Discover the industry practitioners, analysts and thought leaders that are forging new paths to automation excellence.
Bear Grylls OBE
BEAR GRYLLS OBE, has become known worldwide as one of the most recognized faces of survival and outdoor adventure.
Trained from a young age in martial arts, Grylls went on to spend three years as a soldier in the British Special Forces, as part of 21 SAS Regiment. It was here that he perfected many of the survival skills that his fans all over the world enjoy, as he pits himself against the worst of Mother Nature.
Despite a free-fall parachuting accident in Africa, where he broke his back in three places and endured many months in and out of military rehabilitation, Grylls recovered and went on to become one of the youngest climbers ever to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
He then went on to star in seven seasons of the Discovery Channel’s Emmy Award-nominated Man vs. Wild TV series, which became one of the most-watched shows on the planet, reaching an estimated 1.2 billion viewers.
Since then, he has gone on to host more extreme adventure TV shows across more global networks than anyone else in the world, including six seasons of the global hit TV show Running Wild with Bear Grylls.
Running Wild has featured Bear taking some of the world’s best-known stars on incredible adventures. These include President Obama, Julia Roberts, Roger Federer, Will Ferrell, Channing Tatum, and Kate Winslet, to name but a few.
Bear also hosts the Emmy Award-nominated interactive Netflix show You Vs Wild, which was one of Netflix’s most watched shows in 2020. Netflix & Bear then forged new ground by make two interactive movie versions of You Vs Wild including the second most watched film on Netflix US, titled: Animals On The Loose.
Bear has also won two BAFTAS, including one for his hit Channel 4 show The Island with Bear Grylls.
Bear also filmed an adventure with Prime Minister Modi of India, which achieved a landmark record as the ‘world’s most trending televised event, with a staggering 3.6 BILLION impressions.
His autobiography, Mud Sweat and Tears, spent 15 weeks at Number 1 in the Sunday Times bestseller list and he has written over 90 books, selling in excess of 19 million copies worldwide.
He is an Honorary Officer to the Royal Marines Commandos, the youngest ever UK Chief Scout, and the first ever Chief Ambassador to the World Scout Organization, representing a global family of some fifty million Scouts.
He is married to Shara, and together they have three sons: Jesse, Marmaduke and Huckleberry. They live on a houseboat on the Thames in London and a private island off the Welsh coast.
Bear’s life motto is simple: courage and kindness . . . and never give up!
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Harel Tayeb, CEO, Kryon
Harel is a visionary leader and serial entrepreneur with over 15 years of experience in the tech ecosystem. Most recently an investor and advisor for startups and VC’s, Harel has held several leadership positions including AVG Israel Country Manager (acquired by Avast for $1.3B). Prior to AVG, Harel led Como (Conduit Mobile), a fast-growing mobile app maker platform. Prior to Como, he founded a visionary startup in the collectibles area, Collcs Ltd., and before that managed an engineering group at Microsoft & Gteko (acquired by Microsoft) ILDC. Harel is the CEO of Kryon, a leader in enterprise automation, offering the only full-cycle robotic process automation platform on the market.
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Shay Antebi, Chief Technology Officer (CTO), Kryon
Shay is a versatile, dynamic, and experienced global technology and innovation leader. Over the course of his career Shay has led multiple large-scale global transformations introducing teams to new, cutting-edge technologies and methodologies. Shay previously served as VP R&D and Innovation in Amdocs (NASDAQ: DOX) where he was responsible for building world-class services, resulting in major business growth, as well as the CTO for Amdocs Delivery where he spearheaded the technology for over 5,000 developers.
Shay spent several years in the Israeli Air Force and is a great believer in nurturing creativity to achieve the best results.
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Karen Mae C. Ching, EMEA FSI Industry Specialist and Program Manager, AWS
Karen Mae C. Ching is an experienced Banking and Finance professional with keen acumen in delivering and driving strategic and operational excellence in various business divisions globally with significant impact on P&L and effectiveness of teams. She has a strong background in operations, marketing strategy, product development and business management. Her key competencies include business strategy, program/project management, operations, process excellence and continuous improvement.
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Elena Christopher, Senior Vice President-Research, HFS
Elena Christopher is Senior Vice President–Research at HFS. Elena leads HFS’ coverage of banking and financial services (BFS) informed by more than two decades of collaboration and advisory work with financial services firms across banking, capital markets, and regulatory compliance. Her industry alignment is complemented by her emerging technology coverage of Triple-A Trifecta change agents—AI, automation, and smart analytics. Elena helps HFS maintain its position as the strongest impact thought leader for business operations and IT services research.
Elena brings more than 25 years of IT and business process services expertise to HFS, having served as either an advisor or vendor partner for major clients in industries such as financial services, high-tech, communications, retail, automotive and energy. She most recently led Strategy & Portfolio for Conduent’s (formerly Xerox Services) Commercial business. Her previous roles include Managing Director, Research, Risk & Compliance at DTI where she built and ran their risk and compliance outsourcing practice; Vice President, Financial Services at Mobius Knowledge Services where she launched their Reference Data practice; Vice President, Research & Analytics at OfficeTiger/RR Donnelley, where she built one of the first successful offshore Knowledge Process Outsourcing (KPO) practices; and Global Research Director, Gartner, where she provided research and advisory services to consumers and purveyors of IT and business process services.
