Marissa Andrada
Senior Vice President, Human Resources
GameStop Corporation

Marissa Andrada joined GameStop Corporation in March 2007 as the head of Human Resources responsible for overseeing the company’s HR functions including Talent Acquisition, Training and Organization Development, Diversity, Total Rewards, Employee Relations and HR Administration. Marissa has a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from California State Polytechnic University at Pomona and an M.B.A. from Pepperdine University. She has enjoyed career both broad and deep in many areas of business and HR across industries and within Fortune 500 and start-up organizations. Marissa began her career in various HR generalist and management roles at Unisys Corporation and Pepsi Restaurants International/Pizza Hut. She had a six-year career at Universal Studios where she was responsible for pioneering the company-wide HR structure and introducing Performance Management and Talent/Organization Development practices, overseeing global staffing, training and development, work/life and EEO/Diversity as the Corporate Vice President of HR Development.

Prior to joining GameStop, Marissa spent the ten years as the head of Human Resources, at start-up and high growth organizations including Xdrive Technologies, ValleyCrest Companies and Red Bull North America where she revamped and established HR functions as a strategic business partner and key each company’s growth and total consumer brand.

Marissa is a native of Los Angeles and is a resides in the Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas area with her husband, Chris.

 

Dr. Sujaya Banerjee
Chief Learning Officer
Essar Group

Sujaya Banerjee is an MBA with a specialization in Human Resources and holds a Doctorate in Organization Development and Performance Management.

She started her career with an FMCG Leader Godrej Soaps Ltd and later took a sabbatical to participate in Rotary International scholarship that took her to Brazil and the United States where she had the opportunity to participate in internship projects at organizations such as Nestle, Dupont, Volks Wagon and General Motors. She joined ADNOC (Abu Dhabi National Oil Company) as Head of HRD in 1993 and was responsible for setting up several development initiatives including Performance Management, Executive Development and Succession Planning.

On her return to India, she joined Lowe Lintas & Partners, a leading advertising multinational as Sr. Vice-President HRD and Personnel and was responsible for introducing several path-breaking HR initiatives in the area of Employee Engagement and also set up Northpoint Centre of Learning. She later moved back to the Oil & Gas Industry as Director Human Resources at British Gas in India. During her career Sujaya has won the ‘HRD Achiever of the Year’ Award for 2001, the World HRD Congress Award for ‘Organization with Innovative HR Practices’, the HR Youth Icon Award, was featured amongst 40 leading and most successful HR Professionals in Asia (Hot 40 in Asia listing) by Human Capital Asia, Singapore and was awarded the Business Leadership Award by ITM Business Schools.

Sujaya is currently Chief Learning Officer, Essar Group overseeing Learning and Organizational Development for the multi-national conglomerate constituting Essar Steel, Essar Oil, Essar Shipping, Essar Construction, Essar Power, Essar Telecom and Aegis the Essar BPO.

Sujaya is a regular speaker at International Forums in India, South East Asia and the United States and is a well-known speaker in the South East Asia region (Singapore, Kuala Lumpur and Indonesia) and regularly conducts Master Classes for HR professionals.

Sujaya was recently awarded the ‘HR Leadership Award’ at the Employer Branding Awards 2008 and the HR Youth Icon Award for 2009. Essar Group was declared the No.1 Innovative Learning Organization of the year 2009 by the Indian Society of Training & Development (affiliate International Federation of Training Organizations) under her leadership recently.

 

Carrie Beckstrom
Vice President, Learning and Performance
ADP, National Account Services

Carrie Beckstrom is Vice President of Learning and Performance for ADP National Account Services. In this role she is responsible for addressing the learning needs of National Account Services division employees and clients nationwide in order to meet organizational-performance and business-impact objectives. Internally this entails delivering formal and informal learning solutions combined with performance consulting services to help employees excel in their jobs. Externally her focus is on delivering product training and consulting services to ADP clients in order to help them realize a return on their investment.

