Kimberly Young is an HR benefits executive specializing in global strategy and design of health and welfare programs, Union negotiations, mergers and acquisitions, compliance, analytics and organizational development.

Prior to Amentum (formerly PAE), Kimberly led national benefit programs in a cross section of industries. Former employers include: Booz Allen Hamilton, ETRADE Financial and XO communications. She has been in the industry for more than 20 years and worked with industry leadership teams including Carl Icahn and The Carlyle Group. In addition, Kimberly has been a speaker at CEBS, ERISA Group and NBGH on topics that include Health Care Reform, benefit analytics and wellness strategy
design.

Her passions include volunteering, mentoring at risk women and interior decorating.

Marco Diaz is Senior Vice President, Global Head of Benefits, at News Corp, where he oversees the company's global benefits strategy and deployment. He also serves as Board Chair of the North East Business Group on Health, participates as Board member of the Foundation for Arts and Healing, and is a member of several executive client advisory groups.

Jesse Welsh graduated from Texas A&M University with a bachelor’s degree in Political Science, a master’s degree from the University of Oklahoma in Human Relations, and a juris doctorate degree from South Texas College of Law – Houston.  He served in the US Air Force as an officer working in the Personnel and Air Battle Manager career fields.  After the military, he worked as a Manufacturing and Plant Manager before getting into Human Resources where he has focused most of his career on Talent Acquisitions and Total Rewards.  Over his career he has earned multiple HR certifications.

He is presently Vice President, Total Rewards at Southeastern Grocers, Inc. (SEG), parent company and home of Fresco y Más, Harveys Supermarket and Winn-Dixie grocery stores.  One of the largest conventional supermarket companies in the US with grocery stores, liquor stores and in-store pharmacies serving communities throughout Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana and Mississippi.  In his role, he and his teams have responsibility for pay, benefits, and the associate experience for 37K associates.

Kristy has 15 years of experience as a Strategic Human Resource Leader, Change Manager and Organizational Development Expert. She has served in senior leadership positions throughout her career – most notably with Pearson Education and Constant Contact. Kristy brings a big picture perspective and a hands-on, tactical approach to her leadership that she is now bringing to life with SkillCycle (where she is the CEO & Co- Founder). Kristy’s goal is to help and educate companies to meet their ultimate goals by empowering their employees to take ownership of their career.

Jaime McDonald oversees customer success at The Game Agency, working with customers to ensure the utmost success when using our technology and game-based solutions to power their training and education, and maximize employee learning outcomes.  Prior to The Game Agency, Jaime spent 20 years in business development, sales, and strategic partnerships working with Fortune 500 brands to bring them new opportunities, leading technology, and building collaborative relationships. Jaime is a graduate of the A.B. Freeman School of Business at Tulane University.

Kirsten Ferro is Associate Vice President of Sales at Carrot Fertility, the leading global fertility healthcare and family-forming benefits provider for employers and health plans. Carrot's clinically-managed program includes egg freezing, in vitro fertilization (IVF), donor and gestational carrier services, and adoption. Carrot supports more than 300 companies in more than 60 countries across North America, Asia, Europe, South America, and the Middle East.

Kirsten is an experienced sales leader for technology-driven brands who was struck by the lack of coverage for reproductive healthcare under company medical plans. She joined Carrot as one of its first employees to help make fertility care accessible to more people. As Associate Vice President of Sales, Kirsten has helped dozens of employers structure and implement custom fertility benefits programs for their global workforce.

Joe Burton is the founder and CEO of Whil. He’s an entrepreneur in scientific wellbeing, former President of Headspace and spent fifteen years as a global COO in public companies. Mr. Burton is an alumnus of Harvard Business School and regular contributor to Forbes, Business Insider and The Huffington Post. He’s worked in over 50 countries and travels the world speaking on topics including disruption, culture, employee safety and mindfulness as competitive advantage.

Kathleen Davin is the Director of People Operations at Maven, the world’s largest virtual clinic for women’s and family health. In her role at Maven she focuses on building intuitive and progressive rewards, systems, and programs for employees. Kathleen previously led benefits programs at Harry’s and Union Square Hospitality Group. She is a graduate of Cornell University and holds her Group Benefits Associate designation from the International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans.

Shannon Hopkins is a Regional Vice President at BetterUp Care, where she helps some of the world’s largest companies transform their organizations by transforming the resilience and wellbeing of their people. The BetterUp mission resonates deeply for Shannon– after battling a life-threatening illness in 2020, she had a new sense of clarity, purpose and passion in her life and wanted to help others find theirs at BetterUp Care. Shannon brings over 15 years of experience in sales and leadership, and been a part of both enterprise SaaS organizations such as Salesforce as well as startup environments like League and BetterUp. In the last six years of her career, Shannon spent her time in the benefits sector, leading a benefit integrations team and becoming a licensed benefits advisor. She’s consulted for multiple Fortune 500 and public sector organizations like Delotte, Accenture, Salesforce and Dyson to amend their benefits strategies. Her educational background is in Biotechnology and she holds a BSc. from Brock University.

