Nancy Hallberg leads the enterprise-wide marketing strategy for The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS), developing programs to help the organization boost its growth, increase visibility and support, and be positioned as a world-class cancer nonprofit. She directs an integrated marketing team that operates in all channels – digital, social, print, broadcast, email and direct response. The team supports all fundraising activity as well as patient outreach and education.

Her career has been devoted to building relationships between consumers and brands, embracing new channels that have allowed a more direct and engaging dialogue. She previously headed marketing teams at The Taunton Press, Bonnier, and Time Inc., Consumer Research at Condé Nast Publications, and led business strategy and marketing planning efforts for brand-name clients with both J. Walter Thompson and Young & Rubicam.

She holds an M.B.A. from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, with a major in marketing.

Brian Dearth is responsible for providing transformational digital strategies, capabilities benchmarks and roadmaps to enterprise clients across sectors including healthcare, financial services, retail, industrials, etc. Dearth runs the company’s Strategy practice and supervises a global team of digital strategy professionals responsible for defining and delivering Centric Digital’s unique approach to driving and measuring digital transformation.

Before joining Centric Digital, Dearth served as the Chief Marketing Officer of Smile Train, a Forbes Top 200 non-profit, providing funding for free cleft surgery and related care for children through a network of 1,000+ hospitals across 85 countries, leveraging digital to connect and train the next generation of cleft surgeons, spread local program awareness and find patients. Prior to that, Dearth emerged as a digital thought leader in the publishing industry as the Senior Vice President of Marketing and Customer Management at Scholastic, Inc. He spent 12 years with the world’s leading consumer analytics and television measurement and monitoring provider before being selected to serve as Chief Executive Officer of Hollywood Stock Exchange, a venture-backed content and commerce company operating a virtual currency and holding four patents.

A graduate of the TEP program at the University of Virginia Darden Graduate School of Business, he also earned an MA at Georgetown University, as well as a BA from Miami University in Ohio. Dearth lives in Connecticut with his wife, three sons, and terrier. Away from the office, he serves as President of the Ridgefield Boys Lacrosse Booster Club.

STEREOPTICON is the debut album by the duo of guitarist Gary Lucas and singer Jann Klose.

While Jann and Gary write as collaborators in an urban Americana / Roots Music Genre, both artists are eclectic musicians that tour throughout the world on their own.

Gary’s co-written hits with Joan Osborne: “Spider Web,” and Jeff Buckley’s signature songs “Grace” and “Mojo Pin” from the singer’s double platinum album, GRACE. ROLLING STONE says Gary is “One of the best and most original guitarists in America…a modern guitar miracle.” He is currently collaborating with Steve Kilbey (The Church), and Chris Shinn (new Live singer), and was Music Director of “State of Grace,” a multi-artist Australian tour that paid tribute to Tim and Jeff Buckley.

Born in Germany and raised in Kenya, South Africa and the United States, Jann Klose is currently collaborating with Ann Hampton Callaway, Renaissance’s Annie Haslam, Hall & Oates’ John Oates and The Yardbirds’ Jim McCarty. In 2015 Jann and his music appeared in the short film THE BEAUTY OF DISASTER (Glimmer Girl, USA) and the award-winning Australian feature documentary A VENUE FOR THE END OF THE WORLD (BrinkVision, USA). His most recent album, MOSAIC won three 2014 Independent Music Awards and charted for several months on the AMA and Roots Rock charts.

Gary and Jann both worked on the movie GREETINGS FROM TIM BUCKLEY (Tribeca Film/Focus/Universal). Jann is the singing voice of Tim Buckley, while Gary consulted and played guitar. Follow them on Twitter: @lucasgary @JannKloseBand

Jonathan Becher serves as chief digital officer and head of the SAP Digital business unit. Jonathan reports to Bill McDermott, CEO of SAP SE.

Jonathan is responsible for driving the growth and direction of SAP’s new digital business, which will expand the company’s addressable market through entry into new areas such as content and data. Under Jonathan’s leadership, SAP Digital is helping individual business consumers discover, buy, use, and renew offerings in an entirely digital interaction.

From Spring 2011 until November 2014, Jonathan served as SAP’s chief marketing officer (CMO). In his role as CMO of SAP, Jonathan increased the revenue generated from Marketing by 80% and amplified Marketing’s return on investment by 50%. Jonathan was named by Forbes Magazine as one of the world’s most influential CMOs. He is a board member for the Churchill Club, Silicon Valley’s premier business and technology forum, and Revel Systems, an iPad point of sale solution.

Jonathan holds a master’s degree in computer science from Duke University in North Carolina, and a bachelor’s degree in computer engineering from the University of Virginia.

