Pat Brosseau is Vice-President, Human Resources for HSBC Bank Canada.  HSBC Bank Canada, a subsidiary of HSBC Holdings plc, has more than 260 offices, including over 140 bank branches, and is the leading international bank in Canada. With around 7,500 offices in over 80 countries and territories and assets of US$2,691 billion at 30 June 2011, the HSBC Group is one of the world’s largest banking and financial services organizations.

In Pat’s current role she is responsible for the HR function for Commercial Banking as well as leading Employee Relations for the Canadian business. With over 25 years of human resources experience, Pat has focused on building human capital plans, total reward programs and employee value propositions.  Previously, Pat was responsible for Compensation Programs for the Retail and Commercial Bank at RBC and Bank of Nova Scotia.  In addition, Pat spent several years as a Human Resources consultant with Deloitte.

 

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Bina Chaurasia assumed the position as Senior Vice President and Head of Group Function Human Resources and Organization at Ericsson on November 15, 2010.

Chaurasia has experience across different industries, including IT and retail. She joins Ericsson from Hewlett Packard where she is the Vice President of Global Talent responsible for talent management, learning and development, executive development, diversity, and staffing. Chaurasia has been with HP since 2007.

Chaurasia joined HP from Gap where she was the Vice President of Global Human Resources. She was responsible for driving HR strategy for the company and leading International and Corporate HR, worldwide Supply Chain, and the Outlet and Online divisions. Chaurasia also held senior HR leadership roles at Sun Microsystems and PepsiCo/Yum.

Chaurasia holds a Master of Science in Management and Human Resources from the Ohio State.

 

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Ron Garonzik is Vice President and US National Leadership Development and Talent Management Practice Leader. He is a Hay Group thought leader in strategic talent management that integrates business, organizational, role, and people requirements.

Dr. Garonzik has worked in the private and public sectors, with domestic, international and global organizations. He partners with clients on a range of strategic talent management initiatives – the identification of high potential talent, development of senior leadership talent, executive succession as aligned to the demands of changing business priorities, and CEO succession. Ron has worked with a broad range of leadership teams to enhance integration, decision-making and business performance.

Ron’s clients include AeroMexico, Bridgestone, CVS, DENSO Automotive (Japan), FEMSA (Mexico), Huawei Technologies (PRC), IBM, MegaFon (Russia),  MFS, Monsanto, Nippon Boehringer Ingelheim (Japan); PepsiCo, Standard & Poor’s, Strauss Group (Israel), T Rowe Price, and Toyota Motor Corporation.

Before joining the Hay Group in 1993, Ron was a research associate in a Boston-based consulting firm specializing in Total Quality Management. Prior to that, he was an Israeli Navy officer and military psychologist practicing in the areas of human factors engineering. He conducted marine-based human performance studies and developed selection systems for naval operations officers.

Dr. Garonzik was, until 2006, Global Expertise Leader for Talent Management and Executive Assessment at the Hay Group, and a long-serving member of Hay Group’s McClelland Center for Research & Innovation leadership team.

Ron has helped clients implement large scale organizational change efforts that incorporate strategy clarification and top executive team alignment, the setting and cascading of strategic accountabilities, and the leveraging of human capital to enable clients to achieve their strategic objectives. Ron’s executive and CEO succession practice is international in scope, and he consults at the board level.

Ron holds a B.S. from the University of Pittsburgh, an M.A. from Tel-Aviv University, and a Ph.D. from Boston University, all in psychology. His doctoral work targeted the identification of personal and organizational factors leading to the successful expatriation of international assignees of multinational companies. Ron was the recipient of Boston University’s Graduate School Prize for Teaching Excellence. In 1993, he received the American Society for Training and Development’s Organizational Development Practice Award for his doctoral research. He is a registered psychologist in the State of Israel, and a member of the American Psychological Association. His research and thought leadership have been published in a variety of professional and trade journals.

