Speakers

J.A. Adande is the director of sports journalism and associate professor at Medill. Adande was a columnist for ESPN.com for nine years covering the NBA as well as a sideline reporter for NBA games. In addition, he was a panelist for ESPN’s “Around the Horn” for 13 years. During his career, Adande has covered the Olympic Games, Wimbledon, the Super Bowl, the NCAA Final Four, the college football national championships, the NBA Finals, the Masters Golf Tournament and soccer World Cup.

Faculty Lead / Disruption in Media

Stephen C. Anderson is a career member of the Senior Foreign Service. He served as deputy chief of mission and Chargé d’affaires at the U.S. Embassy in Antananarivo, Madagascar from 2014 to 2017, where he was responsible for restoring full diplomatic relations after a 2009 coup. Previously, he served as spokesperson at the U.S. Embassy in Rome, Italy and has served multiple tours in Iraq and Afghanistan focused mainly on the management of provincial reconstruction teams. Anderson is the recipient of numerous State Department superior and meritorious honor awards and he holds an M.S. in applied economics and a B.A. in economics from Marquette University.

Speaker / Political Disruption

Sanjeev Arora is a hands-on investor with a proven track record of building high-growth businesses, raising capital and delivering shareholder value across a variety of industry segments (software/telecom/ed tech). His current ventures are specifically in the areas of AI/machine learning. As an advisor to Prairie Capital, Arora led the TeacherMatch's products strategy, which created the industry’s first deep data driven predictive assessment and continuous reinforcement platform for educators. A National Merit Scholarship winner, Arora holds an M.S. in predictive analytics from Northwestern University and B.S. in engineering from IIT, India, and completed an internal fast-track MBA program at McKinsey.

Speaker / AI: Mind + Machine

David Austen-Smith is the Peter G. Peterson professor of corporate ethics and a professor of political science and economics. He received his Ph.D. in economics from Cambridge University in 1978. Professor Austen-Smith is an elected fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Econometric Society, and the Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory. He is also a charter member of the Game Theory Society. He publishes widely on positive political theory, social choice and applied game theory.

Faculty Lead / Political Disruption

Bernard (Bernie) Banks is a noted expert on leadership and organizational change. He is the Kellogg School’s associate dean for leadership development and a clinical professor of management. In 2016, Professor Banks retired as brigadier general from the Army, where he led West Point’s Department of Behavioral Sciences & Leadership. He is a graduate of West Point and holds graduate degrees from Northwestern, Columbia and Harvard universities. He earned his Ph.D. in social-organizational psychology from Columbia University.

Faculty Lead / Disrupting Talent

Carlos Brito is the chief executive officer of Anheuser-Busch InBev. He is a Brazilian citizen and received a degree in mechanical engineering from the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro and an MBA from Stanford University. Carlos held positions at Shell Oil and Daimler-Benz prior to joining Ambev in 1989. At Ambev, he had roles in finance, operations and sales before he was appointed chief executive officer in January 2004. Carlos was appointed zone president North America at InBev in January 2005 and chief executive officer in December 2005. He is also a member of the board of directors at Ambev.

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Emmy Award-winning producer Quentin Carter has been with BTN since its launch in 2007. As the vice president of studio production, Carter is responsible for overseeing all studio operations, including the creation of new programming, development of on-air talent and execution and increase in studio shows. He also oversaw the implementation of studio automation at BTN, which greatly increased the efficiency of studio production, as well as the successful launch of BTN Tailgate, the network’s college football pregame show. He previously served as the coordinating producer at MSG Network, where he managed programming and content development for various outlets, most notably “Talk of Our Town,” “SportsDesk” and NKY Way.

Speaker / Disruption in Media

Shoma Chatterjee heads the coaching and leadership development practice at ghSMART & Company, where she advises public and private equity boards and management teams to drive returns through better human capital decisions. Previously, she headed the senior leadership development function (Pine Street) at Goldman Sachs, helping partners and managing directors scale their leadership capabilities. Chatterjee received her B.A. in economics and math from Northwestern University, an MBA from Columbia Business School, and a master’s in international affairs from Columbia University.

