Georgie Barrat
Technology Journalist
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Georgie Barrat
Technology Journalist
Georgie Barrat is a technology journalist, broadcaster and presenter.
At the beginning of 2017 she joined The Gadget Show’s new presenting line-up and has spent the past four years testing and reporting on the latest consumer technology. In 2019 Georgie also presented the BBC’s FIA formula E’s Championship coverage.
Alongside her work on the Gadget Show, Georgie has reported for ITV Tonight, Good Morning Britain, ITV Weekend and has appeared on The Jeremy Vine Show (formally The Wright Stuff). Most recently Georgie featured on ‘How to spend it well at Christmas’ alongside Phillip Schofield, selecting some of the best gadgets on offer for gift ideas in 2020. She also comments on breaking tech stories for Channel 5 News, Radio 5 live, talk radio & BBC Radio 2.
Claire Williams
Former F1 Executive and Businesswoman
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Claire Williams
Former F1 Executive and Businesswoman
Claire Williams OBE is the former Deputy Team Principal of the Williams Formula 1 racing team. Claire grew up around Formula 1 since her late father, Sir Frank Williams, was the founder of the Williams Grand Prix Engineering F1 team, winning nine Constructors’ Championships and seven Drivers’ Championships.
Claire has been among the most prominent and successful women in recent Formula 1 history, taking the team to successive third places in the Constructors’ Championships in just her second and third years in charge.
During her tenure, Claire was a keen advocate for greater diversity and inclusion within her own team and across the sport as a whole.
As Vice President of the Spinal Injuries Association, Claire also sought to encourage spinal cord injured individuals into the team and established workplace opportunities for wheelchair users.
Since the successful sale of the Williams F1 team in 2020 Claire has provided consultancy services to brands entering Formula 1 and shares her experiences of running a contemporary F1 team with corporate clients.
Claire was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the Queen’s 2016 Birthday Honours List in recognition of her services to Formula One.
Marc Altshuller
CEO
Varicent
Marc Altshuller is CEO of Varicent and founded the company in 2004. Under Marc’s leadership, Varicent became Canada’s fastest-growing company in 2010 and was recognized as one of the 2010 Deloitte Fast 500 fastest growing software company in North America.Varicent was then acquired by IBM in 2012, where following the acquisition, Marc was promoted 5 times over the next 6 years, ultimately holding the role of General Manager of IBM’s approximately $1 billion Business Analytics Division. During this time, Marc brought Cognos back to growth, oversaw IBM's largest organic digital offering, Watson Analytics, and was on IBM’s Growth and Transformation Team comprised of the top 300 Executives at IBM.Most recently before rejoining Varicent, Marc served as Executive in Residence at Information Venture Partners, a Toronto/NY based Fintech fund. He then partnered with Great Hill Partners and Spectrum Equity to buy back Varicent from IBM on December 31, 2019.Recognized for his entrepreneurship and support in the technology industry, Marc was featured on Hardbacon, a financial technology company, Top 36 Angel Investors in Canada list in 2021.
Matt Blanchard
General Manager, EMEA
Varicent
Matt is the General Manager for EMEA at Varicent. Matt has been in the Incentive Compensation Management industry for over a decade, having successfully held positions at Practique Associates, Merced Systems and NICE systems prior to joining IBM to lead the European Sales Performance Management practice. Matt is passionate about helping customers at all stages of the journey, from business case creation and executive project sponsorship, through to point of seeing the true return on investment that can be gained from automating what is sometimes considered a cumbersome process.
Zach Burnett
Executive Vice President,
Global Field Operations
Varicent
Zach has deep experience in transforming sales organizations to align client needs with technology. He comes to Varicent from IBM where he was responsible for revenue and go to market strategy for the Sales Performance Management business.
Zach’s additional experiences at Pfizer, Avaya and IBM have created a profound understanding of a diverse set of markets. Zach has a Masters of Business Administration from the University of Minnesota and a Bachelor of Science from the University of Wisconsin.
Seybel Chenevoy
Director,
VIP Program
Varicent
Seybel joined Varicent Professional Services as a Business Consultant in 2011 from a Business Analyst role at Research Machines (RM) in the UK. He is now the Global Director for the Varicent VIP Program which aims to generate Value, deliver Innovations and improve Performance across the customer base subscribed to the program.
His role includes supporting his team of expert Technical Account Managers in helping customers maximise their ROI through the VIP Program.
Over the course of a decade, Seybel has developed very strong Varicent implementation skills, from consulting, through project management to leading multiple delivery teams. Along the way, he has gathered a wealth of experience around using and implementing Varicent products across a wide range of industries, geographies and customer use cases.
Monica Frigerio
Managing Director and Global Lead for Sales and Channel Incentive Practice
Accenture
Monica Frigerio
Managing Director and Global Lead for Sales and Channel Incentive Practice
Accenture
Monica is a Managing Director and Global Lead for Sales and Channel Incentive practice in Accenture. She has more than 20 years of experience in planning, shaping and delivering complex Sales, Marketing and Customer Service transformations across multiple industries.
