Virtual Collaborate 2020

Eniola Aluko is one of the leading figures in women's football. During an impressive career on the pitch, she was a striker noted for her pace and finishing. Also a regular in the media, she now serves as Aston Villa Women's Sporting Director. She’s a double-FA Women’s Cup winner and three-time Premier/Super League champion, and was league top scorer with Chelsea. Leaving London for Turin, she helped Juventus take the Serie A title in her first season with the club and went on to win the Coppa Italia and Supercoppa Italiana. She was also the team's top scorer in her last season for the club. Alongside a successful club career, Eni was a key figure in the London 2012 TeamGB squad and the England team during a period when the women’s game rose significantly in profile.
Born in Nigeria, Eni and her family moved to the U.K. when she was still a baby. She started her football career at Leafield Athletic Ladies before moving to Birmingham City, where she scored on her debut. Soon after that, she played her first match for England at the age of 14. She sat her A Levels at the same time as playing in the UEFA Women’s Euro tournament. There followed a successful spell at Charlton Athletic, where she won the Premier League Cup, FA Women’s Cup, and the Community Shield. After a brief time at Chelsea, she played for three clubs in the U.S. before returning to England and Birmingham City. At an international level, she was a regular goal scorer in World Cup and Euro competitions and was capped 100 times.
Eni was dubbed by some as the Wayne Rooney of the women’s game for her natural ability, creativity, and eye for the goal. Unlike the former Manchester United and England captain, however, Eni is also a qualified lawyer. Having taken her bar exams in New York and London, she also worked in the City specializing in entertainment law. Despite Eni’s impressive achievements on the pitch, she has had an arguably higher profile and as great a role to play off of it. She was instrumental in revealing ingrained and often officially denied racism and discrimination by senior figures within the England team coaching setup, and serious problems within the wider FA. Her refusal to be silenced and willingness to stand up against outdated, offensive behavior revealed a culture of intimidation and willful blindness. Eni speaks about the nature of teams and creating a culture that both supports and encourages high performance, but also holds it to account. She considers the best and worst of leadership and looks at what it takes to instill a winning mindset. She also examines what went wrong in the England setup and the important lessons all organizations can learn. In the media, Eni has appeared on Match of the Day, making her the first woman to appear on the BBC institution as a pundit. She’s added her voice to ITV, Sky, and BBC coverage of the women’s and men’s game. She has written regularly for The Guardian on both the men's and women's game, and has also appeared on the quiz show Pointless Celebrities.

Born in 1962, in East St. Louis, Illinois, Jackie Joyner Kersee came from very humble beginnings. To this day, she is still humble and loves to give back to the community despite having been dubbed 'The Greatest Female Athlete of the 20th Century' by Sports Illustrated.
Jackie's athletic accomplishments are world renowned and are literally second to none. By the conclusion of her career in the heptathlon and long jump events she had amassed 6 Olympic medals and 4 World Champion titles. Jackie was the first woman in history to earn more than 7,000 points in the heptathlon, and today, over 20 years later, she still holds the world heptathlon record of 7,291 points. She continues to hold the Olympic and national records in the long jump, and her 1994 performance in the long jump remains the second longest in history. In addition to heptathlon and long jump, Jackie was a world class 100m and 200m runner and, after a decorated All-American career in basketball at UCLA, she eventually played professional basketball for a short time.
Less well known, however, are Jackie's tireless efforts and remarkable accomplishments off the field as a philanthropist and an advocate for children's education, health issues (in particular asthma from which she has suffered throughout her life), racial equality, social reform and women's rights. Never one to be classified as merely an athlete, Jackie says, "I strive to be a Jackie of all trades." Jackie Joyner Kersee has received many prestigious awards, including the St. Louis Ambassadors Sportswoman of the Year, Sporting News Athlete of the Year Award (the first woman to receive either of these awards), the Sullivan Award, and consecutively winning the Jesse Owens Memorial Award. She is available for speaking engagements, personal appearances and autograph signings.

Andrew founded Wrike in 2006 after realizing the challenges organizations faced in scaling due to the limitations of collaborating through email and spreadsheets. He had a vision to provide modern work teams with collaboration tools that make them more productive than they thought possible. Andrew has led Wrike from budding startup to one of the fastest-growing providers of collaboration and project management solutions. Wrike has been consistently recognized for its excellent product, tremendous growth, and top-rated work environment. In 2017, Wrike was named one of the fastest-growing tech companies in North America by Deloitte for the third consecutive year and was also designated a top workplace by the Bay Area News Group for the third consecutive year. In 2016, Wrike was named a leader in Enterprise Collaborative Work Management by Forrester Research.

As a business leader, Andrew's insights on entrepreneurship, productivity, and the future of work have been featured in leading business publications including Forbes, Entrepreneur, Inc. Magazine, and The New York Times. He is also an accomplished speaker, having led talks at numerous business and tech conferences including the Project Management Institute Global Conference, Web Summit, CeBIT, and Montgomery Summit.

Alexey Korotich heads Wrike's product organization. Alexey has more than 15 years of experience in enterprise software design, security, product development and management. His ability to define the long-term vision and management requirements for new, category-defining enterprise solutions has led to numerous successful go-to-market plans and launches.

