Millennium Expands U.S. Headquarters Amid Rapid Growth and Record Demand

NEW YORK – Oct. 9, 2025 – The Millennium Alliance, an invitation-only organization for senior-level executives and business transformers, announced today plans to expand its U.S. headquarters in New York City, adding an additional 10,000 square feet of office space. The expansion brings Millennium’s total footprint in the US to more than 20,000 square feet across two full floors on Park Avenue South to accommodate its rapidly growing team and portfolio of executive-level engagement opportunities both via their in-person multi-day national Assemblies, Bespoke ABM focused dinners, and 1-day city programs for select clients. This is in addition to the rapidly growing digital products Millennium is offering.

“Our growth over the past several years has been extraordinary, and this expansion reflects the continued demand we’re seeing across our entire global portfolio,” said Alex Sobol, Co-Founder of The Millennium Alliance. “Having even more space will allow us to continue to hire more of the best and brightest NYC has to offer and better support our employees, members, and partners.”

The expansion follows a year of record-breaking attendance and engagement across Millennium’s portfolio of C-Suite Assemblies and Executive Dinners, which now span more than a dozen industries. This new space not only marks another milestone in Millennium’s growth but also reinforces their commitment to creating a dynamic, high-performance environment for the team. The company plans to complete build-out and workspace enhancements by the end of 2025. All of this would not be possible without the exceptional partnership we have with the team at CBRE led by EVP Taylor Scheinman, one of the best brokers in all of NYC.

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.

Smarter Finance with AI: From Strategy to Execution with Nominal

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Our partners at Nominal’s four-part masterclass helps finance professionals move beyond spreadsheets and manual processes to build intelligent, AI-enabled operations. Drawing from real examples and hands on exercises, their masterclass gives participants the tools to spot hidden inefficiencies, design smart workflows with AI agents, and shift their focus from routine tasks to strategic analysis.

Over the course of the program, participants learn how to eliminate repetitive close and consolidation work, translate business rules into logic that intelligent agents can execute, and apply prompt-based techniques to improve accuracy and speed. They also see how AI can elevate their own role, from CFO, controller, or accountant by driving better decisions, faster reporting, and greater visibility across the finance function.

The masterclass ends with a hands-on certification that gives finance teams a clear, usable framework for applying AI and automation to make everyday processes faster, easier, and more reliable.

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About Nominal

Nominal is the agentic AI platform built for modern finance. Nominal helps finance teams automate financial consolidation, intercompany eliminations, reconciliations, and reporting across complex, multi-entity structures — without changing their GL or ERP setup. Their AI agents handle the work spreadsheets weren’t built for, from revenue and accrual workflows to period-end processes. Nominal integrates directly with your systems and is up and running in days — no engineering required.

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Store-Specific Planograms for Modern Retail with Optimum Retailing

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Real-time layouts tailored to each store and program.

Rolling out a promo? Planning peak? Don’t ship the same PDF to every store. With our partners at Optimum Retailing, retailers get dynamic, store-level planograms — updated as inventory moves, fixtures vary, and promotions change. Teams execute with confidence; shoppers find what they need faster.

See how it works here.

About Optimum Retailing

Closing the Execution Gap in Retail. Retailers face an execution gap: strategies developed at headquarters often falter at the store level due to disconnected processes, inventory fluctuations, and communication challenges. Optimum Retailing closes this gap with a comprehensive platform that gives HQ unmatched visibility and control across all locations while providing store teams the clarity to execute with precision and confidence. Powered by AI, our solution transforms visual merchandising strategies into store-specific planograms that dynamically adjust to real-time inventory, ensuring seamless compliance across every location. Store-level insights flow back to headquarters, informing future planning and optimizing shopability, customer engagement, and fixture performance. The result? Stronger execution. Smarter decisions. Greater profitability. Optimum Retailing. Smarter retail execution.

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50,000,000 Journal Entries: What Nominal Learned About Finance Operations

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Finance operations are at a tipping point.

Manual work, scattered systems, and unpredictable close processes have long defined accounting teams, but the data tells a different story. After analyzing more than 50 million journal entries across 12 mid-market organizations and surveying finance leaders nationwide, Nominal uncovered patterns that fundamentally change how finance teams can work.