With nearly $9 billion in revenue and about 570,000 clients, ADP is one of the world’s largest providers of business outsourcing solutions. Leveraging 60 years of experience, ADP offers the widest range of HR, payroll, tax and benefits administration solutions from a single source. For the third year in a row, ADP has been named to the Training Top 125 list – jumping to 2nd Place in 2010 from 12th in 2009. This high ranking underscores ADP’s strong training and development solutions which are instrumental to the company’s continued success and long-term business growth.

Carrie has worked in the field of learning and development for over 25 years and has consistently demonstrated the ability to achieve measurable results. She has proven skills in the area of building initiatives and departments from scratch, in addition to leading large-scale transitions of existing departments, and the accompanying process and people change-management efforts. Her focus on revenue and metrics results in a clear view of the added value of her initiatives and facilitates the communication of that value to others. Her career beginnings in sales and training delivery, in addition to her management-level success in the learning field, give her credibility at every level of the organization.

Carrie holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Communication Studies from the University of California at Santa Barbara and currently resides in the San Francisco Bay Area with her husband and 9-year old son.

 

Pam Berklich
Senior Vice President
Kelly Services, Inc.

Ms. Berklich is responsible for leading the global solutions and services group in developing strategies designed to grow the Kelly client base globally. She also maintains a role within global operations of the Kelly Outsourcing and Consulting Group. Ms. Berklich joined Kelly Services in 2005 as vice president, international, HRfirst with more than 20 years experience in the staffing industry, including the design and execution of various outsourcing and consulting programs for previous clients.

 

Diane Boyd
General Manager, West District
DDI

As a general manager, Diane Boyd leads a multidisciplinary team of Development Dimensions International (DDI) professionals who deliver the full range of DDI services and products to clients around the world. She has over 20 years of experience in human resources and has developed and deployed HR processes for many Fortune 500 companies. Since joining DDI over 15 years ago, Ms. Boyd has helped numerous clients in large-scale implementations of DDI services to address organizational development needs such as competency modeling, reengineering, culture change, work teams, employee involvement, and leadership assessment, succession management, selection, and development. Before becoming a general manager, Ms. Boyd was a consulting services manager, a business development manager, an account executive, and a senior executive consultant. Prior to her career at DDI, she was a sales leader in outplacement services, compliance training, and worked for several years as a director of human resources in the utility industry.

Current Responsibilities
Ms. Boyd’s responsibilities include:

• Managing a team of consultants and sales professionals who design, develop, and deploy human resource selection and development strategies for clients around the world.
• Business development and managing client relationships within DDI’s portfolio of business on the West Coast.
• Identifying opportunities and crafting solutions that improve client business results.
• Leading project teams responsible for large-scale client engagements that have significant impact on client business performance.
• Monitoring the integrity of consulting interventions and related consulting processes.

 Education and Credentials

• B.S. in psychology/women’s studies, University of Rochester
• Additional educational work in adult learning

Key Capabilities and Experience
Diane Boyd’s recent projects include:

• Developing an integrated leadership curriculum, including leader selection, assessment, and development that directly linked to specific business results. Key business metrics were identified and measured throughout the process.
• Providing expert input into the development of a consulting and sales partnership strategy focused on key strategic clients.
• Developing a leadership assessment and development model that identified key talent and provided coaching and development for global high-potential leaders.
• Identifying competencies and designing a selection process—including testing—for key staff positions in a long-term health care organization.
• Designing a performance consulting approach and development process for a client’s internal consulting team enhancing their credibility and skills in providing expertise in organizational interventions.
• Designing and delivering multiple high-potentials programs beginning with the identification of high-potential executives, assessment, and executive development interventions to ensure readiness of these leaders to take on their organization’s business challenges.
• Ms. Boyd most recently presented at the 2009 HRPS Annual Conference (Human Resource Planning Society) on trends in executive transitions and key development activities to successfully navigate those transitions.

