Sam Alkharrat, EVP and chief revenue officer of Ceridian: a global leader in HCM solutions, leads the Revenue Organization comprised of GTM strategy, RevOps, enablement, demand marketing, business development, partnerships and ecosystems, and solution engineering. In his own words, his mission is “to drive revenue growth and customer success globally – leveraging my expertise in AI, cloud, sales and partnerships.”
An accomplished B2B software executive, Sam has decades of experience building and nurturing high-performance cultures at enterprise technology companies. Prior to joining Ceridian in 2023, he held progressive leadership roles at Workday, C3 AI, VMWare, SAP and Cisco Systems.
Samhas enjoyed serving as a Board Member on such companies as Gaia Ventures, aiXplain, Mindtickle, Picacity AI, Enveil, Borza Labs, Ruum by SAP, KlozeAI, MarketBeam and LiveRoute.
Samholds a Global Executive MBA from Duke University and a B.S. in Science from the University of Toledo.
Judy Buchholz is the global head of Pegasystems Ecosystems and Partners. She leads a team of partner managers, delivery success managers and partner programs. Partners are critical to the growth of Pegasystems and the delivery and enablement of their clients. Prior to this role, she was the head of Americas Sales at Pegasystems, leading account relationship and pre-sales technical consulting. Her background and client relations prowess help enable a culture of innovation and delivery on business objectives and growth for this 40-year industry leader in software for digital transformation.
Prior to joining Pegasystems, Judy held numerous leadership roles at IBM for top-tier clients: Citigroup and Morgan Stanley
Other Roles at IBM included: GM, IBM Digital Sales, VP, Business Analytics and Digital Transformation and VP of IBM’s Wall Street GTM.
Interests and involvements
Advisory Board member for GetRev.AI
Advisory Board member for Iona University MBA program
Executive Sponsor for Pega ERG group PwD (Pega with Disabilities)
Keynote speaker: Alexander Group, Sales 3.0 &#GirlsClub
GTM/Revenue Advisor, Former COO & Commercial Executive
Tony is a global executive with extensive experience in the technology sector leading global organizations through critical transitions to achieve their next level of financial, operational & market success. He brings pragmatic, results-driven leadership with a keen business acumen and P&L oversight that spans broad-based experience in sales leadership, revenue operations, new business development, and Go-to-Market planning & execution.
In his current role as Senior Vice President, Revenue Operations at Bestpass, Tony's responsible for developing Go-to-Market (GTM) strategies, implementing an integrated technology stack to drive analytical insights and support key GTM processes across the customer life-cycle continuum.
Previously at MetricStream, Carroll was the Chief Operating Officer responsible for developing, operationalizing and executing strategies that drove growth and profitability across the entire enterprise. During his tenure, he enhanced business growth by redesigning the GTM structure and solution offerings, which drove consistent quarterly growth by doubling new logo acquisition while maintaining customer expansion and increasing customer retention.
Throughout his career, Tony has held several worldwide Operations and Sales leadership positions in other high-tech companies including Kony Inc. (now Temenos) Oracle and Primavera (now Oracle.)
Erika Chandler leads Revenue Operations, Strategy and Enablement at Genesys. Her team is responsible for driving growth strategies, leading field operations, providing revenue intelligence and insights, crafting sales incentives that align to company growth priorities, and enabling competitive effectiveness globally.
She has 20+ years of experience building and nurturing high-performing team cultures at enterprise technology companies, including Genesys, Cisco Systems and Elastic. Creative and data driven, she is recognized as a transformational leader proficient at innovating new strategies and building sales capabilities that yield consistent results.
She has expertise in both building and revitalizing organizations by creating multiyear strategic plans supported by yearly operational plans, investment models, and metrics. Erika holds a bachelor’s degree in applied mathematics and Computer Science.
Bruce Chesebrough is an operating partner at New Mountain Capital, where he spearheads the Commercial Excellence function. He has spent his entire career optimizing revenue performance as both a PE operating executive and CRO.
