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. 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. In addition, Jon co-founded and sold one of the first online media agencies (iballs) to Microsoft in 2000.

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

Founder

Greenence

Ananya Chadha is a 15 year-old blockchain developer from Toronto, Canada. She has developed two cryptocurrencies and crowdsale (ICO) smart contracts with the ERC20 tokens framework set by Ethereum. Currently, she’s focused on the intersection between blockchain and other exponential technologies including Brain-Machine Interfaces (BMIs), Genetic Engineering and autonomous flying vehicles. She has her pilot’s license, works in gene-editing labs, and recently, she developed a brain-computer interface that uses brain waves to turn on and off music with the user’s thoughts. Her mentors and advisors represent some of the leading companies in the blockchain and emerging tech industries. Learn more here: https://www.ananya.ca/

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.

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.

Amit Kama

CEO

Kamedia Digital

CEO and Founder of Kamedia Digital an Israeli based interactive studio and digital strategic consulting company focused on making design-driven digital products in a new era of connected customers and digital businesses. Founder of the CDO Club in Israel, the first and largest Israeli community of C-suite digital, data and innovation leaders.

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.