Marina Vassilev drives performance, profitability, and growth as the senior executive leader of Total Rewards for global organizations. She translates business vision and goals into actionable Total Rewards strategies and innovative programs that attract talent, engage employees, and maximize retention. Delivering strategies that balance employee priorities with cost targets, Marina optimizes a company’s investment in its people. She is equally adept at architecting and operationalizing value-add solutions, and she leads cross-functional teams to create, implement, and drive awareness of the programs that comprise a strong employee value proposition to gain advantage in competitive markets and industries.

David Gelles is an award-winning correspondent for the New York Times. In DIRTBAG BILLIONAIRE: How Yvon Chouinard Built Patagonia, Made a Fortune, and Gave It All Away, New York Times Gelles reveals how Patagonia became a global leader in doing well by doing good and how other companies are adopting its principles. Gelles currently writes for the climate desk and previously wrote for the business section and was the “Corner Office” columnist. His book, “The Man Who Broke Capitalism,” was an instant New York Times bestseller.

Tina Gilbert (she / her)  is the Vice President of the Employer Offering practice responsible for delivery of client services and development of leading practices that help companies enhance their talent strategies and build more inclusive workplaces.  Tina brings 10 years of DEI Leadership (4 years global), 15 years of Strategic Consulting, and 25 years of corporate experiences across different industries to this role. Throughout her career, she has led efforts to transform organizations' operating models, business processes, and employee culture to create measurable impact. As an I&D Leader, she has partnered with Business and HR leaders in designing strategies and metrics that align with talent strategies and desired business outcomes.

Prior to joining MLT, Tina was the Inclusion and Diversity Leader for two organizations, Teva Pharmaceuticals and Accolade (Healthcare Navigation and Data). As the first I&D leader at both organizations, she guided each organizations’ evolution from diversity compliance management to recognizing its value as a business imperative. Her work at Teva was recognized in 2017 by Diversity, Inc. Magazine as one of their Noteworthy Companies. More recently she was named as one of Hive Learning’s Most Influential D&I Leaders and by FindSpark as one of the 30 Must-Follow Diversity & Inclusion Thought Leaders Transforming the Workplace.

Before working as a full-time Diversity Practitioner, Tina was a Partner/Managing Director with Accenture’s Strategy Practice leading large transformation projects, business strategic planning programs, and operations/organizational design.  At Accenture, she sponsored a variety of DEI programming, recruiting and training initiatives. She holds a BS from Spelman College, an Industrial Engineering degree from the Georgia Institute of Technology, and an MBA from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.  She is based in the Philadelphia, PA area.

LaTanya is the Chief People & Legal Officer at Edgewell Personal Care.

Emma Goldberg covers the future of work for The New York Times. Before joining the Times’ Business section, she worked for the Times editorial board. She is the winner of the Newswomen’s Club of New York’s Best New Journalist Award, the New York Press Club’s Nellie Bly Award, and the Sidney Hillman Foundation’s Sidney Award. She is the author of Life on the Line: Young Doctors Come of Age in a Pandemic, which the Washington Post called “essential reading.”