 

Kate Bullis
Managing Partner
SEBA International

Kate is a co-founder and Managing Partner of SEBA International, an executive search firm with offices in Palo Alto, New York and London. Kate leads SEBA’s Technology Industry Practice firm-wide, representing global market leaders across networking, storage, server/virtualization and services. Her organization’s areas of functional expertise are marketing, sales and business development. Representative assignments have included CMO, VP EMEA Sales, VP Global Strategic Alliances and VP Channels with clients such as Brocade Communications Systems, Cisco Systems, Hitachi Data Systems and Juniper Networks. Kate also leads SEBA’s Diversity Practice which develops strategies and programs for corporations seeking to acquire and retain diverse, high performing teams.

Beginning her career specializing in human resources search work, Kate later moved to the recruitment of market research, quantitative analysis, and brand management executives. Before co-founding SEBA in 2000, Kate was Vice President in the Strategy and Finance Practice at A-L Associates. There, she focused on strategy, corporate development, and joint venture search work for Technology and Manufacturing clients including Lucent, Allied Signal and GE. She received her BA cum laude from Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania.

 

Rebecca Callahan
President
SourceRight Solutions

Jim has been a soccer and basketball coach and team manager for over 15 years and is a very active soccer referee for adult, high school and youth matches. He has been inspired by the quote of Edward Everett Hale since his youth—“I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something I can do.”

 

John Hollon
Editor
Workforce Management Magazine and workforce.com

John Hollon is the editor of Workforce Management, a Crain Communications’ publication based in Irvine, California. As editor, he directs all editorial staff and content for the print magazine, 14 monthly newsletters (including Workforce Week, Workforce Recruiting, andWorkforce Benefits), and the Workforce Management Web site (www.workforce.com). He also writes a magazine column, The Last Word, and a blog, The Business of Management, both of which have awards for editorial excellence.

Hollon is a nationally-recognized expert on leadership, management and smart workforce practices. He’s hosted national conferences on benefits, talent management and HR, and has been quoted on workforce issues in USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, Advertising Age,Miami Herald, Palm Beach Post, Toledo Blade and many other publications and online sources.

Hollon’s roots are in the newspaper business. During his 30-year career, he held editing positions at the late Los Angeles Herald Examiner and California’s Orange County Register. He was the top editor for Gannett at two statewide papers—the Great Falls Tribune in Montana, andThe Honolulu Advertiser in Hawaii. He also has deep experience in magazine and online publishing, having been a group editor and editorial director at Fancy Publications in Irvine, and the vice president for editorial at Pets.com in San Francisco. Prior to joining Workforce Management in 2004, Hollon was the editor of the San Diego Business Journal.

He holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from California State University, Long Beach, and an MBA from the Graziadio School of Business and Management at Pepperdine University in Malibu, California.

In his spare time, Hollon teaches opinion writing at California State University, Fullerton. He’s also trying to squeeze in two writing projects: an opinion-writing textbook and a book on the Tribble-like proliferation of bad workforce practices, and what to do about them.

 

Marianne Jackson
Senior Vice President Human Resources
Blue Shield of California

Marianne Jackson has over 25 years of experience in the Human Resource management field, spanning both the healthcare and technology industries. Her areas of expertise include organizational effectiveness, executive coaching, workforce optimization, strategic planning and culture-shaping.

Ms. Jackson is currently Senior Vice President of Human Resources, Community Relations, and Internal Communications for Blue Shield of California — one of the three largest health plans in the state. She has held the position for the last six years.

Prior to joining Blue Shield, Ms. Jackson served in Senior Vice President and Vice President roles at Palm Inc., Cisco Systems, SanDisk Corporation and Logitech. She has also held executive leadership positions with Silicon Graphics and Sun Microsystems.

Ms. Jackson currently serves on the governing board of the Women’s Initiative for Self Employment (WISE), the Board of Trustees for the Health Trust of Silicon Valley and The HR Forum of Silicon Valley. She previously held board positions with Catholic Charities, Santa Clara University and San Jose State University’s advisory board for its Business School/Human Resources.

Ms. Jackson is a frequent speaker on a variety of topics. She has addressed audiences such as: The Corporate Leadership Council, numerous Fortune 100 talks at Cisco’s Customer Center, Oracle World, the HR Strategy Forum, Levi Strauss’s HR Conference, The EconomistForum, and IMD International, a global business school. She has authored articles and spoken on the topic of Corporate Wellness---most recently in Forbes Magazine, LA Chamber Directory and CAL Broker Journal.

