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Latest NewsNathan Bricklin is SVP and Head of Social Strategy for the Wholesale Services Group at Wells Fargo. He is responsible for managing the Wholesale Groups social media efforts and has spent the last year and a half helping Wells Fargo define its team member internal collaboration strategy, policies and tactics. His team is responsible for developing strategies that help Wholesale eam members use social business process and social media tools to advance internal collaboration, reduce operating costs, increase sales and accelerate innovation.Nathan has been a Wells Fargo team member for 23 years, spending his first eleven years in the Consumer bank and the past twelve in Wholesale. Prior to his current role, Nathan was part of the team that launched the Commercial Electronic Office® customer portal, and he led the Internet and Intranet customer experience teams for more than 10 years. During his tenure at Wells Nathan has run the Consumer Deposit Group, The Discount Brokerage Business and the Premier Banking high-value customer team.Nathan frequently represents Wells Fargo at Social Media and Enterprise Collaboration conferences as well as at Colleges & Universities. Nathan holds an MBA from the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley and a bachelor's degree from Babson College. He is a founder and current Board member of The CREEK Youth Center in Walnut Creek, CA and is a mentor at BUILDa youth business incubator for disengaged high school studentsin Oakland, CA.
Jason Blumer is the founder of Thriveal and the chief innovative officer of his CPA firm, Blumer & Associates. He is the co-host of the Thrivecast and The Businessology Show and speaks and writes frequently for CPAs and creatives, his firm’s chosen niche. He loves to watch documentaries on just about anything. He lives in Greenville, South Carolina with his wife and their three children.
Mr. Donius works as a Strategist for Endeavor Management. His book,�Thought Revolution: How to Unlock Your Inner Genius,�published in March 2012, made several best seller lists, including the New York Times and Wall Street Journal. He spent twenty years as a banker, including his role as CEO of Pulaski Bank and was appointed to a two-year term on the U.S. Federal Reserve Board TIAC in 2008.�
Originally from Sarajevo, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Damir was previously a cofounder/president of Auragen Communications, one of the leading interactive agencies in the Northeast. He also has an MBA from the William E. Simon Graduate School of Business at the University of Rochester. Damir provides strategic leadership and technology consulting for our clients, backed by over 15 years of digital marketing experience. He likes to learn as much as he can about our clients so that he can apply the best practices for delivering top results. Damir is also one of the cofounders of Digital Rochester, Rochesters premier networking organization for technology people. Digital Rochester has several thousand members and is an emerging force in the areas political and economic landscapes.
Jon Witter is president of Retail and Direct Banking at Capital One Bank. In this role, Jon provides strategic direction and leadership for the Retail and Direct Banking organization. He is responsible for more than 14,000 Retail and Direct Banking associates, nearly 1,000 branch and office locations, and 2,200 ATMs in California, Connecticut, Delaware, Louisiana, Maryland, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Texas, Virginia, Washington and Washington, D.C. He reports to Rich Fairbank, Capital Ones chairman and CEO. He also serves as the company's Mid-Atlantic regional president. Jon is a seasoned financial services executive with more than 20 years of experience building profitable products, channels and businesses in the consumer and wholesale financial service sectors.His deep management consulting background comes from serving two years at Deloitte & Touche Consulting Group and later six years as an associate principal at McKinsey & Company, where he specialized in banks, financial services and insurance clients. During this time, Jon focused on a diverse base of large, medium and small banks, insurance companies and other financial services institutions across a wide variety of disciplines.From McKinsey & Company, Jon served as executive vice president and head of general bank distribution at Wachovia. In this capacity, he led Wachovias non-branch distribution channels (phone, ATM, Internet). In addition, Jon led the deposit and retail credit product teams that managed product features, functionality, services and profitability. He also led the companys branch and network management function that played a major role in new market entries in Texas and California.Following Wachovia, Jon served as managing director and president of Morgan Stanley Private Bank NA and Chief Operating Officer of Morgan Stanleys Retail Banking Group. In this role, Jon was accountable for the strategic direction and overall success of the business, including day-to-day leadership over product management, mortgage, information technology, operations and CRA.Jon received a M.B.A. from the Wharton School of Business, where he was recognized as a Palmer Scholar. He received his B.A. magna cum laude from Vanderbilt University in Economics.Jon has served as vice chairman of finance for the Charlotte Symphony and sits on the Queens University of Charlotte, McColl School of Business Advisory Committee. He resides in Washington, D.C., with his family.
Megan C. Minich is head of product development and channel delivery for Silicon Valley Bank, a member company of SVB Financial Group. In this role she is responsible for leading the development and management of cash management products for SVB. She also is responsible for setting the global strategy for delivery of all of SVB products and services through online banking, mobile and client-direct channels.Prior to joining SVB, Minich was a senior vice president for Wells Fargo Bank, where her most recent responsibilities included the delivery of all products and services through the Commercial Electronic Office� (CEO) portal and the CEO Mobile service. During her tenure at Wells Fargo, she held roles in product management, strategy and planning, and new product development. She previously worked for Accenture (then Andersen Consulting).Minich earned her Master in Business Administration from the Haas School of Business, at the University of California, Berkeley, and a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from Princeton University. She is on the board of directors for Girl Ventures, a non-profit agency based in San Francisco with the mission of empowering adolescent girls to develop and express their strengths.
Steve is responsible for developing the firm�s intellectual capital and leading cg42�s major client relationships. Steve has twenty years of management consulting experience. Most recently, he was the Chief Strategy Officer for Organic, a leading Digital Agency. Prior to Organic, he was the Co-CEO and CSO of FutureBrand, a leading global brand consultancy. He has also held leadership positions at both Marketing Corporation of America and Deloitte & Touche Management Consulting. Steve has helped the senior executive teams of many world-class companies successfully address their most pressing business challenges, including: Microsoft, IBM, MasterCard Worldwide, GE, Intel, Mitsubishi UFJ, Nestl�, Teva Pharmaceuticals, Northrop Grumman, and many more.Steve�s perspectives on how organizations can drive growth have been featured in the Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Forbes, Time, CNN, Fox Business, and CNBC.
Best selling author and global brand evangelist, Simon Hammond, has become a phenomenon in Australia by challenging and then reinventing many of the countrys major brands, setting them for growth in recessionary periods, using his ground breaking methodology, Be Branding. he is one of Australias most sought after keynote speakers and commentators on branding, consumer behavior and his unique social insights. Simon has written three books on branding and society, guts, Be Brands and CEO of earth. since his days as a reporter, he has been observing and interpreting consumer behavior in all parts of society. Hammonds social insights program sins has created new thinking within Australian business with cornerstone sins such as Anonymous intimacy, Meism and illusion of sophistication becoming the basis for many key brand reinventions.







