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Continuing the 22-Year Tradition

We’re proud to offer top revenue, sales, customer success, ops and HR/Talent/DEI leaders continued timely insights, powerful ideas and innovative journeys from some of the world’s biggest and best practice organizations.

Hear what Fortune 2000 women practitioners, and their companies, are doing to succeed in today’s rapidly changing markets and economies — and in their executive roles and imperatives as people/business leaders, industry experts and positive change agents.

Sampling of Forum Speaker Quality You Can Expect (2023 Roster Below)

Women Revenue Leaders Forum - Speaker - Heather Ahlborn - MillporeSigma

Heather Ahlborn

SVP, Head of Commercial Americas, Science & Lab Solutions – MilliporeSigma

Heather Ahlborn is the senior vice president of Commercial Americas for the science and lab solutions business of MilliporeSigma. She is a results-oriented, strategic thinker in the healthcare and life sciences industry, specializing in business and technology strategies that drive out-sized growth. A people-centered leader, she is passionate about the role culture plays in organizational success. She has held various commercial, strategy and marketing roles of increasing responsibility across MilliporeSigma, the life sciences business of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany. She has also served as the market growth leader for Gore BioPharma, head of research and drug development IT&S at Cephalon and as a senior managing consultant for IBM’s Global Business Services, Pharmaceutical and Life Sciences practice. Ahlborn has 18+ years of industry and consulting experience developing successful business strategies that lead to increased growth, productivity and compliance.

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Women Revenue Leaders Forum - Keynote Panelist - Dawnet Beverly - Donnelley Financial Solutions

Dawnet Beverley

EVP, Global Sales – Donnelley Financial Solutions

Dawnet Beverley is a seasoned executive with 30 years of ascending management, sales and technology roles. She is the executive vice president with global responsibilities for Donnelley Financial Solutions Capital Markets Group. Beverley has served on boards and volunteered her professional expertise to a number of charitable organizations. She holds a master’s degree in Organizational Development from Pepperdine University.

Beverley is often described as a visionary, a strategic thinker, a compassionate leader and a driver of operational excellence. She excels at corporate leadership, strategy, technology sales leadership, building and transforming teams, developing talent, creating value and leading change.

Aligned with her passion for the environment and water advocacy, Beverley served as Board Member for Water.org and The Pacific Institute. An inspiring keynote speaker, her message of treating everyone with dignity and respect has garnered great interest on social media and has been the hallmark of her leadership brand. Beverley is an avid golfer who has researched and written a thesis on the correlation between golf awareness/competence and effective leadership.

She was recognized as a “Most Influential Women” honoree in Silicon Valley and is a member of both the Silicon Valley Leadership Group and C200 (a premier organization of women business leaders). Beverley serves on the board for Terracon, Onriva and Fairways to Leadership, and as a board advisor for DataRobot.

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Women Revenue Leaders Forum - Keynote - Tiffani Bova - Salesforce

Tiffani Bova

Global Growth Evangelist – Salesforce 

Tiffani Bova is the global growth evangelist at Salesforce and the author of the Wall Street Journal bestselling book GROWTH IQ: Get Smarter About the Choices that Will Make or Break Your Business. Bova has been named to the latest Thinkers50’s list of the world’s top management thinkers and is a welcomed guest on Bloomberg, BNN, Cheddar, MSNBC and Yahoo Finance, among others. She also contributes her thinking to publications including Harvard Business Review, Forbes, Entrepreneur, Diginomica, Quora, Thrive, Rotman School of Management and Duke Dialogue Review. She is a change-maker whose thought-provoking and forward-thinking insights have made her a frequent guest on a variety of industry-leading podcasts and live broadcasts.

As host of What’s Next! with Tiffani Bova, an iTunes’ all-time business and management bestseller and a top sales podcast according to Top Sales Magazine, Bova has interviewed a growing number of exceptional humans including Arianna Huffington, Chester Elton, Dan Pink, Ginger Hardage, Bonin Bough, Mark Victor Hansen, Seth Godin and Tom Peters.

