Join the ongoing Customer Spotlight Series of webinars featuring Oracle customers describing and quantifying savings achieved using Oracle Cloud and technologies. These are candid conversations led by senior executives from different organizations and industries that provide fascinating insights into the contribution of software to business efficiency and success. We encourage you to participate in the live webcasts and bring your questions.
Title: Oracle Customer Spotlight on Naveego
Date: August 27, 2020
Start Time: 9 a.m. PT
Duration: 60:00
Naveego empowers companies across all industries to be more data driven and even
accomplish complete digital transformations. The company’s cloud-native integration
platform helps customers detect and eliminate data inaccuracies and convert all
viable data into usable information.
By moving from Amazon Web Services to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, Naveego has been
able to better serve its customers while saving 60% in cloud infrastructure costs
and gaining new business opportunities.
President & CEO
Naveego
Katie Horvath is the President & CEO of Naveego, Inc. Naveego provides a
cloud-native data integration platform with built-in data quality, golden
record and data governance to transform data silos into analytics-ready
information in real-time. Katie has been recognized at U.S. Congress with a
leadership award for innovative business models and is believed to be the
only woman CEO in big data in North America.
Katie holds a J.D. from the University of Notre Dame and a B.S.E. in
Industrial & Operations
Engineering from the University of Michigan. Katie's experience includes
managing intellectual property at the Microsoft Corporation, representing
numerous blue chip and technology companies in IP matters in Silicon Valley
and beyond, opening a cancer center for a regional healthcare system as
part of administration leadership, scaling start-up businesses in tech, and
racing sailboats.
Naveego is an Oracle customer and is pleased to partner with Oracle to
provide its technology
on the Oracle Cloud Marketplace.
Title: Oracle Customer Spotlight on Bosch Thermotechnology
Date: September 10, 2020
Start Time: 9 a.m. PT
Duration: 60:00
Bosch Thermotechnology products and services have a stellar reputation. But slow and convoluted processes prevented the company from serving more customers and addressing issues quickly and efficiently.
Service Optimization Manager
Bosch Thermotechnology
Marcel Torrent has spent many years at Bosch Thermotechnology, where he now manages the field service planning for the UK team of engineers. He is an experienced Manufacturing Operations Manager with a demonstrated history of working in design and manufacturing. Marcel’s passion is leading others to become better than they are, especially in areas where change is a part of everyday life.
Title: Motorola Solutions SVP shares how they use Oracle CX to intensify customer focus while propelling growth.
Duration: 41:40
Motorola Solutions, a global leader in mission-critical communications, helps our heroes—firefighters, police officers, utility workers, and educators—be their best in moments that matter. Using Oracle CX, Motorola transformed from a product-based model to a services and software business and benefited by shortening time to market for new products, increasing sales by reducing quote cycle time, and innovating the user experience.
Senior Vice President & General Manager
Motorola
Solutions
Andrew Sinclair is responsible for revenue and growth of the business as Motorola Solutions transforms to a cloud software, services, and devices company. His team is dedicated to delivering innovation through our software products and services to enable customers to work more efficiently and effectively to make lives better and save lives. Since joining Motorola Solutions in 2017, Andrew has formed the Software Business focusing on applications to serve in the areas of Emergency Call Handling, Unified Communications, Command & Control, Records & Evidence, Enterprise Security, Software Deployment, and Go-To-Market.
He earned his bachelor’s degree from Staffordshire University in the UK. Andrew has over 18 years of experience making real-time collaboration and communication tools at Skype and Microsoft. Prior to joining Motorola, Andrew was General Manager of Skype, Skype for Business, and Microsoft Teams at Microsoft.
Title: Aon executives describe how they reduced costs and dramatically improved reporting using Oracle CX Cloud, Analytics, and Autonomous Database.
