PERSONAL PATHWAYS - Key Persons
Ann Hackett is the co-founder of Personal Pathways, LLC whose flagship product is EffectiveTeams™. Prior to that, she had been President of Horizon Consulting Group, LLC. Ann has more than 30 years' experience in developing and leading critical strategic and human capital initiatives. She has worked with Boards of Directors, CEO's and senior executives globally to identify strategic opportunities and execute solutions during periods of business and financial challenges and transformation. Ann previously was a partner at Strategic Planning Associates, and a member of the Management Committee. She currently serves on the boards of Capital One Financial Corporation and Fortune Brands Home & Security, Inc. Ann's also a member of Tapestry Network's Lead Director Network, a select group of lead directors who collaborate on matters regarding board leadership. She previously served on the boards of Fortune Brands, Inc. and Beam, Inc. and was on the Dartmouth Board of Trustees for 12 years. She serves on a number of non-profit boards. A graduate of Dartmouth College, she received her MBA degree from Stanford University.
Cesar Brea. Cesar has more than 25 years' experience as a line executive, entrepreneur, and advisor at the intersection of social software, business analytics, and marketing strategy. Cesar is currently a partner in Bain & Company. He has extensive experience helping CEOs and CMOs make better use of data to improve marketing performance and build associated capabilities. Cesar returned to Bain in 2017, having previously served as a manager. Over the last decade, he founded and ran Force Five Partners, a marketing analytics consulting firm serving CMOs at large multi-channel advertisers across multiple industries, including financial services, retail, pharmaceuticals, education and media. Earlier, he helped to build and sell two internet software firms, was SVP for sales and marketing at Razorfish, the global digital advertising agency, and was global practice leader for another global consulting firm's digital media and marketing practice. Cesar is the author of two books on marketing analytics, Marketing and Sales Analytics (Pearson FT Press, 2014), and Pragmalytics (iUniverse, 2013). In addition, he has spoken and written widely on marketing analytics, business strategy and technology.
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- Professor at Harvard Business School
Clayton Christensen. Clay, a Professor at Harvard Business School, is regarded as one of the world's foremost authority on innovation and growth. His theories have been widely used in industries and organizations throughout the world. He is the best-selling author of nine books and more than a hundred articles. Clay's first book, The Innovator's Dilemma received the Global Business Book Award as the best business book of the year (1997); and in 2011 The Economist named it as one of the six most important books about business ever written. That same year, in a poll of thousands of executives, consultants and business school professors, Christensen was named as the most influential business thinker in the world. Disruptive innovation describes a process by which a product or service takes root initially in simple applications at the bottom of a market and then relentlessly moves up market, eventually displacing established competitors. At Harvard Business School, Clay teaches one of the most popular elective classes for second year students, Building and Sustaining a Successful Enterprise. Learn more at www.claytonchristensen.com.
Gregg Petersmeyer is the founder and CEO of Personal Pathways, LLC. which provides the enterprise technology product, EffectiveTeams™. Gregg has more than 30 years' experience helping create, build and lead private, public and not-for-profit enterprises. He was a consultant with McKinsey & Company in New York and a senior officer and director of General Atlantic Energy Corp. in Denver. He has served in the White House under two Presidents, including with George H.W. Bush as Assistant to the President where Gregg led the Points of Light work that became a hallmark of his presidency. It encouraged the unique agency of individuals and groups to voluntarily make a difference based on their own values and their freedom to act. Gregg is a founder and chair of America's Promise, the youth organization whose founding chair is Colin Powell; a trustee of City Year and The Committee for Economic Development (CED); an advisory board member of Oxford Analytica; a founder and board member of the Points of Light Foundation; and a founding trustee of First Focus Campaign for Children. Gregg received an AB from Harvard College, a M.Litt. from Oxford University, and a MBA from Harvard Business School.
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- Talent Solutions Architect at CEB
Jean Martin. As a Talent Solutions Architect at CEB, now Gartner, Jean directs the development of talent management solutions and insights working closely with heads HR at some of the world's largest organizations. She focuses particularly on issues such as driving breakthrough organizational performance and assessing, engaging and retaining the best employees. Jean is passionate about the business benefits companies reap when they find top talent and build out their global leadership bench. Her perspectives are regularly featured in Harvard Business Review, Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, and Huffington Post, among other titles. She presents to executive teams at organizations including Starbucks, Amazon, and BP, and she has been a featured speaker at events such as The Economist Talent Summit and White House TechHire. Jean received a Masters of Public Policy with a concentration in Economics and Finance from the Kennedy School at Harvard University and a Bachelor of Arts with highest distinction from the University of Virginia.
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- Chief Information and Security Officer and Enterprise Architect for Effective
Peter Daniel is the chief information and security officer and enterprise architect for EffectiveTeams. He has over 25 years of experience in managing and directing software development and enterprise level systems integration, COTS integration and custom client server development and deployment projects, and adhering to comprehensive 3rd party verified cybersecurity standards. He has worked for several large IT organizations, including DynCorp, PricewaterhouseCoopers, and Northrop Grumman (previously Integic). Peter combines a strong business, entrepreneurial and technical background in working with stakeholders, both leaders and subject matter experts, to build a holistic view of their organization's strategy, processes, information, and information technology assets where the business, IT and security are aligned. He is a graduate of George Mason University with a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and a Master's degree in Software and Systems Engineering.
Randa Daniel manages the product development team and provides technical leadership for the EffectiveTeams product. She has more than 25 years of experience in IT leadership and full life cycle software development. Randa has directed several large software engineering, software development, web application implementations, and business process reengineering efforts for various large and small government and commercial organizations. She possesses a unique blend of business and technical understanding and the ability both to develop a strategic vision and then the drive to make that vision a reality. A graduate of George Mason University, Randa received her Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and a Master's degree in Software and Systems Engineering.
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- Chairman of General Atlantic