THE PEOPLE
SHAPING WHAT
SALES BECOMES
NEXT

Alana Lovett-Griffin

Client Sales and Success Partner · ThinkHuman

Technology & SaaS

Leads a team driving revenue through partners and reps she doesn't manage, in deals she doesn't own. Founder of That Girl Reimagined. She brings a working model for influence without authority, the skill most sellers need long before they get the title.

Alicia Lyttle

CEO · AI InnoVision

AI & Technology

AI strategist known as "The Queen of AI," with two decades at the intersection of AI, digital transformation and business innovation, and founder of the International Association of Artificial Intelligence Consultants. Author of "ChatGPT Made Easy." Her deep dive gets sellers past AI curiosity into tools they can actually run on Monday.

Andrea Henderson

Partner · DHR Global

Executive Search

Advises CEOs, boards and investors on executive talent, AI, governance and leadership strategy across healthcare and life sciences. She has a clear read on how AI is reshaping which leaders get hired, and what commercial talent has to prove to move up.

Bianca Jeanty

Main Summit Host · SIS Summit 2026

Events & Community

Charece Williams

Founder & CEO · Inside the Huddle

Sports & Entertainment

Founder, CEO and Head Coach of Inside The Huddle, built on 20+ years in sports and entertainment marketing with senior roles at Disney, Under Armour and PepsiCo, where she served as a VP. A former Division I volleyball player and co-founder of Next Level Partners, she has spoken for the Sponsorship Marketing Association. She coaches on access as a practiced skill: the preparation, introductions and sponsorship that turn interest into an offer.

Curtis Midkiff

Head of Social · Sprout Social

Social Media Tech

Head of Social at Sprout Social, the social media management platform, where he leads the brand's own social strategy. He joins the Frontier panel on selling the creator economy, bringing the platform-side view of how brands actually evaluate and buy creator partnerships.

Danielle Brown

SVP, Sports Streaming & Brand Solutions · Disney Advertising

Media & Advertising

SVP of Sports Streaming and Brand Solutions at Disney Advertising, leading brand partnerships across one of the most valuable live sports and streaming portfolios in media. She began at ESPN as a sales planner roughly 25 years ago and has since held senior roles including SVP of Data Enablement and Category Strategy. Named to Sports Business Journal's Game Changers, she speaks to how sellers stay indispensable as premium inventory, audience data and automation converge.

Danielle DuPreé

VP Brand Partnerships · IZEA

Creator Economy & MarTech

VP of Brand Partnerships at IZEA, connecting major brands with the creators who move their audiences. Her decade-plus of sales leadership spans CPG, media, tech, financial services, energy, pharma and healthcare, including roles at GlobalData and YouGov. She speaks to why content is now part of the sales motion rather than a marketing afterthought, and how to translate creator value into business outcomes an executive buyer will fund.

Danielle Estrada

Chief Revenue Officer · Promesa Consulting Group

Consulting & SaaS

Fractional Chief Revenue Officer at Promesa Consulting Group, bringing 30+ years of sales and go-to-market leadership across SaaS, fintech and AI, including EVP of Sales & Marketing at Hitachi Solutions. She builds revenue engines for growth-stage companies, pricing, process, comp design and the operating cadence that makes a number repeatable. Her coaching philosophy: fewer heroics, better systems.

Deidra Suber

Head of Sales Enablement and Operations · Walmart

Retail Media & Advertising

Doug Melville

CEO · JodieAI

AI & Technology

Author of 'Invisible Generals,' the story of America's first Black generals and his own family legacy, and CEO of JodieAI. He previously served as Chief Diversity Officer at TBWA Worldwide and international head of equity at Richemont in Geneva, and writes for Forbes while hosting an iHeart podcast. He speaks about narrative as an asset: how the story you carry determines the rooms you can enter and the ones you can build.