Throughout her career, Monica has an end-to-end, value led approach that ranges from designing, optimizing processes and implementing solutions to support large organizations in achieving their growth targets, driving sales behaviors while optimizing the ROI of commercial spending.
Sasha Gatselyuk
Associate Business Consultant,
Professional Services, EMEA
Varicent
Sasha has been working with Varicent ICM since 2015. In that time she has contributed to numerous clients' successes across Managed Services, Implementation Consulting, and Project Management roles. In the last 8 months, Sasha worked exclusively on Symon projects, starting with Symon World Championship, continuing with customer projects, and extending her experience by delivering learning sessions to the Varicent team.
Nicole Kent
Executive Vice President,
Customer Success
Varicent
Nicole is the Executive Vice President of Product Strategy and Customer Success where she leads the enablement, growth and success of Varicent's global customer base ensuring ongoing product optimization and adoption. She is an accomplished organizational leader with significant operations, sales, merger and acquisition, and global human capital generalist expertise.
A former customer of Varicent while working at US-based healthcare company Optum, Nicole led a team of more than 20 compensation professionals in support of over 150,000 employees and 30,000 managers through compensation planning—including base salary, bonus, sales and quarterly variable incentives, and equity awards, with a strong focus on aligning rewards with performance.
Prior to Varicent, Nicole served as SVP of Revenue and Operations at Datica, a digital health company focused on health IT’s most difficult challenges in interoperability and cloud compliance. Her extensive experience across all facets of sales performance management—as well as having been a long-time customer of Varicent—give Nicole a unique edge in her role.
James Mulligan
Director, Go To Market and Enablement
Varicent
James Mulligan is the Director of Go to Market at Varicent and started his career with Varicent Software in 2006, as a Business Consultant. James’ versatility and experience have led him to hold many roles across his Varicent career including building out the Varicent Training organisation, being the first “boots on the ground” in Europe, and multiple sales roles from services to pre-sales and sales manager. After a brief stint away from Varicent to explore other opportunities, James returned in July of this year to lead our Go to Market function, to support in bringing all of the new and innovative technology that our teams have been producing to our clients.
Outside of work, James is still true to his Canadian roots and enjoys playing Ice Hockey. He has played all over Europe including Latvia, Estonia, Serbia, Netherlands, and many others. Conversely, he has adapted well to his new British home, playing football (the proper stuff) and cricket – although the latter has been heavily reduced due to him spending time with his new son, Charles.
Kishor Pillai
Technical Sales Architect
Varicent
Kishor Pillai joined Varicent 1.0 in 2012 as a Services Consultant. He has been part of the successful delivery of over 20 implementations globally, been a presenter at multiple Vision conferences and Customer Summits, and was responsible for numerous innovations in our service delivery approaches and offerings. In his current role as a Technical Sales Architect, Kishor acts as a Varicent technology evangelist by demonstrating latest & greatest Varicent features to clients and prospects..
Boyd Sijbrandij
Sales Compensation Manager
KPN
Boyd is the Sales Compensations Manager at KPN with over a decade of experience within Sales and Sales Performance Management.
In his role as Compensations Manager he is responsible for the Compensation Plan designs, but also for the IT processes for Compensations.
With his getting-things-done mentality he successfully implemented several Varicent models within KPN and takes pride in being able to pay 100% correct and on time - for 4 years in a row.
Boyd is passionate about Sales Compensations and has tireless energy to improve Sales Adoption and create a better user experience for his end users.
Jade Viney
Head of Performance Based Pay
Samsung Electronics
Jade Viney is the Head of Performance Based Pay for Samsung Electronics UK and Europe Office. She has over 15 years' experience managing and implementing compensation systems for a variety of teams.
In her current role, Jade has successfully implemented Varicent ICM, managing her organisation’s first European compensation system. She is responsible for leading matters related to compensation and benefits, and providing visibility to key stakeholders.
Prior to her time at Samsung, Jade has held positions at top companies including Microsoft, Cisco Systems Inc., Veritas Software and Novell. In many of these roles, Jade successfully implemented new commission systems and played a key part in the transition of new compensation programs.
Neil Whitney
President
Varicent
Neil was a founding member of the original Varicent leadership team. He has led high growth teams in sales, marketing, product, design, services, cloud, support and operations. Neil's executive experience ranges from startup to large enterprise.
In his time at Ada Support Inc., Neil developed and launched new product integrations, intelligence and analytics features leading to millions in new revenue. As well, when at IBM Neil determined the product vision and strategy, with an aim to delight customers in every interaction with the product. From motivating small innovative teams to guiding large, distributed teams, Neil can deliver sophisticated platforms for a variety of use cases.
Neil is passionate about analytics, customer success and creating experiences users love. As President, Neil oversees Varicent's product, service and customer operations.
