Business & Management

Professionals who specialize in the organization and oversight of business activities, as well as focus on planning, directing, and controlling company operations

Luis Fernandez

Luis Fernandez

With a broad, multidisciplinary background in software development, architecture, product ownership, and marketing, Fernandez is a gifted technology leader. He holds degrees in informatics and computer science and a Master’s in Finance, which shaped his combined expertise in technical and business realms.

Over the past 20 years, Fernandez has overseen more than 250 projects across four continents and 25 countries, delivering technical solutions in content, commerce, mobile, and martech for some of the world’s most renowned companies. From writing code as a developer and designing systems as an architect to training teams, serving as a CTO, advising global enterprises, defining product roadmaps, and developing marketing strategies, he has taken on nearly every role in technology and digital innovation.

Fernandez has led multicultural teams of managers, content experts, engineers, strategists, and architects (he is fluent in Spanish, Portuguese, and English). His professional mission is to constantly close the gap between business vision and technical execution. His work in media, retail, banking, hospitality, telecoms, and technology has given him a comprehensive view of the possibilities and challenges businesses face in the digital age.

Currently serving as Executive Director of Technology in VML, Fernandez is focused on the future of content, marketing, and automation platforms, investigating how companies can produce, distribute, and profit from emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence, composable architectures, and data-driven personalization.

With a broad, multidisciplinary background in software development, architecture, product ownership, and marketing, Fernandez is a gifted technology leader. He holds degrees in informatics and computer science and a Master’s in Finance, which shaped ... Show more

Suzanne Rath

Suzanne Rath

Suzanne Rath: High-Performance Strategist, Endurance Athlete, Founder

Suzanne Rath is a keynote speaker and high-performance strategist who helps founders and leaders sustain peak performance without breaking. Her authority is forged through a rare combination of research, clinical expertise and lived experience.

For more than nine years she has led an award-winning multi-site Allied Health business, building resilient teams and pioneering innovative approaches to workplace wellbeing. As a physiotherapist with twenty years of experience across three continents, she brings a deep understanding of human performance, recovery and longevity.

Suzanne is also an endurance athlete of eighteen years, having completed marathons, ultras, and multi-day cycling expeditions across continents. After surviving a life-changing accident in Sydney, she rebuilt her health and career from the ground up- an experience that informs her work with leaders navigating pressure, uncertainty and burnout. This journey became the foundation of her signature framework, ENDURES, a system for sustainable high performance.

From the boardroom to the marathon trail, Suzanne understands what it takes to recover, reset and rise stronger, again and again.

How Suzanne Helps
Keynote Speaking

Beyond the Peak: Unlocking Sustainable High Performance
Suzanne blends endurance stories, leadership insight and evidence-based strategies to show audiences how to move from collapsing performance to sustained momentum. Participants gain:

the courage to set bold goals

the capacity to navigate challenge with clarity

practical tools to recover, reset and elevate to greater summits

Workshops & Extended Programs

Suzanne’s workshops transform insight into capability. Designed for real-world application, they help teams:

- reclaim energy and focus

- clarify priorities

- build daily rhythms and systems that drive consistent high performance

Coaching for Leaders & Founders

Suzanne works privately with leaders to apply the ENDURES framework to their own lives and organisations. Her coaching strengthens resilience, adaptability and sustainable performance — ensuring high achievers maintain their edge without burning out.
The ENDURES Membership Program launches in February 2026.

Suzanne Rath: High-Performance Strategist, Endurance Athlete, Founder Suzanne Rath is a keynote speaker and high-performance strategist who helps founders and leaders sustain peak performance without breaking. Her authority is forged through a rar... Show more

Jennifer Harris

Jennifer Harris

Founder and CEO of Technology Management Concepts (TMC), a Microsoft Solutions Partner helping organizations modernize across ERP, CRM, cloud, and AI. Under my leadership, TMC has grown into a trusted partner serving clients across the United States and Canada.

I’m focused on building what I believe the Microsoft Partner of the Future should look like. That means aligning closely with Microsoft’s platform direction, investing ahead of change, and building teams that help organizations navigate both technology and transformation with confidence. Growth at TMC is intentional and part of a long-term plan to strengthen capabilities, partnerships, and outcomes.

As part of that evolution, TMC continues to grow through aligned partnerships, welcoming teams like The TM Group who share our values, vision, and long-term approach to building. We believe the best growth comes from collaboration, shared standards, and trust.Culture matters deeply to me. I’m committed to building people-first environments where talent can grow and stay. Outside of work, I actively support women in technology through scholarships, mentorship, and community sponsorships, and I’m involved in leadership communities including Vistage and Chief.

