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Brendan Ross is the founder and CEO of Direct Lending Investments LLC, a SEC registered investment advisor with a primary focus on financing specialty finance companies.

A tech-focused agenda helps organizations access and turn data into information that results in better choices and ultimately adds more value. Here’s how HR professionals can make that happen.

Dave Ulrich is the director of the Human Resource Executive Program at the University of Michigan. He also is a partner at The RBL Group, a consulting firm focused on helping organizations and leaders deliver value. See more from Dave on his webpage and LinkedIn page.

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Patrick Sweeny is the principal and co-founder of Symmetry Partners, a Glastonbury, Connecticut-based asset management firm.

Angelo Grecco is chief business development officer at CardConnect.

John Arensmeyer is an economics expert and former small- business owner who is the founder and chief executive of Small Business Majority.

Fatemeh Khatibloo is a principal analyst at Forrester Research. Fatemeh serves B2C marketing professionals, with a focus on the shifting global consumer data ecosystem. She helps marketers navigate the complex connections between privacy, trust, and ethical data use, including the practices and vendors that can help them bridge the privacy/personalization paradox. Her seminal research on personal identity management (PIDM) describes how consumers will soon manage the sharing of their personal data with each other and with businesses. Her report "Adaptive Intelligence" further defines a framework for privacy-compliant data sharing between organizations to gain insight, reduce risk, and increase profitability.

Fatemeh focuses on privacy, identity, customer insights (CI) services, CI strategy, data monetization, data sharing, adaptive intelligence and consumer preference.

Previous Work Experience

Prior to joining Forrester, Fatemeh was principal of Times Two Marketing, where she built social and multichannel marketing programs designed to engage consumers, drive brand loyalty, and deliver relevant, actionable data to her clients. Prior experience at Binger Catalog Marketing, Abacus, and HagginGroup (now Epsilon) provided her with a deep understanding of the challenges and opportunities facing multichannel organizations across a spectrum of channels, market verticals, and disciplines. She has also held multichannel marketing positions on the client side, with firms like The Flax Companies and The Sharper Image.

Fatemeh is a member of the International Associate of Privacy Professional (IAPP) and is a Certified Information Privacy Manager (CIPM). She has served as a judge for the Multichannel Merchant Awards and the ECHO Awards.

Education

Fatemeh studied journalism at The George Washington University.