Michael started with Thomson Reuters immediately after high school in their manufacturing department producing law books. Over 16 years, he has held many positions with the company. After graduating from the University of Minnesota with a design degree, he made the transition to the website division with FindLaw and has been a Business Process Analyst for 5 years now.
He leads a team of Wrike admins serving 600+ users of Wrike with 4,000 active projects and counting! He is very passionate about empowering Wrike users. Michael currently leads a local group of Wrike power users where 30 companies collaborate constantly to better serve our customers and business partners.

Archie Sharma is the Vice President of Strategic Programs at Wrike. Prior to Wrike, Archie headed corporate strategy and development at OpenX, where he led strategy, go-to-market, and M&A. He joined OpenX from Ingram Micro, where he led business transformation initiatives. Prior to Ingram Micro, Archie headed the strategy consulting practice at Bainbridge and provided fact-based, actionable recommendations to C-level executives in F500 companies. Previously, he held management and engineering roles at Western Digital, Johnson & Johnson, Akzonobel, and Siemens.
Archie holds a Master of Business Administration from The Anderson School of Management at UCLA, a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of Rochester, and a Bachelor of Engineering from University of Pune, India.

Abhay Rajaram is Wrike's Chief Customer Officer. Abhay has a passion for building great businesses and delivering memorable customer outcomes. Prior to Wrike, he headed up all post-sales services at Hearsay, a SaaS digital marketing platform for global financial services organizations. Previously, Abhay built the customer success organization at YouSendIt / Hightail from the ground up. He also managed product operations, strategy, pricing, and training for Cisco's security business, and held product, marketing, and engineering management positions at IronPort Systems, 3Com Corporation, and and Wipro Technologies. Abhay holds an M.B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley, and a B.S. in Computer Science from the National Institute of Technology, India.

Jeff is the Director of Project Management, Attractions & Exhibits for Nickelodeon Experience Design. In his role, Jeff manages all aspects from concept to opening of large-scale themed attractions and exhibits ensuring that the Nickelodeon brand and IP are brought to life with the greatest value possible.

Jeff’s early theater design training and extensive production experience have allowed him to develop a broad understanding of how systems and teams work together. As the Nickelodeon creative operations team began transitioning from a traditional model to a more Agile environment, they implemented Wrike as the backbone for collaboration. Jeff works with the creative and project management team, helping them be more efficient and conversant in Wrike.

Jeff spent his early career in performing arts production and all aspects of design for the performing arts (IATSE & USA scenic design affiliated) and migrated to a producer/director role in themed experiences and attractions worldwide. Having a broad experience in how complicated projects are mounted from conception to opening, Jeff has always been looking to refine processes and procedures to better manage projects and make the overall experience more enjoyable for everyone.

Jeff holds a Bachelor of Arts from Whitman College and Masters in Design for the Performing Arts from California Institute of the Arts.

Shaun Carlson is the Director of R&D and Continuous Innovation for Arvig. He has been with Arvig since 2011 and in the Telecommunications industry for almost 20 years. On the side, he is a Major in the North Dakota Air National Guard, which he's been a member of for 23 years. Over the years he has served his communities as a Church Youth Leader, Church Music Leader, Volunteer Firefighter, Emergency Medical Technician, and a board member for the Midwest Internet Cooperative Exchange in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He has a Masters in Business Administration from the University of Mary and a Bachelor of Science in Management Information Systems from North Dakota State University.

Wrike and Agile marketing is, in a way, a matter of life and death to Justin Zimmerman. As a kid, Justin watched his father struggle as a small business owner. With his father's life in chaos, Justin grew up in a less than stable home. Determined to not let history repeat itself, Justin became "fanatical" about creating frameworks to guide his teams (and family) toward meaningful and fulfilling goals.
Without a compelling vision of the future, Justin sees how people suffer, underachieve, and how both companies and families fall apart. This is why Justin believes every leader, manager, owner, mother, and father's true job is to empower their teams (or families) with skills, tools, and systems to visualize a path forward together.
Justin says, "Purpose must be channeled. It must be cultivated. It must be operationalized to serve others. We crave direction and progress toward meaningful common goals. Without them, we get lost. I saw it as a kid and see it in companies today. Too many good people, good teams, and good companies fall apart as they chase numbers rather than invest in people and accountability.”
When asked, "What's the purpose of Wrike and Agile?"
Justin's response is, "To give teams the safety and autonomy they need to grow their skills and test new ideas that help customers get more value from a company's products... which helps companies to continue to give people a stable, meaningful place to work."
Agility and accountability can also be found in Justin's personal life. His philosophy of "consistency over intensity" has powered every step of his 691-day "5K-a-day" running streak. Running every day has taught him that success comes from taking life and business (literally) one step at a time.

Frank Tramble is a marketing and communications expert with 13 years of experience in higher education. He serves as the Senior Director of Strategic Communications & Operations for the office of advancement — a $200+ million dollar a year fundraising department — and oversees a communications team of 26 individuals whose expertise spans across designers, writers, digital channel strategists, multimedia, user experience, and project management experts. This high-performing team executes nearly 500 projects each fiscal year using the Wrike platform.
Frank holds a BA in advertising from Michigan State University, a Master's in Integrated Marketing Communications from Georgetown University, and an Executive Leadership in Business Certificate from Georgetown University. He has three years of Wrike experience and is known around the department for causing co-workers to preface all project questions with "Don't worry. I'll put it in Wrike" prior to asking their questions. Frank is also an avid runner and created a fitness organization in Washington D.C., called DC Run Crew that has engaged more than 3,000 runners and partners with brands such as Nike, New Balance, Potomac River Running, and many more — and, yes, he uses Wrike to manage all projects there as well. Frank attended Wrike Collaborate 2019 in Nashville and enjoys championing many other institutions to join the Wrike family and experience the great efficiencies it offers.

