Matthew Dodson

Matt Dodson, Manager of Organizational Development, is the product owner of the Coaching practice at Chevron. Matt started his career at Chevron over 22 years ago in information technology before discovering his passion for people development. He works alongside an incredible team of global consultants and coaches serving the business units and functions. In previous roles at Chevron, he was a catalyst and coach for leadership evolution for major capital project leaders, helping those around him understand the integral role leadership plays in achieving success both day-to-day and long-term.

Within the last 13 years, he has focused on all aspects of leader and employee development from identification, selection, assessment, succession, and development. Matt has been involved in all parts of the crude-to-customer value chain, bringing the energy that improves lives and powers the world forward.

Matt earned his bachelor’s degree in Business from Pepperdine University in Malibu, California, and his master’s in Business Administration from the University of California at Davis. When not at work, Matt enjoys being with his wife and kids, reading, and the outdoors.

Ann Miller

Ann started her career in recruiting over 30 years ago in the search firm industry before transitioning to the corporate side.  She has managed recruiting functions for The Coca-Cola Company and Georgia-Pacific prior to transitioning over to healthcare in 2002.  Her healthcare experience includes working for a large pediatric health system, and a cancer research institute in addition to (2) large and intricate health systems with approximately 30,000 employees at each.

Ann currently manages a team comprised of over hundred employees focused on filling the full-time, part-time and supplemental vacant positions across the Memorial Hermann system which includes 17 hospitals and almost 300 care delivery sites throughout southeast Texas.

Ann considers herself a “recruiter at heart” and loves the challenges that comes with overseeing the talent acquisition and staffing functions.  Our health system cannot deliver the care and services to the communities we support so every day we are challenged to find the best talent to meet the demand on this organization. While it brings a lot of pressure, it also comes with significand reward.

Ann earned a Bachelor of Business Administration from Shorter College in Rome, Georgia.  In her spare time she enjoys traveling, golfing, and gardening.

Paula Harris

Paula Harris is the SVP, Community Affairs & Executive Director, Astros Foundation for the Houston Astros.

Pedro Neiva Botelho

Pedro Neiva Botelho is currently the Schlumberger Head of HR for the Americas. Throughout his career, he held several HR Management positions within the Schlumberger Group in Africa, Europe, Latin America and the Middle East. The spectrum of his roles encompassed topics on HR business strategy, HR practices and People recruiting, training & development. In his previous position he was the Global Head of HR for the Schlumberger Surface Systems Product Line, based in Houston. He is a frequent speaker in conferences on topics related to HR strategy, compensation & benefits and career development.

Pedro has a M.A. from the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po).

Julie Fawdington

Julie is the Director of Operations, Data Office at Hewlett Packard Enterprise, where she is working to instill a data-driven culture at HPE by building a data strategy and operating model and highlighting that data quality is everyone’s concern.

Before HPE, Julie spent ten years working in Fortune 500 companies leading IT Operations, Learning & Development, and Organizational Change, and five years in consulting, starting up a coaching and leadership development practice.  Julie holds degrees in Industrial/Organizational Psychology and certifications in Lean Six Sigma, Hogan and Birkman personality inventories, and is a certified executive coach.

Kristi Pittman

Kristi Pittman is the Vice President, Human Resources at Goodman Manufacturing.

Tiana Carter

Denise Malloy

Denise Malloy is the Vice President, Diversity & Inclusion at Johnson Controls.

Michael Bramnick

Michael Bramnick serves as head of Administration and a member of the Executive Management Team (EMT) for NRG Energy, a Fortune 500 diversified energy company.  He also serves as Chief of Staff, providing counsel to the CEO and to the rest of the EMT, working across business lines and corporate functions, to ensure strategy is implemented and operations are smooth.  His direct reports within Administration include Human Resources, Sustainability, Business Continuity & Crisis Management, Safety, Security, and Facilities, and he has enterprise-wide responsibility for Corporate and Regulatory Compliance. He helps lead NRG’s COVID-19 response as well as its Diversity, Equity & Inclusion initiatives.

Michael previously served in a number of roles at NRG including as Executive Vice President & General Counsel.  Prior to NRG, he held a number of legal roles in several publicly traded companies.  He began his career as a lawyer at Troutman Pepper LLC.  He holds an undergraduate degree from the George Washington University and a law degree from Penn State Dickinson Law School.

April King

April King has more than 25 years’ experience designing and delivering strategic leadership development initiatives internationally, to support organizations in developing high-potential leaders at multiple levels.

She has consulted with senior executives to create and manage succession planning and performance management processes through the identification of success profiles and competency modeling in order to develop a pipeline of future leaders. April also has significant experience in coaching senior leaders and high-potential executives on their personal development opportunities and action plans.

April joined DDI as a senior consultant in our Hong Kong office, and lived and worked in Asia for nine years, supporting various global and local clients across Asia. She currently lives in Fargo, North Dakota.

Christine Morehead

Christine has been instrumental in developing the people experience department from the ground-up, which consists of HR, recruiting, credentialing, internal communications, corporate facilities, and employee events. She has experience with rapid-growth companies and brings innovative HR solutions to meet the needs of quickly growing organizations. Prior to joining, Christine served as a founding member of the Virgin America team that brought the company from incubation to an award-winning airline. Christine has a bachelor of business administration degree with an emphasis in human resources from Pace University and earned her master’s degree in human resources from Mount Saint Mary College.

Cynthia Ford

Cynthia Ford is the Senior Director, Change Management at Sysco Corporation.

Clelia Cayama Soto

Clelia is currently the Vice President, Human Resources for the Corrosion Protection Platform at Aegion. Throughout her career, she has worked in most areas of the Human Resource function, holding different managerial roles in North & South America, Africa, Asia, and The Middle East. Her experience encompasses recruiting and training, HR business strategy, performance and talent management, HR programs, employee relations and coaching among others. Prior to Aegion, she started her career at Schlumberger, and she also worked for NexTear Oilfield Solutions, previously Keane Group.

In her leisure time, she likes spending quality time with her family and friends. She is also a regular at Memorial Park, where you can find her exercising at the end of the day.

Vijay Swaminathan

Vijay Swaminathan is the Co-Founder & CEO of Draup, an AI-Driven Reskilling and Talent Intelligence Platform. Vijay has extensive experience in the areas of Product Ideation, Concept to Productization, and Platform enablement. He brings a wealth of expertise in the areas of Data Analytics, Operations Research, and Strategic Management. He has developed numerous quantitative models and heuristics related to global talent, business analytics, and strategic business initiatives.

Vijay is also the co-founder of Zinnov (a leading research & advisory firm) and TalentNeuron (acquired by CEB a Gartner Company (NYSE:IT)). Prior to co-founding Zinnov and TalentNeuron, Vijay held senior positions at Hewitt Associates and KPMG Consulting. He is passionate about translating business ideas into tangible Intellectual Property.

Bob Hamer

Bob Hamer is the Director and leads ClassPass’s Corporate Wellness division here in the US. As a team we help our partner organizations give their employees the best in fitness & wellness. We do this by giving them access to over 41,500 fitness studios, gyms and wellness options worldwide.

Lucho Vizcardo

Lucho Vizcardo is the Head of International HR, Western Hemisphere at Nabors Industries.