intersection of subscription marketing, digital transformation, media and content marketing.

David has worked for The Wall Street Journal, Barron’s, MarketWatch, and Meredith Corporation. Prior to joining The USA TODAY Network, he was chief digital officer for Jostens, which sells high school and college year books and class rings, as well as championship sports rings, medals, and trophies.

Slava Akmaev

Senior Vice President, Chief Analytics Officer,
Co-founder and Head of Berg Analytics

BERG

Slava Akmaev, Ph.D., is the Senior VP and Chief Analytics Officer at BERG. Dr. Akmaev is the industry leader in AI and machine learning applications in life sciences and healthcare. He heads the BERG Analytics business division and is the chief architect of Bayesian Artificial Intelligence software, bAIcis®. Dr. Akmaev is an avid advocate for data driven research and promotes wider utility of advanced mathematical modeling techniques in pharmaceutical and clinical research. Prior to his role at BERG, Dr. Akmaev spent a decade at Genzyme R&D and the CLIA diagnostic laboratory, Genzyme Genetics. He led the development and commercialization of novel multi-omic panel diagnostics in oncology and prenatal medicine. Dr. Akmaev has published numerous peer-reviewed manuscripts in genomics, systems biology, biochemistry and human genetics. He is a frequent speaker at AI, analytics and precision medicine conferences. Dr. Akmaev holds a Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from the University of Colorado at Boulder.

Sree Sreenivasan

Digital & Social Media Strategist & Consultant

Center10 Consulting LLC

Sree is a leading digital and social media consultant and strategist. He works as a consultant, speaker and trainer for nonprofits, corporations and more. He was, most recently, NYC’s Chief Digital Officer, running the Mayor’s Office of Digital Strategy. He left the position when the role of CDO was combined with the role of Chief Technology Officer of NYC.

From 2013-2016, he was the first Chief Digital Officer at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. At the Met, he lead a 70-person team that worked to keep the 150-year-old institution relevant in the smartphone age.

He joined the Met after spending 20 years at Columbia University as a professor at the Columbia Journalism School and a year as Columbia’s first CDO.

He was named one of Fast Company’s 100 Most Creative People in Business in 2015.

He is founder of such popular learning opportunities as Social Media One-Night Stand and Social Media Weekend #smwknd

From 2009-2011, he was part of the founding team at DNAinfo.com, developing the initial concept and business plan (funded by the founder of Ameritrade), a hyperlocal site named one of 2010’s six hottest news startups by BusinessInsider.

He is co-founder of SAJA, South Asian Journalists Association, SAJA.org, a group of 1,000+ journalists in the US and Canada.

Amen Ra Mashariki

Head of Urban Analysis

Esri

Dr. Mashariki leads Urban Analytics at Esri. Esri is a digital mapping pioneer that builds bigdata and analytics software that provides location intelligence and insights for almost every industry.

As the head of Urban Analytics at Esri, Dr. Mashariki is responsible for the messaging and strategy for applying data science principles to urban challenges, ensuring that data-driven decision makers will realize impactful and positive outcomes in urban policy and operations. Previously Dr. Mashariki was Chief Analytics Officer for the City of New York and the Director of the Mayor’s Office of Data Analytics. He ran the civic intelligence center that allowed one of the largest cities in the world to aggregate and analyze data from across agencies.

Dr. Mashariki also currently serves as a Fellow at the Harvard Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation.

In 2012, Dr. Mashariki was one of eleven individuals appointed by the President of the United States to the 2012-2013 class of White House Fellows. Immediately after the Fellowship he was appointed the Chief Technology Officer for the Office of Personnel Management.

Amen earned a Doctorate in Engineering from Morgan State University, as well as a Master and Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from Howard and Lincoln University respectively.