Mitchell Bausch serves as the Project Manager for the Enrollment Marketing team at the university with the largest enrollment in the nation. A graduate of Texas A&M’s Business School, Mitchell came into this role as the university was shifting to support the enrollment management model. Having gotten familiar with Wrike while working at a marketing agency in Fort Worth, Mitchell was able to help his team maximize efficiency and output. A self-proclaimed Wrike nerd, you can usually find workflows mapped out on giant sticky notes in his office. For the second time since starting his role, his team has had to transition to a remote work environment and doesn’t miss a beat.

George Evano is the Senior Director of Content Strategy for the University of Oregon. He oversees a team of writer-producers who create content that inspires donations, strengthens relationships among alumni, celebrates university patrons, and advances the University of Oregon’s teaching mission. He’s a member of the cross-campus team that designs and deploys a Wrike installation that serves 300 licensed users and 700 collaborators within and outside of the university. George has won numerous industry awards, and sharpens his creative edge by playing tenor sax at Eugene-area jazz clubs.

Amir Younes is Vice President, Client Success and leads Wrike's North America client-facing organization, which helps our customers become raving Wrike fans by driving accelerated adoption and positive outcomes.
Amir understands that people are our most critical asset in business and by driving operational excellence, we can help companies grow without growing and give our people the freedom to choose how they invest their time. By reducing the friction of business, processes, communication, and channels, we enable people to be more productive and spend time on the activities fueled by their passions and help organizations to do more with who and what they have.

Amir has helped global organizations and clients across corporate (tech, CPG, retail, auto, and financial services), government, non-profit, and academic sectors unlock their potential and identify and achieve the strategic goals to fuel their growth.

Amir holds an MBA from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (Go, Blue!).

Cory "Bubba" Cunningham is a seasoned business architect and implementation professional. By seasoned we mean "marinated in BBQ brisket" as well as "process methodology" and "work management best practices." By combining his visual communication skills with his talents as a certified PMI Project Manager, PMI Agile Practitioner, and Scrum Master, he's able to provide creative solutions to the most challenging problems. Bubba has implemented project management and work management systems for over 20 years across multiple industries, including marketing, software development, healthcare, professional services, manufacturing, and construction – just to name a few. He holds a Master of Business Administration from The University of Texas at Dallas, Texas; a Master of Professional Communication from Weber State University, Utah; and a Perfect Pint Certificate from the Guinness Academy.

Amory Borromeo has nearly 2 decades' worth of experience working with start-ups and global corporations. She has spent most of her career leading others in operations and product management inside of tech companies, while taking every opportunity to speak at events and share her passion for growth, diversity and inclusion, and operational excellence.
Amory is currently the Head of Technology Operations at Carvana, an online car buying platform. In her current role, she is responsible for defining the operational approach that Carvana’s technology teams use to reach all new levels of excellence. While she encourages the use of tooling and processes, her approach is people-centric and her mission is to empower everyone to be the best, most efficient versions of themselves.
Prior to joining Carvana 2 years ago, Amory ran her own consulting company and worked for a digital transformation agency, which helped her develop a design eye and fall in love with product management. She is passionate about learning and has an insatiable curiosity. Amory uses her free time to read and write as much as possible when she isn’t running around after her toddler or enjoying music with her husband.

Jessica Wooding’s career as an Entrepreneur, Creative, and most recently as a Kaizen (Continuous Improvement) Manager has been built upon the philosophy that change is the only constant. During college at SDSU, Jessica co-founded and served as the Creative Director of the SaaS startup company Jobioz for two years. Jessica took the lessons she learned into her next role in the CPG startup company Chosen Foods as their 8th employee, and grew the creative and brand through a 3-year period of 5,146.8% growth from 2013-2015. Jessica then spent the next 18 months in Amsterdam to establish Chosen Foods’ European branch Agregare. During this time, she also led the creative development for the CPG Brand ElectroLife under Chosen Foods’ new sister company, Kuantum Brands.
In 2017, Jessica returned to Chosen Foods’ headquarters in San Diego and rebuilt the creative department’s processes and systems. She implemented Wrike along with a new digital asset management system for the Creative team and was able to produce a 30% increase in output within the first 4 months despite personnel reductions and create a scalable system for the department still in use today.
After the success with the Creative team’s processes matured over the next year, Jessica transitioned into the Ops Department. She has been busy through 2020 assessing, improving, and now implementing the company’s new product development process into Wrike and training the cross-functional teams on both Wrike and the newly improved process. Jessica’s career has taught her that trust, humility, positivity, collaboration, and transparency are the foundations for operational agility, and when combined with the right processes, tools, and of course the right people, that unimaginable growth is within reach.

