Ideagen Global Podcast

Jennifer Taylor is Vice President, U.S. Jobs at the Consumer Technology AssociationTM (CTA) the U.S. trade association representing more than 2,200 consumer technology companies and which owns and produces CES® – The Global Stage for Innovation. Jennifer leads initiatives that demonstrate how the consumer tech industry is addressing the nation’s critical skills gap, growing the number of high-skilled jobs, and investing in creating a fully-equipped, high-skilled 21st century workforce. Jennifer leads CTA’s 21st Century Workforce council with over 70 tech companies. This leadership forum shares effective best-practices, strategies and approaches used to create high-quality talent pipelines. Jennifer also built and leads the CTA Apprenticeship Coalition, in partnership with IBM, to increase the availability and adoption of apprenticeships as a talent solution in the tech sector. Jennifer oversees USTechVets.com, in partnership with the Northern Virginia Technology Council, Monster.com, and Military.com, an online hiring platform that helps HR professionals in the tech industry identify and hire veterans and military spouses. Jennifer has experience working in the technology field with ten years at AARP as vice president of business development where she developed and launched a tablet for tech-shy seniors in partnership with Intel® and built a full product portfolio of consumer tech benefits for AARP members. She was also the executive vice president of sales and marketing at Caring VillageTM, a subsidiary of Segue Technologies, where she introduced a first-of-its-kind caregiving SaaS platform and mobile app to the long-term care industry. She is a graduate of the University of Michigan with a degree in communications and an MBA in marketing and management from George Mason University.

Sheryl Kline is a dynamic speaker, trainer, and coach who specializes in mental toughness. She has built her career on two decades of studying, researching, and working with world-class athletes and business professionals at major Fortune 500 companies in San Francisco, Silicon Valley, and worldwide. Sheryl is a ThriveGlobal contributor and a featured guest for various national podcasts, helping others to develop the mindset required to believe and achieve their best consistently.

Chaitra Vedullapalli, Co-Founder of Meylah.com. She is recognized as a Top 100 Small business influencer, holds a Patent and published the "PartnerTweet" book, and was awarded the Women of Inspiration title at the Microsoft Inspire Conference. Chaitra Is fiercely committed to empowering business owners to access digital economy. She is an accomplished business leader thrives on conceptualizing, analyzing, and executing strategic business initiatives to increase customer loyalty, margins, and maximizing sustainable competitive advantages. Chaitra is known for her thought leadership and social entrepreneurship for developing programs such as "Smart Tourism", "Women In Cloud” and facilitating the” Innovateher” pitch showcase for local businesses sponsored by the Small Business Association. Chaitra is a co-architect of Ignite Washington, a city by city digital readiness initiative to foster local economic development, Board member of Women in Cloud, Board member of YMCA Sammamish, and gives back to youth by mentoring Creative Children for Charity, a youth foundation for providing annual ACTON business fair for entrepreneurial kids, and led a 80+ youth Toastmasters group. With over 18 years of corporate experience delivering consistently high business growth through strategic tech initiatives, business development and partnering with customers. She is recognized for leading change, driving digital transformation in the 21st century, formulating public-private partnerships, and creating economic prosperity with modern technologies such as AI, IoT, and Cloud Computing. She is a highly sought after woman of influence and connected lives by the values of “rising tides lifts all boats” and believes that together we can go further.

Dr. Chantal Line Carpentier currently serves as Chief of the United Nations Conference

on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) New York office of the Secretary-General. Prior

to 2014, she was actively involved in the successful negotiations of the Sustainable

Development Goals for the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs

(DESA). During her tenure with DESA, she served as the Major Groups coordinator to

enhance non-state actors engagement with the United Nations. She facilitated the

participation of more than 10,000 non-state actors -a record- in the United Nations

Rio+20 Conference on Sustainable development and was also the DESA focal point for

sustainable consumption and production, food security and sustainable agriculture.

Prior to joining the United Nations, she served as Head of the Trade and Environment

Program of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) Commission for

Environmental Cooperation (2000-2007), as policy analyst for the Wallace Institute for

Alternative Agriculture (1998-2000) and as post doc for the International Food Policy

Research Institute (IFPRI) in the Brazilian Amazon (1996-1998).

Dr. Carpentier has consulted to the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP),

the World Bank, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OCDE)

and the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA).

She was chosen for the Ideagen 2016 100 Individuals and Organization empowering

women and girl, is a 2006 Yale World Fellow and a United Nations Environment

Programme (UNEP) Who’s Who’s of Women and the Environment. She has co-authored

a book on Ethical Investing (2008) and regularly publishes journal, articles, book

chapters and Secretary-General reports on the intricate relationships between sustainable

development policies, trade, equality and agriculture.

Matt Sigelman is CEO of Burning Glass Technologies, a leading labor market analytics firm. For

more than a decade, he has led Burning Glass in harnessing the power of data and artificial

intelligence technologies that have cracked the genetic code of the job market. Powered by the

world’s largest and most sophisticated database of jobs and talent, Burning Glass delivers real-time

data and breakthrough planning tools that inform careers, define academic programs, and shape

workforces. Burning Glass has helped to fill millions of jobs and its data drive initiatives for more than

a dozen state and national governments. Matt is consulted frequently by national media, by

researchers, and the White House. He served previously with McKinsey & Company and Capital

One. He holds an A.B. from Princeton University and an M.B.A. from Harvard.