Ms. Jackson holds bachelor degrees in Psychology and Sociology from the University of California. She did her graduate work at the University of Santa Clara in Counseling Psychology.

 

Lynn Jolliffe
Executive Vice President Human Resources
Ingram Micro Inc.

Lynn Jolliffe is the executive vice president of human resources for Ingram Micro Inc. Based in Santa Ana, California, Jolliffe is responsible for the identification, development, and implementation of the company's human resources strategies in support of the organization's global objectives. Jolliffe oversees all aspects of human resources worldwide, including associate relations, compensation and benefits, learning and development, the Human Resources Information System, payroll, as well as the regional human resources teams.

Jolliffe joined Ingram Micro in 1999 as the vice president of human resources for the Europe Region working out of the Brussels office and established the department as a strategic business unit by making a number of organizational improvements, by implementing and standardizing performance metrics within the region’s 14-country operations, and by introducing Six Sigma. Within the European region, she also implemented and developed a Competency and Performance Management system, an intranet-based Knowledge and Information Center, and a Career Guide.

In 2006, Jolliffe was transferred to Santa Ana Headquarters and assumed the role of vice president of human resources for the North American region where she initiated major projects focusing on improving associate performance management, development, and retention. She was promoted to her current position in 2007 and has since driven improvements globally in talent management. She has focused on performance management and identification of high potential as well as the creation of management development and GM/MD programs.

Prior to her work at Ingram Micro, Jolliffe served as vice president and chief financial officer with responsibility for human resources at two Canadian retailers including Holt Renfrew.

Jolliffe holds a bachelor of arts degree in sociology from Queen’s University as well as a CEGEP diploma from Bishop's University in Canada. In 1979, she received her MBA in finance and organizational behavior from the University of Toronto, Canada.

 

Leighanne Levensaler
Vice President, HCM Strategy
Workday, Inc.

Leighanne Levensaler is responsible for setting the strategic direction for Workday’s Human Capital Management solutions and will also participate in guiding the company’s overarching product strategy.

Prior to joining Workday, Leighanne served as a Principal Analyst and Director of Talent Management Research at Bersin & Associates.

Leighanne has more than a decade of experience working with Fortune 1000 companies to develop learning and performance strategies and design and implement integrated talent development solutions. Prior to joining Bersin & Associates, she led the Learning Consulting Practice at SystemLink Enterprise Solutions. Leighanne has also held positions at SmartForce, Edutrek International/AUI and Deloitte Consulting.

Leighanne holds an MBA from The University of Georgia, a master's degree in Human Resource Development from Georgia State University, and a bachelor’s degree in education from Clemson University. She is a frequent presenter at leading industry events and a regular contributor to a number of HR and Talent Management publications.

 

Leslie P. Lundberg
Senior Vice President Human Resources
Con-way Inc.

Leslie P. Lundberg is senior vice president, human resources for Con-way Inc. (NYSE:CNW), a $5 billion freight transportation and logistics services company headquartered in San Mateo, Calif. Con-way delivers industry-leading services through its primary operating companies of Con-way Freight, Menlo Worldwide Logistics and Con-way Truckload. These operating units provide high-performance, day-definite less-than-truckload (LTL), full truckload and multimodal freight transportation; as well as logistics, warehousing and supply chain management services; and trailer manufacturing. Con-way Inc. and its subsidiaries operate from more than 350 locations across North America and in 18 countries across five continents.

Ms. Lundberg has over 20 years experience in the corporate human resources field. In her position, she is responsible for management of Con-way’s corporate and executive compensation programs, leading design efforts for new health, welfare and incentive plans, supporting culture performance and development initiatives, directing diversity, affirmative action and international compensation policies, and providing oversight of human resource information systems.