Taylor Cotter is the Strategic Initiatives Manager for the Customer Experience (CX) Department at Datto, Inc. Headquartered in Norwalk, Connecticut with over 20 locations worldwide, Datto empowers the world’s small and medium businesses to thrive by offering unified continuity, networking, and business management solutions delivered through managed service providers (MSPs).
As a Strategic Initiatives Manager, Taylor collaborates with the CX Leadership team to develop and execute projects supporting improvement to the partner experience. She helps drive strategic initiatives by creating tactical paths of execution, including project plan outlines and milestone development, along with task and risk management. In addition, Taylor helps manage, plan, and execute strategic leadership offsite meetings and team building sessions.
Some of Taylor’s most notable initiatives include Datto’s launch of the Net Promoter Score (NPS), refining the onboarding process for new buying partners, and launching a new Datto Certification Program and learning management system for partners.
Taylor graduated with her Masters in Public Policy and Administration (MPA) from California State University, Long Beach. Prior to this, she received her Bachelor of Arts as a dual major in Political Science and Communication Studies from Canisius College in Buffalo, New York. Outside of her profession, Taylor enjoys running with her Golden Retriever and spending time on Loon Lake in Wayland, New York, where her parents reside.

As a Regional Head of Customer Success at Wrike, Renee leads a global team of talented CSMs. Renee has a passion for helping both employees and customers unlock their potential through personal and organizational development. She brings expertise in change management, global team leadership, marketing operations, and project management automation. Renee's experiences as a retail operations manager, head of business development, and now a manager of a CS team help her partner with clients to implement solutions and achieve their organizational goals of increasing efficiency, visibility, and collaboration.

Renat Gersch is the Director of Product Marketing at Wrike. Prior to Wrike, Renat held product marketing and marketing positions at technology startups such as [24]7.ai, contact center AI, Zoomdata, big data analytics, and global enterprise vendor – SAP. She implemented marketing strategies, executed marketing campaigns, developed partner programs, defined go-to-market, and launched cutting-edge technology, driving product adoption and revenue growth.
Renat holds a Bachelor of Science from Technion – Technology Institute of Israel and a Master of Business Administration from Swinburne University of Technology.

Mary Ellen Grom leads AFL’s internal and external strategic marketing communications efforts. She is responsible for defining and implementing a strategic marketing vision across AFL’s core markets,geographies, and business units to drive awareness, relationships, and reputation. Prior to AFL, she spent 25 years in distribution/channel marketing at SYNNEX Corporation, ScanSource, Inc., and a division of Arrow Electronics. She is an active diabetes advocate for the Carolinas chapter of JDRF and currently serves on the Women in Manufacturing Education Foundation board of directors.

Kate Collins is the Digital Project Manager at Postali, leading the planning efforts for all new client projects. In addition to day-to-day team and resource management, she focuses on improving internal project organization and efficiencies.
Kate has a background in communications, with a bachelor’s degree from the School of Journalism at Kent State University. With experience in leading projects of all sizes and industries, she combines her Type A organization with her Type B ideation to help guide client goals to completion.
Kate joined Postali in May 2019 after several years of account and project management at a boutique public relations and marketing firm in Columbus. As a self-proclaimed extrovert, she is excited to be at an actionable and strategic company, performing a role where she can focus on supporting the Postali team.

Miron Mizrahi is a seasoned technologist with 20+ years in the software industry, specializing in consulting, strategic presales, product/solution marketing, and portfolio management. He has had a successful track record in helping customers solve complex problems through technology and is now a Solutions Architect with Wrike, focusing on complex deployments and integrations.

Selah Stivers is the North America Marketing Director of TerraCycle, a social enterprise on a mission to eliminate the idea of waste. She manages a high-performing team of marketing and creative professionals focused on developing and executing engaging digital campaigns to promote TerraCycle and its brand partners, which include Procter & Gamble, Bausch + Lomb, L'Oréal, and Colgate-Palmolive. While serving as part of the global marketing team, Selah has focused on streamlining cross-departmental communications and providing analytics to support her team's creative work. Selah started her career as a data analyst and event coordinator for a small nonprofit organization focused on child safety policy and continues to pursue her commitment to mental health awareness through her volunteer work with Crisis Text Line.

Ryan Nelson is the Controller for Entrust Disability Services, providing personalized care and support to individuals with developmental disabilities in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. When Ryan started with Entrust 15 years ago, it was a small company providing one service to 9 clients with a team of 27 staff; today, Entrust provides four services to 159 clients and boasts a team of over 550 members. During his time at Entrust, Ryan has helped families in need during crisis, supported clients in learning new skills, and assisted clients in becoming accepted in the community. Now, Ryan uses his understanding of processes and systems to support Entrust team members on the front lines to become more effective and efficient in what they do.
For the past nine years as Controller, Ryan has created and maintained controls that helped Entrust grow. He quickly saw the benefits of Wrike and used it first within his own team to collaborate and increase efficiency. By identifying pain points in each department and building processes within Wrike to address those issues, Ryan led the company-wide implementation of Wrike. Today, Wrike is woven into every department at Entrust with a user rate of 93% – meaning that 93% of Entrust’s growing team has a meaningful interaction in Wrike each week.
Outside of work and Wrike, Ryan and his wife, Jamie, are raising four boys. Ryan enjoys sharing his love of basketball with his sons by coaching up to four teams each season. By teaching the fundamentals of the game, his boys learn teamwork, discipline, and the ability to react quickly and thoughtfully in all situations.

Stephanie Wilson is the Project Manager, Collections & Interpretation at Georgia O'Keeffe Museum. Stephanie engages Curatorial, Education and Interpretation, Research Collections and Services, and Historic Properties to ensure division and department projects are successful. She oversees exhibition installations, graphic material production, contractors, and project budgets. Stephanie also assesses team capacity and efficiency, and manages cross-departmental communications and grant administration. Stephanie has managed projects for Georgia O'Keeffe Museum since 2016. She earned a Bachelor of Arts in Art History and a Master of Business Administration in International Management from the University of New Mexico. She is passionate about project management and using tools that work smarter, not harder.

