Zilliant MindShare 2024

With great insight and signature wit, Beane conveys his innovative, winning style of management and leadership, which involves identifying undervalued assets to create and sustain a competitive advantage. By striking parallels between baseball and business, Beane inspires audiences across industries (including health care, insurance, finance, etc.) with his unforgettable winning underdog story.

Billy Beane, now senior adviser to Oakland Athletics owner John Fisher, has molded the team into one of baseball’s most consistent winners since taking over as General Manager following the 1997 season. Eventually rising to the role of Executive Vice President of Baseball Operations, Beane shattered traditional MLB beliefs that high payrolls equated wins by implementing a data driven methodology that led the Oakland A’s, with one of the lowest payrolls, to 7 AL Western Division titles and 10 playoff appearances. That strategic methodology has come to be known as the “Moneyball” philosophy, named for the bestselling book and Oscar-nominated film chronicling Beane’s journey from General Manager to hero to celebrated management genius. Beane is a four-time Major League Baseball "Executive of the Year" award winner and was named by Forbes as one of the "100 Greatest Living Business Minds."

David Clifton joined alphabroder as Chief Marketing Officer in April 2013. He is responsible for corporate communications, omni-channel media strategy and execution, as well as Customer segmentation, lifecycle management, research, and analytics. Clifton also oversees content, functional/technical design, and platform optimization for alphabroder.com/.ca. In 2020, alphabroder’s Customer Experience discipline was added to David’s purview. Prior to joining alphabroder, Mr. Clifton served as the Executive Director of Marketing for Dell’s Consumer and Small Business Division from May 2006 to April 2012, during his tenure he had responsibility for the North American and Europe, Middle East, and Africa regions.

Kylie Fuentes is an internationally experienced, commercially minded product executive with a specialization in Revenue, Monetization and Commerce technologies.

Most recently she was SVP Product at Salesforce, leading the Revenue Cloud product line to become one of the largest & fastest growing emerging Clouds at the company. Before that, she led product, design & marketing for Rodan+Fields’, where she played a critical role in growing the company to unicorn scale.

Kylie’s diverse career spans consumer internet, SaaS, eCommerce & marketplace models and she has extensive experience leading product management, user experience, data, marketing & engineering teams.

She’s passionate about helping companies navigate through the chaos of hypergrowth & getting to scale. But, she gets the most joy out of working with incredible people who love what they do, and helping them reach their potential.

Brooks Hamilton is the founder of Hamilton AI Strategy Advisors, an Austin-based consultancy specializing in helping companies adopt AI tools in their operations. With a deep understanding of both AI technology and business operations, Brooks and his team enable organizations to successfully navigate the rapidly evolving AI landscape. A seasoned veteran in the tech industry, Brooks spent 17 years at Zilliant, where he held pivotal roles in Professional Services and Product Management, including Vice President of the Professional Services team. His tenure was marked by ground-breaking work in AI-driven price optimization and sales effectiveness in B2B companies. Brooks also spearheaded Product Management at several Austin-based startups. Passionate about the transformative impact of AI, Brooks is a sought-after speaker and thought leader in the AI community. He is deeply committed to leveraging AI for positive outcomes in business, society, and scientific discovery.

Rob Pedigo is the Senior Director of North America Pricing Strategy at Dawn Foods. He is a Certified Pricing Professional with extensive multi-industry pricing experience. Dawn Foods is the third company at which he has led pricing transformation initiatives. Rob has also testified as an expert witness on pricing matters before regulatory bodies in seven states and in U.S. Federal Court. Before joining Dawn Foods, his pricing journey included extended stops at Ameren-IL, AT&T, AT&T Mobility and Riggs & Watson consulting. Rob graduated from Illinois State University with a double major in Economics and Political Science.

Jim Vaughn is the author of Stop Racing In A Blindfold! Big Data + Pricing Science Drive Bigger Profits, which draws on his 20-plus years in pricing across more than 15 industry verticals. He has also held a number of line management &technical roles including CIO, D/CIO, product manager, & many executive roles in the U.S. Army & Army Reserve. Jim is a graduate of the US Military Academy at West Point, NY and holds a Masters Degree in Operations Research from the Georgia Institute of Technology.

Pascal joined Zilliant as CEO in 2022. He brings more than 20 years of experience in executive roles within enterprise software and business consulting, with proven leadership in developing strategic visions, developing new products and programs that can be scaled globally, and leading organizations through digital transformations.

Most recently, Pascal was the Senior Vice President & General Manager of Salesforce Revenue Cloud, where he led product direction, marketing, go-to-market and operations. In that role, Pascal scaled the Salesforce CPQ business into the next $1B cloud. He previously held various leadership roles in the Salesforce Customer Success Group, numerous senior consulting roles and executive roles in media and communications industries, ran his own successful consulting firm, and served as chief information officer of a communication service provider.

Pascal earned a Bachelor of Arts and master’s degree in Organizational Communication from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.