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The Millennium Alliance Prepares For Its Long Awaited Return To The In-Person Stage This Fall

Posted on June 14, 2022February 13, 2025 by Nicole Chan

NEW YORK – June 14, 2022 – The Millennium Alliance is excited to formally announce a definitive timeline for returning to the in-person stage, which will begin in September of this year. After 2+ years of organizing strictly Virtual Assemblies for its C-Suite Members, Millennium has locked in dates at 5-Star venues in Miami, Nashville, Denver, and Las Vegas to host their initial In-Person Fall Assemblies.

Millennium is now priding itself on being the one-stop-shop for both In-Person and Virtual Assemblies. Society has clearly changed throughout the course of the pandemic and the sentiment of Millennium’s membership mirrors this. After extensive research into the needs and wants of its client base, about half of members and partners prefer the virtual format, given the convenience and lack of travel, while the other half talked of some virtual fatigue and a desire to get back to conducting business in a face-to-face environment. By hosting both live and virtual events, Millennium can offer its partners even more value than before through exclusive access to their entire community, as opposed to only half of its members.

“When we made the essential pivot to hosting our assemblies virtually over two years ago, the one thing that we knew for certain was that we would eventually make our return to the In-Person Assembly model that we’ve built our company and reputation on. Our entire team could not be any more excited to once again, offer our incredible members and partners an exceptional face-to-face networking experience that they will not soon forget. We have been obsessing over the details, and if you thought a Millennium In-Person Assembly was special before, then just wait until you see the enhanced product that we’ll be unveiling this fall.” – Alex Sobol, Co-Founder, The Millennium Alliance

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 recently featured on the Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing companies. The Millennium Alliance is headquartered in Midtown Manhattan.

Building upon its award-winning conference and executive education businesses, today, The Millennium Alliance continues to stay connected with its C-Suite Members and partners through intimate In-Person and Virtual Assemblies, industry-leading Executive Education Opportunities, and by providing exclusive industry insights from the nation’s leading academics, business leaders, and technology providers via our 50+ annual events and The Digital Diary Content Platform, as well as the rapidly growing #MillenniumLive Podcast Series.

Cecilia McKenney, CHRO of Quest Diagnostics, Keynotes Our Transformational CHRO Assembly!

Posted on March 29, 2022February 3, 2025 by Nicole Chan

The Millennium Alliance is honored to welcome Cecilia McKenney, SVP & CHRO of Quest Diagnostics, as the keynote speaker for our upcoming Transformational CHRO Assembly on April 11-12. McKenney brings over 30 years of experience in human resources across several industries. In her current role, she serves 49,000 employees at Quest Diagnostics, and she previously worked in HR, sales, and marketing roles at Frontier Communications and PepsiCo.

Interested in joining this Assembly? Click here to request an invite.

About Cecilia McKenney

Cecilia McKenney is Senior Vice President, Chief Human Resources Officer for Quest Diagnostics, a Fortune 500 company focused on improving the health of patients through unsurpassed diagnostic insights. She is responsible for all human resources activities across the company.

Prior to joining Quest in February 2018, McKenney spent more than a decade at Frontier Communications, where she led the telecommunications company’s human resources function, as well as held senior leadership roles leading the Consumer Division and sales, marketing, business operations, and customer service. Before Frontier, she served in various HR leadership roles at PepsiCo over a period of 16 years.

McKenney earned a bachelor’s degree in business administration at Franklin & Marshall College, and a Certified Employee Benefits Specialist certification from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and the International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans.

Olivia Troye, Former White House Homeland Security Advisor to VP Pence, Keynotes Our Transformational CISO Assembly!

Posted on March 23, 2022February 13, 2025 by Nicole Chan

The Millennium Alliance is thrilled to welcome former White House intelligence professional Olivia Troye as keynote speaker for our upcoming Transformational CISO Assembly on April 26-27. Troye served as Vice President Mike Pence’s Homeland Security and Counterterrorism Advisor from 2018 to 2020 and brings over 20 years of experience providing strategy, policy & operations expertise to Cabinet-level officials and private sector executives in the intelligence, counterterrorism, homeland security, risk management and international affairs arena.

Click here to request an invite to the Assembly.

About Olivia Troye

Olivia Troye is a former career intelligence professional who served as Vice President Mike Pence’s Homeland Security and Counterterrorism Advisor, as well as his lead staffer on the White House Coronavirus Task Force.

Originally from El Paso, Texas, Troye is fluent in Spanish. She received her Bachelor’s in Political Science from the University of Pennsylvania and a Master’s in International Security Studies and Counterterrorism from the National Defense University College of International Affairs. In 2019, Troye graduated from the Naval Postgraduate School’s Executive Leaders Program, an exclusive opportunity for senior-level homeland security & public safety leaders.

