EXECUTIVE FORUM

2024 Speakers

Continuing the 24-Year Tradition

We’re proud to offer timely insights, powerful ideas, and innovative journeys from some of the world’s top revenue, sales, marketing, customer success, operations, and HR/Talent leaders.

Hear what Global 2000 executives (SVP to C-level), and their companies, are doing to succeed in today’s challenging environment of accelerated convergence and change. (More speakers to be added in the coming weeks/month.)

Teresa Anania

Chief Customer Officer
Sophos

Greg Archibald

GM & SVP, Sales – Americas
Outbrain

Kelly Aronson

Chief Digital Officer, SVP
Andersen Corporation

Lanessa Bannister

General Manager, Lennox Residential
Lennox

Scott Boecker

Chief Digital Officer
CHG Healthcare

Gus Blanchard

Chief Marketing Officer
ADP

James Bramwell

EVP, Sales & Customer Excellence
Avantor

Blake Cahill

SVP, Global Marketing
Element

Lara Caimi

President, Worldwide Field Operations
Samsara

Zach Chapman

SVP, Global Partnerships
NBCUniversal

Martha Delehanty

Chief People Officer
Commvault

Brenda Dennis

Former Global VP, Commerce &
Lifecycle Operations
Cisco

Julie Develin

Senior Partner, HCM Advisory & Human Insights
UKG

Debbie Dunnam

Former Chief Commercial Officer
Dropbox

Kobi Elbaz

SVP & GM – Global Revenue Operations
Recent, SVP & GM – Global Channel, Sales
Innovation & Ops
HP

Steve Ellis

Chief Operating Officer
Paramount Advertising

John Foley

Blue Angel Lead Solo Pilot, Stanford Fellow,
Best-Selling Author & “Gratitude Guru”

Doug Ghertner

Chief Executive Officer
IVX Health

Cate Gutowski

Chief Executive Officer – Quantis.ai, Board Member & Former Amazon & GE Executive

Jim Johnstone

Chief People Officer
Cadent

Shawn Lewis

EVP, Global Revenue Enablement &
Customer Success
Sage

Chris MacDonald

Head of Gen AI Solution Architecture
Bria.ai

Mary Ellen Marcilliat-Falkner

EVP, Chief People &
Administrative Officer
Cox Media Group

Mary Ellen Marcilliat-Falkner is the Executive Vice President, Chief People & Administrative Officer at Cox Media Group (CMG). Mary Ellen draws on her deep business experience and a wealth of HR knowledge to lead CMG’s People Solutions’ (HR) team and corporate communications. She’s used this opportunity to cultivate CMG’s dynamic culture, elevate employee engagement and launch a purposeful DE+I program; all while enhancing the company’s approach to talent and performance, learning and development, compensation and benefits, and employee and labor relations.

Mary Ellen’s award-winning career began in field operations at Cox Automotive, where she earned the position of Senior Vice President of HR Business Partners and HR Operations. A true driving force within Cox Auto, she led a team of leader-facing HR business partners and employment practice professionals, providing invaluable support across all of Cox Automotive’s U.S.-based businesses and corporate functions.

In 2017, Mary Ellen transitioned to Cox Media Group as Senior Vice President and Chief People Officer. In this new frontier for her, she co-developed a visionary initiative called the EXLab. This groundbreaking program, launched in partnership with Cox Enterprises and its divisions, revolutionized people practices, communications and internal business partnerships. Through design thinking and audience feedback, the EXLab enabled a future focused “One Cox” employee experience, propelling the organization into a new era.

Outside of the office, Mary Ellen is passionate about environmental conservation and animal welfare. She is actively involved in organizations such as the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, the National Resource Defense Council, Sierra Club, and the National Audubon Society.

Throughout her career, Mary Ellen has put action behind her long-standing commitment to empowering women. She proudly served on the board of directors for Women in Technology, advocating for women in Georgia’s STEAM community. Although her board service concluded in December 2021, she continued serving on the Women in Technology Advisory Council for another year. At CMG, Mary Ellen helped launch EmpowHERed, CMG’s first women-focused BRG.

Mary Ellen graduated from the University of Nevada – Las Vegas with a bachelor’s in accounting and holds the Senior Professional in Human Resources (SPHR) designation.

