Sarah King
executive vice president, Human Resources
Wyndham Vacation Ownership
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Prior to her most recent position, Ms. King served as vice president of human resources for Wyndham Exchange and Rentals, based in the UK. In this role, she was responsible for all human resources strategies for Europe, Middle East, Africa and India (EMEAI), including nine businesses with approximately 4,000 associates across more than 20 countries. In addition, Sarah also had oversight for EMEAI’s facilities and real estate management and corporate communications.
Previously, Ms. King was responsible for overseeing all human resources operations in Australia, Africa and the United Kingdom for RCI. In these roles, she led strategies designed to attract, retain and engage associates and drive business performance improvement through effective people strategies.
Sarah holds a Diploma of Communications from Auckland University of Technology and several Certificates in Workplace Training and Assessment as well as the Foundations of Human Resources Management. She is a member of the American Resort Development Association’s Human Resources Council, as well as the National Association of Professional Women.
Punam Mathur
vice president, People Resources
NV Energy, Inc.
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During her tenure, MGM MIRAGE received numerous awards in her areas of responsibility, including being ranked among the "Top 50 Companies for Diversity" by DiversityInc magazine and one of the "Top Corporations in the U.S." for multicultural businesses by DiversityBusiness.com. Prior to joining Mirage Resorts in 1996, she had been with the Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce for six years, holding a variety of management positions, the last of which was Senior Vice President of Government Affairs.
Education
Mathur attended the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, studying elementary education, from 1979-1982.
Organizations
Mathur currently serves as chairperson of the Board of Trustees for Three Square, a non-profit organization dedicated to eradicating hunger in southern Nevada. She also is a member of the Leadership Las Vegas Council and a member of the Advisory Board of Habitat for Humanity- Las Vegas. An avid supporter of education, she is a member of the president's advisory task force on diversity at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, a member of the Nevada State Blue Ribbon Education Reform Task Force, co-chair of the Nevada Partnership for Inclusive Education, and is on the board of advisors for Nevada State College and the Clark County School District Superintendent's Education Network. The Gay and Lesbian Community Center of Southern Nevada named Mathur Woman of the Year for 2009.
Personal
Mathur resides in Las Vegas with her two sons and one daughter.
Sung Weon Choi
HR department head
Hyundai Card & Hyundai Capital, Korea
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Graduated from USC Marshall School MBA, he’s built his career from LG Electronics, and continued his concentration in HR at Mercer, well-noted for its prominence in HR Consulting.
During his career, he’s contributed to introducing market principle to Hyundai’s HR system. This brought about transformation to a typical Asian working virtue, obeying the hierarchical structure with passive working behavior. ‘Career Market’ being one of the good examples, was introduced to help employees develop their career flexibly with a market system absorbed in internal recruitment. In this system, the team leaders become the consumers and employees become the sellers, allowing interactive transaction. Amongst such atmosphere, employees became self-driven, and showed higher performance. Thus, this unprecedented attempt gained attention from the Government and Domestic/International Corporations with various media announcing Hyundai as a good example to benchmark.
Sung Weon Choi was invited to lecture Hyundai’s Best Practice at Korea’s prestigious universities (Seoul National University and Ewha Womens University, and etc), 2010 Korea Human Resource Management Conference, 2009 Korea Great Work Place (GWP) Conference-Special Speech and various conferences.
Mary Spees
director of Human Resources
Cirque du Soleil
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Mary Spees is the Senior Director of Human Resources for Cirque du Soleil’s Resident Shows Division. Mary leads a staff of human resources professionals ranging from generalists to subject matter experts in all areas of human resources, including immigration, health and safety, talent attraction, compensation and benefits, workers’ compensation, and employee/artist relations. Cirque currently presents nineteen different shows around the world, and the Resident Shows Division Human Resources team is responsible for employees located in the United States, Tokyo, Macau, and other countries. Mary joined Cirque in 1998, and has held several different positions in the Human Resources Department.
Mary K. W. Jones
vice president, Global Human Resources
Deere & Company
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After working in private practice, Jones joined Deere & Company in 1997 as an attorney. She served in Global Law Services for over ten years in roles as senior attorney, senior counsel, assistant general counsel and associate general counsel. In March 2008 she was appointed Corporate Secretary and Associate General Counsel, Deere & Company. In October 2008, Jones joined the company's Corporate Human Resources organization as Director, Regional Human Resources and Shared Services. Prior to her current position, she was named Director, Human Resources Global and Regional Deployment in May 2009.
A native of Cordova, Illinois, Jones received her bachelor's degree from Truman State University. She received her juris doctor degree, with high distinction, from the University of Iowa College of Law, where she was a member of the editorial board of the Iowa Law Review.
Jones is a member of the Illinois and Iowa Bar Associations. She is a member and previously has served as Chair of the Corporate Law Departments Section Council of the Illinois State Bar Association. She also is a member of the Association of Corporate Counsel. Jones serves on the Board of Directors of the Deere Employees Credit Union and on the regional Board of Directors of the March of Dimes. She has previously been a member of the Board of Directors of the Learning Campus Foundation, Edgerton Women's Health Center, and the Family Museum, where she served as Chairman of the Board.
Lucas van Wees, MBA
vice president
HR Commercial and Global, Air France – KLM, Amstelveen
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Van Wees was co-author or editor for four books and published various (international) articles a.o. for Personnel Journal, the International Journal of Career Management and the Journal of Management Development. His contribution to a European book, describing HR practices in 13 European countries, was published in late 2008 by Routledge, Taylor & Francis (ISBN 978-0-415-44761-4).
Amongst others, he is a member of the Board of the Dutch Association of Personnel Management (NVP) and, on behalf of the NVP, delegate for the European Association of Personnel Management (EAPM) in which 28 European HR associations take part. He was the also the chairman of the Jury of the first EAPM European HR Award, granted in 2009.
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Kyle Jensen
talent scout
New Belgium Brewing Company
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Arianna Huffington
Founder & CEO
Thrive
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Arianna Huffington is the founder and CEO of Thrive, the founder of The Huffington Post, and the author of 15 books, including Thrive and The Sleep Revolution. In 2016, she launched Thrive, a leading behavior change tech company with the mission of changing the way we work and live by ending the collective delusion that burnout is the price we must pay for success.
She has been named to Time Magazine's list of the world’s 100 most influential people and the Forbes Most Powerful Women list. Originally from Greece, she moved to England when she was 16 and graduated from Cambridge University with an M.A. in economics. At 21, she became president of the famed debating society, the Cambridge Union.
She serves on numerous boards, including Onex and The B Team.
Her last two books, Thrive: The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Life of Well-Being, Wisdom, and Wonder and The Sleep Revolution: Transforming Your Life, One Night At A Time, both became instant international bestsellers. Most recently, she wrote the foreword to Thrive's first book Your Time to Thrive: End Burnout, Increase Well-being, and Unlock Your Full Potential with the New Science of Microsteps.
Radhakrishnan B. Menon
managing director
LBW Consulting PVT., Ltd.
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David M. Weiner
partner
Seyfarth Shaw, LLP
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