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May 13-15, 2019 | Chicago, Illinois

Guest Speaker

Ian Bremmer is the president and founder of Eurasia Group, the leading global political risk research and consulting firm. He is also the president and founder of GZERO Media, a Eurasia Group company dedicated to helping a broad, global audience make sense of today’s leaderless world. Ian is a prolific thought leader, author and noted lecturer, regularly expressing his views on political issues in public speeches, television appearances, and top publications. Dubbed the “rising guru” in the field of political risk by The Economist, he teaches classes on the discipline as a professor at New York University and is a Foreign Affairs Columnist and Editor at Large for Time magazine. He is the author of several books, including the national bestsellers, Every Nation for Itself: Winners and Losers in a G-Zero World and The End of the Free Market: Who Wins the War Between States and Corporations? and Superpower: Three Choices for America’s Role in the World. His latest book, Us vs. Them: The Failure of Globalism, is a New York Times bestseller.

Ian Bremmer

President and Founder, Eurasia Group

Karin Timpone is Global Marketing Officer at Marriott International. In this role, Timpone leads the integrated global marketing and consumer relationship management strategy for the company. This includes evolving the portfolio strategy to strengthen the relevance of Marriott’s portfolio of brands to the next generation traveler and focus on greater portfolio coordination to increase share potential, elevate digital channels, and strengthen approaches to drive consumer intimacy. She joins Marriott from the Walt Disney Company, where she most recently was the Senior Vice President, Product Strategy and Marketing for Disney ABC Digital Media. Timpone is a graduate of Bryn Mawr College where she obtained her B.A. in Political Science. She received a Master’s degree in Media Ecology at New York University and executive education at UCLA Anderson. She has dual citizenship in both the U.S. and Ireland.

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Karin Timpone

Global Marketing Officer, Marriott International

Andrew Macdonald is the Vice President for Uber's Americas Operations and Global Business Development. Prior to this role, he served as the VP and RGM for Uber's Asia-Pacific and Latin America operations. Uber is a continuation of Andrew’s start-up ambitions, as he founded 2 start-ups in the years before his time at Uber. Prior to entrepreneurial pursuits, Andrew was a management consultant with Bain & Company, covering clients in technology, financial services, and manufacturing. Originally from Toronto, Andrew is passionate about giving back to the local tech community. He sits on the Advisory Council of Ryerson DMZ, Canada's top university business incubator, and advises a number of other local start-ups.

Andrew Macdonald

Vice President, Americas Operations & Global Business Development, Uber

Luc Bondar is responsible for strategic planning, development and execution of the MileagePlus program and the associated partnership development and marketing. Prior to this role, Luc was the senior vice president U.S. at Aimia. His extensive experience in loyalty marketing includes roles as both the vice president of loyalty for Carlson Marketing Worldwide and senior vice president of Global Loyalty with CMW (Groupe Aeroplan) in Minneapolis. Luc holds bachelor degrees in marketing, information systems, history and politics from the University of Adelaide, Australia. He also has a postgraduate certificate in general management from the Macquarie Graduate School of Management in Australia. He is married and has 4 children.

Luc Bondar

Vice President, Loyalty & President of MileagePlus, United

Visa Speakers

Alfred F. Kelly, Jr. joined Visa in October 2016 and has served as chief executive officer since December 1, 2016. He has been a member of the board of directors since 2014. Previously, Mr. Kelly was president of the American Express Company, and most recently, he was president and chief executive officer of Intersection.

Before becoming CEO of Intersection, he was a management advisor at TowerBrook Capital Partners LP. From 2011 to late 2014, Mr. Kelly served as chairman, president and CEO of the 2014 NY/NJ Super Bowl Host Committee.

Al Kelly, Jr.

Chief Executive Officer, Visa

Ryan McInerney has been the president of Visa, since June of 2013, and is responsible for delivering value to Visa’s financial institutions, acquirers, merchants and strategic partners in 200 countries and territories around the world. In this role, Mr. McInerney oversees Visa’s market leadership teams, client support services, innovation and strategic partnerships, and global product solutions.

Prior to joining Visa, Mr. McInerney served as chief executive officer of consumer banking for JPMorgan Chase, a business with more than 75,000 employees and revenues of approximately $14 billion. In this role, he was responsible for a banking network, which serviced 20 million customers in 23 states.

Ryan McInerney

President, Visa

Oliver Jenkyn is Regional President, North America at Visa Inc. In this capacity, he has business, fiscal, strategic and operational responsibility for the company’s business in the U.S. and Canada. He also sits on Visa’s Executive and Operating Committees. Jenkyn has run the North America business since 2011. He joined Visa in 2009 as Global Head of Strategy and Corporate Development.

Prior to Visa, Jenkyn was a Partner at McKinsey & Company in the San Francisco, New York, London and Toronto offices, and a leader of the firm's North American retail banking practice and global payments practice. Jenkyn also led McKinsey’s relationship with Visa for five years, which included playing integral roles in Visa's global restructuring and IPO.

Oliver Jenkyn

Regional President, North America, Visa

Eduardo Coello is Regional President for Visa Latin America and the Caribbean region, with more than 15 years at Visa. Mr. Coello is responsible for all aspects of Visa’s business including business development and business relationship with financial institutions, merchant partners in the Region.

Prior to his appointment as Group Executive, Coello was Group Country Manager for the GLAC region, managing business development and relationships with clients in 42 countries including the Caribbean, Andean, Central America, and South Cone regions.

Eduardo Coello

Regional President, Latin America and Caribbean, Visa

Lynne Biggar has been executive vice president and chief marketing and communications officer of Visa since February 2016. In this role, Ms. Biggar oversees all of Visa’s branding, insights, sponsorship, communications and go-to-market consumer and client marketing activities to continue to accelerate Visa’s brand.

Ms. Biggar joined Visa from Time Inc. where she was the executive vice president of consumer marketing and revenue. At Time Inc., she was responsible for driving consumer revenue for Time Inc. brands and products across all channels, consumer insights, data solutions and customer service.

Lynne Biggar

Chief Marketing and Communications Officer, Visa

Kelly Mahon Tullier is the Executive Vice President, General Counsel & Corporate Secretary of Visa Inc. In her role, she leads the legal and compliance functions for the premier global payments technology company. Her responsibilities include leading the company’s global litigation, regulatory, intellectual property, corporate governance, and M&A matters related to Visa’s operations in over 200 countries. Prior to joining Visa, Kelly worked at PepsiCo, Inc. as Senior Vice President and Deputy General Counsel. She also served as Senior Vice President and General Counsel for PepsiCo's Asia Pacific, Middle East and Africa division, based in Dubai.

Kelly serves on the Cornell Law School Advisory Council, Tahirih Justice Center Board of Directors, International Institute for Conflict Prevention and Resolution (CPR) Board of Directors, the Corporate Advisory Committee of the National Legal Aid & Defender Association.

Kelly Mahon Tullier

Executive Vice President, General Counsel and

Corporate Secretary, Visa

Jack Forestell is the Chief Product Officer at Visa where he leads all aspects of Visa’s global product innovation efforts – from vision and strategy through delivery and commercialization of product. Jack’s team focuses on helping Visa’s clients and partners bring innovative solutions to market quickly and securely to meet the demands of today’s evolving digital commerce landscape.

Prior to this role, Jack was global head of Merchant & Acquirer Solutions, responsible for developing merchant-focused products and solutions that create operational efficiencies and assist merchants in meeting their business goals.

Jack Forestell

Chief Product Officer, Visa