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Thank you for joining us on September 27-28 in New York, NY for the Executive Leadership Forum.
Google Offices, New York, NY
Thank you for joining us on September 27-28 in New York, NY for the Executive Leadership Forum.
Google Offices, New York, NY
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6:30–8:30 p.m. | Welcome Reception and Dinner |
*Agenda subject to change
Speakers

Jeff Selingo - Keynote Speaker
Award-winning author
Former Editor, Chronicle of Higher Education
Jeffrey J. Selingo has written about higher education for two decades. He is author of three books and a regular contributor to The Washington Post. His newest book, “There Is Life After College” (HarperCollins, 2016), explores how today’s young adults need to navigate school in order to succeed in the job market of tomorrow. His first book, “College (Un)Bound,” was a New York Times bestselling education book. Jeff is the former editor of The Chronicle of Higher Education. His writing has been featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and Slate, and he has appeared on ABC, CNN, PBS, and NPR. He is a special advisor and professor of practice at Arizona State University and a visiting scholar at the Center for 21st Century Universities at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Jeff received a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Ithaca College and a master’s degree in government from Johns Hopkins University. He lives with his wife and two daughters in Chevy Chase, Maryland.

Cari Bohley, MBA, PMP
Director, Learning and Development, Engility
Cari Bohley joined Engility in October 2015 to lead the Learning and Development function, as part of Engility’s Human Resources organization. Cari and her team are responsible for identifying, building and curating strategically-aligned programs for the Engility workforce. Most recently, Cari launched a new leadership development program for Engility managers. In addition, she and her team implemented new programs for Engility employees, including front-line manager training, program manager training, and certification boot camps aligned to the strategic needs of Engility and its customers.
Cari is also responsible for administering the Engility Educational Assistance Program. In 2016, she launched a new Qualified Master’s Program (QMP), which provides Engility employees with up to $10,000 annually for strategically-aligned master’s programs. In addition, Cari initiated a vendor management process to streamline the number of vendors included in the educational assistance program.
Prior to joining Engility, Cari served as Director of Learning and Development for CGI Federal, then CGI US. During her tenure, she and her team designed and delivered strategic onboarding programs, a new manager development program, and multiple professional certification programs. Cari holds a BA from Michigan State University in International Relations, an MBA from Wayne State University, and Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification.

Cindy Gallatin, MBA
Vice President/Chief Operations Officer, Online Programs, Quinnipiac University
Cindy Gallatin was appointed Vice President and Chief Operating Officer for Online Programs in 2015. She previously served for a decade as Associate Vice President and Chief Operating Officer for Online Programs. Prior to that, Gallatin held various positions of increasing responsibility in Quinnipiac's online education arena, and also serves as an adjunct faculty member in the School of Business.
Before joining Quinnipiac, she held positions in sales and marketing for a marketing database company, Survey Sampling Inc., and for a medical textbook publishing division of Prentice-Hall.
Gallatin holds a BS in biology from Fairfield University and an MBA in marketing from the University of Bridgeport.

