Jon is the CEO and co-founder of Even, a responsible earned wage access company that combines the flexibility and convenience of on-demand pay with intuitive budgeting and savings tools to improve employee financial health and boost retention and loyalty. Even currently serves more than 600,000 active members and is the most popular opt-in employer benefit offered by Walmart, behind only healthcare and 401k.

Jon co-founded the company in 2015 with a team of former Instagram and Google engineers who shared his vision and were equally committed to using a data-and-research driven approach to product design. Since then, Even has been embraced by forward-thinking employers in retail, healthcare, restaurant/fast food, logistics, manufacturing, financial services, and more, including Walmart, PayPal, Noodles & Co, Humana, CoxHealth, Pitney Bowes, The Toro Company, and more. Before founding Even, Jon studied behavioral and cognitive psychology at Skidmore College and applied those learnings to designing and building award-winning digital products and experiences.

Marina Vassilev is the Director, Compensation, Executive HR & Mobility at BASF.

Suzanne Usaj oversees North America Benefit & Retirement plans and Global Employee Program strategy for Live Nation Entertainment. She believes the main focus of benefits and the experience should be centered around the employees’ needs. She’s been with Live Nation since June 2017 but has committed to always hearing every voice for her entire career.

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.

Kilolo Kijakazi is an Institute fellow at the Urban Institute. She works with staff across Urban to develop collaborative partnerships with those most affected by economic and social issues, to expand and strengthen Urban’s agenda of rigorous research, to effectively communicate findings to diverse audiences, and to recruit and retain a diverse research staff at all levels. Kijakazi also conducts research on economic security, retirement security, structural racism, and the racial wealth gap.

Previously, Kijakazi was a program officer at the Ford Foundation, focusing on building economic security and incorporating the expertise of people of color into all aspects of the work. She was a senior policy analyst for the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, a program analyst for the US Department of Agriculture’s Food and Nutrition Service, and a policy analyst for the National Urban League.

Kijakazi’s publications include African-American Economic Development and Small Business Ownership. She is a board member of the Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation; the National Academy of Social Insurance, and its Study Panel on Economic Security; The Policy Academies; and Liberation in a Generation. She is a member of the Washington, DC Equitable Recovery Advisory Group, advises the Closing the Women’s Wealth Gap Initiative, is a co-chair of the National Advisory Council on Eliminating the Black-White Wealth Gap, and was a member of the Bipartisan Commission on Retirement Security and Personal Savings. Kijakazi holds a BS from SUNY Binghamton, an MSW from Howard University, and a PhD in public policy from the George Washington University.

Maria Reis is the Director, Compensation & Benefits at LG Electronics.