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Dr. Cherice Roth

Chief Veterinary Officer, Digital Pet Health
Mars Veterinary Health

Dr. Cherice Roth

Chief Veterinary Officer, Digital Pet Health
Mars Veterinary Health

Dr. Cherice Roth

Chief Veterinary Officer, Digital Pet Health
Mars Veterinary Health

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Alex Singla

Senior Partner & Global Leader
QuantumBlack, AI by McKinsey

Alex is a senior partner with the firm’s Chicago office and coleads QuantumBlack, AI by McKinsey, globally. He helps companies transform by deploying digital and data and analytics solutions and ensuring these solutions go from pilot to full-scale adoption and scaling.

He passionately embeds change management and capability building as core elements to every transformation to ensure sustainable and step-change improvements in growth, effectiveness, cost, and customer experience.

In his nearly 25 years with McKinsey, Alex has advised clients on several topics, including strategy, digital and analytics, enterprise transformation, service operations, distribution, end-to-end customer journeys, technology, risk assessment, warranty and claims, marketing, and cost.

Examples of Alex’s recent client work include the following:

  • leading an effort to reimagine the homeowner insurance market, using analytics and digital to improve the customer experience, cycle time, and growth, and fully deploying all solutions to nearly 2,000 outbound customer-care agents
  • leading an analytics and operations transformation to improve product quality, warranty costs, customer experience, and market share for a Fortune-200 heavy industrial company, and deploying the solutions to approximately 500 customer-facing sales and service representatives who utilize the analytic insights daily
  • working with a leading life insurer on a holistic enterprise transformation that included developing a multiyear strategy, reimagining and digitizing the core customer end-to-end journeys through analytics, and instituting a growth-and-operations frontline transformation to double earnings within five years
  • leading a frontline sales and analytics transformation from pilot to a national launch with frontline capability building and performance management of more than 2000 field and inside-sales agents, resulting in increased sales and margins

Outside of work, Alex enjoys spending time with his wife and three children. He is a member of the board of trustees of Shedd Aquarium in Chicago, and a member of the Council of Governors of the American India Foundation. Also, he is a guest mentor for innovative technology startups who are accepted into the Creative Destruction Lab program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

https://www.mckinsey.com/our-people/alex-singla

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Alex Singla

Senior Partner & Global Leader
QuantumBlack, AI by McKinsey

Alex is a senior partner with the firm’s Chicago office and coleads QuantumBlack, AI by McKinsey, globally. He helps companies transform by deploying digital and data and analytics solutions and ensuring these solutions go from pilot to full-scale adoption and scaling.

He passionately embeds change management and capability building as core elements to every transformation to ensure sustainable and step-change improvements in growth, effectiveness, cost, and customer experience.

In his nearly 25 years with McKinsey, Alex has advised clients on several topics, including strategy, digital and analytics, enterprise transformation, service operations, distribution, end-to-end customer journeys, technology, risk assessment, warranty and claims, marketing, and cost.

Examples of Alex’s recent client work include the following:

  • leading an effort to reimagine the homeowner insurance market, using analytics and digital to improve the customer experience, cycle time, and growth, and fully deploying all solutions to nearly 2,000 outbound customer-care agents
  • leading an analytics and operations transformation to improve product quality, warranty costs, customer experience, and market share for a Fortune-200 heavy industrial company, and deploying the solutions to approximately 500 customer-facing sales and service representatives who utilize the analytic insights daily
  • working with a leading life insurer on a holistic enterprise transformation that included developing a multiyear strategy, reimagining and digitizing the core customer end-to-end journeys through analytics, and instituting a growth-and-operations frontline transformation to double earnings within five years
  • leading a frontline sales and analytics transformation from pilot to a national launch with frontline capability building and performance management of more than 2000 field and inside-sales agents, resulting in increased sales and margins