Over the course of his career, Bruce has worked in more than 100 industries including enterprise software, e-commerce, insurance, manufacturing, distribution & logistics, life sciences, defense, building materials, engineering, chemicals, construction, and medical devices.
Prior to New Mountain, Chesebrough was an operating executive at TPG Capital in a similar capacity. Prior to joining TPG, he held positions as managing director of the Revenue Enhancement practice at Alvarez & Marsal and chief revenue officer at Corbis Corporation.
Bruce holds a B.A. in economics from Amherst College and an MBA from Harvard Business School. He is a Certified Turnaround Professional (CTP) and a former member of Board of Directors of the Turnaround Management Association (TMA).
Tony Colon serves as ServiceNow’s global senior vice president of Customer Success. Tony joined ServiceNow as senior vice president of the customer & partner excellence team before his charter was expanded in April 2023 to lead all of Customer Success, an organization that includes customer outcomes, customer & partner excellence, strategic operations and the company’s training and certification organization. Tony and the customer success organization are dedicated to revolutionizing the enterprise software experience to drive exponential returns, successful digital transformations and quick time-to-value for ServiceNow customers.
Tony's expertise lies in completely reimagining the way customers and partners experience technology. He has built four $100M+ businesses throughout his 20+ year career at places like Salesforce and most recently, Cisco, where he led a team of more than 2,000 engineers, designers and researchers focused on delivering integrated digital experiences for customers and partners anywhere and everywhere they connect with the company.
Tony is also an industry influencer on the topics of diversity and inclusion, leadership, team culture, addressing the IT skills and talent gaps, as well as innovations in cloud computing and agile delivery.
Tony is a strong believer that the best companies foster a culture that embraces diversity and inclusion, cares for its people and is committed to helping others. He is a champion for lifelong learning, with his signature motto, "Always be learning; Always be coachable."
He is also active in a number of social and professional causes. He serves on the advisory boards of the Covenant House and the Hispanic IT Executive Council (HITEC) and is a member of the Forbes Technology Council. In 2019, Tony was named to the HITEC 100 list and selected as a Gender Equality Superhero by Fairygodboss.
Tony holds a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from the Illinois Institute of Technology and a master’s degree in Computer Science from the MIT Sloan School of Management.
Doug is the only former Fortune 500 CEO who is a New York Times and Wall Street Journal best-selling author, a Top 50 Leadership Innovator, a Top 100 Leadership Speaker, and one of the 100 Most Influential Authors in the World.
A devoted leadership practitioner and teacher, Doug’s 45-year career is defined by achieving high performance through an intentional commitment to studying, practicing, improving, and spreading the tenets of “leadership that works.”
He is Founder and CEO of ConantLeadership, former President and CEO of Campbell Soup Company, former President of Nabisco Foods, and former Chairman of Avon Products. He has also served on multiple corporate boards including AmerisourceBergen and RHR International. He began his career in marketing at General Mills and held leadership positions at Kraft.
Doug is also Chairman of CECP—Chief Executives for Corporate Purpose, a member of the board for both The Partnership for Public Service, and Hope College. He recently retired as Chairman of The Higher Ambition Leadership Alliance, and as board member of the National Organization on Disability. Previously, he was Chairman of: The Conference Board, Grocery Manufacturers Association, and Enactus. His latest Wall Street Journal bestselling book, co-authored with Amy Federman, The Blueprint: 6 Practical Steps to Lift Your Leadership to New Heights, is a seminal treatise on leadership and a practical guide for leading effectively in a chaotic world. He is also the New York Times bestselling co-author with Mette Norgaard of TouchPoints: Creating Powerful Leadership Connections in the Smallest of Moments.
Doug is a graduate of the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and served as the Chairman of Kellogg Executive Leadership Institute for five years. He is a former instructor of leadership at the Higher Ambition Leadership Alliance and he teaches the concepts advanced in The Blueprint to seasoned and aspiring leaders in: The BLUEPRINT Boot Camp.
