Conga Connect 2021 speakers 

Mindy Arnold is the Director of IT for Custom Decorators, Inc. (CDI); the premiere in-home design service for major retailers in North America, specializing in custom-made window blinds, shades, shutters, and drapery.    

In her current role, Mindy is leading the organization through a digital transformation- from the systems our professional network of designers utilize for in-home and virtual consultations to the back-end infrastructure supporting our customer service team and everything in between.   

Mindy lives in the Pacific Northwest and enjoys hiking, gardening, and spending time with family.  

Amol Baviskar is responsible for Product management of Conga's Revenue Pillar.  Revenue pillar consists of Configure, Price and Quoting (CPQ), Digital Commerce, Order Management, Billing, Revenue Recognition and Incentives products. Revenue pillar vision is to make B2B Commerce Frictionless.  

As Global Head of Client and Broker Relationship Management and Member of the Leadership Team at Allianz Partners Alexander Bender is responsible for ensuring a high level of service and customer satisfaction in the Renewals and Client and Broker Relationships across 8 different countries. With 25 years of experience in international insurance solutions and his constant push for innovation and change Alexander stands for a culture of excellence and customer focus. 

Dr. Arun Bhardwaj is an internationally celebrated keynote speaker and a global thought leader on corporate happiness, emotional wellbeing and peak-performance mindset. Dr. Arun has 25+ years of leadership experience working with Motorola, Samsung, Lucent (Bell Labs), and Dell; executing a breadth of leadership roles including engineering, product management, marketing and sales. 

Dr. Arun has inspired peak performance mindset in 300+ organizations with his Engineering Happiness® programs touching more than 90,000 lives. He has conducted mental conditioning workshops for the National Sports Teams and the Indian Army. 

To find more about Dr. Arun Bhardwaj visit www.arunb.com. 

Chris Bishop is Chief Customer Officer of Conga, where he ensures that customers have valuable interactions with Conga at every stage of their engagement. He brings more than 20 years of experience with aligning all post-sale customer functions to focus on product adoption, time to value, and customer satisfaction.  

Prior to joining Conga, Chris served as Head of Global Services and Support at Plex Systems, helping customers maximize the value from their deployments. In this role, he was responsible for the global leadership of all professional services, education, and customer support operations. Before Plex Systems, Chris held a number of senior leadership roles at various software companies, including Vice President of PeopleSoft’s North American Supply Chain consulting organization. He also has held leadership and operational positions at Oracle and Ford Motor Company. 

Chris holds a BA in Supply Chain Management from Michigan State University. 

Frank Blake serves on the board of directors for the Georgia Aquarium, Proctor & Gamble, Macy’s and is currently serving as Chairman of the Delta Air Lines board. Additionally, he sits on the Board of Trustees at Agnes Scott College.  

 He served as Chairman and CEO of The Home Depot from January 2007 through November 2014, and then as chairman through January 2015. Frank joined The Home Depot in 2002 as executive vice president, business development and corporate operations. 

 Frank previously served as deputy secretary for the U.S. Department of Energy. Prior to that, he served in a variety of executive roles at General Electric, including senior vice president, Corporate Business Development.  
 
Frank’s public sector experience also includes having served as general counsel for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, deputy counsel to Vice President George Bush and law clerk to Justice Stevens of the U.S. Supreme Court. He holds a bachelor’s degree from Harvard University and a jurisprudence degree from Columbia University School of Law.  

Adam Breakey is the product marketing director for the Revenue Operations product portfolio at Conga, which includes CPQ.  He has been in product marketing leadership for more than 20 years working at everything from young start-ups to large global enterprise corporations throughout his career.  Adam is based in Raleigh, North Carolina with his wife, kids and puppy. 

Julie Bretoi has been with Thomson Reuters for over 25 years. She started as a sales rep and then moved into a liaison role between end users (sales reps/client managers) and technology to build out applications that support their workflow from a CRM/CPQ perspective with an accompanying stint in Sales Operations. She currently holds the role of Chief Product Owner, Order Capture and as part of that role she leads the Conga implementation for all Thomson Reuters businesses.  