After graduating from college, Troye worked for the Republican National Committee. The September 11 attacks prompted her to begin a career in national security, where she first served in the Pentagon as a George W. Bush Administration appointee. Troye was an intelligence official in the DHS Office of Intelligence and Analysis serving as chief of strategy, policy, and plans and worked in the Office of the Vice President of the United States as the homeland security and counterterrorism advisor to Vice President Pence and an aide to the White House Coronavirus Task Force.

After leaving the White House, Troye went on to found The Troye Group, where she currently serves as director of the Republican Accountability Project and Republicans for Voting Rights. Troye uses her expertise and platform to advise private sector and non-profit organizations on global & domestic national security initiatives, educate clients on misinformation and disinformation threats on a variety of issue areas, including election security and political violence prevention, and support non-partisan and non-profit organizations on initiatives related to national security, voting rights, and defending democracy.

The Millennium Alliance Celebrates New Milestones & Eight Years Of Being A Leader In Digital Transformation

Posted on March 4, 2022January 31, 2025 by Nicole Chan

NEW YORK – March 4, 2022 – This week, The Millennium Alliance is proud to be celebrating its 8th Anniversary. Coming off their most successful year in 2021 as an organization to date, Millennium is continuing to reach many new company milestones with each passing year. A few of the key milestones from this past year have included launching 5 new event brands, publishing its 150th podcast episode, and partnering with 30+ of Interbrand’s Top Global Brands.

Since its founding in 2014, The Millennium Alliance has always been committed to providing its members and technology partners with unmatched opportunities to network and learn from the many of the most successful and brightest minds. Armed with a versatile portfolio of offerings, including its packed calendar of Two-Day Assemblies, a powerful Digital Transformation Online Community, the rapidly growing #MillenniumLive Podcast Series, along with industry-leading Executive Education Opportunities, Millennium has continued to expand its offerings in order to deliver an incredible level of value to its community.

“It’s always very rewarding to celebrate another year of Millennium, but this Anniversary in particular is especially unique because it comes fresh off a year where we experienced a tremendous level of growth in nearly every area. From onboarding top talent, to expanding our diverse portfolio of offerings, to experiencing revenue growth that we could have never imagined, as a result, our 8th year has been a special one. What might excite me the most though, is the fact that our entire team is hungrier than ever to make this upcoming year our most successful one to date.” – Alex Sobol, Co-Founder, The Millennium Alliance

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 Kicks Off 2022 By Partnering With Some Of The World’s Top Brands

Posted on February 25, 2022January 31, 2025 by Nicole Chan

NEW YORK – February 25, 2022 – The Millennium Alliance, an invitation-only organization for Senior-Level Executives and Business Transformers, has started off 2022 with a bang by cultivating partnerships with some of the most successful global brands. Some of the companies that Millennium has partnered with so far this year include:

✔ Albertsons	✔ Chevron Phillips	✔ Henkel	✔ Northwell Health
✔ Allstate	✔ Cigna	✔ Hewlett Packard	✔ Otis Elevator
✔ Amazon	✔ Citigroup	✔ Humana	✔ PGA
✔ American Airlines	✔ Cleveland Clinic	✔ Jefferson Health	✔ Revlon
✔ Anthem, Inc.	✔ Colgate-Palmolive	✔ JetBlue	✔ SCL Health
✔ Aramark	✔ Costco	✔ Johnson Controls	✔ Shell
✔ Atrium Health	✔ CVS Health	✔ Lowe’s	✔ Siemens
✔ AXIS Capital	✔ DoorDash	✔ MAC Cosmetics	✔ Taco Bell
✔ Bank of America	✔ Equifax	✔ Macy’s	✔ The Cheesecake Factory
✔ Barclays	✔ Forever 21	✔ MassMutual	✔ The Fresh Market
✔ Big Lots	✔ GAP Inc.	✔ Mayo Clinic	✔ TikTok
✔ BP Corporation	✔ General Electric	✔ Michelin	✔ USAA
✔ Burlington Stores	✔ General Motors	✔ NBA	✔ WarnerMedia
✔ CBRE	✔ Guitar Center	✔ NBCUniversal	✔ YUM! Brands

“It’s been a true testament to the high quality of our Virtual Assemblies that nearly two years since pivoting temporarily to a virtual model, we’ve continued to attract, as well as to impress, so many of the top executives from the most successful brands from across North America. Millennium has been fortunate to build an incredible community over the past eight years, and we’re committed to providing our members and partners with opportunities to network and grow that they will not find anywhere else.” – Rob Davis, Co-Founder, The Millennium Alliance

