Adib Abraham

Director, Digital and Creative

American Airlines

Adib Abrahim brings a unique perspective to the relationship between a company’s brand and its team members, using engaging experiences to shape perception and elevate how team members feel about their company. He is responsible for leading the internal digital and creative communications strategy to engage American’s 130,000+ global team members and has a direct influence on how stories are told across digital communication channels.

Adib is a proven thought leader, creative visionary and business strategist with a passion for driving change and inspiring a creative team to deliver visual, engaging and comprehensive communication campaigns. He received his B.S. in Management from Northwood University and his MBA from University of Texas, Arlington.

Ellen Anderson

Senior Director of Digital Communications

Thomson Reuters

Ellen Anderson is a leader, partner and objective truth-teller. She started working in IT when mainframes were cool. As software as a service (SaaS) offerings increased, she bridged the technology world and extended her expertise in working on the business side. Ellen is a Senior Director of Digital Operations in Enterprise Communications at Thomson Reuters. She was on the team who started the partnership with Jive and is the owner of the platform and its advancement. Her team manages the majority of internal and external communication platforms across Thomson Reuters. In addition to focusing on the intranet for 65,000 users, she and her team manage ThomsonReuters.com. They use data to drive decisions, evaluate financial impact and ROI for technology planning, and collaborate with business partners to develop tools that power the business.

Ellen is a 2nd degree Black Belt in Tae Kwon Do. She is a mom, wife, and boss who seldom sits down outside the office. She and her husband are raising independent, fierce, smart and awesome nerds.

Melvin Berena

Technical Lead – Emerging Technology

Royal Bank of Canada

I am a Software Developer with 7+ years of experience in Web, Mobile, Desktop and Database application development using a wide array of programming technologies. My main area of work at RBC involves but is not limited to emerging technology proof of concepts, social collaboration and financial applications setup and development. I’ve been working on the Jive platform since Jive 8 and have worked on add-on development projects to extend Jive’s capabilities such as chatbots, employee matching apps, volunteering platforms, data visualizations and API integrations. I enjoy outdoor activities and I have a very cute Double Doodle.

Thomas Bingham

Senior Manager, Digital Communications

American Airlines

Thomas Bingham is the Senior Manager of Digital Communications for American Airlines. He is responsible for leading the internal digital strategy to engage American’s more than 130,000 global team members and has a direct influence on how stories are told across nearly all digital channels. Thomas brings a unique perspective to how content merges in the digital space using engaging experiences to influence how team members connect to the company. He is a proven thought leader and marketing strategist bringing innovative thinking to American’s approach to internal communications.

Julie Blutstein

Manager of Communities

Prudential Financial

Julie Blutstein is the Manager of Communities at Prudential Financial. In her role she is responsible for collaboration initiatives across Prudential’s international insurance operations and joint ventures. Julie has spent the last decade managing internal and external online communities, and the past seven years focused on enterprise collaboration using Jive. Having been involved in online communities since before the word “blog” existed, she’s passionate about the power of creating authentic online communities and how social collaboration tools can break down silos in large organizations and make companies more efficient, more connected, and more human.

Peter Broadley

Manager, Community Development and Engagement

CSA Group

Peter Broadley is the Manager of Community Development and Engagement at CSA Group. An experienced and award-winning community manager, Peter excels at building and designing online communities, connecting people to information and creating engaging community programs. He has a very diverse background and is able to adapt quickly to find innovative solutions. Peter is also an accomplished musician and enjoys running – a lot.

Derek DeMoro

VP, Solution Architecture

Aurea

With 26 years of experience on both development and sales teams, including 16+ years working on Social Collaboration (Jive), Derek focuses on the future of collaboration and communication. His goal is to steer the future of what makes companies more productive and what it takes to get there by working closely with customers, both current and future.

Emily Grimes

Strategist, Online Collaboration

Cleveland Clinic

Emily Grimes works in the Mandel Global Leadership and Learning Institute at Cleveland Clinic, helping teams develop and adopt social collaboration strategies. With almost 20 years experience supporting organizations implement best practice communications and marketing, Emily now empowers employees to be heard, connected and developed professionally through online learning and collaboration.

Nicole Hilson

Social Learning & Collaboration Architect

Cleveland Clinic

Nicole Hilson is a Social Learning and Collaboration Architect for the Global Leadership and Learning Institute at Cleveland Clinic. In this role, Nicole is transforming learning and development with the introduction of an enterprise-wide online social learning and collaboration platform, Connect Today. With a background in eLearning and instructional design, Nicole works to develop collaborative learning solutions for teams and programs throughout the organization. Nicole holds a BS and MS in adult learning and development.

Aaron Kim

Senior Director, Digital Workplace Solutions

RBC Royal Bank of Canada

Aaron Kim is the Senior Director of Digital Workplace Solutions at the Royal Bank of Canada, and leads the areas of internal social collaboration, mobility development, employee digital experience and emerging technologies within Corporate Systems. He’s also been a public speaker at several events across the globe. He has a passion for innovation and for making work smarter, more meaningful and rewarding to all. Born and raised in Brazil, to a Korean father and Japanese mother, he also volunteers in several diversity initiatives, inside and outside RBC. In the past, he worked as a consultant both at IBM Canada and Unisys Brazil. He holds an MBA from the University of Toronto, and a bachelor’s degree in Biology from the Universidade de São Paulo.

