Change Wave

Gray Knowlton is the Senior Vice President of Engineering at Kaseya, makers of the IT Complete Platform for IT Managed Service Providers. Mr. Knowlton has also held the role of CIO of Upsher-Smith Laboratories, Program & Product Management leader for Microsoft Office, and Product Management for Adobe Acrobat and Adobe Creative Suite. Delivering projects such as Open XML / ISO/IEC29500, the Daisy Translator for Microsoft Word, the Epilepsy Foundation My Seizure Diary, the Brian Grant Foundation Power Through project and others has helped Mr. Knowlton establish a reputation as an impactful technology leader in many segments around the globe. Mr. Knowlton brings a unique combination of product, program, engineering and IT leadership experience to Kaseya, to help the company realize its vision for IT Service Management. When he is not leading technology initiatives, Mr. Knowlton spends time with his beloved family, and at race tracks driving at extremely high speeds.

David Inns is CEO and a member of the Board of Directors of GreatCall Inc., the leader in connected health solutions for active aging. Since its inception in 2006, GreatCall has developed a complete portfolio of products and services that help enable independent aging, including: telehealth services, medication adherence programs, emergency response, fall detection and activity monitoring. GreatCall’s commitment to simplicity and best-in-class service helps the older consumer adopt and enjoy connected health solutions while keeping caregivers up-to-date on their own smartphones with the GreatCall Link app. Under David’s leadership, GreatCall has grown from a startup in 2006 to a company with hundreds of millions of dollars in annual revenue and over 1,000 employees. David is also an Executive Board member of the Consumer Technology Association. He was named EY Entrepreneur of the Year 2016 nationally in the Services category.Before joining GreatCall, David was Vice President, Consumer Markets for Bell Mobility in Canada where he ran the $1.6 billion consumer market P&L. He was also Vice President, Consumer Marketing for Bell Canada where he ran the $4 billion wireline P&L. David was a Partner at Diamond Management & Technology Consultants, which was bought by PWC in 2010 for $378 million.

Cal Jackson is the Diversity & Inclusion global leader at Tech Data Corporation and a certified NTL Diversity Practitioner. He joined Florida’s 2nd largest corporation in 2014. Cal is most known in the Diversity and Inclusion community for his design, development and delivery of engaging and thought-provoking cultural competence workshops. Topics include bias, generations, gender, lookism, self-awareness, classism and enhancing the cultural competence of leaders.

Cal has experience building safe containers for courageous conversations in Fortune 500 companies, academia, and civic forums.

He has received various accolades for his work from Black Enterprise Magazine, Florida Bar, Tampa Bay Diversity Chamber, Clearwater Bar, FL Blue, Florida Diversity Council, Jacksonville Business Journal and Leadership Jacksonville.

Cal presently serves on the board of directors for the Florida Diversity Council and is the President of the Florida Diversity Council Tampa Bay Chapter.

Lifelong Girl Scout, STEM champ, and advocate for girls and youth education, Sylvia Acevedo was appointed CEO of Girl Scouts of the USA (GSUSA) in May, 2017. She assumed this notable position after having served as a member of the Board of Directors from 2009 to 2016 as an officer and member of its Executive Committee.Growing up in rural New Mexico, Girl Scouts nourished a love for math and science in Sylvia that would culminate in a career as a rocket scientist, engineer, and award winning STEM entrepreneur. She has held executive and engineering roles at leading technology companies such as Apple, Dell Computer Corporation, Autodesk Inc. and IBM.Sylvia began her career as a rocket scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, where she worked on NASA’s Voyager II mission, developing unique algorithms that analyzed the data Voyager II sent back to earth, helping NASA learn about Jupiter and its moon’s Io and Europa.Sylvia understands the U.S. education system and the challenges parents face in their children’s educational journey. Over the years Sylvia has spoken across the country about the importance of helping girls discover their strengths, passions, and talents. She served on the founding board of the Ann Richards School for Young Women Leaders in Austin, Texas—the largest all-girls public school in the nation.To help narrow academic achievement gaps in America Sylvia co-authored the Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Family Engagement curriculum. She is the author of Path to the Stars, an aspirational memoir for middle school students that focuses on her own journey of perseverance, hope, and achievement against the odds.Sylvia was one of the first Hispanic students, male or female, to earn a graduate engineering degree from Stanford University—an MS in industrial engineering—and she holds a bachelor of science degree with honors in industrial engineering from New Mexico State University.

Rebekah is Vice President of Community & Culture at Zillow, leading efforts around Equity & Belonging, Social Impact, and Cultural Engagement. She serves on nonprofit boards, as an advisor to technology startups, and is a Forbes.com contributor. Her first book, Blaze Your Own Trail, will be coming out in February 2020. Rebekah has been recognized in the Puget Sound Business Journal 40 Under 40, the Inman 33 People Changing the Real Estate Industry, and the Female Founders Alliance Champion Awards. She is also a mentor, a mother to two boys and an aerial acrobat.

Anne Robie has been practicing the art of maximizing human potential for over 20 years. She is a seasoned HR executive, coach and facilitator and has experience working in diverse corporate environments as an internal leader and external consultant. She started her career at IBM and is currently the SVP of People and Place at Turnitin, an education technology company. Anne is passionate about the human aspects of business, believing the people perspective is the key to realizing organizational opportunity