Doug is the 2022 recipient of the Stephen R. Covey Principle-Centered Leader Award and a Top Thought Leader in Trust Lifetime Achievement Award Winner. He has also been lauded as a Top 100 Leadership Speaker by Inc. Magazine; a Top 100 Most Influential Author in the World; a Top 30 Leadership Professional by Global Gurus; a Leader to Watch by the American Management Association (AMA); a Top 50 Leadership Innovator Changing How We Lead; and a Top 75 Human Business Champion.
Linda currently serves on the Boards of Verint (VRNT) and Equilar and advises CEOs and leadership teams of private and venture-backed companies. She’s also an Operating Advisor at Katalyst Ventures. Previously, she enjoyed serving on the Boards of ChannelAdvisor (ECOM) and Demandware (NYSE).
Linda’s career was spent at some of the world’s leading software companies driving innovation, employee success and customer success. She was the CEO of Helpshift, a venture backed company focused on AI driven Customer Support Solutions for B-C companies. Prior to this, Crawford was the CRO of Optimizely - #1 experimentation platform focused on solutions for marketing optimization.
Earlier, Linda honed her executive skills across nearly a decade at Salesforce in several progressive positions including EVP and CEO of the Sales Cloud – and as SVP Sales Strategy which included the Sales Engineering, Sales Development, Strategy, Ops, Industries, and Enablement teams. Prior to Salesforce, Crawford held leadership roles at Siebel Systems … the company credited for the creation of the CRM industry and Rivermine.
Linda received her MBA and BA from James Madison University.
Recent Head of Talent Acquisition Strategy & Enablement Amazon
Amy Cropper has more than 25 years of experience shaping talent acquisition strategy, leading transformational change, and enabling global delivery of top talent to meet the goals of Fortune Global 500 organizations .. .most recently with Amazon. Her sweet spot is aligning processes, strategy, technology, and operations to maximize efficiencies, effectiveness, and candidate experience at scale.
Amy served as Amazon’s Head of Talent Acquisition Strategy and Enablement for Ads, Devices and Entertainment. In her 7-year tenure at the company, she also held leadership positions within the Consumer and Operations Talent Acquisition (TA) organizations. She was also a central internal team member responsible for building Amazon’s HR technology.
Prior to this, Cropper was the Global Talent Acquisition Technology Strategy Lead for Accenture, where she drove the TA technology strategic initiatives, programs, processes, change management, and training to enable 100k+ joiners globally. She also serves on the Advisory Board of Rosie Riveters, a non-profit organization whose mission is to close the gender gap in STEM by engaging pre- to middle-school girls in curriculum that encourages productive struggle that builds participant critical thinking, problem solving skills, and overall confidence in STEM.
Jeff has an extensive career in Medical Device, Life Science and Diagnostics. Jeff has worked on and off for BD for 19 years including positions in all 3 Segments and 7 different business units. Most recently Jeff was the VP/GM for BD Interventional Surgery.
Prior to rejoining BD in 2021, Jeff spent 6 years as the President, CEO and Director of Harvard Bioscience, a publicly traded company.
Rich is the Chief Executive Officer of Fujifilm Sonosite, the global leader in Point of Care Ultrasound (POCUS). Point of Care brings imaging technology to the patient’s bedside, offering immediate answers and needle guidance to care givers in specialties such as Emergency Medicine, Anesthesia, Critical Care, Orthopedics, and many others.
“Born of the Battlefield”, POCUS was originally created by Sonosite from a Department of Defense grant to enable immediate imaging and answers for injuries on the battlefield. Once physicians saw the value of ultrasound, POCUS spread quickly to treat any patient, anywhere, at any time. POCUS remains the fastest growing segment of medical imaging due to the tremendous value that ultrasound delivers to patients.
Rich has over 25 years of progressive healthcare leadership experience. He started his career as a financial analyst, but he has branched into business operations, marketing, sales, operations, and general management before being named CEO of Fujifilm Sonosite.
