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The Rt. Hon. Dame Jacinda Ardern

The Right Honorable Dame Jacinda Ardern became the Prime Minister of New Zealand at just 37 years of age. During her time in office, she faced the challenges of a live streamed domestic terror attack against New Zealand’s Muslim community, a volcanic eruption and the COVID 19 pandemic. Ms. Ardern’s focus on people, kindness and what she has called “pragmatic idealism” saw New Zealand achieve some of the lowest losses of life experienced by any developed nation through the pandemic, the ban of military style semi-automatic weapons in her country, and the creation of the Christchurch Call to Action to eliminate violent extremism online.

Ms Ardern is a champion of woman's empowerment. While in office, New Zealand reached 50 percent representation of women in parliament, and on government appointed boards. She decriminalized abortion, improved pay equity laws and extended paid parental leave to 6 months - all while being only the second woman in the world to have a baby while leading her country.

Ms Ardern is a passionate advocate on climate action and is a board member of The Earthshot Prize, focusing on solutions to climate change and environmental issues. 

Ms. Ardern is the 2023 Angelopoulos Global Public Leaders Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School and the Hauser Leader in the School’s Center for Public Leadership, a program where leaders from public, private, and nonprofit sectors engage with students and faculty on building skills in principled leadership. She is also the Knight Tech Governance Leadership Fellow at Harvard Law School’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society, where she will focus on ways to improve content standards and platform accountability for extremist content online.
Ms. Ardern holds an Honorary Doctorate from Harvard University.

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Maria Black

Maria Black is President and CEO of ADP, a leading global technology company providing human capital management (HCM) solutions. Appointed in 2023, Maria serves as ADP’s seventh CEO since its 1949 founding. With ADP’s extensive, unique data and trusted expertise – relied on by one million clients – Maria is committed to providing employers with an empowered view into the future of work and the holistic, insights-driven support they need to enable the workforce of tomorrow.

Maria’s vision is rooted in innovation and seeks to ensure employers and employees who use ADP’s products remain at the heart of each step forward. Through ADP’s unparalleled data, Maria sees a unique opportunity to enable social good by designing products and solutions that deliver data-driven insights. Maria believes ADP has a responsibility to help our clients create a more diverse, equitable and inclusive world of work. Igniting meaningful collaboration across the business and industry, Maria champions corporate social responsibility efforts and is dedicated to fostering development and leadership opportunities.

Throughout her tenure at ADP, Maria has strived to provide businesses of all sizes – from small business to global enterprise – with the solutions and expertise that will help them achieve success. From joining ADP in 1996 as a sales associate, to leading critical growth initiatives throughout many areas of the business, and most recently working to simplify and modernize service delivery to clients in a comprehensive way, Maria’s experience across the entirety of ADP’s global portfolio has given her a unique lens into the world of work and the deep knowledge to help ADP clients navigate change.

Maria shares her passion for progress through programs supporting women in leadership and veterans. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science and international affairs from the University of Colorado, Boulder.

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Nela Richardson

Nela Richardson joined ADP as Chief Economist in November 2020. is the head of the ADP Research institute and leads economic research for ADP. Previously she was Principal and Investment Strategist at Edward Jones, a financial services firm. Nela is also the former chief economist at Redfin Corp., a national real estate brokerage and technology company. Nela also served as a senior economist for Bloomberg, L.P., covering housing and financial markets, and has held research positions at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), Harvard University’s Joint Centre for Housing Studies and Freddie Mac. She also worked as an adjunct finance professor at the Carey School of Business at John Hopkins University.

Nela earned a doctorate in economics from the University of Maryland-College Park. She obtained a master’s degree in economics from the University of Pennsylvania and a bachelor’s degree from Indiana University in Bloomington, where she was a triple major in mathematics, economics, and philosophy.

Nela regularly provides insight on the economy, real estate trends and capital markets to policymakers, consumers, and media. Nela serves on the foundation boards for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the National Association of Business Economists. She also is a member of the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) Advisory Committee and the Conference of Business Economists.

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Sreeni Kutam

Sreeni Kutam is the president of global product and innovation at ADP. In this role, he is responsible for leading product strategy and management and driving the development of new innovations.

Prior to this role, Sreeni served as ADP’s Chief Human Resources Officer, where he leveraged his deep technical background in the HR domain to lead ADP’s talent organization. Earlier in his career at ADP, Sreeni led the alignment and linkage between key HR initiatives, workforce planning, resource allocations and operating plans to ADP’s human capital management and business objectives.

