Collaborate 2026 speakers

Carolyn is a strategic business transformation leader with extensive experience in driving large-scale projects, programs, and portfolios across diverse industries. She excels at enhancing operational efficiency and delivering impactful results, helping enterprises bridge the gap between strategy and execution.

Thomas joined Wrike as Chief Financial Officer in 2022 and moved into the role of Chief Executive Officer in July 2023. As CEO, Thomas oversees the execution of Wrike’s long-term strategy, driving continuous growth and empowering customers with an intelligent solution for modern work management. Thomas brings more than 20 years of experience as a top executive at several companies spanning a range of sizes, stages, and segments, from startups to publicly traded companies, including Zebra Technologies, Fetch Robotics, Corning Optical Communications, and SpiderCloud. Thomas holds a B.A. and MBA from the University of Virginia.

Bob Brown is the President and CEO of Yamaha Motor Manufacturing Corporation of America (YMMC). Bob is a veteran manufacturing and finance executive named one of Georgia's 500 Most Influential Leaders, he specializes in building high-performing teams, driving operational excellence, and fostering community impact through local board service and regional STEM initiatives. Since joining Yamaha in May 2019, Bob has advanced through pivotal executive roles—including VP of Finance and Operations Support and VP of Manufacturing—helping guide the company through transformative growth, pandemic resilience, and long-term strategic planning to optimize Yamaha's North American manufacturing footprint.

Val is a certified Wrike expert and PMI-trained project manager, he specializes in building collaborative frameworks, driving tech adoption, and empowering cross-functional teams. Prior to his current role, Val built a strong operational foundation in logistics and data analysis with Yamaha and Samsung Electronics America.

Drawing on over 14 years of experience, Adam leads multidisciplinary teams to drive project planning, digital transformation, and continuous improvement initiatives. Since joining Yamaha, he has held roles in demand planning and production strategy before taking the helm of the PMO. A former educator and two-time STAR Teacher, Adam brings a strong foundation of leadership and facilitation to his corporate work. He holds an MBA in Data Analytics from LSU Shreveport and certifications in PMP, PMO-CP, and Wrike AI Elite Mastery.

Michelle is responsible for leading the global customer organization, driving a value-led customer strategy, and delivering strong retention and expansion across the lifecycle. Michelle has more than 20 years of experience in both the tech and corporate retail sectors, specializing in transforming customer success into a revenue engine within high-growth, PE-backed environments. She most recently served as Global Vice President of Customer Experience at Unit4, where she established the function, championed AI-driven engagement, and improved customer retention. Michelle has held senior leadership roles at Flexera and Vibes, following a decade in B2C marketing in Enterprise retail. She holds a B.S. in Business Administration with a focus in Marketing from Miami University and an Executive MBA in Global Management from Fordham University.

Melissa specializes in global marketing operations and cross-functional leadership at Anaplan. She drives high-impact international initiatives—including platform rollouts, rebrands, and content localization. Backed by experience managing $2.4M+ campaigns, workflow optimization, and governance, Melissa excels at turning complex strategy into structured, repeatable results.

As Wrike’s Chief Product Officer, Alexey Korotich sets product vision and strategy, builds a world-class product team, and oversees cross-functional product development and GTM processes. Alexey has more than 20 years of experience in enterprise software design, development, and product management. He has a track record of launching new and scaling established enterprise software platforms — both on-premise and SaaS — that made their names in collaborative work management, IT management, security, and reporting categories. Prior to his role at Wrike, Alexey led product management at Dell, Quest Software, and Aelita Software. He holds a master’s degree in computer science from St. Petersburg State Polytechnical University.

George Saadeh is Wrike's Chief Revenue Officer. He was previously on the executive team of Recharge, where he spent five years helping to significantly scale SaaS revenue by building a robust go-to-market strategy around sales, services, partnerships, and marketing, as well as successfully moving the solution upmarket. He planned and launched multi-product efforts and opened offices and teams in Utah, Toronto, and London. Prior to Recharge, George spent 8 years at Qualtrics as part of the Senior Leadership team. He helped grow the company through its acquisition by SAP in 2019 and subsequent IPO. He holds a B.S. in Economics and Business Management from Brigham Young University.