Dr. Mary Ellen Glasgow
Dean and Professor, School of Nursing, Duquesne University
Dr. Mary Ellen Smith Glasgow joined Duquesne University’s School of Nursing as Dean and Professor in August 2012. Her research interests include safety and inter-professional simulation, and leadership development in nursing. Dr. Glasgow received her BSN from Gwynedd-Mercy College, MSN from Villanova University, and PhD from Duquesne University, School of Nursing.
In former administrative positions at Drexel University, she developed the BSN Co-op Program, BSN Accelerated Career Entry Program, RN-BSN Online Program, Pathway to Health Professions Program, and other forward-thinking educational programs. As an early driver and adopter of innovation, Dr. Glasgow incorporated the co-operative education model, envisioned and implemented the use of online courses, standardized patients and simulation in the nursing and undergraduate health professions curricula, and e-books; and implemented handheld technology. She advanced online pedagogy, developing one of the nation’s largest online nursing programs, utilizing asynchronous and synchronous creative teaching strategies. She also had overall responsibility for the Division of Continuing Nursing Education (CNE) from 2005–2012.
Dr. Glasgow completed a fellowship at Bryn Mawr College and HERS, Mid-America Summer Institute for Women in Higher Education Administration. She has been honored with the Villanova University College of Nursing Alumni Medallion for Distinguished Contribution to Nursing Education and received the Distinguished Alumni Award from Gwynedd-Mercy University. She served as the Associate Editor for Oncology Nursing Forum responsible for the Leadership and Professional Development Feature from 2008-2012. As a Trustee of Princeton HealthCare System, she was selected as a 2009 Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Executive Nurse Fellow.
She has over 75 publications, 140 national and international presentations, and co-authored three books: Role Development for Doctoral Advanced Nursing Practice (2011), the recipient of the 2012 AJN Book of the Year Award; Legal Issues Confronting Today's Nursing Faculty: A Case Study Approach (2012), the recipient of the 2013 AJN Book of the Year Award; and DNP Role Development for Doctoral Advanced Nursing Practice (2017). She has secured over $2 million in funding.
Dr. Glasgow was elected as a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing and the National League for Nursing (NLN) Academy of Nursing Education. Recently, she led the development of the nation’s first dual undergraduate Biomedical Engineering and Nursing Program, and a PhD in Nursing Ethics, commencing in summer 2017.
She brings years of experience in nursing education and practice that includes teaching nursing on the undergraduate and graduate levels. She also brings a passion and enthusiasm for nursing, enabling her to positively impact nursing education and health care throughout Pittsburgh and the surrounding area.

Jesus Trujillo Gomez
Account Executive, Google Cloud Platform
Jesus partners with Higher Education and Research institutions to help them to transform how people work and learn by empowering them with access to the same infrastructure, data analytics, and machine learning that Google uses.
Prior to joining Google, Jesus worked at Microsoft Azure team supporting customers in financial services. Before that, Jesus worked at Cisco Systems leading projects that brought next generation mobile technology to markets across EMEA, Americas and APAC.
Jesus earned his Masters in Engineering from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, and his Master of Business Administration from Boston University.

Dr. Ann Kirschner
University Professor at The City University of New York; Former Dean of Macaulay Honors College at CUNY and Strategic Advisor to the Chancellor
Ann Kirschner is University Professor at The City University of New York and president of Comma International, consultants in technology and education. She has served as Dean of Macaulay Honors College at CUNY and Strategic Advisor to the Chancellor.
Dr. Kirschner was founding director of the Women in Technology and Entrepreneurship (WiTNY) initiative at CUNY and Cornell Tech. A veteran of four start-ups in cable, satellite, and online, she was the first digital strategist for the National Football League, where she launched NFL.COM and SUPERBOWL.COM. A pioneer in e-learning, she founded FATHOM with Columbia University, London School of Economics, and other leading institutions.
Kirschner serves on the board of Strategic Cyber Ventures and Cricket Media. Her nonprofit boards include Public Agenda, Footsteps, the Paul and Daisy Soros Foundation, and FIRSTnyc. She is author of Sala’s Gift: My Mother’s Holocaust Story (2006) and Lady at the OK Corral: the True Story of Josephine Marcus Earp (2013), and a frequent speaker and writer on innovation in media, technology, and education.
A graduate of University of Buffalo, University of Virginia, she received her PhD from Princeton University, where she was Whiting Fellow in the Humanities.