Outside of work, Alex enjoys spending time with his wife and three children. He is a member of the board of trustees of Shedd Aquarium in Chicago, and a member of the Council of Governors of the American India Foundation. Also, he is a guest mentor for innovative technology startups who are accepted into the Creative Destruction Lab program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

https://www.mckinsey.com/our-people/alex-singla

 

Steve Huffman

Co-Founder & CEO
Reddit

Steve Huffman is Co-Founder and CEO of Reddit, an online community of communities. Raised in northern Virginia, Huffman pursued his passion for programming from an early age and followed it through a computer science degree at the University of Virginia. He and his college roommate pitched their first start-up to Y Combinator in 2005, but their initial idea was rejected in favour of building Reddit. After selling the company in 2006, Huffman co-founded the travel company Hipmunk and served as Chief Technology Officer.

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Steve Huffman

Co-Founder & CEO
Reddit

Steve Huffman

Co-Founder & CEO
Reddit

Steve Huffman is Co-Founder and CEO of Reddit, an online community of communities. Raised in northern Virginia, Huffman pursued his passion for programming from an early age and followed it through a computer science degree at the University of Virginia. He and his college roommate pitched their first start-up to Y Combinator in 2005, but their initial idea was rejected in favour of building Reddit. After selling the company in 2006, Huffman co-founded the travel company Hipmunk and served as Chief Technology Officer. Huffman returned to Reddit as CEO in 2015 where he has led the company through international expansion, sweeping updates to the platform’s Content Policy, and a full site redesign, while also growing Reddit’s users and communities. In addition to his leadership at Reddit, Huffman is a mentor at Hackbright Academy, a San Francisco-based coding school for women. In his free time, he enjoys skiing, dancing, and browsing r/WholesomeMemes.

 

Steve Huffman

Co-Founder & CEO
Reddit

Steve Huffman is Co-Founder and CEO of Reddit, an online community of communities. Raised in northern Virginia, Huffman pursued his passion for programming from an early age and followed it through a computer science degree at the University of Virginia. He and his college roommate pitched their first start-up to Y Combinator in 2005, but their initial idea was rejected in favour of building Reddit. After selling the company in 2006, Huffman co-founded the travel company Hipmunk and served as Chief Technology Officer.

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Steve Huffman

Co-Founder & CEO
Reddit

Steve Huffman

Co-Founder & CEO
Reddit

Steve Huffman is Co-Founder and CEO of Reddit, an online community of communities. Raised in northern Virginia, Huffman pursued his passion for programming from an early age and followed it through a computer science degree at the University of Virginia. He and his college roommate pitched their first start-up to Y Combinator in 2005, but their initial idea was rejected in favour of building Reddit. After selling the company in 2006, Huffman co-founded the travel company Hipmunk and served as Chief Technology Officer. Huffman returned to Reddit as CEO in 2015 where he has led the company through international expansion, sweeping updates to the platform’s Content Policy, and a full site redesign, while also growing Reddit’s users and communities. In addition to his leadership at Reddit, Huffman is a mentor at Hackbright Academy, a San Francisco-based coding school for women. In his free time, he enjoys skiing, dancing, and browsing r/WholesomeMemes.

 

Vanessa Moldovan, CRCR, CPC, CPB, CPMA, CPPM, CPC-I

CEO & Founder
For the Love of Revenue Cycle

Vanessa Moldovan, CEO and founder of For the Love of Revenue Cycle (FTLORC), is a trusted expert in healthcare revenue cycle management with over 20 years of experience. Specializing in denial management, accounts receivable, and strategic optimization, she helps organizations prevent revenue leakage and achieve sustainable growth. Vanessa also advises healthcare SaaS companies, enhancing product-market fit, sales, and operational excellence.

