Vince Torres, Chief Marketing Officer at DIRECTV Recognized as Our 2025 CMO of the Year!

The Millennium Alliance is proud to announce that Vince Torres, Chief Marketing Officer at DIRECTV, was honored as our 2025 CMO of the Year at our Transformational CMO Assembly, held October 29–30 at The JW Marriott, Atlanta Buckhead!

See the full list of winners and learn how you could be our next nominee—visit our Awards Page!

About Vince Torres

Vince is a marketing executive with 25+ years of experience driving growth and transformation across the technology, media, and telecommunications industries. He currently serves as Chief Marketing Officer at DIRECTV, where he leads the brand and product transformation of DIRECTV into a modern, customer-centric streaming company.

He has a proven track record in brand strategy, product innovation, and marketing operations, with expertise in customer acquisition and retention, pricing strategy, and digital sales. Vince is passionate about marketing innovation, including building robust MarTech infrastructures to reach new audiences, accelerate digital growth, and deliver cost efficiencies.

Unlock the Future of HR — Join Mercer’s HR Digital Transformation Webinar

Are you ready to reshape the way HR drives organizational success?

Join us for an innovative webinar where Mercer will unveil a first-of-its-kind Operating Model that shifts the focus from activities to outcomes, creating a new blueprint for the future of HR. This session will explore how to break down silos between HR and IT, fostering greater innovation, speed, and agility in today’s evolving workforce—where humans and machines work hand-in-hand.

What you’ll learn:

How to shift from activity-based to outcome-focused HR strategies
Practical steps to unite HR and IT for faster, more flexible operations
The evolving role of HR in partnering with humans and machines
A roadmap to transition from rigid structures to a future-ready, agile HR model
Tips for maintaining business continuity and demonstrating impact quickly

This isn’t just another webinar—it’s your opportunity to discover a bold, actionable framework that will empower your HR function to lead organizational change and unlock new potential

Breaking the mold: Mercer’s outcome-driven operating model

Wednesday, November 12, 2025 at 11:00 AM Eastern Standard Time.

Reserve your spot today and be part of the future of HR.

Can’t make it live? No problem! Register to receive the webinar recording and be the first to receive a copy of Mercer’s new outcome-driven operating model “Operating by design – An outcomes model for perpetual change”.

About Mercer

At Mercer, we believe in building brighter futures.

Together, our 25,000 employees in over 130 counties are helping redefine the future of work, reshape retirement and investment outcomes, and unlock real health and well-being.

For over 75 years, we’ve provided trusted advice and solutions to build healthier and more sustainable futures for our clients, colleagues and communities.

Balancing economics and empathy in our approach, we work side by side with you to find solutions to benefit your people and your business. By turning ideas into actions that spark positive change, we help you enrich employees’ lives and careers and drive innovation, progress and performance. Mercer is a business of Marsh McLennan.

Get to know us better: Click the “learn more” button at the top of the page to discover everything we do to help you meet the needs of today and tomorrow. Follow us on Twitter at @Mercer.

Learn more at www.mercer.com

#MillenniumLive: Redefining Post-Acute Strategy: Smarter Transitions with PointClickCare

Hospitals face mounting pressure to reduce preventable readmissions and avoid costly care gaps — especially during the critical post-acute phase when patients transition to skilled nursing facilities. In this episode, we sit down with Hamad Husainy, Chief Medical Officer of PointClickCare, to explore how health systems are tackling “data black holes,” strengthening SNF partnerships, and embedding AI-driven insights into daily workflows. We’ll break down how predictive risk scoring works, what success looks like under value-based care, and where technology and AI are headed next for post-acute care.

Listen on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and Amazon Music.

About PointClickCare

PointClickCare is a leading health tech company with one simple mission: to help providers deliver exceptional care. With the largest long‐term and post‐acute care dataset, we power AI-driven healthcare that fuels intelligent transitions, insightful interventions, and financial sustainability. Enhanced by our marketplace of 400+ integrated partners and trusted by over 30,000 provider organizations and every major U.S. health plan, we’re redefining healthcare, so it doesn’t just survive — it thrives.

For more information, visit www.pointclickcare.com

#MillenniumLive: Turning Promise into Practice: The Next Chapter for AI in Healthcare with Signal 1

In this healthcare-focused episode, MillenniumLive had the pleasure to have Mara Lederman, Chief Operating Officer at Signal 1, to unpack a critical question in today’s healthcare landscape: Why is AI adoption slowing down—even as enthusiasm continues to rise?

Mara brings a deep, operational perspective to the conversation, offering insights into how health systems can move beyond pilot projects and scale AI effectively. Mara provides explanation into the nuances between AI governance vs. AI management, as well as actionable advice on how to lead responsibly without slowing innovation. For healthcare leaders, navigating the complex path of AI deployment can be extraordinarily challenging, but helping health leaders unlock its full potential across their organization is what Signal 1 does best.