Savannah built process infrastructure for a creative team that had none, turning a fragmented operation into the backbone of a national retail creative function. She's a two-time Golden Whisk award recipient and a member of the 2026 Wrike Elite 100, and she speaks on creative operations, change management, and what agentic project management means for the people doing the work.

Jessica leads large-scale, cross-functional initiatives spanning rebrands, website builds, tool implementations, and campaign coordination. She specializes in turning complex programs into clear, actionable plans and building AI-powered workflows that drive efficiency across marketing teams, including the creative operations that keep them running.

Sherrie has over 25 years of project and program management experience. Sherrie has been with Syneos Health since 2007 and currently supports Wrike across the Syneos Health organization, leads the company’s governance committee, and supports over 2,500 users globally. 

Nancy leads go-to-market strategy and messaging for Wrike's AI-powered work management solutions. With deep SaaS and collaboration expertise, she’s passionate about shaping the future of work through innovation, storytelling, and purposeful leadership.

Cécilia oversees Moment Factory’s Wrike environment, helping teams bring structure, consistency, and efficiency to a diverse range of projects, from touring shows to permanent installations. She enjoys bridging the creative and operational sides of production to streamline workflows and build scalable project management practices.

Tyler has more than 15 years of project management experience across a variety of industries, including over five years supporting engineering and manufacturing teams. In his current role, he combines project management best practices with Wrike’s capabilities to build processes that improve visibility, increase efficiency and on-time delivery, and help teams anticipate future resource needs.

With over 10 years of experience in both B2B and B2C technology, Damiano has worked across leading companies in social media, search, and e-commerce. He looks after product marketing for the core platform and growth initiatives, leading the launch of new product releases and empowering teams to embrace the latest innovations in work management.

Jessica’s career has spanned creative marketing, advertising, print production, and IT. Jessica is a Wrike Elite 100 finalist, known for leading cross-functional teams through complex work and finding smarter, more streamlined ways to get things done, always in close partnership with the stakeholders she supports.

Hayden supports communications, marketing, and public engagement teams at Trane Technologies by building workflows that help teams work together more effectively. Hayden is a Wrike Elite 100 finalist, recognized for his focus on strong, well-designed processes that ensure stakeholders stay engaged and aligned, contributing to the broader success of the enterprise.

Jamie has over 16 years of experience in marketing enterprise software, focused primarily on the manufacturing industry. A former game developer, Jamie also has an extensive background in design, with degrees in architecture from Harvard and Cal.

Lynette works in product management at Wrike on enterprise-scale planning, with a focus on work planning, scheduling, and analytics in the core platform. She brings eight years of experience to how large, complex organizations structure, track, and visualize work across teams.

Andrey drives Wrike's platform marketing, drawing on over 10 years of experience in work management and workflow automation. Partnering with product and solutions innovation teams, he explores new ways to eliminate chaos, automate routine, and boost cross-functional collaboration.

Renee is a senior marketer and program-driven growth leader at R1, where she leads complex, enterprise-wide marketing initiatives that align brand, technology, and cross-functional execution at scale. Her key strengths include project and program marketing, global rebrands, GTM strategy, marketing operations, executive stakeholder alignment, and building agile systems that improve visibility, consistency, and performance.

Abbas helps teams work smarter by improving processes, strengthening operational consistency, and turning data into actionable insights. His key strengths include continuous improvement, process design, performance reporting, cross-functional collaboration, and workflow automation.

Despite having majored in Chinese, I am currently on the Marketing team at AM Live, part of AM Experience by MK Illumination, a Portuguese musical theatre company known for its Christmas ice shows in Porto and Lisbon.

Staff Product Designer at Wrike, with 10+ years designing B2B SaaS products. Currently focused on how AI is transforming work intake — from raw requests to structured, actionable work. Based in Prague, Czech Republic.