The findings are striking:

89% of all finance errors fall into 12 predictable patterns—patterns AI can spot instantly.
Manual processing averages 43 minutes longer per entry than AI—time teams could spend on higher-value work.
92% of finance leaders believe AI will be standard in accounting within 3 years, yet 50% still rely primarily on Excel for consolidation.

The future of finance operations isn’t about hiring more people or working longer hours. It’s about recognizing that most finance work is pattern recognition and AI excels at patterns.

Download the full report to see the data, the trends, and the roadmap for building a finance operation that moves faster and leads with confidence.

About Nominal

Our partners at Nominal are the agentic AI platform built for modern finance. Nominal helps finance teams automate financial consolidation, intercompany eliminations, reconciliations, and reporting across complex, multi-entity structures — without changing their GL or ERP setup. Their AI agents handle the work spreadsheets weren’t built for, from revenue and accrual workflows to period-end processes. Nominal integrates directly with your systems and is up and running in days — no engineering required.

To learn more, visit nominal.so.

Retail Intelligence at Scale: Turning Data into Adaptive Plans for Every Store with Optimum Retailing

Contributed by Optimum Retailing

For retailers managing hundreds or even thousands of locations, lost sales often come from challenges that appear small but carry significant impact. Products may be out of stock, misplaced in the store, or supported by signage that fails to connect with local shoppers. Multiplied across a large store network, these issues create serious revenue leakage, higher waste, and weaker customer loyalty.

The path forward is clear: retailers need to harness retail intelligence that not only identifies opportunities but also adapts plans automatically at scale to ensure every store reflects what its customers actually want.

Invisible Demand: The Missed Opportunity
A major cause of lost sales is what is called invisible demand, which occurs when products customers want are not easily found or accessed. This happens when shelves are empty, items are displayed incorrectly, or layouts do not reflect real buying patterns at that location. Invisible demand not only represents lost revenue in the moment – it also erodes trust and pushes shoppers toward competitors that are perceived as more reliable.

Another contributing factor is fragmented visibility. Inventory, sales, and promotional data often live in separate systems, which makes it difficult for retailers to respond quickly when conditions change. Without a unified view, stores can miss opportunities to restock popular items, update signage, or reallocate products between nearby locations.

Store-Specific Intelligence in Action
The solution lies in creating retail environments that continuously learn, adapt, and execute changes automatically. Store-specific intelligence enables retailers to:

Sense activity in real time by gathering signals from POS data, inventory systems, and shelf-level monitoring.
Identify gaps and misalignments such as unmet demand, ineffective signage, or slower items occupying premium shelf space.
Recommend local actions like planogram updates, layout adjustments, or targeted promotions that reflect the needs of each store.
Automate execution so adaptive plans flow seamlessly into action, with merchandising strategies, layouts, and signage updating automatically through dynamic planograms, digital signage, and replenishment systems.

This process creates a continuous feedback loop where each store is optimized in real time according to its shoppers.

Why Local Optimization Matters
Standardized planograms and layouts may be easy to manage, but they rarely maximize performance. Every store serves a unique community with different needs. Urban stores may see demand for smaller pack sizes and premium assortments, while suburban locations may sell more bulk items. Even stores located in the same city can display distinct buying patterns.
Store-specific intelligence allows retailers to achieve hyper-local alignment. With adaptive plans that adjust continuously, retailers can ensure assortments, layouts, and signage stay aligned with each store’s shifting needs.

A Practical Roadmap
Retailers can build this capability through a structured approach:

STEP	FOCUS
Unify data streams	Connect sales, inventory, fixture, and layout performance into one view.
Deploy predictive models	Use AI to forecast demand shifts, seasonal surges, and category slowdowns.
Enable adaptive planograms and signage	Push updates automatically so stores adjust quickly to changing conditions.
Track compliance and outcomes	Verify that updates are executed correctly and measure their sales impact.
Refine continuously	Feed results back into the system to improve accuracy and agility.

How OR Helps
At Optimum Retailing (OR), they help retailers not only uncover insights but also turn them into adaptive plans that update automatically across every store. Invisible demand, fragmented visibility, and generic layouts all erode performance, and solving them requires both advanced technology and a trusted partner.

