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David currently leads Xero's US Enterprise Accounts team, where he and the team of innovators help to inspire the country's top 300 largest accounting firms along their journeys in modern cloud accounting, with a focus on consulting those firms on where they are today and how they achieve their cloud transformational journeys.

In the first eighteen years of his career, David Emmerman was a co-managing partner in the firm Emmerman, Boyle & Associates, LLC and there showcased his talent for working with small business clients and his team to develop a best in class accounting experience.  His passion for technology and extensive involvement with cloud-based solutions led him to a role with Xero as a National Ambassador, where he spent his time leveraging his background to educate some of the largest accounting firms on practice management and cloud adoption topics.   

Meredith has almost four decades of industry operations and technology experience spanning all lines of business and the entire insurance value chain. During her 33 years at Liberty Mutual, she was responsible for numerous digital, product, and organizational transformations. Meredith was most recently the industry go-to-market strategist at Ushur, an AI SaaS startup, driving growth and brand awareness across both the P&C and LA&H segments. 

As part of the Advisory and Research team at ReSource Pro, Meredith works directly with carrier advisory clients, engages in research efforts, and supports carrier consulting projects. 

Flexjobs put together a list of companies helping their employees pay off their student loans.

Digital substance use management platform Pelago is expanding their services to address drug and alcohol addiction in teens.

A recent poll from job site Monster unveils employees and applicants biggest pain points at work.

Sathish Kumar Manimuthu serves as the CTO at NeuralMetrics, an insurtech offering AI-powered risk-assessment intelligence for P&C carriers, brokers, and agents. With experience in launching innovative technology and products for startups and Fortune 500 companies, Sathish is responsible for the company's suite of data-delivery engines and AI models.

Evaluating the purpose, formality and time commitment of the meeting is a good starting point to prepare.

Ronen Assia is a Managing Partner at Team8.

Heather Sullivan is the North American Strategy lead for Accenture's Insurance practice, where she spends her time driving new business endeavors on behalf of carriers, brokers, MGAs, private equity organizations and start-ups. She helps organizations understand agency needs, wants, desires, motivators and, ultimately, how to achieve market success. Heather holds a bachelor's degree from University of Southern California. Heather serves several global roles within Accenture, including as the executive sponsor for Accenture's Insurance Strategy diversity and inclusion efforts. Heather resides in Chicago with her husband, daughter and son, and very lively Portuguese Water Dog.