Ms. Lundberg joined Con-way in February 2006, moving from Sun Microsystems, where, since 2003, she was executive director of compensation, benefits and human resource information systems for Sun’s StorageTek unit, a $2.1 billion business with 7,000 employees in 31 countries. Prior to Sun, she worked for Lockheed Martin, and was vice president of human resources for New Era Networks, a developer of integration software and services that was subsequently acquired by Sybase Corp.

From 1999–2001, Ms. Lundberg was human resources vice president for Medtronic AVE, a subsidiary of the $5 billion Medtronic Corp. and a leader in angioplasty and coronary stent technology. She had previously advanced through increasingly responsible human resources and compensation management positions with Titanium Metals Corp., Baxter Healthcare International and Hughes Aircraft Company.

Ms. Lundberg holds a bachelor’s degree in industrial psychology from the University of California, Berkeley, and also earned a master’s degree in industrial labor relations from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Ms. Lundberg is located at Con-way’s corporate headquarters in San Mateo, Calif.

 

Heather McLaren
Director, Consumer Global Talent Development
Symantec

Heather McLaren joined Symantec in 2005 and currently oversees training and development for employees within Symantec’s Consumer Business Division. Prior to this role, Ms. McLaren served as Director, of Marketing Learning and Development responsible for building the internal training program for all marketing employees within Symantec’s Enterprise Division helping to lead Symantec as the brand leader in the security and storage availability markets. One of the highlights of Ms. McLaren’s career has been to work with high potential candidates in both organizations as many of these candidates have grown into more senior level leadership roles within the company.

Ms. McLaren has worked in the high tech sector beginning with Digital Equipment Corporation and has held an number of training and organizational development roles throughout her career. She is a graduate of York University in Toronto, Canada and moved to the United States in 1996.

 

Susan Monaghan
Vice President, Human Resources, Employee Engagement
Cisco

Susan Monaghan is the Vice President of Employee Engagement at Cisco Systems, Inc. Under Monaghan’s leadership, the Employee Engagement function is responsible for leading Cisco’s efforts to scale best practices to enable an employees’ intellectual and emotional connection to Cisco’s vision, strategy and execution. Employee Engagement includes a focus on management agility, career development, workforce practices and inclusion and diversity to enable the “total offering” for Cisco employees.

Prior to her current role, Monaghan held the position of Vice President, Human Resources for Cisco’s Worldwide Research and Development Organization. In this role, she was responsible for the Global engineering workforce of over 20,000, acquisitions and the expansion into India. In 2006, Monaghan transitioned to a HR role as Vice-President of HR for Operations, Processes and Systems Group where she introduced a new leadership model that has become the standard for Operations leaders. The leadership model improved the Talent Review process that has allowed leaders to better understand their employees and to begin comprehensive development efforts to grow their teams.

Joining Cisco in 2000, Monaghan led Cisco’s Worldwide Customer Service organization, responsible for Cisco’s entire customer ordering experience. During her tenure, Monaghan drove the e-commerce strategy for Cisco and improved Customer Satisfaction while decreasing operating expenses over 30% by moving to offshore locations, outsourcing core functions and increasing operational excellence.

Previously, Monaghan held a number of Executive Sales and Marketing positions at IBM and worked in the Storage Systems division, where she launched one of IBM’s first products in the Network Attached Storage market aimed at small and medium businesses.

Monaghan serves on the board of Challenge Day which works to create a world where every child feels safe, loved and celebrated through diversity, truth and full expression and MentorNet, a non-profit group focused on the development of women in technology and currently volunteers for Wardrobe for Opportunity in Oakland.

Monaghan holds a BA in Psychology from University of Vermont and currently resides in the San Francisco Bay Area with her three children.

 

Marcela Perez de Alonso
Executive Vice President, Human Resources
Hewlett-Packard Company

Marcela Perez de Alonso has worldwide responsibility for HP’s strategic human resources initiatives, practices and operations supporting over 300,000 employees in more than 170 countries. She is also the Board Chair of the HP Company Foundation and a member of the board for HP Financial Services, the financing arm of HP.

Since joining HP in 2004, Perez de Alonso has spearheaded a pivotal transformation to build a best-in-class HR organization that delivers value to HP employees while driving business results and growth. She oversees the design and implementation of HR programs and services focused on getting the right people in the right places at the right time to keep HP talent engaged and performing at optimal levels to achieve company goals.

