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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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Marc Lippa

Marc currently serves as the Vice President, HR Operations for Kennametal Inc, based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Performing in this role the past three years, he and his global team serve the employee life cycle for over 9,000 employees in 39 countries with an emphasis on employee experience in the areas of workforce management, payroll solutions, reporting and analytics, program management, HRIS, M&A, and shared service center operations.

Prior to this role, Marc delivered results in other leadership roles that include Global HR Business Partner, Functional Change Leader for a transformational program, Compensation, Talent and Organizational Effectiveness, Communications and Talent Acquisition. Prior to joining Kennametal in 2006, Marc achieved success recruiting and placing talent with companies in the technical staff augmentation business. Working for Aerotek, Adecco and TMP Worldwide, he established a foundation that emphasizes the importance of attracting great talent which will enable teams to deliver exceptional results.

Marc earned his BSBA with an emphasis in Marketing from Slippery Rock University. His learning journey includes Penn State University’s Executive Education Program for Strategic Business Leaders, USC Marshall’s School of Business, Strategic Org Design Workshop, and Change Champion certified through Partners in Leadership. Marc is a former ice hockey player and has served as a coach for the local school district and amateur travel teams for over 20 years. His passions are his family, (wife and 2 children; son 22, daughter 19), playing and coaching ice hockey, and golf when he finds some free time.

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Meg Kulkarni

Meg is an accomplished leader with over 15 years of global HR experience, skilled at driving large-scale transformations. She joined Kennametal in 2015 and has since taken on roles of increasing responsibility in HRIS, Shared Services, and Global Operations. Meg currently serves as the Director of HR Technology and PMO.

Meg has spearheaded strategic programs throughout her career, including implementing ADP products and services across regions, transitioning to a new global payroll platform, and centralizing operations. Her background encompasses technology, project management, vendor relations, and leading high-performing teams.

Originally from Mumbai, Meg held various HR roles in India with Genpact before relocating to Charlotte, NC, in 2007, where she has resided for 16+ years. She holds an MBA focused on Human Resources and recently graduated from Cornell's Executive Master's in HR Management program.

Meg is a results-driven leader passionate about leveraging HR technology and innovation to deliver a great employee experience.

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Laurent Villemagne

Laurent Villemagne has spent most of his career in the automotive industry in France and abroad. He has over 22 years of experience at Forvia, where he currently serves as the Group HR Information Systems and Controlling Vice President with a strong background in Finance and in Human Resources.

One of Laurent’s key achievements is the deployment of the Group Payroll platform (ADP GlobalView) across 20 countries, covering 90,000 employees as the first step of the Group HRIS architecture transformation journey. This involved the implementation of the global payroll project in each country ensuring compliance requirements and managing the organizational transformation and deployment of the associated Payroll Shared Service Centers, resulting in increased efficiency.

Laurent continues to oversee the additional elements of the HR Transformation project, including the deployment of the Group Human Capital Management platform. Furthermore, Laurent manages the Group HRIS Change Advisory Board and is responsible for enhancing HR tools and innovation, as well as process transformation across the organization. Laurent and his team continue to plan further enhancements, including AI.

As part of his role in HRIS, Laurent manages Group HR reporting and controlling at the Group level for 500 reporting units and delivered reporting efficiency and automated integration through one GlobalView/Hyperion interface. In partnership with Group Finance, all HR KPIs are delivered automatically to Forvia ExCom via an “on device” visualization platform on a monthly basis.

Laurent has a strong educational background, with a Master’s degree from the University of Missouri-Kansas City and a Master’s degree in Finance from ESC Clermont, Ecole de Commerce de Clermont-Ferrand.

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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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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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Jimmy Adams

Jimmy Adams serves as the Chief Product Development Officer leading the Product Development teams around the globe for ADP. He is a member of ADP’s Executive Committee, reporting to Sreeni Kutam, President of Global Product & Innovation.

Previously, as the Senior Vice President of Product Development for National Account Services (NAS), Jimmy was responsible for developing and executing strategies to improve our technology functionality to create the best experience for our clients with ADP Up Market businesses in the U.S.

Prior to this role, Jimmy spent almost four years as the Senior Vice President of Client Services for NAS where he created a product-centric organization and played an important role in increasing the Net Promoter Score (NPS).

In 2007 Jimmy joined ADP with the Employease (HRB) acquisition and has 20 years of tech and product experience. He was the first leader for our Next Gen Global Payroll (Pi) engine leading to its first client in 2017. Before that, he led the product development for ADP’s TotalSource (PEO/BPO) business, where he guided the R&D team to deliver industry-leading benefits and ACA modules, along with significant upgrades to analytics and sales tools.

As Vice President, Product Development, Jimmy was the techs sponsor for the Workforce Now 2.0 release in 2010. The Workforce Now solution has more than 80,000 HCM clients today. Jimmy is based in Alpharetta, GA with his wife and three sons.

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Raul Duque Sanchez

Raul Duque Sanchez is an ADP product leader with more than 27 years of experience in Human Capital Management who is working to build a better world by leveraging the most amazing technologies.

Since 2020, Raul has been heading up the product team responsible for building ADP’s Next Generation HCM which is currently in production within multiple clients and is being rolled out in the United States to domestic and multinational organizations.

Prior to this position, Raul was the Product Leader of the Next Generation Payroll team that built the ADP Global Payroll Engine which is now used by thousands of multinational clients around the world.

Before joining ADP, he held leadership positions in Product Management and Development, as well as Business Consulting, in HCM vendors like Ultimate Software, Oracle and Meta4.

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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.