Sandy Locke, Chief People Officer, Reinsurance at Aon Keynotes Our Transformational CHRO Assembly on December 5-6 in Austin!

The Millennium Alliance is excited to announce that Sandy Locke, Chief People Officer, Reinsurance at Aon will keynote our Transformational CHRO Assembly on December 5-6 in Austin!

About Sandy Locke

Sandy is a strategic and operational leader deeply committed to evolving the workplace by investing in people and driving transformation. She brings a wealth of expertise in crafting and implementing innovative human capital strategies that foster engagement and growth, even in complex, regulated environments.

In her role as CHRO, strategic advisor, and consultant, Sandy excels at aligning commercial and talent objectives within multicultural settings. Her multi-faceted business acumen enables her to drive solutions that seamlessly integrate commercial and human capital needs.

Sandy has developed core skills spanning executive coaching, strategic recruiting, workforce transformation, and DE&I. Her work encompasses everything from performance management and employee well-being to M&A integration and labor relations.

The Millennium Alliance Officially Opens A Second NYC Office To Accommodate Its Rapidly Growing Team & Portfolio Of Events

NEW YORK – November 8, 2024 – The Millennium Alliance, an invitation-only organization for Senior-Level Executives and Business Transformers were excited to kick off November by formally opening the doors to its second NYC Office right in the heart of Midtown Manhattan. With a robust and growing portfolio of Assemblies and Executive Dinners, it has become essential for the Millennium team to expand its team to support North American operations and to help keep up with the growing demand from members and partners for these elite products.

As the leader in B2B executive-level events, in addition to the opening of its London office earlier this year, Millennium has been committed to hiring some of the nation’s top talent to manage their new programs to help deliver the same exceptional quality that they have become known for over the past 10+ years. This investment has allowed the team to seamlessly deliver even more value to its members and partners throughout 2024 thus far.

“We are so excited to open our doors to a brand new space to accommodate the rapid growth we’ve experienced over the last year. With the new space comes both familiar and new talent to help drive the continuous expansion both in North America and Europe.” Gabie Polce, SVP of Sales, of The Millennium Alliance.

To learn more about Millennium’s upcoming C-Suite programs, check out their packed calendar of assemblies and digital transformation online community.

For more information or to get in contact with The Millennium Alliance directly, contact info@mill-all.com.

ABOUT THE MILLENNIUM ALLIANCE

The Millennium Alliance is a leading technology and business educational advisory firm with the sole mission of helping to transform the digital enterprise. Through our executive education platform, peer-to-peer learning model via our senior-level Assemblies, exclusive research projects conducted with Ivy League academic institutions, and our numerous digital properties, we have become a trusted source for real-world tangible learning and engagement opportunities for senior executives and their technology partners.

This all started in 2014 when our founders, Alex Sobol & Rob Davis decided to create the most intimate, high-level & exclusive in-person and online think tank for leaders in a wide variety of industries within both the private and public sectors: The Millennium Alliance. Since its founding, Millennium has built a strong reputation nationwide, now with thousands of engaged Members, and was previously featured on the Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing companies in addition to being included once again for the year 2024. The Millennium Alliance is headquartered in Midtown Manhattan and has European operations in Central City London.

The Millennium Alliance Locks In Even More Top Leaders From Cisco, Verizon, Chipotle, P&G, PepsiCo, and More To Headline Its Latest Programs

NEW YORK – October 30, 2024 – The Millennium Alliance, an invitation-only organization for Senior-Level Executives and Business Transformers, have continued to secure a lineup of elite keynote speakers throughout this year. Spanning across most of Millennium’s core industries, their ability to secure keynote commitments from many of the world’s most accomplished and innovative executives further solidifies the immense value that the Millennium Community offers to the executives that they work with.