Previously, a long-time executive at Citigroup, Perez de Alonso has held senior-level roles in both operations and human resources, including the lead HR role for Citibank’s Global Consumer Business – a 90,000-employee organization where she developed a host of breakthrough initiatives. Senior executive recruiting, diversity, variable compensation and employee survey programs are among the many worldwide efforts Perez de Alonso led during her tenure. She also was head of Citigroup’s North Latin America retail business operations and was in charge of deposit products for the company’s international retail bank.

Perez de Alonso has actively led and contributed to the evolution of the HR practice throughout her career. She was recognized with the 2007 Hunt-Scanlon Human Resources Leadership Award for accomplishments in driving bottom-line results through effective human capital management. One of only 10 women to be included in the ninth annual Hispanic Business Corporate Elite directory, Perez de Alonso was named one of the 50 Most Important Hispanics in Technology and Business by Hispanic Engineer & Information Technology magazine. She also was honored as the 2005 Corporate Executive of the Year by Hispanic-Net, a California nonprofit organization of executives and professionals in technology-related fields.

Perez de Alonso earned an advanced degree in organizational psychology from the Catholic University in Chile. She attended the Business Executive Program of the Columbia University Graduate School of Business and received a certificate in finance and accounting.

Perez de Alonso currently serves on the advisory board of the Marshall Business School, University of Southern California.

 

Todd D. Riesterer
Vice President Human Resources
McAfee

Todd Riesterer is Vice President, Human Resources for McAfee, where he leads the Global Human Resources Business Partner team and serves as the HR leader for North America. Prior to working for McAfee, Todd spent his entire 22 year career in the technology industry, most recently at Business Objects, an SAP company. Riesterer holds a bachelor of business administration degree from the University of Wisconsin- Milwaukee.

 

Alan Ross
Senior Vice President, Human Capital Management
The TriZetto Group

Alan Ross’s 30 years of global experience incorporates an unusual blend of human capital management with expertise in operations, corporate development and consulting that brings a broader range and deeper understanding of human resource cause and effect to his point of view. Currently, Ross serves as the Senior Vice President of Human Capital Management at The TriZetto Group, a $500 million healthcare software and services firm that dominates the healthcare insurance technology (HCIT) industry. From its founding in 1996, the company was traded on NASDAQ for ten years before being taken private in a 2008 private-equity LBO.

Ross’s expertise includes executive compensation, corporate governance, executive talent acquisition, employee engagement, change management, mergers and acquisitions, and global resource management. At TriZetto, Ross has instituted and driven broad employee engagement evaluation and development processes, which have significantly helped the company maintain its talent through the recession, an LBO and, currently, the specter of healthcare reform. Ross will share the unique lessons learned from TriZetto’s employee engagement activities and research, including some of the company’s statistics, which may provide useful proof points for those engaged in developing employee engagement strategies.

 

David Windley
Executive Vice President & Chief Human Resources Officer
Yahoo! Inc

David Windley, the leader of Yahoo!'s global HR team, is responsible for driving Yahoo!'s worldwide strategies around talent, culture and organization effectiveness. The HR team designs and implements programs to attract, develop, and engage talent, and facilitate the building of high performing organizations. Yahoo! has been listed among Fortune Magazine's 100 Best Companies to Work.

David's extensive experience in the high tech industry includes executive positions at Microsoft, Intuit, and Silicon Graphics (SGI). As an HR executive at Microsoft, he supported the Chief Operating Officer. He was responsible for Microsoft's international HR, and his team also supported sales, service, marketing, business segments, operations and IT. David also served as the VP of HR at Intuit for all of their business units and was SGI's VP of Human Resources where he co-led the HR function. While at SGI, David worked in Switzerland supporting the European region and later in Singapore supporting the Asia Pacific region.

David also held human resource management roles in the construction & engineering, insurance, and entertainment-software industries. He has a MBA from San Francisco State University and a BS from San Diego State University.