Rich is a passionate advocate of life science industry, and he currently serves as Chair of the Board of Directors for Life Science Washington. He is also on the Executive Board of the Medical Imaging and Technology Association (MITA) as well as a board member for the world’s largest medical technology association, AdvaMed. Rich strongly believes in the enormous potential of startup companies and serves as a mentor to several leaders in healthcare.
Rich earned his MBA from the University of Pittsburgh’s Katz Graduate School of Business and a BA in Economics from the University of Michigan. At Michigan, he was on the varsity swim team and was part of 2 Big Ten Championship Teams. Originally from Pittsburgh, he has been a resident of Washington State since 2000 and makes his home in Downtown Kirkland. Rich and his wife Suzette have two adult daughters.
Best-Selling Author “Love Your Team” & Growth Consultant – Mediafly
Helen Fanucci is the best-selling author of Love Your Team, A Survival Guide for Sales Managers in a Hybrid World who has built her reputation and career managing teams responsible for billions of dollars of quota. As an MIT-trained engineer she developed the Love Your Team system of management over a 25-year career on the front lines at top tech companies including Apple, Sun Microsystems, IBM, and Microsoft. Helen currently serves as a Transformational Sales Leader with Microsoft, leading a team of Cloud Solution Architects and Customer Success Managers.
Desiree Grace is currently president of Americas, for Cembre, Inc., an Italy-based manufacturer of electrical connectors, printers and associated products. She leads sales and operations for the U.S., Canada and Mexico.
Desiree’s prior role was vice president, Strategic Distribution in North America, for Panduit. She developed and drove everything channel-related within North America for Panduit. Prior to this, she managed the Utility channel for Eaton North America, as their vice president of Channel Development and Operations. Earlier she served as vice president of Sales & Marketing, Anamet Electrical, district manager, Panduit Corporation, and branch manager at WESCO.
Desiree is considered an expert on distribution, and has consulted for various companies, as well as been a featured speaker at Affiliated Distributors, NAED, NAED Women in Industry, LeanIn, Midwest Manufacturing Council, and others. She is the 2017 NAED Women in Industry Trailblazer Award winner. Desiree currently participates in an ongoing podcast with tED magazine’s podcast, DistributED, and is a former co-host on the WAM (Women and Manufacturing) podcast. She is a passionate advocate for a fair and equitable workplace and equal pay for equal work.
Desiree is also adjunct faculty at Augustana College in Rock Island, IL. She holds a B.A. in Accounting and Political Science from Augustana College, Rock Island, Illinois, and a Master's of Business Administration with concentrations in Marketing and Operations from the University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa. Desiree volunteers with Dress for Success and Habitat for Humanity.
Black & Veatch’s first chief client officer (CCO), Patrick Hogan, holds a senior leadership position as part of the company’s strategic transformation. The role focuses on further strengthening client relationships and ensuring client satisfaction. As CCO, Patrick partners with professionals across the company to align Black & Veatch’s full portfolio of integrated solutions and services with the needs of clients globally.
Patrick leads sales strategy and execution, with management responsibility for global advisory, enterprise sales & client account management and enterprise marketing & communications. He has extensive experience building sales communities, cultivating client relationships and taking cutting-edge solutions to market to address the changing needs of government, utility, commercial and industrial clients.
Before he joined Black & Veatch, Patrick spent 20 years in several enterprise and business unit leadership positions for Honeywell, most notably with several chief commercial officer positions where he stood up Commercial Excellence as an enterprise-wide global initiative.
Originally from Ireland and growing up in the U.K., Dr. Hogan earned a bachelor’s degree in chemistry from the University of Bristol, a Ph.D. in medicinal chemistry from the University of Cambridge, and later in the U.S. completed the Strategy and Management Program at The Wharton School.
Tom is a seasoned sales executive and sales organization leader, with experience selling to global Fortune 500 clients in B2B information and market research. He leads client development activities in the U.S. and Canada, driving sales execution and new business development, while building client-focused relationships internally with the services, product and marketing organizations.
Prior to joining the company, he served as Senior Vice President of Global Sales Strategy for Interactive Data Corporation (IDC). Previously, Tom was Senior Vice President of North American Sales and Client Services for Survey Sampling, Inc. and was with Gartner, Inc. where he was Group Vice President, North American Consulting.
