Rob Bentley
Senior Consultant, Hewitt Associates
Rob Bentley is a Senior Consultant with 11 years of experience helping companies improve sales performance plus eight additional years of related industry experience. Mr. Bentley has extensive client work in sales compensation design and linking rewards to business strategy, with over 200 companies/projects across all industries. He also is experienced in broader areas of sales effectiveness. Mr. Bentley is the author of LTI Practices for Sales Roles and Sales Force Stock Option study; frequently quoted on sales compensation (Sales & Marketing Management, Selling Power, etc.). He received a B.A. from the University of Michigan and an M.B.A. from Northwestern University.
Ted Briggs
National Thought Leader-Sales Effectiveness & Compensation, Watson Wyatt Worldwide
Ted Briggs serves as the National Thought Leader for Watson Wyatt’s Sales Effecitveness and Compensation Practice. He is a nationally recognized expert in sales effectiveness and sales compensation consulting. Mr. Briggs is the co-author of the recently published WorldatWork book entitled Sales Compensation Essentials: A Field Guide for the HR Professional. Mr. Briggs leads client engagements which complement profitable growth strategies including: the design of new sales models and related sales and customer contact jobs, development of supporting management programs including performance management, sales compensation and facilitation of initiatives designed to ensure successful implementation of change.
Beth Carroll
Principal, The Cygnal Group
Beth Carroll recently joined The Cygnal Group after working for 10 years with Towers Perrin designing and implementing sales incentive plans. Ms. Carroll’s expertise is with clients who are growing quickly and searching for effective and practical ways to manage and improve their increasingly complex sales incentive plans while reducing their administrative burden. Ms. Carroll is a frequent speaker on sales compensation design best practices and authored the article “Orchestrating a Finely Tuned Incentive Plan” in Workspan, which focused on how companies can increase their odds of a successful roll-out through improved employee communication, education, and motivation.
Dennis Chapman
CEO, The Chapman Group
Dennis Chapman is Founder and President of The Chapman Group, a sales consulting firm that specializes in creating world class sales organizations through the implementation of sales and account management processes, methodologies, best practices, and metric-based software tools. Mr. Chapman brings over 20+ years of executive level experience in sales, marketing, and business management to his clients in helping them achieve their goals. He is a dynamic, enthusiastic speaker whose ideas and vision consistently inspire and motivate his audiences. Mr. Chapman is a graduate of the University of Massachusetts School of Business and was recently elected to the Board of Directors for the Strategic Account Management Association (SAMA).
Joseph Clarkson
Central Division Practice Leader-Sales Effectiveness & Compensation, Watson Wyatt Worldwide
Joseph Clarkson is Central Division Practice Leader of Watson Wyatt’s Sales Effectiveness and Compensation practice. Mr. Clarkson specializes in improving sales force productivity through the design and implementation of effective sales coverage models, job roles and rules of engagement, critical performance metrics, and sales compensation solutions. He supports companies across many industries and brings a wealthy blend of both consulting experience as well as field and line management positions in sales and marketing.
Robert J. Davenport
VP & Director -Sales Force Effectiveness Practice, Hay Group
Robert J. Davenport helps sales organizations work more effectively by designing strategies for organizing, developing and motivating sales personnel. He has guided over 140 sales organizations to greater productivity through sales organization structure, job definition, competencies, quota setting and sales compensation design. He serves on the global Program Faculty for the Wharton/INSEAD “Leading the Effective Sales Organization” program and also lectures at the Rutgers Pharmaceutical MBA Program. A frequent speaker and author on sales management topics, Mr. Davenport has been extensively quoted in the media. He has been on the Sales & Marketing Management Magazine Editorial Advisory Board. Bob has an MBA degree in Marketing (high honors) from the University of Pittsburgh.
Joseph DiMisa
Senior Vice President and Sales Effectiveness Practice Leader, Sibson Consulting
As leader of Sibson’s Sales & Marketing Practice, Joseph DiMisa works with leading companies to develop and implement sales effectiveness programs that drive profitable growth. Mr. DiMisa has over fifteen years of experience working with various industries including telecommunications, technology, and manufacturing companies to improve sales, marketing, and customer service effectiveness. He writes white papers, has written for and been featured in a number of business periodicals, and wrote the book, The Fisherman’s Guide to Selling. Mr. DiMisa also speaks frequently on best practices and strategies for compensation, and is generally recognized as an expert in union negotiation and planning.