There AI-powered platform combines real-time insights, predictive demand planning, and automated execution so retailers can:

Increase sales by up to 17% through store-specific strategies
Reduce unsold inventory by 50% with predictive demand planning
Improve merchandising compliance by 80% through localized planograms and automated verification
Lower overstock by 15–25%, cutting waste and freeing space
Reduce non-selling hours by 20–30%, giving staff more time to focus on customers
By unifying data, anticipating demand shifts, and adapting plans for each location, OR helps retailers close the gap between what shoppers want and what stores deliver. Just as importantly, they act as a collaborative partner, working closely with retail teams to ensure strategies are implemented effectively and deliver measurable results.

Conclusion
Large retailers can no longer afford to treat every store the same. Invisible demand, disconnected systems, and static layouts are too costly in a market where shoppers expect precision, personalization, and availability.

Retail intelligence combined with adaptive planning provides the way forward. With Optimum Retailing as a partner, retailers can prevent lost sales, reduce waste, and strengthen customer satisfaction while creating a competitive advantage that scales.

About Optimum Retailing

To learn more, visit optimumretailing.com.

Managing Risk in Modern Software Delivery: Insights From Harvard Business Review Analytic Services with LaunchDarkly

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Only 6% of survey respondents say their organizations can detect software release issues in real time. In an AI-driven market where release velocity is growing, that gap is more than a statistic; it’s a risk multiplier.

Join industry leaders on September 30 at 10:00AM PT, for a discussion on how top engineering teams are rethinking release strategies to protect customer trust, reduce downtime, and ship faster.

In this session, you’ll learn:

Why release failures are routine, and how leading teams are reducing their frequency and impact
How progressive delivery, phased rollouts, and real-time monitoring are changing the release playbook
The cultural and operational impact of release risk on engineering teams (and how to reverse it)

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About LaunchDarkly

LaunchDarkly isn’t just a leader in feature management — it’s the first scalable feature management platform. Feature management allows development teams to innovate faster by fundamentally transforming how software is delivered to customers. With the ability to gradually release new software features to any segment of users on any platform, DevOps teams can standardize safe releases at scale, accelerate their journey to the cloud and collaborate more effectively with business teams.

Today, LaunchDarkly deploys peaks of 20 trillion feature flags each day, and that number continues to grow. Founded in 2014 in Oakland, California by Edith Harbaugh and John Kodumal, LaunchDarkly has been named on the Forbes Cloud 100 list, InfoWorld’s 2021 Technology of the Year list, and the Enterprise Tech 30 list.

To learn more, visit launchdarkly.com.

The Millennium Alliance Announces Strategic Partnership with MIT Across Its Transformational CFO Assemblies

NEW YORK – September 22, 2025 – The Millennium Alliance, an invitation-only organization for Senior-Level Executives and Business Transformers is pleased to announce its latest partnership with MIT across their upcoming Transformational CFO Assemblies throughout the remainder of 2025 and beyond. As part of this partnership, MIT will be represented by at least one of their professors at each of Millennium’s C-Suite CFO Assemblies and will be actively involved in the creation of the program content as well.

MIT, a world-renowned research university dedicated to advancing knowledge and driving innovation in science, technology, and business, is recognized for its thought leadership in finance, economics, and management. Through this collaboration, CFOs and senior financial executives will gain access to cutting-edge insights designed to help them lead transformation and drive organizational growth.

“We are thrilled to partner with MIT for our upcoming Transformation CFO Assemblies. MIT’s unparalleled expertise in business strategy, organizational leadership, and innovation will bring tremendous value to our community of senior financial leaders. Together, we look forward to delivering the kind of insights and strategies that will empower CFOs to navigate disruption, embrace innovation, and accelerate growth within their organizations. ”Jessie Weitzer, SVP of Product, The Millennium Alliance

Click here to learn more about Millennium’s robust portfolio of CFO Assemblies.

Click here to find out more about MIT.

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 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 is a two-time honoree of the Inc. 5000’s list of fastest-growing companies. The Millennium Alliance is headquartered in Midtown Manhattan with an office in London.

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 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 70+ annual events and Digital Diary Content Platform as well as the rapidly growing Millennium Live Podcast Series.

Realgram AI: The Agentic Engine Powering Profit-Driven Merchandising with Optimum Retailing

Contributed by Optimum Retailing

Managing hundreds or thousands of store locations means even small issues. Empty shelves, misplaced products, ineffective signage can add up to big revenue losses.

