Rubens Pessanha, GPHR, PMP, MBA, is global market researcher at the HR Certification Institute and a doctoral candidate in Human Resources Development at The George Washington University. Since 1998, he has been involved with internationalization of organizations; more specifically he has conducted the start-up of French organizations in Brazil. He has also participated in the start up of several internet companies in Brazil and of a new management journal for the South Asia Region. Rubens has almost 15 years of experience working with strategic planning, marketing research, business development, organizational development and change. He has been a speaker at the 2011 SHRM Annual Conference, 2010 ASTD International Conference, the 2009 Academy of Human Resource Development International Conference and the 2009 Academy of Management Annual Meeting. His areas of interest include internationalization of organizations, marketing research, cross-cultural communication, global mindsets, strategic thinking, self-directed-learning and action learning. Rubens has written several research articles on HR trends for SHRM and co-authored a paper on experiences that develop strategic thinking skills. An active volunteer, Rubens has held leadership positions at GWU student association, COPPEAD former Master students association and the Rio de Janeiro Chapter of the Brazilian HR Association. Rubens is currently a member of the Project Management Institute, SHRM, American Marketing Association and Marketing Research Association.

James is a founding partner in a product design company, Menlo Innovations, that uses highly collaborative project teams to design and implement innovative products for clients that place high value on user adoption. The team he helped build at Menlo Innovations has successfully blended an Extreme Programming development team, usability design specialists, a quality assurance practice, and formal project management. The company has moved twice to accommodate growth and maintain its open collaborative floor space. Representatives from start up companies as well as large Fortune 500 firms routinely tour Menlo's Software Factory environment to study its implementation of agile. As a coach and change agent, James has helped organizations achieve dramatic transformations in both process and culture. He enjoys speaking at conferences, teaching classes, and speaking to small local groups in order to share the lessons he has learned

From kid programmer in 1971 to Forbes cover boy in 2003, "outlier" Richard Sheridan has never shied from challenges, opportunities nor the limelight. While his focus has always been around technology, his passion is actually process, teamwork and organizational design, with one inordinately popular goal: the business value of joy! Sheridan is an avid reader and historian, and his software design and development team at Menlo Innovations didn't invent a new culture, but copied an old one ... Edison's Menlo Park New Jersey lab. Some call it agile, some call it lean ... Sheridan and his team call it joyful. And it produces results ... business and otherwise. Four consecutive Inc. magazine revenue growth awards, invites to the White House, speaking engagements around the nation, numerous articles and culture awards and so much interest they are doing a tour a day of the Menlo Software Factory.

Stephanie Liu has over 15 years of experience in the field of Human Resources Management in global companies operating in both China and Asia Pacific markets. She has worked in many industries as FMCG, financial institution, pharmaceuticals, industries technology and service sector. She is a human resource professional who has a great deal of passion and energy in talent development, organization development and process improvement. She was awarded the HR Manager of the Year 2000 by China Staff and certified GPHR in 2007. She has served as Standing Committee Member of the Multi-national Pharmaceutical Industry Association from 2001 to 2005, and the Chair for Amcham Shanghai HR Committee in 2005 and 2006.

Tom Carroll is the Executive Vice President and Chief Human Resource Officer for RR Donnelley, a 10 billion dollar international Fortune 250 Company with more than 60,000 employees worldwide.

Tom’s career with RR Donnelley began in 1995 as the Human Resource Manager in the Pontiac, Illinois, manufacturing facility. Since then, he has served as a manager in Leadership Development and has had increasing responsibility in the role of Vice President of Human Resources. As the EVP and Chief Human Resource Officer, Carroll has responsibilities for all aspects of human resources for domestic and global operations in the Asia Pacific, Mexico, South America, Canada, Europe and the United States.

Additionally, Carroll is a skilled business strategist, executive coach, team developer, facilitator, and motivational speaker. In September 2009 his featured cover story in Human Resource Executive, was focused on “Rethinking HR.”

Prior to joining RR Donnelley, he was a manager of Employee Relations and Organization Development in a large hospital where he practiced clinically before transitioning to human resources. Carroll began his career in 1984 as Director of Family Services for a social service agency. He holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology and a Master’s Degree in Clinical Psychology.

Tom lives in Naperville, Illinois with his wife and three children and enjoys photography, yoga, and stained glass.

Teri Eyre leads Human Resources for the HP Personal Systems Group (PSG) on a worldwide basis. As a strategic business partner to this $40B global business, Teri plays a key role in driving the successful performance of PSG. She is directly responsible for HR strategy and workforce planning, talent and succession, executive recruiting, compensation, and leadership and sales development. Teri is a member of the HP Executive HR Council participating in setting HR policy and direction for HR across HP.

Sarah King is executive vice president of human resources for Wyndham Vacation Ownership. She is responsible for leading all human resources operations including recruitment and retention, leadership and associate development, employee relations and the alignment of more than 13,300 associates across the organization to strategic goals and initiatives.

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.

Mathur joined NV Energy, Inc. in April 2009 after 13 years in the gaming industry, most recently serving as senior vice president, corporate diversity and community affairs, for MGM MIRAGE.

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 is the head of HR department in Hyundai Card/ Capital with extensive experience of more than 15 years mainly in HR.

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.