Kitty Chaney Reed is the Chief Leadership, Culture and Inclusion Officer for the IBM Corporation. Most recently, she was the Chief Operations Officer for the IBM Marketing organization, leading the Business Alignment team which served as the backbone across Marketing to guide the organization, generating a linkage between business objectives, marketing plans, and a coordinated management

system to help focus on measurements and milestones between Marketing and the IBM Business. Previously, Kitty led the Enterprise Operations responsible for Sales and Business Operations activities for all IBM Business Units, driving the transformation of Operations across the Enterprise by modernizing tools and processes. She also serves as IBM’s Senior State Executive for the State of Georgia (US), where she represents IBM in government and policy forums such as the Atlanta Metro Chamber where she sits on the Board. She was the IBM executive sponsor in support of the passage of Anti-Hate Crime Legislation that was made law in Georgia on June 8, 2020. She joined IBM in 2017, as the Vice President of Quote to Cash for the Americas, supporting IBM’s largest geography with ~40B in annual

revenue. As leader of Q2C, she led the transformation of tools/processes and operating model, best in class internal Net Promoter Scores and best in class employee engagement while creating a culture based on Agile principles. In her short time at IBM, she has established

herself as a forward thinker who challenges herself and others to redefine what BEST looks like. In support of this quest, Kitty worked with her team to create an internal brand and recognition program called BEST which was externally awarded in the industry. She and her team have exceeded business expectations while also maintaining employee engagement and inclusion scores that are Best in Class.

Ms. Chaney Reed has a wide range of expertise in technology and business that was gained from more than 25 years of hands-on experience in solution design and implementation, service delivery and operations, client services, shared services, business transformation, mergers and acquisitions, Human Resource operations, and Retail operations. Kitty has a strong passion for diversity, equity and inclusion. She is the executive sponsor for the Atlanta Global Women in IBM initiative and serves on IBM’s Black Executive Council. In 2015, she was awarded the Most Powerful and Influential Woman Award from the Georgia Diversity Council. Kitty is also an alumnus of the distinguished Leadership Atlanta Program (Class of 2016), one of the oldest sustained community leadership programs in the nation. In 2014, Kitty was also recognized for her support of girls and women in STEM and her professional achievements in the technology industry by being named Woman of the Year for Enterprise Businesses by the Atlanta based organization, Women in Technology. She also mentors and coaches girls and women who aspire to lead in the areas of business and technology and served on the Women in Technology Board of Directors as the Treasurer for three years. In 2021, Kitty received Silver at the Stevie Awards as ‘Female Executive of the Year’ and Gold at The Globee Business Awards in the ‘Women of the Year category’ in recognition of her outstanding contributions in the Business Services area. Kitty is a wife and mother of three young men. When she is not working, she enjoys cooking, reading, and spending quality time with her husband and their boys.

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Margaret Resce Milkint is a talent strategist and a diversity and inclusion catalyst. As Managing Partner of The Jacobson Group, Margaret is a key ambassador in establishing strategic client relationships and broadening the firm’s breadth of insurance talent solutions. Her passion lies in counseling clients on leadership selection and she has successfully managed countless executive searches for more than 30 years. Margaret is a Trustee and Board Chair for The Actuarial Foundation. She is a Board Member for the Museum of Broadcast Communications and for the Executive Sisterhood, an organization promoting female leadership in businesses. Margaret is also a member of the advisory council of InspiraWork™. Additionally, she serves as a member of the Society of Actuaries Employers Council and the Women’s Business Collaborative Advisory Council.

Margaret is a champion for diversity, inclusion and intersectionality in the insurance industry. She co-founded the Women’s Insurance Networking Group, a platform for networking and career development among female insurance professionals. Margaret is U.S. Chair of ISC Group, a global business community for women in insurance. She is also Chair of the Million Women Mentors/STEMconnector Women in Insurance Initiative and is the recipient of their Champion of Industry Award. Margaret received her bachelor’s degree in English from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

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 Marta Pateiro is Vice President and head of diversity, equity and inclusion for the US Insurance and Retirement (USIR) Businesses at Prudential. In this role, Marta serves as a strategic partner to the USIR Business Senior Leadership team. She is responsible in designing and executing on the DEI priorities for the businesses in alignment with the enterprise-wide DEI strategy. 

Prior to this job, Marta was a Talent Partner in the Talent Management organization, where she focused on accelerating the readiness of executive top talent for future opportunities and challenges through expert coaching and development. Marta helped leaders reach their highest potential through coaching and development of executives with assessment data, high-impact development planning and execution of succession plans by moving talent through our talent brokerage process. 

Prior to that, Marta was the Director of Talent Management on the Financial Management Talent Development team, where she supported transformation and future of work initiatives for the financial management division. She helped her clients transform their talent through upskilling strategies and supported them in reimagining the work and redesigning talent development for employees. 

