Mark Stiving
Advisor and Chief Pricing Educator, Impact Pricing
Mark is a pricing expert who helps companies understand value, how to create it, communicate it and capture it. He has a PhD from U.C. Berkeley and an MBA from Santa Clara University, plus 25+ years pricing experience. As an educator, speaker and coach, Mark applies innovative, value-based pricing strategies to guide growth and increase profits for large and small companies.
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Saleem Sufi
Global Strategic CFO
Saleem is a CFO Leadership Coach and Strategy Expert with more than 20 years CFO level experience working for top world class Fortune 500 and Private Equity owned companies in Asia Pacific, Middle East, Europe and United States. He is the Founder and President of MECA CFO Academy where he leads the Senior Finance Community with an entire focus on leadership development and career growth.
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John Thackeray
Chief Risk & Compliance Policy Writer, RiskInk
John Thackeray is the founder and CEO of RiskInk. helps firms control their risks by developing their risk/compliance narrative through policy, program and procedural writing. Over his long career, he has held many risk positions, including CRO posts where he interacted and engaged with US and European regulators. John is a frequent contributor, thought leader and speaker on risk industry insights. His risk engagements have included published risk articles and white papers for the Global Association of Risk Professionals (GARP), the Risk Management Association (RMA), the Professional Risk Management International Association (PRMIA), the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE) and the Association of Certified Anti Money laundering Specialists (ACAMS).He frequently contributes articles on his risk insights to the Financial Executives Networking Group (FENG).
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Phil Thorne
MD, North America
At Quorso, we passionately believe better Management is at the heart of better Business Performance. As part of the Founding Team, I lead both Operations & Finance and am also currently focused on bringing value to our Retail and Restaurant clients in the US. Our product allows business leaders to power Management by setting direction, mobilizing actions, engaging teams and learning from results all in a single tool. It’s not just about better business performance, but also more engaged teams, which led to us being named one of the top 50 global start ups in retail in 2020.
Quorso works with a variety of different Management Information sources including, POS, WFM, Task Management, Procurement and is best suited to multi-site businesses.
Areas of Expertise
+ Management Efficiency & Effectiveness
+ Business Operations
+ Corporate Finance
+ Financial Planning
+ Capital raising
+ Entrepreneurship
Get in touch to find out more or visit www.quorso.com
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Upside Business Travel
Upside Business Travel is revolutionizing travel management for small and mid-sized companies with high-tech tools, no fees and 3% cash back. To learn more about how you can centralize your company’s travel and access best-in-class customer service, at no additional cost visit www.upside.com.
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Craig Vagt
Partner Emeritus Talbot, Korvola & Warwick, LLP
Over 30 years of experience in the tax area working with companies of all sizes to enhance their financial position.
Specialties: Tax with a focus on corporations, partnerships and individual matters. Extensive work in structuring acquisitions and sales of businesses.
Experience with most industries.
Past managing partner at TKW.
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Jeff VandenHoek
Intentionality, LLC
Over 26 years experience in leadership and program development, including business and leadership development coaching/consulting, higher education administration/teaching and nonprofit leadership. Experiential teacher inspired by collaboratively helping individuals and organizations get better through purposeful intention, building trust and increasing a positive impact in their organizations and all of life. Jeff specializes in supporting and facilitating:
- Emotional Intelligence Assessments & Coaching
- High Impact Leadership Development & Influence - Leadership Coaching
- New Team Formation & Development
- Embracing Difficult, Imperative Conversations (conflict)
- Trust Development (with self, others and teams)
- ‘Simplexity’ - Blending the Complex with the Simple and keeping it Simple
- Communication Strategies - Organizational & Individual
- Creativity and Ideation - Product Development and Process
- Organization Development & Behavior
Jeff is a life long learner, attempting to capture the meaning from experiences where ever they occur. He loves watching people, listening to their stories and celebrating all of life that is lived. He is passionate about music (both consuming and performing). He is in love with his wife of 30 years and 3 children ages 26, 23 and 17. For Jeff….Life is full. Life is good. Life is Messy. Life is beautiful.