Brad Brochocki is the Director of Digital Transformation for Automation at Conga, with a focus on speeding up time to revenue, automating repetitive processes, and making teams more efficient. He brings over 12 years of experience in Product Marketing, positioning, industry analysis, competitive insight, and messaging for B2B and B2C brands across SaaS, FinTech, Renewable Energy, and CPG for companies ranging from small startups all the way to enterprise corporations. He received his undergraduate degree and MBA from the University of Denver with a focus in Innovation and Entrepreneurship.  

Boyd Butler is a Product Manager at Conga, where he is dedicated to making Conga Sign the eSignature solution people want to work with. In order to do so, he manages and implements feedback from a variety of stakeholders including customers, prospects, partners, analysts, and myriad internal employees.   

 Prior to Conga, Boyd spent many years at P2 Energy Solutions managing product strategy and development lifecycle for Excalibur, a complex finance and accounting solution used by over 200 companies in the upstream oil and gas industry.  

Donna L. Caldwell, Director, Provider Contracts at Molina Healthcare, Inc.  Donna has been with Molina for over 13 years however she has over 28 years of varying levels of experience within the Healthcare (Payer) Industry.  One of Donna’s primary drivers is to take a 360 degree view of an issue, question or concern while keeping her customer’s needs and the company’s goals in focus.  Developing strong relationships is the foundation in accomplishing this end, both professionally & personally. 

Donna enjoys showing her creative side through sewing, machine embroidering and custom apparel designing all the while keeping her Yoga mat close by. 

Mairi Campbell, Director of GTM Business Transformation at Micro Focus Ltd. Micro Focus is a FTSE 250 Software Company. Mairi currently leads the Front office delivery of a large scale Business and Technology transformation. With 10+ years’ experience leading Business transformation enabled by Technology, both as a Consultant and as an Operational Leader

Tracy Cannon is an award-winning Principal Sales Engineer at Conga on a mission to help organizations achieve commercial excellence.  Tracy started her career as a Math Teacher, then had a series of escalating responsibilities in Finance, where she started as a Treasury Analyst before moving on to become a Director of Finance. It was her last Finance leadership role where she developed and designed a new quoting solution, which ultimately led her to a career in Sales Engineering.  She has assisted organizations in the Industrial, Services, Manufacturing, and Office Supplies space solve pricing, quoting, and contracting challenges. 

  Tracy is a GA Tech graduate and holds an MBA from GA State.

Mauro is Co-founder, Partner and Chief Revenue Officer (CRO) for Mainspring, a global professional services firm focused on the Middle Office, specializing in Contracts Lifecycle Management (CLM) and Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ). His core responsibilities include broadening and strengthening the firm’s capabilities, building client relationships, and finding new alliance partnerships with leading technology solutions and enabling capabilities, such as AI, Analytics and RPA.

Leading the Quote to Cash Digital Transformation program at Boral Australia, Amjad offers over 25 years of diverse experience in an FMCG & Construction Materials sectors, having worked in multiple disciplines, business units, geographical locations across various Finance and IT functions. His core skills and competencies are Leading Digital Transformation, Financial Analysis & Forecasting, Strategic Business Planning, Financial Management, Financial & Cost Accounting, Supply Chain and Sales Finance, Project Management and Internal Audit.

Marco is a Digital Leader and Head of Information Systems with more than 20 years' experience in the international B2B manufacturing sector. Most of his career has been with the ABB Group in Switzerland, Italy, France, and the USA, successfully delivering projects for business-critical departments including Sales & Marketing, Logistics & Supply Chain, Service and Manufacturing. He is currently operating in three concurrent roles, namely, Head of Salesforce Practice for the Group, Head of IS Global Markets (Electrification Business Area) and Head of IS Smart Buildings Division (also Electrification).

Ajay Dawar is responsible for Product management of Conga's Contracts and AI product lines. He and the team are focused on evolving Contract operations and making it modern - simple, collaborative, smart and delightful for customers of all sizes. 