Bova is a top Twitter influencer in Business Growth, Customer Experience, Digital Transformation, the Future of Work and Sales. She was named one of Inc. Magazine’s 37 Sales Experts You Need to Follow on Twitter, a LinkedIn Top Sales Expert to follow in 2018, 2019 and 2020, a Top 100 Women in Tech, a Brand Quarterly Magazine Top 50 Marketing Thought Leader, and one of the most Powerful and Influential Women in California according to the National Diversity Council.

Her book Growth IQ was one of 800-CEO-READ’s top 5 strategy and leadership books of 2018, the #1 Salesforce, Dreamforce Bookstore seller in 2018 and continues to be a monthly bestseller on Porchlight (formerly 800-CEO-Read) in 2019 and 2020.

Having delivered over 500 keynote presentations on sales transformation and business model innovation to over 400,000 people on six continents, Bova is a highly sought-after keynote speaker. Prior to working with Salesforce, she was a sales, marketing and customer service executive for startups as well as Fortune 500 companies where she was recognized as being one of the first to develop a robust go-to-market model for cloud-based solutions, and indirect channel strategies to accommodate changes in buying behavior. She left the corporate world and joined Gartner becoming a Distinguished Analyst and Research Fellow where she won the Thought Leadership award and earned accolades from the best leaders in the technology world for her cutting-edge analysis and her skill at architecting bold new strategies for sales and growth.

Bova’s time on the front lines of sales, marketing and innovation, combined with her insightful candor, has resulted in a unique perspective that continues to inspire businesses and individuals to get smarter about the choices they make, think forward and increase their Growth IQ.

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Women Revenue Leaders Forum - Speaker - Helen Fanucci - Microsoft

Helen Fanucci

Author: Love Your Team (2022) & Recent CS Leader – Microsoft

Helen Fanucci is the best-selling author of Love Your Team, A Survival Guide for Sales Managers in a Hybrid World.  She’s built her reputation and career successfully managing teams responsible for billions of dollars in quota. 

As an MIT-trained engineer, she developed the Love Your Team management system over 25 years on the front lines at top tech companies including Apple, Sun Microsystems, IBM, and Microsoft. 

Most recently, Helen held the role of customer success sales leader with Microsoft, overseeing a team of cloud solution architects and customer success managers.

Fanucci received her Bachelor of Science degree at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

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Women Revenue Leaders Forum - Keynote - Gina Fratarcangeli - Google

Gina Fratarcangeli

Managing Director – Google 

Gina is a managing director at Google. Her current role is helping Fortune 500 companies solve unsolvable problems. She spends her days working with CXOs and cross-Google teams focusing on Cloud and AI. She loves creating first-of-a-kind solutions (preferably Billion dollar ones).

She is known as a thought leader in the tech and cloud space. Her career spans many companies - most recently Accenture where she was a member of the Global Leadership Team responsible for $5B in sales. Prior to that, she was with Genpact where she ran their high-tech sector globally, and prior to that with IBM where she led their Customer Care practice for North America. Gina has worked internationally and started (and sold) her own digital marketing company in Costa Rica. She started her career in Chicago with Leo Burnett.

Having often been the only woman in the boardroom, she is a passionate advocate for female empowerment. Recently she did a Ted talk on it and currently mentors, sponsors and connects hundreds of women – women helping women is the future.

She is a highly sought-after public speaker and published author, she is on the Board of Women in Cloud, Elected into the International Women's Forum, was named top 25 Most Powerful Women in Colorado, a diehard University of Michigan alumnus. 

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Women Revenue Leaders Forum - Panelist - Patricia Hatter - Palo AltoA

Patricia Hatter

Recent Chief Customer Officer – Palo Alto Networks

Patty Hatter is an award-winning leader in global technology. Her background includes leading large-scale growth and business transformation at high-profile global corporations such as Cisco, Palo Alto Networks, Intel, McAfee and AT&T.  In addition to her corporate executive roles, Patty developed, advised and invested in several innovative technology start-ups in the areas of cybersecurity, IoT, DevSecOps and Networking.

