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As founder, chairman, and CEO of Forrester Research, George is one of the most influential thought leaders in the world of business and technology. He is a trusted advisor to executives around the globe, providing context and clarity around the digital disruptions that change the way we live and work. George founded Forrester in his basement 30 years ago. He, along with many talented and passionate colleagues, has built the company into one of the world’s most successful independent research and advisory firms with locations in more than 30 countries. George personifies the Forrester experience and the company’s values with direct, honest advice. “When I meet with a client, I have one mission,” George has said. “To tell them something they don’t know.” Throughout his career, George has made provocative, tenacious, and groundbreaking calls about business and technology. These include the birth of client/server computing, the dot-com implosion, the rise of social computing, the transition from IT to BT (business technology), and the extended Internet connecting the physical world of things to the digital world of information. Most recently, he has described the business opportunities presented by the App Internet, the new computing model combining the power of local devices with the scale of the cloud. “As the Web becomes the AM radio of digital, the mobile App Internet will rise,” George has written. “This market will be dominated by two or three ecosystems - semiclosed worlds built on a closely fitting set of apps, phones, tablets, computers, operating systems, and partners.” George has addressed international audiences in a number of prestigious settings including the World Economic Forum meetings in Davos, Switzerland and Dalian, China; the Fortune Brainstorm Tech conference; the SBS Seoul Digital Forum; the United Nations’ “The Net World Order: Bridging the Global Digital Divide” conference; the ICT World Forum @CeBIT; Le Web; Cambridge University; The Commonwealth Club of California, and the Churchill Club. He has also lectured at the MIT Sloan School of Management. George’s analysis has been quoted in The Wall Street Journal, The Economist, The New York Times, BusinessWeek, the Financial Times, MIT Sloan Management Review, and numerous other media outlets. You can read George’s latest thinking on his blog, The Counterintuitive CEO, or on Twitter at @gcolony. George is a graduate of Harvard University.

Summary Qualifications ------------------------------- A strategic and results-oriented technology professional with 24+ years experience across sales, marketing, operations, and strategy. Leader and team player with highly developed interpersonal, communication skills.Recognized as one of the Most Influential Women in Business by San Francisco Business Times. Frequent speaker at SaaS / customer centric conferences and guest lecturer at Berkeley. Passionate about customer centric growth and scaling high-performance teams.

Scott Sanborn is CEO of Lending Club, (NYSE: LC), America's leading digital marketplace bank, and a member of the company’s board of directors.Appointed CEO in 2016, he is responsible for leading 1,000+ employees to deliver on the company’s mission to empower its millions of members on their path to financial health. Under his guidance, the company has evolved beyond its leadership in personal loans to serve a broader set of customers’ needs by taking advantage of both its technology and data-driven marketplace and the digital bank that the company acquired in February 2021. Scott joined LendingClub in 2010 and has been a driving force in the management and development of the organization. With previous executive roles as Chief Marketing Officer, Chief Operations Officer, and President, he helped steer the company through a prolonged period of triple-digit growth running up to its 2014 IPO, the largest tech IPO that year. Prior to LendingClub, Scott held leadership positions as the Chief Revenue Officer for publicly-traded eHealth Insurance, President of RedEnvelope, Inc., and SVP at the Home Shopping Network.He holds a BA from Tufts University.

Christopher A. Cartwright is the President and Chief Executive Officer of TransUnion, assuming the role in May 2019. He joined the Company in August 2013, previously serving as Executive Vice President-U.S. Information Services, where he helped drive TransUnion’s transformation into a global information and insights company as the head of the largest business unit, including providing consumer reports, risk scores, analytical services and decision technology to customers in the U.S. across the financial services, insurance, rental screening and public sector industries. Prior to joining TransUnion, Mr. Cartwright was the Chief Executive Officer of Decision Insight Information Group, a portfolio of independent businesses providing real property information, software and services to insurance, finance, legal and real estate professionals in the United States, Canada and Europe. Mr. Cartwright also spent almost 14 years at Wolters Kluwer, a global information services and workflow solutions company, where he held a variety of executive positions of increasing responsibility. Prior to Wolters Kluwer, he was Senior Vice President, Strategic Planning & Operations for Christie’s Inc. and Strategy Consultant for Coopers and Lybrand. Mr. Cartwright graduated from The University of Texas at Austin with a bachelor's degree in business administration and a master's in public accountancy.

As President and CEO of Ascensus, David is responsible for leading execution of the firm’s overall corporate strategy as well as overseeing all facets of its Retirement, FuturePlan, Government Savings, and Health & Benefits lines of business. He has more than 30 years of experience in the retirement, investment, and insurance industries. Prior to joining Ascensus, David was president of Great-West Investments. He earned a master’s degree in finance and international business from NYU, Stern School of Business, and a bachelor’s degree in finance from The College of William and Mary.

As Chairman, President and CEO of Assurity Group and Assurity Life Insurance, I lead a team of high-level achievers focused on strategic growth. To succeed in the rapidly changing insurance industry takes a willingness to experiment and constantly try new things. In this role, I spend my days building strong relationships with our associates and customers, while also: • thinking about, creating and implementing innovative business strategies • building high-performance teams • managing and mitigating the risks we face I’m a big believer in the power of listening. Encouraging everyone to actively participate and then considering all ideas is the best way to create a business culture that is smart, straightforward and respectful. I’m also big on measuring progress-what gets measured gets accomplished, so data analysis is an important part of our internal process. Outside of work, you’ll find me working on my wildlife farm with my two French Brittanys. I try to do my part in the conservation movement by planting hundreds of trees and bushes and growing green cover crops to build soil fertility without chemicals. Our farms are a haven for all native species, especially for upland birds. Specialties include: corporate governance | investment management | risk management | auditing expertise | strategic planning | fostering innovation | sales and sales management

Mr. John Kitzie is a Chief Operating Officer at HomeServe USA and is based in United States.