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Blanca L. Vergara, MBA, is a highly respected executive coach and business consultant. She helps companies to re-energize high potential women and empower them further to materialize their true potential. Her service model synthesizes broad material mainly from Positive Psychology theory and Executive Coaching best practices.
For the past fifteen years, Blanca has committed her passion for innovation and change management to the support of managers and high achieving professionals. Among her customers are business owners and professionals from ABN AMRO, IBM, Accenture, Eurojust, GE, Habitat for Humanity, Logica CMG, Shell and Yacht. She is also a lecturer at the Rotterdam Business School and the Rotterdam School of Management.

She is a frequent speaker on among others business trends, women leadership and, diversity. She also provides corporate and open workshops as well as executive coaching. Her on-line publication is read in more than 25 countries around the globe.

Her hard business skills are supported by solid academic credentials: an MBA from Rotterdam's School of Management and a coaching certificate from the Hudson Institute in Santa Barbara, California. Originally from Mexico, Blanca benefits from the inspiration and guidance of her valuable Aztec heritage. She lives in the Netherlands for over ten years. She speaks fluent English, Dutch and Spanish.

Blanca helps you translate the women potential into sustainable long-term success!

Ayelet Baron
Director and Inclusion and Diversity Lead, Emerging Markets
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Ayelet Baron has earned recognition as an expert in social networking, web 2.0, online collaboration, global business strategy and organizational change management. Her particular area of focus is implementing strategy and driving business results through people.

Ayelet is currently on the Senior Leadership Team of Emerging Markets and is leading inclusion and diversity. In her current role, she is looking at ways that emerging technologies can generate greater equity in Emerging Markets, as well as driving key initiatives internally at Cisco.

Ayelet recently completed a Cisco Leadership Fellow, where she was developing a social networking handbook for social good, which can be implemented by 26 global non-profit organizations to improve community building and information sharing. She worked with leading CIOs to develop a strategy to create better collaboration between social entrepreneurs and practitioners, which has been submitted in a recent Cisco RFP to a major customer in Emerging Markets. Ayelet also created the strategy and roadmap to leverage repeatable ICT solutions, capabilities and resources for sustainable development for NetHope’s newest program, Innovation for Development and led the Healthcare Working Group.

With more than 16 years of industry experience and over 9 years of leadership experience at Cisco, including three global roles, Ayelet has a proven track record of success and a broad understanding of Cisco’s business, culture and values.

Ayelet joined Cisco in 1999 and was on the IT Senior Staff and reported to Cisco’s CIO, where she was responsible for the introduction of a global IT portal and other strategic initiatives focused on improving the company’s productivity and Internet capabilities. She also launched the first internal online community in Cisco. In her nine years at Cisco Systems, Ayelet provided strategy, planning, operations and social networking expertise. Ayelet worked closely with Cisco’s senior sales management to establish Cisco’s overall strategy for the next market growth. She has worked in IT, WW and Emerging Service Provider, Global Sales Strategy and the Global Mobile Vertical businesses at Cisco.
During her career, Ayelet has built leading edge teams, worked in diverse industries and developed a reputation as a highly creative change agent. Prior to Cisco, Ayelet spent 16 years as a consultant managing the development, implementation and measurement of key initiatives and programs for clients embarking on major change initiatives including mergers and acquisitions, technology implementation, new leadership, cost reduction initiatives, and organizational realignments for global Fortune 50 companies.
Ayelet is a recognized industry leader and speaker on social networking, strategic change, new technologies and business strategy. Her articles are published in Communication World, Strategic Communication Management and Across the Board. She wrote a monthly column on Strategy and Management for the Strategic Communication Management and is also on their Advisory Board. Ayelet contributed a chapter on business strategy, which was published in a Jossey-Bass book, The IABC Handbook of Organizational Communication. She recently joined the Board of Directors of Family and Children Services.
Ayelet holds a B.A. from York University, Toronto, where she majored in political science and minored in theatre. She has a M.A. from Hebrew University of Jerusalem with a major in political science and minor in communications. She has an ABD from the University of Toronto in political science.

