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Barb Reilly is a Managing Director at Arnold Worldwide where she�s worked for 17 years. During this time, she�s run a large group of accounts overseeing all integrating marketing for many retail banks including RBS/Citizens Bank, Huntington Bank, Santander and National Bank Holdings- Bank Midwest and Hillcrest.� Outside of banking she�s run Vertex Pharmaceuticals and led the charge for the much-talked-about JetBlue Airways for their first 2 years in operation. In addition, at Arnold and at Houston Effler Herstek Favat, Barb�s worked on breakthrough campaigns for the anti-smoking businesses, starting with the Massachusetts Department of Public Health Anti-Smoking account, the FDA Anti-Tobacco business which then led to the Truth account win.� These �Movement� campaigns were some of the first of their kind in the country, and more importantly, have proven to reduce smoking rates and save lives. � She�s worked on a variety of other brands throughout her career, such as Ocean Spray Cranberries, Gillette, Silk Soy Milk, Fairwinds Gourmet Coffee, Talbots, Paramount Pictures and Cadillac. Reilly co-created Women�s Insights, a group at Arnold dedicated to understanding the role women have influencing the purchase of products and services.�As part of this effort, she worked with brands like Jones New York and VW.� The Women�s Insight Team worked with Katie Couric, then on the Today Show, to promote awareness of colorectal cancer among women, increasing screenings by 20%.She also has helped to create the agency�s InsideOut Marketing Practice, which helps brands maximize their external efforts by strengthening internal communications and brand delivery. She's worked on programs for clients like Strayer University, Huntington Bank and Santander.� She also heads up all the philanthropy work at Arnold, �Arnold Gives Back�.Barb was recently named one of Boston�s Top 100 Most Admired Women and BBJ�s Women of Influence 2013.Over the years, she and her team are the recipients of multiple awards including:Emmy, EFFIES, Cannes Lion, Hatch Awards and Addys.She�s been Chairman of the Board of the AdClub. She has guest taught at Babson College�s Graduate School of Management and sits on the American Marketing Association�s EFFIE Steering Committee. She is on the Board of Crescent Ridge Dairy, the American Heart Association�s GO RED for Women and the Mass General Hospital�s �Mission Gratitude�.She hails from Boston, but claims she lost the accent when she attended American University in DC. She came back up to Boston again to �work by day and attend school by night� to pursue her B.S in Business Communications at Northeastern University. She�s a proud wife and mom to two beautiful girls. Barb is an avid skier and a not-so-good golfer. She is most commonly heard saying �Life is good�.�

Jeff is the Senior Director of Digital Strategy for Merkle, a member of the digital strategy leadership team, and serves as the digital leader for Merkle�s Banking and Financial Services group.In his current role, Jeff is responsible for understanding client business objectives and opportunities, and developing solutions to achieve them.� Working across digital marketing, digital media, social, mobile, email and other channels, Jeff leads teams to design and deploy customer experiences that yield both brand and financial impact.Prior to joining Merkle, Jeff held senior marketing and technology leadership positions at PNC, GlaxoSmithKline, HJ Heinz, and Mylan.� During this time he worked in both B2C and B2B roles, building digital brands, services and solutions.Jeff holds both MBA and MS degrees from Duquesne University, in Pittsburgh PA, USA� ��

Rogan Vleming is Senior Director of Decision Sciences at Scotiabank and has over 17 years of experience in strategic business analysis within the Canadian banking industry.� His professional experience covers the development of financial and predictive models, as well as the design and implementation of technology solutions.� Rogan specializes in a variety of banking analytical topics, including pricing, revenue optimization, asset liability management, funds transfer pricing, interest rate risk, forecasting, predictive modeling, credit risk strategy, behavioral segmentation, campaign analytics, retail distribution strategy, etc.Rogan holds an MBA in Finance and a B.Eng. in Mechanical Engineering, both from McMaster University.

