The Alliance of Chief Executives brings CEOs together. In order to allow our members to interact with other successful CEOs, we are proud to have had the following Keynote Speakers share their experiences with us. For media and public relations questions, contact us.
A recording of the “Future of Health & Healthcare" Alliance Roundtable can be accessed by clicking HERE. The “Future of Health & Healthcare” Alliance Roundtable was the sixth of our “Visionary Leaders” Series where we bring leaders together to share their visions, and debate how the future will evolve. Prior to breaking into smaller groups for our interactive discussions, Alliance Founder & CEO Paul Witkay moderated a panel discussion with the following leaders: Amir Dan Rubin, CEO of One Medical; Ash Zenooz, CEO of Commure; Freddie Bowie, CFO of Eikon Therapeutics; Jeffrey Margolis, Sr. Advisor of Blackstone Healthcare Industry; Maria Freire, former President of FNIH; Mary Rozenman, CFO/CBO of insitro; Mathai Mammen, CEO of FogPharma; and Rachel Haurwitz, CEO of Caribou Biosciences.
Read MoreDuring our August 2023 Alliance of Chief Executives Roundtables, Alliance Director Jim Cook, Cal Lai of AskVet, Kat Orekhova of Vareto, and Andrew Antos of Klarity, orchestrated an enlightening deep-dive into AI, sharing fresh insights on What CEOs Need To Know About AI. A recording can be accessed by clicking HERE.
Read MoreDuring this Alliance of Chief Executives Roundtable, we discussed the value of Advisory Boards and how to create a high-performance board. Prior to breaking into smaller groups for our interactive discussions, Alliance Founder & CEO Paul Witkay moderated a panel discussion with the following leaders: Louise Broekman and Renee Lahti of Advisory Board Centre, Jim MacDonald, CEO of R.F. MacDonald & Company, and Lena Wu, former CEO of Intabio.
Panelist Louise Broekman was kind enough to share her slide deck with us, which you can access HERE. A recording of this Roundtable discussion can be accessed by clicking HERE.
Read MoreFollowing the Silicon Valley Bank closure by the FDC on Friday, March 10th, our Alliance community immediately began sharing up-to-date information and recommendations. Now that the FDIC has stepped in to protect all deposits and SVB appears to be back in operation, we held an Alliance of CEOs Roundtable to discuss what we can learn from this latest “black swan” event and take appropriate actions to address any current and future potential risks to our organizations. Alliance Director Jim Cook led off the discussion by a conversation with Chris Stedman, Head of Technology Corporate Banking for SVB and then shared his “Crisis Communication Playbook” for leaders who are dealing with this latest “shockwave.” (click HERE for his slide deck). We ended with a Q&A session with our attendees. Jim is one of Silicon Valley’s most respected and experienced CFOs with experience from Intuit, Netflix, Mozilla and others.
Read MoreA recording of the “Future of the Built Environment" Alliance Roundtable can be accessed by clicking HERE. The “Future of the Built Environment” Alliance Roundtable was the fifth of our “Visionary Leaders” Series where we bring leaders together to share their visions, and debate how the future will evolve. Prior to breaking into smaller groups for our interactive discussions, Alliance Founder & CEO Paul Witkay moderated a panel discussion with the following leaders to discuss how the changes in our built environment will impact our lives in the future: Rahul Bammi of View, Jessica Carps of Skyline Enterprises, David Gensler, former CEO of Gensler Architects, Kevin Kujawski of Menlo Equity, Jane Macfarlane of The Institute of Transportation Studies at UC Berkeley, Jes Pedersen of Webcor Builders, and Jeff Sprau of Legence.
Read MoreOur September 27/28 Alliance Keystone Leadership Roundtable brought CEOs together from 12 different countries and 6 continents to reflect on the wonderous “learning lab” of nature, the impact Keystone leaders have on others, and the tracks they leave for others to follow. You can find resources from this discussion here.
Read MoreA recording of the “Future of Transportation & Mobility" Alliance Roundtable can be accessed by clicking HERE. The “Future of Transportation & Mobility” Alliance Roundtable was the fourth of our “Visionary Leaders” Series where we bring leaders together to share their visions, and debate how the future will evolve. Prior to breaking into smaller groups for our interactive discussions, Alliance Founder & CEO Paul Witkay moderated a panel discussion with the following leaders who are building our transportation systems of the future: Gary Gysin of Wisk Aero, Stefan Heck of Nauto, Mark Joseph of Mobitas Advisors, Jane Macfarlane of The Institute of Transportation Studies at UC Berkeley, Dragos Maciuca of Meta Reality Labs, Tekedra Mawakana of Waymo, Peter Murley of Aluminium Revolutionary Chassis Company, Arwed Niestroj of Sakuu, and former Deloitte Managing Director, Future of Mobility & Smart Logistics Leader Rasheq Zarif.
Read MoreA recording of the “Future of Energy & Environment” Alliance Roundtable can be accessed by clicking HERE. The “Future of Energy & Environment” Alliance Roundtable was the third of our “Visionary Leaders” Series where we bring leaders together to share their visions, and debate how the future will evolve. Prior to breaking into smaller groups for our interactive discussions, Alliance Director Reyad Fezzani, Chairman & CEO of Regenerate Power, moderated a panel discussion with the following leaders: Atul Arya of IHS Markit, Iain Conn of Blackstone, Gary Dirks of Carbon Collect, Raffi Garabedian of Electric Hydrogen, Klaus Lackner of The Center for Negative Carbon Emissions, and Laurence Mulliez of Siemens Energy .
