Nat Aichele is the Global Head of HR - WW System Integrators; Partner Core at Amazon Web Services (AWS).

As senior vice president of people, Andy Schneider is focused on delivering a remarkable employee experience for the nearly 22,000 people who've chosen to build careers at Alaska Airlines and Horizon Air. Andy's leadership and collaborative spirit are helping our organization fulfill its purpose of creating an airline people love.

Her team is responsible for executing a people strategy that includes securing the best talent, providing competitive benefits our employees can be proud of, supporting our leaders and their teams through human resource operations, and elevating a diverse, inclusive and engaging culture.

Bringing a customer-service mindset with a deep appreciation of analytics, she leads her team with an emphasis on doing the right thing and delivering performance.

Previously, Andy was vice president of inflight and call centers services, leading teams to deliver a remarkable guest experience in the air and over the phone. It is through her leadership and joint efforts with marketing and operations that Alaska Airlines has won the J.D. Power Award for "Highest in Customer Satisfaction among traditional carriers for 12 years in a Row."

Prior to that she served as senior vice president of people and customer services, responsible for Horizon Air’s station operations. There she oversaw services training, customer relations, inflight services, facilities and network services, food and beverage services, human resources and labor relations. She's also held additional roles at Alaska in station operations and cargo services. She began her career as the airline's manager, financial accounting in 1989.

A native of Boise and graduate of Gonzaga University, Andy holds a degree in Accounting along with an Executive MBA from the University of Washington. She lives in Tacoma with her husband, Mike, and two children, Jaxson and Payton.

As the VP of Recruiting at Zillow, I am a talent acquisition leader focused on developing growth and talent strategies that connect and grow our organization. With extensive experience in building infrastructure, programs, and teams needed to scale companies massively, I have a reputation for delivering results aligned with business goals in fast-paced environments. I am deeply committed to both representation and internal talent investment. 

My passion lies in building talent attraction strategies and developing talent communities that intentionally engage with underserved and underrepresented communities to widen the access gap at all levels. I continue impacting those communities through hiring initiatives, developmental opportunities, and retention-motivated programming. I prioritize optimizing candidate channels, recruiting analytics, strategic and continued engagement, and stakeholder partnership. My leadership philosophy is rooted in balancing empathy and execution in a data-driven, candidate-centric environment, which is the key to building incredible recruiting teams at scale. 

In addition to my role at Zillow, I serve as an Executive Board Advisor to Lesbians Who Tech (LWT) and as a member of the Board of Directors for Rewriting the Code. As a dynamic and innovative speaker, I have spoken at leading events and organizations in the industry, such as SXSW, Lesbians Who Tech (LWT) Summit, Afrotech, and Unleash America. 

Lastly, I identify as a Lesbian, and my pronouns are she/her/hers.

Ambra Benjamin is the Global Head of Technical Recruiting at Datadog.

Emily Pelosi is the Head of Employee Listening & Research at Intuit. 

Muhammad Umar is the Divisional Vice President, Talent, Diversity and Change Management at REI.

As the VP of Culture and Talent Development for F5 I have the privilege of leading a team working to find
innovative solutions to people problems that have existed in organizations for far too long. I am
fortunate that I was able to attain a master’s degree in organizational development and spent many
years on a business intelligence team at Microsoft. There are two things that make me nerd out: data
and crime podcasts.

Melinda has over 20 years of experience leading SaaS sales organizations. She began her leadership career with Fortune 500 leaders Wells Fargo and Paychex focused on the burgeoning HCM field in various verticals and market spaces. Most recently her career trajectory led to roles at start up organizations assisting with product launches and revenue team development at Daily Pay and SecureSave in the Fintech world. Throughout her career, leadership development programs with a focus on women in leadership have been an important initiative. The marketspace growth opportunity of SecureSave made this opportunity an ideal career move.  

Katie Oertli Mooney is a Managing Director at Seramount. She is an accomplished DEI leader and thought partner with expertise in driving strategy and growth of diversity and inclusion change management, planning and programs. Prior to joining Seramount, she was responsible for overseeing the client delivery, staffing, operations and growth as Vice President of Jennifer Brown Consulting. She was accountable for the firm’s successful consulting project delivery to clients from the Fortune 1000, government agencies, startups, to nonprofits.

Prior to that, she managed the DEI enterprise learning and development strategy at Capital One specializing in differential investment programming to support historically underrepresented talent and communities of color. She is currently on the Board of Directors for the GSBA; the largest LGBTQ and allied chamber of commerce in North America and is supporting the organization in 2020, by advancing diversity, equity and inclusion for the Board of Directors, for the benefit of GSBA staff, members, partners and the LGBTQ+ and allied community of Washington State. Katie has a Master’s degree in Human Resource Management with a concentration on Diversity and Inclusion Management from Georgetown University. She is based in Seattle, WA.