As Chief Executive Officer of Taco Bell Corp., Mark King is responsible for driving overall brand strategy and performance of the business in the U.S. and internationally. Drawing on his retail experience and track record of driving innovation, brand relevance, and culture, King accelerates the innovation, sales growth, and unique brand identity that makes Taco Bell a Category of One.

Before joining Taco Bell, King served as president of adidas North America from 2014-2018. Under his leadership, adidas market share doubled in under three years and sales tripled in four years. In addition, King cultivated new energy for the company’s culture resulting in the double number of employees at adidas, an industry-shattering retention rate, the highest employee net promoter score in the company, and more than 500,000 job applications in one year.

Prior to adidas, King spent 34 years at TaylorMade, quickly rising from a territory sales representative to President of TaylorMade in 1999 and CEO in 2002. During King’s tenure as president and CEO, TaylorMade became the leading and most profitable golf company in the world, catapulting the business from $300 million to more than $1.85 billion in sales.

Learned from his nearly 40-year career, King believes in creating the right atmosphere to unleash the potential of people to make extraordinary breakthroughs happen. As a leader, he steers with a belief system based in keeping a growth mindset, investing in people, and encouraging an innovative culture to achieve success.

In 2017, Footwear News honored King with the number one spot on their Power 100 list and in 2016 they named him “Person of the Year.” Also, in 2017 and 2016, King was named “Executive of the Year” by the Portland Business Journal. He served as the chairman of the National Golf Foundation and was consistently named as one of the ten most powerful people in golf during his years at TaylorMade-adidas Golf.

King currently serves on the Board of Directors for the V Foundation Victory Over Cancer. Together with his daughters, he has also raised more than $10 million for children charities around the world through their OneKind Foundation.

King graduated from University of Wisconsin – Green Bay with a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration.

Jason Feifer is the editor in chief of Entrepreneur magazine, and host of three podcasts: Pessimists Archive, a history show about why people resist new things; Hush Money, about the way money makes life awkward; and Problem Solvers, about entrepreneurs solving unexpected problems in their business. He has been an editor at Men’s Health, Fast Company, Maxim, and Boston magazine, and has written about business and technology for the Washington Post, Slate, New York, and others. His novel Mr. Nice Guy, which he wrote with his wife, is currently being developed for television. Jason lives in Brooklyn.

Rachel Gutter is President of the International WELL Building Institute (IWBI), a public benefit corporation with a mission to improve human health and well-being through the built environment.

Rachel came to IWBI after nearly a decade at the U.S. Green Building Council, where she served as Senior Vice President of Knowledge and was Founding Director of the Center for Green Schools. Under her direction, the Center mobilized $275B+ investments in LEED certified educational facilities, deployed over 750,000 volunteers in 73 countries to transform schools on every continent, and published 1,000+ pages of technical guides and original research. At USGBC, her dynamic leadership helped convene international corporations, globally recognized institutions, and government entities to achieve putting every student in a green school within this generation.

In 2016, as IWBI’s Chief Product Officer, Rachel expanded the WELL Building Standard to address all building types, as well as whole districts and communities. Becoming President in 2018, she led the effort to bring a new version of WELL to market, shaped IWBI’s research and education platforms to accelerate market transformation, and developed the WELL Portfolio program and IWBI Membership platform. Rachel leads an incredibly talented team doing business in more than 50 countries that includes market development and salespeople, dedicated coaching contacts, researchers, and subject matter experts who develop and evolve the WELL Building Standard.

A widely sought after expert and inspiring speaker, Rachel’s game-changing contributions to sustainable building have been featured in The New York Times, The Washington Post, NPR, FOX News, and CNN, as well as in leading industry publications including Fast Company, Metropolis, Grist, and GreenBiz.

Rachel received the 2012 World Green Building Council’s Chairman’s Award and was honored by Martha Stewart’s Whole Living Magazine as an eco-heroine in 2011. Rachel joined the Garrison Institute’s Board of Directors in 2015 and became Co-chair in 2018 with founder, Jonathan Rose. Rachel is a member of Urban Land Institute’s Advisory for health and social equity and the Walgreens CSR Advisory Council.

Rachel is a frequent guest lecturer and instructor at the Harvard School of Public Health’s Center for Health and the Global Environment and has lectured at Harvard University Kennedy School of Government, the University of Connecticut School of Business, and Tufts University and other institutions.

Hasier Larrea is an award-winning engineer, designer, and entrepreneur who is introducing robotic interiors to modern living.