Key Topics Include:

Why so many AI tools stall after pilot phase
How health systems can adopt portfolio-level oversight for AI
The biggest misconceptions around managing AI at scale
What effective monitoring and oversight look like in practice
Lessons from other industries for healthcare AI

Tune in to learn how to go from AI hype… to AI impact.

Listen on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and Amazon Music.

About Signal 1

Signal 1 helps health systems unlock the value of their AI investments while managing risk. With built-in governance workflows, real-time monitoring, and ROI tracking, we make it easier to adopt AI responsibly—without slowing innovation.
Purpose-built for healthcare and informed by years of experience managing AI at scale in other industries, Signal 1 empowers healthcare organizations to translate innovation into real clinical, operational, and financial outcomes.

For more information, visit www.signal1.ai

Modernizing the Content Supply Chain with EPAM

Contributed by EPAM

As content demands grow, many organizations struggle to scale without sacrificing quality or compliance. Discover how Adobe and EPAM are redefining the modern Content Supply Chain — empowering enterprises to accelerate delivery, strengthen governance, and improve ROI.

What You’ll Learn:

How intelligent automation transforms speed and scalability
The role of governance in ensuring consistency and compliance
How enablement unlocks cross-team adoption and efficiency
Real-world results from enterprise modernization success stories

📅 Date: November 11, 2025

Register here

About EPAM

Since 1993, EPAM Systems, Inc. (NYSE: EPAM) has used its software engineering expertise to become a leading global provider of digital engineering, cloud and AI-enabled transformation services, and a leading business and experience consulting partner for global enterprises and ambitious startups. We address our clients’ transformation challenges by fusing EPAM Continuum’s integrated strategy, experience and technology consulting with our 30+ years of engineering execution to speed our clients’ time to market and drive greater value from their innovations and digital investments.

We leverage AI and GenAI to deliver transformative solutions that accelerate our clients’ digital innovation and enhance their competitive edge. Through platforms like EPAM AI/RUN™ and initiatives like DIALX Lab, we integrate advanced AI technologies into tailored business strategies, driving significant industry impact and fostering continuous innovation.

We deliver globally, but engage locally with our expert teams of consultants, architects, designers and engineers, making the future real for our clients, our partners and our people around the world.

We believe the right solutions are the ones that improve people’s lives and fuel competitive advantage for our clients across diverse industries. Our thinking comes to life in the experiences, products and platforms we design and bring to market.

Added to the S&P 500 and the Forbes Global 2000 in 2021 and recognized by Glassdoor and Newsweek as Most Loved Workplace, our multidisciplinary teams serve customers across six continents. We are proud to be among the top 15 companies in Information Technology Services in the Fortune 1000 and to be recognized as a leader in the IDC MarketScapes for Worldwide Experience Build Services, Worldwide Experience Design Services and Worldwide Software Engineering Services.

Learn more at www.epam.com.

Gary Horsfield, Group Supply Chain Officer & Group Category Leader Blade Excellence at BIC Recognized as Our 2025 Supply Chain Leadership & Innovator of the Year!

The Millennium Alliance is proud to announce that Gary Horsfield, Group Supply Chain Officer & Group Category Leader, Blade Excellence at BIC, was honored as our 2025 Supply Chain Leadership & Innovator of the Year at our Digital Supply Chain Transformation Assembly Europe, held October 21–22 at The Marriott Hotel City West in Munich!

About Gary Horsfield

Gary Horsfield is a Global Board Executive and visionary supply chain leader with more than 25 years of multinational and multicategory experience across some of the world’s most respected brands. A British national with a truly international outlook, Gary has lived and worked across Europe, Asia, and Australia—giving him a rare, first-hand understanding of cultural diversity, operational complexity, and global market dynamics.

Throughout his career, Gary has held senior leadership roles at Mars, PepsiCo, Kellogg, William Grant & Sons, and now BIC, where he has served since 2021 as Group Supply Chain Officer and Group Category Leader for the Blade Excellence division.

Renowned for his strategic vision and creative problem-solving, Gary has a proven track record of breaking into new markets, transforming global operations and supply chains, and driving sustainable growth across both public and private sectors. Above all, he is a firm believer in the power of people—championing teams to lead with courage, unlock potential, and shape the future of supply chain with purpose and innovation.

Provider-Guided, Patient First: The Future of Virtual Care with MD Live by Evernorth

Contributed by MD Live by Evernorth

Virtual care has evolved from a nice-to-have to a strategic imperative. And now the future demands more: care that’s integrated, personalized, and provider guided. Explore how you can set yourself up to win in this new era of virtual care, and how our partners at MD Live by Evernorth deliver high-quality, personalized care at scale.

Learn more here.

About MD Live by Evernorth

MD Live by Evernorth is a leading provider of virtual health care services in the U.S. with more than 60 million members nationwide. We work with our health plan, health system, and self-insured employer partners to give patients convenient and affordable access to the highest quality medical and behavioral health care, 24/7, from the comfort and safety of their homes.