David DiStefano
President and Chief Executive Officer, Richardson David DiStefano is responsible for establishing the strategic plan and direction of Richardson, ensuring its successful execution, and positioning Richardson as one of the premier sales training and consulting organizations. Mr. DiStefano joined Richardson in 1993 from PricewaterhouseCoopers, where he was a senior manager for over nine years in the financial service practice. Mr. DiStefano is a Certified Public Accountant and continues to be involved in the activities of the American and Pennsylvania Institutes of Certified Public Accountants. He has written and conducted many continuing education programs for accounting professionals and has lectured at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania on accounting for entrepreneurial businesses.
Mark Donnolo
Senior Vice President & Sales Effectiveness Practice Leader, MarketBridge
As leader of MarketBridge’s Sales & Distribution Practice, Mark Donnolo focuses on helping companies develop and implement approach-to-market strategies and sales effectiveness programs that drive profitable growth. Mr. Donnolo has developed growth planning and integrated growth management systems that allow companies to build customer-based sales strategies, select and manage distribution channels, and execute to growth requirements across a range of marketing and selling environments. His work spans several industries including technology, telecommunications, business services, financial services, and manufacturing.
Jennifer Frei
Senior Consultant-Sales Effectiveness & Compensation, Watson Wyatt Worldwide
Jennifer Frei is a senior member of Watson Wyatt’s Sales Effectiveness & Compensation. Based in Chicago, she works with companies to develop and implement go-to-market and sales effectiveness programs that drive profitable growth. She specializes in the design and implementation of sales strategies, coverage model solutions and sales compensation programs for clients that employ complex sales channels and require multi-channel integration. Ms. Frei has worked with direct and indirect field sales organizations, inside sales, and other customer-facing roles with major companies across several industries including telecommunications, information services, financial services, technology, industrial manufacturing and manufacturers of capital goods. She has a master’s of management degree in marketing, business strategy and organizational design from J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University and her Bachelor of Science degree in business and administrative studies from Lewis and Clark College.
Dan Ganse Managing Director, Synygy, Inc.
As a managing director in Synygy’s professional services organization, Dan Ganse oversees a global team of forty client services personnel that provide sales performance and sales compensation management solutions to a dozen Fortune 500 clients across multiple industries. During his thirteen years at Synygy, Mr. Ganse has worked with over thirty clients across many different industries including Abbott Laboratories, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Ceridian, CTX Mortgage, DuPont, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Louisiana, Hewlett-Packard, and Xilinx. His depth of experience includes assisting clients in all aspects of enterprise-wide incentive management, including evaluating and streamlining internal incentive compensation processes and designing systems for the field that aid in business performance analysis.
Paula Godar
Director, Maritz
Paula Godar is Director, Brand Communications for Maritz Motivation, the division of Maritz Inc. dedicated to designing and operating comprehensive recognition and incentive solutions and fulfillment services for Fortune 500 companies. In her current role, Ms. Godar leads a group responsible for communicating Maritz point of view, expertise and capabilities through conferences, webinars, online and print communications and other marketing communications to both internal and external audiences. In her 23 years at Maritz, she has held positions in performance strategy, process improvement, product management, creative department management, solution design and operations. She’s worked with a variety of clients including those in high tech, telecommunications, consumer products and automotive. Ms. Godar is a Certified Recognition Professional through Recognition Professionals International (formerly National Association of Employee Recognition) and a Certified Professional of Incentive Management through the Incentive Marketing Association. She is also President of the Incentive Technology Council (formerly Online Incentive Council.)
Clinton Gott
Senior Consultant-Sales Effectiveness & Compensation, Watson Wyatt Worldwide
Clinton Gott is a senior member of Watson Wyatt’s national Sales Effectiveness and Compensation practice. Based out of Los Angeles, he works with sales organizations to help refine sales and customer targeting strategies, design sales roles and responsibilities, and create increased motivation and performance through sales compensation programs. His industry focus includes high tech, consumer products, financial services, and biotechnology. Prior to joining Watson Wyatt, Mr. Gott served as a Partner at Briggs & Sands Consulting. His consulting experience also includes both sales and general compensation consulting at Sibson Consulting, process consulting at Nike, and strategic consulting at Accenture. He double-majored in business-economics and psychology from UCSB and earned an MBA with distinction from the Anderson School at UCLA.