Speaker / Disrupting Talent

Mallika Chopra is a media entrepreneur, published author, public speaker and a mom. Her most recent book, “Living with Intent: My Somewhat Messy Journey to Purpose, Peace and Joy,” was published in April 2015. Mallika’s varied background includes launching the Heal the World Foundation with Michael Jackson and helping with the relaunch of MTV in India. She has taught meditation to thousands of people and enjoys speaking to audiences around the world. Mallika has also shared ideas on balance and purpose at companies such as Coca-Cola, Disney, LinkedIn and Google as well as at various TEDx events. She has a Bachelor of Arts from Brown University, an MBA from Kellogg School of Management, and is currently pursuing a master’s in psychology with a mind body spirit concentration at Teachers College, Columbia University.

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Paul W. Earle, Jr. is a brand and innovation professional, entrepreneur and lecturer. At present, Paul is principal of Paul Earle & Co., a consultancy and venture platform that helps leading corporations TRANSFORM MIND INTO MATTER™. He is also a faculty member at Northwestern's Kellogg School of Management, where he co-teaches the Corporate Innovation and New Ventures class, an intensive immersion that pairs student teams with top corporate partners such as McDonald's, Visa, Procter & Gamble, United Airlines and Hyatt. Prior to launching his latest enterprise, Paul was executive director of Farmhouse, the innovation and new venture center of the global creative agency Leo Burnett.

Faculty Lead / Managing Disruption

Jan Eberly served as the assistant secretary for economic policy at the U.S. Treasury from 2011 to 2013 after being confirmed by the U.S. Senate. In that capacity, she was the chief economist at the Treasury, leading the Office of Economic Policy in analysis of the U.S. and global economies and financial markets and development of policy recommendations on micro and macroeconomic issues. Eberly's research focuses on finance and macroeconomics. Her work studies firms' capital budgeting decisions and household consumption and portfolio choice. She also examines the interaction of these spending and investment choices with the macroeconomy.

Speaker / Demographic Disruption

Alastair Fitzpayne serves as executive director of the Future of Work Initiative. Prior to his work at the Aspen Institute, he served as chief of staff at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) under Secretary Sylvia Burwell. In addition to serving as chief of staff at HHS, Fitzpayne has held a number of senior roles at the Department of the Treasury during the Obama administration, including deputy chief of staff and assistant secretary for legislative affairs. He has served on Capitol Hill, in both the Senate and the House, as an economic advisor to Sen. Evan Bayh and Rep. Rahm Emanuel, respectively, and previously worked at the Office of Management and Budget as well as Abt Associates, a public policy consulting firm.

Fitzpayne holds a B.A. from Vassar College and an M.P.P. from the University of California-Berkeley.

Speaker / Demographic Disruption

Stuart Frankel is the CEO and co-founder of Narrative Science. He leads the company’s strategy and corporate vision, focusing on how customers can achieve better business outcomes by implementing artificial intelligence technologies. Prior to Narrative Science, Frankel was president of the Performics division of DoubleClick until the company was sold to Google. He was also a finalist for the EY Entrepreneur of the Year in 2015 and 2016 and named to Crain’s Chicago Business 2015 Tech 50 List. Frankel is a regular contributor to industry discussion related to the future of work, technology innovation and entrepreneurship.

Speaker / AI: Mind + Machine

Craig Garthwaite is an associate professor of strategy and the director of Kellogg's Health Enterprise Management Program. He is an applied microeconomist whose research examines the effects of government policies and social phenomena with a focus on health and biopharmaceutical sectors. He has appeared as a guest on various television and radio shows such as Nightly Business Report and NPR Marketplace, and has testified before the United States House of Representatives and several state legislatures on matters related to the minimum wage and healthcare reforms.

