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Hillary Omdal is Senior Director of Communications for SAP Autonomous Suite, where she leads executive and internal communications during a pivotal period of AI-driven business, technology, and organizational transformation. With more than 20 years of corporate communications experience, she has spent nearly a decade at SAP, helping executives communicate business priorities, navigate change, and build alignment with clarity and purpose. Her work spans executive narratives for SAP’s flagship events, including SAP Sapphire, SAP TechEd, and SAP Connect, as well as global executive forums, keynote development, organizational change, thought leadership, and analyst and media preparation. Hillary partners across SAP Product & Engineering, Marketing, Analyst Relations, Global Communications, and executive office teams to connect strategy, storytelling, and execution. Earlier in her career, Hillary held communications and marketing positions at AWS, Premera Blue Cross, and Symetra.

Anthony Farina is globally recognized as an innovative and results-oriented strategic communications leader with an established record of developing and leading creative, high-performance global teams that deliver against business objectives. He has held a range of progressive leadership roles during his 30+ year corporate affairs & communications career across an array of sectors – including for publicly-listed global corporations and governments.

As Fujifilm’s Chief Communications & Brand Officer since April 2025, Anthony currently leads stakeholder communications and engagement for the one of the world’s most recognized brands in the Americas – including brand management, reputation management, content creation, digital communications, employee engagement, external communications, thought leadership, and issues & crisis management.

Transformations, turnarounds, and startups are among Anthony’s leadership specialties across a range of industries – including healthcare, biotechnology, agriculture, and consumer goods. Anthony has successfully led and transformed Communications organizations at global iconic organizations – including Fujifilm, CSL, and DuPont.

Anthony is globally recognized for his leadership and capabilities. PR Week twice named Anthony as among the world’s top 5 in-house Communications leaders (2019 and 2023.) Under Anthony’s leadership, PR News selected CSL’s global Corporate Affairs & Communications organization as one of the top 5 in the world. Anthony was chosen as “Internationalist of the Year” for championing innovative communications strategies and advocating responsible brand-building by the acclaimed industry association, The Internationalist. His award-winning capabilities have included receiving the best-in-class Best of Silver Anvil Award and two additional Silver Anvil Awards by the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA.)

As the first Chief Communications & Brand Officer for one of the world’s largest biotech c & Top 15 biopharma companies CSL Limited (ASX: CSL), Anthony led strategic communications, brand and reputation management, and corporate affairs for 10+ years for the 100-year-old company in more than 100 countries with 32,000 employees and $USD15-plus billion in annual revenue.
Under Anthony’s leadership, CSL evolved from “the largest company no one has ever heard of” to becoming the global brand leader in rare diseases and influenza vaccines, including a number of unprecedented recognitions. Under Anthony’s leadership, Brand Finance named CSL as the fastest growing brand in the biopharma industry for two consecutive years (2023 and 2024) — up 32% in brand value Year-over-Year and up 82% since 2020. Forbes named CSL among its Top 50 employers in the world and also among the Top 40 companies in the U.S. for Diversity & Inclusion – both firsts for the company. Reuters also included CSL in its Top 100 global Diversity & Inclusion Index. Harvard Business Review named CSL’s CEO among the Top 100 performing CEOs in the world following similar recognitions by the influential publications around the world, including the Wall Street Journal and Australia Financial Review.

Under Anthony’s global Public Affairs leadership for six years, DuPont (NYSE: DD) progressively advanced in several leading global reputation indicators, including FORTUNE’s Top 50 “Most Admired Companies” list – named to the list for an unprecedented six consecutive years.

While Anthony served as Chief Communications Officer & Press Secretary for then-Delaware Gov. Thomas R. Carper, Carper’s approval ratings were between 78-82 percent — the highest in the U.S. at the time.

Anthony is an active leader in the Arthur Page Society, Public Relations Society of America, Ragan Communications, the Communications Leadership Council and other industry associations. He co-chaired the

Brand Purpose leadership committee of the Associations of National Advertisers (ANA). Anthony has been featured in several leading communications industry books and publications — including “Beyond Purpose” by ANA, PRSA’s “The Strategist,” profiled as a “Trendsetter” by The Internationalist, and in the globally recognized “Holmes Report.”

Catherine McGlown is Senior Vice President of Communications, Sustainability, and Public Policy at Pathward, where she leads enterprise strategy across reputation, stakeholder engagement, sustainability, public policy, and brand. As a senior executive, she aligns purpose-driven initiatives with business priorities to strengthen trust, advance financial inclusion, and support long-term value creation.

With more than 20 years of leadership experience, McGlown has advanced communications transformation, embedded sustainability across business operations, launched community impact programs, and built corporate responsibility strategies for major organizations, including Humana. She is recognized for connecting purpose, reputation, and business strategy to drive organizational impact.

McGlown extends her leadership through board and advisory service with the Association of Corporate Citizenship Professionals, Activate Good, and the Generosity Commission. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Spelman College, an MBA from Indiana University Kelley School of Business, a Certificate in Corporate Citizenship Management from the Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship, and Global Reporting Initiative reporting certification.