Marta started at Prudential in early 2009, as a Campus Recruiter and has held various HR roles, supporting multiple areas of the enterprise, including leading early talent rotational programs across the company, which encompassed oversight for the talent acquisition, learning and development, performance management, compensation strategies and inclusion and diversity strategies for those programs. 

Marta began her career at Citigroup, within their Investment Banking division, managing their MBA recruitment. 

Marta loves mentoring and coaching others and is actively involved in the Business Resource Groups at Prudential, including serving as an executive board member for Women Empowered. Marta also serves as a mentor at her alma mater, participating in the business school mentorship program and is a key advisor to the Women in Business group. She was also the recipient of the Seramount “Working Mother of the Year” award, representing Prudential, in 2021. 

Marta graduated from Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, with a bachelor’s degree in communications and a double minor in Employee Studies and Labor Relations as well as American Studies. Marta completed the Talent Management executive program at the Wharton School of Business and is certified in talent management practices. She is a member of the Global Talent Management Institute. 

More personally, Marta enjoys photography and traveling with her family. She currently resides in Somerset, NJ with her husband and has 3 children, Chase (8) and Mason (5) and Camila (9 months) who keep her busy as a soccer, baseball, basketball and football Mom on the sidelines.

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Jomil Guerrero is New York Life’s Chief Diversity  Officer, responsible for building on the company’s strong diversity, equity, and inclusion (DE&I)  foundation and continuing to embed a diverse and inclusive culture into New York Life’s talent practices,  business strategy, and community engagement.  

Most recently, Ms. Guerrero served as Chief  Operating Officer of IndexIQ, a New York Life  Investments boutique. She joined New York Life in  2011 as Director of Finance for both New York Life  Investment Management (NYLIM) and NYL  Investors. Since then, she has held positions of increasing responsibility, including Managing  Director, and head of Global Marketing Operations for  NYLIM. 

Prior to New York Life, Ms. Guerrero was U.S.  Controller for the Riverside Company and Controller at Muirfield Capital Management, both investment firms. She graduated from the University of Central  Florida with a BS in accounting. Ms. Guerrero has been a dynamic and passionate driver of DE&I efforts both within and outside New  York Life. She served as a co-lead of the company’s 

Social Justice Working Group advising the Social  Justice Steering Committee established in 2020. The  Group’s recommendations included evolving New  York Life’s Office of Diversity & Inclusion to become the Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Center for  Awareness and Advocacy (DE&I Center), which focuses on continuing inclusion and engagement initiatives while expanding professional development with a goal of personal growth and career mobility for diverse employees.

In addition, Ms. Guerrero is an Advisory Board  Member of New York Life’s Latinos for Excellence,  Advancement & Development (LEAD) Employee  Resource Group (ERG). She previously served as a  Co-Chair of ENABLE, the company’s ERG dedicated to raising disability-focused awareness. She also recently became a Board member of the Reasons to Smile Foundation Inc., a non-profit dedicated to helping people with intellectual and developmental disabilities reach their potential within the workforce and community. For her work in advancing DE&I, Ms. Guerrero was included in Profiles in Diversity Journal’s inaugural list of  Latino Leaders Worth Watching in 2021.

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Amantia Muhedini is a Sustainable Investing (SI) Strategist in the Chief Investment Office, Global Wealth Management. Prior to UBS, Amantia was a sustainable investing fellow with Morgan Stanley’s Investing with Impact team focusing on impact measurement and product development. She also spent time at Working Capital –the Supply Chain Innovation Fund conducting impact and commercial due diligence on potential investments. Amantia previously was an Investments Associate at the Omidyar Group’s Humanity United addressing forced labor in global corporate supply chains. She is also a member of the Governance Council of United World Colleges International (UWC), a global education organization, and was a founding board member and acting Executive Director for UWC Albania, an education non-profit based in Albania.

Amantia holds a BA from Princeton University and a MPA from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs.

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An award-winning global communications leader with more than 20 years of experience across multiple sectors including technology, finance, automotive, and non-profit, Ms. Bluhm leverages her deep understanding of business strategy and human behavior to shape corporate reputation. 

Annalisa Esposito Bluhm currently serves as Vice President, CEO and Leadership Communications for Northrop Grumman.  In her role, Ms. Bluhm oversees global Executive communications and thought leadership strategy for the CEO and leadership team.

Prior to Northrop Grumman, Ms. Bluhm held a variety of leadership positions during her 17-year tenure at General Motors, most recently establishing the CEO as a prominent thought leader during a once-in-a-lifetime pandemic. She was also responsible for communications strategies supporting GM’s bankruptcy and IPO. A founding member of Maven, Bluhm established GM’s first car-sharing business. She developed GM’s first global corporate social media strategy which established the award-winning social media Center of Practice. Bluhm introduced innovative new media strategies to Chevrolet while launching emerging vehicle technologies including Electric and Autonomous Cars. Ms. Bluhm also led communications efforts to refresh GM’s brand promise and evolve employee engagement to meet the needs of a digital, multi-generation workforce.