Faculty Lead / Disruption in Healthcare

T.K. Gore has spent the last 23 years working in digital and sports media space. He is a believer in paying it forward, mentoring and teaching. Gore is senior director of digital at NBC Sports Chicago, a part of NBC Sports Group. He has previously held positions at the startup Universal Sports, AOL and Home Team Sports. In addition, Gore serves as an adjunct faculty member at Northwestern University and sits on the board of directors of the Chicago Fire Soccer Club Foundation.

Speaker / Disruption in Media

Anna Haghgooie is a managing director of Sandbox Industries, a Chicago-based venture capital firm focused on implementing innovation by connecting established corporations with innovative startups and entrepreneurs. She focuses on investing in healthcare innovation through the BlueCross BlueShield Venture Funds, a collaborative investment platform with more than $550 million in capital and over 30 Blue Plans participating. She earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of Michigan and a MBA with honors from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. Haghgooie is a Fellow in the Health Innovators Fellowship at the Aspen Institute and was named to the Crain’s Tech 50 list in 2017.

Speaker / Disruption in Healthcare

Dean Karlan is a professor of economics and finance at the Kellogg School of Management, and president and founder of Innovations for Poverty Action, a nonprofit organization dedicated to discovering and promoting solutions to global poverty problems. His research focuses on microeconomic issues of poverty, typically employing experimental methodologies and behavioral economics insights to examine what works and what does not. As a social entrepreneur, he is co-founder of stickK.com, a website that uses lessons from behavioral economics to help people reach personal goals, such as weight loss and smoking cessation, through commitment contracts on corporate wellness platforms.

Faculty Lead / Disrupting Markets for Social Impact

Eric Muhlberger was born in Columbus, Ohio and graduated cum laude from Ohio University in 2011. He spent six years prior to Kellogg in Deloitte's IT Advisory and Human Capital Consulting practices, focusing primarily on building out Deloitte's capabilities to bring analytics-driven approaches to human-centered client opportunities. While traveling to Brooklyn for Deloitte, Eric discovered the London-based live music startup, Songs From a Room (Sofar Sounds). He independently founded Chicago’s chapter in 2013 and, with his team, built Chicago into the fourth largest market in the world (out of 370 cities). After transitioning Chicago city leadership responsibilities, Eric guided global expansion and monetization strategies, assisted in executing international experiential marketing programs, and helped secure private fundraising from Sir Richard Branson. Eric comes to Kellogg as a 1Y student with the goal of making "creative disruption" a foundational part of the Kellogg experience.

STUDENT KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Michael Mulvihill is executive vice president of research, league operations and strategy at FOX Sports. He is responsible for all data analytics, as well as for overseeing FOX’s NFL, MLB and college sports programming and managing relationships with FOX’s forty live sports partners. Mulvihill is a graduate of the University of Missouri and a recipient of the Sports Business Journal’s Forty Under 40 Award.

Speaker / Disruption in Media

Griffin Myers is a board-certified physician and the chief medical officer and co-founder of Oak Street Health, a growing organization of value-based primary​ ​care​ ​centers​ ​serving​ ​adults​ ​on​ ​Medicare. Meyers is responsible for the excellence of healthcare delivery at Oak Street Health and has been instrumental in guiding the ​company’s​ growth into additional markets and developing an innovative care model. Myers​ ​has​ ​an​ ​MBA​ ​from​ ​the​ ​University​ ​of​ ​Chicago Booth​ ​School​ ​of​ ​Business ​and​​ ​an​ ​MD​ ​from​ ​the​ ​University​ ​of​ ​Chicago​ ​Pritzker​ ​School​ ​of Medicine. He​ ​is​ ​a​ ​diplomate​ ​of​ ​the​ ​American​ ​Board​ ​of​ ​Emergency​ ​Medicine​, an ​adjunct instructor​ ​of​ emergency​ medicine​ ​at​ ​Northwestern​ ​University’s​ ​Feinberg​ ​School​ ​of​ ​Medicine and​ ​a​ ​Presidential​ ​Leadership​ ​Scholar.