With a heart for orphans and vulnerable children in some of the world’s poorest countries, Cari Armbruster’s present role as Executive Director at Alliance for Children Everywhere stems from a seasoned career in nursing, healthcare administration, and family advocacy positions. 

For 11 years, Cari held a series of fulfilling nursing and organizational roles at Seattle Children’s Hospital before starting her dedicated volunteer path with orphans in 2001.  With a natural affinity for producing health related policies and procedures, and leading teams she helped to develop standards of care for a temporary crisis care facility in Zambia that has been advocating for children and families since 1999.  

An Alliance for Children Everywhere Board member for seven years, Cari provided consistent and thoughtful counsel to the Founder and Executive Director before being appointed to the role herself in January 2015. Cari’s leadership has brought the organization through a successful transition from the Founder and expanded its role as a thought leader and model for child and family welfare practices.

Her passion for child welfare, family empowerment, and education for the world’s most vulnerable children and their families is evident throughout every aspect of the ACE partnership. Cari has led the organization to be a recognized expert practitioner, and primary partner to the Zambian government as they implement a new care system for children separated from family.

Cari resides in Edmonds, Washington (USA) with her husband, Erich, and two children, where they enjoy many Pacific Northwest outdoor activities as well as being active in their local church community.

As a senior policy advisor, security professional, and leadership consultant, Jeff Eggers leverages 20+ years of experience managing strategic efforts and leading high-stakes, high performing teams during his time with the White House, Department of Defense, and the U.S. Navy.

A former Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs for President Obama, Jeff was responsible for oversight of critical and sensitive aspects of U.S. foreign and national security policy.

A researcher in behavioral science and a consultant on leadership and organizational performance, Jeff now leads McChrystal Group’s Leadership Institute, managing engagements with Fortune 500 clients requiring assistance with organizational performance, leader-development, and culture shaping.

He has taught courses in change management, leadership, and public policy for many organizations. Jeff retired from the U.S. Navy following a successful 20-year career as a U.S. Navy SEAL with extensive operational and combat leadership experience.

Jeff has published in esteemed academic journals and media outlets such as Fortune, Foreign Policy, Politico, and U.S. News and World Report.

Benjamin Brown started AYA in his NYC apartment in 2016 and is responsible for leading its growth and strategy, including inking partnerships with AARP, Lyft, CoachUSA and others. Under his leadership, AYA was included in the college history textbook “We The People” as a top interest group for young Americans. Prior to AYA, Ben was a consultant at Enovation Partners where he worked with Fortune 500 companies to develop innovation strategies, invest in cleantech startups, and evaluate market entry opportunities. Before working with some of the world’s largest companies, Ben advised clean energy startup companies as a Manager at non-profit Clean Energy Trust (CET). At CET, Ben oversaw the development of a multimillion-dollar public-private investment fund and advised dozens of startups leading to millions of dollars in follow on funding. Ben studied Physics and Eastern Religion at Middlebury College.

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In her 35th year in industry, Judy Marks has witnessed technological advances while applying emerging and mature technologies in a way that benefits society. She currently leads Otis – the iconic company that remains at the forefront of the elevator industry it created 165 years ago – through a remarkable digital and cultural transformation. 

Today, Otis is taking its deep knowledge of the hoistway and using it to create digital solutions that serve customers’ needs in an era of intelligent buildings. This includes IoT-based service solutions with proactive data analytics for predictive maintenance; advanced video analytics and dispatching systems to manage varying traffic patterns; and a new generation of elevators that are connected, smarter, data rich, safer, and more efficient and comfortable than ever. 

Judy has held senior leadership roles at three global icons – IBM, Lockheed Martin and Siemens AG. She was serving as CEO of both Siemens USA and Dresser-Rand, a Siemens business, when appointed to lead Otis in 2017.  “People make a decision every day about what kind of work they’re going to do,” she says. “That’s what I love about Otis people – they know that what we do matters. Across 200 countries and territories, we service 2 million units and touch 2 billion people every day to keep the world moving.”

In 2017, Judy was named to the Top 50 Most Powerful Women in Technology and received the Excellence in Leadership Award from the International Society of Automation.

Frédéric García is the CEO of Airbus Mexico, as well as the President of Consejo Ejecutivo de Empresas Globales (CEEG). Previously, Frédéric was the General Manager of Inversiones y Técnicas Aeroportuarias (ITA), the Director of Marketing of Aeropuertos del Sureste (ASUR), and a Business Engineer for the French company, Grands Travaux de Marseille (GTM). He is also the founder and main shareholder of LAATSA, a Mexican consultancy company for aeronautic industry.

Frédéric received his Masters in International Project Management from École Supérieure de Commerce de Paris (ESCP, 1990-1991), as well as a engineering degree from École Nationale Supérieure d'Arts et Métiers (ENSAM, 1987-1990). He has also been recognized with awards by both the Mexican and French governments; including the Orden del Aguila Azteca en rango de placa from Mexico, and the Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur, and Chevalier de l'Ordre National du Mérite from France.

For more than 20 years, Frédéric has focused on strengthening Mexico's commercial relations with global companies and has been a key player in the economic relationship between Mexico and France. His work has focused on strengthening the investment of the French market in the country, in addition to promoting foreign investments to remain in Mexico to promote social development.