Susan Avarde Will Keynote The Digital FSI Assembly

Susan Avarde Former Head of Global Brand, Citigroup will “Connect the “Bits”” at The Digital FSI Transformation Assembly!

NEW YORK, May 17^th, 2016 – The Millennium Alliance is incredibly honored to have Susan Avarde Former Head of Global Brand at Citigroup, as the opening keynote speaker at our Digital FSI Transformation Assembly taking place June 9-10, 2016 at The Biltmore Hotel in Miami, FL.

The Digital FSI Transformation Assembly will bring together North America’s most prominent digital, marketing, technology, and business leaders from the Financial Service industry. CEOs around the world are anticipating a highly complex marketing environment over the next few years; this makes the CMO and CDO more important than ever before. The digital revolution has forever changed the balance of power between individual consumers and brands. CMOs and CDOs especially know that there is an explosion of information that is creating the digital enterprise. In addition, a CMO having an understanding that social media is the key channel for engaging with customers and knowing how to measure those results is what will help their organizations stay ahead of the competition.

This premier gathering will address the most important digital marketing/business priorities of 2016 and identify new opportunities to lead a digital marketing transformation. Through a cutting edge program designed by the industry, for the industry, we will provide the freshest and most up-to-date insight that will help move your organization to the next level. A series of executive education roundtables, keynote presentations, educational workshops and networking sessions will offer industry-specific topics and trends to ensure your company sustains its competitive advantage.

About Susan Avarde @AvardeSusan

Susan modernizes companies by creating “future-fit” strategies. She has served 20+ companies, in 30+ countries. Most recently she was Head of Global Brand at Citigroup where she provided leadership to Citi’s country CEOs and the regional marketers enterprise-wide.

HBS has written about her work and she has been invited to the White House twice to promote excellence in innovation and design. Her current focus is on how businesses can transform and leverage mega-trends, with particular focus on Millennials, digital and the female economy. She is a TED, Fortune MPW and DLD participant and is a board advisor to various firms covering areas such as; media, tech, marketing, valuation and venture capital investment.

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 Greg Stuart CEO, Mobile Marketing Association Keynotes The 2016 Digital Transformation Assembly!

NEW YORK, May 17^th, 2016 – The Millennium Alliance is incredibly honored to have Greg Stuart, CEO at Mobile Marketing Association, as the opening keynote speaker at our Digital Transformation Assembly taking place June 6-7, 2016 at The Biltmore Hotel in Miami, FL. You won’t want to miss what he has to say about what really is the mobile marketing opportunity! ‪

The Digital Transformation Assembly will bring together North America’s most prominent digital, marketing, technology, and business leaders from all major consumer-driven industries. CEOs around the world are anticipating a highly complex marketing environment over the next few years; this makes the CDO more important than ever before. The digital revolution has forever changed the balance of power between individual consumers and brands. CDOs especially know that there is an explosion of information that is creating the digital enterprise. In addition, a CDO having an understanding that social media is the key channel for engaging with customers and knowing how to measure those results is what will help their organizations stay ahead of the competition.

This premier gathering will address the most important digital marketing/business priorities of 2016 and identify new opportunities to lead a digital marketing transformation. Through a cutting edge program designed by the industry, for the industry, we will provide the freshest and most up-to-date insight that will help move your organization to the next level. A series of executive education roundtables, keynote presentations, educational workshops and networking sessions will offer industry-specific topics and trends to ensure your company sustains its competitive advantage.

About Greg Stuart @gregstuart

Greg Stuart is the CEO of the Mobile Marketing Association (MMA), the leading global media trade group focused on the burgeoning mobile marketing industry. Over the past four years, Greg has transformed the association, attracting marketing and business leaders across the industry to lock arms and advance the mobile marketing movement. By expanding and evolving the MMA’s core resources, Greg has more than doubled the organization’s revenue, oversees the 800 member companies globally with operations in 12 countries, and works alongside top “mobile-first” brands on the MMA Global Board.

The MMA’s position on mobile marketing, “nothing gets marketers closer to consumers than mobile,” is a testament as to why Greg, a proven business builder, is dedicated to developing mobile as the most powerful channel available to marketers.

While Greg is an expert on mobile marketing, his background expands to include both the traditional and digital arena. He was formerly the CEO of the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB), the trade group for interactive advertising and marketing. During his tenure, Greg grew the IAB’s revenue significantly, providing vision and direction to spur the industry to invest $17 billion in Internet advertising, a monumental leap from $6 billion when he first started with the IAB.

With nearly three decades spent in marketing, two of which focused on digital and emerging technology, Greg has worked across the media landscape including roles with Y&R, Sony Online Ventures, Cars.com, Flycast Ad Network that IPO’d in 1999 and advising the CEO’s of two dozen other venture-backed businesses, a group of which have now sold for over $2 billion.

In addition to being a sought after speaker and a member of the National Speakers Association, Greg is an author of What Sticks: Why Most Advertising Fails and How to Guarantee Yours Succeeds, which was recognized by AdAge as the as the No. 1 book of the “10 books you should have read”.

Industry authorities have awarded Greg for his work as a pioneer in emerging media. In 2006, AdAge selected Greg as part of the “10 Who Made Their Mark” and he is a regular contributor to leading publications such as Fast Company for his views on mobile marketing.