David Grossberg Managing Director, Client Services, Synygy, Inc.
As a managing director in Synygy’s professional services organization, Mr. Grossberg oversees a global team of fifty sales and
client services personnel that provide sales performance and sales compensation management solutions to a dozen
Fortune 500 clients across multiple industries. He is an expert in the areas of sales compensation, sales quotas, sales
analytics, sales force effectiveness, and sales process assessment and automation.
Chris Hergesell
Principal, Mercer Sales Effectiveness Practice
Chris Hergesell is a Senior Associate in Mercer’s Sales Effectiveness consulting business, where he works with sales and marketing executives to drive sustained revenue and profit growth. Mr. Hergesell’s specific areas of expertise lie in strategy development, organization design, role definition, and process improvement within the sales function. For the past six years, he has consulted to organizations with B2B sales forces across a broad range of industries. Mr. Hergesell holds a BS in Business Administration from Boston University and an MBA from Georgetown University.
Brad Hill
Principal, Tandehill Human Capital
Brad Hill is a Principal with Tandehill Human Capital, a compensation consulting firm based in Chicago. Before joining Tandehill, Mr. Hill was a senior consultant at the Hay Group. Prior to the Hay Group, he was National Practice Leader-Variable Pay with Ernst & Young; a Principal with Watson/Wyatt; and consulted for Towers Perrin. Mr. Hill holds an MBA degree from the College of William and Mary and undergraduate degrees in Economics and Social Psychology from Cornell University. He has been a Certified Compensation Professional (CCP®) of the WorldatWork since 1986, and has taught WorldatWork courses on Variable Pay and Elements of Sales Compensation. Mr. Hill serves on the Board of Directors of the Scanlon Leadership Network, whose members pioneered gainsharing, open-book management, lean systems and servant leadership.
John C. Keller
Director of Global Sales Compensation, Verizon Business
John C. Keller manages the design, implementation and administration of incentive compensation plans for Verizon Business’ worldwide sales force. Previously, Mr. Keller was a Principal of the consulting firm The Alexander Group, where he was responsible for southern U.S. operations and was the firm’s financial services practice leader. He has also held sales, brand management and marketing positions in various industries. Mr. Keller holds a BA from Williams College and an MBA from Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business.
Kathy Ledford
Principal, Buck Consultants
Kathy Ledford is a Principal in the Atlanta office of Buck Consultants, an ACS company. She advises clients on improving the effectiveness of their sales organizations and sales channels. Specific areas of focus include aligning sales operational and reward systems with strategy.
Kendra Lee
President, KLA Group
Kendra Lee is president and founder of KLA Group. Ms. Lee sets the vision and strategy to ensure delivery of top-notch sales development consulting and training to KLA’s clients. KLA helps companies drive their business to business sales results through lead generation, prospecting, and new business development. Ms. Lee is author of the book, Selling Against The Goal: How Corporate Sales Professionals Generate the Leads They Need. Articles about or by Ms. Lee have appeared in numerous publications including Sales & Marketing Management, Executive Excellence, TechIQ, Software Business, Selling!, Selling Power, What’s Working in Sales Management, and ASTD Training & Development.
Tracy McEachern
Consultant-Sales Force Effectiveness, Hay Group
Tracy McEachern has over 13 years of experience working with Fortune 500 sales organizations in a variety of industries. Her expertise includes working with both sales leadership and top performing sales teams and indiviudals to drive competitive advantage. Recent clients have included AT&T, CapGemini, Eli Lilly, Honeywell and Motorola.
Patrick McLaughlin
Vice President-Human Resources & Change Leadership, Frito-Lay Patrick McLaughlin is Vice President, Human Resources and Change Leadership for Frito-Lay’s Transformation and Strategy Department. During his 12 years with Frito-Lay, Mr. McLaughlin has served in key HR leadership positions supporting frontline sales and operations employees, including Division Vice President of HR and HR VP for Operations. Before joining Frito-Lay, Mr. McLaughlin worked for Exxon Company U.S.A. supporting their offshore production, drilling and technical staffs in New Orleans in both Organizational Design and Labor Relations roles. He holds bachelors and masters degrees from Purdue University.