With a vision and passion for changing health care for the better, we are working to improve the patient experience, close the patient-provider accessibility gap, and bring providers opportunities to augment the services they currently offer. We imagine a new end-to-end care experience to complement – not replace – the way customers and patients interact with their existing providers to achieve:

• Earlier identification and diagnosis of critical care needs
• Faster and more seamless referrals to high-performing providers, including specialists and behavioral health
• More convenient access to appropriate, affordable sites of service, and pharmaceutical fulfillment

To learn more, visit mdlive.com.

#MillenniumLive: Not Just National: How Local Grocers Are Winning Retail Media with Quad

Regional grocers are emerging as powerful players in the retail media revolution—and they’re doing it by tapping into their physical footprints, community ties, and a “fortune of data.”

In this episode of Millennium Live, Ameet Srivastava from Quad joins us to explore how regional retailers are transforming the in-store experience with digital innovation, hyper-localized advertising, and smarter data strategies. From digital shelf messaging to real-world case studies like Vallarta Supermarkets, we dive into what’s working—and what’s next—for retail media at the local level.

Topics include:

How in-store tech is reshaping shopper behavior
Why regional grocers are attracting national CPG attention
The impact of cookie deprecation on retail media networks
Real-world success stories from Quad’s In-Store Connect platform
Tips for grocers and brands building a retail media strategy

Listen on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and Amazon Music.

About Quad

Quad (NYSE: QUAD) is a global marketing experience company that helps brands make direct consumer connections, from household to in-store to online. Supported by state-of-the-art technology and data-driven intelligence, Quad uses its suite of media, creative and production solutions to streamline the complexities of marketing and remove friction from wherever it occurs in the marketing journey. Quad tailors its uniquely flexible, scalable and connected solutions to clients’ objectives, driving cost efficiencies, improving speed to market, strengthening marketing effectiveness, and delivering value on client investments.

Quad employs approximately 13,000 people in 14 countries and serves approximately 2,700 clients including industry leading blue-chip companies that serve both businesses and consumers in multiple industry verticals, with a particular focus on commerce, including retail, consumer packaged goods, and direct-to-consumer; financial services; and health. Quad is ranked as the 14th largest agency company in the U.S. by Ad Age (2023), and the second-largest commercial printer in North America, according to Printing Impressions (2023).

For more information about Quad, including its commitment to ongoing innovation, culture and sustainable impact, visit www.quad.com

#MillenniumLive: The Journey Beyond the EAP: Building a Culture of Daily Mental Health Support with Journey

On this episode of Millennium Live, we’re tackling one of the most pressing and rapidly evolving topics in the modern workplace: Employee Assistance Programs (EAPs)—and why traditional models are no longer meeting the needs of today’s workforce. Joining the pod is Stephen Sokoler, Founder of Journey, a first-of-its-kind Proactive EAP built to support every employee, every day. Journey combines a high-engagement digital platform with personalized service to help employees access support before challenges become crises. Stephen shares why conventional EAPs fall short, how Journey is reimagining mental health support, and what it takes to foster a culture where employees feel safe and empowered to prioritize their well-being. We’ll explore the future of workplace mental health, boosting benefit engagement, and the power of proactive care in building healthier, more resilient teams.

Listen on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and Amazon Music.

About Journey

Journey is the leading preventative mental health solution for modern companies. Rooted in live group learning, peer support and proactive health, Journey provides the most engaging, cost-effective way to reduce turnover, tackle burnout, and help employees live happier, healthier lives.

To learn more, visit journey.live

#MillenniumLive: Right Care, Right Place: Reimagining ED Care Pathways for Behavioral Health Patients with Iris Telehealth

And we’re back! In this episode of Millennium Live, we’re joined by Laura Bauer, Vice President of Strategy at Iris Telehealth, to explore a pressing challenge facing today’s health systems: how to reimagine emergency department (ED) care pathways for behavioral health patients. Laura brings deep experience from her years in health system strategy to unpack why behavioral health is one of the most critical—and complex—pressure points in care delivery today. She shares how telebehavioral health is quietly transforming outcomes by helping patients receive the right care in the right place, reducing unnecessary ED visits, hospital admissions, and long-term costs. Key Topics Include:

Why EDs have become the default front door for behavioral health

How to shift from reactive to proactive care models

The ROI of investing in behavioral health pathways

Real-world examples of innovation—and impact

Listen on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and Amazon Music.

About Iris Telehealth

Iris Telehealth was founded with the goal of creating a more patient-friendly telemedicine company that is able to quickly adapt to an organization’s needs. We are a fast-growing company with access to clinicians licensed in most states conducive to telemedicine. We have earned a reputation for having outstanding customer service and the ability to establish a customized telemedicine program without any hassle. Our clinicians have expertise in delivering quality telepsychiatry services and we value building strong professional relationship with our partners and their staff. We hold our team to the highest clinical and ethical standards and always focus on doing what is right for each and every individual we help treat. Iris believes that everyone deserves access to mental health services – and we are proud to help provide this care wherever it is needed!

To learn more, visit iristelehealth.com