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C. Webb Edwards Headlines 2016 FSI Transformation Assembly

NEW YORK, April 5^th, 2016 – The Millennium Alliance is incredibly honored to have Former Chief Executive Officer & President, Wells Fargo & Company, C. Webb Edwards, as the opening keynote speaker at our FSI Transformation Assembly taking place June 13-14, 2016 The Biltmore Hotel in Miami, FL. You won’t want to miss what he has to say! ‪

The FSI Transformation Assembly will bring together North America’s most prominent technology and business leaders from all major financial services and insurance organizations. While financial services and insurance CIOs will deal with many challenges in the coming year, one particular technological challenge raises to the top- dealing with the complexity of data. The massive explosion in data is creating unprecedented manageability issues for firms around the world that can be linked to the following factors: expanding customer touch points, emerging types of structured and unstructured data, new customer engagement and social media platforms, rising data security, and controlling the overall data volume. As this takes high precedence, IT leaders need to understand the convergence of mobile, social, and cloud to stay ahead of the competition.

This premier gathering will address the most important IT and business priorities of 2016 and identify new opportunities to lead IT transformation. Through a cutting edge program designed by the industry for the industry, we will provide the freshest and most up-to-date insight that will help move your organization to the next level. A series of executive education roundtables, keynote presentations, educational workshops and networking sessions will offer industry specific topics and trends to ensure your company sustains competitive advantage.

About C. Webb Edwards

Webb Edwards served as Chief Executive Officer and President of Wells Fargo Services Company from 1998 to 2006. Prior to that he served as an Executive Vice President of Operations Group and Technology of Wells Fargo & Company. His areas of responsibility included the project management office; infrastructure technology operations (network, LAN/desktop, data center, information security, and risk); application development; payment systems strategy and execution; retail phone banks; payment operations for wholesale and retail; consumer loan operations; internal customer service delivery; and enterprise technology and data architecture. This organization had an annual budget of $2.2 billion and 21,000 employees.

Mr. Edwards served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Norwest Technical Services, Inc., a subsidiary of Wells Fargo & Company from 1995 to 1998. Edwards was responsible for all decisions related to technology, operations and call centers during the merger of Norwest and Wells Fargo. At the time it was the largest and most successful merger of two large banks.

Prior to the merger with Wells Fargo, Edwards was Executive Vice President of Norwest Corporation and President for Norwest Services, Inc. He joined Norwest after serving as Executive Vice President of Information Services and Operations for First Interstate Bancorp from 1984.

For several years Edwards has been consulting with mid to small size businesses around strategy development, market positioning, technology trends and payments evolution. Additionally he is co founder of Ganart Technologies in Dallas, Texas. Ganart developed software and hardware for providing transactional services to the unbanked and underserved market.

Additionally, he has done speaking engagements with companies on subjects such as Future Technology Trends, Improving Vendor/ Client Relationships, The paradigm shift in payments and businesses brought about by the rapid evolution of telecommunications and technology, Value of Information and Mobile Payments. Some of these include IBM, Cisco, Microsoft, SunGard, Cannon, Allstate, Fiserv, Kofax and Filenet.

He served on the Board of Carreker Corporation and also later consulted with the Board. He has also served on the Board of Minnesota Mutual, Sterling Savings Bank where he served as vice chair of the Audit committee and chair of the Trust committee and the Board of Umpqua Bank.

Edwards began his career with the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta where he managed Operations and Fiscal services.

He has attended Stonier Graduate School of Banking, University of Tennessee Executive Management School, and the Harvard Business School’s Executive Education Program. Edwards did his graduate and post-graduate work in economics and finance at Middle Tennessee State University.

Edwards is a native of Tennessee. He and his wife Cathy currently reside in Malibu, California. They have two children and three grand children.

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HEAR FROM HEALTHCARE THOUGHT LEADERS AT OUR UPCOMING HEALTHCARE PROVIDERS TRANSFORMATION ASSEMBLY!

Catch top Healthcare thought leaders at our biannual Healthcare Assembly and join the discussion with our eminent authors, academics and industry pioneers!

WE’RE THRILLED TO ANNOUNCE:

Brian Ahier Director Of Standards & Government Affairs Medicity

Don Novo Principal Health Management Associates

Judy Hanover Research Director, Healthcare Provider IT Strategies Practice IDC

Michelle Katz Author, Healthcare Contributor ABC News & “The Doctor’s Show,” Author: Healthcare Made Easy

Pierre Vigilance Associate Dean For Public Health Practice & Associate Professor Of Global Health The George Washington University Milken Institute School Of Public Health

Robin Farmanfarmaian Patient & Medical Technologist and Best Selling Author “The Patient As CEO: How Technology Empowers The Healthcare Consumer”

Scott Lundstrom Group Vice President and General Manager, Financial, Government and Health Insights IDC

“The Healthcare Assembly was really great this year! The thought leadership as well as the involvement from the CMOs, CMIOs, solution providers and some government officials really provided a great opportunity for great discussion, networking and interactive learning from our own community.” Brian Ahier Director Of Standards & Government Affairs at Medicity.

Named by George Washington Public Health Top Healthcare Conferences to Attend in 2016, the Healthcare Providers Assembly takes place from April 17^th to the 19^th at the Four Seasons in Houston, TX.

The Healthcare Providers program is a collaborative effort between our thought leaders and leading healthcare systems such as: Memorial Hermann Health System, Cedars-Sinai Health System, Sharp Healthcare, and Geisinger Health System.

Register your attendance for the Healthcare Providers Assembly today! Apply For Membership