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Simon Holland
Simon Holland is a partner at Oliver Wyman’s Organizational Effectiveness Practice, advising his clients on how to successfully implement change strategies. With 30 years’ worth of consulting experience in the United States and the United Kingdom, Holland specializes in cultural and organizational change, leadership, talent and learning, as well as performance improvement. Holland was instrumental in developing a tool at Oliver Wyman that uses data analytics and insights to help organizations better understand their pathways to significant change.
Libby Sartain
As CHRO of both Yahoo! Inc. and Southwest Airlines, Libby Sartain led significant business transformation initiatives as a member of executive leadership teams and guided global human resources efforts focusing on attracting, retaining, and developing employees. Both Yahoo! and Southwest were listed on the Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work for in America and the Fortune 500 during her tenure. Sartain serves as the compensation committee chair on the boards of both Shutterfly, Inc. and ManpowerGroup. She also serves on the board of AARP, where she is vice chair. Sartain was a director of Peet's Coffee & Tea, Inc., from 2005 to 2012. She is also currently chair of the SHRM Foundation board.
Sonya Sepahban
Sonya Sepahban is an independent board member, tech investor, and entrepreneur. Leveraging her engineering and technology background and her operational expertise and profit-and-loss experience, Sepahban has built successful business ventures and advanced systems in the United States and globally. Sepahban is currently CEO of OurOffice Inc., a software company leading a new product category in human resources technology. OurOffice is the provider of an integrated platform that leverages data and machine learning to empower companies with deep insights, curated solutions, and actions to improve diversity, equity, and inclusion. Previously, Sepahban's career spanned world-class, high-tech organizations such as the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Fortune 500 companies, and technology start-ups. Most recently, Sepahban was senior vice president at General Dynamics with significant global responsibilities. Sepahban serves on the board of Cooper Standard, a publicly-traded automotive company, and has held board seats and advisory roles at nonprofits, start-ups, and investment funds.
Rich Sternin
Richard Sternin currently serves as Associate Director, Strategic Recruiting Projects, at EY. In this role, he acts as project lead for artificial intelligence recruitment in EY's Global Innovation and Client Technology teams. Before joining EY, he led talent and recruitment at Sentient Technologies, LendingClub, and—more recently—at Hearsay Systems.
Siddharth Suri
Siddharth Suri is a computational social scientist whose research interests lie at the intersection of computer science, behavioral economics, and crowdsourcing. His early work analyzed the relationship between network topology and human behavior. More recently, Sid has studied the crowd workers who power many modern apps, websites, and artificial intelligence (AI) systems. This work culminated in a book he co-authored with Mary L. Gray titled Ghost Work: How to Stop Silicon Valley from Building a New Global Underclass (May 2019). Sid earned his Ph.D. in Computer and Information Science from the University of Pennsylvania in 2007. After that, Sid was a postdoctoral associate in the Computer Science department at Cornell University before moving to the Human & Social Dynamics group at Yahoo! Research. He was also was a founding member of Microsoft Research–New York City and recently joined the Adaptive Systems and Interaction group of Microsoft Research–AI.
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Gray, Mary L., and Siddharth Suri. Ghost Work: How to Stop Silicon Valley from Building a New Global Underclass. Eamon Dolan Books, 2019.
