Uncaged Show

Alvaro Vaselli has been President & CEO of SKYDEX Technologies, Inc. since August 2019. As a Senior Global Business Executive, Alvaro has a 25+ year record of driving profitable growth in multiple B2B industries. Throughout his career, Alvaro’s roles and functions have included general management, business development, and sales & marketing. As a change agent and problem solver, his strengths include leadership, ability to influence, motivate, and execute with discipline. Alvaro enjoys motivating people while aligning them to meet strategic goals and enhance operational performance. He has a strong international background and speaks Portuguese, English and Spanish.

Sharon Reus is the President of CPG Agency. CPG is a full-service creative, experiential engagement and marketing agency. She leads a highly talented group in producing large-scale experiences for Fortune  500 companies such as Southwest Airlines, Ulta Beauty, O'Reilly Auto Parts and Carnival Corporation.  

As a producer and creative strategist she has more than 25 years working with clients such as AB-InBev, Bridgestone, Sherwin-Williams, Butler  Manufacturing, Ford Motor Company and Volkswagen.

Kenneth Beck is the co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of CEO Connection, the only membership organization exclusively for mid-market  CEOs of companies doing $100MM - $3B in annual revenue. His entrepreneurial spirit has been the guiding light throughout his career, leading him to launch and run several successful businesses and professional networking organizations. 

Kenneth has served as the Chairman of The Wharton Club of New York since 2017 after twenty years of success as the board’s president. Since  heading the 30,000+ member New York metropolitan area group, he has transformed the organization into an active association committed to  fostering the personal and professional growth of Wharton alumni.  

While earning his MBA in Marketing and Entrepreneurial Management at the Wharton School, Kenneth was Co-Founder and CEO of the University of  Pennsylvania Student Federal Credit Union. This nationally recognized full-service financial institution that he created provides financial services to a large percentage of the Penn undergraduate student population and provides excellent hands-on business experience for Penn students. 

Kenneth now serves as chair of its Board of Advisors. Kenneth is also an advisor on a variety of boards including Cornerstone Capital Group’s Global Advisory Board of Directors, First Generation Investors, New York Institute of Technology’s School of Management Dean’s Advisory Board, and the Penn Club of New York. Additionally, Kenneth frequently addresses business audiences and civic groups on various topics including enlightened self-interest (doing good while doing well), creating organizational infrastructures, and building membership organizations.

Sunil Gunderia serves as the Chief Innovation Officer and Head of Mastery & Adaptive Products at Age of Learning. As a product and strategy leader, Sunil works to develop and to commercialize innovative products across multiple distribution channels. Mastery products leverage learning and behavioral science research as well as artificial intelligence to personalize learning to improve educational outcomes for every child. 

Michael Abernathy is the President and CEO at Buckeye State Credit Union, a Community Development Financial Institution in Ohio. Under his  leadership, the company experienced its greatest year of profitability and eclipsed $1 Million in net income for the first time in company history. He also helped guide it out of a significant government oversight in 2018. Having worked as a business broker, franchise consultant, business consultant and in commercial lending and retail  banking before pursuing his role at the credit union, Michael gained a deep understanding about how to rebuild a company. Today, he continues to use those lessons to create a path toward the credit union’s future.

Over the next few years, he aims to grow Buckeye’s geographic footprint to provide more services across Northeast Ohio and create more resources to reinvest in their company.

Lisa L. Levy loves a good puzzle. After witnessing the confusion that ensued after new technology systems were integrated into offices in the 90s, she didn’t panic. She saw an opportunity to establish effective processes that support employees and businesses grappling with evolving  technology. Then a pattern emerged: internal teams kept failing to communicate with one another in the wake of change. To respond, Lisa  founded Lcubed Consulting. As CEO of Lcubed, Lisa helps companies align people, processes, and technology to utilize agility as a strategic  advantage and acknowledge change is a business constant. Her secret sauce to success is leveraging key elements of Project Management,  Process Performance Management, Internal Controls, and Organizational Change Management to build teams with the skills and capabilities to  drive strategic results.

Greg Hooven is the president of MarketReach and oversees his team in the day-to-day operations and long-term strategy of growing their organization. Greg’s goal for every client is to make MarketReach feel like an extension of their own team. His team accomplishes this by getting to know the how, where, and why they operate, and not forcing them into their method of madness. It’s that trust and understanding that enables his team to make every client, every deliverable, and every conversation as effective as possible.

Ginny Clarke is CEO of Ginny Clarke, LLC. She provides unparalleled skills and insights to some of the world’s leading executive search firms and technology companies. As a seasoned executive recruiter, she brings a unique, holistic approach to leadership assessment, hiring, diversity recruiting, and talent management that is essential more now than ever. Ginny is a systems thinker who can deconstruct processes and behaviors to carefully assess organizational and individual capability. From there, she provides integrated solutions to affect change.   

Before pursuing her own business, Ginny held senior leadership positions at Google and Spencer Stuart. At Google, she acted as Director,  Executive Recruiting. In this role, she led the Diversity, Internal Mobility, and Non-Tech Recruiting teams. Her team of North American recruiters found and hired senior leaders (Directors +) for finance, sales, marketing, and other G&A functions across Google. She leveraged her expertise to build a scaled internal mobility program for Google’s senior leaders and designed much of the infrastructure that supports their executive recruiting function today. At Spencer Stuart, Ginny was a Partner who worked in the firm’s Financial Services and Financial Officer Practices and co-founded and led Spencer Stuart’s Global Diversity Practice.

John Roberts is the Co-Founder and CEO of Blockaviation, an organization he established to support aircraft residual values by creating the world first global registry for aircraft records.  

John is a detail-oriented manager with a clear track-record for leading businesses to modernisation and success. His varied experience allows him to identify key industry challenges and spearhead the development of solutions.   

John’s expansive career includes roles from Business Unit Director of Server and Storage Business for Acer Europe Middle East and Africa in  Taiwan and Switzerland to having run his own successful businesses in Dublin.

As Global Brand President for Starcom Worldwide and member of the Publicis Media global leadership team, John Sheehy leads a global media  agency focused on the power of Human Experience, fueled by the convergence of media, technology and creativity. In his role, John is responsible for global brand vision, client partnerships, product excellence, and culture, all driving the design of experiences people want and actions brands need.  

Prior to joining Publicis Media, he was President of Global Operations at Starcom Mediavest Group, where he oversaw top client accounts and  provided strategic direction and alignment spanning emerging and core markets. In addition, John served on the Global Product Committee,  Global Content Practice and helped steward overall performance and growth.  

Previously, John dedicated two decades to the Leo Burnett Company, where he served on both the U.S. and global executive boards. During this  time he lived in Chicago as well as abroad in Mexico and London, honing his true passion and skill for client service with key relationships like the Kellogg’s business – a company with whom he still works closely today.