 

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Bryan Gillette has over 20 years’ experience in Human Resources and currently is the Vice President overseeing all HR activities in a 1,000 person global technology company. He has also held senior management roles in Leadership & Organizational Development, College Recruiting, HR Business Partner, and Mergers & Acquisition functions.

His experience ranges from starting up Training & Development departments in fast-paced, high-technology organization to managing all college recruiting in a multinational financial services firm. In these 20 years, he has taught leadership courses in many countries, consulted to executives, and provided coaching at all levels in the organization. With the consolidation of companies over the years, he has integrated over 30 acquisitions ranging from 8-person to 1,000+ person companies.

Bryan has broad industry experience and has worked in Financial Services (Franklin Templeton Group of Funds), Technology (EMC, McAfee, Documentum, Topcon & Probusiness) and Medical Devices (Kyphon).

 

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Dan Henkle is a 19+ year veteran within Gap Inc., and has held a variety of key roles within the company, including the Global head of HR for Gap Brand, the SVP of Global Responsibility and the SVP of Gap Inc. HR. 

He currently leads the HR & Communications team for Gap Inc.’s largest brand, Old Navy.  In this role, Dan oversees all aspects of HR and Communications throughout the brand, in service to the 50,000 Old Navy employees.  Additionally, Dan is the Chair of the Gap Inc. Human Resources Leadership Team, which includes all of the HR brand and solution center leaders across the company.       

He received his MBA with an emphasis on Organizational Behavior from the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley.  He currently serves on the Board of Directors for Social Accountability International and also serves on the Gap Foundation Board of Trustees.

 

Brett Hooper has served as Senior Vice President of Human Resources at JDS Uniphase (JDSU) since 2006. 

To build a world class organization, Mr. Hooper believes the journey begins with a compelling vision, clear and consistent communication, and a high performing management team that inspires collaboration and action. A strong employee brand, and a leadership culture that can withstand fluctuations in any business climate, are critical success factors for JDSU.

Mr. Hooper balances the priorities of a quickly evolving, complex technology portfolio company with the needs of a 5,000-employee workforce in over 30 countries.  Mr. Hooper’s philosophy is that the company’s success depends on the quality and effectiveness of its talent; focusing that talent requires great managers and employees that are empowered to make a difference. 

JDSU’s HR Team has evolved to a well-regarded strategic function with an infrastructure that delivers a broad range of services to employees.  As collaboration takes center stage at JDSU, each HR function shares in the responsibility to enable employee productivity and engagement.  Continuous improvement, transparent communication, innovation, and a focus on the employee experience are key ingredients to the JDSU HR formula.

Prior to joining JDSU, Mr. Hooper served as Senior Vice President of Human Resources for Credence Systems Corporation from June 2004 to August 2006.  He joined Credence in June 2004 through the acquisition of NPTest where he was the Vice President of Human Resources and Communications since June 2003.  From 1987 through June 2003, Mr. Hooper held several positions at Schlumberger in Engineering, Sales, Marketing, Investor Relations, and Human Resources Management.

 

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 since 2003.

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 Board of Trustees for the Health Trust of Silicon Valley and The Blue Shield Foundation Board of Trustees. 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, Oracle World, the HR Strategy Forum, The Economist Forum, 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.

 

Jing was appointed Vice President, Global Human Resources in 2009. Prior to this position, she led the Global Total Rewards function at Atmel. Prior to joining Atmel, Ms. Liao served as Vice President of Global Human Resources for Avanex Corporation, where she was responsible for architecting and establishing an HR department tasked to support the restructuring and growth plan of the company. Previously Ms. Liao held HR leadership positions at Hyperion, JDS Uniphase and Adaptec. Ms. Liao received an M.A. degree in Human Resources and Industrial Relations from the University of Minnesota, Carlson School of Business and a B.S. Degree in Chemistry from Peking University, China.