Bob Nelson, Ph.D.
President, Nelson Motivation
Bob Nelson, Ph.D is a nationally known speaker on the topic of employee recognition and co-founder of the National Association of Employee Recognition (NAER). He teaches organizational behavior at the University of California, San Diego; and is a best-selling author of 1001 Ways to Reward Employees (now in its 51st printing with 1.5 million copies in print), 1001 Ways to Energize Employees, 1001 Ways to Take Initiative at Work, The 1001 Rewards & Recognition Fieldbook and The Management Bible. Dr. Nelson has been featured extensively in the media, including television appearances on CNN, CNBC, PBS, and MSNBC; radio appearances on NPR, USA Radio Network and the Business News Network; and print appearances in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Chicago Tribune, Fortune magazine and many more. He writes a weekly column for American City Business Journals and a monthly column for Corporate Meetings & Incentives, among others.
Charles “Skip” Odell
Vice President-International Compensation & Global Benefits, MetLife, Inc.
Skip Odell is currently responsible for the total rewards programs for business units offshore and is responsible for all MetLife benefits programs, globally. He is currently implementing a global sales compensation plan global data warehouse for MetLife under the sponsorship of Distribution Management. Prior to joining MetLife, his major focus in the last 15 years has been in design and installation of state-of-the-art compensation, benefits and systems design. During this period, Mr. Odell worked overseas for 10 years developing the performance based executive pay systems of UBS (then Swiss Bank Corporation) and Deutsche Bank. His extensive design and installation experience in U.S. and internationally owned global organizations includes a broad range of industries, i.e. utilities, energy minerals, oil and gas, consumer products, restaurant and food services, retailing, financial services and investment banking. Prior to joining MetLife, Mr. Odell owned and managed a successful international boutique consulting firm specializing in HR M&A. He has directly participated in 15 major acquisitions with Fortune 200 scale companies including Mobil Oil Corporation, Tenneco, PepsiCo, RJR-Nabisco, Citibank, Swiss Bank Corporation and AutoNation USA. He has a M.S. degree in Industrial Psychology from the University of Tennessee and a B.S. in Industrial and Labor Relations from Cornell University.
Jason Reed
Sales Vice President, Miller Heiman Jason Reed leads business development efforts for Miller Heiman. With more than 15 years in sales leadership roles, he brings considerable client-side experience to this highly growth-oriented position. His background includes responsibility for partnering with sales consulting and training firms and working through the rigors of aligning sales, marketing, and CRM efforts with selling cycles. As a result, he has a strong appreciation for both the challenges and opportunities facing large sales organizations. Mr. Reed specializes in national and global account strategy, sales team development, channel sales, and selling methodology and has extensive firsthand experience with value-added selling initiatives, sales process, and sales operations. He is a frequent keynote speaker on sales related topics and trends.
Paul Reiman
Hewitt
Paul Reiman is a consultant in Hewitt Associates’ Talent and Organization Consulting practice, located in Lincolnshire, Illinois. As a member of Hewitt’s Sales Force Effectiveness group, Mr. Reiman has extensive experience developing solutions to improve the effectiveness of clients’ sales organizations. He has worked with clients to transform their organization design, improve their ability to manage sales talent, and enhance the relationship between performance and rewards. Mr. Reiman’s consulting experience has yielded special expertise in the high-tech, telecommunications, publishing, and retail industries.
Barbara J. Riesmeyer
Director, Sales Operations, Eaton Corporation
Barbara Riesmeyer was named Director, Sales Operations for Eaton's Global Sales and Marketing organization in March of 2007. She joined Eaton in 1994 and has held a variety of positions in manufacturing, marketing, and information technology. She holds a B.S. Industrial Engineering degree from Grove City College, and an M.B.A. from the University of Pittsburgh.
Donya Rose
Managing Partner, The Cygnal Group
Donya Rose is a consultant with solid experience in goal setting, measurement and forecasting, technology enabled selling, and incentive compensation plan design. Before founding The Cygnal Group, Ms. Rose was a consultant with Towers Perrin, and before that she was with Raychem Corporation where she managed numerous change initiatives. Ms. Rose holds a BS degree in Mathematics from Davidson College, and an MS degree in Operations Research and Systems Analysis from UNC-Chapel Hill.