Elizabeth Kohler

Social Learning & Collaboration Architect

Cleveland Clinic

Elizabeth Kohler works in the Global Leadership and Learning Institute at Cleveland Clinic. With a background in eLearning instructional design and multimedia production, Elizabeth was given the unique opportunity to introduce a new, innovative social online collaboration and learning platform to the organization. In her role she designs and develops collaborative online learning and development solutions for teams and programs throughout the organization. Since introducing Cleveland Clinic’s social collaboration platform, Connect Today, in April of 2018, Elizabeth has helped transform learning at Cleveland Clinic into a more immersive, social experience, utilizing learning ecosystems to foster greater collaboration and results around learning.

Joey Levi

VP, Solution Architecture

Aurea

With 25 years of experience from software development to consulting to sales, Joey Levi leads the Solution Architect team at Aurea. Joey is an 11-year veteran in the collaboration and communication space. Having been in front of customers for 20 years, Joey’s primary focus is supporting pre- and post-sales efforts and helping prospects and customers understand the value of software solutions and how they can improve business outcomes and increase revenue.

Tracy Maurer

Global Community Manager

Commvault

I’m passionate about improving the work experience for employees through corporate implementation of enterprise collaboration tools, having experienced first-hand the empowerment these platforms enable. I’ve supported a Jive site since 2010, specializing in upgrades, training/documentation, consulting on content creation, troubleshooting, and use case enablement. Have spoken at many community conferences on a variety of topics. Find me on LinkedIn, Twitter (@tracymaurer) and in AureaWorks.

Bristel Minsker

Sr. Communications Manager

Filtration Group

Bristel is a Communications professional who has served as Filtration Group’s Community Manager for the last two years. She managed the planning and launch of the organization’s Jive community in 2018, and oversees internal communications for its global employee population across 20+ business units in 100+ locations around the globe. Prior to joining Filtration Group, Bristel was the Communications Director for the American Red Cross Serving Central and South Texas, where she deployed to several disaster responses and served as a national Red Cross spokesperson. Her experience spans corporate communications, social media management, public affairs and media relations; she enjoys applying lessons learned from these experiences to her current role of uniting thousands of diverse employees behind Filtration Group’s mission to make the world safer, healthier and more productive. Bristel lives in Austin, is a Southern California native, and a proud graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Jakkii Musgrave

Senior Consultant

Ripple Effect Group

Jakkii’s expertise lies in the digital workplace, focusing on community management, user experience research and design, collaboration and engagement, and ensuring a user-centred focus within the digital workplace and in online communities more broadly. Her professional experience spans a variety of industries in the public and private sectors, where much of her work focuses on providing strategic direction and advice on the digital workplace and employee experience, community management and engagement, and conducting deep user research to underpin recommendations. She’s also experienced in social learning, working with a number of clients on blended and fully online social learning projects. Jakkii has presented at a number of conferences, universities, and organization development days on community management and the digital workplace, writes for the Ripple Effect Group blog, and has been published on Working Out Loud in the AITD magazine.

Rafael Navarro

Head of Knowledge Management

Braskem S.A.

Chemical Engineer, MBA and Marketing Specializations. Has 22 years of experience in the Petrochemical Industry. He has been responsible for the areas of Marketing and Export, Strategic Planning and Competitive Intelligence. For the last 7 years he has been responsible for Innovation Management in the Innovation and Technology area of BRASKEM. He is currently the Global Leader in Knowledge Management.

Alexander Schuster

Director of Professional Services, DACH

Aurea

Alexander is the Director of Professional Services DACH and has been with Aurea (and previously Jive) for more than 5 years. He is also the product owner of the Jive Extension Pack. With more than 11 years of experience in the IT industry, Alexander has a deep IT background from managing complex enterprise projects to solution design and development.

Elizabeth Uva

Community Manager

Thornton Tomasetti

Empowering people to be more effective in their career by using online communities for knowledge sharing and collaboration. As a Community Manager, I help connect people, information, and bridge the gaps to create business value. Active member of The Community Roundtable, BlogHer, and other relevant online communities.

Jon Williams

Sr. Pre-Sales Engineer, Solution Architecture

Aurea

I help people solve complex business problems using process, organization & enterprise software. At Aurea, I am responsible for guiding our customers in their journey to AWS cloud, supporting several account executives, & facilitating the technical solutions that best solve our customers business needs. Further, I get to communicate the value of AWS services in context of our customers’ business evolution.

Kenzie Woodbridge

Systems Analyst, Technical Writer, Community Manager

BCIT

Kenzie Woodbridge is a Systems Analyst, Technical Writer, and Community Manager at the British Columbia Institute of Technology. Kenzie also recently completed a MA in Professional Communication at Royal Roads University and their thesis focused on prosocial community in online Minecraft. Kenzie is awesome and you totally want to be their friend (offer of friendship void where local laws do not permit, not guaranteed in all circumstances, skill-testing questions required).