Patty advocates early access to STEM education and is passionate about mentoring, supporting, and encouraging women in tech. She is a frequent speaker at Women in Technology events and a long-time supporter and board member of the Silicon Valley Education Foundation.

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Women Revenue Leaders Forum - Keynote Panelist - Sarah Lacey - Adobe

Sarah Lacey

Head of Partner Experience & Engagement – Adobe

Sarah Lacey is passionate about leading transformational partner teams, giving back to her community, and helping women share their truth. As an award-winning leader at Adobe, she currently leads a global team as head of partner experience and engagement.

Prior to her 7+ years at Adobe, she led the agency partner strategy for North America at Oracle. Believing in the power of partners, her career spans growing partner sales and partner programs at several startups in Indianapolis.

Sarah is also the founder of Linking Indy Women. Linking Indy Women is celebrating its 13th year of being a community organization that supports women in Indiana by providing a platform to inspire others. This community of women continues to inspire her to do more to ensure women have opportunities to lead and thrive.

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Women Revenue Leaders Forum - Keynote Panelist - Lana Lee - Uber

Lana Lee

Vice President, Global Revenue Operations – Coursera

Lana Lee currently leads global GTM operations for Uber for Business. In her role, she oversees sales operations, GTM enablement, customer success operations, and GTM systems and tools.

Prior to Uber, Lee held numerous leadership positions with Glassdoor, Google, Openwave and HP. She has built and led numerous sales and marketing operations teams.

Lee started her career as an Engineer and graduated from University of California, Berkeley with a degree in Mathematics and Industrial Engineering.

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Women Revenue Leaders Forum - Paris Loersch - Coming Home Media Group

Paris Loesch

Chief Operating Officer – Coming Home Media Group

Paris Loesch is commercial business leader with over 30 years of experience and a deep business acumen for success.  Paris honed her executive corporate strategy, operations and customer management skills early on by working for some of the world’s most recognized blue chip companies including P&G, WPP, Mondelez/Kraft Nabisco and The Coca-Cola Company. 

Today, as COO of Coming Home Media, Paris is part of HOAM Ventures, an independently operated investment firm specializing in PropTech serving the community management industry with cutting-edge technology solutions.  Over the last 10 years in her C-Suite and executive leadership roles as CRO, COO & Managing Director she reported to CEO’s and was part of multiple executive leadership teams, responsible for managing P&L’s and leading key strategic initiatives and global and domestic market teams. 

Paris is a passionate and awarded business executive, a problem solver and connector who is most happy helping others reach their potential. 

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Women Revenue Leaders Forum - Keynote Panelist - Christine Maguire - TripAdivsor

Christine Maguire

GM/VP, Global Media Business – Tripadvisor

Christine Maguire joined Tripadvisor in a newly created role in April 2019 to lead the company’s global media strategy and operations, and to better leverage the company’s international consumer demand and to drive revenue through new digital advertising solutions.

During her tenure, she has transformed the company’s approach to building media solutions and data-driven advertising, helping advertisers of different verticals reach the high-value travel and dining consumer on a platform with more than 460 million monthly users.

Before joining Tripadvisor, Maguire was leading the commercial and marketing efforts at Condé Nast for four years. From her experience, she has brought a wide range of knowledge across channels such as content, data, programmatic and experiential.

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Women Revenue Leaders Forum - Panelist - Melony Menard - Amazon

Melony Menard

Senior Program Lead, Global Talent Management & Mentoring – Amazon

As a global talent development and mentoring leader, Melony Menard is passionate about building scalable people-centered programs and empowering employees to take ownership of their careers in safe, diverse cultures. As the leader of the Amazon Mentoring Program, she leverages employee collaboration to improve talent engagement, accelerate career development, and enhance business impact for thousands of Amazonians on a global scale. Since its inception in 2016 the program has grown nearly 750%, with over 100 mentorship offerings for employees. She also serves as the President for the Women at Amazon Seattle affinity group, a community of women, non-binary, and allies passionate about increasing gender equity at Amazon. Melony holds a BA in Psychology, an MBA, and is currently working towards her Doctorate of Organizational Leadership.