Mike Ryan
Senior Vice President, Marketing and Client Strategy, MADISON Performance Group
As the Senior Vice President, Marketing and Client Strategy for MADISON Performance Group, Mike Ryan is an authority on the latest trends and techniques used in incentive design and development. Mr. Ryan works with leading executives to define program strategies that maximize cost control, deliver a higher level of motivational impact and planning flexibility, and offer systematic financial measures that companies demand. He brings two decades of experience of web-based, non-cash incentive programs, and provides insights on how the newest technologies help optimize incentive investments.
Erich Sachse
Managing Consultant, Synygy
Erich Sachse is a Managing Consultant at Synygy and has over 8 years experience in designing and managing incentive plans. His responsibilities at Synygy have included incentive plan design and management, customer segmentation and targeting, sales force sizing, territory alignments, and quota setting. His experience has been focused on the pharmaceutical industry, with significant knowledge of syndicated data sources and industry trends. Mr. Sachse holds a BA in Government from Cornell University.
Scott Sands
Southeastern Region Practice Leader-Sales Effectiveness & Compensation, Watson Wyatt Worldwide
Scott Sands is the Southeast Region Sales Effectiveness & Compensation Practice Leader for Watson Wyatt Worldwide. He works with senior executives to align business strategies with organization structure and rewards programs. Mr. Sands has helped build and transform sales forces across many industries, including technology, communications, financial services, pharmaceuticals, and consumer products. Cisco, General Electric, Frito Lay, Johnson & Johnson, MetLife, and Verizon are among his previous clients. He recently co-authored Sales Compensation Essentials, WorldatWork's best-selling book in 2006.
Karen Slay
Senior Consultant-Sales Effectiveness & Compensation, Watson Wyatt Worldwide Karen Slay is a Consultant with Watson Wyatt in the Sales Effectiveness & Compensation practice and has eight years of client services experience. Prior to joining Watson Wyatt, Ms. Slay worked with the firm of Briggs & Sands Consulting, which specialized in Sales Effectiveness Consulting. She has worked in the High-tech, Telecommunications and Manufacturing industries. Ms. Slay holds a Master of Arts degree in Speech Communication from Georgia State University. She also earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Marketing from Appalachian State University. Ms. Slay is a member WorldatWork and the Atlanta Area Compensation Association.
Michael Slovin
Senior Director-Sales & Sales Operations, Comcast Cable Michael Slovin is Senior Director of Sales and Sales Operations for Comcast Cable. He is responsible for developing strategic business opportunities, including partnerships and acquisitions, that expand Comcast's residential subscriber base. Previously, Mr. Slovin was responsible for the design, development and implementation of channel strategy and programs for Comcast's Direct Sales organization. He brings over 18 years of sales and marketing leadership experience in the telecommunications and cable industries and has held senior management positions with MCI, Winstar and Sprint.
Dennis Spahr
Vice President-Sales Effectiveness Practice, Sibson Consulting, A Division of Segal
Dennis Spahr is a Vice President in Sibson’s Sales Effectiveness Practice and is based in Chicago. Mr. Spahr’s consulting experience includes: leading the assessment and redesign of sales compensation plans at over 75 clients in multiple industries including work with many health insurance plans across the country, developing customer segmentation models and the corresponding sales strategies for each segment, and creating sales capacity and sales force sizing models to optimally align sales resources. He is a frequent speaker at academic institutions and conferences including Synygy’s Sales Performance Conference, Loyola University, the Chicago Compensation Association, and the Healthcare Compensation Professionals Organization.
Mark A. Stiffler
President and CEO, Synygy
Mark Stiffler founded Synygy, Inc. in 1991 and is its president and CEO. With over twenty years experience consulting with Fortune 1000 companies, Mr. Stiffler is a recognized expert in sales performance management and has won numerous awards for his success in growing Synygy from a concept to over 450 employees worldwide. The author of PERFORMANCE: Creating the Performance-Driven Organization (Wiley Press), Mr. Stiffler is a frequent speaker on the topic of sales performance management and a long-time guest lecturer in entrepreneurial marketing at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School. He is also an active member of Young Presidents' Organization (YPO), a group of 10,000 chief executives under age 50 from 75 nations. Mr. Stiffler received an MBA from the Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and bachelor degrees in Civil Engineering (Project Management) and Management Information Systems from MIT.