Sawan Deswal is an executive leader with 20+ years of experience in technology across strategy, innovation & business development, strategic alliances & partner sales and sales management. Currently, Sawan is the Vice President of Global Partner Ecosystem at Conga, a leading SaaS solution provider for driving transformation of processes and documents surrounding customer engagement, configure price quote (CPQ), contract lifecycle management (CLM) and the complete commercial operations lifecycle.

As VP of Sales and Alliances for Mainspring, Charlene is focused on building new client relationships and executing Mainspring’s strategy for strengthening its existing alliance partnerships.  A seasoned sales executive with 20+ years of Software sales supporting the Middle Office, Charlene leads Mainspring’s Sales team for building trust and rapport with prospects, clients and partner reps to engage Mainspring in delivering Middle Office success.  

Hakan Elbasi, Digital Product Manager and Process Mining Leader, RPA Lead and Technology Board Member at Coca-Cola Icecek A.S, is responsible for customer-finance solutions like Quote-to-Cash solutions and fintech solutions. Throughout his career, beyond implementing RPA, he implemented lots of CRM and ERP projects which is bringing awards for. Before joining Coca Cola Icecek in 2013, he worked for companies such as Netlog, DSK Gmbh in various roles. 

Dr. Epstein's career in natural healing spans more than 30 years  and includes extensive studies and practice in a variety of mind-body therapies: 

• Mindfulness meditation 
• Stress reduction 
• Buddhist psychology 
• Psychotherapy in a spiritual context 
• Internal Family System Model of Psychotherapy 
• Graduate of the 3 year Community Dharma Leader (CDL) training program at Spirit Rock Meditation Center 
• Certified yoga instructor - studied with Swami Vishnu Devananda, author of Complete Illustrated Book of Yoga 
• Extensive training in clinical guided imagery. Graduate of the Academy for Guided Imagery with Martin Rossman MD 
• Student of John Wellwood, Ph.D. author of Healing Power of Unconditional Presence 

Dr. Epstein emphasizes the clinical application and integration of all of these mind-body, whole-person oriented therapies with holistic counseling and natural medicines into his multi-disciplined, relationship centered approach to healing. 

 This distinctive "healing soup" philosophy is especially empowering and effective for people with stress related disorders, immune system issues and chronic degenerative diseases. 

Brian Farr is Sr. Director of Product Management at Conga, where he represents the voice of customers and industry trends for document generation and customer communications within the Conga Composer suite of products. Brian has also worked as a manager of the Conga Professional Services team, helping customers implement Conga technology into their Salesforce orgs to drive digital document transformation.   

  Prior to Conga, he worked at a Salesforce Implementation firm designing and managing both new and existing Salesforce implementations for a range of companies in manufacturing, technology, and other industries.   

Courtney Finger is a Sr. Product Marketing Manager at Conga, where she focuses on Conga’s document generation products. With an extensive background in SaaS marketing, her passion is bringing products to life with creative internal and external go-to-market strategies.  

Before coming to Conga, Courtney was a product marketer in the email analytics space and also spent time in customer success management. She enjoys hiking and outdoor activities throughout the beautiful state of Colorado as well as volunteering for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. 

Ash Finnegan is Digital Transformation Officer at Conga, where she focuses on customer and partner transformation programs. With over 20 years of experience in the digital space, Ash works with Sales and Marketing teams on the positioning of the Conga Commercial Operations Suite, as well as looking at Conga’s own internal operational processes to see where and how she can improve the use of its own technology.  

Prior to Conga, Ash held various leadership positions at technology companies. Her passion is to take real-world problems and apply technical solutions to them – identifying and removing operational roadblocks, aiding corporate growth, and increasing profitability. 

Kevin Galang is an award-winning Senior Sales Engineer and esteemed Podcast Host at Conga on a journey to assist all organizations achieve commercial excellence.   

Kevin has spent almost 10 years helping customers evaluate sales, customer service, marketing, configure price and quote and contract lifecycle management SaaS applications.  

