Customer Contact East 2024

Visionary Headliners, Rockstars
and Fab Facilitators

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Headliners

Brian Jeppesen

Brian Jeppesen

Director, Contact Center Operations
Fertitta Entertainment

With over 35 years of experience, Brian is a seasoned leader in contact center operations and 2-time Frost & Sullivan award winner. He specializes in deploying Conversational AI to enhance customer experience and reduce costs, has led teams of up to 2,500 agents across global brands including Landry’s and Golden Nugget and serves on the Board of Directors for the Contact Center AI Association.

ROCKSTAR INSIGHTS

Francoise Benoit-Betters

Francoise Benoit-Betters

Vice President, Merchant Services
First American by Deluxe

With more than 21 years of experience in Merchant Services and Call Center Operations, Francoise brings deep expertise in the credit card processing industry. She has delivered 5-star support to more than 160,000 merchants and helped earn 13 consecutive ATSI Call Center of Distinction Awards, along with five Top Score Customer Service Awards, including four consecutive years. Francoise believes exceptional customer support is the foundation of lasting partnerships. At Deluxe, she leads highly trained, in-house teams across customer support, installation, PCI compliance, and retention, while also overseeing the in-house Deployment facility and facilities operations for three business units.

Nate Brown

Nate Brown

Head of CX Advisory
Metric Sherpa

Nate Brown loves two things very much…customer experience and community. Fortunately, these concepts go hand-in-hand! As a community builder, Nate co-founded CX Accelerator in 2018. Quickly growing to well over four thousand members, this vibrant collection of CX leaders is helping one another to maximize their career and accomplish remarkable things in service to others. Nate also heads up Advisory Services for Metric Sherpa, a research firm helping organizations to transform customer interactions.

Takia Butler

Takia Butler

Director, Care Operations
Grubhub

Rasheeda James

Rasheeda James

Vice President of Client Services
Americor

Shri Nandan

Shri Nandan

Vice President, AI Products & Experiences
Comcast

Shri is a customer-obsessed CX professional who has dedicated her career to “meeting the customers where they want to be met”. Her leadership and advisory roles across diverse industries spanning insurance, fintech, pharmaceutical and telecom have honed her expertise in digital transformation and product strategy, enabling her to contribute significantly to customer-centric product and technology advancements. Using data driven approaches and high-performing teams, Shri has elevated the AI and digital product landscape enhancing customer experiences, and embedding strategic technological innovations across the business.

Cippy Seidler

Cippy Seidler

Director, Consumer Care Center
Banner Health

Speaking to and working with many diverse contact groups around the world has inspired and enlightened Cippy. It has brought positivity, new ideas and creativity to an already open mind about the importance and truly critical nature of the contact center environments. She has worked most of her career in Retail and Health Care contact centers helping others appreciate why internal and external customer service and brand loyalty begins in the contact center.

Tori Signorelli

Tori Signorelli

Director Guest Journey & Insights
Alaska Airlines

Shannon Yeats

Shannon Yeats

Global Vice President, Client Success, Contact Center
Entertainment Partners

Shannon is a seasoned, results-driven executive with deep expertise in leading large-scale teams across contact centers, sales, and claims operations. She has a proven track record of driving business growth, improving operational efficiency, and cultivating a culture of high performance and continuous improvement. Known for aligning strategy with execution, Shannon excels at enhancing the customer experience and championing employee engagement. She has led teams of 800+ across diverse environments, with a strong focus on service quality, innovation, and delivering measurable, lasting results.

Fab Facilitators

Jon Lunitz

Jon Lunitz

Head of Enterprise Solutions and Sales
DATAMARK, Inc.

With over two decades of experience in the BPO industry, Jon has developed a keen understanding of both the buyer’s and seller’s perspectives, having led international teams in business development and strategic sourcing. He understands that AI integration is not just about automation but about creating a seamless and enhanced experience for both agents and customers.

Lisa Michaud

Lisa Michaud, Ph.D.

Director, Product Management
Interactions

Lisa has deep expertise in driving exceptional omnichannel customer experiences with conversational AI. She has been a published NLP scientist, an educator, a system architect, and an engineering leader before becoming a product director at Interactions. She is an established thought leader and evangelist on the topics of adaptive, personalized interfaces and the need to create consistent, equitable experiences that maintain context across all channels of communication.

Sean Minter

Sean Minter

Founder and Chief Executive Officer
AmplifAI

Sean is a strategic visionary dedicated to the improvement of large organizations by harnessing the synergy of AI, people, and processes. Sean believes that people are at the heart of every successful transformation, and that tomorrow’s great transformation will be driven by those augmented by the right technology.

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