In this eBook from our partners at Optimum Retailing, you’ll discover how AI-driven, store-specific intelligence adapts plans in real time to help retailers maximize sales, optimize product placement, and turn every shelf into a profit driver.

Learn how OR’s Realgram AI platform:

Unifies sales, inventory, and fixture data into one actionable view
Predicts demand shifts, reallocates space, and surfaces invisible demand
Automates planograms, signage, and merchandising execution at scale
Increases sales, reduces waste, and improves compliance across every store

Read the full eBook here.

About Optimum Retailing

Optimum Retailing (OR) is a retail technology leader dedicated to transforming how brick-and-mortar stores operate. By combining innovation, deep retail expertise, and a commitment to collaboration, they help global brands simplify complexity and unlock new opportunities for growth. Their mission is to bridge the gap between strategy and execution, empowering teams with the clarity, efficiency, and confidence they need to deliver impactful, localized experiences at scale. Trusted by some of the world’s most recognized retailers, OR is redefining what smarter retailing looks like — making stores more profitable, sustainable, and future-ready.

To learn more, visit optimumretailing.com.

Joanna Pamphilis, CIO, SVP, Global Head of Investments and Securities Digital Products at UniCredit Keynotes Our Digital Enterprise CIO Transformation Assembly Europe on November 4-5 in Munich!

The Millennium Alliance is excited to announce that Joanna Pamphilis, CIO, SVP, Global Head of Investments and Securities Digital Products at UniCredit, will keynote our Digital Enterprise CIO Transformation Assembly Europe on November 4-5 at The Marriott Hotel City West in Munich!

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

About Joanna Pamphilis

Joanna is an international executive with more than 20 years of global leadership experience across UBS, State Street Bank, Northern Trust, KCG, and UniCredit. Driven by a passion for creating success by transformation, she has led business-driven change in Corporate Banking, Investments, Payments, and FinTech while living and working across Europe, the UK, North America, and Asia. As Global Head of Digital Products for Investments and Securities, she focuses on accelerating transformations, building competitive digital products, and empowering her team to deliver results that make a meaningful difference for pan-European customers. Dedicated to mentoring the next generation of talent, Joanna values learning from young professionals while helping them create opportunities for growth and impact.

Demand Forecasting with Pecan AI

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Stockouts, overstocks, surprise demand shifts – if you’re in charge of planning, you know the pain of inaccurate forecasts. Traditional demand forecasting often relies on spreadsheets, simplistic models, or last year’s trends, leaving you guessing and anxious about the future. Pecan offers a better way: AI-powered demand forecasting that delivers a forecast you can trust. It’s like having a supercharged crystal ball (minus the guesswork and mystique) that crunches your historical sales, inventory, and marketing data to predict what’s coming next. Pecan’s platform is simple and fast for your team to use, so you can improve accuracy without a lengthy data science project. Plan confidently for the next week, quarter, and year – using state-of-the-art machine learning to align inventory with demand, reduce waste, and capture every sales opportunity.

Click here to download Pecan’s latest whitepaper and discover how leading companies are transforming demand forecasting with AI to stay ahead of volatility, optimize inventory, and drive profitable growth.

About Pecan AI

Pecan AI helps all businesses turn their data into precise, actionable predictions for growth and efficiency. Our platform uses generative AI to deliver accurate forecasts in days, not months – no code or data science experience needed.

No Data Science Team Needed: Empower your existing analysts and BI teams to build and deploy AI models. Pecan’s no-code interface and automated machine learning mean you don’t need PhDs or hard-to-find data scientists on staff.

Works with Messy Data: No pristine data required. Pecan handles the cleaning and feature engineering behind the scenes, so you can feed in real-world, messy datasets and still get reliable predictions.

Rapid Deployment & Results: Go from raw data to live predictive models in record time (often within days). Our automated model-building and built-in intelligence let you iterate quickly, so you can act on insights while they’re fresh and relevant.

High ROI Impact: Focus on opportunities that drive revenue and reduce costs. Pecan’s customers have significantly boosted marketing ROI, improved customer retention, and avoided the high costs of building in-house data science teams.

Friendly, Approachable Experience: Advanced AI, but in a user-friendly package. Pecan’s intuitive platform guides you step by step, making predictive analytics approachable for any data-savvy team – no intimidation or jargon.

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