“Our team continues to secure many of the most sought-after and accomplished leaders for Millennium’s Assemblies. These partnerships help us provide our C-Suite Members with takeaways that they will take back to implement into their roles immediately. Partnering with such an outstanding group of industry legends will allow us to provide our members with something that they would be hard-pressed to find at any other program.” – Jessie Weitzer, SVP Executive Alliances, The Millennium Alliance

To take a closer look at the latest keynote speakers that Millennium is working with, check out the following dedicated announcements.

For more information or to get in contact with The Millennium Alliance directly, contact

info@mill-all.com.

ABOUT THE MILLENNIUM ALLIANCE

The Millennium Alliance is a leading technology and business educational advisory firm with the sole mission of helping to transform the digital enterprise. Through our executive education platform, peer-to-peer learning model via our senior-level Assemblies, exclusive research projects conducted with Ivy League academic institutions, and our numerous digital properties, we have become a trusted source for real-world tangible learning and engagement opportunities for senior executives and their technology partners.

This all started in 2014 when our founders, Alex Sobol & Rob Davis decided to create the most intimate, high-level & exclusive in-person and online think tank for leaders in a wide variety of industries within both the private and public sectors: The Millennium Alliance. Since its founding, Millennium has built a strong reputation nationwide, now with thousands of engaged Members, and was previously featured on the Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing companies in addition to being included once again for the year 2024. The Millennium Alliance is headquartered in Midtown Manhattan and has European operations in Central City London.

Vivek Khindria, Former SVP Cyber Security, Network and Technology Risk at Loblaw Companies Limit Keynotes Our Transformational CISO Assembly January 28-29th in Dallas!

The Millennium Alliance is excited to announce Vivek Khindria, Former SVP Cyber Security, Network and Technology Risk at Loblaw Companies Limited, will keynote our Transformational CISO Assembly on January 28-29th in Dallas!

Interested in joining this Assembly?

About Vivek Khindria

As a cybersecurity and technology leader, Vivek worked with business leaders to develop strategies and practical roadmaps for managing risks related to information assets, mitigating both present and emerging threats to gain a competitive advantage. His ultimate goal was to advance Canada’s cybersecurity capabilities.

During his career in North America, Vivek had the privilege of collaborating with remarkable teams, building expertise across various sectors, including Financial Services, Telecommunications, Retail, and Supply Chain.

Marty Paslick, Retired CIO at HCA Healthcare Keynotes Our Healthcare Providers Transformation Assembly December 3-4th in Nashville

The Millennium Alliance is excited to announce Marty Paslick, Retired CIO at HCA Healthcare will keynote our Healthcare Providers Transformation Assembly December 3-4th at The JW Marriott, Nashville.  

About Marty Paslick

With nearly four decades of leadership at HCA Healthcare, Marty has been instrumental in driving the company’s Information Technology Group (ITG) to deliver innovative IT strategy and support across its care sites. A visionary leader, he served as the first Chief Operating Officer of ITG in 2010, overseeing critical IT operations before being appointed Chief Information Officer in June 2012.

His influence extends beyond healthcare technology. As Chair of both the Technology and Sports Councils for the city of Nashville, Marty has played a key role in fostering innovation within the region. His contributions were honored with an induction into the Nashville Technology Council’s Hall of Fame in 2020. Recognized as one of the hundred most powerful leaders by the Nashville Business Journal, Marty remains a pivotal figure in shaping the intersection of technology, healthcare, and community leadership.

The Millennium Alliance Announces 2025 & 2026 Assemblies Calendar & Plans To Launch Five New Event Tracks

NEW YORK – September 6, 2024 – As the New Year rapidly approaches, The Millennium Alliance has formalized its plans to add five powerful new event tracks to its growing portfolio of C-Suite Enterprise Assemblies in 2025 and beyond. These new additions directly reflect Millennium’s commitment to expanding its available offerings to members and customers and include:

