Theme: Intersections

Life is full of related events and activities that intersect to create new events and opportunities to grow and learn. Our excellent speakers will be talking about their intersections at this event.

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NJIT Kupfrian Hall - Jim Wise Theater
100 Summit Street
Newark, New Jersey
United States

Dan Seewald

Founder & CEO, Deliberate Innovation

Dan Seewald is the CEO of Deliberate Innovation. Deliberate Innovation is a corporate innovation advisory and facilitation firm. Dan is also the former Head of Pfizer’s World Wide Innovation group where he architected and led the Dare to Try program, one of the Fortune 100’s leading corporate innovation programs. Dan is a keynote speaker and author in the field of corporate innovation and a contributing writer for several journals. He is a trained moderator, creative problem solving (CPS) facilitator, Design Thinking (DT) coach and a Certified Public Accountant (CPA). And when he is not working, Dan is a wrestling and soccer coach.

Dr. Deirdre Letson-Christofalo

Head of Human Capital Management Division, NJII

Dr. Deirdre Letson-Christofalo is Vice President of the Human Capital Division. She was previously the dean of the School of Business and the Center for Innovation & Professional Studies at Felician University and prior to that she served as the Vice President of Adult, Corporate and Online Education at Centenary University, where she led the design and implementation of online degree programs serving approximately 900 adult students.

Jennifer D'Angelo

Head of the Healthcare Division, NJII

Jennifer oversees the entire healthcare division, which manages federal and state grant programs focused on improving healthcare delivery. The division also runs the New Jersey Health Information Network (NJHIN) on behalf of the New Jersey Department of Health and includes Healthcare Innovation Solutions (HCIS) — the Healthcare Division’s for-profit subsidiary — which helps thousands of physicians across the country navigate the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ Merit-Based Incentive Payment Program (MIPS). Jennifer has more than two decades of experience in the healthcare field, and most recently served as senior vice president and chief information officer at Bergen New Bridge Medical Center in Paramus, NJ, where she led cybersecurity, HIPAA security and privacy, Information Services, Clinical Informatics and Telecommunications.

Kenneth A. Goodwin Jr.

Senior Managing Principal & President, Jeanensis Capital Markets

Ken is a globally dynamic executive with 20+ years of banking and capital markets experience, widely sought after for impacted results on digital transformation, big data, innovation and technology and risk management. He is a 10 to Know Global Game Changer, U.S. White House Business Council/Forward member, Aspen Institute Nakasone and Mike and Maureen Mansfield Fellow and speaker on Blockchain, FinTech, RegTech, AI, U.S. and Japan central banking and risk management.

LeShannon Wright

Founder & CEO, Turning Tulips

LeShannon Wright is a NJIT MBA student, from New Jersey. She is the founder and CEO of Turning Tulips, a company she created with a mission of Making Periods Pretty. After nearly two decades of suffering from endometriosis and later adenomyosis, LeShannon received a hysterectomy at the age of 31. She vowed to use her voice to make a difference in the menstrual health of young girls and women. Now she shares her powerful stories, tips, and support to help guide females everywhere. LeShannon hopes that Turning Tulips will light the way so that no one suffers to the magnitude that she had.

Linda Schwimmer

President and CEO, New Jersey Health Care Quality Institute

In her role, Linda drives policies that advance health care safety, access and affordability. She is committed to change that improves health care for every person in New Jersey. Under Linda’s leadership, the Institute focuses on collaboration and innovation to accelerate policies that make health more person-centered, transparent, and equitable. Linda sits on the board of the Leapfrog Group and the National Quality Forum (NQF). She also served as a co-chair for Governor Phil Murphy’s transition team on health. Before joining the Quality Institute, Linda was Director of Strategic Relations & External Affairs at Horizon Healthcare Innovations, a subsidiary of Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey.

Louis Wells

NJIT Faculty - Senior Lecturer, Theatre Arts and Technology & Director, The Center for Applied Improvisation and Theater, NJIT

Artistic Coordinator for the Rutgers-Newark/NJIT Theater Arts and Technology Program. Currently developing a research center for applied improvisation at NJIT. A theater director with interest in technology driven productions as well as American Realism. An acting teacher specializing in improvisation, Meisner, motion capture and animation students. I've worked in higher education for over 15 years. Skilled in Improvisation, Interactive Media, and theatre. A Master of Fine Arts (M.F.A.) focused in Directing and Theatrical Production from The Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey-New Brunswick.

Namas Chandra

Distinguished Professor, Bio-Medical Engineering, NJIT

Dr. Namas Chandra is a Distinguished Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Director of the Center for Injury Bio- Mechanics, Materials and Medicine (CIBM3) and co-Director of the Institute for Brain and Neuroscience Research (IBNR) at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA. He is a Fellow of American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) and American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE). His Center focuses on experimental and computational aspects of blast induced traumatic brain injury (TBI). He has published over 132 journal articles including about 42 on TBI. He has supervised about 56 graduate students and post docs.