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Women Revenue Leaders Forum - Panelist - Cheryl Mills Knight - Kendra Scott

Cheryl Mills Knight

Cheryl Mills Knight – SVP, Brand & Culture –  Kendra Scott

Cheryl is one of the founding members of Kendra Scott, a global fashion lifestyle jewelry brand. The first marketing hire in 2005, Cheryl has since built the internal Kendra Scott marketing, creative and brand functions from the ground up, supporting the company in its growth to becoming a billion-dollar brand with 120+ stores nationwide. 

An accomplished executive with digital and traditional marketing strategies and a proven track record of steering brand vision, Cheryl established the company's foundational strategies for brand, digital and experiential marketing around Kendra Scott’s pillars of Family, Fashion & Philanthropy. She was also the creative architect of the initial e-commerce platform, including developing the interactive Color Bar™. With the demands of the hyper-growth company, Cheryl built Kendra Scott's in-house marketing agency consisting of a multi-versed creative team including Art Direction, Graphic and UX Design, Photography, Digital Media, Copywriting, Content Strategy, Social Media and Events. 

Her passion lies in sharing her knowledge and mentoring future leaders. Cheryl is currently an advisor to the Kendra Scott Women’s Entrepreneurial Leadership Institute at The University of Texas at Austin, a program that she helped conceptualize and build. She has been a guest lecturer at The Art Institutes, Savannah College of Art and Design, The University of Texas at Austin, and Temerlin Advertising Institute at Southern Methodist University. 

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Women Revenue Leaders Forum - Panelist - Lynn Moersch - Whirlpool

Lynn Moersch

Recent VP/GM, Sales, The Home Depot Channel – Whirlpool

Recently the VP/GM of Sales for the Home Deport Channel and led the Whirlpool’s Sales Strategy and Operations teams for the past four years. Whirlpool Corporation is the world’s leading manufacturer and marketer of major home appliances. The company markets Whirlpool, Maytag, KitchenAid, Jenn-Air, Amana, Brastemp, Consul, Bauknecht and other major brand names to consumers and builders in nearly every country around the world.

Moersch has 20 years of experience in transformative strategy planning and execution. She joined Whirlpool in 2014 as the Home Depot sales director before being promoted to senior director for sales strategy and operations in March 2016, and most recently promoted to VP/GM Sales & Marketing. Prior to joining Whirlpool, Moersch held positions of increasing responsibility in both sales and marketing at Nestle.

In June 2018, Moersch was appointed Co-Lead of Whirlpool’s Women’s Network. As Whirlpool’s largest ERG, Women’s Network is at the forefront of creating a more inclusive work environment for all employees and Moersch is dedicated to making Whirlpool the best place for women to work.

Moersch earned her Bachelor’s degree from Michigan State University and her MBA from Oakland University.

Her philosophy is that work done well helps us become the best version of ourselves: When you work hard, pay attention to the details of your work, and do a good job, you grow in a number of virtues, including patience, diligence, perseverance and integrity. Every time you grow in virtue you become a better version of yourself. – Mathew Kelly

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Women Revenue Leaders Forum - Keynote - MaryBeth Moynihan - Boston Scientific

Mary Beth Moynihan

CMO & SVP, Market Access – Boston Scientific

Mary Beth Moynihan is senior vice president, Market Access and chief marketing officer at Boston Scientific, a position she has held since May 2021. In this role, she has responsibility for market access strategies that advance the availability of new medical technologies to patients based on economic evidence, as well as oversight of global communications and branding, digital marketing, marketing technology and customer experience. Prior to this role, Mary Beth served as senior vice president, Corporate Marketing and Market Access beginning in 2016 to May 2021 and senior vice president, Enterprise Strategy and Marketing from September 2012 to 2016.

Mary Beth first joined Boston Scientific in 1997 as a marketing manager and director before assuming management-level positions of increasing responsibility. She serves as chair of the global marketing executive board and executive sponsor for ImagineIF, the company’s employee innovation program. She is also the executive sponsor for the Boston BRIDGE employee resource group and WinRM, the women’s network for Rhythm Management sales.