  • Transformational CFO Assembly: In September of 2025, this event is designed to address the evolving CFO role and help them navigate the challenges of tomorrow that Global Chief Financial Officers will encounter in the years to come.
  • Transformational B2B CMO Assembly: Taking place in February of 2025, this event is designed to address the unique pain points of today’s Global B2B Chief Marketing Officers.
  • Transformation CIO Financial Services Assembly: Taking place starting in Q1 of 2025, this event is designed specifically for Global Chief Information Officers in the Financial Services industry and will be co-located with Millennium’s flagship Digital Enterprise CIO Assembly.
  • Enterprise Sustainability & Transformation Assembly: Launching in April of 2025, this event will address the variety of fresh challenges that Chief Sustainability Officers and SVPs of ESG and Climate Change are facing.
  • Digital Customer Engagement Transformation Assembly: Debuting in May of 2025, this program is set to be a groundbreaking opportunity for Senior Vice Presidents of Omnichannel, E-commerce, and DTC to meet face-to-face and connect on the current trends & challenges the industry is facing.

A core value of ours has always been to never be satisfied with the level of success that we achieve as a team and to continue to innovate for the benefit of our amazing community. After launching four incredibly successful new brands in 2024, we wanted to build off that positive momentum by adding five additional brands that our leadership team feels strongly will be a staple of our growing portfolio of C-Suite events for years to come. I truly believe that nobody in our space does it better than Millennium, and am excited to showcase these great new brands when they debut next year.” – Alex Sobol, Co-Founder, The Millennium Alliance

With the addition of these new event brands, Millennium has set its sights on following up what’s been a massively successful 2024 so far, with an even bigger year in 2025 and beyond. Their strategic expansion is a result of the demand of its growing community of members and partners no longer only in North America, but across the globe.

Click here to view the Full Assemblies Calendar.

For more information or to get in contact with The Millennium Alliance directly, contact info@mill-all.com.

ABOUT THE MILLENNIUM ALLIANCE

The Millennium Alliance is a leading technology and business educational advisory firm with the sole mission of helping to transform the digital enterprise. Through our executive education platform, peer-to-peer learning model via our senior-level Assemblies, exclusive research projects conducted with Ivy League academic institutions, and our numerous digital properties, we have become a trusted source for real-world tangible learning and engagement opportunities for senior executives and their technology partners.

This all started in 2014 when our founders, Alex Sobol & Rob Davis decided to create the most intimate, high-level & exclusive in-person and online think tank for leaders in a wide variety of industries within both the private and public sectors: The Millennium Alliance. Since its founding, Millennium has built a strong reputation nationwide, now with thousands of engaged Members, and was previously featured on the Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing companies in addition to being included once again for the year 2024. The Millennium Alliance is headquartered in Midtown Manhattan and has European operations in Central City London.

Massimo Peselli, CRO Global Enterprise and Public Sector at Verizon Business Keynotes Our Transformational CRO Assembly September 25-26th at The Biltmore in Miami!

The Millennium Alliance is excited to announce Massimo Peselli, CRO Global Enterprise and Public Sector at Verizon Business at will keynote our Transformational CRO Assembly September 25-26th at The Biltmore in Miami!  

About Massimo Peselli

Massimo is the Chief Revenue Officer for Global Enterprise and Public Sector at Verizon Business. He leads a global team dedicated to delivering cutting-edge technologies—such as 5G, mobile edge computing (MEC), cloud solutions, cybersecurity, and software-defined networking—that empower enterprise and public sector clients to thrive in today’s competitive landscape while strategically guiding their digital transformation journeys. With over 20 years of industry expertise, Massimo is a visionary leader skilled in crafting tailored strategies that drive successful digital transformation for clients. He cultivates a high-performance culture rooted in Verizon’s core values of integrity, respect, and empathy.

Melani Wilson Smith, Former CPO at PepsiCo Keynotes Our Digital Supply Chain Transformation Assembly on October 29-30, 2024 at The Omni in Charlotte!

The Millennium Alliance is excited to announce Melani Wilson Smith, Former CPO at PepsiCO will keynote our Digital Supply Chain Transformation Assembly on October 29-30, 2024 at The Omni in Charlotte.