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Itay Gini, Director of Product, Kryon
Itay has been with Kryon for over 10 years, leading the innovation of Kryon’s RPA and Process Discovery products. By combining his vast technical knowledge, UX savviness, and drive for improvement, he has helped grow Kryon’s product suite, including the addition of Studio+. He brings over 15 years of experience in the hi-tech industry, with a special focus on intelligent process automation. Itay has a background in computer engineering which he gained while serving in the Israel Defense Force’s elite computer unit.
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Max Lien, VP of Corporate Development, Hyperscience
As Vice President of Corporate Development, Max Lien is responsible for expanding and accelerating the Hyperscience Platform through Product and Data Partnerships, M&A, and Corporate Strategy.
Prior to joining Hyperscience, Max drove strategic product partnerships, M&A, and corporate strategy at Bloomberg and BlackRock focused on software, financial technology, data, and ML-related initiatives, such as BlackRock’s acquisition of FutureAdvisor and Bloomberg’s strategic collaboration with Temenos.
Max graduated with a Bachelors of Science in Finance from American University.
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Lesley Mast, Firm Project Manager, Rea & Associates
Lesley Mast is a principal at Rea & Associates, a top 100 accounting firm. She has grown with the firm, starting out as a tax associate and rising to various leadership positions. Currently, she serves as the firm’s first Project Manager. Her job responsibilities include serving as Business Analyst and Team Manager for the RPA team, as well as managing the integration of merged firms into Rea. Lesley has her Lean Six Sigma Green Belt, as well as her CPA license and bachelor and master’s degrees from Bowling Green State University. She also serves on several board of director positions, for a profit & 2 non-profit organizations.
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Nischay Mittal, Principal and Global Business Head – Automation, Zinnov
Nischay Mittal is the Global Head for the RPA and Intelligent Automation practice at Zinnov. He is a seasoned leader with a robust client portfolio spanning across geographies and sectors. With more than 12 years of global consulting experience, he has led teams to deliver significant top-line and bottom-line impact for leading platform companies and Fortune 500 enterprises. He currently oversees the global charter for Automation and Artificial Intelligence at Zinnov. Nischay has solidified his reputation as a go-to advisor for helping companies pivot and transform their Digital strategies and enable exponential growth. He has successfully established marquee client relationships and spearheaded multiple engagements across Cloud, AI/Cognitive Computing, Automation and Low-Code/No-Code domains. Prior to Zinnov, Nischay has held managerial roles at Deloitte and Accenture leading various market expansion projects.
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Ryan Moss, Regional Customer Success Manager, Americas, Kryon
Ryan has been with Kryon for 4 years now and is currently the Regional Customer Success Manager for the Americas. In his role, Ryan oversees a team that works very closely with Kryon’s Americas customers to help them achieve positive ROI from the Kryon automation suite. He works with customers such as Verizon, Wyndham, and Johnson & Johnson.
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Brooks Olphin, Product Line Owner – Process & Task Mining, Johnson & Johnson
Brooks Olphin is Johnson and Johnson’s capability owner for process & task mining and is passionate about making operations more automated and efficient. He started his career in IT project management, but quickly realized the vast opportunity to further connect business and systems in a more efficient manner. Realizing the importance of good process improvement, he completed certifications in Project Management (PMP) and Six Sigma (Black Belt) before transitioning into more of a “Digital Process Improvement” role. In this capability, he has worked with all sectors and segments as we work to capture our current processes through digital means, add missing qualitative inputs and streamline our future systems and processes.Session
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Daniel Peled, SVP Sales & Channels, Kryon
Daniel has over 15 years of sales management and business development expertise from a variety of enterprise software and hardware companies. He has an extensive history of building and leading successful businesses and teams. As the EVP of Sales at Mango DSP, Peled managed global sales and was part of the management team that led the company to acquisition and an M&A. Later, he joined FST Biometrics as VP Sales, building its US and Global Sales Team. Most recently, Daniel was Head of Business Development and Sales at Webyclip where he focused his efforts on large eCommerce players such as eBay, Tokopedia, Lazada, and others. Currently, Daniel is responsible for building and developing the Kryon’s global advisories, partners, and channels, bringing Kryon’s Full-Cycle Automation Solution to a global enterprise audience. Peled holds a degree in Industrial Engineering and Management from the Azrieli College of Engineering in Jerusalem.
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Eric Roovers, Vice President, Head of Business Transformation, EMEA, Software AG
Since 2015, I have been leading Software AG’s Business Transformation business in the EMEA region. Together with the fantastic EMEA team, we are growing the business year over year, expanding our partner ecosystem, making all of our customers successful in their operational excellence and transformation initiatives, and retaining our product leadership position.