John Murphy is a Senior Diversity Consultant with Royal Dutch Shell. John has an BS from the University of Delaware and an MS from Virginia Tech. John joined Shell's Health, Safety & Environment organization in 1985 after having similar roles in Fisons, Inc. and DuPont. In 1997, John was a founding member of SEA Shell, the GLBT employee network, and was elected Chair of the network in 1999 and 2000. Also in 2000, John was selected to be the first Manager of Diversity and Work-Life Balance for Shell's largest laboratory. In 2003, he was named Manager, Divesity & Inclusion for Shell Chemicals LP prior to assuming his current role as a global DI consultant. In this role, John has led projects to accelerate the progression of women in Shell and to improve Shell's efforts at leveraging talent with disabilities, among many other projects. John lives with this his partner Thomas Ayers in Houston, Texas.

Tracey Gibson is the Director of Diversity Initiatives for Cargill, Inc. a Minneapolis based company. Over the last 18 years Tracey has held various positions in the Financial and Risk Management Platform and the Global Treasury Department.

Tracey attended Fort Valley State University and obtained a BBA in Accounting. She moved to Minneapolis, MN in January 1987 to work for Cargill, Inc. She has gained a wealth of knowledge working for the largest privately held company in the world in the areas of accounting, finance, financial markets and treasury. She is currently the Director of Diversity Initiatives and reports to the Vice President of Corporate Diversity.

Tracey serves on several boards and is active in several professional organizations. She currently serves on the Executive Advisory Board for the School of Business and Economics for North Carolina A&T State University, the National Advisory Board for Science and Engineering Alliance. Tracey is also the chair of the board for Richard Allen Math and Science Academy a new charter school for inner city youth 6th through 8th grades. She has received many professional awards and recognition of achievements, too numerous to name. Additionally she is active in the community and volunteers for several organizations that work with inner city and at risk youths. She is a member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Incorporated.

Tracey is married and has two sons. She is an active member of Wayman A.M.E. Church. Tracey enjoys reading, volunteering at her kids schools and working with youth sports programs.

CURRENT POSITION
Cristina Monteiro joined Cargill in July 2008 as Director Global Diversity - Sourcing & Selection, responsible for global diversity recruiting strategies and initiatives with a special focus on middle/higher management and females. Currently, Cristina focuses not only on Diversity Recruiting, ensuring our recruitment infrastructure (branding, processes, tools) enhances our chances of attracting and selecting diverse candidates, but also drives some of Cargill's key diversity initiatives and projects across Europe, Latin America and Asia.

PROJECTS & PROGRAMS (examples):
Cristina is working with various Cargill Business Units and functions, including
- the Operations function globally to increase the female representation across the function. She has also started to build a global database of senior female talent that may join Cargill in middle management positions.
- Cargill's agriculture businesses (CASC Platform) at a global level, where she is piloting diversity initiatives across the US, Europe and South Africa
- Cargill's Business Units in Brazil, where she is focusing on female representation as well as our LGBT (Lesbians, Gays, Bisexual, Transexual) community
- Cargill's Trading businesses in Geneva, Switzerland, where she is working mainly on work environment and flexibility options.

PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE (IN OR OUTSIDE CARGILL)
Before joining Cargill, Cristina worked for a global FMCG company as Director Center of Expertise Source & Select, where she designed and implemented global recruitment processes, strategies and tools. She also worked in the areas of Global Mobility, where she launched a new International Assignment Policy, Training &Resourcing, as well as an HR Generalist for the Portuguese affiliate.
Cristina started her career in Italy, where she worked as HR Generalist for an affiliate of a global car parts manufacturer as well as in a European Community Initiative. Cristina has lived and/or worked in Italy, Portugal, Switzerland and the US. She speaks Italian, Portuguese, English and French.

EDUCATION & ASSOCIATIONS
Cristina received her Bachelor's degree in Political Sciences - Industrial Relations from LUISS University in Rome.

I joinded Cisco in 1998 and since August 2008, I have been appointed as the senior director in charge of the service activity covering Cisco Emerging Markets(Latin America, Russia, Middle East, Eastern Europe and Africa). It represents a 865M$ services business. The primary target customers are services providers, large enterprise and large public organisations.

From August 2004, t'il 2008, I was the appointed director, for Cisco Middle East and Africa in charge of the service activity for more than 66 countries spanning from Cameroun to Pakistan and Egypt to South Africa. The services business has reached 250M$ and he was accountable for the business from Services Sales to Service delivery.

I have extensive working experience and knowledge in Europe and Emerging Markets and. I have more than 20 years of experience in Information Technology and Telecommunication always focusing on providing services and solutions to a broad base of customers.

I held different management positions since 1986 in AMDAHL and SOFT Computing. I speak French and English and have an engineering degree in Computer sciences and a PHD in statistical analysis.