Duration: 55:50
Aon needed to solve complex analytics requirements. Using Oracle CX Cloud, Analytics, and Autonomous Database, Aon teams are now able to quickly and accurately predict sales pipeline using performance indicators. Built-in connectors and AI remove manual tasks to produce advanced security, reporting functionality, and performance with less database maintenance and end user training. Adoption has led to a 50% reduction in cost and more secure management of confidential customer data.
CIO for Growth Enablement, NA IT
Aon
Teffani Zadeh is the CIO of Growth Enablement at Aon Corporation, where she
has worked for the past 18 years. In her role, Teffani manages the
strategic roadmaps and day-to-day operations for the technology supporting
Aon’s sales and marketing functions across 4 solution lines. Most recently,
Teffani guided Aon through an implementation of Oracle’s Sales Cloud
product, moving 11,000 client-facing colleagues from 6 instances of
Salesforce to one instance of Sales Cloud. She has focused on leveraging
the wealth of data now available in one CRM system to provide leadership
with unprecedented insight into marketing impact and sales effectiveness.
Prior to joining Aon, Teffani was a management consultant at Deloitte
Consulting where she focused on process redesign, focusing in the CRM
space. She started her career at Electronic Data Systems (EDS) as a
developer, which has served her well when managing large IT programs.
Teffani received her MBA from the University of Chicago and in her spare
time, she can be found either planning or experiencing her next traveling
adventure.
Connect Global Reporting Lead
Aon
As Aon’s global reporting lead for sales, Liesbeth is responsible for the
team that delivers valuable customer insights directly to Aon’s marketing
and sales teams. She has worked at Aon for over 6 years.
Aon is a leading global professional services firm that provides advice and
solutions to clients focused on risk, retirement, and health. They look to
provide distinctive client value via innovative and effective risk
management and workforce productivity solutions under-pinned by
industry-leading data and analytics. Previously, Liesbeth was a Business
Analyst at Vattenfall, a leading European energy company.
Director of Marketing Technology
Aon
As Aon’s global Director for Marketing Technology, Nancy is responsible for
a team that delivers support to Aon for the majority of Aon’s internal and
external communication through multiple channels. She has worked at Aon for
over 20 years.
Aon is leading global professional services firm that provides advice and
solutions to clients focused on risk, retirement, and health. They look to
provide distinctive client value via innovative and effective risk
management and workforce productivity solutions under-pinned by
industry-leading data and analytics. Previously, Nancy was responsible for
the EMEA SFDC/Eloqua support function.
Title: Phenix CMO shares how they stream Oscars, sports, and more to millions 100x faster than networks with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.
Duration: 52:55
Phenix is the only company able to deliver broadcast quality real-time IP video solutions with less than a half second of latency at scale to millions of people in sync. Most other streaming providers are plagued by rebuffering, latency, or freezes. Phenix has overcome those issues using Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. Learn how they are saving money while delivering superior user experiences to customers on five continents.
Chief Marketing Officer
Phenix
Jed Corenthal is an experienced business professional and marketer who holds the executive position of Chief Marketing Officer for Phenix RTS. Prior to joining Phenix, Jed help leadership roles at Sony and the National Football League as the Director of Marketing, was Chief Revenue Officer for the AVP Pro Beach Volleyball League, founded and acted as CEO for the digital self-expression MeeMo, and finally oversaw the company operations of OTT Studios as COO & Partner. Jed attended Ithaca College with a focus on Political Science and Music.
Title: JASCI CEO explains how they achieved 100x faster performance using Oracle Autonomous Database.
Duration: 40:25
JASCI Software is a leader in cloud supply chain and their customers operate in an industry where profit margins are razor thin. JASCI needed to deliver performance, scalability and reliability to handle billions of transactions per day, deliver sub-second response times, and protect sensitive customer data. Using Oracle Autonomous Database on next-generation cloud infrastructure, order processing is 100 times faster, twice as many orders can be processed at half the labor costs, and AI decision-making is completed in milliseconds.
