Change Wave

Blaire was born in Dallas, TX, raised in Louisville, KY and launched a career as a highly competitive Sales Professional in Atlanta,GA.

There, she was consistently presented with challenging opportunities which contributed to her unique blend of Sales, Training, Operations and Performance Management expertise.

She started with DiscoverOrg leading a metric-focused team who focus on technology proficiency, adoption and continuous application for external customers. She has since moved into a newly established role as Director of Training & Sales Enablement at ZoomInfo powered by DiscoverOrg, leading a team who motivates our revenue generating teams to stretch their skillset & bloom into consistent high performers.

Blaire has gained a reputation as an energetic motivator, disruptive innovator and inspirational leader who other leaders lean on to develop Sales Operational & Training Excellence within their rapidly growing organizations and implement strategies to increase diversity company-wide.

Margie leads the people team, overseeing all HR functions including people operations and talent acquisition. Most recently, she was Senior Director of Global People Operations at Twitch where she built talent programs and helped facilitate global expansion. Margie also served as the Director of Global People Operations at Ooyala, and Manager of Global Employment and Compliance at Netflix, helping to lead unprecedented changes to the company's parental leave policy, and Senior Manager of HR Center of Excellence at Sony PlayStation, where she drove strategic initiatives around compliance and technology.

Isaac Wilcox is the VP of Product Management at Elavon, Inc.

Arijit is a Distinguished Architect at Splunk and passionate about observability. As the former CTO and first employee at SignalFx, Arijit has spent years designing, developing, and managing many aspects of SignalFx’s product. Previously, Arijit was one of the original developers of Facebook’s metrics solution (ODS) and subsequently managed the development of Facebook’s networking tools, data visualization, and other infrastructure monitoring software. He has been focused on the monitoring space for more than a decade, in a career that has also spanned IP telephony, VoIP conferencing, and network virtualization.

Angelica Erazo is the Diversity and Inclusion Coordinator for Oracle Corporation where she assists the company in external strategic partnerships and manages the corporate HR blog. Prior to Oracle, Angelica worked on the Hill as a 2017 Running Start Fellow for Senator Martha McSally where she assisted staff on tech policy and communications logistics.  She currently is the Vice Chair for the Austin Hispanic Quality of Life Commission, a board member for the New Philanthropist, and a board member for Austin Earth Day. She is the recipient of the Austin Mosaic Awards for her work around corporate diversity, a recipient of the Certificate of Heroism by Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner for her work saving 400 endangered lives during Hurricane Harvey, and received national recognition from Shell Corporation for Hurricane Harvey efforts.  She graduated from Huston-Tillotson University in 2016 with a B.A in Political Science and is currently at the University of Texas studying cyber security. During her free time, she likes to garden and watch clips of politicians bantering with each other. 

Wendy Zenone is a Senior Information Security Engineer for Netflix, responsible for managing the 3rd Party Risk Program. Wendy loves the ever-changing landscape of vendor security and enjoys working in a position that allows her to partner with many different teams across the company. Prior to working at Netflix, Wendy worked at Lending Club on their Application Security Team managing their bug bounty program, developer security training and vulnerability management. Wendy is a graduate of Hackbright Academy. Outside of work, Wendy enjoys spending time with her family traveling, snowboarding, watching Netflix and hanging out with their new puppy.

Kenji Yoshino is the Chief Justice Earl Warren Professor of Constitutional Law at NYU School of Law and the Director of the Center for Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging. A graduate of Harvard (AB summa cum laude), Oxford (MSc as a Rhodes Scholar) and Yale (JD), he specializes in constitutional law, antidiscrimination law, and law and literature. He is the author of three books: Covering: The Hidden Assault on Our Civil Rights; A Thousand Times More Fair: What Shakespeare’s Plays Teach Us About Justice; and Speak Now: Marriage Equality on Trial. Yoshino has published in major academic journals, including the Harvard Law Review, the Stanford Law Review, and the Yale Law Journal. He has also written for more popular forums, including the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times, and the Washington Post. He makes regular appearances on radio and television programs, such as NPR, CNN, PBS and MSNBC. In 2011, Yoshino was elected to the Harvard Board of Overseers for a six-year term (serving as President of that body in the 2016-17 academic year). He also serves on the Board of the Brennan Center for Justice and on the External Advisory Panel for Diversity and Inclusion for the World Bank Group. He has won numerous awards for his teaching and scholarship, including the Podell Distinguished Teaching Award in 2014, the American Bar Association’s Silver Gavel Award in 2016, and an honorary degree from Pomona College in 2018.