Before joining ADP in 2014, Sreeni led the HR transformation at Medco Health Solutions and Express Scripts, identifying the service delivery model, developing the technology footprint, managing vendor selection, and executing against key deliverables. He provided critical merger and acquisition support, developed impactful talent pipeline metrics and streamlined human resources services delivery to increase HR and overall associate engagement. Sreeni had the unique opportunity of being an ADP client in North America and Europe for more than 10 years prior to joining the company.

Sreeni earned his bachelor’s degree in computer science from Andhra University, India, and his MBA from Purdue University in the United States.

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Jeff Phipps

Jeff is responsible for the operational and strategic activities of ADP’s GlobalView business. GlobalView serves millions of employees, at some of the world’s biggest, globally dispersed, and complex organizations providing payroll, time management and compliance solutions. Jeff leads and supports a diverse team of 3000 ADP associates based on five continents. GlobalView is truly global and always on.

Before moving to his current role in 2021, Jeff served as the Managing Director for ADP UK and Ireland having joined the company in 2015. In that time the UK business experienced strong top and bottom-line growth along with huge improvements in associate engagement and client experience.

Prior to ADP, Jeff’s career had been in the IT industry where he has held several senior leadership positions in sales and operational functions of companies such as Hewlett Packard and Dell. He has worked in a few global and European roles and immediately prior to joining ADP Jeff spent 18 months based in Frankfurt running the DACH region for a European IT business reseller.

Jeff holds an Executive MBA from Henley Business School. He is passionate about education and inclusion and in 2017 was awarded the inaugural ADP award for male advocacy by the International Women’s Network. Jeff is also a highly active supporter of ADP’s charity and community engagement efforts.

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Ian Sparrow

Ian Sparrow is Vice President of Global Payroll for ADP, Inc., a FORTUNE 250 Global Human Resources Technology company. Within his 34-year tenure with ADP, Ian has worked in leadership positions in implementation, service and product marketing building an extensive knowledge of service and payroll globally by working through pioneering and innovative projects including the development of managed services across Europe and establishing the founding principles to deliver compliant global payroll in more than 140 countries for ADP Streamline Celergo.

Today, Ian leads the strategic operations for multinational payroll offerings at the heart of ADP’s integrated human capital management platforms. With a passion for supporting global businesses, Ian manages ADP’s wide-reaching partner network spanning more than 110 countries. As such, he oversees a dedicated team of business and service specialists and manages the acquisition, compliance and measurement of this network.

Prior to his current role, Ian served as ADP’s European Projects Director, working to define and develop functional aspects of market offerings for international midsize multinational corporations.

Ian started as a payroll professional and one-time Client of ADP – this unique experience brings valuable insights to grasp all aspects of payroll as an integrated business process which continues to operate in an ever more complex regulatory international environment.

Based in Barcelona, Ian has also enjoyed roles in Paris and the United Kingdom.

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Belinda Atkins

As Head of Global Payroll for the Commonwealth Bank Group, Belinda is responsible for all aspects of the company’s payroll functions. Most importantly ensuring that all 45,000 employees across 10 different countries get paid correctly and on time - every time.

A career banker and Commonwealth Bank veteran, Sydney-based Belinda has worn many different hats, including customer facing and back-office, before finding her true calling in payroll. Belinda’s attributes her ethos to this varied background - one firmly grounded in customer service methodology and mirrored by her drive to deliver world class processes, eliminate risk and unnecessary delays and ensure the employee’s lived experience is at the core of all they do.

With Commonwealth Bank widely recognised as a leader in technology and Belinda’s passion for leveraging automation and robotics to drive efficiencies, simplification and a better employee experience, the payroll function she now heads up looks very different to the one she joined in 2003. Since taking on the reigns as Head of Payroll, Belinda has delivered a new cross-team structure designed to deliver career pathways to the payroll function. This includes the critical piece of firming up the risk and controls frameworks that sit across payroll.

In Belinda’s keynote, she’ll be sharing insights from the coalface, and what she’s most focused on now as she works to drive the Bank’s payroll function from processing centre to centre of excellence.

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Jennifer Collins

Jennifer Collins leads Microsoft’s global payroll organization supporting 200,000 employees in over 100 countries. Her role encompasses setting the strategic direction for the operations teams, driving innovation and cost efficiencies through automation and technology, and ensuring global compliance.

Before joining Microsoft in January 2022, Jennifer served as the Global Process Owner for Payroll at The Coca-Cola Company where she designed and implemented the global payroll model for the company. During her tenure, she led several strategic projects including a multi-year global payroll transformation project for over 90 countries in partnership with ADP, the payroll workstream for the global deployment of Workday HCM, and a BPO outsourcing project for the global payroll accounting function.