Prior to joining Boston Scientific, Mary Beth was with Braxton Associates, the strategy division of Deloitte & Touche, and an auditor and financial analyst for Digital Equipment Corporation. Mary Beth earned an M.B.A. in Operations Management from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and a B.A. in Economics and Mathematics from Williams College. She is a founding board member of MedExecWomen.

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Women Revenue Leaders Forum - Panelist - Ana Pinczuk - Dexterity

Ana Pinczuk

Chief Operating Officer – Dexterity

Ana Pinczuk is a transformational leader with demonstrated success in running multi-billion dollar P&Ls and accelerating business results. Ana is a well-rounded senior executive with a background that includes Engineering, Sales, IT and Services. Most recently, she was a chief development officer at Anaplan, a high-growth SaaS business planning platform. She also held executive roles with Hewlett Packard (president & GM for HPE Pointnext), Veritas (EVP & chief product officer, SVP & GM for Backup & Recovery Business), and Cisco System (various senior leadership roles), and AT&T (various senior leadership roles).

She has extensive public and non-profit board experience. Ana is passionate about running growth businesses that create value for customers and partners. Ana is also energized Dexterity, Inc., 1205 Veterans Blvd, Redwood City, CA 94063 when also leading industry transformation enabled through technology and business model innovation. She leads change from vision through execution. In particular, Ana excels at managing executive and team buy-in and accountability. Ana is most excited when tackling complex business problems that require innovative approaches with her engaging leadership style that inspires grass-roots commitment and action.

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Karla Rivera

Head of CX – Global Enterprise Segment S&P – Cisco

Karla has over 20 years of experience strategy, transformation, change management, operations, leadership, technology sales, consulting, entrepreneurship, communications, marketing, academia and channel experience.

Rivera’s tenure at Cisco is multifaceted as a sales leader, APO, GPO GTM Enterprise Networking Strategy leader, Head of Americas Service Provider. She’s focused on enterprise, operations and transformation leadership, building the enterprise portfolio growth strategy and accelerating the sell-to business with ten quarters of consistent double-digit growth.

Karla’s most current role is as head of Americas customer experience strategy and planning for the global enterprise segment - the largest revenue-producing segment at Cisco. During her tenure, she has led high-performing sales teams responsible for over $14B, created data-driven growth strategies with pragmatic executable methods driving consistent organizational growth performance, and built impactful relationships achieving collaborative strategies across a complex matrix organization.

Rivera is also heavily focused on building the industry's most diverse and talented teams as an Inclusion and Communities Board Leader and Executive Sponsor. As an I&C Executive Sponsor, Karla helped launch the Ambassador Program focused on bringing diverse talent into the Service Provider market. In addition, she is co-chairwoman of the board for our largest Employee Resource Group (ERG): Women of Cisco Americas. She has built operational excellence and strategies that ICX has implemented across EROs. Most recently, she spearheaded the launch of an ERG dashboard that will help to determine quantitative benchmarks showcasing the impact on the business and help attract, retain and advance women at Cisco and scale to all ERGs.

Karla is also a board member of a tech start-up, a financial institution and Love Never Fails, a not-for-profit located in the Bay area, helping human trafficking survivors gain sustainable careers through technology education.  

She also serves as the CEO and owner of American Tactical (ATD) LLC where her team of incredible expert-level trainers focus on training to mitigate and counter workplace violence. ATD has an array of services in human capital development, including DEI+B (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging in the workplace) training.

Karla was a former D1 Scholarship Pitcher at Oklahoma State University. She is one year out from completing a Doctorate of BA in Strategy Leadership. 

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Women Revenue Leaders Forum - Keynote Panelist - Christina Schelling - Verizon

Christina Schelling

SVP, Chief Talent & Diversity Officer – Verizon

Christina Schelling is a highly influential HR and talent management expert with more than 20 years of experience in progressively responsible, cross-functional, global leadership positions. She is also incredibly passionate about helping businesses and employees reach their full potential by harnessing the power of their differences.

