Mala Singh

Mala Singh serves as Executive Vice President and Chief People Officer for EA where she focuses on developing EA’s talent and cultivating the company culture. In this role, Mala oversees HR Business Partners, Talent Acquisition, Learning and Development, Total Rewards, Diversity, Inclusion and Outreach as well as Workplaces and Employee Services. Mala plays an integral role in redefining and evolving the People strategy at EA. With a focus on incorporating data analytics, innovative approaches to people practices and doubling down on the worker experience, Mala is passionate about creating environments which empower people and teams to do their best work. This in turn propels the company forward to reach new heights in delivering amazing player experiences. Under her leadership, EA has also strengthened their commitment to build inspired, inclusive, and diverse workplaces.

Sarah Guo

Sarah’s mission is to partner with founders to productize disruptive ideas, get advantaged distribution, and build dominant businesses. She is interested in almost everything where technology can be used as a weapon to get us to the future, faster. She spends a lot of her time thinking about opportunities in B2B applications and infrastructure, cyber security, artificial intelligence, augmented reality and healthcare. Sarah joined Greylock Partners as an investor in 2013 and led Greylock’s investment in Cleo and Demisto and is on the board of Cleo, Demisto and Obsidian. She also works closely with Awake, Crew, Rhumbix and Skyhigh.

Rebecca R. Cañate

I’m an HR strategist who specializes in providing development opportunities to strategically close the gap between where your employees are today and where they need to be. In my career, I have coached leaders and built Learning & Development solutions to upskill organizations from the Fortune 1000 to the NFL to the startup community. The rate of change for most industries continues to accelerate driving the critical need to build teams that can adapt to market pressures. I have a strong track record in innovating and pushing forward cost-effective methods to support companies of all sizes by identifying strategic partners and designing content that can support the next stage of business growth.

Alex Garden

Alex Garden built Zume Inc. on the belief that everyone has the right to a healthy, affordable meal. Starting with delivery pizza’s $44B per year industry, Alex founded Zume Pizza in 2015 — a testing ground for his food logistics concept that would redefine the preparation and delivery of food. For the past three years, Zume has built a fleet of patented Food Delivery Vehicles, constructed a cobotic commissary kitchen, designed predictive AI, and created a patented pizza pod. Today, Zume has expanded beyond Zume Pizza, offering its suite of technical solutions to companies in food preparation and delivery.

Mita Mallick

Mita Mallick is a corporate change maker who believes corporations have a responsibility to make a social impact. She is a disruptive business leader who has brought her experience in managing P&Ls, brand innovation, and strategic planning into leading cultural transformation. Mita is a passionate storyteller who believes in the power of diversity to transform business and brands.
As the Head of Diversity & Inclusion and Cross Cultural Marketing at Unilever, Mita’s efforts to build an inclusive culture are being celebrated. Under her leadership, Unilever was named the #1 Company for Working Mothers by Working Mother Media in 2018. She also co-created the first of its kind Cultural Immersions series to increase the cultural competency of marketers training over 3000 marketers to date. Prior to leading Diversity & Inclusion, Mita has had an extensive career in the beauty and consumer products goods space. She was one of the chief lieutenants in launching The Vaseline Healing Project in the U.S., signing award-winning actress & activist Viola Davis as the brand’s ambassador. Mita as been recognized by Leading Women Intrapreneurs in 2018. She received the Inaugural Diversity Innovator Award from the National Association for Female Executives in 2017, and was on the “50 People Under 40 Shaking Up Beauty” Youthquake List by Women’s Wear Daily. Mita has a B.A. from Columbia University and a M.B.A. from Duke University.

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Tiffany Jones

Tiffany Jones is the Global Head of Compensation for Accenture, leading design and execution of programs that impact Accenture’s 450,000+ people. Tiffany has worked in HR and rewards for more than 18 years across multiple industries including financial services, hospitality and gaming, technology, and consulting. Leveraging her deep subject matter expertise in rewards, she has led large scale transformational change programs in the performance management, reward and recognition, incentive plan design, and overall rewards strategy space. Tiffany is a CCP and is active in the Total Rewards community, including formerly serving as President of the Las Vegas chapter of WorldatWork.