To check out the full list of partners that Millennium is working with, take a look at their growing 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

Adam Myers, SVP and Chief Clinical Transformation Officer (CCTO) for the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association (BCBSA) Keynotes our Healthcare Providers and Payers Transformation Assembly

Posted on January 26, 2022January 31, 2025 by Paige Russo

The Millennium Alliance is proud to announce Adam Myers will help start the 2022 season off strong with a keynote address at our upcoming Healthcare Providers and Payers Transformation Assembly on April 19-20. Myers is currently the SVP and Chief Clinical Transformation Officer (CCTO) for the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association (BCBSA), driving clinical transformation across the BCBS system, through national networks, quality initiatives, and policy and advocacy positions. Click here to request an invite to the Assembly.

About Adam Myers

Before joining the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association in September 2021, Myers served as the Cleveland Clinic’s chief of population health and director of the Cleveland Clinic Community Care program. This is where he provided leadership to a variety of clinical and residency programs, as well as the center for value-based research. Myers led the clinic’s care model redesign strategy, the community and public health strategy, and the Diversity Inclusion and Racial Equity Council. A New York City native, Myers is board-certified in family medicine and was in private practice in Oklahoma for more than 10 years. He served on the faculty of the University of Oklahoma obstetrics and gynecology department teaching obstetrics and has earned the status of Fellow with the American College of Healthcare Executives, The American Institute of Healthcare Quality and the American Association of Family Physicians. He holds additional board certification in healthcare quality management and patient safety and is a certified professional in healthcare risk management. He is past chair of the American Hospital Association board-level Committee for Clinical Leadership and has held board positions with both the Health Care Transformation Task Force and The Joint Commission. As Senior Vice President and Chief Clinical Transformation Officer, Dr. Adam Myers collaborates with the chief medical officers across the 35 BCBS companies and leads the Office of Clinical Affairs (OCA) and the BCBS Institute. He is a longtime advocate for community health and health equity, Myers helps set the vision for the Blues’ efforts to create a more equitable healthcare system.

Jason Gislason, Chief Digital Officer at Chevron Phillips Chemical Company, Keynotes Our First Assembly of 2022!

Posted on January 25, 2022January 31, 2025 by Nicole Chan

The Millennium Alliance is proud to announce Jason Gislason will help start the 2022 season off strong with a keynote address at our upcoming Digital Enterprise CIO & Data Transformation Assembly on February 8-9, 2022. Gislason, currently the Chief Digital Officer at Chevron Phillips Chemical Company, has dedicated over two decades to transforming the Chemicals and Oil & Gas space, with a wealth of experience that includes positions in data science, engineering, and R&D. Click here to request an invite to the Assembly.

About Jason Gislason

Jason has over 25 years of experience in the Chemicals and Oil & Gas Industries including positions in Research & Development, Marketing, Refining, Commercial and Digital Transformation. He has a strong passion for intrapreneurship, which is currently focused on transforming the way Chevron Phillips Chemical Company does business through the use of machine learning and artificial intelligence. He holds a BS in Aerospace Engineering form Auburn University, an MBA from Oklahoma State University, a MS in Strategic Intelligence from the American Military University, and a PhD in Computational Physical Chemistry from South Dakota State University.

Co-Founder of The Millennium Alliance Joins Young Presidents’ Organization (YPO)

Posted on January 20, 2022February 3, 2025 by Nicole Chan

NEW YORK – January 19, 2022 – The Millennium Alliance, an invitation-only organization for Senior-Level Executives and Business Transformers, has had the privilege over the past eight years of collaborating with many of the most accomplished C-Suite executives from across the globe. Millennium is excited to announce that its Co-Founder Alex Sobol is one of the newest members of the prestigious Young Presidents’ Organization (YPO), where he will have the ability to build relationships with even more of the world’s top leaders. With over 30,000 members across 142 countries, totaling $9 trillion in combined revenue from YPO member-run companies, the opportunities to network with and share ideas with such an extraordinary leadership community are endless.

“I am really excited about joining YPO and being a part of the NJ chapter. Even in the few short months that I have been a member, I have met so many great people and participated in some very innovative events. Very much looking forward to what’s to come in the future and plan to contribute in a positive way.” – Alex Sobol, Co-Founder, The Millennium Alliance.

The entire Millennium Alliance team looks forward to following Alex’s journey as he continues to expand his perspectives and elevate his leadership. This will only help the organization as they prepare for a year full of growth and expansion, to put themselves in a position to top their most successful year in company history in 2022.