Jim DeLapa is the CEO of Kiran Analytics.�Kiran drives intelligent branch transformation for retail banks through the application of predictive analytics. Since 2006, DeLapa has led the effort to transform the company from a specialty consulting firm to a leading software solution provider. Kiran�s core products include analytics based software solutions for strategic resource planning, talent acquisition, labor forecasting and scheduling.� Under DeLapa�s leadership, usage of the company�s software products has grown to over 10,000 bank branches in the US and UK.�

Chantel S. Chase is a Vice President and the manager of Zions Bank�s Women�s Financial Group. She has worked in the banking industry since 1999. �She originally started as a teller and has risen up through the ranks, holding various key positions in both private banking and at the branch level. Recently, Chantel was part of a team of prominent bankers at Zions Bank who were recognized in New York City for the third time by American Banker Magazine for their 2011, 2012 and 2013 Top Banking Team award! �In 2012 she was recognized at the Davis Chamber�s annual gala with the Chamber Advocate award.Chantel is an active member of the community and she has served as Chairman of both the Davis Chamber of Commerce Executive Board and their Board of Governors.� Her past community involvement and participation includes:� Bountiful Rotary, Bountiful Davis Arts Council, Davis Reads Advisory Board, the Davis County Commissioners Gala Committee, the Women in Business Board of Directors, as well as Children�s Justice Center Advisory and Friends Board. Chantel has been featured by the Standard Examiner in the �Hers� section and has also acted as a facilitator for Dave Ramsey�s Financial Peace University.� She was a weekly guest of Fox 13 television for �Your Money Monday�. �Chantel has a long standing history of participating in many community events and outreach programs including, �Teach a Child to Save� and �Get Smart about credit� where she partners with local schools to teach the importance of financial education.Chantel is married to Doug Chase, and is the proud mother of two very awesome boys. She enjoys spending time with her family, vacationing anywhere there is sunshine, reading, hiking and bicycling. She lives by the advice of Sir Winston Churchill who said, �We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give�.

Dr. Michael Wu is the Chief Scientist at Lithium, where he currently applies data-driven methodologies to investigate the complex dynamics of the social web. Michael works with big data and has developed many predictive and prescriptive social analytics with actionable insights. His R&D won him the recognition as a 2010 Influential Leader by CRM Magazine. In addition to purely empirical methods, Michael also leverages social principles that govern human behavior to decipher the intricate human components of social interactions.Michael believes in knowledge dissemination, and speaks internationally at universities, conferences, and enterprises. His insights are made accessible through �The Science of Social,� and �The Science of Social 2��two easy-reading e-books for business audience. Prior to industry, Michael received his triple major undergraduate degree in Applied Math, Physics, and Molecular & Cell Biology; and his Ph.D. from UC Berkeley�s Biophysics program, where he studied visual processing within the human brain.

Parin Kothari is an experienced management consultant who works with macro-level strategic models, architecting the building blocks for a business that can withstand and monetize changes in the broader socio-economic environment. His focus is on the opportunities and disruption created by maturity in technologies. Parin started his career at the Boston Consulting Group in South Asia and was instrumental in establishing the business architecture practice at Wells Fargo Bank�s Internet Services Group. Today, he is at TD Bank�s North American Digital Channels organization driving product strategy, business architecture and operational maturity. Parin is also active in the community and works on education projects with several not-for-profit organizations.

Joseph Lubin�s career has involved various posts in the fields of technology and finance and in their intersection. �Subsequent to graduating�cum laude�with a degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Princeton, he worked at Princeton and then at Vision Applications, Inc., a private research firm, in the fields of autonomous mobile robotics, machine vision and artificial neural networks. �His next project was the development of an autonomous music composition tool with tomandandy music. Joseph worked as a software engineer and consultant on various projects, eventually being tipped for the role of Director of the New York office of Blacksmith, a Virginia-based software consulting firm. �Software engineering, finance and cryptography were central during employment with Goldman Sachs, eMagine�s consulting work on the Identrus project, and the operation of a set of hedge funds run with a partner. �Switching gears, Joseph moved to Kingston, Jamaica to assist in the development of a friend�s music career. �Two years into the music project, Joseph was asked to join Ethereum.

Bill Loftus joined RMA in July 2013 as Director of Credit Risk after a 27 year banking career.� At RMA, Bill is responsible for running many of the association�s credit-themed Round Tables which serve senior management at its member banks.� In addition to the over 40 round tables that his group runs, Bill also chairs and produces RMA�s Annual Risk Management Conference, which routinely draws over 600 bankers per year from across the US and Canada.Prior to joining RMA, Bill was a SVP and Business Banking Manager for Wells Fargo Bank in Plymouth Meeting, PA. Bill has had experience managing and working in the Business Banking space for 14 years.� Prior to joining Wells Fargo and its predecessor banks, Bill was a government contracts lender and auto floor plan lender in the Northern Virginia market.� Bill holds his MBA from Virginia Tech and a BA in Economics from John Carroll University.