Michelle Wagner-Knapp

Michelle has spent 20+ years working within and leading progressive People functions at companies like AOL, Ooyala, Evernote and now Caffeine. Michelle has worn every “HR hat” in the function and firmly believes that understanding the company’s business and aligning the culture of its people is a bare minimum to building an engaged workforce. “Our people are our competitive advantage – not just our greatest asset, but the core component which makes our Companies successful.”

Freada Kapor Klein

Freada Kapor Klein is an entrepreneur, activist and pioneer in the field of organizational culture and diversity. As a Founding Partner at Kapor Capital, Freada invests in seed stage tech startups that create positive social impact by closing gaps of access, opportunity or outcome for low income communities and communities of color. Often, the founders are drawing on their lived experience to create a business that solves real needs. Freada is a founding member the Commission, a group of leading executives in entertainment and independent experts in Hollywood dedicating to fighting gender inequality. Freada is on the Advisory Trustee of the U.C. Berkeley Foundation and is a founding team member at Project Include, a community of women in Silicon Valley working to provide practical, effective diversity and inclusion recommendations for tech companies. She is also the author of Giving Notice, which details the human and financial cost of hidden bias in the workplace. Freada earned her B.A. in Criminology from UC Berkeley in 1974 and her Ph.D. in Social Policy & Research from Brandeis University in 1984.

Katherine Ryder

Kate Ryder is the founder and CEO of Maven, the only virtual clinic dedicated to women’s and family health. Named one of Fast Company’s “10 Most Innovative Healthcare Companies in 2018,” Maven’s leading family benefits platform advances women in the workplace and makes it easier for parents to start and grow a family during a critical time in their careers. Maven was founded in 2014, operates the largest proprietary women’s and family health telehealth network in the country, and has raised more than $40m in capital from top investors including Sequoia and Oak HC/FT. Kate previously worked in venture capital and journalism, writing for the Economist from Southeast Asia, New York, and London. In 2009, she worked with former U.S. Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson, helping him write his memoirs about the U.S. financial crisis. Kate received her B.A. from the Honors College at the University of Michigan and her MSc from the London School of Economics. Kate lives in Brooklyn with her husband, son, and daughter.

Natasha Kehimkar

As Chief People Officer at App Annie, Natasha leads a global team focused on organization effectiveness, people operations, and talent. As founder of ZEST Advisors, a people & talent consultancy, she helps her clients connect strategy and people to scale organizations, enable teams, and grow leaders. Natasha brings experience from both entrepreneurial and established companies spanning the tech, consumer, and life sciences industries, having led the People function at Guardant Health and OpenTable and served in HR leadership roles at Pfizer Consumer Products and Johnson & Johnson. Natasha has a BA in Sociology from McGill University and a Master’s degree in Human Resources & Labor Relations from Michigan State University. Outside of work, Natasha is known as mum, wife, daughter, sister, friend, volunteer, fitness nut, and chef wannabe.

Robby Peters

Robby Peters is the Co-Founder of PeopleTech Partners. PeopleTech Partners is an advisory group that works with early stage HR technology founders and matches them with early customers for product feedback and pilots of the technology they are building. Some of the advisors that are in the group include the Heads of HR from companies like Slack, Box, Github, Reddit, 23andMe and over 100 more. PeopleTech partners has worked with over 30 companies including Reflektive, Sapling, Beamery, Carrot, Bravely and Cleo to name a few. PeopleTech also focuses on running events that are centered around Progressive HR initiatives and Robby has put on more than four hundred events across SF, NY, LA, Austin, and Seattle bringing together thousands of HR leaders across the country.

Lilian Tomovich

Lilian Tomovich is the Chief Experience & Marketing Officer of MGM Resorts International, a $10 Billion S&P 500 hospitality and entertainment company. Tomovich is leading the transformation of marketing at MGM Resorts to drive a consumer centric organization that fuels the guest experience. It is a multi-faceted role including: brand management, advertising, loyalty marketing, guest strategy, consumer insights and research, partnership and event marketing, ecommerce, social and digital media, public relations and more. In addition, Lili just launched a new division for the organization MGM Digital Ventures. Lili also sits on the Board of IHOP and Applebees and resides in the Entertainment Capital of the World, Las Vegas.