Kristen Carlisle is General Manager of Betterment and Work's 401(k) business, where she and her team work to bring retirement planning and financial wellness benefits to small and mid-sized businesses across the US. Kristen has over 10 years of experience within the B2B technology industry, and most recently served as the company’s Director of B2B Operations. Prior to joining Betterment, Kristen served as Director of Finance for Meetup, where she helped lead a company-wide enterprise business strategy pivot. Other previous experiences include roles at Yieldbot, AOL and Google. Kristen graduated from Ithaca College and is based out of New York City.

Matt Tremmaglia leads the Customer Success and Professional Services teams at Achievers, a technology platform focused on enhancing culture, improving employee belonging, and driving improved business performance in today’s workplace at scale. As the Chief Customer Officer, Matt focuses on creating repeatable high value outcomes for all organizations who leverage the Achievers platform. With over 15 years of experience working with companies of all sizes and backgrounds, Matt leverages behavioral data, proven best practices, and real-life examples from hundreds of global organizations to build stronger communities of employees who are aligned to values and carry a high sense of belonging.

Matt is known for pushing the boundaries on what an organization can learn from their employee data; examples include how to identify top talent early, how to structure employee strategies that are both global and locally relevant at the same time, and how to recognize the whole employee such that they feel welcomed, known, and connected within their organization. Matt holds an honors degree from Queen’s University in Software Engineering and is an avid endurance athlete who enjoys swimming, cycling, and volleyball.

Julia Cohen Sebastien is the co-founder and CEO of Grayce, a global caregiving empowerment solution.  Prior to Grayce, Julia served as an executive leader in health care and digital health, working at companies such as Clarify Health, Aetna, Boston Consulting Group, and The Advisory Board / Optum.  Julia holds an MBA from The Wharton School at University of Pennsylvania, and a BA from Dartmouth College.

Lisa Cummings is the VP, Total Rewards at Michaels Stores, Inc.

Emily Heckaman is the Director of Total Rewards of Primoris Services corporation, a leading provider of specialty contracting which services North America.  Primoris provides a wide range of specialty construction services, fabrication, maintenance, replacement, and engineering services to a diversified and well-tenured blue-chip client base. 

Emily is an experienced leader with oversight of all Benefit and Reward programs at Primoris Services.  She has over 17 years of experience in various roles within the Total Rewards space in the Houston Oil / Energy sector including oversight of all Financial, Health, Wellness and Compensation programs.  Since joining Primoris Emily has enhanced the administration practices and programs related to Benefit offerings.   Emily’s role within the company is to ensure all Benefit, Compensation and Reward programs are progressive, cost effective and flawlessly delivered.  Emily holds a BA from Texas A&M University and is PHR and GPHR certified.               

Lydia Dishman is Fast Company’s senior editor for growth and engagement. She has also written for CBS Moneywatch, Fortune, The Guardian, Popular Science, and the New York Times, among others.

With over 10 years’ experience in healthcare, Sara’s experience on both the consulting and carrier sides give her a unique perspective around what’s possible when it comes to developing and administering customized health and welfare solutions.  Passionate about meeting employees where they’re at and finding ways to improve comprehension, Sara constantly looks for new ways to innovate around the ‘what’ and ‘how’ when it comes to building out the benefits ecosystem.

Josephine Cheng is a 13-time Regional Emmy Award winning journalist who has reported and produced for major network affiliates in the Pacific Northwest, including KOMO-ABC, KING-NBC’s Evening Magazine, and KCTS-PBS. In 2020 Josephine won a Fulbright Specialist Award to teach journalism in China, though due to the COVID pandemic, plans are on hold. Josephine owns a media company specializing in public & media relations, video production, interviews, and writing for corporate, nonprofit, and government entities.

Siobhan O'Connor is the chief content officer at Atria Institute.

Gloria Estrada has more than 25 years of experience in HR, mostly in technology companies.
Responsibilities include providing leadership in all areas of Total Rewards, working closely with
Compensation and Human Capital Committees of Boards, leading M&A HR teams, HR services
and Global Payroll teams, additionally working closely with the business as an HR Business
Partner. Various levels of these responsibilities have been carried out at Keysight Technologies
currently, Agilent Technologies, Hewlett Packard, Applied Materials and Telemundo. She leads teams and provides the vision to help the HR function tie into the company’s business focus, culture, success, and affordability. She hold a BS in Economics and a BS in Language Studies.