Dr. Nikkia McClain

President · Tené Nícole Creative Agency

Marketing & PR

Runs a marketing and PR firm representing Fortune 50 and Inc. 5000 companies, named a "Top Woman in PR" by PR News and author of "DIYPR." She speaks to visibility as a revenue tool: how sellers and founders get covered, quoted and remembered by the buyers they want.

Ejieme Eromosele

VP, Customer Growth · Quiq

AI & Customer Success

VP of Customer Growth at Quiq, the conversational AI platform, with 18+ years in customer success and CX, including launching a new customer success function at The New York Times. Co-author of 'The Customer Success Talent Playbook,' founder of Success in Black, and named a Top 25 Customer Success Influencer in 2024 and 2025. She speaks to what AI actually changes in the post-sale motion, and how retention gets measured, resourced and protected when budgets tighten.

Erica Franklin

Global Director of Sales · Sistas in Sales

Sales Leadership & Community

Global Director of Sales at Sistas in Sales, blending deep communication expertise with a passion for technology, strategic partnerships, and revenue growth. A 3X honoree on Demandbase's 100 Powerful Women in Sales list. She owns the partner revenue conversations and coaches sellers on the full cycle, which gives her strong opinions about where the handoff between sales and customer success usually breaks. Beyond that, she's expanding sales knowledge across Africa and helping small and midsize businesses build sales acceleration and retention strategies that hold up over time.

Evonna McGill

Legends Global

Sports & Entertainment

Gorish Aggarwal

CEO · Sybill

AI & Sales Tech

Jacqueline V. Twillie

Founder · BNEDai

Technology, Information, and Internet

Founder of BNEDai, where she builds AI agents for corporate philanthropy and partnership teams, and a three-time Amazon bestselling author. A Gumloop Ambassador, she launched Pod Green Room, an AI studio for podcast hosts, without an engineering background. She has trained more than 10,000 professionals across four continents and previously oversaw a $13M AUD budget across eight countries as Co-CEO of the US arm of an international NGO.

Jarrett Albritton

Head of Partnerships · PeduL

EdTech

Builds partnerships with cities, Fortune 500 companies and workforce organizations after 20+ years in enterprise tech sales and $40M+ in software revenue. Host of the Big Tech Energy Podcast, he speaks to selling into complex, multi-stakeholder buying groups where no single champion can sign.

Kathryn Elizabeth

Founder · KP Performance Group

Consulting

Former owner-operator of Lee's Air, Plumbing & Heating who has launched new markets, including global operations in Armenia, and now advises companies on building revenue teams. She brings the owner's view of what a seller costs, returns and has to prove.

Kay Malcolm

Vice President, Product Management · Oracle

Technology & AI

Leads AI and data strategy for the Oracle AI Database and teaches AI for LinkedIn Learning, after building Oracle LiveLabs into a hands-on platform with 45 million-plus views. Known online as "Your AI Work Bestie," she makes enterprise AI legible to the people who have to sell it and use it.

Kayanna Ray

Global Sales & Product Enablement Program Manager · Meta

Technology

Designs the programs that get global sales teams selling with speed and precision, with a background spanning Meta, Intuit and Twilio. At Summit she shows where AI can personalize and accelerate enablement at scale without flattening the human part of the sale.

Kiara Bryant

Strategic Alliances Manager · Sage Intacct

Technology & SaaS

Builds partnerships that turn ecosystems into pipeline and measurable revenue. At Summit she brings a practical view of how sellers use alliances and relationship capital to create opportunities they could not generate alone.

Krystie Snype

Sales Training Representative · Johnson & Johnson MedTech

MedTech

Sales training representative at Johnson & Johnson MedTech and a global MVP top performer in the top 1% of her organization. She came into medtech sales from the operating room as a surgical support technician, and holds a degree in biological systems engineering from Florida A&M. A longtime SISfluencer, she speaks to what stays human in a highly regulated, relationship-driven sale even as the tooling gets smarter.

