Yolánda L. Chase, SHRM-SCP, CPM, CM serves as Director, Work(place) Forward – Global Inclusion & Diversity for Arrow Electronics. Chase joined the company in 2015 and is responsible for developing then driving inclusive workplace and employee experience strategiesacross the enterprise. She is also focused on ensuring that diversity and inclusion is positioned as a key business imperative as Chair of Arrow’s Global Inclusion & Diversity Council.

When organizations are looking to build next generation human capital strategies that align with the growth goals of the business on a global scale, that’s when Yolánda puts her 28 years of HR expertise to work, developing solid bottom up workplace inclusion and diversity program frameworks, or optimizing and “leveling up” existing ones. Yolánda wholeheartedly believes in the value and purposeful work associated with inclusive and diverse workplaces. Her passion for creating cultures where everyone can thrive when they bring their whole self to work, is the driving force behind her work ethic. She has built a solid reputation as a trusted advisor expert spending many years consulting in leadership capacities for a variety of industries within the public, private, non-profit, and government sectors.

Drawing upon her SHRM Senior Certified Professional certification, project management and business genetics certifications, complimented by her BA education in Organizational Development from Regis University – Yolánda demonstrates her adept knowledge in strategic planning and program improvement by crafting solutions designed to evolve business practices that ultimately promote employee personal and professional well-being and equity for all.

Aleta Jeffress is the Chief Information and Digital Officer for the City of Aurora. She has over 20 years as a successful executive business leader and technologist building relationships between business and technology to enable digital transformation and market growth. She drives innovative strategies for business and IT leadership, and has developed teams for Cybersecurity and Project Management Offices from the ground up. Her career began in startup software companies where she started in a call center environment and moved through private and public sector organizations in the areas of software quality, development, product management, and ultimately leadership.

Zeenat is currently on the business and partner development team at Google Health, and prior to at Google Brain, a machine and artificial intelligence (AI) research institute. She has been instrumental in driving forward the healthcare initiative at Google to provide best in class machine learning tools to a host of healthcare applications, including diagnosing various diseases through computer vision technology, cell painting technology for drug discovery, and using machine learning on unstructured EHR data to name a few core projects. Zeenat also serves on the board of the Northern California Club of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and is an advisor to companies in the healthcare space including SwipeSense.

Prior to joining Google, Zeenat spent nearly a decade in the healthcare industry in the corporate development and business development capacity. She was most recently led Corporate Development at Raptor Pharmaceuticals, and was instrumental in the acquisition of Quinsair, the largest acquisition in the company’s history at nearly $400M.

Zeenat has a BS in Biological Sciences from Cornell University, an MBA in from Melbourne Business School and a MS from a joint program (Health,Science,&Technology) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University.

John (Jack) Sepple was the Group Technology Officer for Accenture Operations and Senior Managing Director for Accenture Cloud. Jack’s deep expertise and reputation as a leader and innovator in the Technology industry are significant assets which he brings to both the Global Cloud and Group Technology Office roles.

From 2011 to Feb. 2019, Jack served as the Global Senior Managing Director of Cloud focused on helping clients plan, implement and manage cloud services, including infrastructure-, platform-, software- and business process-as-a-service for this +$9B component of Accenture. This includes developing Accenture’s strategic approach, investments, implementation of new methodologies and development of the Accenture Cloud Platform, Accenture’s multi-cloud management platform that centralizes the procurement, provisioning, billing, management and governance of enterprise cloud resources. During his tenure, Accenture has consistently received the highest ranking for cloud professional services especially as it relates to rotation to public cloud capabilities. Jack has also established alliances with some of the most influential partners in the Cloud ecosystem including AWS, Microsoft, Google, ServiceNow, Oracle, SAP, Workday, HPE, Cisco and VMWare.

From 2013-2015, Jack served as the Global Managing Director for Infrastructure Services growing this business significantly by over $800M to $3.2B. In his Infrastructure Services role, Jack had global sales, revenue and profit responsibilities and managed teams across consulting and outsourcing to help clients transform their infrastructures end-to-end—from data center and workplace to network, security and operations—to take advantage of high growth technology trends including analytics, automation and cloud.

From 2010-2012, Jack served as Global Managing Director of Network Services as well as the executive sponsor of the Accenture & Cisco Business Group. His responsibilities included establishing Accenture’s enterprise network strategy as well as overall sales, solution development, and delivery excellence.
During his tenure, Accenture was first recognized as a leader in Gartner’s Communications Outsourcing Services.

From 2005-2009, Jack served as the Accenture Client Account Lead for Telstra Corporation where he played a key role in Telstra’s large ($11B) and aggressive Network and IT Transformation; transforming Telstra into a next generation, converged telecommunications carrier. During Jack’s tenure, Telstra became a Diamond Client account for Accenture. Based on the Telstra experience, Jack serves as a subject-matter expert for large-scale transformational deals across Accenture.

Prior to 2005, Jack was a key member of the Communications, Media and High Technology leadership team that included Client Account and Technology Account lead roles for Level(3), DirecTV, Qwest, US West and Southwestern Bell (now AT&T).

Jack is an established leader in the global business community and serves as a subject-matter expert for large-scale, transformational business and technology programs that have encompassed cloud, call center, billing, network, data center, mobile, infrastructure and outsourcing services.

He earned a Bachelor of Business Administration from the College of William & Mary and a Master of Business Administration from Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University where he is Chairman of the Board for the Masters of Information Technology program.

Jack and his wife Valerie have two children and are active in their local community of Denver, Colorado.