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Juan Perez is responsible for the global IT team, driving digital strategy and the technical integration of newly acquired companies. Juan also leads the Data & Analytics, Global Shared Services, and Office of Transformation functions within Salesforce. As CIO, Juan partners closely with customers to advise on their digital transformations.

Juan joined Salesforce in 2022 from UPS, where he was CIO and Chief Engineering Officer, and a member of the Executive Leadership Team. Juan spent 32 years at UPS, and was a key part of UPS’ adoption of new technologies, including AI, virtual assistants, and virtual reality solutions for driver training.

Dr. Marsha Francis is a nationally recognized educational leader and the Executive Director of STE(A)M Truck, an innovative education nonprofit that offers exciting STEAM-driven learning experiences for youth and educators. With almost two decades of experience, she is dedicated to advancing educational equity and has been nationally recognized as one of Education Week's 2020 District "Leaders to Learn From," as well as featured on PBS's "Roadtrip Nation" series.

As a former elementary teacher, Spelman College faculty member, and district administrator, Dr. Francis brings a wealth of knowledge to her current role, understanding the needs of novice teachers and the importance of equitable learning environments. Dr. Francis collaborates with industry giants like Micron Technology, Nike, PPG, and Amazon to provide high-quality STEAM opportunities through Maker Education for Metro Atlanta's youth.

Beyond her educational endeavors, Dr. Francis is deeply committed to causes supporting women and girls in Atlanta. She actively participates in civic organizations like Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated, Pi Alpha Omega Chapter, Georgia Women’s Policy Institute, and Girls Scouts of Greater Atlanta. As an advocate for gender equity, she has supported innovative girl-specific programs like Girls Going Tech with Micron Technology, Girls Build Solutions through Million Girls Moonshot, and a recently developed partnership with Atlanta Women’s Foundation for "Girls Rising: Powering the Next Women Leaders in STEAM."

Dr. Marsha Francis is a trailblazer in education, uniting her passion for equitable learning, hands-on STEAM experiences, and commitment to gender equity to empower the next generation of leaders and learners.

D’Lovely Gibson is a global, corporate diplomat passionate about building bridges and improving operations between business and technology to drive progress and results. She has over 20 years of experience in operations, planning, delivery and communications for IT, marketing, customer experience and brand teams. She has built a career pioneering enterprise solutions in both government and private sector roles at the Centers for Disease Control, Turner Broadcasting, AIG, IHG and Delta Air Lines. Currently, D’Lovely serves as SVP, Product, D&A and Technology Planning and Execution and is responsible for delivering a $1.5B cloud transformation across 10 business units.

D’Lovely leads with a strong focus on people by playing to their strengths to build momentum, trust and accountability. An advocate for women in technology, D’Lovely is dedicated to increasing the visibility of diverse women in IT professions.

Penny Collins is the President and CEO of Women In Technology (WIT) responsible for the execution of WIT’s strategy while delivering programs and events to promote increasing the number of women and girls in STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts, and math). WIT empowers girls and women to excel in STEAM from the classroom to the boardroom by providing female students in middle school, high school and college with education, exposure and experience. By sharing the stories of successful professionals across the STEAM fields, WIT encourages all generations of girls and women to write their future.

Penny is an experienced multifunctional global technology and business executive with a demonstrated history of building enterprise scale solutions to meet business and technical challenges. She has extensive experience in IT leadership building high performance teams and driving transformational initiatives across multiple industries. Penny has exceptional talent for understanding complex business problems and leading cross functional teams in the development of innovative and effective solutions while maintaining focus on the overall strategic business plans. Penny brings a wealth of experience working across many functional areas and is a thought leader and strategic thinker who is sought after by organizations to challenge the status quo, establish effective organizational structures, and deliver innovative solutions to drive business effectiveness growth.

Penny has a track record of building partnerships from board members to company directors and motivating teams across all levels of the organization. Prior to joining WIT, Penny was the Chief Technology Control Officer for First Data Corporation, Global Lead for Application Disaster Recovery and Head of Global Cyber Security and Controls PMO for the CEO. In addition to all these roles, she served as the global leader for First Data’s Women’s Leadership Council and a solid champion for the organization’s diversity and inclusion programs. Prior to First Data, Collins spent time as a business owner and entrepreneur, was Chief Process and Usability Officer for British Telecom (BT) and has spent her career leading global technology teams. Penny was named as Atlanta Magazine’s 500 Most Powerful Leaders in Atlanta, is the recipient of the Atlanta Magazine’s 2023 Women Making A Mark Award and the recipient of the 2023 Atlanta Hawks’ Forever 404 Honors Award. She was named by Georgia Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan as one of 15 Outstanding Women in Leadership in 2020. Penny also received the United States Women in Payments’ Award in Education in 2019, a 2021 TechBridge Bill Bolling Non-Profit Leader Award Nominee, honored in 2022 by Synchronicity Theatre for her work to uplift the entire community and was recognized by Sheltering Arms as their 2022 Nonprofit Partner of the Year. She is an active member of Kiwanis Club, Atlanta’s non-profit community and is listed in Marquis Whos’ Who in America.