Marcus Manderson is the Supervisor of Audiovisual Operations for the National Geographic Society. Before assuming that role in 2016, Marcus was an Audiovisual Technician for National Geographic. He has been responsible for assisting in the maintenance and operation of the audio recording facilities, conference rooms, presentation software, and formal presentation spaces, including a 400-seat auditorium, executive suites, and board room spaces.
Marcus plays a key role in providing training materials such as knowledge articles, in-person (or virtual) classes, and online videos that assist with onboarding staff to various technology platforms. He also continues to develop and maintain strategic relationships with partners, clients, vendors, and others, ensuring the ability to quickly adapt to the increasing technological needs of an international non-profit organization.
Marcus earned a Master of Science in Entertainment Business from Full Sail University, where he was the Valedictorian, and a Bachelor of Music with a concentration in Keyboards and Music Industry, Cum Laude. He also has earned an ITIL Foundations certification and an AVIXA CTS certification.

Shane has been working in the IT Industry for 15 years, starting as a Java Software Developer for a couple of Small Companies before moving into the Architecture and Consulting Space. With a PRINCE 2 and a TOGAF certification, Shane worked as a Senior Consultant for KPMG and an Integration Architect for IBM's consulting department, gaining experience across a variety of different industries. Since he joined Wrike he has worked with a number of different strategic clients focusing on Integration, Analytics, and Hierarchical Reporting needs.

Mark Tapia is a Professional Services Consultant who works with organizations large and small to innovate the way they visualize their data. Mark knows that teams need simple ways to measure their work in order to give reliable, actionable insights to leadership.

Briana Sever is a project management professional with seven years of project management experience in the Advertising, Marketing, and Real Estate industries. Briana is currently a Project Manager for the B2B Marketing Team at Brookfield Properties, one of the largest retail real estate companies in the United States. Headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, Briana is responsible for the planning and execution of nearly all B2B marketing projects, serving as the main liaison to all stakeholder groups.
As an avid Wrike user, Briana has earned a reputation as the dynamic Wrike leader for the Brookfield Properties Marketing Department, championing the implementation of Wrike to a group of 70+ people, establishing organizational and change management processes, and forming a Wrike Power User Group. Briana has led departments to achieve optimal efficiency in their daily work, ultimately increasing department productivity and encouraging team collaboration. Driven, analytical, and process-oriented in nature, Briana is continuously working with her colleagues to find efficiencies with Wrike to improve their daily lives in the workplace.
Briana attended Butler University in Indianapolis, Indiana and earned a Bachelor of Arts in Electronic Journalism (Television Broadcasting), Digital Media Production, Public Relations, and Spanish while being involved in a variety of leadership roles in campus and Greek organizations. She earned her Project Management Professional (PMP) certification from the Project Management Institute in February 2020.

Matt Williams is a leader of customer success organizations and has over 10 years of experience working at and with SasS companies across the world. With a focus on customer-centricity and delivering operational excellence, Matt has lead operationally transformative projects with multiple fortune 500 companies, including Airbnb, Western Union, iHeartMedia, and more. Matt currently leads Wrike's customer success team and is here to share some of the incredible learnings Wrike has learned from its over 20,000 customers!

Andriy Vertseshuk is a crisis manager by job requirements and change manager by nature. Andriy has implemented Wrike globally in Modern-Expo Group for daily operations in 70 countries, as well as redesigned and implemented the customer relationship management system. He's experienced in forming teams, employee development, and process standardization. He's also a certified Six Sigma Black Belt, achieving 200,000 EUR of verified hard savings in one of the most significant projects.

Samantha Hanreck is Global Head of Information Technology by day and international DJ by night. Samantha has implemented Wrike globally for the Insect Technology Group for daily operations in 10 countries, as well as digitally transformed the organization to have world-class IT solutions. Her experience in developing teams, growing employees' careers, and working in cross-functional departments within the business has grown expansively. Samantha is signed to a South African record label and has performed live at over 40 festivals. Her main focus is to continue to push Wrike as the company expands into the Asia, EMEA, and U.S. regions over the next two years, ensuring transparency, collaboration, and productivity throughout the organization.

Jacques du Toit is the Business Systems Manager for the Insect Technology Group by trade and an active seeker of human-powered outdoor adventures. Jacques enjoys putting systems in place that empower people and cut down human effort, all whilst making businesses move faster. Tasked with project managing the global deployment of Wrike and being the lead system champion for ITG, he’s actively looking for new ways in which Wrike can add value for the various teams. His current focus is on coordinating internal and external resources to manage an ever-increasing project load – for which Wrike is the perfect sidekick.

Jana Metz has been working with Wrike for the last five years in various customer-facing positions. Her main goal is always to support clients during the initial evaluation process to figure out if Wrike might be the right solution for their organization. One of her main interests is to always find a solution to a problem and never give up until she succeeds. In her position as a Sales Director, she has adopted an Agile outlook on the day-to-day business, which has been especially helpful during the current and constantly changing environment.

Fraser Charles leads global strategic partnerships at MediaValet, a leading cloud-based DAM provider. After becoming one of the youngest general managers in a global engineering firm, he launched into the technology sector to pursue a passion; leveraging partnerships to create amazing products that drive more value for customers. Today he works closely with companies like Microsoft, Wrike and many others to achieve this goal.

