Kathleen Barry Albertini, President and CEO

Kathi's experience includes management, directing of PEGs, teaching communication skills workshops, facilitating large and small business and community groups, programming, software design, and individualized consulting assignments focused on technology assessment and management development. Kathi has participated in local and national business organizations such as the National Association of Women Business Owners, Rochester Chamber of Commerce Small Business Council, Rochester Women's Network, and the Organizational Development Network. In the community she has been a board member of several non-profits most recently Gilda's Club of Rochester, a Cancer Support Community where she served as president of the board. Kathi has a B.S and an M.S. in Computer Science.

Session: Customer Retention by Design

Bob Farrell, Publisher of the Business Resource Guide

Bob Farrell has over 13 years of experience in the Publishing and Advertising Sales industry.

Prior to Bob and Jason forming F&M Publishing, LLC in 2007, Bob was the Vice President/Publisher at MARCOA Publishing and was responsible for numerous publications and areas, including Las Vegas, NV Chamber of Commerce Directories, Military Relocation Guides in Nevada, Arizona, Montana, & California. While with MARCOA Publishing, he was #1 Sales Person for the company every year.
Bob has trained hundreds of salespersons in the past 10 years within his company as well as for other companies as an “outside trainer”.

He has a B.A. in Business & Marketing. Bob is a United States Air Force Veteran and is also an accomplished musician/songwriter with a successful career in music in the 80′s-mid 90′s in Nashville, Tennessee.

Session: Attributes & Sales Structure To Be Successful NOW

Roger W. Hansen is a Certified Records Manager and has worked in the Records & Information Management field for over 10 years. His work has focused on the creation and implementation of operationally effective and legally compliant records management programs. He advises on the development of Records Management policy and the creation of Records Retention Schedules. He’s been responsible for creating and managing a record organization for a major corporation with over 40,000 employees worldwide. His works is focused on creating implementable, compliant records policies, effective information governance, and retention schedules development.

Prior to his current work as a Records & Information Management consultant, Roger has worked as the Enterprise Records Manager for Ingersoll Rand, Senior Records Analyst for Scotts Miracle-Gro, and as a Records Manager for Owens Corning. He has over ten years of operational management experience. He has a Business Administration degree from North Dakota State University and received his records management education in the Records and Information Management program at the University of North Dakota.

Roger is a member of ARMA International, the professional organization for records managers. He has served two terms as Chapter President of the Greater Columbus Chapter of ARMA. In addition, he has conducted educational sessions for both local meetings and international conferences.

Session: Records Management is not Dead when it comes to the Deal

Bruce Johnson, Wired to Grow

Bruce is the author of "Breaking Through Plateaus," the creator of, "Personality Type Leadership," the President of Wired To Grow, and a frequent speaker at AIIM events. He is a business growth strategist and leadership expert who helps owners and entrepreneurs like you figure out how you can design and build your business so it grows faster with less stress and more predictability.

Session: Creating a Best Buyer Strategy: How to Identify, Attract and Retain More of the Right Kinds of Customers to Rapidly Grow Your Business and Your Profits

Deborah Kohn, Daks Systems Consulting

Deborah Kohn is principal of Dak Systems Consulting (San Mateo CA), a national healthcare information technology advisory consultancy founded by Deborah in 1985. Deborah has over thirty years of healthcare provider organization management and information technology experience.

Deborah is a Registered Health Information Administrator (RHIA) with undergraduate degrees from The Ohio State University and a graduate degree from UCLA in Health Services and Hospital Administration. She is board certified in healthcare management and a Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE). She is certified in healthcare information systems (a Certified Professional in Healthcare Information and Management Systems - CPHIMS) and a Fellow of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS). She is an active member of the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA), the California Health Information Association (CHIA), and the Association for Information and Image Management (AIIM).