Tianhui Michael Li, PhD, is the founder of The Data Incubator, an education startup training STEM PhDs to be data scientists and quants. He has worked at Foursquare, Google, A16Z, NASA, JPMorgan, and D.E. Shaw. He is a Hertz, NSF, and Marshall Scholar and is an alumnus of Princeton and Cambridge. Michael founded a student-run conference in quant trading that features leading industry figures and raises money for educational non-profits like America Needs You.

Susan Poulton is President of the digital strategy consulting firm Door 44 Digital and the Chief Digital Officer of The Franklin Institute science museum in Philadelphia. She has seventeen years of digital media strategy experience, working with organizations in both the for-profit and non-profit sectors. Before founding her current consulting firm, Susan spent seven years as Vice President of Digital Media for the National Geographic Society and prior to that spent nine years at America Online specializing in large-scale digital live event and content production.
An avid traveler, photographer, and space enthusiast, Susan spends her spare time photographing rocket launches and volunteers to provide media and digital training to non profit organizations around the world including photography workshops with young people through National Geographic Photo Camp.
Susan Poulton graduated from Virginia Tech University in 1996 with B.A. degrees in Journalism and English Literature.

David Link is the Chief Digital Officer at Lincoln Center responsible for developing the digital strategy and building new online destinations, mobile apps and on-campus interactive experiences. David is focused on advancing Lincoln Center’s ecommerce platform, in-venue experiences and developing video and editorial content that evolves Lincoln Center from a local destination to a global online experience.

David also oversees Lincoln center’s Emmy award winning short-form video department in broadcasting livestreams and developing original short-form series.

Before joining Lincoln Center David was the Co-Founder of The Wonderfactory an experience design firm that focused on media companies, publishers and advertisers. At The Wonderfactory David mentored and partnered with executives across a number of media sectors in the planning and execution of their company’s digital business. There, he worked with such companies as Time Inc., Barnes & Noble, Lionsgate, NBC, Coca-Cola, NBA, National Geographic and Food Network to help them reinvent their consumer experience through new digital strategies and products. Before that, he was VP and Creative Director of the America Online internal creative studio that provided digital strategy, creative development and short-form video for over 18 major content channels of AOL brands.

David started his career in traditional motion picture advertising for major motion picture studios in Los Angeles. He studied Film Directing at SUNY Purchase and Visual Communications at California Institute of the Arts.

Brian Manning is the co-founder and President of Centric Digital, a global digital transformation firm based in New York City that specializes transforming business models, user experiences & operational processes of traditional companies for the digital age. In 2014, Centric Digital was named #34 on the Inc. 500 list of the fastest growing private companies in the United States including #1 in New York State and #1 in New York City. In the last 3 years through 2014, Centric Digital has grown over 6800% and is nearing almost 200 global team members. Since its founding in 2009, Brian has been directly responsible for growing Centric Digital’s client base and revenue as well as shaping its brand, implementing and scaling its financial and business operations, and defining its products & services strategy. In addition, as Centric Digital’s Chief Digital Officer, Brian champions digital thought leadership throughout the company, for its clients including global corporations in healthcare, finance, retail, government entities, and in the marketplace.

Prior to Centric Digital, Brian served as Vice President of Ecommerce for Scholastic where he led the transformation of Book Club’s $200+MM ecommerce business and was responsible for generating several million dollars of business for its new digital product offerings. He turned around the recently launched “Printables” print-on-demand subscription business, achieving profitability and winning industry excellence awards within its second year. He leveraged this platform to launch the “Minibooks” product with minimal capital investment in less than five months. Brian also helped pivot and grow Scholastic’s acquisition of TeachersPayTeachers.com, a teacher generated content marketplace, by implementing new pricing models, advertising sales strategies, and viral marketing initiatives. As a spun off entity, TeachersPayTeachers.com recently surpassed $100MM in sales.

Prior to Scholastic, Brian served as Vice President of Online Strategy and Marketing for Citigroup, where he helped transform Citicards.com into a primary sales channel. He later expanded this approach into a comprehensive roadmap for transforming all of Citi’s online banking businesses.

Before Citi, Brian held several executive positions of increasing responsibility in business and product development at Barnes & Noble.com during its pre-IPO startup phase through its full business maturity cycle. During this time he led a multi-channel gift card program with seamless store integration, large scale website redesigns, complex ecommerce / fulfillment platform implementations and new product lines, and pioneered an ecommerce partner marketing program which received acclaim in The New York Times.

Brian started his career in management consulting at Accenture (then Andersen Consulting) and holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from Lafayette College.

Lauren Lockwood is the Chief Digital Officer for the City of Boston, focused on digital communication, engagement, and service delivery. She graduated from Harvard Business School in 2014, where she focused on entrepreneurship and digital strategy for organizations. Prior to HBS, Lauren spent several years at Morgan Stanley, leading digital initiatives. She also has experience as a product manager for a number of startups. Lauren received her Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Vassar College. She and her husband live in Boston with their son, Theo, and their dog, Rawls.