 

Nancy Long is Senior Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer for Hitachi Data Systems. She is responsible for all aspects of HR throughout HDS including HRIS, Workforce Planning/Staffing, Total Compensation, Performance Management, Management Development/Leadership Succession Planning, Employee Survey and Diversity/Advocacy, HR-Legal Compliance and OD/Management Support Consulting. She is the 2009 recipient of the HR Symposium’s “HR Leader of the Year” and the American Business Award for “Best Executive” and “Mentor of the Year.”  Her business acumen, experience and background is unique among HR professionals.

Nancy spent 24 years with Hewlett-Packard, most recently as Vice President, HR for Global Marketing. She held numerous executive level roles at HP, with responsibilities at a global level, overseeing large teams disbursed across multiple countries.  Nancy’s career spans multiple functions including Human Resources, Executive Development, R&D, Technical Marketing, and Information Technology.  Prior to HP, Nancy worked at United Airlines as a Systems Analyst.

Prior to joining HDS in 2006, Nancy was Senior Vice President at O’Connor Hospital, where she led the HR function in an entirely new industry from her prior experience. During her time at O’Connor, she successfully negotiated key union contracts winning accolades from both union and management.

Nancy holds a Masters degree in Human Resources and Organization Development from University of San Francisco. She has specialist certificates from University of Chicago, Harvard University, Menninger Institute and West Valley College in multiple HR disciplines. She is certified in The Birkman Method, MBTI and TAIS.  Nancy is a member of the San Jose State Advisory Board, Silicon Valley Leadership Group, California Human Resource Strategic Partnership, and the Santa Clara Valley Strategic Human Resources Management organization.

Nancy is also a faculty member at San Jose State University, in the College of Business. In her spare time, she is an active volunteer with Big Brothers/Big Sisters organization, and the Humane Society of Silicon Valley.

 

Bruce’s experience spans three decades and throughout this time he has seen a massive shift in the way organizations manage their greatest asset; people.

A sought after international speaker, Bruce has stimulated audiences across Europe, US and Asia with his fresh approach and inspiring advice on recruitment and retention. He has designed, implemented and managed some of the largest resourcing solutions across many different parts of the globe, saving companies millions of dollars whilst securing the very best talent.

Bruce has worked with Microsoft, GE, IBM, Hewlett Packard, BUPA, Barclays Bank, Sprint Telecom, Nortel, O2, Dell, Alstom, Honeywell, United Technologies Corporation and Agilent.

 

Dan Parisi is a BTS Global Partner and the Managing Director of BTS San Francisco.  

Mr. Parisi began his career at BTS USA in 1995 as a consultant and business simulation facilitator.  During his career at BTS, he has pioneered the application of highly customized business simulations for leading Fortune 500 clients such as Hewlett-Packard, Texas Instruments, Toyota, and others. Much of Dan’s work focuses on providing an opportunity for senior managers and executives to practice implementing business decisions in a simulated environment, in order to accelerate strategic alignment and execution back on the job.  He has personally facilitated simulation experiences focused on building business acumen and strategic insight for more than 8,000 executives and managers.    

Mr. Parisi is the co-author of “Creating a Customer Centric Culture: Walking a Mile in the Customer's Shoes” at Texas Instruments and “Using Business Simulations for Executive Development.” Training magazine named him one of the 10 Top Young Trainers in the U.S. for 2008. In 2007, he was selected by Marshall Goldsmith to join The Marshall Goldsmith “Distinguished Thought Leaders Library” as a result of his years of pioneering work in executive business acumen simulations.  Parisi is a featured business speaker for the 50 Lessons video library series on learning and leadership. Parisi's presentation on “How Learning Has Evolved” will appear in Never Stop Learning (Harvard Business Press, August 9, 2010), part of the 50 Lessons 24-volume series, Lessons Learned, Straight Talk from the World’s Top Business Leaders. 

Mr. Parisi received his undergraduate degree in Economics and Philosophy from SUNY Stony Brook, with Magna Cum Laude distinction, and his MBA in Finance from NYU.

