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Brandee is the Director of HR Business Partners at Zones, LLC. The primary objective of her role is to help strengthen Zones ability to drive positive change in leadership, culture, and the employee experience. Brandee has 15 years of progressive Business Partner experience in high-performing Fortune 500 companies within the insurance, financial and IT services industries. Recognized as a visionary thinker, Brandee believes in building business partnerships and developing people strategies to drive employee engagement, productivity, and business profitability.

"3 Principles to Stay Centered in Your Career and Life" with Guest Carrie Brown

Kim Chau

VP & GM Marketing, Zones Kim is the Vice President and General Manager at Zones, LLC. As head of marketing, she is responsible for driving Zones' overall marketing strategy to develop the brand, generate demand for Zones' solutions, and collaborate with ecosystem partners to grow the pipeline and contribute to sales. She comes to Zones with over 20 years of scaling business, leading high-performance global teams, driving revenue growth, and delivering on technology adoption across channels and nascent markets.

She is the Director of Event Emerging Technology & Innovation at Dow Jones. Previously worked as an independent Innovation Strategy consultant and product designer with renowned Fortune 500 companies, artists, and institutions such as Ericsson, Childish Gambino, BBC, Unilever, Diageo, Cadbury, Hugo Boss, Audi, Julius Baer, SAP, V&A Museum, London Olympics and more.

Since graduating she has developed 3 trademarks in the areas of gender-neutral STEAM educational toys, reflective knitwear, and UV awareness jewelry. Her personal work has been exhibited and featured worldwide in museums, books, and publications including Elle magazine, BBC News, CNBC The Edge, Boston Science Museum, and more. Awards include the Royal Pitch@Palace named 2nd most disruptive business, Top3 Innovator of the year, winner of the Diageo Spark Award, NESTA Innovation award, and many more.

Elena is also a professional speaker at international conferences, from MIT Technology Review EmTech conference to TEDx and the international Cooperation Summit in China. She also mentors startups for the Meaningful Business initiative supporting impact entrepreneurs pro SDGs and contributes to the UNTIL United Nations Technology Innovation Lab.

“Being Courageous while Overcoming Imposter Syndrome” with Special Guest Jerica Huang 

Please welcome Julie Wagner, our host for this amazing conversation, as she welcomes our guest speaker, Luxy Thuraisingam, Head of Global Partner Marketing, Cisco.

Crystal Washington, CSP works with organizations that want to leverage technology to increase profits and productivity!

As a technology strategist and certified futurist, Crystal takes complex social media, app, and web topics and makes them easy to understand and accessible for everyday people.

Crystal’s clients comprise Fortune 500 companies including Google, Microsoft, and GE, and as a sought-after keynote speaker, she has entertained and educated audiences around the globe.

As one of Forbes’ 50 Leading Female Futurists, she has appeared in numerous publications including Entrepreneur and Bloomberg Businessweek. She is regularly called on by major television networks as a tech expert.

Crystal is the author of the books One Tech Action and The Social Media Why.

Hosted by: Kim Chau, VP & GM of Marketing at Zones

Please welcome Cait Espe and Julie Wagner, our co-hosts for this amazing conversation, as they welcome our guest speaker, Julie C. Bruha, Territory Vice President, Sales, North Central Region of Zones.

Please welcome Cait Espe and Julie Wagner, our co-hosts for this amazing conversation, as they welcome our guest speaker, Emily Ketchen, Chief Marketing Officer of Lenovo's Intelligent Devices Group.