Mark Lombardi, PhD
President, Maryville University
Dr. Mark Lombardi is the tenth President of Maryville University. Named President in 2007, Dr. Lombardi is recognized for a comprehensive career in academe as a faculty member, author, fundraiser, administrator, and political commentator. He leads a university of over 6,500 students spread across two colleges and three schools (Arts and Sciences, Business, Health Professions, Education, and Adult & Online), with over 60 majors, 15 masters, and eight doctoral programs.
Over 25 years at three different institutions, Dr. Lombardi has served in the positions of Director of the Baccalaureate Experience, Chair of the Department of Government, History and Sociology; Director of International Programs; Vice President for Academic Affairs, Provost, and President. Dr. Lombardi also served as Executive Director of the US-Africa Education Foundation. Dr. Lombardi attained the rank of tenured full professor at both the University of Tampa and College of Santa Fe and was awarded an honorary doctorate by the board of trustees of the College of Santa Fe in 2007.
Dr. Lombardi’s fundraising initiatives netted 100 million dollars for projects in the arts, communications, international programs, technology, and student services. In addition, Dr. Lombardi has done over 200 interviews for radio and television on political and international issues and has traveled extensively in southern and West Africa, Europe, and Latin and Central America. Dr. Lombardi is a noted author, publishing several articles and three books, including Taking Sides: Clashing Views on Global Issues (ninth edition), The Unfolding Legacy of 9/11, and Perspectives on Third World Sovereignty: The Post-Modern Paradox.
Dr. Lombardi has had significant teaching experience in the fields of US foreign policy, US-Soviet relations, African Politics, and Global Issues, and has received numerous awards for teaching excellence at The Ohio State University and the University of Tampa.
Dr. Lombardi has been an active member in dozens of organizations and advisory boards in Tampa, Santa Fe, St. Louis, and nationally including Boys Hope Girls Hope, Wells Fargo, The St. Louis Sports Commission, President of the Great Lakes Valley Conference Council, The Lifelong Vision Foundation, The Executive Committee of the Santa Fe Chamber of Commerce, Rotary, the Foreign Affairs Council, and the US-Africa Education Foundation.
Dr. Lombardi earned a PhD and master’s degree in political science and international relations from The Ohio State University and a bachelor’s degree in political science from Purdue University.

Joe Morgan
Pearson – University Partnerships
Prior to joining Pearson in the summer of 2016, Joe Morgan was Founder/CEO of MaverixLab, where he worked to develop the innovation ecosystem in Miami through early stage investment, business incubation and providing skills-based technical education.
Before starting MaverixLab, Joe was the CEO of Noodle, a vertical search engine assisting parents and students in making better decisions about learning. Noodle was recognized by Forbes as one of the most disruptive startups in 2012 and by Mashable as 1 of 5 start-ups transforming education. The Obama White House recognized Noodle for its innovative tools to assist in college decision-making.
As Founder & CEO of Colloquy, Joe created a technology and marketing platform for universities and publishers to deliver online education and content.
Joe set the direction for the Online Education Division of the Washington Post Company as Senior Vice President, Strategy and Marketing. He was President of one of the fastest growing companies in the retail industry operating 2,100 restaurants in 13 countries.
Joe Morgan graduated from the University Of Miami School Of Law with a Juris Doctorate degree.

Jonathan Rochelle
Director of Product Management and a co-founder of Google Docs and Google Drive, Google (@jrochelle)
Jonathan Rochelle (aka JR) is Director of Product Management at Google and a co-founder of Google Docs and Google Drive, including the suite’s other apps such as Google Sheets, Slides, Forms, Apps Script and Google Fonts. Jonathan is now primarily responsible for Jamboard, a collaborative whiteboard app and large screen hardware device; and Google Apps for Education, which reaches more than 60 million educators and students globally, and includes apps like Google Classroom and Google Expeditions. Jonathan and his teams are primarily based in Google's NYC office.
Prior to joining Google in 2005, Jonathan co-founded and sold two technology start-ups: ITK Solutions, a technology consulting firm; and 2Web Technologies, a software product company acquired by Google in 2005 as the technology behind Google spreadsheets, the first publicly launched component of Google Docs. Before founding these start-ups, Jonathan spent 15 years as a software engineer and applications development manager, primarily at JP Morgan & Co., across a broad set of financial service businesses. JR is a strong advocate of innovation culture, entrepreneurship and education technology, and can often be distracted with any "maker" activity such as 3D Printing (see his blog www.MkrClub.com). Jonathan earned his Bachelor of Science degree in computer science from the State University of New York at Albany.