Through his passion as an educator and problem solver, Kevin has transformed organizations in the Technology, manufacturing, services and industrial verticals by architecting solutions that alleviate their business and process inefficiencies while empowering their business units to achieve their goals.   

Kevin has his Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Biomedical Engineering from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo.

Since joining Wedgewood Weddings in 2011, Brea has been a huge advocate for improving business process efficiencies throughout the rapidly growing company. Having done every sales and operational role available during the first eight years of her tenure, Brea has spent the last two years at Wedgewood Weddings overseeing the design, architecture, and implementation of Salesforce, CPQ, Conga Composer and Conga Sign solutions. Her passion is eliminating duplicate manual efforts and delivering a seamless end-to-end experience for system users that enables them to focus less on administration and more on customer service excellence. Brea has a Bachelor of Science from Cornell University. 

Noel Goggin is Chief Executive Officer of Conga, where he is responsible for directing the company’s growth at scale and furthering its leading position in the digital transformation of business processes. He is a highly accomplished tech executive with nearly 30 years of leadership and management experience within the software industry that includes CEO, EVP, and SVP positions.   

Prior to joining Conga, Noel served as the CEO and Culture Leader at Aptos, where he successfully transformed the culture and performance of the business and directed its spin-off as a fully independent company. Previously, he was the General Manager of retail strategy at RedPrairie. He has a proven record of operational experience in product strategy and innovation, organization and business transformation, and building enduring teams and cultures.  

Ratnakar is an industry veteran of 28 years having witnessed the transformation of the IT industry from providing standalone enterprise solutions to facilitating and building connected digital enterprises that facilitate faster business outcomes globally. He has worked at the ground level having got his hands dirty with building large scale enterprise client-server systems. With the transformation into the internet space, Ratnakar moved to managing and building high-performing teams. 

Gowri is an Engagement Manager with over 20+ years of experience as an IT Professional, managing and implementing various IT products/systems successfully and helping global customers across domains like Manufacturing, Banking and Financial Services, Energy, Logistics, Food and Beverages, Automobile, Airlines, Travel & Hospitality, Telecom, Life Sciences, Healthcare, eGovernment. 

Carl is a veteran of contracts management and a master Conga Contracts system administrator and developer. He is the current leader of the Conga Contracts User Group: a robust, cross-industry network of professionals that collaborate with each other to educate, support, troubleshoot, as well as partner with Conga to enhance the Conga Contracts experience for all users. 

Alejandro Hernandez is an ex-professional soccer player from Bogota, Colombia. His methodology about training is all about resistance and endurance. Alejandro likes to merge/blend his knowledge on soccer personal training preparation with calisthenics and develop a new way of work out.  

His passion about training is very contagious and all his training are designated for all types of people’s condition since he believes on auto intensity (You will manage your own speed/intensity since all his exercises are based on time – no repetitions). 

Alejandro has around 20 years of experience in this field and continuously keeps improving his methodology to make sure his trainings are always improving on resistance and endurance. 

Jacob Hill is the founder of the social recruitment agency, Offploy. Jacob started Offploy in April 2016 after he himself had a brush with the law and found himself in a difficult situation that many of Offploy’s candidates face, finding employment with a criminal conviction. 

Offploy supports both businesses and people with criminal convictions through the recruitment process to ensure both sides gain a successful and sustainable placement. Offploy is on a mission to reduce reoffending and make society safer by placing people with criminal convictions into meaningful, mentored and sustainable employment. 

Greg Hobbs is a Senior Solutions Engineer having spent the last 15 years in high growth SaaS companies.  Now at Conga, he partners with companies and vendor to create value and time savings activities through Digital Document Transformation.  Originally from Upstate NY (Go Cuse!) Greg made his way to Colorado 5 years ago chasing more sunny days.  He lives in Littleton, CO with his wife and very active 2 year old son, Will and Wire-Haired Pointer, Goose. 

