Janko is VP of Product & Engineering at The Corcoran Group, a premier real estate brokerage, where he leads the global Product Management, Product Design, and Engineering teams. He is responsible for the product vision, strategy, as well as the execution for all digital products: public websites, agent platform, and data & analytics.

Before Corcoran, Janko was Director of Product for Enterprise Platform at Olapic (a visual marketing platform) and had various product roles at Amplify Education (K-12 education technology company) and at Thomson Reuters (the world’s leading provider of news and information). Before that, he was leading engineering teams at Seavus (a global software consulting company).

Janko brings over 14 years of experience in building digital products (B2B and B2C) in consulting, finance, education technology, marketing, and real estate.

Linda Avery is the New York Federal Reserve Bank’s first Chief Data Officer. Over the past five years, Linda has shaped the Bank’s data strategy, standing up a new organization that, through strong business connectivity, has driven change in the Bank’s data management practices and has cultivated capabilities in the areas of AI, data visualization, and product strategy. Linda’s SVP role also encompasses the leadership and transformation of a large data collection, data quality and analysis organization.

Linda was previously a Managing Director at Goldman Sachs, where her career spanned twenty years. At Goldman, she held a diverse set of leadership roles driving innovation across the Trading, Investment Banking, and Operations, Technology, and Finance Divisions. Linda also played an important financial industry leadership role, working closely with the global regulatory community as co-chair of the LEI Trade Association, to drive towards the establishment of a globally accepted, federated Legal Entity Identification system as a foundational component in managing risk within the financial system. Across her career at Goldman, she was asked to play a lead role in the start-up of a number of new companies as joint ventures.

Linda graduated with a degree in English Literature from Bucknell University. She developed a passion for technology and data shortly thereafter. She has worked as a technologist in companies both large and small, well-established and just starting, and came to realize early in her career that the difference between failure and success can come down to how you manage the data.

Joyanta Majee is the Vice President & Head of the Data & Analytics Practice at Orion. He has over two decades of multi-faceted global experience spanning management consulting, advanced analytics and digital solutions, across a broad spectrum of industry verticals including Consumer Goods, Retail, Banking & Financial Services, Hi-Tech, Healthcare and Travel/Transportation. He is passionate about working with data and leveraging advanced analytics tools and frameworks to address critical business challenges for his clients. Prior to joining Orion, Joyanta held senior positions at several marquee organizations including VP & Head of Knowledge Process Operations at Accenture, VP & Global Head of Account Management at Datamatics, and Americas Sales Head at TCG Digital. In his most recent assignment, he was SVP & Head of the Analytics Practice at a Bay Area based AI & Data Science products and solutions company. Joyanta started off his career in Management and Strategic Consulting working at Pricewaterhouse Coopers.
Joyanta is a B.Tech. from the Indian Institute of Technology, and MBA from the Indian Institute of Management.
In his current role at Orion, Joyanta is responsible for driving the Go-to-Market strategy and growth of the Data & Analytics Practice and socializing new ideas and innovative analytics solutions with its clients.

As the head of the Ellig Group, Janice is dedicated to increasing the placement of women and diverse candidates on corporate boards and in C-suites by 2025. Heralded by Bloomberg Businessweek as one of “The World’s Most Influential Headhunters,” Janice is often consulted for her expertise and her commitment to gender parity, inclusion, and diversity. She frequently appears at speaking engagements and as a media guest and has penned multiple articles for outlets such as Directors & Boards, Directorship, Corporate Director, The Huffington Post, and Forbes.com. Janice is Founder of the Women’s Forum of New York’s Corporate Board Initiative and its signature event, Breakfast of Corporate Champions. Since 2011, Janice continues to spearhead this event to honor companies committed to board diversity and to encourage CEOs to sponsor board-ready women for the Women’s Forum database.

Lisa Schneider is Chief Digital Officer & Publisher at Merriam-Webster, where she leads digital strategy and execution across content and product development, user experience, and technology. She has redefined the dictionary for the digital age through a combination of technology upgrades and content/social strategy, changing people’s perception of the brand from a “dusty book on the shelf” to a timely, relevant resource and commentary users turn to every day. Under her leadership, Merriam-Webster has won numerous awards, and she was recently featured on the AdAge Creativity 50 and the Folio: Top Women in Media lists.

Previously, Lisa held executive roles in digital strategy and product development at Penton, Budget Travel, Reader’s Digest, and Bridal Guide.

Asha Saxena is a strategic, innovative leader with a proven track record of building successful businesses for last 25 years. With a strong academic background, creative problem-solving skills, and an effective management style, Saxena has been instrumental in building business models for success.

Mrs. Saxena is an Adjunct Professor at Columbia University, where she teaches graduate class on Healthcare Consulting, Entrepreneurship and Big Data Analytics. She has served four-year term as Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Columbia Business School.

Published Author and Columnist at Entrepreneur Magazine, Asha Saxena is a well know key-note speaker on Entrepreneurship, Leadership, Women in Technology, Artificial Intelligence and Big Data and is a Board of Director for several for-profit companies. She served as CEO of ACULYST Corp. Healthcare Data Analytics Firm, built an eCommerce Company and served as a CEO of Future Technologies Inc., an international data management solutions firm for twenty years.

Saxena has her Masters in Science in Data Science and Machine Learning from Southern Methodist University, Texas and her undergraduate degree as a computer science engineer from Bangalore University in India and attended management programs at MIT and London Business School. In the area of operational excellence, Saxena is certified as a Six Sigma Black Belt professional. She started her professional career in a New York-based IT firm and has enjoyed challenging, diverse assignments in the financial services industry.