Prof. Stephen Shute
Pro Vice Chancellor (Planning and Resources), (Vice-Chancellor's Office, School of Law, Politics and Sociology), University of Sussex
Professor Stephen Shute became Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Planning and Resources at the University of Sussex in October 2014. He has strategic responsibility for resources, planning, innovation, and sustainability at the University. He is also academic lead for HR issues and for equality and diversity, as well as lead for the University on Online Distance Learning (ODL), on the VLE replacement project, and on the University’s £19m Student and Academic Administration Transformation (SAAT) change project.
Prior to assuming his current role, Professor Shute was Head of the School of Law, Politics and Sociology, having been appointed to that post in October 2009. Between March and September 2014 he served as Pro-Vice-Chancellor for the Social Sciences. Before moving to Sussex, Professor Shute spent 15 years at the University of Birmingham where he served as Deputy Pro-Vice-Chancellor and Dean of Arts and Social Sciences and was part of the Vice-Chancellor’s Senior Management Team. At Birmingham he chaired several senior University committees, including the Academic Policy and Regulations Committee, the Programme Approval and Review Committee, and the University’s Redundancy Committee. He was also Director of the University’s Institute of Judicial Administration. Earlier, he was a Fellow in Law at Corpus Christi College, Oxford.
Professor Shute has worked with and on many national decision-making bodies and held several senior roles following appointment by Ministers. In 2011 he was appointed by the National Statistician and the Home Secretary to act as Founding Chair of the Crime Statistics Advisory Committee and continued in that role until 2015. He is now a Non-Executive Member of the National Statistician’s Crime Statistics Advisory Committee.
Between 2007 and 2011 he was a founding Member of a Ministerial Advisory Board established by the Home Secretary, the Minister of Justice, and the Attorney General to advise them and the five criminal justice Chief Inspectors on joint inspection in the criminal justice system. Between 2008 and 2013 (following appointment by the Attorney General and the Chief Inspector) he served as an Inaugural Non-Executive Member of the Management Board of HM Crown Prosecution Service Inspectorate. In 2009 he was appointed by the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Ministry of Justice and the Ministers of State at the other two sponsoring Departments, the Home Office and the Department of Health, to serve as a Founding Member of the Independent Advisory Panel on Deaths in Custody. He continued in that role until 2014.
He is a Member of the Police Recorded Crime Re-designation Project Strategic Board, the Advisory Board for HM Inspectorate of Constabulary, and the Advisory Board for HM Inspectorate of Probation; an Independent Member of Birmingham City Council’s Standards Committee, and a Member of its Independent Remuneration Panel. Between 2003 and 2004 he chaired the Home Office's Technical Advisory Group for Section 95 Statistics on Race and the Criminal Justice System.

Ryan Szala
Vice President — Strategic Partnerships, Pearson
Ryan Szala is the vice president of strategic partnerships for Pearson Online Learning Services team. His responsibilities include helping organizations bridge talent gaps through customized learning solutions to expand the capabilities of new and existing employees. For the past ten years, Ryan has focused on helping employers strategically address challenges with employee retention, advancement, and recruitment.
Prior to joining Pearson, Ryan held consultant and sales management roles at Strayer Education, Option One, and Proxicom. Ryan holds a bachelor’s degree in business from George Mason University and is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP®).

Timothy J. Tobin, EdD; SPHR, SHRM-SCP
Dean, Choice University - Choice Hotels
Tim Tobin is a learning and leadership development professional committed to helping individuals and organizations reach their greatest potential. Now Dean of Choice University, he is responsible for learning strategy and programs for all franchisees. Previously, he was Vice President of Global Leadership Development at Marriott. His work was recognized with the 2017 Global CCU award for Outstanding Services to the Learning Industry, 2014 Chief Learning Officer Global Learning Award, and 2012 Chief Learning Officer Learning in Practice Innovation Award, among others.
Tim is author of Your Leadership Story: Use Your Story to Energize, Inspire, and Motivate, and a frequent leadership speaker. He has blogged for the Harvard Business Review, Drucker Global Forum and SmartBrief on Leadership. He received his Doctorate of Education in Human Resources Development from George Washington University and his Bachelor’s degree in Psychology from the University of Delaware. Tim is a ten-time marathon finisher and six-time Ironman triathlon finisher.
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