Ben-Barry Horowitz a Principal Solution Architect that  has more than 20 years of Software Development and Design of Legal Technology, Enterprise ERP and CRM application architecture and complex integrations of enterprise ERP and financial services applications. 

Bill has been working in the SAAS Industry for the past 15 years with a focus on managing customer implementations and ensuring great customer experiences and successful outcomes.   In his 6 years with Conga,  he has worked with a large variety and scale of customer CLM and CPQ implementations and in developing and bringing to market value added service offerings that help our customers realize quick time to value, and supporting our partners in making their customers successful. 

Lawan Likitpunpisit is a Product Marketing Director at Conga, where she is responsible for Sign, Digital Commerce, Max, and Revenue Management products. She focuses on product positioning, launches, enablement, and competitive intelligence.  

Prior to Conga, Lawan was a product management leader, with a great passion and successful track record in building and launching new products to market. She has extensive experience in quote-to-cash for mid-sized and enterprise businesses.  

Niloy is the Global Practice Leader of MS Dynamics and Next Gen SaaS platforms in the Enterprise Applications Portfolio of Wipro. As a Practice Leader he not only owns the P&L of the group, but also responsible for managing Operations, People, Partner relationship, Analysts and so on. Conga is one of the TOP focused Product Partner of his Group. He has the charter to double the revenue of Conga Practice every year and make Conga a self-reliant USD 100 M practice by 2025.

Sunil Masand is an industry though leader with over 20 years of product, sales, and services experience at Healthcare & Life Sciences technology companies. As the global owner for Healthcare and Life Sciences at Conga, Sunil is responsible for the Go-To-Market strategy for the industry and for helping customers achieve outcomes with differentiated revenue operations solutions across the Healthcare & Life Sciences value chain. 

Jim Mayeda is a Solution Architect with over 30 years’ experience in developing business applications, including analysis, design, coding, installation of new applications, enhancements and maintenance of existing applications, requirements gathering and business transformation globally covering Asia Pacific, Europe, and Central America.  

James has been in a consulting for 12 years since transitioning from an in-house contracting role at a major biopharmaceutical. As VP of Customer Strategy, James leads clients in finding user-centric solutions to Middle Office operational challenges.  He supports clients in evaluating technologies, building actionable roadmaps, and designing realistic approaches to implementations.  As the technology landscape transforms to more AI driven solutions, he ensures that Mainspring’s customers are prepared to benefit. James has been in a consulting for 12 years since transitioning from an in-house contracting role at a major biopharmaceutical.

Martin Mocker is a professor of information systems at ESB Business School, Reutlingen University, Germany and a Research Affiliate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 

His teaching and research focus on the digital transformations of large, traditional companies aiming to stay competitive in an increasingly digital economy. 

Professor Mocker’s research has appeared in leading academic and management journals including Harvard Business Review, Sloan Management Review, Management Information Systems Quarterly and the European Journal for Information Systems. Martin also serves as a senior editor for MIS Quarterly Executive. He has been named as one of “20 digital transformation leaders to follow in 2020” by The Enterprisers Project, a collaboration between Harvard Business Review and technology company Red Hat. 

Before joining academia, Martin worked at McKinsey & Company addressing strategic IT challenges of senior executives. He holds a doctoral degree from the University of Muenster and a degree in computer science from the University of Dortmund, Germany. 

Grant is the Chief Product Officer at Conga, where he is responsible for the vision, design, and delivery of Conga's products and commercial operations suite. He is a deeply experienced product and engineering leader with more than 22 years as a technology executive and more than a decade as a technical architect. 

Prior to Conga, Grant served for more than a decade as CTO at DocuSign, where he was responsible for the product definition, development, architecture, innovation, engineering, and technical operations that drove DocuSign to the industry leadership position in automated document transactions. Previously, he was the VP of Litigation Product Development at LexisNexis and VP of Product Development at Primus Knowledge Solutions. 

