Featured Speakers
Mike Walsh
Author and Publisher
Mike Walsh helps to prepare business leaders for what's next. Author of Futuretainment and publisher of The Fourth Estate blog read by thousands of professionals in the media and entertainment space, Mike brings unique insights into the growing influence of new markets on breakthrough innovation and business transformation.
Speaking May 20
Mark M. Zandi
Chief Economist
Moody's Analytics
Mark M. Zandi is chief economist of Moody's Analytics, where he directs economic research. Moody's Analytics, a subsidiary of Moody's Corp., is a leading provider of economic research, data and analytical tools. Dr. Zandi is a cofounder of Economy.com, which Moody's purchased in 2005.
Speaking May 21
Edward (Ed) Labry
Vice Chairman
First Data
Edward (Ed) Labry is Vice Chairman of First Data. Mr. Labry brings almost 30 years of industry leadership and a lifelong career with First Data and predecessor companies to this position. Prior to being named Vice Chairman in May 2013, Mr. Labry was president of First Data – North America, a market that grew to contribute more than 85 percent of the company's consolidated revenue under his leadership. When First Data acquired Concord EFS, Inc. in 2004, he was president of this high-growth processing company. At Concord, he pioneered the acceptance of credit, debit and electronic benefit transactions in supermarkets, the introduction of pay–at–the–pump technology at gasoline stations, and the use of electronic payments in quick service restaurants.
Speaking May 22
Larry Drury
Chief Marketing Officer
First Data
Larry Drury is Chief Marketing Officer and senior vice president at First Data. Drury is responsible for expanding and managing First Data's corporate reputation. Drury's global responsibility includes corporate, product and channel marketing, market research, brand management, digital marketing, and telesales as well as corporate and customer events.
Speaking May 20
Dom Morea
Senior Vice President, Advanced Solutions & Innovation
First Data
Dom Morea is Senior Vice President, Advanced Solutions and Innovation at First Data. Dom has been with First Data since 2004, when he rejoined the company as Senior Vice President for product and business development.
Speaking May 20
Eckart Walther
Chief Executive Officer
CardSpring
Eckart Walther is the CEO of CardSpring, a payments infrastructure platform that makes it easy for retailers, publishers and developers to create web and mobile applications for payment cards.
Speaking May 20
Troy Carrothers
SVP, Retail Payment Solutions & Multi–Channel Sales & SVCs
Kohl's Department Stores, Inc.
As Senior Vice President, Retail Payment Solutions and Multi-Channel Sales and Services for Kohl's, Troy Carrothers is responsible for leading the Kohl's Card Program, managing Kohl's credit operations, service centers, and risk management for Kohl's and non–Kohl's Card business in-store and online. These responsibilities include the full servicing for credit card issuance, underwriting, risk management, and third party credit card acquisition..
Speaking May 20
Melody Roberts
Senior Director, Experience Design Innovation
McDonald's Corporation
Over the past six years, Melody Roberts has integrated experience design into the practice of innovation at McDonald's Corporation. Today she leads strategic cross-functional initiatives, manages the experience design team, and consults to disseminate design and innovation best practices company–wide.
Speaking May 20
Rob Sadowski
Director, Marketing & Strategy
Security
Rob Sadowski is Director of Marketing, for RSA––The Security Division of EMC. Rob is responsible for marketing and go-to-market strategy for RSA's efforts to secure electronic payments, working with merchants, acquirers, associations, financial institutions, and technology providers. He represents RSA in multiple industry organizations related to payments, including the PCI Security Standards Council.
Speaking May 20
Dickson Chu
Commerce & Payments Advisor
Dickson Chu is currently an independent consultant to the commerce and payments industry. Dickson is an accomplished general manager and innovative product builder with 25 years of experience working at the intersection of financial services, customer insights and the strategic use of technology. He is an active advisor to a number of emerging companies—such as Sequent Software, Leapset and AdMobius–that are working to define the next generation of mobile commerce and advertising.
Speaking May 20
Barry McCarthy
President, Financial Services (interim)
Barry McCarthy serves as interim president of First Data's U.S. Financial Services segment. In his role, he has responsibility for segment sales, product, development and operations, leading the team that supports more than 4,000 financial institution customers as well as their respective 700 million credit/debit card consumers and 3 million card-accepting merchant locations. He also has responsibility for the STAR debit network and First Data's Government unit, which processes more than $2 trillion annually in tax payments for its various government customers.
Speaking May 20
Rhonda Hotard
President/CEO
Lousiana Federal Credit Union
Rhonda started with Louisiana Federal Credit Union in August of 1994 after graduating with a B.S. in Accounting from Southeastern Louisiana University. She began her career with Louisiana FCU in the accounting department as the Comptroller. Rhonda was hired as President/CEO in August of 2000. Prior to working for the Credit Union, she served in the United States Navy for 4 years and was stationed in Kingsbay, GA onboard the USS Canopus AS–34. In 2012, Rhonda received the following designations: Certified Credit Union Executive, Certified Financial Services Professional and Credit Union Risk Management Expert. Rhonda has been married for 22 years and has two children. She serves as President of the board for the St John United Way and is the Past Chair for the River Region Chamber of Commerce. She also actively participates on several committees with her local church parish.
Speaking May 22
Rob Wilk
Vice President of Sales
foursquare
Rob Wilk is the VP of sales at foursquare. Rob has more than 17 years of advertising and media experience, in which he's spent the past 13 years specifically focused in digital on both the agency and publisher sides.Prior to foursquare, Rob directed a team of 60 U.S. and Canada based employees who were tasked with driving optimal search performance for some of Yahoo's biggest advertisers with revenue on pace to exceed $1 billion. He oversaw the field search account management team, the global search account management team and the award-winning search optimization and strategy team.
Speaking May 21
Krish Mantripragada
SVP Information & Analytics
First Data
Krish Mantripragada is senior vice president of information and analytics at First Data. In this role, he is responsible for providing data-driven analytics solutions to power Universal Commerce. Prior to joining First Data, Mantripragada was group vice president at SAP, responsible for next generation business analytics applications in sales, supply chain, consumer marketing and areas leveraging the power of real-time, social and cloud technologies. Prior to that role, he oversaw worldwide strategy, definition and delivery of end–to–end supply chain products at SAP. Before his tenure at SAP, Mantripragada held several leadership positions at i2 Technologies, Agile Software and United Technologies Research. He has more than 18 years of experience in supply chain management, cross channel marketing and analytics solutions across enterprise software, industry and academia.
Speaking May 21
Florian Zettelmeyer
Professor of Marketing
Kellogg School of Management
Florian Zettelmeyer is the Nancy L. Ertle Professor of Marketing at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. Prior to his appointment at Kellogg he was an Associate Professor of Marketing and chair of the marketing group at the Haas School of Business, University of California at Berkeley. Before his Ph.D., he worked in consulting at McKinsey and Company's German office. Professor Zettelmeyer specializes in evaluating the effects of information technology and big data on firms. More generally, his work addresses how the information consumers have about firms and the information firms have about consumers affect firm behavior.
Speaking May 21