 

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Brigid Pelino is Senior Vice-President of Human Resources and member of the senior executive team at Tim Hortons Inc., North America’s fourth largest restaurant chain measured by market capitalization. She has oversight accountability for Tim Hortons global human resource policies, strategies and programs, and has been instrumental in shaping the Company’s culture and organization. Prior to joining Tim Hortons in 2001, Brigid held senior human resources leadership roles in leading North American organizations including Canadian Tire, Allied Signal and General Electric. She holds an Honours Bachelors degree in Economics and Accounting and a Masters degree in Industrial Relations, both from the University of Toronto.

 

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Debbie Pollock-Berry is senior vice president of human resources for XO Communications. Ms. Pollock-Berry is responsible in the establishing XO's policy and practices governing employment and recruitment, compensation, benefits, training, labor policy, and diversity.

Prior to joining XO communications in April 2011, Ms. Pollock-Berry served as chief people officer for the North American Energy Alliance (NAEA) where she focused on understanding and responding to employee concerns, developing and retaining key talent, establishing leadership succession planning, and implementing strategic programs to poise the company for growth. Prior to that, she held HR leadership positions at AOL and Verizon as well as HR roles at Qwest Communications and PSINet.

Ms. Pollock-Berry holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Francis Marion University in Florence, South Carolina. She has also successfully completed a variety of professional leadership development programs including the "Strategic Leadership for Women Program" at the Simmons School of Management. She is a member of professional associations including the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM).

 

John Rooney is the West Region Vice President of AchieveGlobal, and is located in AchieveGlobal’s Schaumburg, Illinois office. His primary role is to lead sales and sales support associates in partnering with client organizations to implement strategies that build motivational leaders and high performing sales/service organizations. In this role, he has partnered with many Fortune 500 companies. John’s experience in global implementations has been significant in many of these client relationships.

John has over 20 years of experience in sales and sales management roles in the industry. Prior to joining AchieveGlobal, he served as Global Vice President of Sales for Transware Inc., a localization services provider. In this role, he worked with clients to localize and adapt learning materials, websites, marketing collateral and manuals into multiple languages. Key clients that John and his team partnered with in this assignment included Dell, John Deere, SkillSoft, Volvo Construction and Webex.

In addition to these leadership roles, John spent nine years at industry leaders SkillSoft, SmartForce and CBT Systems, where he held various sales and sales management roles. His key responsibilities included managing the Central and Western area for all field-related personnel at SmartForce, as well as contributing to the integration of Books24x7 into SkillSoft.

John holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.

 

Richard Selsted is the Area Vice President of Enterprise Sales for the Western North America Region for SuccessFactors where he oversees all revenue generating activities. In this role Richard manages a team of Regional Vice Presidents and Sales Executives focusing on helping existing customers and prospects maximize their business execution through the use of an integrated set of Business Execution applications and services.

Since joining the SuccessFactors team in 2008, Richard has been in key management roles covering several regions in the United States.

Prior to joining the SuccessFactors team Richard held various Executive Management positions at Oracle, Siebel Systems, and Solidus Networks. Richard resides in San Francisco and attended UC Berkeley where he majored in Biology and Environmental Sciences. Eastern Washington University.

About SuccessFactors

SuccessFactors is the leading provider of on-demand employee performance and talent management solutions that enable organizations of every size, across every industry and geography, to realize their employees’ potential and thus drive business results.

 

Present Responsibilities

• Patrick Shannon is a Partner with Mercer’s Human Capital business in San Francisco.  He consults with a variety of organizations in the areas of talent strategy and performance management, organization effectiveness, compensation and reward system design, career pathing and job leveling and job design.

