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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.