TRACK SPEAKERS

Ryan lives to disrupt the status quo; a career digital native, Ryan got his start amidst of the .com boom, working as a creative director in digital agencies such as March 1st and PCS Internet.

Prior to Salesforce Ryan helped build ExactTarget into one of the world’s preeminent digital marketing platforms. Recognizing that digital transformation puts business on the bleeding edge of their own capabilities, Ryan built an industry-defining consulting practice that filled a massive gap between businesses' need for digital technology and their lack of experience operationalizing it. Though the application and scale of his thought leadership, ExactTarget and their customers were propelled to new growth heights.

Today, Ryan is the Vice President of Global Business Consulting at Salesforce. He specializes in harnessing the power of emerging trends such as customer journeys, artificial intelligence, automation and big data. His teams of data scientists, digital strategists and “money-ball” value consultants work with organizations to help operationalize their investments in these trends. He has been recognized for creating billions of dollars in revenue and works with organizations such as Nike, Microsoft, American Express, L'Oreal, Walmart and countless others.

Ryan currently lives in Indianapolis, Indiana. He is an avid cyclist and endurance athlete, competing around the world in triathlon and other multi-sport events.

Dane Hartzell is a strategic digital marketer and thought leader with an expertise in integrating technology into the marketing mix to provide a seamless customer experience that proves ROMI. As a digital evangelist, Dane takes pride in helping companies transform to the digital age. Rooted squarely between marketing and technology, Dane acts as a translator and facilitator to help companies realize their full digital potential.

Dane has both brand and agency side experience with Honeywell, Rubbermaid, General Mills, H&R Block, Symantec, Nabisco, Motorola, Polaris, Andersen Windows, Red Baron Pizza, Carmex, 3M and Toro.

Dane has presented on digital and social media trends at Dreamforce, MN American Marketing Association Annual Conference, MN Direct Marketing Association Annual Conference and the Social Media Strategies Summit.

Dane's work has been included in Forbes as well as books such as Return on Influence: The Revolutionary Power of Klout, Social Scoring, And Influence Marketing and Marketing Eleventh Edition.

Jeff Horvath has spent the past 20 years helping clients with their UX needs. He helps clients understand their users, design and validate great accessible software and products, and build UX capabilities within their organizations. Jeff has worked with clients from startups to Fortune 100 companies in healthcare, medical/pharma, manufacturing, banking & financial, retail, government and a many other industries.

Jeff has a Masters degree in Computer Science and a Ph.D. in Educational Psychology.

In his free time, Jeff is an election official, coaches youth football and dabbles in home brewing.

Timothy Seward leads ROI Revolution in its mission to drive growth for brands, retailers and ecommerce merchants with its results-driven digital marketing technology and services. Timothy founded the agency in June of 2002. Timothy is also the author of Ultimate Guide to Amazon Advertising. With his extensive technical, marketing and retail background, he is a thought leader who has spoken at more than 70 industry, ecommerce and Amazon focused events including IRCE and Prosper, is a guest lecturer at North Carolina State University's College of Management, and has contributed to key industry publications including Internet Retailer.

Timothy is a Summa Cum Laude graduate of Florida Gulf Coast University with a bachelor's degree in Computer Science.

Suz Brewer is a builder of brands, having spent half of her 28-year career in corporate marketing and half on the ad agency side. Now leading her own brand consultancy firm, SUZCO, she is the former CMO and Chief Brand Officer of EatStreet.

Prior, Suz served as VP of Marketing, Creative and E-Commerce at Duluth Trading Company from 2007 to 2016 as the chief storyteller and instigator of brand advertising. Duluth’s national ad campaign helped to shift the business model from cataloger to omnichannel retailer with stores across the US, resulting in an IPO in 2015.

As an ad agency brand manager with Planet Propaganda and Young & Rubicam, Suz led the agency teams for Jimmy John’s, Ford/Lincoln, Target and Guild.com (now Artful Home).