Experience

• Patrick’s recent projects include: preparing a succession planning process, developing a leadership and broad-based performance management program, conducting leadership assessments including individual feedback reports, facilitating a Board assessment of a CEO’s performance, developing competency and career path models to support business and talent needs and developing and implementing new performance and reward systems to align with business strategies.  Patrick has presented at numerous conferences including WorldatWork and the Society for Industrial & Organizational Psychology. His articles include topics such as talent development (“Building the Talent Pipeline at Microsoft,” Workspan), CEO performance evaluation (Director’s Monthly) and career pathing (Talent Management).  He co-facilitated a WorldatWork sponsored webinar on talent management, and has been certified as a faculty member by WorldatWork.        
• His clients have included a range of organizations from jumbo to mid-sized to small/start-up, spanning a range of industries including health care, technology, consumer products and manufacturing.  He has also worked extensively with academic institutions and other not-for-profit organizations.
• Patrick has a BA in Psychology from UC Santa Barbara and a Ph.D. in Industrial / Organizational Psychology, with a minor in quantitative methods, from the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.  He is a member of the Society for Industrial & Organizational Psychology (SIOP) and WorldatWork; he is a past chairman of the Mayflower Group (employee research consortium group of Fortune 100 companies).

 

Gautam Srivastava is responsible for all aspects of LSI’s global corporate marketing organization, including brand management, corporate communications and events. He also oversees human resources, including compensation and benefits, talent management and employee relations; in addition, Srivastava manages the relationship and works with the Compensation Committee of the Board of Directors. Prior to joining LSI in 2009, he held a number of executive positions at Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. Most recently, he was vice president, sales and marketing and managing director, Middle East Africa and Pakistan; he lived in Dubai, UAE and led in-region sales, marketing and public affairs. Prior to this role, Srivastava was vice president, sales and marketing, and chief of staff to the chief sales and marketing officer. Before that he was vice president, compensation and benefits. Prior to AMD, Srivastava was a Principal at Mercer Consulting, where he consulted to a number of technology companies.  He has also held finance and business development positions in several start-ups. Srivastava is a native of San Francisco and received a BA in business economics from the University of California, Los Angeles.

 

Gabrielle Toledano, Executive Vice President of Human Resources and Facilities, Electronic Arts, Inc., is responsible for EA's global staffing and resourcing, benefits and compensation, training and development, rewards and recognition, Corporate Social Responsibility, Facilities and Corporate Services.

Prior to joining EA, Ms. Toledano served as CHRO at Siebel Systems. Prior to that, she served seven years with Microsoft and five years prior to that with Oracle Corporation. Her portfolio has included a wide range of HR assignments including international work, most notably in Latin America. Gabrielle is bilingual and received her bachelor and master degrees from Stanford University, followed by a Rotary Scholarship assignment in Santiago, Chile.

Gabrielle served on the Board of Directors of the Society of Human Resources Management and is now on the Board of Directors of Big City Mountaineers.

 

Joe joined Core-Mark International in 2008 as Vice President Human Resources. He previously held management and executive positions with McKesson, Budget Rent a Car, and ADT. He graduated from Sir Wilfred Laurier University in Canada with a BA in History.

Joe is new to San Francisco having moved with his wife from Los Angeles where they had lived since 1978. He has three children who reside in Los Angeles.

Core-Mark International operates 26 distribution centers in the US and Canada with about 5000 employees.

 

Karen Weisz is the vice president of Human Resources and Corporate Services for Standard Insurance Company with responsibility for Human Resources and Corporate Services. She joined The Standard in 2008 as vice president of Human Resources and in January 2009 was promoted to vice president of Human Resources and Corporate Services.

Before joining The Standard she was with Intel Corporation, most recently as the Human Resources Director of new and emerging Platform Business Groups.  During more than 12 years at Intel, she held progressively senior management roles in Human Resources and Learning and Organizational Development, including overseeing Intel University.  Prior to this Karen was a teacher with San Francisco public schools in both general and bilingual education.

She is a graduate of University of California at Santa Cruz where she holds a Bachelors of Science degree in Psychology and Literature.  She earned a Masters of Science degree in Educational Policy & Administration from Portland State University.

Weisz serves on the board of directors of All Hands Raised (formerly Portland Schools Foundation) and is a founding member and vice president of the Portland Public Schools Special Education PTA.  She is an adjunct instructor in the School of Business at Portland State University and frequent speaker  on issues related to human resource management.  She is also active in a number of local organizations committed to women's leadership, education and disability advocacy.