About Melani Wilson Smith

Melani is a global strategic sourcing and data-driven executive with a demonstrated ability to innovate and drive transformation across organizations and industries. Her expertise lies in delivering savings that fund strategic business priorities, managing supply chains to maximize value, and fostering effective collaboration across customers, stakeholders, and suppliers. Melani is passionate about developing high-performing organizations and building talent.

Her industry experience spans pharmaceutical, hospitality, and consumer products sectors across the United States and Europe. She has managed both direct and indirect procurement categories and led operations for Procurement, Facilities, Fleet, Travel, and Security.

Inc. Magazine Unveils Its Annual List of America’s Fastest-Growing Private Companies—the Inc. 5000 For the Second Time, The Millennium Alliance Makes the Inc. 5000, at No. 2,122 in 2024, With a Three-Year Revenue Growth of 248 Percent

NEW YORK – August 19, 2024 Inc. revealed today that The Millennium Alliance ranks No. 2,122 on the 2024 Inc. 5000, its annual list of the fastest-growing private companies in America. The prestigious ranking provides a data-driven look at the most successful companies within the economy’s most dynamic segment—its independent, entrepreneurial businesses. Microsoft, Meta, Chobani, Under Armour, Timberland, Oracle, Patagonia, and many other household-name brands gained their first national exposure as honorees on the Inc. 5000.

Alex Sobol, Co-Founder & Managing Partner of The Millennium Alliance had this to say about Millennium receiving this incredible honor. “It’s been a wonderful 10 ½ years helping to build Millennium. We were a very strong business right before the COVID pandemic broke out and have been absolutely on fire since the end of 2021 & beginning of 2022. Millennium now has operations on two continents with the expansion earlier this year into the EU market, which is all being spearheaded via our London headquarters. This year included additional milestones such as surpassing the 100-employee count earlier in the year, running over 70 of our flagship multi-day C-Suite Assemblies, contracting for close to 200 private bespoke events for some of our most favorite clients, and continuing to build out our digital properties, especially our growing podcast channel Millennium Live which is now approaching 10k subscribers. It has never been a more exciting time to be at The Millennium Alliance and we are pumped to make the prestigious Inc. 5000 once again.”

For complete results of the Inc. 5000, including company profiles and an interactive database that can be sorted by industry, location, and other criteria, go to www.inc.com/inc5000. All 5000 companies are featured on Inc.com starting Tuesday, August 13, and the top 500 appear in the new issue of Inc. magazine, available on newsstands beginning Tuesday, August 20.

“One of the greatest joys of my job is going through the Inc. 5000 list,” says Mike Hofman, who recently joined Inc. as editor-in-chief. “To see all of the intriguing and surprising ways that companies are transforming sectors, from health care and AI to apparel and pet food, is fascinating for me as a journalist and storyteller. Congratulations to this year’s honorees, as well, for growing their businesses fast despite the economic disruption we all faced over the past three years, from supply chain woes to inflation to changes in the workforce.”

More ABOUT THE INC. 5000

Methodology

Companies on the 2024 Inc. 5000 are ranked according to percentage revenue growth from 2020 to 2023. To qualify, companies must have been founded and generating revenue by March 31, 2020. They must be U.S.-based, privately held, for-profit, and independent—not subsidiaries or divisions of other companies—as of December 31, 2023. (Since then, some on the list may have gone public or been acquired.) The minimum revenue required for 2020 is $100,000; the minimum for 2023 is $2 million. As always, Inc. reserves the right to decline applicants for subjective reasons. Growth rates used to determine company rankings were calculated to four decimal places.

ABOUT INC.