Tom holds a B.A. in Political Science from the University of Colorado Boulder.
SVP, Head of CX & Former VP, Digital Marketing Verizon
As Head of Customer Experience for Verizon, Sasha is at the forefront of developing the company’s innovative strategies to evolve the customer experience. She is responsible for unlocking customer insights and end-to-end experience design across customer journeys with one mission – to create amazing digital first, omni-channel experiences for customers that deliver value, build trust, and ultimately differentiate the Verizon brand.
Prior to this role, Sasha led several transformation efforts in Digital Marketing and Experience for the Verizon Consumer business. In these roles, Sasha was responsible for driving real-time digital marketing efforts, digital sales growth, adoption of digital service tools, customer experience and overall digital operations.
Under Sasha’s leadership, the team leveraged a combination of analytics, automation and emerging technology to build simpler, smarter and more intuitive experiences, setting the standard for a unique, innovative and personalized journey for over 130 Million Verizon customers.
Sasha is a seasoned marketing professional with over 20+ years of experience transforming business at the intersection of digital, design, and technology to deliver digital transformation. She is skilled in managing complex, cross-functional agile teams in matrixed environments.
Before joining Verizon, Sasha spent eight years at Citibank N.A. holding various roles in digital development, experience and strategy for the Citi Cards and Global Consumer business.
Sasha is passionate about building great teams, and growing and developing women in technology. Sasha earned a Bachelor’s in Business Administration from the University of Miami (FL) and an MBA from the Goizueta Business School at Emory University.
Mike Marcellin is a board member, strategic advisor and the chief marketing officer of Juniper Networks. Mike built and led global marketing teams in various management roles at both Juniper Networks and Verizon. He is also led strategy, product management and software development teams across his 30-year career in tech.
Mike is a member of the Ridge Ventures CMO Advisory and a Board Member of U.S. Ignite, an NSF-sponsored initiative. He also is an Advisor of Talentsky – and a former vice chairman/board member at TIA (Telecommunications Industry Association). Mike holds three patents and was a Rodman Scholar at the University of Virginia, where he received a B.S. with distinction in systems engineering.
Kevin McGurn is Vevo’s president of Sales and Distribution, based in New York. He joins Vevo from Fullscreen, where he served as head of Sales for the company, as well as Otter Media properties including Crunchyroll, Roster Teeth SoompiTV and VRV. Prior to Fullscreen, Kevin was chief revenue officer of Shazam. He previously served as senior vice president of Sales at Hulu for nearly seven years, where he grew the sales team from zero to half a billion dollars in advertising revenue. Kevin has also held prior senior roles at NBC Universal and DoubleClick.
In her current role, Kate Migliaro is focused on building management teams aligned to the value creation plan and driving organizational effectivess through organizational design, compensation philosophy, and leadership effectiveness.
Prior to Searchlight, Kate was selected to help spearhead talent management and organizational effectiveness on the Apollo Portfolio Performance Solutions (APPS) team where she built the talent and diversity, equity, and inclusion playbooks to maximize portfolio company performance. In her previous roles, Kate served in generalist human capital roles as well as specialist roles in compensation.
Kate is a US Army Veteran with five years active duty experience in the Military Police Corps. During her service, she was deployed to both Iraq and Afghanistan supporting and building local national law enforcement capabilities. She was awarded the FYo8 FORSCOM J.P Holland Award for best Military Police Company in the Army, the combat action badge and bronze star.
Kate earned her degree in American Politics and Systems Engineering from the United States Military Academy. She is currently the Chairwoman of America’s Warrior Partnership’s Board of Directors and an advocate for veteran employment.
It's tough to be daring in 100-plus year-old industrial B2B and B2C businesses, but by fusing smart analytics with demand creation strategy, Shonodeep has driven breakthrough results that have enabled these companies to remain relevant and grow market position.