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

ABOUT YPO

YPO is the global leadership community of more than 30,000 chief executives in 142 countries who are driven by the belief that the world needs better leaders. Each of our members have achieved significant leadership success at a young age. Combined, they lead businesses and organizations contributing $9 trillion in annual revenue. YPO members become better leaders and better people through peer learning and exceptional experiences in an inclusive community of open sharing and trust.

ABOUT THE MILLENNIUM ALLIANCE

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 thinktank 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 recently featured on the Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing companies. The Millennium Alliance is headquartered in Midtown Manhattan with offices in Austin, TX.

Sujeet Bambawale, CISO of 7-Eleven, Returns to Keynote Our Upcoming CISO Assembly!

Posted on January 12, 2022January 31, 2025 by Nicole Chan

After an excellent keynote address in 2021, The Millennium Alliance is proud to announce Sujeet Bambawale is back by popular demand and will return as keynote speaker for the upcoming Transformational CISO Virtual Assembly taking place on March 8-9, 2022. Bambawale has proven himself to be a cybersecurity trailblazer as CISO of the iconic 7-Eleven brand. Before working with 7-Eleven, he led Security Engineering with Symantec, worked on the enterprise architecture & strategy team with NetApp, and spent over 10 years leading Intuit’s information security & compliance team. Click here to request an invite to the Assembly.

About Sujeet Bambawale

Sujeet Bambawale tells us that it is an honor and a privilege to serve as the Chief Information Security Officer of an iconic global brand that has a deep, cherished, always-on connection into communities everywhere. Information Security at 7-Eleven focuses on maintaining and enhancing an industry-leading, comprehensive and cohesive security fabric around the business value drivers in a customer-obsessed manner. The 7-Eleven Information Security organization brings together the various technical domains within Information Security with the force multipliers of Governance, Risk and Compliance as well as Data Protection to facilitate unified accountability and expedient action.

Bambawale went to 7-Eleven from Symantec’s Consumer Business Division where he had the honor of driving a global security engineering portfolio. Prior to joining Symantec via the LifeLock acquisition, he spent 5 years at NetApp, and over 10 years with Intuit, after working with the information security and risk management teams at Ernst & Young and KMPG. He has been responsible for leading key security initiatives that helped integrate security into the culture of the company and extend the brand into global markets. He led NetApp’s ISO27001 recertification, spoke at NetApp’s conferences in Berlin and Tokyo and was the recipient of Intuit’s Innovation Award. At Ernst & Young and KPMG, he was responsible for developing risk mitigation strategies primarily for Fortune 500 clients in the financial and technology sector.

His focus is on maturing the organization’s security posture by driving execution to a well-socialized and accepted security strategy that benefits internal and external stakeholders through a pragmatic mix of building cross-organizational relationships and developing people managers. He has a Masters degree in Electronics Engineering and am a Certified Chief Information Security Officer (C|CISO), a Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) as well as Certified in the Governance of Enterprise IT (CGEIT). Most recently, he was fortunate to learn about organizational leadership at global scale, with a focus on innovation and cybersecurity, from his professors and colleagues at the Haas Business School in UC Berkeley.

The Millennium Alliance Has Partnered With 30+ Of Interbrand’s Top Global Brands

Posted on November 3, 2021January 31, 2025 by Josie Witaschek

NEW YORK – November 3, 2021 – The Millennium Alliance, an invitation-only organization for Senior-Level Executives and Business Transformers, has had the privilege of working with a number of the most prestigious organizations throughout its nearly 8-year existence. Recently, Interbrand announced a list of their Top 100 Global Brands, 31 of which are companies that Millennium has partnered with, including:

Microsoft	IBM	AXA	Panasonic
Coca Cola	JP Morgan	Mastercard	HSBC
Toyota	UPS	Starbucks	3M
McDonald’s	American Express	L’Oréal	Johnson & Johnson
Disney	GE	Ford	Zoom
Nike	Visa	Citi	Sephora
Facebook	Sony	Goldman Sachs	Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Cisco	PayPal	eBay

“What has always set Millennium apart from other organizations in our space, has been the close-knit relationships that we have been able to cultivate with the world’s leading brands. We take the responsibility of providing a tremendous level of value to each partner that we work with very seriously, and our entire team is humbled to have had the opportunity to collaborate with so many of the brands that have broken down a lot of different barriers.”

– Alex Sobol, Co-Founder, The Millennium Alliance

To see even more of the powerful partners that Millennium is working with, check out their packed calendar of assemblies and digital transformation online community for the remainder of this year and through 2022.

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

ABOUT THE MILLENNIUM ALLIANCE

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 thinktank 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 recently featured on the Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing companies. The Millennium Alliance is headquartered in Midtown Manhattan with offices in Austin, TX.