Larrea founded Ori, Inc. in 2015, and has led a team in designing and building a collection of robotic interiors that enable the elegant and effortless transformation of any room, on demand. Ori’s first three products include the Ori Studio Suite, which can transform a studio apartment into a bedroom, office, full-size living room, or walk-in-closet; the Ori Pocket Closet, the first piece of furniture that can create the experience of a walk-in closet in any room; and the Ori Cloud Bed, which can be lowered and raised into an integrated dropped ceiling, revealing a modern sofa or workspace.

Before Ori, Hasier led the Architectural Robotics research area at the MIT Media Lab, which focuses on creating a new generation of hyper-efficient and responsive urban spaces by combining the disciplines of Architecture and Engineering.

Larrea holds Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Navarra, Spain and a Master’s in Media Arts and Sciences from MIT.

Eloy van Hal is one of the founders of The Hogeweyk, Dementia Village, and senior managing advisor in the Be The Care Concept Advisory team of the Vivium Care group. Eloy has over 20 years’ experience in managing care and more than 10 years in providing strategic and operational advisory services to clients in the public and private sectors.

Eloy focuses particularly on the elderly care & dementia care sector and community-based aged care. He has worked on a range of projects all over the world, influencing, engaging and advising stakeholders. 

Ryan Frederick is an expert in healthy aging with over 15 years in the field as an investor, executive, board member, real estate developer, strategy consultant and author. He has advised organizations internationally ranging from Fortune 500 companies to global institutional investors to leading health systems to housing developers and operators. He’s even lived in a senior living community when he was in his 20s.

Ryan’s work has been cited by the Washington Post, Forbes and other media outlets. He publishes a monthly consumer blog on tips for healthy living in the Age of Longevity and has a forthcoming book to be released with Johns Hopkins University Press. He is on the National Advisory Board of Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing, a past member of the Bipartisan Policy Center task force on healthy aging and an Encore.org Public Voices Fellow. He lives in Austin, Texas with his family after previously living for long stretches on both the East and West Coast

Matthias Hollwich is the founder of HWKN, a NY-based collective of architects, sculptors, social strategists and innovators dedicated to use architecture to shape a better world. Matthias was born and raised in Germany where he studied architecture and brings a dual perspective to all the firm’s designs, combining German precision with American aspiration. He was honored in Fast Company’s ranking of the world’s Top 10 Most Innovative Architects and in Business Insider’s list of Top Business Visionaries. Matthias Hollwich published his first book UmBauhaus- Updating Modernism in collaboration with Rainer Weisbach and the Bauhaus Foundation in 2006. His latest book, New Aging: Live Smarter Now to Live Better Forever, suggests a new way to think about aging that could fundamentally change the way we design for it.

Matthias lectures widely on the topics of architecture, sustainability, aging and innovation at world-renowned conferences, including TED, PICNIC, Stelka, and the Conscious City conference. In 2019 he spoke at me Convention about “Unforgettable Architecture”.

I help teams eliminate the blind spots holding them back by really understanding what makes them tick. If you think there is more potential on your team, waiting to be unleashed.

Tammy L. Marshall, loves to break glass ceilings, both at work and in the minds of those with outdated culture-scape narratives around ageing. The glass shattered as Marshall became the first woman Chief Experience Officer in the country for ageing services, the first woman to sit on Thrive Senior Living’s vision team and the first VP of Strategic planning for one of New York’s largest long-term care systems. Marshall keynotes around the globe on the topics of ageism, woman in leadership, integrative health and civil rights for those living with changing cognitive abilities, sometimes known as Alzheimer’s and Dementia. She is known for her published work on leadership, dementia care, designing environments for older adults and strategic planning.

Kyle grew up volunteering in a senior living community and went on to study cognitive decline in the aging population. His neuroscience research was largely focused on the link between functional structural changes in the brain that happen as you age, and the associated deficits in economic-based decision making. He also studied neuroprosthetics and has been published for his work linking reward-based behavior coding with motor area activation in monkeys. Since joining the tech world, he has led the development of a niche research-based social network, created a crowdfunding platform for ecological conservation, and architected a grassroots initiative focused on increasing healthcare access in populations-in-need, which was eventually recognized by the Obama administration. After having a negative personal experience moving his grandmother into a senior living community, he realized the severe impact of social isolation on seniors, and cofounded Rendever to use new virtual reality technology to build communities and increase resident engagement through the power of shared experiences.