From developing and marketing the world's first fuel economy improving motor oil brand at ExxonMobil to doubling gas compression business share at GE, Shonodeep is an instigator of growth. He brings more than 20 years of commercial experience across energy, oil & gas, retail, aftermarket services and electrical distribution. Creative and data-driven, he has architected and led nimble, global teams that have propelled portfolio expansion and driven demand creation.
After GE, Shonodeep joined Schneider Electric as Chief Marketing Officer for North America Operations responsible for animating the region’s imperatives into impactful marketing strategies. Now as Chief Marketing Officer for the Energy Management business of the company, his scope expands globally into thought leadership and marketing of Schneider’s breakthrough innovations.
Shonodeep has earned his MBA from The George Washington University and holds a B.S. from Mississippi State University.
Katherine (Kate) Parente is Chief People Officer at Pegasystems, responsible for the company’s global people strategy and operations. In her 25+ years of experience, Kate has established, developed, and led strong international teams across a wide range of HR disciplines in financial services, technology, and professional services firms.
Parente’s areas of expertise include people strategy, total rewards, executive compensation organizational and leadership development, workforce planning, and culture and value proposition. She served in progressive management roles at such companies as: FactSet, Axiom, ITG, The Mcgregor Group, Texas Instruments, and Goldman Sachs.
Beyond her work aspirations, Parente is a trusted and dedicated coach, mentor, and sponsor. She has memberships in the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), the Institute for Applied Management and Law (IAML), and the Weston Women’s League of Weston, Connecticut.
Kate holds a BA in Business Administration from the Isenberg School of Management at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst where she was a recipient of the Talented Minority scholarship.
Rob Rosiello is currently the SVP Sales & Field Operations for the Americas at Vectra.ai, a global cybersecurity leader in AI-driven threat detection and response. Vectra helps organizations detect, prioritize, investigate, and respond to cyberthreats BEFORE they become breaches.
Leveraging 30 years of experience, Rob is accountable for the vision, strategy, and field & partner execution that ensures client acquisition, expansion, retention, client satisfaction … while achieving increased revenue and growth in key markets.
In prior roles, as a CRO / EVP Operations, Rosiello was charged with building sales, channels, business development, enablement, customer success, and Revenue Operations teams. He is adept at organizational transformation, addressing changing portfolio, routes to market, evolving market dynamics, and organizational development & maturity.
Rob is on the board of MentorLead and is active in community and charitable organizations; currently serving on the Children’s Ambassador Panel with CASA Kane County, and as a Volunteer Supervisor with the Northern Illinois Food Bank. He is a frequent speaker at conferences/events including a keynote at Alexander Group Executive Forums previously. Rosiello holds an M.S. in Management of Technology from NYU and a B.A. in Psychology from Brooklyn College.
Steve Rutledge is senior vice president of revenue operations for Informatica. In his role, he is responsible for the go-to-market strategy, systems, processes, enablement, and analytics for the global sales organization.
Steve brings more than 20 years of experience in the enterprise software industry. He has a proven track record of building out and growing the revenue operations functions, integrating with marketing, finance, IT and other teams to create a common operating environment, and being a partner to the CRO to grow bookings and revenue.
Prior to joining Informatica in 2021, Rutledge held Revenue and Sales Operations leadership positions at Conga/Apttus and Genesys, Inc. Additionally, he held roles in Product Marketing and Product Management, both at Genesys and Intel … starting his career in Pre-Sales.
Steve holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Stanford University, and an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management.
Chief Transformation & Strategy Officer McGraw Hill
Justin Singh was named chief transformation and strategy officer in June 2022. In his role, he drives McGraw Hill's digital transformation agenda, focusing on positioning McGraw Hill to serve the needs of students, instructors and education institutions of today and the future.
Justin leads corporate strategy, transformation, business development and imperative growth programs across the company. He works to set McGraw Hill's strategic direction, unlock efficiencies and drive long-term business transformation projects. Furthermore, Justin oversees McGraw Hill's inorganic and digital innovation portfolio.