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Vanessa Moldovan, CRCR, CPC, CPB, CPMA, CPPM, CPC-I

CEO & Founder
For the Love of Revenue Cycle

Vanessa Moldovan, CRCR, CPC, CPB, CPMA, CPPM, CPC-I

CEO & Founder
For the Love of Revenue Cycle

Vanessa Moldovan, CEO and founder of For the Love of Revenue Cycle (FTLORC), is a trusted expert in healthcare revenue cycle management with over 20 years of experience. Specializing in denial management, accounts receivable, and strategic optimization, she helps organizations prevent revenue leakage and achieve sustainable growth. Vanessa also advises healthcare SaaS companies, enhancing product-market fit, sales, and operational excellence.


As the creator of the For the Love of Revenue Cycle podcast and leader of a thriving Facebook community, Vanessa is dedicated to transforming the revenue cycle through education and standardization.

 

Doug Kulka

CIO & CTO
Tyson Foods

Doug Kulka serves on the enterprise leadership team as the Chief Information & Technology Officer for Tyson Foods. He is responsible for leading technology operations, cyber, cloud infrastructure, enterprise platforms and plant automation.  Doug oversees the use of technology to drive innovation and business growth at Tyson Foods. He has more than 25 years of global experience, driving innovative technology and business solutions at scale for Fortune 500 companies.

As a member of Tyson Foods’ enterprise leadership team, Doug reports to President and CEO, Donnie King.

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Doug Kulka

CIO & CTO
Tyson Foods

Doug Kulka

CIO & CTO
Tyson Foods

Doug Kulka serves on the enterprise leadership team as the Chief Information & Technology Officer for Tyson Foods. He is responsible for leading technology operations, cyber, cloud infrastructure, enterprise platforms and plant automation.  Doug oversees the use of technology to drive innovation and business growth at Tyson Foods. He has more than 25 years of global experience, driving innovative technology and business solutions at scale for Fortune 500 companies.

As a member of Tyson Foods’ enterprise leadership team, Doug reports to President and CEO, Donnie King.

Doug joined Tyson Foods in 2017 as vice president of enabling functions to drive innovation and technology adoption across Finance, Human Resources, Legal, Sales, and Sustainability. In this role, he led successful implementations of enterprise platforms, including Blacksmith/Forge, Enablon, SAP S/4, Sugar CRM, and Workday to enable digital business functions. In 2020 he was asked to build our ‘follow the sun’ shared services organization that today delivers the UX design, development, testing, and application support capabilities across the company.

Before joining Tyson Foods, Doug held senior leadership roles at Hewlett Packard (HP) leading global regulatory compliance. During his 10-year career with HP, Doug held multiple senior global leadership roles including a two-year expatriate assignment in Sao Paulo, Brazil as the leader for emerging countries and member of the Brazil leadership team. He has extensive experience in corporate carve-outs as demonstrated by successfully leading the design, testing, and cutover for the $8.8 billion sale of HP’s software business to Micro Focus International.

Doug holds a Bachelor of Science in finance with a strength in computer science from the University of Connecticut.

 

 

Claire Fowler

Head of Global Strategic Marketing
Boehringer Ingelheim

After completing a degree in Veterinary Medicine at Cambridge University in 2002, her first professional experience was working in clinical veterinary practice before joining Boehringer Ingelheim in 2005. She subsequently completed an MBA at London Business School.

 

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Claire Fowler

Head of Global Strategic Marketing
Boehringer Ingelheim

Claire Fowler

Head of Global Strategic Marketing
Boehringer Ingelheim

After completing a degree in Veterinary Medicine at Cambridge University in 2002, her first professional experience was working in clinical veterinary practice before joining Boehringer Ingelheim in 2005. She subsequently completed an MBA at London Business School.

 

In Boehringer Ingelheim she has held positions at a local, regional and global level across business management, marketing and technical functions, mainly in Animal Health. This includes senior leadership roles such as the responsibility for the Boehringer Ingelheim Italian animal health subsidiary, and most recently for the overall commercial performance of the region encompassing Europe and Canada.  She also spent some time in Consumer Health Care as Category lead in global marketing.

 

Claire was appointed Head of Global Strategic Marketing in January 2025 and became a member of the Executive Committee of the Animal Health Business Unit at Boehringer.