Together with our customers and with the ARIS product development team, we have changed how the market views process management. We coined the term “Enterprise Management System” for an integrated capability on enterprise level, built on a strong process foundation, that allows organisations to transform, optimise and control the way the run their business. Enterprise management systems have been proven to be a key differentiator for organisations that are in transformation, that face regulatory or resilience challenges, or that need to become more agile to win.
With a 20 year background in process management consulting and business development, I bring to the table a combination of strong market and technology insight, a growth approach based on customer success planning, continuous GTM innovation and strong team building skills.
In my view, growth requires an end-to-end, agile, collaborative approach, connecting developers, field teams, partners and customers into a tight community. It also requires an inclusive and diverse team and team spirit. And it requires a clear and strong product vision that the team can rally around.
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Vitaly Rybalkin, Director of Process Automation & Robotization Center, JSC Renaissance Insurance Group
Rybalkin Vitaly Nikolaevich graduated from the Moscow State Open University with a degree in World Economy. He has more than 15 years of experience in the field of IT project management, optimization and digital transformation of business processes. Today he serves as the director of the center for automation and robotization of processes at the Renaissance Insurance Group.
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Inderjit Sehrawat, Managing Director, India, Kryon
Inderjit Sehrawat is a seasoned business leader with an experience of introducing many technology companies to India and scaling their businesses. Inderjit has an uncanny ability to achieve this success across industries. His initial grounding came from the Civil Services in India. Inderjit has a Master’s in Technology from Indian Institute of Technology.
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Manuel Sevilla, Vice President, Chief Digital Officer, Capgemini’s Business Services
Manuel Sevilla is a Vice President, Chief Digital Officer of Capgemini’s Business Services. He has 25 years of experience, including 18 years with Capgemini group, where he has been notably Chief Technical Officer of Insights & Data for 5 years, Global Head of Big Data, Artificial Intelligence and Data Management for 2 years and in charge of Cloud Business for Capgemini Continental Europe for 3 years.
Manuel Sevilla has worked and so acquired a unique experience in the areas of Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, Data Governance, Cloud economy, move to Cloud, Cloud Native, Blockchain (Private & Public), public API, Open Banking, DevOps, IT Performance and Enterprise Architecture. Manuel Sevilla has an expertise in Automotive, Banking, Insurance, Consumer Products and Utilities sectors.
He actively advises his customers to move to a new world with radically faster time-to-market, new business models, new ecosystems, new constraints and new customer expectations. He helps our clients to move to the frictionless enterprise by embracing domains such as cloud, AI, and by using Enterprise Architecture to bring Agility.
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Julie Shafiki, Chief Marketing Officer, Kryon
As Kryon’s Chief Marketing Officer, Julie heads up Kryon’s marketing strategy, including brand awareness, public/analyst relations, lead generation, digital marketing, product marketing, as well as field, partner and customer marketing. Over the last 25 years, Julie has built up expert teams, taking high-growth global technology companies to their next stage of business maturity, including three IPOs and one M&A. Recently, Julie received an award as one of the Top Women in Communications 2021 by Ragan Communications and PR Daily.
Prior to Kryon, Julie served as CMO of Safe-T, VP Marketing of Voyager Labs, VP Marketing at Tufin®, Global Marketing Director at Lumenis, AVP Global Public Relations at Comverse (NASDAQ: CMVT), and Director of Corporate Communications at PowerDsine (NASDAQ: PDSN, now Microsemi) and Amdocs (NYSE: DOX). She holds an MBA from Tel Aviv University and a BA from Colgate University in New York.
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Vijay Shankar, Partner & Practice Leader, Intelligent Automation, EY
With over 22 years of experience in consulting and business transformation, Vijay leads the Intelligent Automation and Artificial Intelligence (AI) for EY in India. He is part of the EY Emerging Technology Council driving new solutions built-out in the area of Robotics and Artificial intelligence and a significant member of the Global Leadership Network for Automation and AI.
Vijay works closely with the AI and Emerging Technology start-up ecosystem to help bring new solutions to business. As an acclaimed thought leader, Vijay mentors organisations to reimagine and execute their digital transformation journey with the right approach to adoption of AI and Automation at scale.
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Steve Sutton, Business Process Management Consultant Lead, bp
Steve is a business process management consultant lead within bp, where he has been for the last eight years. Working in robotic process discovery, business process management (BPM) and process mining to support continuous improvements, business transitions and transformation programmes. His most recent project, using Kryon RPD, has been the mitigating of risk of 1,600 FTEs activities being insourced back into bp from an external provider and the potential loss of knowledge on how those processes were being performed. He trained as an accountant before moving into project and programme management and for the last 15 years in BPM. Steve is the co-chair of bp pride UK and delivers safe space sessions globally. He recently got married to his partner Alistair, they have five kids between them. In what little spare time he has Steve coaches gymnastics and is a tutor for National Recreational Gymnastics.
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