Karen has nearly 20 years experience building teams and producing print and digital marketing for some of the world’s biggest brands both agency-side and in-house. Focused on marrying creative problem solving with technology in order to remedy the 'how we work' issues. Committed to making our team a great place for designers and producers to do their very best work. Passionate about craft, integrity and communication, talent development and creative workflows.

Meryl is a Chartered Accountant who specializes in the cloud accounting software Xero. She founded Bean Ninjas in 2015 with $1,000 following the 7 day Startup methodology. Now 5 years later the company operates in Australia, the US, and UK and has a distributed team of 15 people. Meryl is also a mentor at Rob Walling’s accelerator TinySeed and has been featured in articles by Xero and Chartered Accountants ANZ, as well as popular podcasts including TMBA, SuperFastBusiness and Pat Flynn’s AskPat 2.0. Meryl believes in people over profit, the power of building systems, remote work and being a coach rather than a manager. When not out transforming how services businesses operate, Meryl can be found surfing at a local Gold Coast beach or hanging out with her partner and baby daughter.

Heather is a fearless professional services leader with a strong customer-centric focus. Her aim is to make sure customers achieve value from investing in technologies. She motivates cross- functional teams to successfully deliver technology that works. As well as being on top of the game, Heather is highly curious about emerging technologies and works hard to identify benefits for customers. She meets the ever-increasing pace of delivery and the need to identify new solutions to meet demand. Heather achieves outcomes by working with customers to understand their end goals. She helps them to adapt to change and new ways of working. She has successfully led joint customer and multi-vendor teams to deliver evolutionary, leading edge business outcomes. Heather is a straight talker with a reputation for creating momentum out of seeming chaos. She uses the principles of DevOps for technology delivery and has a broad range of industry experience across software and cloud engineering.
Heather is passionate about equality and teamwork. She provides opportunities for team members to be their best selves at work, and to foster the generation of ideas, solutions, and innovations. Heather holds a degree in Mathematics and Computer Science, is a certified Agile practitioner, attended multiple management and industry conferences and courses, trained as a Project Management Professional, and is currently studying for a Microsoft Power Platform Fundamentals certification.

Owen Greenwell has 25 years of consulting experience in the advertising, printing, and publishing industries focused on the creative workflow, including all aspects of server infrastructure, application integration, project management, digital asset management, app development, and Adobe Creative Suite. In his current role he architects, deploys, manages, and supports WoodWing Studio/Assets and data plan JournalDesigner hosted on Amazon Web Services. The latest project is rolling out the Wrike work management platform across the whole organization.

Donnacha is a veteran of the IT industry with over 20 years of experience. Currently leading EMEA Sales for Wrike, Donnacha is passionate about helping customers achieve their goals on the Wrike platform by helping them improve efficiencies and driving collaboration among their teams.

Michael has been working in the collaborative work management solutions space for six years, and has a true passion for solving problems and increasing efficiency. He helps teams and organizations from SMB to Enterprise level in both private and government sectors to accelerate digital transformation and help you do the best work of your life.

In her role as Product Manager for Project Execution Tooling, Christina drives innovative task and activity management forward with currently around 12,000 users collaborating in Europe, the Middle East and Asia, and North America. Her passion is to bring together people and the technology that enables them to improve their productivity and work satisfaction daily. For Siemens Smart Infrastructure, Wrike allows significant standardization and savings for employees involved in delivering customer projects and has proven to be the tool of choice for the last years in fostering digital transformation in the project execution process.

Liam McGuigan is the Integrated Marketing Services Planner in CX, digital, and marketing at The University of Queensland (UQ), bringing with him over 13 years’ experience in digital marketing and mar-tech delivery spanning industries such as automotive, real estate, performing arts, and most recently tertiary education.
Liam’s responsibilities include configuring an organization-wide digital asset management tool, and configuring and enabling Wrike for UQ, across a diverse marketing and communication community. The implementation of Wrike for UQ has delivered significant results in improved efficiencies and highlighted opportunities for using Wrike’s functionalities in new and creative ways.
In addition to providing integrated mar-tech solutions at a world’s top 50 university, Liam and his team coordinate and advise on strategic marketing activities across the university.
His knowledge and passion for current and emerging digital trends and technology positions him as a leader in organizations taking on transformation projects in CX and digital marketing.

Loretta Porche has over 20 years’ experience in marketing and communication, and is the Integrated Planning and Performance Manager within the CX, Digital, and Marketing team at The University of Queensland. With a bachelor’s degree in journalism and a master’s degree in marketing, Loretta has worked in media, government, and corporates, and also ran her own consultancy while raising two young children. Loretta has worked at The University of Queensland (UQ), a world’s top 50 university, for the past six years and is passionate about strategic marketing and planning. Loretta and team have spent the past 12 months implementing Wrike to the marketing and communication teams across the university and using the tool to support integrated marketing planning and delivery. This implementation has required significant change management, training, and alignment to a new way of working across the organization. With the first stage of implementation reaching its end, Loretta is looking forward to using Wrike to take UQ’s marketing and communication planning and delivery to the next level.

