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About speaker:

Maribeth Achterberg

VP Solution Delivery at Molson Coors GBS

Joined Molson Coors in 2020. Prior to working at MCBC, she worked for Johnson Controls and Schneider National and owned a boutique consultancy. Maribeth has held IT roles in Enterprise Architecture, Portfolio Management, Data/Analytics, Master Data Management/Governance, Data Strategy and Business Process Management. She has led design functions for ERP and Data Warehousing, Data Quality, Knowledge Management, SFDC Open Globe (to name a few).

She has a process improvement background as a Lean Practitioner and trained as a Six Sigma Black Belt. Maribeth is a certified SAFe Agilist.

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Sonia Heileman

Senior Director Project Delivery at Molson Coors GBS

Joined Molson Coors (at the time, MillerCoors) as an employee in 2010 after consulting for IT for 2 years. Prior to joining MillerCoors, Sonia was an IT project management consultant for 3 years and healthcare software implementation manager for 6 years. Sonia has held IT roles in Project Management, Portfolio Management, and Business Relationship Management, serving a term as US CIO Chief of Staff for 2 years as well.

She has led global project teams, managed teams of project managers, business analysts, and organizational change management specialists. She has a Masters of Science in Industrial Relations where she emphasized on organizational strategy & culture. She also has a Master’s Certificate in Project Management and is a certified scrum master.

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Kathy Motes

Director Solution Delivery at Molson Coors GBS

Kathy held roles in Engineering, Data/Analytics, and Master Data Management. She has led teams delivering innovative Business Intelligence, Quality, MDM, Advanced Analytics and Data solutions.

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Diana Apostolescu

RPA Solution Manager at Molson Coors GBS

Diana joined MCBC this year and is leading the RPA COE in Molson Coors Beverage Company. Guided by the principle ‘Knowledge is power’, Diana has studied or worked in 6 countries, building her experience in international business, project management and RPA. She has worked in multiple company setups from small companies to large, in a Big Four (consulting) and also in the European Commission. Having been exposed to positions both in business and in IT was very helpful to be able to see the full potential of RPA and set a vision for the COE. IT has been a passion since high school, and it has come full circle in 2017 when Diana shifted from project management to leading RPA teams.

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Kristen Benbazza

Director - BI Data and Analytics at Molson Coors GBS

Molson Coors employee since 2013. Prior to that, Kristen was a consultant at Miller Brewing, MillerCoors since 1998. Throughout the years, she led project delivery generally for projects focused around BI, Master Data Management, Analytics and Data Warehousing in all areas of the business (Finance, Supply Chain, Commercial). Technically skilled in data architecture, data warehousing, data integration and reporting. Strong believer that at the heart of all business process is the data, whether consumed or created, it can move the business forward or overwhelm it!

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Ana Bandas

Senior Community Manager at Cognizant Softvision

Ana started her journey in the IT industry 15 years ago as a junior developer and joined the management path in 2014 - taking her through different roles, challenges and opportunities. At the end of the day, she realized that it all comes down to this: "If you want to be successful, it's just this simple: Know what you are doing. Love what you are doing. Believe in what you are doing.

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Magda Miu

Squad Lead Developer at Orange

Magda Miu is an enthusiastic and innovative Squad Lead Developer at YOXO.ro (Orange) and Google Developer Expert for Android with more than 10 years of experience in software development. Also, she is a co-organizer at Women Techmakers Romania and believes in a diverse and inclusive culture where the leader's main responsibility is to set up the team members for success.