Brian Purcell is responsible for the development and integration of the dynamic tech stack powering both AdvicePeriod’s user experience (UX) and internal digital workflows. Additionally, as the leader of our Technology Committee, he leads the firm’s cybersecurity and IT compliance protocols. Prior to joining AdvicePeriod, Brian worked as a derivatives trader with several proprietary trading firms in Chicago, specializing in volatility arbitrage.

A Dual citizen of Australia and the USA, Brian earned his Bachelors degree in Design Computing with an IT Minor from the University of Sydney, Australia 

Koti Reddy is Chief Technology Officer at Conga, where he is responsible for all product development, CloudOps and innovation. With his experience of leading Innovation, building global engineering teams and delivering industry-leading solutions, Koti ensures Conga leads and innovates SaaS offerings that help customers in their digital transformation of commercial operations.

Prior to Conga, Koti served as SVP of Engineering and CloudOps at CallidusCloud where he was responsible for all product development and cloud operations. During his nearly 18+ year tenure at CallidusCloud, he was responsible for re-architecting On-premises solutions to SaaS/Multi-tenant offering. He also expanded and built scalable cloud infrastructure which helped Callidus grow 400% in revenues in 8 years before it was acquired by SAP.

Koti holds a BS in Electronics and Communications from SVU, India and a PG Diploma in Computer Science from RMIT, Melbourne, Australia.

Eric Rodwell is Vice President of Sales Engineering, Commercial at Conga and is passionate about leading, growing, and scaling technical teams and speaking to others about how they can motivate and inspire their teams. He believes that leaders with high emotional intelligence create the best environments for their teams where they can give their career best performance and contributions while continuing to growth and develop personally and professionally. 

Tara Shea Micko is the Director of Business Strategy and Execution at Boston Scientific, a position she has held since 2018. She has been with the Boston Scientific organization since 2008. In her current role, Tara is responsible for the transformation of commercial back and front office capabilities in the Revenue Management space, Master Data Management and Rep Safety and Access. Prior to joining Boston Scientific, she held roles in the financial and oil and gas industries. Tara earned her Bachelor of Business Administration from the University of Prince Edward Island in Canada and has a Master of Arts in International Political Economy degree from the University of Kent in the United Kingdom.

Frank Sohn has 20+ years of experience in Configure-Price-Quote, Business Transformation, Quote-to-Cash, Merger & Acquisitions and Project/Program Management. He has international experience working for large corporations like HP, Juniper Networks and PwC as well as working for small startup companies in Germany, Switzerland, UK and the US. Frank holds the PMP certification since 2005 and the CSM (certified SCRUM Master) since 2010. He is also the founder of Novus CPQ Consulting, Inc. 

Frank was educated in Germany and holds a BachelorDegree equivalent in Business Information Systems.  

Brian Solis is a world-renowned digital anthropologist and futurist who serves as Global Innovation Evangelist at Salesforce. Brian is also an 8x best-selling author and international keynote speaker. Forbes has called him, “one of the more creative and brilliant business minds of our time.” ZDNet said that Brian is, “one of the 21st century business world’s leading thinkers,” and The Conference Board claimed that Brian is, "the futurist we all need now."

Over the past 20 years, Brian has dedicated his work to understanding the impact of Digital Darwinism on businesses, markets and society.   

His research explores innovation, digital transformation, experience design, the cognitive enterprise, and technology's effects on human behavior. He has a unique gift of humanizing these trends to make  change and innovation purposeful and inspiring to help leaders reimagine the future. 

 His insights on the state and future of digital trends have made him a go to resource among media and market experts. He has published over 60 research papers and also actively shares his work in industry-leading publications including Forbes, ZDNet, CIO, Fast Company, Adweek, and Singularity University. 

Rutwik Vashi, lives in Northern California with his wife and a twin boy and girl. He is a Sales Leader in one of the Silicon Valley, SaaS company helping Enterprises  meet business outcomes to drive digital transformation.  When he migrated to United States in 1999, he participated in his first meditation program at  Texas Tech University in Lubbock TX led by Art of Living Foundation. He was really inspired by the Sudarshan Kriya meditation to reduce stress and make meditation effortless. So he became a certified instructor and have  been teaching the programs since 2002 across the North America. Since then he has taught these programs to 1000s of business leaders, doctors,  professionals, college students and house makers to create a stress free and violence free society.  