Session: Imaging Opportunities in the Healthcare Vertical

Bob Larrivee, Director, AIIM

Bob is an internationally recognized lecturer with over twenty-five years of experience in the application of advanced technologies and process improvement, and the recipient of the Cenadem - Brazil 2008 ECM Pioneer Award. Bob is a Director and Industry Advisor with AIIM. Bob has a degree in Marketing from Franklin Pierce College. In addition to being an AIIM Master of Information Technology with a Laureate in Imaging, Bob has also earned AIIM Master designations in ECM, ERM, BPM, EMM, E2.0, and IOA, and is a CompTIA -- Certified Document Imaging Architech+ (CDIA+). Bob is a State of Florida Certified Instructor, a Member of the International Society of Poets, is listed in the 2009 VIP Edition of Biltmore's Who's Who Among Executives and Professionals, the International Who's Who of Professionals, the International Who's Who in Poetry, and the Executive Guild of Who's Who. Prior to his current position, Bob was Director of Marketing for Docubase Systems, Inc. and has also worked as a consultant/analyst with IMERGE Consulting, Kinetic Information, and BIS Strategic Decisions. In the reseller distribution channel, Bob led Tech Data's Knowledge Management Unit, where he set the strategic and tactical directions for the distribution of advanced and emerging technology products through Tech Data's distribution channel. Bob entered the emerging technologies industry with Wang Laboratories where he worked as a Marketing and Systems Consultant focused on imaging, workflow, digital annotation, and voice recognition systems." Bob is a Certified Information Professional.

Pre Conference Session:  How to Sell Process Improvement Solutions According to Harvard Business Review
Session: Records Management is not Dead when it comes to the Deal

John Mancini, President, AIIM

John F. Mancini joined AIIM in May 1996, following 11 years in various positions at the American Electronics Association in Washington, D.C., most recently as Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer. He has also served as Executive Director of the Foundation for Public Affairs.

Mancini is a frequent speaker at meetings and conferences throughout the world on various trends in the technology marketplace and the evolving and expanding role of information professionals in helping organizations build effective information management strategies.

Mancini writes for the blog "Digital Landfill", is an active participant on multiple social networks (usually as "jmancini77"), and is the author of a series of "8 things you need to know" eBooks.

He holds a Bachelor's degree from the College of William and Mary and a Master's degree from Princeton University.

Session: Positioning Your Company for Success

Bud Porter-Roth, Porter-Roth Associates

Bud Porter-Roth has over 20 years of experience as a document/records management consultant with a focus on electronic document management, document imaging, workflow, and records management. Mr. Porter-Roth has participated on numerous AIIM committees, is the past president of the San Francisco Golden Gate Chapter, and is currently writing a new AIIM Recommended Practice paper on cloud collaboration strategies and technologies for the AIIM standards group. Mr. Porter-Roth is a member of both AIIM and ARMA.

Session: Commit to the Cloud: Your Customers are

Atle Skjekkeland, Chief Operating Officer, AIIM

Atle Skjekkeland joined AIIM in 2004 as Managing Director for its European operation, was promoted to Vice President for AIIM in 2006, and became Chief Operating Officer in 2011. He is responsible for marketing, sales, delivery, and support of all AIIM products and services, which include events, webinars, training, research, and membership.

Atle is the architect and driving force behind AIIM’s Certificate programs, which have had 20,000+ course attendees over the last 5 years. He has delivered workshops across the world, and established training partnerships on almost all continents. He is also the architect behind the new Information Certification introduced in 2011 and available worldwide via Prometric exam centers.

Atle holds a Master’s degree from the Norwegian School of Economics and has 15+ years of experience working within IT. He is eager to find new ways technologies can add value, disrupt markets, and create a blue ocean opportunity. Atle is also interested in the future for information workers with improved usability, mobility, knowledge sharing, and retention.

Pre Conference Session:  How to Sell Process Improvement Solutions According to Harvard Business Review

Matthew Walsh, Certified TAB Facilitator & Business Advisor, President, The Alternative Board – Albuquerque Group

I have been a business entrepreneur in the Albuquerque community for over 24 years. I have lead a family business operating in retail, wholesale, & manufacturing. I have developed specific expertise in strategic planning, sales & marketing, and leadership. I have used these areas of expertise to continue helping numerous local business owners realize increased growth, profitability, and personal peace of mind through the TAB opportunity.

With my extensive hands on in depth business experience and now broad business perspective, I have been very successful helping local business owners like yourself become much more successful. If you are success minded, have a desire to achieve, and are willing to listen/learn/implement new ideas, then we should be working together. I focus on helping you identify & achieve your goals & dreams through the TAB opportunity. This is accomplished through monthly business coaching and/or peer board participation.

I was the President/CEO of Our Secret, Ltd. for 17 years. This was a family business specializing in the manufacture and distribution of gift products nationwide. With over 100 employees, we were at one time listed as #103 in Inc. Magazines fastest growing companies.

I earned a Bachelor of Business Administration degree from the University of New Mexico while starting a family business.

Session: Are you Working on your Business or in it?