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Brian Duchek is a veteran UX designer, recovering front-end developer, and design operations leader with over 20 years of experience in a variety of things "digital". Having sampled other careers in classical music, audio engineering and botanical logistics, he's currently enamoured with maturing the design-ops practice at DocuSign.

Malgorzata Piernik works as a Product Design Manager at Accenture Song in Stockholm, Sweden. Over the last 10 years, she has worked with numerous international enterprise clients in financial services, telecommunication, insurance, and consumer goods, with a focus on automotive, mostly in Europe, the Middle East and the US. That combined with her experience of leading a team of 35+ product designers gave her a wide practical perspective on scaling DesignOps in different types of organizations on different customer experience centricity levels.

Bárbara Rebolledo is the Nordic Product Design Director at Accenture Song. With a unique background in Art Direction, Design, and Cinematography, Bárbara holds a master’s degree in New Media from Aalto University. Her creative practice involves service design, interactive design, and design systems in digital platforms, allowing her to transition between designing experiences with people at the center and the operations to develop those experiences. She has worked in various industries, including creative, automotive, public sector, pharma, and transport, to name a few.

Kate Daggett is the Head of Creative at Square, where she leads a team focused on delivering outstanding creative work that shares Square’s story, supports Square’s sellers, and drives both the brand and business forward. Prior to joining Square, Kate was the Head of Creative for North America at Meta.

Joining Solomon Page in 2015, Samantha Brown brings an informed and personable perspective with over 20 years of experience in the recruitment industry and a background in agency account management. As Senior Vice President of the Creative & Marketing division, Sam actively engages in all talent acquisition, recruitment, and business development. Sam has helped lead the team to earn the title of being amongst the “Largest Marketing/Creative Staffing Firms in the United States,” by Staffing Industry Analysts for five consecutive years.

With over 25 years of experience in various creative disciplines in the advertising and marketing industry, David’s diverse skills and cumulative experience have been instrumental in building full-service creative in-house departments and creative agencies. As director of creative and production operations at FleishmanHillard, David works within the global network of offices managing and developing cross-functional creative, production, and post-production teams to meet client demands.

Santiago Gonzalez is a Sr. Creative Operations and Marketing Leader with Keurig Dr.Pepper. He oversees a DAM team that supports over 125 brands under the KDP banner. In addition, Santiago is responsible for the overarching design of the marketing workflow to expedite the go-to-marketing strategy. Charged with a focus on expanding the Creative Tech Ecosystem, he’s been a thought leader in the impacts of Ai within DAM for Creative, Marketing and Ecomm.

Santiago’s background includes spending 12+ years at organizations such as Wayfair, Netflix, Amazon and VICE.

Debbie’s expertise in diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&I) includes having extensively advised FTSE100 and professional services firms about the strategic importance of DE&I and its position as a critical enabler of long-term sustainability, from a people and profit perspective. Debbie had key involvement in the procurement and RFP processes of large institutions, with DE&I as a critical component. At Creative Equals, she is an Inclusion Partner driving DE&I into the heart of the marketing process with brands like Pepsico, ABI In-Bev, PVH and more.

Matt Raw is a VP of Product Design at The New York Times and has been working in product design for over 15 years. He founded and leads the Culture & Operations team at The Times, which realizes product design’s full value through a dual focus on operational and strategic programs. Prior to this role, Matt led product design teams in the Growth, Games, and Cooking missions at The Times, helping scale the subscription business with intuitive product experiences across the customer journey.