Women in Leadership Roundtable: The changing face of leadership

Seize the data; a mantra Jaime has proclaimed for decades but is even more relevant for publishers today. Jaime began her career in database marketing with a company that partnered with publishers to hone and perfect their database marketing strategies. After 13 years of consulting with publishers, she joined a consortium of publishers owned by Tribune, Hearst, McClatchy, and Gannett, focused on increasing national advertising revenue with a collective scale from the top 30 markets in the United States. ​

With two decades of publishing experience, Jaime joined Bombora in 2021 as Senior Director of Media Partnerships, where she works with over 5000 publishers around the globe to harness the power of their first-party data, offer scalable solutions for even the most niche publications, and leverage intent data at scale to claim more of the six billion dollars spent in B2B advertising every year.

​Jamie Schultheis | LinkedIn

Ani has been an international banking executive for over 20 years. She was involved in the original setup and ongoing management of three banks, including Citibank in Bulgaria. My career took me to Bucharest, London, Singapore, and Hong Kong. Between 2015 and 2021, I was the Regional Chief Operating Officer for Citibank Treasury and Trade Solutions in Asia, covering 16 countries, including India and China. My focus was on transformation, digitization, and culture change. We won Euromoney Best Bank for transaction services three times during this period; We won various categories of the Global Finance Best Digital Bank awards each year since 2017. Then, in April 2021, I decided to quit my high-flying job and try something different. The family and I left Hong Kong and moved all the way back to Europe. We live in Athens and created a completely different life. Now I am building a “portfolio career,” which means running a “portfolio” of activities:​

· Founder of “Change Advisory” to help financial institutions formulate and implement strategies for digitalization, ESG, and transformation of the corporate culture.​
· Representing the University of Northern Illinois (NIU) in Eastern Europe; in process of opening Executive MBAs in Bulgaria and Greece; member of the NIU MBA Board of Executive Advisors.​
· Investor and Board member in a Swiss start-up working on a turn-key AI solution for forklift teleoperation.​
· Founder and host of “Change is possible” podcast devoted to career pivots​
· Keynote and TEDx speaker​
· Career Coach for career success and career pivots​
· Board member of the Alumni Organization of the University of National and World Economy, Sofia, Bulgaria​
· Forbes, efinancial careers, Treasury today contributor on the topics of careers and payment trends.

Ani Filipova | Linkedin

Holly is the Founder and Managing Director of Make Events, a corporate events agency for brands including Kellogg’s and Virgin. She is also the CEO of Anything is Possible, a business and personal development event and podcast focused on inspiring women into launching their own business and progressing their career.

Holly Moore | LinkedIn

Amanda is currently Chairwoman and CEO of Minna Technologies, Non-Executive Board Member and Chair of Remco/Nominations of Amadeus, Non-Executive Director of Vodeno, and a Sr Advisor of Macquarie Capital. She retired from the National Grid Board, a FTSE 20 energy company in July. She has an MBA from the University of North Carolina.​

Ms. Mesler has extensive experience as Chair, CEO and NED developing strategy, GTM, M&A, leading SPAC, capital raise and successful exits to create shareholder value. As an executive, she has significantly grown, scaled up, transformed, turned around and repositioned companies into highly valuable businesses. She exceeds in attracting and developing high performing leadership teams and managing large and small P&L’s to deliver results. Ms. Mesler, a strong customer focused leader, has global experience across 6 continents leading digital transformation and growth.​

She has truly global experience, working across six continents, including responsibility for teams in more than 40 countries. She has strong technology experience across multiple industries, including Fintech, at the executive level. Amanda is a member of YPO, the global leadership community of extraordinary chief executives, an avid Everton and a keen runner. Ms. Mesler is a sought-after speaker, including at Cambridge University where she participates in helping professional women, rising talent, and at other events and conferences at Cambridge Judge Business School.

Amanda Mesler | LinkedIn

Julie began her career in public accounting where she focused on advisory and attestation services for businesses across many sectors. After 7 + years in public accounting she joined the world of technology where she led the design efforts to transform financial processes for large insurance companies across North America. She later found her passion in product strategy where her and her team are responsible for outlining strategies to deliver products that best serves their customers and the wider market. With a combined 15 years of experience, she currently overseas the Product Management function at Aptitude Software.

Julie Girard | LinkedIn