Inc. Business Media is the leading multimedia brand for entrepreneurs. Through its journalism, Inc. aims to inform, educate, and elevate the profile of our community: the risk-takers, the innovators, and the ultra-driven go-getters who are creating our future. Inc.’s award-winning work achieves a monthly brand footprint of more than 40 million across a variety of channels, including events, print, digital, video, podcasts, newsletters, and social media. Its proprietary Inc. 5000 list, produced every year since its launch as the Inc. 100 in 1982, analyzes company data to rank the fastest-growing privately held businesses in the United States. The recognition that comes with inclusion on this and other prestigious Inc. lists, such as Female Founders and Power Partners, gives the founders of top businesses the opportunity to engage with an exclusive community of their peers, and credibility that helps them drive sales and recruit talent. For more information, visit www.inc.com.

For more information on the Inc. 5000 Conference & Gala, to be held from October 16 to 18 in Palm Desert, California, please visit http://conference.inc.com/.

ABOUT THE MILLENNIUM ALLIANCE

The Millennium Alliance is a leading technology and business educational advisory firm with the sole mission of helping to transform the digital enterprise. Through our executive education platform, peer-to-peer learning model via our senior-level Assemblies, exclusive research projects conducted with Ivy League academic institutions, and our numerous digital properties, we have become a trusted source for real-world tangible learning and engagement opportunities for senior executives and their technology partners.

This all started in 2014 when our founders, Alex Sobol & Rob Davis decided to create the most intimate, high-level & exclusive in-person and online think tank for leaders in a wide variety of industries within both the private and public sectors: The Millennium Alliance. Since its founding, Millennium has built a strong reputation nationwide, now with thousands of engaged Members, and was previously featured on the Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing companies in addition to being included once again for the year 2024. The Millennium Alliance is headquartered in Midtown Manhattan and has European operations in Central City London.

Jim Merlino, CISO, EVP & Chief Innovation Officer at The Joint Commission Keynotes Our Healthcare Providers Transformation Assembly on September 17-18th!

The Millennium Alliance is excited to announce Jim Merlino, EVP & Chief Innovation Officer at The Joint Commission will keynote our Healthcare Providers Transformation Assembly on September 17-18th. 

About Jim Merlino

James Merlino, MD, is the Executive Vice President and Chief Innovation Officer at The Joint Commission. In this role, Dr. Merlino focuses on the transformation of The Joint Commission’s
services utilizing data and innovation to advance health care safety and quality worldwide. Previously, he served as the Chief Clinical Transformation Officer at Cleveland Clinic overseeing
enterprise strategy, business development, safety, quality, experience, and continuous organizational improvement. Earlier, he also served as Chief Experience Officer and Associate Chief of Staff at Cleveland Clinic, vice-chair of the Digestive Disease Institute, and was a practicing staff colorectal surgeon. Prior to Cleveland Clinic, he served as the Chief Transformation Officer for Press Ganey Associates. Dr. Merlino is recognized as an expert in health care strategy, improving safety, quality, and patient experience, and has extensive experience both domestically and internationally. He is a renowned speaker with over 400 invited presentations including on strategies to redefine care around the needs of the patient. He has led C-suite strategic sessions with more than 70 of the largest and most successful health care organizations in the U.S., and regularly coached CEOs, C-suite leaders and health care boards on health care strategy and cultural change.

Dr. Merlino was named to HealthLeaders Magazine’s list of “20 people who make health care better” in 2013 and has consistently been on Becker’s list of top 50 experts in health care safety, and was recognized by Beckers as a top Chief Transformation Officer. He has been widely published in academic papers and released his first book, “Service Fanatics: How to Build Superior Patient Experience the Cleveland Clinic Way” in 2014. He is a co-editor of the best-selling safety book “Zero Harm: How to Achieve Patient and Workforce Safety in Healthcare,” released in 2018. He has also received numerous awards in health care. Dr. Merlino is a member of the American College of Health Care Executives, American Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons, American College of Surgeons, and American Medical Association.

Dr. Merlino earned his bachelor’s degree in business administration from Baldwin-Wallace College, Berea, OH, and his medical degree from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine in Cleveland, OH. He completed his general surgery training at University Hospitals of Cleveland and his colorectal surgery fellowship at Cleveland Clinic. He was also an Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) fellow.