CEO and Co-Founder
JASCI Software
As CEO and Co-Founder of JASCI, a Warehouse Management Software firm, Craig
Wilensky has a passion for architecting new solutions and a desire to stay
ahead of the curve.
Craig has an extensive background in tech and hardware as a serial software
entrepreneur & startup grower. Supply Chain and Fulfillment have become his
industry of focus where he can utilize his background to bring positive
change. Previous achievements include: modernizing fortune 1000 companies
with breakthrough supply-chain hardware; Bringing Infologix public on the
NASDAQ; and leading the hardware and sales division at Knighted Software,
another tier-one Warehouse Management System that was acquired by Honeywell
Intelligrated. Knighted’s founder, Dan Napoli now serves as JASCI’s CTO and
founded JASCI with Craig.
Title: Hearst Drives Growth and Mitigates Risk in the Cloud
Duration: 54:26
Media powerhouse Hearst Communications has grown to more than 360 business units and 20,000 employees worldwide. With a 25-year-old legacy environment, the company lacked transparency across the organization and needed a better way to leverage critical financial and human capital data. Join their senior executives live to learn how they laid a foundation for business transformation by embracing Oracle ERP, EPM, and HCM Cloud – including completion of nine deployments over 24 months on time and on budget.
SVP, CIO Technology & Operations
Hearst
Debra Robinson is the senior vice president and chief information
officer for Oracle Technology and Operations at Hearst. She
oversees Oracle technology across the company and HCM. During
her tenure, Robinson led and delivered financial and HCM
applications across the organization. She was also the delivery
executive for Project UniFi, which included outsourcing payroll,
business process transformation and implementing Oracle Cloud
for financials and human capital management.
Additionally, Robinson serves as a scout for the HearstLab, a
group of women executives at Hearst who contribute their subject
matter expertise, connections and mentorship to HearstLab’s
portfolio companies.
Prior to being appointed SVP, Robinson was chief technology
officer of Hearst Magazines, and was responsible for leading and
coordinating IT initiatives and operations across all magazine
business units. At that time this included 20 US titles; CDS
Global, the Hearst-owned international data management company
that provides customized fulfillment services to publishers and
direct marketers; Periodical Publishers’ Service Bureau (PPSB),
the Hearst-owned circulation and subscription services company;
and Hearst Magazines UK, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hearst
Magazines in the UK.
Prior to being appointed CTO, Robinson was vice president of
technology and production for digital media at Hearst Magazines.
She was instrumental in developing and organizing the newly
created department. Additionally, Robinson was the lead person
for developing the technology and production needed to create
and implement Hearst Magazines Digital Strategy. She also served
as interim chief information officer of CDS Global.
Before joining Hearst, Robinson was senior vice president and
chief information officer at Primedia, a publishing company, for
five years. She previously held executive positions at CVS
Pharmacy, CMP Media, Delaware North Companies and
Aramark.
Robinson is a graduate of the Wharton School and also has a
master’s degree from the University of Pennsylvania.
SVP of Finance Operations
Hearst
David Hovstadius is Senior Vice President for Finance Operations,
Hearst Communications. Hearst is one of the nation's largest
diversified media, information and services companies with more
than 360 businesses. Its major interests include ownership in
cable television networks; global financial services leader
Fitch Group; a group of information and service businesses;
television stations; newspapers; and more than 300
magazines.
Mr. Hovstadius is responsible for Hearst’s finance operations
including continuous process improvement and operational
excellence. He is the executive leader for the company’s finance
transformation journey to the cloud successfully implementing
Oracle’s Cloud ERP and EPM suite of products. The program has
been one of the largest enterprise initiatives in the company’s
history and has established a modern finance platform for
growth.
Mr. Hovstadius is an executive with over 28 years of experience
within finance. He began his career in consulting, specializing
in enterprise transformation programs in the Communications,
Media, and Hi Tech industries.
Mr. Hovstadius completed his undergraduate and graduate studies
at University of Connecticut.