As SVP Software Development for Cotiviti, Anandhi aligns with the overall strategic vision of the company, provides leadership and oversight into new product development, existing platforms, and technology strategy for Payment Integrity solutions. With more than 25 years of industry experience and 13 years in healthcare, she has a background in technology planning, instrumental in driving change and implementing technology strategy in the focus areas of architecture, innovation, process improvement, automation, SAAS and data platforms.

Anandhi and her team are responsible for developing solutions for Payment Integrity, analyzing technology and trends that could improve the company’s products and performance and responsible for long-range direction of Cotiviti’s technology function. Prior to Cotiviti, Anandhi was an Automation lead in Amdocs and Siemens working on Process automation towards streamlined technical delivery.

Gretchen has over 25 years experience progressively advancing and implementing pragmatic solutions to manage cyber risk, including building the cybersecurity and privacy programs from the ground up for a global publicly traded company and leading assessments of information security programs for large organizations following data breaches.

Throughout her career, Gretchen has taken on challenging and complex projects in multiple industries. She started her career working in the litigation support group at a local CPA firm in New Orleans then moved to Atlanta to join PwC, where she focused on IT audit and controls assessments for clients in various industries across the US. She returned to New Orleans to take a position with a Department of Defense contractor, standing up the IT risk management program supporting a variety of the DoD’s complex IT projects and preparing technical responses for large government proposals. After Hurricane Katrina, Gretchen moved back to Atlanta and rejoined PwC, specializing in information security and privacy program assessments for clients who had experienced highly publicized data breaches, developing the firm’s methodology for preventing and responding to breaches of sensitive data, and instructing a national course on data privacy and identity theft. From there, she went to work for Crawford, a global claims management company headquartered in Atlanta, becoming their first CISO, building the information security and privacy programs from the ground up, managing security resources from around the world, reporting to the CEO, and presenting to the Board on cyber issues. Ready for a new and bigger challenge, in 2021 Gretchen joined Randstad, the global leader in the HR services industry, where she is currently the CISO for North America and leads the global Data Security pillar as a member of Randstad’s global security advisory and leadership team.

Gretchen attended Auburn University, where she earned a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration and a Master’s in Accounting Information Systems. She is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) and a Certified Public Accountant (CPA).

Michelle Arlotta Routh is a versatile technology leader with a successful track record in driving business and technology transformation with a deep expertise in digital, data and innovation. Michelle is an External Advisor with Bain & Company. She advises Fortune 500 companies to solve industry defining challenges in business transformation, technology modernization, agile/dev ops operating model adoption and cloud transformation.

Michelle was the Chief Enterprise Architect of The Coca-Cola Company. In this key role of enabling the transformation effort to digitize the company, Michelle drove the development of the global digital strategy, modernized the core technology, and scaled digital capabilities across the business units. Prior to this role, as Chief Information Officer for Coca-Cola North America,  she led the modernization of the marketing technology capability, enabling best in class consumer engagement in a digital marketing world. Michelle also served as Chief Information Officer for CARE USA and led their digital transformation by building core capabilities nascent in the non-profit sector including cyber-security, advanced data analytics/AI and cybersecurity. Additionally, Michelle was a Strategy and Technology Consultant for The North Highland Company and Accenture.

Michelle has focused her career on solving critical business problems through emerging technologies. Her goal of creating a digital business is articulated during her many keynote speaking engagements at global conferences for industry leaders such as Amazon, Google, Salesforce, The Conference Board, NetHope, Accenture and Cap-Gemini.

In Alisia Genzler's current role, she oversees a $1.4 billion business with more than 1,000 employees in over 50 locations. With a focus on a customer-centric culture and corporate strategy, Alisia maximizes acquisition, retention, and profitability as she oversees the sales, recruiting and federal businesses.

Alisia is a Staffing Industry Analysts 2022 Global Power 150 Women in Staffing, she has worked to increase the representation of women in technology roles and is a proud member of the Randstad U.S. Executive Diversity Council. Additionally, she is involved with Randstad’s global projects to develop and execute best practices, including participation in an executive Transformational Leadership Program. Alisia graduated from Marquette University with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Finance as well as a Bachelor of Business Administration in Finance and Financial Management Services.