Featured Speakers

Mark Hurd is chief executive officer of Oracle Corporation and a member of the company's board of directors. He joined Oracle in 2010, bringing more than 30 years of technology industry leadership, computer hardware expertise, and executive management experience to his role with the company. Hurd is also a member of the Baylor University Board of Regents.

Andrew Mendelsohn is executive vice president for database server technologies at Oracle. He is responsible for the development and product management of Oracle’s family of database products, including Oracle Database, Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database, Oracle Berkeley DB, and Oracle NoSQL Database. In addition, Mendelsohn is also responsible for Oracle Database Cloud services including Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse Cloud and Oracle Autonomous OLTP Database Cloud, and for engineered systems such as Oracle Exadata Database Machine, Oracle Database Appliance, Oracle Zero Data Loss Recovery Appliance, and Oracle Big Data Appliance.

Mendelsohn has been at Oracle since 1984. He began his career at Oracle as a developer on Release 5.1 of Oracle Database. Prior to joining Oracle, he worked at HP and ESVEL.

Mendelsohn holds a BSE in electrical engineering and computer science from Princeton University and performed graduate work in computer science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Kyle York is the vice president of product strategy for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and the general manager for Dyn solutions. York was an executive with Dyn since 2008. During his years there he spearheaded company growth and corporate strategy, which led to its acquisition by Oracle in 2016. In his current role, York focuses on product strategy, market development, and evangelism for Oracle’s cloud platform and is responsible for overall Dyn operations.

As an expert in the global internet, cloud, SaaS, IaaS, and technology markets and trends, York has been featured in Entrepreneur, The New York Times, USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, Dark Reading, Wired, TechCrunch, Web Hosting Industry Review, NPR’s All Tech Considered, and PBS’s Frontline. He has been a guest speaker at many conferences including CIO Summit, Gartner, HostingCon, MPOWER Cybersecurity Summit, Interop, LAUNCH, The Next Web, and Web Summit.

York has spent his career working in the "as-a-service" business model. Prior to joining Dyn, he spent six years at SaaS company WhippleHill Communications, which was acquired by Blackbaud in 2014. In addition to his efforts at Dyn, he is a board member, advisor, and investor in several fast-growth startups. York holds a BS in marketing from Bentley University.

Philippe Mathieu is leading the Strategy and Operations of Oracle across all International geographies, covering $17 Billion of annual Revenue. He is a member of the International Management Board, and is reporting to the President of Oracle, Loic Le Guisquet. In his function Philippe covers a broad range of Responsibilities including Strategy and Operations, Marketing and Demand Generation, Alliances and Channels, Presales, and Sales for Oracle Digital and Systems. Prior to this, Philippe was Vice-President Finance and CFO for International. He joined Oracle in March 2007 following the acquisition of Hyperion Solutions.

Before Oracle, he held Senior Management positions in US based Enterprise Software companies including Peoplesoft, Commerce One and Sybase. In total, Philippe has accumulated 25 years of International experience in the IT industry.

Hans van Grieken is the EMEA Technology Research & Insights Leader within Deloitte’s global CIO programme. He joined Deloitte in August 2016 from Gartner Research. In this role he helps shape Deloitte’s global research agenda in addition to identifying & driving a number of EMEA research initiatives.

Hans is a Fellow within Deloitte’s Center for the Edge which partners with senior executives to make sense of and profit from emerging opportunities on the edge of business and technology. In both roles Hans frequently addresses international boardrooms and conferences, assisting leaders to better understand the fundamental technology driven changes that shape their business world, navigate short-term challenges and identify long-term opportunities.

Hans is also a part-time Executive Lecturer at Nyenrode Business School on the topic of Digital Disruption and Innovation and since 2009 a supervisory board member at Priva, world market-leader in greenhouse climate management and process optimization.

Doug Kehring joined Oracle in 2000 and is currently Executive Vice President of Corporate Operations. His responsibilities include oversight of corporate development, corporate systems, cloud data center strategy, and business transformation. As part of Oracle's internal transformation to the cloud, Mr. Kehring coordinates the design and implementation of reimagined business processes to ensure that the company is effectively serving customer needs, that Oracle is the #1 reference for its cloud technologies, and that employees have a superior user experience. He also assists with data center investment planning efforts at Oracle as the company expands the number of data centers around the world to support its fast-growing cloud business. Finally, Mr. Kehring continues to serve as the head of Oracle's corporate development group, a position he has held since 2005. The corporate development group provides planning, advisory, execution, and integration management services to Oracle on mergers and acquisitions, source-code and object-code licensing, strategic investments, joint ventures, and other related transactions.

