Yvette Montero Salvatico
principal and managing director; instructor
Kedge and The Futures School
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Holding a bachelor’s degree in Finance and an MBA from the University of Florida, Yvette has over 15 years of corporate experience with large, multi-national firms such as Kimberly-Clark and The Walt Disney Company. Before becoming a partner at Kedge, she lead the effort to establish Future Workforce Insights at the Walt Disney Company, identifying future workforce trends and leveraging foresight models and techniques to assess potential threats and impacts, emerging ideas, and exciting opportunities for the organization. With membership in organizations such as Society For Human Resource Management (SHRM) and the Network of Executive Women (NEW), Yvette is an experienced speaker, addressing large audiences on topics such as business policy, talent, work, diversity, and foresight. 

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Paul Kramer
director of Compliance
WorkForce Software
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Mr. Paul Kramer, an attorney-at-law, is WorkForce Software’s Director of Compliance. Mr. Kramer is responsible for researching and staying abreast of labor laws that affect our clients, ensuring compliance is embedded in EmpCenter® products, and working with clients on compliance audits in the areas of the FLSA, FMLA, and other wage/hour and absence laws. Prior to joining WorkForce Software, Mr. Kramer was a private attorney for over two decades and has represented employers nationally in employment and labor law matters.

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Wanda Pina_Ramirez
partner
The Human Factor Consulting Group
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Wanda Piña-Ramírez is an enthusiastic advocate of selecting and developing talent for business success who has held various roles in industries such as hospitality, tourism, telecommunications, restaurants, petrochemicals, retail, waterworks, and government in United States, the Caribbean Region, and Puerto Rico. Her clients include from multinational corporations to small and mid-size businesses for corporate reorganizations, contract negotiations, budget development and management, human resources administration, business management, and training among other services. Wanda is certified as Coach (CCC) from the University of Puerto Rico at Río Piedras, as Practitioner in Neurolinguistic Programming and Applied Kinesiology by the International NLP Trainers Association, and as Human Resources Administrator by the Escuela Avanzada de Administración de Recursos Humanos y Legislación Laboral de Puerto Rico.  She serves as Advisory Board Member of the School of Business Administration of the University of Puerto Rico at Bayamón.  She is a certified Mediator for Cases of Domestic Violence and Aggression in Puerto Rico.  Wanda received the Training and Development Professional Award of the Puerto Rico Chapter of the American Society for Training and Development in 2011. 

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Norma Davila
partner
The Human Factor Consulting Group
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Norma Dávila has dedicated her career to develop others in industries as diverse as banking, technology, telecommunications, pharmaceuticals, retail, utilities, automotive, and education.  She is a hands-on consultant in organizational development and training who designs and implements change management and capacity building strategies. She prepares internal organizational capacity for different roles through coaching.  Norma provides outplacement support, designs employee handbooks, and challenges operational processes among other services.   Her consulting practice also includes leadership development and talent management programs. She is known for her flexibility in working with her clients to address their needs and partnering to find the best solution to their challenges.  Norma is certified as Project Management Professional (PMP), Senior Professional in Human Resources (SPHR), and Society for Human Resources Management Senior Certified Professional (SHRM-SCP).  She earned her bachelor’s degree in Psychology at Yale University and her master’s and doctoral degrees in Psychology at the University of Chicago. 

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Sunil Bagai
CEO
Zenith Talent
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Sunil is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur who is transforming the way world-class companies think about and acquire talent. Blending vision, technology and business skills honed in the most innovative corporate environments, he has created a new model for recruitment which is being tapped successfully by large technology companies like Google.
 
He refined his management and technology skills at Fortune 500 heavyweights IBM, EMC, and Symantec, and learnt entrepreneurship by working with cutting edge start-ups.
 
In 2000, Sunil founded Indosys Corporation (now part of Zenith Talent), a company offering software and staffing solutions to the world's most successful businesses, including Microsoft, Brocade, Medtronic, Google, and IBM.
 
In 2012, Sunil founded Zenith Talent, introducing a new overseas model with profit sharing for recruiters which delivers measurable value to large VMS clients.  He has also launched complementary talent brands HelpYouRecruit, Candidate Insights and Hiring Humor. These offerings bring powerful innovation to the way talent is identified and hired globally.
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Lindsay Jurisch
director of Global Talent Acquisition
Sutherland Global Services
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Lindsay has been fortunate to work for Sutherland Global Services in five roles and three countries in just five years. She currently leads sourcing, talent brand marketing, and standardization efforts around the world. Lindsay is a passionate advocate for continuous improvement and isn't really happy unless she's fixing something. She once took a zip line from Spain to Portugal.

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Mira Greenland
vice president
CareerArc
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Mira Greenland is the Vice President of Sales for CareerArc’s social recruiting division. As a HealthcareSource Certified Integration Partner, CareerArc is the leading social and mobile recruiting solution helping today’s employers reach the 21st century job seeker. Before joining CareerArc, Mira was a recruiter and recruitment consultant for over 12 years and now often presents at industry seminars and conferences about social recruiting.

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Chris Forman
CEO & founder
StartDate Labs Inc
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Chris Forman is the CEO and Founder of StartDate Labs Inc., the parent company of Appcast and StartWire. As the former Chief Executive Officer of AIRS and Chief Development Officer of The Right Thing, Chris has worked in the recruiting industry for 19 years, developing smart recruiting tools that have helped hire millions of people around the globe. Chris is a nationally recognized expert in recruiting and talent management and has been quoted in publications such as The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times and Staffing Industry Review.

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Peter A. Gudmundsson
CEO
RecruitMilitary
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Peter A. Gudmundsson is the President & CEO of RecruitMilitary, a sixteen year old company that helps organizations excel by leveraging the talent of our nation’s finest people, our veterans. RecruitMilitary helps companies attract, appreciate and retain high quality veteran employees and students. 

Prior to RecruitMilitary, Gudmundsson founded the Dropout & Truancy Prevention Network, a social enterprise that combined the use of location verification technology with phone-based personal mentor/coaches to keep kids in school and on track to graduate. Many of the mentor/coaches were physically disabled veterans or others with physical challenges that brought maturity, empathy and compassion to their roles.

Most of Gudmundsson’s career has been dedicated to leadership in media, education, information and intellectual property intensive businesses. Before DTPN, he was the founder of the Priceless Legacy Company, a custom publishing company that helped people preserve their life stories and lessons in print and electronic formats

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Jeff Hiller
director of Learning and Development
JB Training Solutions
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Jeff began his career at Leo Burnett in Chicago where he became the youngest VP Account Director in the agency’s history, earning seven of the American Marketing Association’s EFFIE Awards for superior business results.  Before joining JB Training Solutions, Jeff was the Marketing and Creative Director for the Houston Rockets and Vice President of Marketing for Four Hands Imports, which was featured on Inc’s 500 Fastest Growing Company List three times. Currently, Jeff consults on business skills, sales, and marketing for companies in multiple industries including Marriott, Phillips 66, Leo Burnett, and the Major League Baseball Network. When Jeff isn’t traveling or training, he is spearheading content development and enhancement to keep JB programs at the peak of innovation.

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