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David Mahdi is a senior research director in IT Leaders Systems, Security and Risk at Gartner, focusing on identity and access management, authentication, and data security. His area of expertise includes public-key infrastructure (PKI), certificate management, enterprise, customer and citizen authentication, IAM, blockchain, IoT and data security.

John Toepfer is CEO of investment management industry software provider Synthesis.

The outgoing secretary’s deputy, Patrick Pizzella, will be named acting secretary of the department.

Mona Malone is chief human resources officer and head of people and culture for BMO Financial Group. She is accountable for the people and culture agenda at BMO, which includes human resources, corporate communications, community giving, the office of the Chief Executive Officer, BMO Quebec and the bank’s corporate university, BMO IFL.

Malone has held roles in human resources and in the business for over 20 years at BMO. She was a retail banking sales leader at BMO in the GTA and VP product and marketing officer at ePost (a joint venture between Canada post and BMO). In addition, she has held a range of senior HR roles such as CHRO of Canada’s Personal and Commercial Banking group and chief learning and talent officer.

Malone lives in Toronto with her husband and three children. She is a recipient of the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal in recognition of her community service with youth development organizations.

Malone holds an Honours Business Administration degree from Ivey Business School at University of Western Ontario. She is an advisory council member for the Ian O. Ihnatowycz Institute for Leadership at the Ivey Business School, and a member of the Branksome Hall board of governors and the Long Run Initiative board of governors.

Caroline Seymour is vice president of product marketing at Zerto.

Many HR managers feel their systems are not fit for the modern workforce, a new study finds.

These services make it easy for workers to use their dental benefits, and save companies money by encouraging preventative care.

In the absence of federal standards, some employers have been implementing changes on their own with dramatic results.

Ernest Anunciacion, director of product marketing at Workiva, has over 15 years of experience in internal audit, risk management and business advisory consulting. He is a Certified Internal Auditor and Six Sigma Black Belt. He holds an undergraduate degree and an executive MBA from the Carlson School of Business at the University of Minnesota.

Before saving for retirement, young employees are advised to pay down high-interest debts and build an emergency fund, an expert says.