Along with Meditation he practices Yoga, Ayurveda and promotes health living in the community and Art of Living. 

Bala is a certified Yoga Teacher, has been practicing Yoga for the past 14 years and teaching for the 7+ years. Bala has been working in the IT industry for the past 28+ years and has taken up Yoga as passion after realising the importance of Yoga and its benefits especially in the area of stress induced disorders. Bala holds Post-graduation in Therapeutic Yoga from SVYASA (https://svyasa.edu.in/), one of the renowned yoga universities in the world and has moved towards teaching YogicManagement of Lifestyle disorders for the past 2.5 years. Having trained in Ashtanga and BKS Iyengar styles of Yoga, he has adapted to the best of these styles, embedded with Pranayama and Meditation techniques to address the complete mid body complex.  

Bala lives in Bangalore, India. As a dedicated Yoga practitioner, Bala strives to share his passion and is in the journey of positively influencing people to lead a healthy life though the beautiful science called “Yoga”. 

Teresa is an experienced professional currently responsible for the contract management organization at Cerner Corporation where she has worked for 25 years.  Her career spans 35+ years and includes various management and executive positions including sales, marketing and technology.   Her current team is responsible for the generation of contract documents and the overall management of the contractual edits throughout the negotiation process.  Once the contracts are signed, other members of her team finalize the contract in the CRM/CPQ systems and then build the contract in our financial system.  This process involves setting up the billing, revenue, and project management functions for the company.  One remaining aspect of her team manages the CLM functions including the base templates, clause libraries, system logic, etc.  Obtaining approval to purchase a CLM system and building a system to track processing of signed contracts is an achievement that will forever be at the top of her list.   

 Teresa has been happily married for 34 years and has two grown children, Samantha 33 and Jonathan 28 and two grandsons, Justice 8 and Cass 4.  She enjoys entertaining friends and family in her spare time and of course loves to cook for them! 

Howard Wassall is Director of Sales Engineering EMEA North at Conga. In this role, Howard leads a team of experienced pre-sales engineers in enabling Conga’s customers to start their Digital Transformation journey and optimize their revenue operations. Howard is a CLM evangelist, speaking at global events and working closely with Conga’s partners to automate their customer’s legal operations. 

Experienced Principal with a demonstrated history of working in the management consulting industry. Strong consulting professional skilled in Sales and Service Transformation delivering Business Process value and improvement through innovative enabling Sales and Service technologies, including Configure, Price & Quoting solutions.

Mason “Mace“ White is Conga’s VP of Product Management for Platform Applications and Services.  He’s been enjoying Conga product management for 4+ years. Mace has honed his product management and product marketing skills over the past 30+ years at companies like DocuSign, Hewlett Packard Enterprise and LexisNexis.  He’s led products through periods of hypergrowth and has repeatedly revitalized moribund products to create market leaders. When not playing with product strategy and plans, Mace raises oysters in a nearby fjord and leads volunteer crews clearing trails in the Olympic Mountains. 

Serena Williams exemplifies courage, beauty, power and style, and has overcome insurmountable odds to win 23 career Grand Slams, the second-most singles titles of record. Her remarkable tennis achievements, combined with her off-court success in fashion, philanthropy and business, make her one of the most recognizable icons in the world and a powerful voice for women, mothers and future mothers. 

In 2019, Williams launched her own VC firm, Serena Ventures, which focuses on investing in companies that embrace diverse leadership, individual empowerment, creativity and opportunity. Williams' fashion brand, SERENA, which celebrates body positivity and female empowerment, made its New York Fashion Week debut this past September. Williams' endorsements include Nike, Wilson, Gatorade, Pampers, Stuart Weitzman, Beats by Dre and Wheaties. Her HBO sports documentary series, Being Serena, was nominated for a 2019 Peabody and 2019 MTV Movie and TV Award.