Speaker / Disruption in Healthcare

Jesper D. Nordengaard was named Vice President and General Manager, Hill’s U.S. in 2017. Prior to this position, Nordengaard served as Vice President of Global Marketing and Innovation providing the best, leading-edge pet nutrition technology, products, and expertise to pet parents, veterinary professionals, and other key pet nutrition influencers worldwide.

Nordengaard joined Colgate in 1997 as Assistant Brand Manager for the C-P Nordic Group. He progressed through various roles of increasing responsibility in the subsidiary, including Brand Manager - Fabric Care, Customer Marketing Manager, and Marketing Manager. Nordengaard later moved to GABA Germany as Marketing Director and was promoted to Marketing Director of the GABA Group in 2009. He was promoted to Director of the Oral Care CIC (Consumer Innovation Center) for Colgate Europe in 2011.

Nordengaard joined Hill’s in 2013, responsible for integrating consumer insights and science and technology expertise to drive innovation and new product success. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Marketing from the Copenhagen Business School in Denmark.

Speaker / Managing Disruption

Sergio Rebelo conducts research on macroeconomics and international finance. He has studied the causes of business cycles, the impact of economic policy on economic growth, and the sources of exchange-rate fluctuations. His research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the World Bank, the Sloan Foundation and the Olin Foundation. He has served as a consultant to the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, the European Central Bank and many other organizations.

Faculty Lead / Political Disruption

Eric Schwartz is on a journey to grow Tyson chicken as chief marketing officer for Tyson Poultry and general manager and senior vice president of Tyson Brands. Before Tyson Brands, he was general manager of the Jimmy Dean business unit of Tyson Foods, where he launched successes like Stuffed Hash Browns, Frittatas and Simple Scrambles breakfast kits. Prior, Schwartz served in multinational companies across packaged goods categories, including detergents, fabric softeners, air fresheners, hard surface cleaners, insecticides and water filtration. Based on past category disruptions, he was awarded Brand of the Year by Brandweek and recognized as Brand Genius by Ad Age.

Speaker / Managing Disruption

Edward Segel serves on the executive team at Oscar Health Insurance as senior vice president of business. He is responsible for strategic planning and insurance product design. As part of Oscar's founding team, he served as vice president of product for the company’s first four years, leading digital products and design. Previously he conducted economic research for Bridgewater Associates and data visualization consulting at Bloomberg LP. He holds an undergraduate degree from Harvard University, and an MS in symbolic systems and MBA from Stanford University.

Speaker / Disruption in Healthcare

As a senior leader of the digital transformation team at 7-Eleven, Tarang Sethia is responsible for driving the transformation of 7-Eleven becoming a digital firm. He’s focused on customer experiences and is determined to make 7-Eleven’s products and services available whenever and wherever customers need them. Previously, Sethia has led transformation with digitization of desktop products at Intuit QuickBooks and Tax businesses. He credits Intuit as a place where he learned how to focus on customer problems and delight them with simple solutions. Sethia is a 2013 Kellogg School of Management graduate and has an M.S. in computer science and a B.S. in electrical engineering.

Speaker / Managing Disruption

Marcus Shingles is the chief executive officer of the XPRIZE Foundation, the global leader in designing and implementing innovative competition models to solve the world’s grandest challenges. Marcus has more than 20 years of experience and, prior to XPRIZE, was a partner at Deloitte Consulting LLP, where he worked with corporate executive teams to understand and plan for the opportunities and threats associated with disruptive technological innovation.

In his spare time, Marcus has partnered with the public school systems in Los Angeles and Boston to bring “exponential entrepreneurial” training and contemporary thinking to high school students in currently underserved communities. The program is part of a multiyear curriculum in the classroom, designed to teach self-sufficiency and prepare students for an optimistic and exponential future.

Headline Speaker

Juan Simón Mendoza Gimenez is a member of the board of directors of Bebidas Polar C.A. and Alimentos Polar C.A. He is one of the seven members of the executive committee, and also holds a seat on the audit committee of Empresas Polar. He holds a degree in law from Universidad Católica Andres Bello and an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management with a concentration in international business, finance and marketing. Mendoza is the president of the Chamber of Venezuelan Business and vice president of the Venezuelan Chamber of Investments Promotion Agency. He has been the President of the Venezuelan Executives Association, and is a member of the Y.P.O. – W.P.O. Venezuelan Chapter.