LaMar Wright

Founder & Principal Advisor · The Coutureman LLC: Advisory

Advisory & Family Office

Advisor and ecosystem builder working across family office engagement, capital relationships and cultural influence, and the force behind Black Wealth Family Foundation. He speaks to how capital rooms actually open, and what earns you a seat in them.

Larry Slaughter

Head of Enterprise Sales, East · Canva

Technology & SaaS

Builds out Canva's AMER East enterprise region for some of the largest organizations in the country, after eight-plus years at LinkedIn leading teams from high-velocity SMB to large enterprise with multiple President's Club wins. He started as a consultant at Accenture and is an investor with inVest Ventures. He speaks to what separates sellers who get promoted from sellers who stay put.

Latia YoungFountain

Head of Global Accounts, Central · LinkedIn

Technology

Head of Global Accounts, Central at LinkedIn, where she leads a Fortune 500 portfolio worth more than $100 million from Chicago. She has built her career on account strategy at scale, multi-stakeholder deals, executive alignment and long-horizon growth planning, and holds an MBA. Active in LinkedIn's Black Inclusion Group, she has represented the group at a Nasdaq closing bell. She moderates the Frontier panel on AI and the next era of sales.

Lauren Perine

Senior AI Business Process Specialist ·

Technology & AI

Senior AI Business Process Specialist at Microsoft, helping organizations redesign business processes around AI instead of bolting AI onto old ones. She brings 11+ years in enterprise technology sales, including roles at FullStory and Pegasystems before moving into Microsoft's solutions and AI specialist practice. She translates between technical capability and business reality, one of the most practical voices on where AI actually belongs in a seller's workflow.

Lynette Braxton

Head of US Sales Operations & Capabilities · Reckitt

Consumer Goods

25+ years driving growth and commercial transformation in consumer goods across Kraft Foods, Mondelēz and Reckitt. She runs the operations and capability side of a national sales force, and speaks to what actually has to change in process and enablement before a team can sell differently.

Mariah Bayne

Founder · Growing the Middle

Talent Development

Talent development strategist who helps professionals name the value of their work before they're forced to defend it, drawing on 13 years across sales, customer success and operations. Her programs have supported 700+ professionals and lifted 90-day retention from 50% to 91%: useful math for anyone heading into a comp or promotion conversation.

Marinda Yelverton

Group Director, Influencer & Creator Marketing · DEPT

Creator Marketing & Agency

Group Director leading the influencer and creator marketing practice at DEPT, with 17 years in marketing and the creator economy. Previously VP of Creator Marketing & Social Media at WME and SVP, Head of Client Services North America at Whalar, and founder of her own consultancy. Based in Los Angeles, she speaks to how creator partnerships get bought, measured and scaled, and why sellers who understand culture win the brief.

Martine Charles

Senior Sales Training & Enablement Manager · Uber

Technology

Senior Sales Training & Enablement Manager at Uber, with 12+ years designing the programs that get commercial teams productive faster. Previously led enterprise sales enablement at TikTok and global sales training at Spotify. She also serves on the board of Teens of Color Abroad. Her work is the practical side of AI adoption: what reps are taught, what they practice, and how new tools become habit instead of shelfware.

Melissa C. Potter

Co-Founder · Black & Bespoke

Entertainment & Media

Co-Founder of Black & Bespoke, the Black female-owned production company behind premium content and brand storytelling, and a chief marketing and brand executive with two decades in entertainment and culture. She was previously Executive Director of Content for Change at Paramount, after VP roles in strategy, impact and social impact spanning MTV, Comedy Central, VH1, CMT and Paramount Network. A board director based in New York, she speaks to narrative as a growth lever, how the story a brand tells determines the partnerships and revenue it can win.

Nia Adeyemi

Senior Director, Enterprise Growth · The Trade Desk

AdTech

Leads enterprise growth at The Trade Desk after moving from senior account executive to agency hold-co leadership across a decade in ad tech. A regular voice on AI in advertising, she joins the Frontier panel on how AI rewrote the ad playbook and what buyers now expect sellers to know.

