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Gianni Giacomelli is chief innovation leader at Genpact, a global professional services firm focused on delivering digital transformation. He also is head of innovation design at Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Collective Intelligence Design Lab.

Scott Raskin is the chief executive of Spigit, an innovation management software provider. He has two decades of experience building technology brands, including Telelogic and Mindjet.

Peter J. Kiernan is of counsel at Schiff Hardin in New York and previously served as counsel to former New York Gov. David Paterson. Kiernan represented Ripple in obtaining New York State’s first virtual currency license. The views expressed are his own.

Curtis C. Verschoor, CMA, CPA, is emeritus Ledger & Quill research professor, School of Accountancy and MIS, and honorary senior Wicklander research fellow in the Institute for Business and Professional Ethics, both at DePaul University. He also is a research scholar in the Center for Business Ethics at Bentley University, and Chair-Emeritus of the IMA’s Committee on Ethics.

Felicia O’Connor is a member of the Labor & Employment Practice and the Automotive Industry Team.

Marie Chung, CCIM, Director of REO & Short Sale Services at Modern Realty Corp., is a pioneer in the ever-modernizing Real Estate Industry. She is a licensed real estate broker with extensive knowledge in residential & commercial foreclosures, REO dispositions, short sale negotiations and foreclosure prevention. Managing a team of 58 multi-lingual agents, brokers and support staff, Marie continues to rapidly expand this successful Real Estate Brokerage. An expert on foreclosures and REO’s, Marie serves on numerous committees for REOMAC, LA County Sheriff’s Advisory Council, Asian Real Estate Association of America (AREAA) Board of Directors, and Urban Land Institute. She is also a member of NRBA, REO Connection, Commercial National REO Professionals Association (CNRPA), National Association of Short Sale Professionals (NASSPRO), United Trustee’s Association, NAHREP & various Association of Realtors throughout California. Also, Marie is a Certified Distressed Property Expert (CDPE), PartnerFirst Certified (PSC), National Assoc of Realtors SFR Certified & is Equator.com Platinum REO & Platinum Short Sale Certified. Marie also serves as a Board of Director for the prestigious USC Lusk Center for Real Estate. Marie attended UCLA where in Business Economics and graduated Magna cum Laude. She attended the prestigious Intern Program in Tax Advisory Services at PricewaterhouseCoopers, where she later went to work in the Assurance and Business Advisory Services. She continued to feed her hunger for education at the USC Ross Program in Real Estate Development. Marie also holds the prestigious Certified Commercial Investment Member (CCIM) Designation.

Matt Vernon is the Short Sale and Real Estate Owned (REO) Executive for the Home Loans and Insurance division of Bank of America, one of the world’s leading financial services companies and the nation’s leading mortgage servicer. Bank of America serves more than 59 million consumers nationally through its network of banking centers. Vernon is responsible for all aspects of the REO and Short Sales business. In this role, he will develop and implement new initiatives to manage and streamline the company’s real estate owned (REO) property portfolio and short sale processes. He is responsible for a national operations team that manages the high exposure and risks related to the business while providing foreclosure prevention solutions for distressed homeowners. He is also responsible for developing strong relationships with external to Bank of America partners to achieve business and industry objectives. In his role he will also integrate with Bank of America’s Mortgage sales teams to deliver a world class customer experience to consumers and real estate industry partners.Prior to this, Vernon led the Enterprise Sales organization, which consisted of mortgage origination and cross sales through the nationwide banking center network of over 6,000 banking centers, the Premier Banking business, and the US Trust Wealth Management business. He also has led the bank’s Consumer Real Estate retail sales channel which included sales offices across the country and thousands of mortgage loan officers. Earlier, Vernon served as Consumer Sales Process and Management Executive in the Consumer Real Estate organization, primarily supporting the retail sales channel and leading the national internal support team for the business.Vernon joined Bank of America as a management associate in 1994 in the Baltimore consumer bank where he worked as a Banking Center Manager and then advanced to subsequent broader leadership responsibilities in multiple markets culminating in his appointment as the Division Sales Executive for the Mid-Atlantic Consumer Bank responsible for Consumer Sales activities across 600 banking centers and 5,600 associates in five mid-Atlantic states. Also, he performed a strategic and critical role in the development of the National Sales Playbook, Selling the Bank of America Way, and the Daily Coaching Huddle.Vernon is a graduate of High Point University in North Carolina with a BA in Business Management and Administration.

Michael Swift is a Real Estate Broker with 20 years of Real Estate Sales experience. He is a founding member of the East Bay Short Sale Round Table Group in the San Francisco Bay Area which meets monthly to discuss short sale strategy. Michael received his Real Estate license at the young age of 20 and focused primarily on short sales for the next 4-5 years during the Real Estate down cycle of 1991-1995. Because of his overwhelming success in short sales, he was recruited to Re/Max Executive as an Associate Broker to train the office agents on short sale transactions in 1993.Currently Michael is an Associate Broker with J. Rockcliff Realtors in the San Francisco Bay Area. Besides selling Real Estate and being a consistent top producer, Michael also consults with agents from the 7 offices of J. Rockcliff Realtors on how to successfully complete short sales transactions. Michael holds the short sale designations of Certified Distressed Property Expert (CDPE), Short Sale Foreclosure Resource (SFR) and Certified Short Sale Professional (CSP). It’s Michael’s goal to help as many people as possible from losing their homes to foreclosure by educating them on all their other options.