Speaker / Political Disruption

Jennifer Tescher is the president and CEO of the Center for Financial Services Innovation (CFSI), the nation’s authority on consumer financial health. CFSI leads a network of financial services innovators committed to promoting high-quality financial products. Through its Compass Principles and a lineup of proprietary research, insights and events, CFSI connects members of its network to build a more robust financial services marketplace.

Tescher founded CFSI in 2004 and has since achieved notable success in championing increased access to high-quality financial products and services for underserved consumers as an objective for the industry. She has become a nationally known expert on this topic, frequently quoted in national and financial press including The New York Times, NPR’s Marketplace, and The Washington Post, with major speaking engagements at a broad spectrum of industry and policy convenings. She is also currently an advisory council member of Accion’s Center for Financial Inclusion.

Tescher launched CFSI’s annual conference, newly titled “Emerge: Consumer Financial Health Forum,” which presents cutting-edge thought leadership and showcases innovators, executives and emerging companies in the financial services industries.

Speaker / Disrupting Markets for Social Impact

Canh Tran has more than 25 years of experience focused on machine learning, big data and predictive analytics. Throughout his career, Canh has worked with large-scale data such as payments, card transactions and credit information to solve real-time fraud and data breach problems. Canh is the co-founder and CEO of Rippleshot, a venture-backed machine learning fraud analytics platform for banks, credit unions and merchants. He has consulted for Booz Allen Hamilton, the International Monetary Fund and the French Embassy. Canh holds an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management and a B.S. from the University of Maryland.

Speaker / AI: Mind + Machine

Brian Uzzi is a globally recognized scientist, teacher, consultant and speaker on leadership, social networks, and big data. He serves as a professor at both the Kellogg School of Management and the McCormick School of Engineering. His research has been funded by a variety of agencies and uses social network science and computational methods to predict outstanding human achievement. His research has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, The Economist, The New Yorker, Fortune and other media outlets.

Faculty Lead / AI: Mind + Machine

Adam Waytz is an associate professor of management and organizations. His research uses methods from social psychology and cognitive neuroscience to study the causes and consequences of perceiving mental states in other agents and to investigate processes related to social influence, social connection, meaning-making and ethics. Professor Waytz's research has been published in leading journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, and Psychological Review. In recognition of his work, Professor Waytz received the 2008 and 2013 Theoretical Innovation Award from the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, the SAGE Foundation Young Scholar Award, and the International Social Cognition Network's Early Career Award. Professor Waytz received his B.A. in psychology from Columbia University, his Ph.D. in social psychology from the University of Chicago, and received a National Service Research Award from the National Institute of Health to complete a post-doctoral fellowship at Harvard University.

Speaker / AI: Mind + Machine

Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach is director of the Institute for Policy Research and Faculty Fellow at Northwestern University. She studies policies aimed at improving the lives of children in poverty, and her recent work has focused on tracing the impact of major public policies such as SNAP (formerly the Food Stamp Program) and early childhood education on children’s long-term outcomes. She has testified before both the Senate and the House of Representatives on her research. She graduated from Wellesley College with a B.A. in economics and religion, and received a Ph.D. in economics from Princeton University.

Speaker / Demographic Disruption

Grace Zuncic serves as senior vice president of people at Chobani, where she is responsible for leading the company’s people practices, talent acquisition, organizational development and total rewards. Zuncic has been a champion of Chobani’s people since her start at the company nearly six years ago and has played an integral role in its industry-recognized initiatives, including Parental Leave, Chobani Shares and Chobani Women. She also serves as vice chair of the Boston College Alumni Board and a director on the Chobani Australia Board. She is a member of WOMEN in America and holds a BA in philosophy and political science from Boston College and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Speaker / Disrupting Talent