Dyana ten Berge
Senior Associate, Mercer Sales Effectiveness Practice Dyana ten Berge is a Senior Associate in Mercer’s Sales Effectiveness Practice and a member of the firm’s Human Capital Practice. Ms. ten Berge has specialized in sales force effectiveness for seven years. Her work focuses primarily on sales compensation design and execution, forecasting and goal setting and change management. Ms. ten Berge has worked with clients in a number of different industries including hospitality, consumer products, insurance, telecommunication, financial services, pharmaceutical, publishing and software. Her experience includes the integration of sales forces in merger situations, design of sales compensation programs and industry benchmarking research.
Tom Tice
Senior Consultant-Sales Effectiveness & Compensation, Watson Wyatt Worldwide
Tom Tice is a senior member of Watson Wyatt's Sales Effectiveness and Compensation practice. He specializes in working with sales, marketing, finance and human resources executives to implement new selling strategies that drive significantly higher growth and profitability. He works with clients to convert go-to-market strategies and channel management decisions into implemented sales management programs – redefining sales processes, job roles, performance metrics and cash and non-cash compensation approaches to improve efficiency and effectiveness. Over his career Mr. Tice has assisted direct and indirect field sales organizations, telesales, telemarketing, and customer service functions, and a variety of other customer-facing departments and roles. He has successfully completed sales management and reward projects for organizations in a wide variety of industries. Mr. Tice is a graduate of DePauw University with a B.A. in psychology and holds M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in industrial/organizational psychology from Iowa State University. He has taught quantitative methods in the MBA program at the University of Connecticut and is a Certified Management Consultant.
Craig Ulrich
Eastern Division Practice Leader-Sales Effectiveness & Compensation, Watson Wyatt Worldwide
Craig Ulrich is a senior consultant based out of Watson Wyatt’s New York office. Mr. Ulrich leads the firm’s Sales Effectiveness & Compensation Practice in the Eastern Division and oversees research for the practice nationally. A frequent writer and guest speaker on sales productivity issues, Mr. Ulrich is a contributing author of Paying for Performance: A Guide to Compensation Management (John Wiley – 2nd Edition, 2002), “Commissions, Bonuses & Beyond” (Sales & Marketing Management: Probus Publishing, 1994), “Heal the Achilles Heel of Sales Management” (Workspan, 2005), and “The Case of the Leaky Sales Compensation Plan” (Workspan, 2006). Mr. Ulrich has a B.S. in Business from Drake University and an M.B.A. from Fairleigh Dickinson University. He is a CCP and has received the lifetime achievement award from WorldatWork.
Marc Wallace
Senior Consultant-Sales Force Effectiveness, Hay Group
Marc Wallace is a Senior Consultant with the Midwest Region of Hay Group. He is accountable for regional direction of the Incentive Pay practice as well as projects in general rewards practices and executive compensation. In recent years, Mr. Wallace’s work with clients and research in the field has been published in the World at Work Journal, HR Magazine, the New York Times and other publications. Mr. Wallace is a frequent speaker nationally on rewards topics in addition to assisting clients to strategically address critical compensation issues.
Ellen Wilsker Vice President of Sales, Richardson In addition to business development opportunities, Ellen Wilsker works closely with Richardson clients to understand their needs and provide integrated, customized solutions. Ms. Wilsker has extensive experience working with Fortune 1000 organizations with a focus on improved sales performance. Prior to joining Richardson, Ms. Wilsker was a consultant in the areas of selection, assessment and training, and certification programs. She has a strong technical background and has provided systems consulting and taught systems consulting courses in Drexel University’s MBA program.
Lisa Ziembiec
Manager, Sales Incentive Compensation and Effectiveness, U.S. Cellular As Manager, Sales Incentive Compensation and Effectiveness for U.S. Cellular, Lisa Ziembiec is responsible for the strategy and design of incentive and effectiveness programs for over 2,000 associates and 700 agent partners. She oversees the team responsible for both developing compensation plans and implementing a new, automated, sales incentive compensation system. Prior to joining U.S. Cellular, Ms. Ziembiec spent six years in management consulting leading large, cross-functional teams and specializing in program management, HR, training and implementation initiatives. Ms. Ziembiec earned a Bachelor of Science from Truman State University with emphases in Marketing and Management with a minor in Economics.