I’m also a longtime football fan, and the discipline, preparation, and teamwork behind the game influence how I think about leadership and building teams that perform over the long term.

My work has been recognized by CRN, the Los Angeles Business Journal, LA Times B2B Publishing, JP Morgan, Inc., and Inc.5000 for growth, leadership, and culture. I regularly speak and contribute to conversations on leadership, AI adoption, change management, and advancing women in technology.At the core of everything I build is a belief that strong companies are built intentionally, strong cultures are built with care, and lasting growth comes from bringing the right people together.

Founder and CEO of Technology Management Concepts (TMC), a Microsoft Solutions Partner helping organizations modernize across ERP, CRM, cloud, and AI. Under my leadership, TMC has grown into a trusted partner serving clients across the United States ... Show more

Sandra-Lorena Bahlmann

Sandra-Lorena Bahlmann

Sandra-Lorena Bahlmann is the Go-To Coach for Women 30+ in Tech Startups, helping them turn draining jobs into fulfilling careers—while keeping the income they deserve. As a certified systemic and agile coach, she previously built and led marketing teams in startups, co-founded an online manufacturing startup, and worked with Lean Startup methodologies for years. Now, she helps professionals break through career blocks, navigate transitions, and create fulfilling career paths—without losing financial stability.

Sandra-Lorena Bahlmann is the Go-To Coach for Women 30+ in Tech Startups, helping them turn draining jobs into fulfilling careers—while keeping the income they deserve. As a certified systemic and agile coach, she previously built and led marketing t... Show more

London Wolfe

London Wolfe

London Wolfe is a business strategist and cognitive leadership specialist who helps leaders and organizations understand what is actually driving miscommunication, burnout, and stalled growth beneath the surface. Her work focuses on how people think, process information, and relate to one another, and how unexamined cognitive blind spots quietly shape leadership effectiveness.

With over 14 years of experience spanning education, leadership development, and advisory work, London brings a rare blend of strategic insight and human-centered practice. She is the creator of the Cognitive Leadership Style Framework, an awareness-based model that examines leadership through four cognitive domains: structural, relational, analytical, and visionary, offering leaders a practical way to recognize how they are wired and how others are wired.

Earlier in her career, London worked as an educator and inner development coach, designing learning-based frameworks that supported communication, emotional regulation, and adaptive behavior. She has facilitated workshops and trainings for entrepreneurs, educators, parents, leadership teams, and organizations both domestically and internationally. She is NLP certified and has contributed as a guest expert on podcasts, panels, and leadership-focused conversations, with her insights featured in digital publications and a magazine distributed in major international airports.

London’s work is especially informed by her experience supporting high-functioning neurodivergent individuals in business, education, and leadership settings, as well as her own lived neurodivergent experience. She is known for translating complex cognitive concepts into practical tools leaders can apply immediately.

Whether working with founders, executives, or teams, London’s goal is the same: to help people build sustainable success that does not come at the cost of their wellbeing. Her approach is thoughtful, direct, and refreshingly free of one-size-fits-all leadership advice.

London Wolfe is a business strategist and cognitive leadership specialist who helps leaders and organizations understand what is actually driving miscommunication, burnout, and stalled growth beneath the surface. Her work focuses on how people think,... Show more

Basit Ajibade

Basit Ajibade

Basit Ajibade is a UX leader, design thinker, product designer and circumstantial ambivert.

His practice spans user experience design, product design, and design thinking, with a sustained focus on insight-led, human-centred work across logistics, agritech, e-commerce, fintech, non-profit, and civic technology contexts. Over the years, he has collaborated with diverse product teams and contributed to open-source and community initiatives, including projects with Google Developers Groups in Lafia and Ado-Ekiti. His work reflects a consistent concern for aligning user needs with organisational and business objectives, informed by experience in user research, UX writing, product strategy, and UX audits.

He holds a First Class degree in Business from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, and is a certified User Experience Designer by Google and Georgia Institute of Technology, with additional professional training in Enterprise Design Thinking from IBM. His portfolio includes work with organisations and platforms such as SendIT, InfoByte, Amona, Future Forward, SmartClimate, Shipway, Vitanura, Verivent, iLEAD AFRICA, CivicPadi, and Swapive.
AbdulBasit is a Jim Leech Mastercard Fellow of Entrepreneurship at Queen’s University, Canada, a Young Innovation Fellow at Hutzpa Innovations at the African University of Science and Technology, Abuja, and a regional winner of the AFEX Product Hackathon. He also won the Ingressive for Good Hackathon in 2022 and co-founded TechClarity Coach, where he contributes to mentorship and capacity-building initiatives across Africa.