Mohit Bhende

Mo co-founded Karat with Jeffrey Spector in 2014 to fix the process of interviewing software engineers. Karat conducts highly predictive technical interviews on behalf of companies including Intuit, Indeed, and Pinterest. To date, Karat has conducted nearly 25,000 technical interviews. As an executive at Microsoft, Mo led global product strategy for XBOX. Prior to that role, he managed the company’s $200M Corporate China Fund. Mo holds an MBA from Wharton, MPhil in economics from Cambridge where he was a Gates Scholar and a BS in math and economics from Penn State.

Diane Vavrasek

Diane Vavrasek is the VP of HR for Jet.com and the Walmart U.S. eCommerce Retail organization. Diane joined Jet.com in December of 2015 where she led HR for corporate functions. She assumed her current role upon the acquisition of Jet by Walmart in 2017. Prior to Jet, Diane spent 9 years at General Electric where she held various HR role including Executive of HR Operations & Analytics for the $18B Oil & Gas business. Prior to GE, Diane was an Associate Financial Auditor for PricewaterhouseCoopers. Diane holds a BS in Accounting from Pace University and a Masters in Industrial & Labor Relations from Cornell University.

Mark Levy

Mark recently joined Allbirds, a B Corp, focused on sustainability, design and comfort, with a mission of Better Things in a Better Way, as their Head of Employee Experience. Mark is taking his learnings from his retail and start up past to help scale the business, people and culture at Allbirds. Mark was the pioneer of Employee Experience at Airbnb, which has changed the way organizations globally have expanded their HR functions, shifted the mindset to do things with and for employees, and HR ways of working . Glassdoor recognized Mark and his team the #1 Place to Work in 2016.

Bethanye McKinney Blount

With over twenty years’ experience working in technology, bethanye has led engineering teams at reddit, Linden Lab, EMI Music, and Facebook. MailRank, an email productivity startup she co-founded, was acquired by Facebook in 2011. In 2014, Business Insider included bethanye on their list of 22 Most Powerful Women Engineers. Joining a team of senior women in technology, bethanye helped found Project Include in 2016 — a nonprofit focused on improving diversity and inclusion in tech companies. She is both a startup advisor and mentor to other founders, focusing on engineering leadership and developing diverse technical organizations.

Ana Recio

Ana Recio is EVP of Global Recruiting at Salesforce, where she oversees a global team responsible for hiring 8,000+ people annually. Ana has developed a global recruiting strategy focused on talent attraction and cultivation at scale, helping her team exceed aggressive targets while attracting the best talent in the industry. She has been instrumental in developing programs that have resulted in higher retention rates and increased promotion of women and underrepresented minorities throughout the company. Ana also leads Salesforce’s newest workforce development program, Pathfinder, and serves as executive sponsor of Latinoforce, Salesforce’s employee resource group for the Latinx community.

Enrique Rubio

Enrique is an HR and Tech Evangelist and founder of Hacking HR. He came to the United States from Venezuela as a Fulbright Scholar. Prior to coming to the US, Enrique was the CEO at Management Consultants, a firmed specialized in Human Resources in Venezuela. Before Management Consultants, Enrique worked in the telecommunications sector as a Senior Project Engineer for Telefonica. He is also the cofounder of Cotopaxi, an artificial intelligence based recruitment platform focused on Latin America and the Caribbean. Enrique is a guest author in several blogs about innovation, management and human resources. Enrique has over twenty years of experience and is an Electronic Engineer with an Executive Master’s in Public Administration from Maxwell School.

Maria Fraga

With over 28 years of experience at Manulife and John Hancock, Maria has responsibility for setting the strategy and overseeing development, implementation and management of company-wide total wellbeing initiatives. Together with her team, Maria delivers an array of innovative programs and solutions each year designed to engage Manulife employees in efforts to improve overall health and wellbeing through lifestyle changes. With over 35,000 employees globally at Manulife, there’s no such thing as a cookie cutter approach to benefits. Maria is also responsible for directing plan administration, participant communication and service delivery for the company’s benefit plans. As a subject matter expert, she also provides guidance and counsel to employees regarding their benefit coverages relative to established policy. Maria joined John Hancock (now Manulife) as a Senior Accountant. Not long after, she was asked to join the HR organization to bring a level of financial acumen and rigor to the Benefits team. This was more than 18 years ago and she has seen more than one transformation over this duration while wearing many hats within the global Benefits organization. Maria holds a Bachelor’s degree in Business Management from Curry College in Boston, Massachusetts.