Before joining McGraw Hill, Justin held roles at EY Strategy with extensive global experience in the education industry. Justin has an MBA from The Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and a bachelor's degree in commerce from The University of Melbourne.
Warren is a highly accomplished enterprise leader with extensive global experience in the Life Science and Diagnostic sectors, and currently serves at the President of the Clinical Services Division at NeoGenomics.
A hands-on leader, Warren is championing the transformation of NeoGenomics from an overall business perspective, with specific focus on the development of an organizational growth culture, digital transformation of systems and tools, go-to-market strategies, and Revenue Cycle Management delivering productivity, margin expansion and accelerated revenue growth. With an emphasis on customer experience.
Before joining NeoGenomics, he served as the President of Ortho Clinical Diagnostics and various international roles for Merck KGaA in his 28 year tenure with them.
Sofia Tulchinsky joined Salesforce in 2011 and is the SVP, COO Alliances & Channels. In this role, she leads a global shared services team responsible for strategy & operations, partner program & support, indirect market dev, M&A integration and enablement delivery. This year, she has predominantly focused on how Salesforce engages with its partner ecosystem to ensure the highest level of success for their joint customers. Continuously evolving their partner ecosystem is critical to Salesforce's success. Before joining Alliances & Channels, Sofia was part of the global business planning and customer success strategy & operations teams.
Prior to joining Salesforce, Sofia spent nine years at Exigen Group. She joined Exigen when it was an early-stage startup, working on the launch, M&A Integration and managing the sales operations/productivity teams.
Born in Ukraine, Sofia immigrated to San Francisco with her family at age four and has lived in New York, Miami and Los Angeles. She received both her B.S. and MBA from Golden Gate University.
Kush Tulsidas is an Operating Partner focused on sales and marketing strategy and execution at One Rock’s portfolio companies. He is responsible for assessing the growth potential of companies in the investment stage and improving profitable revenue growth post acquisition. Mr. Tulsidas brings over 20 years of experience building and improving businesses and has worked in both large corporate settings as well as in private equity. Prior to joining One Rock, Mr. Tulsidas ran a consulting firm focused on growing private equity-backed companies in the middle market. Prior to that, he worked with The Riverside Company as an Operating Growth Executive. During his career, he has assisted companies across multiple industries improve sales organizations and processes, implement and drive appropriate key performance indicators (“KPI’s”) and grow revenue.
Previously, Mr. Tulsidas worked for the Nielsen Company, where he spent nine years in senior leadership roles within the Sales, Consulting and Process Improvement departments. His most recent role at Nielsen was Senior Vice President, Client Consulting where he led the team responsible for servicing and retaining existing clients, growing share of wallet and driving new business in the media industry. Before joining Nielsen, Mr. Tulsidas worked at Cintas Corporation within their International Business and Six Sigma groups. He also founded and exited Soondar Secrets, an Organic Beauty company. Mr. Tulsidas started his career at KPMG in the audit function.
Mr. Tulsidas holds a B.Com. in international business and information systems from Curtin University and University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign. Mr. Tulsidas is also a Six Sigma Master Blackbelt and holds various certifications in Six Sigma, management, sales & negotiation and other trainings.
Global Head of Business Strategy & Operations Spotify
Dan Walsh is an experienced business leader currently serving as the Global Head of Business Strategy & Operations at Spotify. Dan oversees all operations across Spotify’s advertising business inclusive of campaign management, programmatic ad sales, pricing and yield, ads business insights, training & development, and sales/business operations.
Prior to Spotify, Dan was at Amazon Prime Video, where he was based out of the UK. He managed all EMEA marketing efforts across social and new marketing channels. He was responsible for driving growth in the 18-34 audience segment through the use of content development, influencers, media partnerships, IRL events, and social e-commerce.
Dan started his career in Advisory Services in NYC at Ernst & Young before heading into the media world. He moved to Yahoo / Tumblr where he began working in Sales Strategy & Operations, leading to his role as SVP of Global Business Operations at BuzzFeed, overseeing the growth & execution of $250M+ in ad revenue.