Prior to General Motors, she held communications roles at a technology start-up, taught Communications courses at Eastern Michigan, coached EMU’s public speaking team, served on various boards as well as interned for Sen. Carl Levin (D-MI). She is a National Champion in competitive public speaking and Eastern Michigan University Hall of Fame honoree.

Ms. Bluhm received her master’s degree in Rhetoric, as well as bachelor’s degrees in Political Science and Communications from Eastern Michigan University.

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Justina Nixon-Saintil drives the initiatives that enable IBM and its employees to transform their altruism into reality. Under Justina’s leadership, IBM is committed to skill 30 million people worldwide by 2030, creating opportunities for underrepresented communities through IBM SkillsBuild. Justina also serves as IBM’s Environmental, Social, and Corporate Governance (ESG) focal point and launched IBM’s Sustainability Accelerator to support communities especially vulnerable to climate change.

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Jennifer Klein is Assistant to the President and Director of the White House Gender Policy Council, which she has led since President Biden first established the Gender Policy Council in March 2021. Klein has worked on domestic and global gender policy throughout her career and has advised the President on issues including reproductive rights, gender-based violence, and women’s economic security. During the Obama-Biden Administration, Klein served as a Deputy and Senior Advisor in the Secretary’s Office of Global Women’s Issues at the Department of State. During the Clinton-Gore Administration, she worked at the White House in a dual appointment as First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton’s senior domestic policy advisor and a Special Assistant to the President on the Domestic Policy Council.

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Kevin Cirilli is founder of MTF.TV’s MEET THE FUTURE platform – the preeminent go-to source for all things future innovation, from outer space to robotics, quantum, artificial intelligence, and emerging technologies. Cirilli has advised some of the nation’s leading military philanthropists, business leaders, and policymakers at the intersection of security, technology, and global affairs. As a journalist, Cirilli has operated the upper-echelons of America’s media landscape for more than a decade – including as Bloomberg’s chief Washington correspondent during the first Trump administration.

An emerging playwright, his debut play The Man in the Red Hat is largely informed by his experience as one of the nation’s youngest television correspondents and has garnered significant buzz in New York, Washington D.C., and California, with an initial cold reading at the University of Southern California.

Cirilli has appeared on CBS, CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, Fox Business Network, Yahoo Finance, Scripps News, BBC, NPR, and more. He made a name for himself as a nonpartisan, policy-based reporter whose daily reports and analysis communicated with a niche audience of global investors, financial services stakeholders and policymakers. He anchored a daily radio show and interviewed prominent global leaders, while covering breaking business news from the White House and the U.S. Capitol.

Cirilli’s reporting expertise includes: U.S.-China business relations; financial services regulatory affairs (i.e. Dodd-Frank repeal / replacement; Export-Import Bank financing; Federal Reserve politics); domestic politics; Silicon Valley regulations; and more.

Cirilli’s reporting took him all over the world – from Saudi Arabia, Vietnam, Colombia, Israel, South Africa and Germany. In 2016, he was embedded with the Trump campaign, traveling extensively throughout the U.S. Cirilli earned his chops as a print reporter before transitioning into broadcast. Prior to Bloomberg, he worked for POLITICO Pro Financial Services and The Hill Newspaper, where he launched the daily Overnight Finance tip sheet.

The Trump 2020 campaign named Cirilli as a potential moderator for the U.S. Presidential Debates. He was one of the first broadcasters to interview now-Sec. of State Tony Blinken during Biden’s 2020 presidential campaign. He was recognized by The U.S. Export-Import Bank as an expert in global trade and moderated its nonpartisan politics panel at the 2018 conference. He appeared regularly on television networks, including CBS News. He broke stories on trade, tariffs and sanctions – including the State Department’s advising higher education institutions to divest from CCP companies.

Cirilli’s alma mater Penn State profiled him for its alumni network – the largest in the U.S. – where several DC colleagues praised his widespread source network. One national anchor described him as a “happy warrior.” He has been named twice on Washington Life’s annual rising stars list.

He got his journalism start as a freelance reporter, covering the 2011 PSU child abuse sex scandal. While at Penn State, Cirilli was a recipient of the Damon M. Chappie Award for Investigative Journalism and was campus news editor of The Daily Collegian. Cirilli was a Pulliam Fellow of Journalism at The Arizona Republic and the Columbia Scholastic Press Association ranked him the No. 1 undergraduate news writer in the nation in 2010. He graduated from PSU with a degree in communications and a minor in political science.

Kevin is a health and wellness enthusiast (and a former Men’s Health intern). He grew up in Delaware County, Pa., where he earned a partial scholarship to Malvern Preparatory School. His Uncle Mike has had a hoagie shop in Delco for 40+ years. He recommends the prosciutto hoagie with mozzarella.

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