After graduating from the University of Technology Sydney as a software engineer, Josh established his career in the digital product development scene in Sydney. Over the course of his tenure as a software engineer, Josh worked with some of Australia's leading digital product development firms, some of Australia’s largest brands, and a number of highly successful startups, such as Dimmi (TripAdvisor company), Woolworths Group, and Mastercard to name few.
Josh founded Mudbath Digital in 2013, a digital product delivery firm where he currently holds the position of Managing Director. Mudbath Digital, based in Newcastle, is a highly technical digital product engineering firm that supports a diverse portfolio of clients ranging from startups to multinationals, including Westpac, nib, Sigma Healthcare, Pegasus, GraysOnline, and Orica.
Josh has interests in a range of tech and manufacturing businesses of which he currently holds directorship and board positions. Josh has a fierce passion and expertise for innovation, startups, and digital product commercialization.

John is a high-achieving business leader with over 40 years’ valuable experience in the energy industry. He’s passionate about making a positive difference and has a history of building collaborative, high-performing teams. John has held various senior management roles within the energy sector including AusNet Services, TXU, and Eastern Energy.

Shiella Christy is a London based Digital Marketer, specializing in social media strategy. She’s currently working in a global media agency with one of the biggest fashion brands in the world. In her current role, she's constantly finding new ways to make sure the team is delivering best-in-class service around the clock for 59 markets. Automation and scale are perhaps some of her favorite words at work.

Therese Sabarre is a seasoned professional with over 18 years of experience, mostly in the field of Telecommunications. She has practiced Business Analytics and served as the technical and analytics advisor for top DMUs (decision making units) in the telco space, crafting strategies and execution plans that remain in practice today. She has been a key go-to person whenever the organization explores new business ventures, and has helped transform business units from applying manual processes to a more data-centered digital approach.
Apart from her technical know-how, Therese also makes a great team player. This former pitcher and team captain for her high school women’s softball team – with three straight championships – understands that commitment and sacrifice, combined with agility and flexibility, make up a team’s success. And as a mother, she understands that one has to constantly evolve to adapt to the growing needs of children as well as the people around who need you.
As an entrepreneur by heart, Therese’s curiosity in businesses led to her to venture into technology, retail, and healthcare. She believes the world is full of endless possibilities, and exploring the market is a privilege for learning before you ultimately decide on the best opportunity.
Therese looks forward to traveling again, scuba diving, and possibly learning flying.

In his current role as Operations Excellence Manager, Javier Hernandez guides the project execution organization in gaining competitive advantage and exceeding customer expectations by developing and driving the right frameworks and strategic initiatives based on efficient processes, applications, competences, and knowledge sharing. His passion is to bring value to the field organization so that they can successfully deliver to their customers. Wrike has been a great contributor for the project execution organization in terms of efficiency increase, process standardization, transparency, and digital transformation.

With over 12 years of experience in account management, Deb Graham has a passion for assisting her clients and guiding them toward success. Deb is as attentive as she is detail orientated when contributing to the client's journey with Wrike, ensuring they're continuously improving. She's a trusted advisor and loves the regular interaction and rapport her role brings.

Starting out as one of the first three team members in Australia, Luke Mannering is now a Senior Account Manager at Wrike. With over eight years of experience in sales, Luke has a passion for connecting with people, building successful customer relationships, and helping them achieve their goals. Luke is an avid traveler and keen golfer, though his scorecard is debatable!

Patrick Gilbert has over 20 years of IT experience in the APJ region across leadership, sales, architecture, and technical delivery roles at emerging and mature enterprise companies such as Mercury, Hewlett-Packard, and now Wrike. After studying Computer Science and Computer Systems Engineering at Melbourne's RMIT University, Patrick started out as a technical delivery consultant before shifting into a regional leadership position for Hewlett-Packard Enterprise, where he was recognized as one of the top four leaders worldwide. Patrick then took up a sales executive role and succeeded in reinvigorating a stale area of the business before moving on to his next challenge at Wrike.
As Director of Client Success & Professional Services for APJ, Patrick works closely with his team to support Wrike's clients to do the best work of their lives. Patrick sees it as his role to develop, coach, and empower his team to achieve their full potential in accordance with the clear vision and strategy he has conveyed, and in doing so gives Wrike's customers an exceptional quality of service geared towards achieving accelerated time to value with the Wrike platform.
Outside of work, Patrick enjoys his golf, footy, tennis, and soccer, has often been a keen coach and club president of his local soccer teams, and strongly advocates for using the knowledge and skills gained in these extracurricular pursuits to support his professional life.

Bethan Cunningham is a Customer Success Manager at Wrike, and her main goal is to ensure her clients are as successful as possible when using Wrike. Bethan works closely with her customers to make sure their Wrike account is optimized to the fullest capacity while helping them get the most value out of their investment.

Simrin Purhar is a Onboarding & Implementation Manager at MediaValet. With a background in both business and computer science, she’s able to lead successful system implementations and develop DAM strategies for clients. In her free time, Simrin enjoys hiking and all other outdoor activities.

Dhiraj Dharmarajan has over 10 years of IT experience in a variety of client-facing roles mainly in project implementation, business analysis, and professional services consultancy. He has worked in a variety of domains, mainly health, IT services, and asset management with companies in the APAC region. To back this industry experience, Dhiraj is also a certified Agile PM practitioner and holds other industry standard certifications in both project management as well as business analysis (PRINCE2 and ECBA, to name a few), plus a master's degree in IT from Deakin University, Melbourne.

As a PS consultant at Wrike, his main role is to onboard new clients to the Wrike platform and guide them on best practices to ensure process optimization and improved communication/collaboration.