Jennifer spent 10 years at General Electric and held finance/accounting roles in closing and reporting, portfolio acquisitions/divestitures, and financial analysis.

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Mitch Spivey

Mitch brings demonstrated leadership and broad experience as a senior leader in business areas ranging across human resources management, business operations, global strategic payroll, corporate communications, and community engagement. He has a passion for inspiring people to their best performances and successes.

In his current role as Senior Director, Americas HR Operations and Service Delivery, Becton Dickinson & Co (BD), Mitch empowers a staff of more than 100 remote employees responsible for delivering human resources support and services to all BD associates for the Americas region, which comprises 11 countries and more than 60 percent of the BD global associate population. Mitch directs and manages hire-to-retire human resources services within a complex organization for the region and leads the effective management of top-tier customer support, data operations and various other human resource systems, and operational support for benefits administration, talent management, talent acquisition, compensation, global mobility and payroll.

As a senior leader for Human Resources at a multinational energy company, Mitch led ongoing operations and transformation initiatives in the company’s Western Hemisphere, the largest operating area with an employee population of more than 30,000. He led a team of over a hundred people, optimizing relationships with outsourced service providers, managing an operating and investment budget of $39 million and overseeing an annual payroll in excess of $5 billion.

After, Mitch’s leadership and business abilities were proven while at Avenue 360 Health and Wellness. Initially hired to transform and upgrade human resources for the Houston-based health care system, Mitch was asked to become Executive Vice President for Business Operations and then interim CEO during a crucial transition period. Reporting to the Board of Directors, he spearheaded overall management of the agency during a transformative process that produced a significant increase in employee productivity and satisfaction.

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Michelle Whitfield

Michelle (Chelle) Whitfield is the Global Payroll Leader at Meta. She directs the team implementing a platform standardization, process improvement, and employee experience strategy for the payroll organization based in 5 countries. Chelle joined Meta in 2021 and prior to that held global positions with Honeywell and Electronic Data Systems. She is based in Dublin, Ireland.

During her career, Chelle has supported all aspects of Global Payroll operations, affording her a distinct vision on the future of Payroll. She has a unique perspective on how to put your BPO employees in the middle of every decision, and creatively and intelligently deploy technologies to support growth, accuracy, and compliance.

She is passionate about personal relationships and development. She prides herself on active management and making a difference in the day-to-day work of her global teams. She encourages innovation and inspires others to think differently, whilst supporting her teams’ personal and professional goals, and making time to have fun together.

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Maria Black

Maria Black is President and CEO of ADP, a leading global technology company providing human capital management (HCM) solutions. Appointed in 2023, Maria serves as ADP’s seventh CEO since its 1949 founding. With ADP’s extensive, unique data and trusted expertise – relied on by one million clients – Maria is committed to providing employers with an empowered view into the future of work and the holistic, insights-driven support they need to enable the workforce of tomorrow.

Maria’s vision is rooted in innovation and seeks to ensure employers and employees who use ADP’s products remain at the heart of each step forward. Through ADP’s unparalleled data, Maria sees a unique opportunity to enable social good by designing products and solutions that deliver data-driven insights. Maria believes ADP has a responsibility to help our clients create a more diverse, equitable and inclusive world of work. Igniting meaningful collaboration across the business and industry, Maria champions corporate social responsibility efforts and is dedicated to fostering development and leadership opportunities.

Throughout her tenure at ADP, Maria has strived to provide businesses of all sizes – from small business to global enterprise – with the solutions and expertise that will help them achieve success. From joining ADP in 1996 as a sales associate, to leading critical growth initiatives throughout many areas of the business, and most recently working to simplify and modernize service delivery to clients in a comprehensive way, Maria’s experience across the entirety of ADP’s global portfolio has given her a unique lens into the world of work and the deep knowledge to help ADP clients navigate change.

Maria shares her passion for progress through programs supporting women in leadership and veterans. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science and international affairs from the University of Colorado, Boulder.

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Martha Bird

Martha Bird is a Business Anthropologist working in ADP’s Global Strategy Organization. Since receiving her Ph.D. in Anthropology, Martha has helped global brands create meaningful services, experiences, and products by both questioning and responding to the social and cultural dynamics of technology.

Today, she supports innovation in global product development and strategy to ensure future generations of ADP's HCM technologies and services are informed by the wisdom of human cultures and the everyday encounters out of which new practices take shape, evolve and transform the way we work.