Kayla Marrero is a communications and community impact specialist at Giant Food, one of the Mid-Atlantic’s leading grocery brands and a trusted community anchor across Washington, D.C., Maryland, Virginia and Delaware. In this role, she supports communications that connect the brand with its communities and stakeholders. A rising voice in the communications field, Marrero brings experience across social media strategy, public affairs, media relations, corporate communications and purpose-driven storytelling, with previous roles at Adfero and Hilton. She is also active in The PR Habitat, a digital-first community for young professionals growing careers in PR and communications, where she supports marketing and content strategy. Marrero is an IPR NEXT member through the Institute for Public Relations, where she has contributed thought leadership on confidence, career growth and creating your seat at the table as an emerging communications professional.

Scott Pansky is the founder and chief relationship officer of Sandbox Lessons and the co-founder of Allison Worldwide. After 25 years at Allison Worldwide, he recently left the company to launch Sandbox Lessons, a consulting company that helps develop practical, interactive workplace culture programs that use timeless lessons of cooperation, trust, creativity and mutual respect to strengthen organization effectiveness and employee engagement. Utilizing his book, Playing Together in the Sandbox, he has developed a proprietary program to help nonprofits, educational institutions and brands develop relationships that not only raise brand awareness and funds, but can lead to strong cultural initiatives. He has implemented programs with Partnership with Native American, Kids in the Spotlight, the Open Hearts Foundation and his former company, Allison Worldwide.

He co-founded Allison Worldwide a week before September 11, 2001. In less than 25 years, the agency has multiple offices around the world. Pansky is a nationally recognized leader in cause-related marketing and purpose-based work and has taught courses on the topics through the UCLA Extension for more than 18 years. With more than 30 years of experience working with brands on corporate social responsibility and thought leadership programs, he has developed internal communication strategies, community outreach programs and national branding and partnership programs that have increased both revenues and reputation for his clients.

Throughout his experience developing best-of-class cause-related campaigns, he has created proprietary methodologies to help corporations find the best possible focus for their cause-related efforts. He has worked with many organizations including Smile Train, Stand Up to Cancer, Lymphoma Research Foundation, the ALS Therapy Development Institute, GoGo squeeZ, Los Angeles County Public Works, the state of California’s Anti-Tobacco program, First 5 California, Hasbro, Hyundai, YouTube, MySpace, Mrs. Field’s Cookies, HomeGoods, Boost Mobile, Career Education Corporation, Southwest Airlines, Vitamin Shoppe, Microsoft, Toyota, Aramark and Best Western Hotels. A frequent speaker and passionate educator, he received the David Ferguson Award for Education from the Public Relations Society of America and was recently inducted into the PRSSA Hall of Fame. He currently chairs the Journalism and Media Services Advisory board for San Diego State University and serves on the boards of PRSA LA, the Lymphoma Research Foundation and the Center for Nonprofit Management. He is on the advisory boards for Kids in the Spotlight and the City Scholars Foundation and sits on the Los Angeles Unified School District’s Citizen’s Bond Oversight Committee.

Ngozi Magena (she/her) is the director of internal communications at The Trevor Project, where she leads organization-wide internal communications, executive communications and organizational storytelling for the nation’s leading suicide prevention and crisis intervention organization for LGBTQ+ young people.

With a B.A. in Communication from San Diego State University and an M.S. in Communication for Development and Social Change from Temple University, Magena approaches internal communications as a community practice rooted in trust, belonging and collective meaning-making. Before joining The Trevor Project, she led internal communications at Akoben LLC, a consulting firm supporting K–12 schools, higher education institutions and nonprofits through restorative practices, trauma-informed care and culturally responsive leadership.

Since joining The Trevor Project in 2022, Magena has built the organization’s internal communications function from the ground up, guiding employees through periods of organizational transformation, executive transition and high-profile public issues. Her work is grounded in the belief that internal communications is more than the distribution of information—it’s the practice of helping people understand change, preserve trust and remain connected to purpose when it matters most.

With over 20 years combined experience in public policy, communication, and leadership, Dr. Heather LaMarre’s work applies behavioral science research to solving social issues. Dr. Lamarre’s line of research examines how media and communication affect attitudes, policy, and social change. This work is primarily strategy-focused. Her second line of research applies these solutions-based strategies to urgent social problems. This work is management and leadership-focused. Dr. LaMarre works closely with purpose-driven organizations that foster social innovation and solve real-world challenges. This ranges from developing effective communication strategies to implementing leadership and management tools designed to drive positive change.

Dr. LaMarre has also served as the academic and/or adminstrative director of multiple award-winning programs, including the Masters in Conflict and Communication Management, London Study Abroad and Undergraduate Internship and Practicum. From 2014-2019, LaMarre served as chair of the Klein College Faculty Council. She has completed two terms as a university faculty senate representative and one as the university graduate board representative from Klein.