Outside of work, Dhiraj enjoys his outdoor sporting activities (running and mountain biking, to name a few) and runs a free for all soccer meet and greet group near his home where soccer fanatics of all skillsets and ages come together to have some fun and fitness. In addition to this, he loves spending time with family and traveling (when the situation permits).

Adam Griffin is an Energy Executive with a proven track record of success in the corporate and SME sectors, and has completed a successful business exit. He has a recognized ability to provide high-level commercial and strategic control to ensure consistently improved business performance.

Lesley is a Global Engagement Manager in Wrike's Professional Services practice. With over 15 years of experience in professional services and SaaS companies, she has spent her career helping clients streamline business processes, manage change effectively, and improve performance.

Lesley prides herself on delivering projects that deliver results on time and on budget. She is committed to helping people work smarter so they can spend their time on what matters most to them. In Lesley's case, that includes her friends and family, boot-camp workouts, and honey badgers.

Patrick Rohlfsen partners with some of the most remarkable brands in the world, and helps them get from here to HERE using Wrike. He makes magic happen by weaving Wrike into the fabric of their businesses. He works to understand their business intimately enough to learn how people work together (or don't work together). Then he builds a solution to make the interactions between people much better. He asks lots of questions about their businesses — often the same ones, sometimes the right ones. Then he gets to the point where he understands what they want to do, and they build a solution to make it repeatable. He calls it process mapping. Patrick makes the intake cleaner, the work more productive, and the output faster/better. He leaves the client with a better business and then parts ways. Sometimes he's sad about it.

As a Customer Success Manager for the North American region, Maxim Maslak ensures his customers are able to get the most value from Wrike by unlocking the full power of the platform. Maxim is always eager to understand his customers’ unique needs to help them achieve their business goals and drive operational excellence in their collaborative work. Prior to Wrike, Maxim worked in the IT industry for more than six years as a Sales Associate, Sales Representative, and Channel Developer.

Coming from the digital marketing space, Connor McCloskey works closely with a lot of our advertising agency and internal marketing use case clients. Connor’s role as a Customer Success Manager is to continually track the long-term value Wrike brings to our clients, share tailored advice and best practices, and make sure Wrike has a positive business impact on the organizations he works with. He takes pride in always putting the user first as he architects solutions to address their unique business goals and needs.

Andrey Nikitin is one of our Customer Success Managers for North America. He joined his first B2B SaaS in 2014 and spent the last six years working with customers across the globe and guiding them towards success. Andrey enjoys working in a fast, changing environment and taking advantage of new tools and techniques to maximize efficiency while making sure that his customers' needs are always addressed.

With over 10 years of experience in a variety of customer-facing roles in hi-tech globally, Oria Ortov joined Wrike a month prior to the official opening of the APAC office, when there were only six of them. Oria has a passion for connecting with different cultures and assisting customers with achieving their goals. Oria speaks six foreign languages and loves interacting with customers across the region and above, guiding and translating customers' needs into the product.

When not in front of her laptop, Oria loves traveling and hiking with her family and friends. She can't wait to meet with customers face to face again!

Veronica is a long-time Wriker currently leading the EMEA Account Management team. Having seen Wrike's tremendous growth in her past eight years with the company, the most rewarding thing for Veronica is seeing the results of expanding Wrike usage with our customers. Her main goal is to make sure every Wrike customer in EMEA has a dedicated Account Manager who speaks their language and serves as a trusted advisor who actively collaborates with them to achieve great results with Wrike.

Perry Solomon is the General Manager for Brands at WoodWing USA, where he leads strategy and go-to-market efforts to deliver WoodWing’s digital asset management and multichannel content creation solutions to brand marketers. In this role, he leads sales, marketing and customer acquisition efforts, and partners with WoodWing’s Product, Professional Services and Customer Success teams, to deliver innovative solutions which enable our customers to elevate their storytelling. Prior to WoodWing, Mr. Solomon has spent 20+ years in marketing, strategy, and business development roles, launching and growing businesses in the software and media, entertainment, and communications industries.

Aaron Senne manages for DISH Wireless’ EPMO. Aaron has more than 5 years of experience managing several of DISH’s top priority initiatives including wireless technology and tower deployments, product and software deployments, and more. His ability to work with people and “see the entire field” to coordinate between dozens of teams and stakeholders has allowed him to successfully launch an award-winning OTT streaming player at CES, multi-million dollar generating features for DISH’s satellite TV business, as well as strategic programs for DISH Wireless’ up-and-coming 5G network. Since moving to management he has been a key asset to building the foundations of the DISH Wireless business and EPMO. Aaron holds a Masters of Business Administration from the Trulaske College of Business at the University of Missouri where he also played collegiate baseball.

Amy Lofgreen is the Marketing Director for BaseCamp Franchising — a franchise committed to revolutionizing the resale clothing industry. Amy has been helping to build and strengthen the franchise since 2012. She's currently on a mission to transform the Marketing Department into a world-class service for the franchisee, provide upscale marketing for both brands, and advocate sustainable communities. When not working, you'll find Amy playing the piano, reading classics, watching TikTok, or hanging out with her family. Her new COVID-19 hobby is rollerskating.

Craig McCoy is one of our leaders on the international customer success team and has been working in SaaS and customer success for the past eight years. With vast experience in understanding business pain points and a passion for project and work management, Craig has helped dozens of global organizations successfully improve and digitally transform how they work. Craig currently leads a team of talented, customer-focused CSMs whose main goal is ensuring clients are as successful as possible when using Wrike.

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