Mr. Kehring began his career at Oracle in 2000 as part of the Oracle Venture Fund. He joined the company after working for the investment banks of Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette and Dain Bosworth. Mr. Kehring is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin Madison School of Business

Kevin is the Director of Eurasia Group’s Geo-Technology practice, and help clients understand how rapid innovation is reshaping relationships among states, citizens, and non-state groups. He analyzes how these changes will affect companies, investors, and governments. Kevin also contributes to Signal, Eurasia Group's newsletter on geopolitics.

Kevin started his career at the Financial Times in London and then wrote for the newspaper from New York and San Francisco, where he covered Silicon Valley. He later worked in global equity sales at UBS and as a columnist at Reuters. Kevin holds a bachelor's degree in biochemistry from the University of Missouri and a master's degree in public policy from Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, where he focused on science and technology policy. He was a Fulbright Scholar in Vienna, Austria, and a 2015 Journalism Fellow in Complex Systems Science at the Santa Fe Institute.

Nik joins Brunswick from CNBC where for nearly 9 years he has held several senior management and leadership roles. He was, until most recently, Editor in Chief and Senior Vice President, Business News. In this role, he managed the network’s news content, coverage and production. He was responsible for all the editorial content for daily live news programming, working closely with anchors, reporters and producers, as well as CNBC’s network specials, documentary and news programs. He also helped build and lead CNBC’s events and conference business. In addition to his recent management roles at CNBC, Nik previously held senior management and leadership roles in a long and distinguished career at The Wall Street Journal. He was Deputy Managing Editor of The Wall Street Journal overseeing all financial and international coverage for the paper and overseeing the Journal’s network of international bureaus and correspondents. Prior to this, he was a well-respected M&A reporter for the paper, before becoming editor of the Media & Marketing group, where he oversaw entertainment, publishing, advertising, consumer products, fashion and retail. Later, he was editor of the money and investing section where he oversaw all coverage of the global financial crisis, Wall Street, banking, hedge funds, private equity, mutual funds, financial markets, investing and personal finance. He also served as deputy bureau chief in Washington, D.C. for three years where he oversaw regulatory and investigative coverage for the paper.

Nik’s experience leading and managing talent-rich organizations, combined with his background in business, financial and M&A journalism across print and broadcast leave him well placed to lead and grow Brunswick in the U.S. He will advise clients on a range of critical business issues across, among other areas, the financial, commercial, M&A and political spheres.

Credited as one of the few people who warned of the global financial crisis, Gillian Tett is the US Managing Editor of the Financial Times having previously covered markets and finance for the paper. A social anthropologist by training, Gillian worked extensively in Soviet-influenced Central Asia and eventually became Tokyo Bureau Chief for the FT. She later became deputy head of the influential Lex column. She was appointed the US Managing Editor, then worked as an assistant editor and columnist before returning to her US posting. In the years immediately before the financial crisis, Gillian applied her academic ethnographic research skills to the investment bank JP Morgan.

She discovered a corporate culture the rejected outside interference which led to the creation of complex financial instruments that few people understood. She concluded that the culture and those instruments could lead to a collapse.

Despite her findings being fatefully ignored, Gillian published Fool’s Gold: How unrestrained greed corrupted a dream, shattered global markets and unleashed a catastrophe just after the crisis exploded. Widely acclaimed and respected, it won the Spear’s Financial Book of the Year. Gillian was also the recipient of several prestigious journalism prizes, including the British Academy President’s Medal, the British Press Awards’ Columnist of the Year, and the Wincott Prize.

Whilst continuing her work at the FT and commentating in the media more generally, Gillian has expanded on some of the areas covered in Fool’s Gold in her book The Silo Effect: Why putting everything in its place isn’t such a bright idea. She highlights how organisational insularity doesn’t just stifle innovation, but can also lead to a blindness to problems that can bring down entire companies.