Creative Pioneers Inspire a Car Dream Factory

Calty Design Research is the North American design studio for Toyota Motor Corporation, the world’s largest car manufacturer. Calty provides innovative designs for Toyota, Lexus, and Scion vehicles and supports North American production design. Over the last 50 years, Toyota has built more than 30 million cars and trucks in North America. Calty’s Newport Beach, […]

Specialty Marketing Calls for Deep Industry Expertise

Elsevier is a leading provider of information solutions that enhance the performance of science, health, and technology professionals. Its R&D Solutions division offers chemical companies critical data and technology capabilities in order to accelerate innovation and time to market, while reducing risk and driving greater profitability. Elsevier is a part of RELX Group, which employs […]

Startup Positioned to Win Every Pitch

Boxed Wholesale is a startup that delivers bulk-size groceries and household products directly to consumers. Boxed customers order at Boxed.com or on the free Boxed app and pay no membership fee. In two years, Boxed has grown from its CEO’s garage to three warehouses across the U.S. Millions of people have used the app and […]

Digital Transformation: A Fact, Not a Fad

Rick Chavez has spent more than 20 years as a technology entrepreneur and advisor at the forefront of the digital revolution. He has guided growth and innovation strategies and incubation programs at major organizations, ranging from Adobe, Microsoft, and Yahoo to American Express, the University of Michigan, and WalMart. Chavez’s teams bring together world-class business […]

The Best Questions Are About Questions

The Valspar Corporation is one of the largest global paints and coatings manufacturers in the world, providing coatings and intermediates to businesses and consumers. Since 1806, Valspar has been dedicated to innovation, quality, and customer service. They challenge themselves to answer marketplace demands, increase product performance, and design solutions that protect people and the planet. […]

The Significance of Logos and Brand Design

Logos, akin to the first word in a conversation between two people, are the best introduction to a company’s purpose and standing. Michael Bierut shares on the implications of logos and the public’s increasing desire to engage in their meaning. Michael Bierut is a partner in the New York office of the international design consultancy […]

Embracing a Customer-Centric Approach to Growth

According to Neil Golden, former Chief Marketing Officer of McDonald’s, the successful evolution of a behemoth business, like McDonald’s, requires laser focus on customer behavior. It also requires a commitment to discovering “system ideas”- an approach to tapping the collective knowledge of disparate business channels. Golden also notes that continual growth and innovation are crucial […]

Speaker Biographies

Hilary Malone PhD, has over 25 years of experience in global drug development, regulatory &government affairs, manufacturing and commercialization within the biopharma industry. Hilary hassignificant board level and executive committee experience including large scale organizationalrestructuring/transformation/integration, major M&A, biotech start-up, capital raising, investorrelations and pre-IPO.​

Hilary is currently CEO of Stylus Medicine, a private genetic medicine biotech company. Previously sheserved as CEO of a Series-A neuroscience company. Prior to these roles, Hilary served as COO & EVP atValo Health Inc., Chief Regulatory Officer & SVP at Sanofi Inc., and Chief Regulatory Officer & SVP atPfizer and Wyeth. Previous experience also includes senior regulatory and drug development roles atReata Pharmaceuticals Inc., AstraZeneca plc and GlaxoSmithKline plc.​

Hilary also serves on the Board of Directors of Hansa Biopharma and Adthera Bio. Hilary holds a PhD inMolecular Neuropharmacology and a BSc in Physiology.

Dr. Thomas Lönngren is Director at his own company PharmaExec Consulting AB. He is the Chairman of the Board of directors at Egetis Therapeutics AB, Sweden. Dr Lönngren also serves as board member at Compass Pathways PLC, London UK and NDA Group, Sweden. He acts as advisor to the following companies and organizations: NDA group, Sweden, Sweden, Artis Venture, San Francisco, US, Fujimoto Japan, Skin2Neuron Pty Ltd, Sydney, Australia, US, Special advisor to the Centre for Innovation in Regulatory Science (CIRS), London UK. From 2001 until2011, Mr.Lönngren served as the Executive Director of the European Medical Agency. He was previously Deputy General Director of the Swedish Medical Product Agency until 2000. He has a degree in pharmacy and MSc in Social and Regulatory Pharmacy from Uppsala University. He is also an Honorary Member of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain, Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in Great Britain, Honorary Doctorate from the University of Uppsala, Honorary Doctorate from University of Bath, UK.

Speaker Biographies

Marie-Anne Aymerich

Marie-Anne has built a portfolio of senior advisory and non-executive roles, following a successful international career in the FMCG and Luxury sectors. She is a non-executive director of Haleon, a FTSE100 company listed in 2022 after the demerger from GSK. She is also chairwoman of Haleon Environment and Societal Sustainability committee. She is the executive director of the Pierre Fabre Group where she also sits on the Strategic Committee, and she is a Board Member of The Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, one of the world’s most prestigious chamber orchestras. She is also an angel investor and focuses her time and investments on start-ups with the strongest purpose and impact.

Marie-Anne is also a regular lecturer at HEC Paris on purposeful leadership, and she has created a serious game called “Planet Purpose” to upskill people on sustainability and purpose. Throughout her 35year executive career she delivered a strong track-record of business performance and growth in brands and portfolio in both developed and emerging economies.

As a senior leader with Unilever, she led a number of different personal care categories across France, Spain and the USA – including managing the Dove brand worldwide and culminating in leading Unilever’s global Oral Care division. She also worked for LVMH as Brand General Manager of Dior Perfumes and Cosmetics worldwide. Marie-Anne was also Vice-President of Imagine for Margo – Children with Cancer for ten years, a charity she helped found in 2011 with the goal of eradicating children’s cancer. The charity is the #1 charity focused on child cancer in France and has fundraised more than €14m since its creation. Marie-Anne is a graduate from HEC Paris. She is married and has two children aged 29 and 26.

Patrick Jephson

Patrick Jephson is a consultant, journalist, broadcaster and New York Times bestselling author, based in Washington D.C. He is a published authority on corporate and personal branding and crisis communications, addressing conferences worldwide as well as events at the U.S. State Department, the American University and the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism.

With more than twenty-five years’ experience in the government, luxury and family office sectors, Patrick’s portfolio has included globally admired brands as well as national agencies and NGOs. He has also worked on reputation and legacy briefs with European, Middle Eastern and Asian families, including royalty. He now writes, presents, and advises on factual and drama TV programs, appearing on every major American and many international networks. He was recently an expert consultant to the award-winning Netflix series The Crown and provided live commentary on the Coronation of King Charles.

Patrick owes much of his practical communications and protocol experience to Princess Diana, who chose him to be her equerry and only private secretary/chief of staff. He served the Princess for eight years, responsible for all aspects of her public life, global humanitarian initiatives, and private organization. Having worked for an internationally high-profile woman (and as the father of two professionally successful daughters) he feels a special affinity for cross-cultural, gender and perception issues.

Patrick was born and raised in Ireland and holds a master’s degree in political science from Cambridge University. As an officer in the British Royal Navy, he served all over the world before being selected for royal duty. He is a citizen of the U.K., U.S.A., Ireland, and Canada.