Nikka Jarabe

Account Manager · Paramount

Media & Entertainment

Runs agency partnerships and media campaigns across CBS, Nickelodeon, MTV, BET, Comedy Central and Paramount+. Co-Chair of Asian Media Professionals at Paramount, she speaks to how agency buyers actually decide, and how early-career sellers earn trust inside those relationships.

Patricia Wortham

Interim CHRO and CEO · HR Progressive

Human Resources

Petra Vincent

CTO · Sistas in Sales

Technology & Community

Technology leader driving the AI and platform strategy behind Sistas in Sales, with 22+ years spanning digital strategy, business intelligence, generative AI and DevOps, and a McKinsey background. Based in Brooklyn, she builds the systems that let a global community operate like a product, and speaks to how small teams use AI to do work that used to require headcount.

Raquelle Wilson

General Manager, Global Agency Development & Activation · The Trade Desk

AdTech

Rebecca Auguste

Founder · the Frynge

Community & Research

Reggie Marable

Chief Customer Officer · Sierra

AI & Technology

Chief Customer Officer at Sierra, the AI agent company, where he shapes the customer journey, adoption strategy and revenue expansion for enterprise AI buyers. Previously Head of Sales, North America at Slack and Area VP of Enterprise Sales at Salesforce. A Morehouse College graduate and author of 'The Blue Print: The Keys to Making BIG Money in Professional Sales,' he also sits on the board of the Technology Association of Georgia. At Summit he speaks to what AI-era go-to-market design actually looks like, which roles grow, which change, and what leaders should be hiring for now.

Stacie Selise

Founder & CEO · The Stacie Selise Group

Leadership Development

Founder and CEO of The Stacie Selise Group, where she advances women leaders through leadership development and consulting under her Luxury Leadership banner. With 15+ years across sales and customer experience, including a Fortune 20 VP role leading award-winning teams, she built her firm around a simple observation: the most qualified person in the room loses when no one can articulate her value.

Tami Mullen

Senior Director, Global Strategic Proposal Team · North Highland

Consulting

Senior Director of the Global Strategic Proposal Team at North Highland, where she leads global proposal and pricing pursuits and orchestrates high-stakes enterprise bids. She calls herself a pursuit architect, with 25+ years across proposals and business development, including founding Clout Workspace and leading proposals at FORWARD Platform. Based in Baltimore, she writes and speaks on human-led AI: using it to sharpen a winning response rather than mass-produce a compliant one.

Terri-Louise Brown

Head of International Community · Sistas in Sales

Community & International

Head of International Community at Sistas in Sales, leading growth and partnerships across the UK and EMEA, including the flagship London market and representation at Cannes Lions. An award-winning international speaker, she is also founder of Talks With M.S. and The Empowerment Awards, and of TLJ Consults. She speaks to what building community and revenue across regions actually requires.

Wilglory Tanjong

Founder & CEO · Anima Iris

Fashion & Consumer

Turned a $5,000 investment into a $4 million luxury handbag business worn by Beyoncé and sold at Saks, Nordstrom and Bloomingdale's, spending only 1% on advertising, with manufacturing anchored in Senegal. Forbes 30 Under 30. She speaks to demand built on story and community rather than ad budget, and what that means for anyone selling a brand.

Zach Ciliotta-Young

Chief Revenue Officer · Slack

Technology & SaaS

Chief Revenue Officer for Slack at Salesforce, a seat he stepped into in 2025 after leading Slack's global sales and revenue organization. His earlier career spans Indeed and SiteCompli, and he is a Fordham University alum. He speaks publicly on the new speed of work and what agentic AI changes for revenue teams, which makes him one of the sharpest voices on selling AI-native products to buyers still deciding how AI fits their own operations.