Jason Marx

Chief Executive Officer, Tax & Accounting
Wolters Kluwer

Sonal Matai

Managing Director & President, U.S. Business
KARL STORZ

Anshu Mehrotra

Chief Commercial Officer
EIS

Guy Melamed

Chief Financial Officer & Chief Operating Officer
Varonis

Shonodeep Modak

Chief Marketing Officer, North America
Schneider Electric

Parisa Naseralavi

SVP, Global Operations & Monetization
ServiceNow

Parisa Naseralavi leads and drives operational efficiency across the ServiceNow Global Sales organization, delivering services that maximize seller productivity and performance, scale the business through a digital first approach, and create an unmatched commercial experience for customers and partners.

Parisa is a top-performing, results-driven C-level executive leader with an exceptional record of initiating and completing global, high-profile programs recognized for materially contributing to the bottom line. She is known as a change catalyst for solving hard problems by designing and executing winning strategies and tactics.

She has a strong track record of accelerating business transformations with an expansive background in global revenue operations (including sales operations, partner operations, services operations, customer operations) new product introductions, customer satisfaction, finance and M&A strategy/integration. Parisa joined ServiceNow in June 2020 and was promoted to her current position in January 2023.

Before ServiceNow, Parisa held multiple leadership roles at VMWare and Cisco. And while at Cisco built an almost 20-year track record of consecutive successes revitalizing Cisco’s global Service Supply Chain, rejuvenating their global Customer Service Operations, and reimagining and rebuilding Cisco’s entire global Finance division where she has implemented 120+ new process and system enhancements and saved over $13B in operating costs, all while strengthening Cisco’s global BI, QTC, cash management, forecasting and pricing systems.

Passionate, driven and never complacent, Parisa is known for her ability to blend a strategic business-focused approach with an innate ability to innovate, see ahead of an organization’s need and create the highly engaged operations required to deliver unprecedented results. Parisa is a Certified Six Sigma Level 3 Champion and holds an advanced Engineering degree from London’s South Bank University.

Parisa believes the key to delivering high-quality results rests in energizing and inspiring others. She mentors and coaches a wide variety of next-generation leaders and is a recognized thought leader and strategic partner earning the trust and confidence of cross-functional peers and top-level executives.

While known for her commitment to achieving exceptional results, Parisa’s success is ultimately driven by her higher purpose and passion—creating cultures where people love their work and do the best work of their lives, and building organizations that make the world a better place.

Kalina Nikolova

Recent SVP, Business Operations & Strategy
Yahoo

Tracy Nolan

SVP, MarketPoint
Humana

BJ Schaknowski

Chief Executive Officer
Symplr

Arquelle Shaw

SVP, Americas Sales
Equinix

Arquelle Shaw is senior vice president of Sales for the Americas at Equinix, the world's digital infrastructure company, where she is responsible for leading sales strategy and revenue growth across the region. Arquelle has extensive technology, operational and organizational leadership experience. Her depth of experience helps clients to harness Equinix’s trusted global platform to bring together and interconnect the foundational infrastructure to enable their digital transformation. Arquelle is a transformative sales leader with a passion for building client-centric, solution-driven sales organizations that help clients achieve critical business objectives. Under her leadership, her team has reported revenue growth every quarter she has led the Americas Sales organization at Equinix.

Prior to Equinix, Arquelle was a sales executive at Accenture, leading sales in Communications Media and Technology. She worked as a trusted partner to key clients and helped shape and deliver business outcomes driving clients’ end-to-end transformation.

Arquelle also was vice president of Global Sales and vice president/GM of the Multinational Client Group at American Express. In these roles, Arquelle created and implemented global alignment around a new GTM strategy, significantly shifting revenue growth. She also led the successful transition of the organization’s employees and clients into the American Express Joint Venture, American Express Global Business Travel (Amex GBT).

Arquelle has held senior sales leadership positions at AT&T, where she led multi-billion dollar sales organizations responsible for building integrated technology solutions helping clients digitally transform their businesses. Throughout her career, she has focused on helping her clients and mentoring her teams, and as a result, she has been named one of the “Most Influential Business Women” by the San Francisco Bay Area Business Times multiple times.

Equally important, Arquelle serves as a champion and mentor for Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging initiatives within Equinix and her community. She proudly leads the Equinix Women Leaders Network (EWLN) and Equinix Women in Technology Sales to amplify the voice and visibility of Equinix women around the world. She also is an executive sponsor of Equinix BlackConnect and is a founding member of the Equinix PrideConnect Parents Group. She also volunteers as a “Woman of Impact” for the non-profit organization Girls Inc. where she supports creating opportunities for girls in underserved communities through funding and mentoring.