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Kate Price
MD and Managing Director and GH Talent Strategy
BlackRock
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Kate Agresta Price, Managing Director, leads Talent Strategy and Analytics for BlackRock. She is responsible for designing, assessing, and evolving the firm's talent vision and priorities in partnership with senior leaders throughout HR and the firm. This includes leading the HR Analytics, Insights, and Research (AIR) team, which develops in-depth and impactful analyses, insights, and recommendations that help drive the firm's talent, diversity, employee engagement, and hiring agendas.
Prior to joining BlackRock in 2017, Kate was a member of the executive team at Birchbox, a venture-backed ecommerce company. Over the course of her time at Birchbox, she led the company's client account management and analytics teams, oversaw the launch of retail operations, and was general manager of the brand's quickly-growing business in Canada.
Kate began her career as a consultant focusing on Organization, Change, and Leadership - starting at Katzenbach Partners, and then becoming a Principal at Booz & Company in NYC. Kate earned an undergraduate degree in History and Literature from Harvard College and an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business.
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Roy Bahat
Head of Bloomberg Beta
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Roy Bahat is the head of Bloomberg Beta, the early-stage venture firm backed by Bloomberg L.P. that invests in startups making work better. Bloomberg Beta treats founders as its customers and was the first venture capital firm to focus on the future of work and the first to focus on artificial intelligence. The firm sees Bloomberg L.P. as an inspiration for startups: founded on a powerful idea, led by its founders for decades, reaching global scale, and embracing technology as part of a strong, transparent company culture. Bloomberg Beta has invested in Replit, MasterClass, Slack, Flexport, Campus, and Weights & Biases, among other companies.
Before starting Bloomberg Beta more than a decade ago, Roy started a venture-backed company, was a corporate executive (at News Corp.), in government (at New York's City Hall), in media, and in academia. He was named one of Fast Company’s Most Creative People in Business.
Roy chairs the Aspen Business Roundtable on Organized Labor, convening "labor open" business leaders to explore new ways of relating to organized labor and worker power. Following work he did with New America to understand the long-term effect of technology on work in America, Roy was a commissioner on the California Governor’s Future of Work Commission. He also created #thisisnotadvice, a community-edited guide on how to work, and hosts the [Going to Work] conference.
Roy teaches at U.C. Berkeley, at the Haas School of Business, including a first-of-its-kind course on organized labor and another on the media industry. He was named one of the favorite MBA professors.
Roy served on the board or as an advisor to several non-profits including the Abundance Network, Stanford's Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society, the Economic Security Project, and the Center for Investigative Reporting. Roy is also a senior fellow (non-resident) at the Brookings Institution, where he writes about AI.
Roy graduated from Harvard College and was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University.
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Lisa Gelobter
CEO and Founder
tEQuitable
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Lisa Gelobter is the CEO and Founder of tEQuitable. tEQuitable makes it easy for companies to improve psychological safety and employee engagement; it provides an independent, confidential platform for employees to resolve interpersonal conflict and for companies to uncover camouflaged issues before they escalate.
Lisa has worked on products that have been used by billions of people and pioneered several Internet technologies, including Shockwave, Hulu, and the ascent of online video.
Previously, she worked at the Obama White House, as the Chief Digital Service Officer for the Department of Education. Prior to that, Lisa served as the Chief Digital Officer for BET Networks.
Lisa has been named one of Inc. Magazine's 100 Women Building America's Most Innovative and Ambitious Businesses, Fast Company’s Most Creative People, and is spotlighted in Eric Ries’ book The Startup Way.
Lisa is one of the first 40 Black women ever to have raised over $1mm in VC funding. She is also proud to be a Black woman with a Computer Science degree. Go STEM!
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Katie Burke
Chief People Officer
Harvey
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Katie Burke is the Chief People Officer at Harvey, a global leader in AI for legal and professional services. Prior to Harvey, she was the Chief People Officer at HubSpot, where the company was recognized as Glassdoor's #1 Best Place to Work. Before her role as CPO, she ran communications at HubSpot and marketing at Athletes' Performance (now EXOS). She is a board member at Paycor and the Red Sox Foundation and an alum of MIT's Sloan School of Management and Bates College.