He is currently a Product Designer at UpNawt Studio, a solution design agency in Nigeria.

Basit Ajibade is a UX leader, design thinker, product designer and circumstantial ambivert. His practice spans user experience design, product design, and design thinking, with a sustained focus on insight-led, human-centred work across logistics,... Show more

Michael Watson

Michael Watson

Michael Watson was the Head of Developer Relations at Apollo GraphQL, where he's spent nearly eight years helping enterprises adopt GraphQL at scale. He founded the MCP Server Builder Series, a community of 3,000+ developers exploring how to build production-ready MCP servers, with events running every six weeks across San Francisco, New York, London, and Amsterdam. Michael has delivered keynote demos at GraphQL Summit showcasing agentic workflows and MCP integration, and has worked directly with engineering teams at Netflix, Walmart, Wayfair, and Expedia on their GraphQL implementations. He holds an MBA from Santa Clara University and is an Eagle Scout.

Michael Watson was the Head of Developer Relations at Apollo GraphQL, where he's spent nearly eight years helping enterprises adopt GraphQL at scale. He founded the MCP Server Builder Series, a community of 3,000+ developers exploring how to build pr... Show more

Steph Houle

Steph Houle

Steph Houle is a design leader, coach, and consultant with over 15 years of experience shaping digital products from startups to Fortune 1 companies alike, including Walmart, Macy’s, and Calvin Klein. She blends her background in UX/UI and product design leadership with a deep commitment to human-centered design practices, helping teams and individuals navigate complexity with clarity, creativity, and resilience.

Through her coaching practice, Steph guides women and creative leaders to cultivate self-expression, intuitive authority, and sustainable ways of working. Her talks invite audiences into both practical frameworks and reflective pauses, bridging design methodologies with personal leadership.

Steph Houle is a design leader, coach, and consultant with over 15 years of experience shaping digital products from startups to Fortune 1 companies alike, including Walmart, Macy’s, and Calvin Klein. She blends her background in UX/UI and product de... Show more

Raj karan Gunukula

Raj karan Gunukula

Raj Karan Gunukula is a seasoned technology leader with 14+ years of experience driving large-scale AI, machine learning, and data infrastructure programs across fintech and commerce. He currently serves as Group Technical Program Manager at Coinbase, where he leads AI adoption across the software development lifecycle. Previously at Amazon, Raj rose to Principal TPM, founding and leading a team of TPMs supporting engineers, scientists, and XFN teams to deliver flagship Generative AI and intelligent advisor solutions that scaled to over one million sellers worldwide. His career blends deep technical grounding from his B.Tech. in Electrical Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) with hands-on leadership in AI innovation, product scaling, and business transformation.

Raj Karan Gunukula is a seasoned technology leader with 14+ years of experience driving large-scale AI, machine learning, and data infrastructure programs across fintech and commerce. He currently serves as Group Technical Program Manager at Coinbase... Show more

Gabriel Bernard

Gabriel Bernard

Je suis concepteur de jeux sérieux et sur-mesure depuis 2019 avec Imagine Expériences et cofondateur de Ludiz depuis 2023, une plateforme no-code dédiée à la création d’expériences gamifiées.

Depuis plusieurs années, je conçois et j’anime des dispositifs ludiques pour des entreprises, des institutions publiques et des organismes de formation, autour de thématiques comme la formation, l’onboarding, la communication interne, la sensibilisation, le marketing ou l’intelligence collective.

Je compte plus de 150 jeux et outils ludiques conçus sur-mesure à mon actif, et plus de 200 évènement ludiques physique ou virtuels animés.

Ludiz quand à elle, compte désormais plusieurs centaines d'utilisateurs (créateurs de contenus gamifiés) et déjà plus de 20 000 joueurs ont pu bénéficier de ces expériences !

Issu du monde de l’événementiel et du game design appliqué, je m’intéresse particulièrement à la manière dont le jeu peut devenir un outil vecteur de message et de mise en action.

Avec Ludiz, j’accompagne formateurs, RH, managers et designers dans la transformation de contenus existants en expériences interactives et engageantes. J’interviens régulièrement lors d’ateliers et d’événements professionnels pour partager une vision accessible et pratique de la gamification.

Je suis concepteur de jeux sérieux et sur-mesure depuis 2019 avec Imagine Expériences et cofondateur de Ludiz depuis 2023, une plateforme no-code dédiée à la création d’expériences gamifiées. Depuis plusieurs années, je conçois et j’anime des disp... Show more

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