Currently, Schelling oversees all aspects of Verizon’s talent practices including hiring, learning, career development, succession planning, DEI and more for over 120,000 employees globally. She prides herself on making sure that her integrated Talent & DEI team work closely together knowing that doing so sets the foundation for a stronger, more inspired workforce and bigger, better business results.

Before joining Verizon, Schelling was the head of Human Resources for The Estée Lauder Companies Global Corporate Functions and prior to that, she spent six years at Prudential and seven years at American Express in a variety of global leadership roles related to people, culture and organizational strategies.

Schelling holds a bachelor’s degree in Psychology from the University of Massachusetts and a master’s degree in Organizational Development from George Washington University. 

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Women Revenue Leaders Forum - Keynote Panelist - Sarah Schmidt - Abbott

Sarah Schmit

DVP, Business Human Resources – Abbott

Sarah Schmit is the divisional vice president of business human resources at Abbott. She was appointed to her current role in November 2020.

Most recently, Schmit served as the DVP of business human resources for Abbott Nutrition from Aug 2019 to Nov 2020.  Prior to that role, she was the DVP of business human resources for the International Nutrition business located in Lake County, Illinois. Sarah also served as the DVP of business human resources for the Established Pharmaceuticals business in Switzerland for three years and as DVP of business human resources for the Diabetes Care business.

She joined Abbott in 1996 as a member of the HR Professional Development Program and has progressed through roles of increasing responsibility, incorporating both corporate and divisional experience, throughout her tenure at Abbott. She has worked in the Devices, Diagnostics, Nutrition and Pharmaceutical businesses, as well as Corporate, residing in various U.S. and international locations.

She holds a bachelor’s degree from Marquette University where she majored in Marketing and Human Resources, as well as an MBA.

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Women Revenue Leaders Forum - Keynote Panelist - Jennifer Scilabro - Nexstar

Jennifer Scilabro

SVP, Sales Enablement – Nexstar

Jennifer Scilabro is a senior vice president of sales enablement for Nexstar Digital. Scilabro leads revenue development and sales enablement for the Local Sales division including digital sales strategy, training and sales activation. Working in partnership with 199 TV stations, and a legendary radio station in 116 DMAs, her team empowers local sellers and leadership to advance the growth of local businesses.

With nearly 30 years in local media, marketing and digital advertising, Scilabro’s prior experience includes executive sales leadership roles within Harvest ROI, a leading HubSpot Partner Agency and local media companies including Advance Local, Tribune Broadcasting and Local TV LLC. Earlier in her career, she held various advertising sales roles in digital, television and radio, as well as marketing and media buying roles for various brands and agencies.

Scilabro holds a bachelor’s degree in Journalism and Advertising from the Ohio State University and is an active contributor to the Media Ad Sales Council and the Local Media Consortiums.

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Women Revenue Leaders Forum - Panelist - Rebecca Serwatt - Johnson Controls

Rebecca Serwatt

VP, Human Resources –  Johnson Controls

Rebecca is currently serving as the vice president of human resources supporting the global commercial organization at Johnson Controls (JCI), based in Milwaukee, WI.  Her focus is partnering with leaders to drive organizational effectiveness, employee experience, talent development and functional excellence. Johnson Controls offers the world's largest portfolio of building technology, software and services. Its global commercial team is 12k team members strong across 150 countries.

Prior to joining JCI, Serwatt spent time at Kimberly-Clark, Columbus McKinnon and GE Healthcare serving in progressive Talent and HR Business Partner roles. 

Serwatt is SPHR certified and holds an MBA from the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater.  A supporter of the JCI Women’s Network, Rebecca also volunteers with Feeding America, acts as an external coach with Women Unlimited, Inc., and is active in her local community.

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Women Revenue Leaders Forum - Executive Panelist - Kate Walton - Stripe

Kate Walton

Strategic Platform Partnerships Leader – Stripe

Bio is forthcoming.

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