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Marcus Buckingham

Marcus Buckingham is the Co-Head of ADP Research Institute and New York Times best-selling author focused on unlocking strengths, increasing performance, and pioneering the future of how people work. He is the author of two of the best-selling business books of all time. His tenth book, Love + Work (Harvard Business Review Press) is a WSJ bestseller and in 2022 was heralded by Forbes as one of the ten must-reads for career and leadership. Marcus’ 2019 Harvard Business Review cover article, "The Feedback Fallacy," was selected by HBR as one of the most influential articles of the last 100 years, and Marcus’ strengths assessments have been taken by over 10 million people worldwide. Marcus currently leads People and Performance research at ADP Research Institute.

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David Foskett

David Foskett is the Senior Vice President of ADP’s Global Enterprise Sales (GES). In this role, he has successfully combined multi-year growth strategies with tactical sales delivery programs while overseeing the execution of key strategic projects. Appointed as a Corporate Officer in 2021, David is committed to continuing the strong performance of GES and supporting its successful growth trajectory into the future.

Previously, David served as the Senior Vice President of Employer Services International (ESI) Sales for six years, where he was responsible for delivering global sales in over 140 countries and fostering strong partnerships throughout the business.

David joined ADP in 2004, beginning his career within ESI as a District Manager for the UK business. Just six years later, he was promoted to DVP Sales and Marketing, where he oversaw double-digit sales growth and helped the business become a leading Human Capital Management (HCM) solutions provider in the UK market. In 2014, David took on the role of General Manager for the UK and Ireland, with responsibility for setting and delivering the region’s strategy in line with ADP’s overarching corporate strategy.

Prior to joining ADP, David held a variety of roles with companies including Blick (now Stanley Security), M: Drive Ltd, and Sun Microsystems. David holds a bachelor’s degree in Business Studies from Nottingham Trent University in the UK.

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Tonya James

Tonya James is Vice President, Product Management for Multi-Country Payroll Solutions. Tonya joined ADP in 2020 with over 20 years of product management, strategy, and marketing experience at companies such as Novell, Interact Commerce Corporation, UPS, and Cox Automotive where she launched the company's mobile product line.

Most recently, Tonya was Vice President, International Product and Strategy at Equifax. In that role, Tonya led product management and innovation with teams across 23 different markets. Additionally, she managed development of the international business unit three-year strategy.

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Sreeni Kutam

Sreeni Kutam is the president of global product and innovation at ADP. In this role, he is responsible for leading product strategy and management and driving the development of new innovations.

Prior to this role, Sreeni served as ADP’s Chief Human Resources Officer, where he leveraged his deep technical background in the HR domain to lead ADP’s talent organization. Earlier in his career at ADP, Sreeni led the alignment and linkage between key HR initiatives, workforce planning, resource allocations and operating plans to ADP’s human capital management and business objectives.

Before joining ADP in 2014, Sreeni led the HR transformation at Medco Health Solutions and Express Scripts, identifying the service delivery model, developing the technology footprint, managing vendor selection, and executing against key deliverables. He provided critical merger and acquisition support, developed impactful talent pipeline metrics and streamlined human resources services delivery to increase HR and overall associate engagement. Sreeni had the unique opportunity of being an ADP client in North America and Europe for more than 10 years prior to joining the company.

Sreeni earned his bachelor’s degree in computer science from Andhra University, India, and his MBA from Purdue University in the United States.

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Virginia Magliulo

Virginia Magliulo is President of Employer Services International. In this role, she leads the company’s international regions, ADP GlobalView, ADP Celergo and ADP Streamline. Under her leadership, she is responsible for driving strategic growth and operational excellence across all ADP offerings outside North America.

Prior to this role, Virginia served as President of ADP GlobalView. She was appointed a Corporate Officer by ADP’s Board of Directors in 2019. Virginia joined ADP in 2015 as Customer Service Director. After a short time leading the client service team, she was promoted to General Manager, ADP Italy. In November 2017, she was appointed Southern Europe General Manager, adding to her responsibility ADP’s Spain and Portugal operations.

A native of Rome, Virginia started her career as a site engineer working at Air Products for nearly four years, across London, Paris, Strasbourg, and Israel. After returning to Italy, she joined IBM where she worked for 15 years in the Outsourcing division. Hired as a Project Manager, Virginia moved up to an executive position through a series of management roles.

Her experiences growing up in Italy and abroad have fueled a strong passion for diversity, equity, and inclusion. Fluent in English, French, Italian, and Spanish, Virginia earned her scientific diploma in Paris and graduated as an Electronic Engineer from the University Politecnico of Milan. She is also is a certified Project Manager from the Project Management Institute of Washington.

