As Thermo Fisher Scientific’s Director, Executive Compensation, Nooné is accountable for design and delivery of global executive pay programs for executives (a population of around 500), and Compensation Committee support. Thermo Fisher Scientific is the world leader in serving science: a Fortune 100 company employing over 115,000 colleagues with over $42 billion in annual revenues derived from more than 1 million products. Prior to her current role, Nooné worked in Executive Compensation at PepsiCo and Xerox, and in Finance at Citigroup. She is a Certified Executive Compensation Professional (CECP) and a Board member of New England Compensation Consortium. She holds an MBA degree from Northeastern University in Boston MA; and studied Linguistics at the undergraduate and graduate levels at Yerevan State University in her native Armenia, and in St. Petersburg, Russia and Pune, India.

Aimee Soodan is a partner in Baker McKenzie’s Global Equity Services practice and has over 20 years of experience in all areas of compensation and benefits with a concentration in US and international equity and executive compensation. She regularly advises large multinational employers with respect to the global extension of their employee equity compensation programs, including the design, implementation, administration and ongoing tax and regulatory compliance of such programs. Aimee also designs, drafts and conducts US and international legal reviews of long-term incentive and employee stock purchase programs, nonqualified deferred compensation programs, and equity reimbursement agreements. Aimee serves on the Global Equity Organization's Partner Alliance Council and the National Association of Stock Plan Professionals’ Executive Advisory Committee. She served as the Director of the Global Equity Organization's US Midwest Chapter and is an adjunct professor at the Center for Tax Law & Employee Benefits at the UIC John Marshall Law School in Chicago.

Cherie Curry is the Director of Global Equity at Hilton.  She has overall management responsibilities for Hilton’s Global Equity Plans. She has a broad depth of experience in all facets of equity compensation with responsibility for strategic planning, worldwide regulatory and tax compliance in over 100 countries, global communications, vendor management, overhang, burn rate and stock plan reserve analysis.  Cherie's issuer experience includes oversight of employee stock plans in various M&A transactions, development and implementation of ESPPs, working with internal and external partners on best practices for share plan requests, new vendor implementations, insider trading compliance, accounting and valuations, and overall plan administration. Cherie holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Maryland’s College of Behavioral and Social Sciences and has earned her CEP.

Susan Keiser is an Executive Director and line of business controller at JPMorgan Chase. Her team supports the human resources area and is responsible for accounting and financial reporting for worldwide benefit programs, including executive compensation. Susan is a CPA with over 35 years of experience. She began her career at Price Waterhouse, and after seven years in public accounting, worked at Marvel Entertainment and GE Capital before joining JPMorgan in 1999. Outside of JPMorgan, Susan serves on two not-for-profit boards and is past president of the Delaware Society of CPAs. She participated on the inaugural Women’s Initiatives Executive Committee of the AICPA and as a curriculum advisor for the accounting program at Wilmington University.

HR Professional with over 15 years of experience specializing in data-driven Compensation and Total Rewards strategies. Passionate about leveraging data to design, implement, assess and administer compensation strategies and pay programs for employees at all levels of the organization.

In addition to supporting the relationship people have with work through Rewards, my goal is to support the transformation to the workforce of the future by assisting organizations in leveraging the Millennial perspective and HR capabilities.

My experience includes developing and administering policies and programs in a wide variety of HR functions impacting decisions around Policy, Compensation, Onboarding and Engagement, Benefits, Training, Information Systems Management and Internal Communications.; Author, Global Speaker and Catalyst for Change

Sandra is a seasoned professional with 30 years of experience in global equity compensation, global stock plan services management and administration, and legal and corporate governance administration. In her role at SAP, Sandra is responsible for global equity compensation strategy and the design of best-in-class global equity compensation programs to facilitate SAP's attraction and retention of key talent.

Sandra holds a BA degree in political science from the University of Virginia, and began her professional career as an active-duty officer in the US Army Transportation Corps. She is a Certified Equity Professional and a Fellow Global Equity, sits on the board of directors of the Global Equity Organization and is an active member of the NASPP and WorldatWork.

Jessica Vinsand is the Director, Total Rewards for Chainalysis, a privately held Fintech. In this role, she is responsible for all aspects of compensation and benefits from stock options to home office stipends. Prior to this role, Jessica has led the Rewards function at Trustly, Inc., and held various global roles in Total Rewards at SAP within the Equity Design and Total Rewards Innovation Lab teams. Before SAP, Jessica worked for Global Shares and Certent. Jessica has been a member of the Global Equity Organization Board of Directors for multiple years, focusing on the development of educational opportunities like Basics Bootcamp.

A Morgan Stanley veteran of 15 years, Rich Baker has more than a decade of experience providing corporations and their executives with needed clarity on insider rules, insight into industry practices and services to access value in their equity. Previously head of Morgan Stanley’s market-leading Executive Financial Services 10b5-1 desk, Rich has a nuanced understanding of the securities regulations governing executive compensation and even engaged with SIFMA and the SEC on regulation changes to Rule 10b5-1, Rule 144, and the move to T+1 settlement.

As a Certified Equity Professional (CEP) and a member of the Curriculum Committee and the Corporate and Securities Law subcommittee of the CEP Institute, Rich helps set standards and design exams for the most widely recognized professional accreditation in equity compensation. He is also a board member of One Spirit, a nonprofit organization dedicated to poverty alleviation and economic development on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. Rich regularly volunteers with the Community Food Bank of New Jersey and for SIFMA’s InvestWrite Competition. 

Rich received a B.A. in liberal arts from Bard College at Simon’s Rock and went on to earn an MBA from the Lubin School of Business at Pace University, where he was named the Birnbaum Scholar. 

Rodney Bolden, Executive Director, is the Head of Industry Engagement and Learning for Morgan Stanley at Work. In this role, Rodney works with a variety of industry organizations to develop and present thought leadership research on current trends in workplace financial benefits. Additionally, Rodney is the host of the award-winning[1] Morgan Stanley at Work Invested at Work Podcast. He is also the Chairperson for the Employee Benefit Research Institute’s Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Council.

Rodney’s speaking engagements include the World Economic Forum, United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA), Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), Global Equity Organization, National Association of Stock Plan Professionals (NASPP) and many others. He has also been published in MarketWatch, BenefitsPro, and AARP. Rodney is an Equity Compensation Associate (ECA), Qualified Plan Financial Consultant (QPFC), and Accredited Financial Counselor®.

Joshua Shek is an Executive Director at Morgan Stanley where he is the head of the Retail 10b5-1 desk and COO of the Executive Financial Services department. He is responsible for overseeing a team of contract specialists and trading team responsible for executing strategies for senior executives at some of the world's most prestigious companies. He also acts as the Program Manager for Morgan Stanley's proprietary 10b5-1 order management system, helping to develop and enhance its risk management capabilities.

Joshua has a BA in Economics and Business from Lafayette College; a MS in Biology and MBA from Adelphi University and he is CFA Charterholder. He holds the Series 7, 9, 10, 24, 57, and 63 FINRA Licenses.