Saxena was invited to be a part of the World Economic Forum where Future Technologies Inc. was named “Global Growth Company 2007.” Her entrepreneurial spirit has also enabled her to gain notable success as a restaurateur, real-estate developer, and movie studio producer.

In addition to her entrepreneurial and educational success, Saxena has been an instrumental leader in the community by developing long-lasting relationships with numerous organizations (both profit and not-for-profit) through memberships, affiliations, and mentorships and has received awards for her personal and professional contributions.

Dr. Satyam Priyadarshy is a pioneer in the fields of data science, big data, analytics, and emerging technologies. Dr. Priyadarshy is the first Chief Data Scientist of Oil and Gas Industry. He is a Technology Fellow and Chief Data Scientist with Halliburton. In 2018, Corinium Intelligence listed Dr. Priyadarshy as one of the top innovators for Data and Analytics. Also, in 2018 The DEW Journal, a flagship journal of Energy sector, refers to Dr. Priyadarshy as the Guru of AI, Data and Analytics. In September 2016, Smart Industry (www.smartindustry.com) named Dr. Priyadarshy as one of key innovators on the leading edge of digital transformation.

Dr. Priyadarshy is a globally recognized leader with a breadth of scientific knowledge, in-depth technology experience, and extensive business acumen. He holds various academic positions at Oklahoma State University, George Mason University. Dr. Priyadarshy has appeared as keynote speaker at several international conferences and has written, co-authored, presented and published numerous research papers in peer-reviewed journals and magazines.

He has held various leadership positions in AOL, Network Solutions, Acxiom Corporation before joining Halliburton. He has co-founded few startups in DC and Silicon Valley and is an advisory board member of few startups in Healthcare, Retail, Finance and Analytics domain. Agenda Week of The Financial Times listed Dr. Priyadarshy as one of the potential board candidates with emerging technology and analytics expertise. His profile has appeared in many magazines including Chemical and Engineering News, The Scientist, Silicon India, Oil Review Middle East, Petroleum Review, RigZone among others. He has published over 35 papers and articles including an expert opinion in magazines like Science. Dr. Priyadarshy obtained his Ph.D. from IIT Bombay and MBA from The Pamplin School of Business, Virginia Tech.

Sanjeev Addala, is a Senior Vice President & Chief Information and Digital officer at AES Corp. Prior to joining AES, Mr. Addala was a Chief Digital Officer at GE from 2016 to 2018, Chief Digital Officer at Caterpillar from 2013 to 2015, and Chief Information Officer, Americas, Climate Control Technologies at Ingersoll-Rand from 2008-2013. He also previously held business and technology leadership roles at General Motors from 1994-2008. He served on Energize Ventures and currently serves on Simple Energy , and AppLariat Boards. Mr. Addala is a member of the board of AES Distributed Energy, and sits on AES’ Technology & Innovation committees. Mr. Addala holds a Master of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering and a Master of Business Administration degree from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. Mr. Addala has also completed an Executive Leadership program at Duke University.

Michael is a data driven, technology focused, digital transformation executive and has most recently been focused on the development and delivery of exceptional customer experiences that fuel growth, create differentiating competitive advantage and make doing business with Mastercard a seamless and more Priceless experience.

Honored to be listed #5 on the 2017 Top 50 CDO Influencers List, an AdAge “Media Maven”, a MediaPost “Online All-Star” & to be inducted into “Marketer & Media Legends & Leaders”, programs under his supervision have won several awards at Cannes, “Best in Show” at OMMA, (2) Emmy nominations and others from the Clios, Effies, IAB, Webby, Festival of Media, Midas, Shorty, AdWeek, Mashable and more.

He was with The Coca-Cola Company for 6 years where he created their “Fans First” Digital Business Strategy and led the team responsible for the largest brand page on Facebook and the #1 food/beverage brand on Twitter and You Tube and was with Johnson & Johnson for 9 years where he created their first Interactive Marketing Center of Excellence focused on developing an incoming pipeline of emerging media opportunities and on creating a community for marketers to test, learn and share experiences.

He is married and has four incredible digitally savvy children to share with adn learn about new technologies together in the Donnelly Family Digital Lab 🙂

Ritesh bills himself as a digital and social evangelist, and he has been evangelizing digital since the early days of the dot com boom in the late 1990’s. As a young man, he joined Agency.com and quickly began to consult with major fortune 500 companies to evangelize the merits of the World Wide Web.

Along the way, he has worked for the likes of Havas, Cushman & Wakefield and began a deep dive into the healthcare arena in 2009 when he joined Inventiv Health as Head of Digital & innovation.

He joined Ogilvy in 2014, as the Chief Digital Officer for Ogilvy CommonHealth, the specialist health care agency within the Ogilvy Group. There he worked with the digital team at OCHWW and supported and led the creation of the OCHWW Innovation Lab. The Lab has been responsible for showcasing the art of the possible. Voice-activated systems like Alexa and Google Home, connected homes, wearables, chatbots and AI and how these tools and technologies will continue to impact healthcare in the not-too-distant future.

Now working for the recently re-branded Ogilvy, in the Health & Wellness practice of Ogilvy Consulting, he advises major clients on digital transformation and innovation. He is an outspoken digital evangelist who has lent his expert POV in a variety of forums over his 19+ year career. He is passionate about educating his peers and his clients about what the future of digital looks like for health & wellness.