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Jeff Phipps

Jeff is responsible for the operational and strategic activities of ADP’s GlobalView business. GlobalView serves millions of employees, at some of the world’s biggest, globally dispersed, and complex organizations providing payroll, time management and compliance solutions. Jeff leads and supports a diverse team of 3000 ADP associates based on five continents. GlobalView is truly global and always on.

Before moving to his current role in 2021, Jeff served as the Managing Director for ADP UK and Ireland having joined the company in 2015. In that time the UK business experienced strong top and bottom-line growth along with huge improvements in associate engagement and client experience.

Prior to ADP, Jeff’s career had been in the IT industry where he has held several senior leadership positions in sales and operational functions of companies such as Hewlett Packard and Dell. He has worked in a few global and European roles and immediately prior to joining ADP Jeff spent 18 months based in Frankfurt running the DACH region for a European IT business reseller.

Jeff holds an Executive MBA from Henley Business School. He is passionate about education and inclusion and in 2017 was awarded the inaugural ADP award for male advocacy by the International Women’s Network. Jeff is also a highly active supporter of ADP’s charity and community engagement efforts.

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Nela Richardson

Nela Richardson joined ADP as Chief Economist in November 2020. Nela is the co-head of the ADP Research Institute and leads economic research for ADP. Previously she was Principal and Investment Strategist at Edward Jones, a financial services firm. Nela is also the former chief economist at Redfin Corp., a national real estate brokerage and technology company. Nela also served as a senior economist for Bloomberg, L.P., covering housing and financial markets, and has held research positions at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), Harvard University’s Joint Centre for Housing Studies and Freddie Mac. She also worked as an adjunct finance professor at the Carey School of Business at John Hopkins University.

Nela earned a doctorate in economics from the University of Maryland-College Park. She obtained a master’s degree in economics from the University of Pennsylvania and a bachelor’s degree from Indiana University in Bloomington, where she was a triple major in mathematics, economics, and philosophy.

Nela regularly provides insight on the economy, real estate trends and capital markets to policymakers, consumers, and media. Nela serves on the foundation boards for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the National Association of Business Economists. She also is a member of the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) Advisory Committee and the Conference of Business Economists.

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Aaron Smith

Aaron Smith is the Senior Vice President, Global Product Management and User Experience at ADP. In this role, Aaron is responsible for our global product direction, design, and delivery of trusted product experiences to all ADP clients and their millions of users worldwide. This includes our global user experience team leading the research and engaging product designs focused on accessibility and inclusive experiences with our leading MyADP and ADP Mobile platform.

Prior to this role, Aaron led our Next Gen HCM products and Enterprise platforms as SVP, Product Development of the National Accounts Services business unit. He has held previous executive technology leadership roles for ADP Employer Services International and the Major Accounts Services business units since joining ADP in 2011.

Aaron has over 25 years of experience in product strategy, global technology development and enablement, mergers and acquisitions, and technology transformation. Throughout his career, he has led numerous technology initiatives for Financial Services, Healthcare, Technology Start-ups and Enterprise software companies.

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Marcela Uribe

Marcela Uribe is the General Manager, Southern Europe leading ADP’s businesses in Italy, Spain and Portugal. Southern Europe is known for its legislative complexity, growth opportunities and a strong market share in Italy in the enterprise space.

She has always been very passionate about Inclusion and Diversity and is proud to serve as the Executive Sponsor for ESI’s efforts relating to Inclusion, Equity & Diversity as well as a member of the ADP Impact Council. This follows the success of ESI’s #BreakTheCeiling initiative in which she was instrumental in the creation and launch.

Prior to this role she was the Vice President & Assistant General Counsel, leading the APAC, EMEA, LATAM and Multinational (MNC) Legal organizations providing support across those businesses, globally, and serving as the senior legal adviser and counsel to the President of Employer Services International. She partnered with the Privacy Team in the successful implementation of ADP’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) readiness and compliance program and its operationalization throughout ESI.

During her time with ADP, Marcela has consistently focused on developing diverse and performance-driven teams that deliver excellent service to the businesses and to ADP clients.

Marcela originally joined ADP in its then Dealer Services division (now CDK Global after being spun off in October 2014) in Chicago where she worked principally on mergers and acquisitions but also on large outsourcing contracts and licensing arrangements as well.

Prior to joining ADP, Marcela spent the first seven years of her career in the Corporate departments of two large Chicago law firms where she represented a variety of public and private clients primarily in the field of mergers and acquisitions.

Marcela was born and raised in the United States and has been living in Europe for the last 16 years. She speaks four languages and graduated with a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Chicago Law School.