Chris Malone is Founder and Managing Partner of Fidelum Partners, a firm that specializes in customer loyalty insights, strategies and results.

Chris has over 25 years of sales, marketing, consulting and organizational leadership experience, and a track record of driving growth and profitability.  He held senior marketing positions at leading organizations such as Choice Hotels, ARAMARK, Coca-Cola, the National Basketball Association, and Procter & Gamble and has consulted to a broad range of Fortune 500 companies.

As Chief Marketing Officer of Choice Hotels, one of the largest hotel companies in the world, with over 6,000 hotels open worldwide, Chris led the company’s 800 person global consumer marketing, worldwide travel industry sales, e-commerce and reservations organization. Previously he served as Senior Vice President, Marketing for ARAMARK Corporation, a multinational food, facility and uniform services enterprise with over $12 billion in revenue annually.

Chris is also co-author of the award-winning book, The HUMAN Brand: How We Relate to People, Products & Companies, which was published by the Jossey-Bass division of Wiley Publishing.  He has delivered over 100 keynote speeches on the insights from his book around the world.

He is also a frequent guest and contributor to CNBC, FOX Business, Bloomberg TV, Wall Street Journal Live, Forbes and Businessweek. 

Chris holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Maryland at College Park and an MBA from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

    

Eliot Hamlisch serves as senior vice president, worldwide loyalty and partnerships at Wyndham Hotels & Resorts, one of the world’s leading hotel brand franchisors and hotel management services providers with more than 9,000 hotels across 80 countries under 20 hotel brands. In his role, Hamlisch oversees Wyndham Rewards, the company’s award-winning guest loyalty program, as well as its co-branded credit card, loyalty partnerships & sponsorships, rewards program marketing, and customer acquisition and retention efforts.
 
Previously, Hamlisch served as Wyndham’s head of global sales, overseeing a team of over 100 sales professionals tasked with generating more than $1B in annual revenue across the company’s worldwide hotel portfolio. He joined the organization in 2016 as vice president of sales innovation.
Prior to Wyndham, Hamlisch spent three years leading sales strategy and operations at Starwood Hotels and Resorts, where he was responsible for developing, executing and supporting strategic initiatives to drive profitable growth across the company’s North American portfolio.
Earlier in his career, Hamlisch held a number of strategic planning, business development and customer engagement positions with Deloitte Consulting and American Express Company. He graduated magna cum laude from Harvard College and received his Master's in Business Administration from Harvard Business School.

 

Jimmy Budnik, Overstock.com’s Vice President of Customer Care, began his  career  with  the  online  retailer  in  2008  as  a  Senior  Process  Improvement  Engineer  after  half  a  decade  working  as  an  Industrial  Engineer,  first  with  UPS,  then  with  Homeshield.  
 
Budnik  has  held  several  positions  in  his  time  at  Overstock,  where  he  developed  strategies  and  executed  improvements  initiatives  to  drive  growth  and  improve  the  customer  experience.  These  roles  included  transitioning  between  multiple  departments  as  a  Chief  of  Staff,  including  Customer  Care,  Marketing,  Merchandising,  and  the  Office  of  the  President.  Also  during  this  time,  he  was  a  Senior  Director  of  the  Product  Content  Teams,  worked  in  Overstock’s  technology  incubator,  OLabs,  and  most  recently  he  served  in  a  dual  role  as  the  General  Manager  of  Marketplace  and  the  General  Merchandising  Manager  for  Home  Essentials  and  Apparel. 
 
In  his  current  role  as  VP  of  Customer  Care,  Budnik  leads  a  workforce  of  hundreds  of  associates  that  consistently  deliver  a  world-class  customer  experience,  while  promoting  the  customer-centric  culture  that  has  given  Overstock  the  reputation  as  an  award-winning  leader  in  online  retail  customer  service  for  nearly  two  decades.

Coming from a multidiscipline background, Drew spent his prior career agency side consulting for brands like IBM, E-Trade, CVS Health and Citi Group and built performance driven, award winning programs across CRM, Brand, Digital/Social, Content, Influencer and Media for them.

At Luxottica, Drew currently leads CRM and loyalty for Oakley Retail and Sunglass Hut in North America. He believes loyalty today needs to be data driven, but also balanced with emotional connections throughout the customer journey. The intersection of loyalty and brand is extremely integrated, and his team approaches loyalty with the mindset that 1:1 relationships are the ultimate representation and experience of the brand. Since joining Luxottica in January 2017, he has initiated several initiatives that have driven member engagement and increased repurchase rates.

Michelle Musgrove has more than 15 years of specialized marketing experience including strategy, product development, segmentation, multi-cultural marketing, loyalty program management, relationship management and customer experience management.  

Currently, Michelle serves as Vice President, AARP Experience Strategy & Governance at AARP.  In this role, Michelle has supported the launch of the customer experience management function with a focus on strategy, change management, communications and generating early wins.  Prior to joining AARP, Michelle led successful engagement and loyalty programs at AOL, American Express and JP Morgan Chase. 

Michelle graduated with a MBA and concentration in Marketing from the University of California at Berkeley as well as a BA in Political Science from the University of Pennsylvania. 

Greg Chase is Vice President of Guest Strategy & Insights for MGM Resorts International. In this role, Greg is responsible for designing, measuring and implementing the guest experience strategy for MGM Resorts properties worldwide. He also oversees consumer feedback strategies to further drive customer satisfaction and loyalty.
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Greg has been with MGM Resorts since 2010, serving as a leader in the Hotel Operations, Guest Experience and Human Resources departments at ARIA Resort & Casino, New York-New York Hotel & Casino and the MGM Resorts corporate office. An effective and enthusiastic leader, Greg led the implementation of several key companywide initiatives, including the transformation of the company’s guest service standards across its entire portfolio.Greg’s background includes more than 12 years of hotel operations, food & beverage, human resources and guest service experience. Prior to joining MGM Resorts, Greg held leadership positions at the Walt Disney World Resort in Orlando, where he was responsible for creating innovative solutions and driving improvements in guest satisfaction scores at multiple Walt Disney World Resorts.