Jack Kahl

President & CEO at Jack Kahl & Associates

The inspirational leader and founder of Manco, Inc, Mr. Kahl has been recognized globally for his innovative approach to business. He was named one of “America’s Most Admired CEOs” alongside Jack Welch and Bill Gates in Industry Week magazine in 1993. Inc. Magazine honored him as one of the three CEOs in America to benchmark leadership practices and Cleveland Magazine named him the “Best Boss in Town” in 1996 and 2000. Jack Kahl & Associates, LLC, provides leadership advice and industry expertise to a variety of companies and non–profit organizations.

Michael K. Killeen

Private Investor and Consultant

A former partner at Arthur Andersen, Mr. Killeen is widely recognized as a retail industry expert, has authored and co–authored publications on varied consumer pipeline topics, has been a frequent speaker at various retail association meetings and is a former member of several of Andersen’s firm–wide industry initiatives. From 2001 through its sale to Boise in 2003, Mr. Killeen served as Senior Executive Vice President and a Board member at OfficeMax, an international retailer with nearly 1,000 superstores offering office products, business machines and related items.

C. David Snyder

President, CEO and Chairman at ATTEVO

Mr. Snyder is a member of the Ohio University Board of Trustees, Foundation Board and the College of Business Executives Advisory Board. He is also a member of the Business Advisory Council of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland and serves the board of directors for several corporations. ATTEVO is one of Ohio’s fastest growing IT Consulting Firms with practices in Software Development and Integration, Data Management, E-business and Web Development and Mobile and Wireless Computing.

Mike Henry

Consulting Leader

Mike Henry has spent his career in the consumer marketing and merchandising arena. He currently leads Acxiom’s Retail & Consumer Markets division, helping clients use customer insight to drive superior growth and financial performance. With a background of more than 20 years in marketing, merchandising and customer relationship management, Mike applies his industry experience to help retailers and manufacturers: develop and implement growth strategies; improve return on equity; and optimize their return on equity by integrating data, technology, analytics and consulting.

Prior to joining Acxiom, Mike served as CEO and Founder of Equitec. Equitec was the first and largest retail optimization analytics firm in the US, which Acxiom acquired in 2007. Mike’s company worked with some of the best consumer supply chains in the retail, manufacturing and travel markets. Mike has held a variety of other leadership positions including CEO and Founder of Vistrio, a Sabre Holdings company. In addition, he served as Vice President of North American Marketing at ICI paints, where he worked with key retailers like Wal-Mart, The Home Depot and Lowe’s. Outside of work, Mike is a member of Leadership 100 charities and is active in boating, skiing and travel. He is a frequent guest professor of marketing and customer relationship management at the Max M. Fisher College of Business at Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio, and also at Case Western Reserve Weatherhead School of Business in Cleveland. Mike was a founding member of the Council of Entrepreneurial Development at Baldwin Wallace College in Berea, Ohio.

Mike holds a BA in Economics and BA in Communications from Wittenberg University.

Athena Diamantis

COO & Co-Founder of Save’NDonate, Inc.
Central Regional Sales Manager, Azaleos Corporation

Gerald A. Fallon

Gerald A. Fallon was formerly Executive Vice President and Manager of Capital Markets for KeyBank, NA and Senior Managing Director of Capital Markets for McDonald Investments Inc. from 1994 — 2001. His responsibilities included managing the areas of Interest Rate Derivatives Sales and Trading; Equity Derivatives Sales and Trading; Foreign Exchange Sales and Trading; Asset Securitization; Emerging Asset Finance; Bond Options and Futures; Energy Trading and Derivatives; Taxable Fixed Income Sales and Trading; Tax–Exempt Sales and Trading; Public Finance; Low Income Housing Tax Credits; and, New Products.

Mr. Fallon joined KeyCorp in 1994 from Kemper Securities in Chicago where he was Executive Vice President. He began his investment banking career in 1973 with the US Trust Company of New York as a Portfolio Manager. In 1976, Mr. Fallon moved to Weeden & Co. where he was the National Manager and Vice President of Municipal Bond Underwriting. From 1979 to 1988, Mr. Fallon worked for E.F. Hutton, Inc. where he was Senior Vice President and National Manager of Municipal Short Term Sales, Trading and Underwriting and later named National Manager of New Product Development. From 1988 to 1989, Mr. Fallon worked at Lehman Brothers as a result of the E.F. Hutton merger.

Mr. Fallon is currently a director of the following companies: Digital Lightwave, Inc., PVF Capital Corporation (Park View Federal Savings Bank), LOGOS and Winfield Associates — Burning River Hedge Fund.

Mr. Fallon graduated from Georgetown University in 1971 with an A.B. in economics and received a M.B.A. in finance from Columbia University in 1973.