Read MoreA recording of the “Future of Food & Agriculture” Alliance Roundtable can be accessed by clicking HERE. The “Future of Food & Agriculture” Alliance Roundtable was the second of our “Visionary Leaders” Series where we bring leaders together to share their visions, and debate how the future will evolve. Prior to breaking into smaller groups for our interactive discussions, Alliance Founder & CEO Paul Witkay moderated a panel discussion with the following leaders: Jackie Applegate of Bayer, Wade Barnes of Farmers Edge, Mike Borel of The Context Network, former CEO of Corteva Agriscience Jim Collins, Rob Dongoski of Ernst & Young, Jim Flatt of Brightseed, and Jugveer Randhawa of Compass Digital Labs.
Read MoreA recording of the “Future of Health & Healthcare” Alliance Roundtable can be accessed by clicking HERE. This was the first of our “Visionary Leaders” Series where we bring leaders together to share their visions, and debate how the future will evolve. Prior to breaking into smaller groups for interactive discussions, Alliance alumnus Walter Moos of Pandect Bioventures moderated a panel discussion with the following leaders: Rachel Haurwitz of Caribou Biosciences, William Jeffrey of SRI International, Ted Love of Global Blood Therapeutics, Mathai Mammen of J&J, John Murphy of Virtual Incision, Amir Dan Rubin of One Medical, and Joseph Wu of Stanford Cardiovascular Institute.
Read MoreLoretta Hillberry, VP of Human Resources for Triple Ring Technologies provided her strategies for enabling employees to work in their scientific laboratory environments in San Francisco and Boston.
Read MoreMario Ochoa, VP, Corporate Real Estate, Facilities & Employee Services for Flex, described how they are addressing the unique challenges within their global manufacturing facilities.
Read MoreGreg Chauhan, SVP of Safety & Field Operations for Webcor Builders, told us about how they are enabling their workers to work safely in the construction industry.
Read MoreTerese Kemble, Corporate VP of Human Resources for Lattice Semiconductor, discussed her strategies for dealing with the wide range of employee issues related to returning employees to their workplaces.
Read MoreA graduate of MIT, an ex-P&G branding expert and a former political activist, Scott Seidewitz has never shied away from challenging the conventional wisdom. With a sharp business perspective and deep understanding of market research best practices, Scott specializes in showing how conventional research often stifles innovation and growth. He offers business leaders provocative new approaches to using customer insights to drive business results. One of the key areas where Scott has innovated is in applying the science of memory and motivation to marketing.
Read MoreAt our February 21st East Bay Regional Meeting, in the spirit of sharing the awesome collective wisdom of our Alliance community, we were treated to outstanding examples of the extraordinary wisdom and experience of our community of Alliance members as four members presented their “Alliance Voices." We heard from Alliance members Anu Shultes, CEO of LendUp Global; Dave Dutton, CEO of MDC Vacuum Products; Dennis Heath, Founding Principal of MBH Architects; and Hugh Coppen of Winning Leadership.
Read MoreEamonn Kelly, author of "Powerful Times" and Chief Futurist of Deloitte, advises senior leadership at leading corporations across multiple sectors, key global and national public agencies, as well as major philanthropic foundations. He also develops and delivers programs to help current and future leaders acquire the knowledge, judgment and skills required to succeed in a complex and unpredictable future. Prior to joining Deloitte, Eamonn served as CEO of Global Business Network (GBN), the pioneering scenario planning consultancy and futures think-tank where he led GBN's thought leadership about the future and the development of insights, tools and methodologies for mastering change and uncertainty.
Read MoreSam Gilliland is CEO of Cherwell Software. For nearly a decade, Sam led more than 10,000 employees in 60 countries as chairman and CEO of travel industry technology giant Sabre Corporation and Travelocity.com. Under U.S. President Barack Obama, Sam served on the President’s Management Advisory Board and on the Energy Security Leadership Council. He also served as chair of the U.S. Commerce Department’s Travel and Tourism Advisory Board.
Read MoreAlden Mills is the author of "Unstoppable Teams." As an OlympicFestival rower, Alden went on to become a standout at the US Naval Academy, then a Navy SEAL platoon commander, then an entrepreneur. He founded and grew Perfect Fitness from zero to $63M in sales, becoming the fastest growing consumer company in America.
Read MoreJohn Bates is one of the most prolific TED-format trainers in the world, John has been privileged to get to know and work with many accomplished executives. In his work John noticed that when people first take the stage, pitch new clients or take on a new role, they first try to "establish their credibility." However, John asserts that in most of these situations, credibility is already assumed; you have the business card, you were given the stage or the opportunity… and trying to establish credibility on top of that merely serves to tarnish it. In a profound experience, John realized that what truly matters in these instances is not establishing your credibility, but rather, establishing your “Emotional Credibility™" John will join us to discuss this number one leadership and influence tool and how to wield it effectively.
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