Palladium Group and The Economist Bring Together A Powerful Business Executive Panel to Boston, MA this October 30-31 for the 2013 Global Summit

BOSTON, Aug. 8, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Palladium Group, Inc., the global leader in helping organizations solve pressing strategy execution challenges is pleased to announce a powerful lineup of business executives for a panel on "Creative Corporate Culture" at the upcoming Global Summit in Boston. The panel will be led by The Economist, one of the most widely recognized and well-read current affairs publications. The panel will be moderated by Adrian Wooldridge, Management Editor, at The Economist, and will feature senior management leaders who are drivers of change in their industries from beverages to health care to entertainment and technologies.  We are delighted to have on our panel:  Brian Kelley, President, Chief Executive Officer and Director, Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, Inc. (GMCR); Jonathan Bush, Chief Executive Officer, President and Chairman of the Board of Directors, athenahealth, Inc.;  and, Richard Gelfond, Chief Executive Officer, IMAX.

Jonathan Bush is Chief Executive Officer, President, and Chairman of the Board of Directors of athenahealth, Inc.  He co-founded the Company in 1997 and took it public in 2007 in the most successful initial public offering that year. Bush and his partners set about designing a solution to address the costly administrative inefficiencies that plagued their own business. In doing so, they came to realize their circumstance was more typical than unique and that the solution they architected had great application and utility for the broader health delivery system. Given his vision for an information infrastructure that makes health care work as it should, Bush is focused on creating a true, win-win marketplace that enables a broad and efficient exchange of health information. Today, athenahealth remains one of the health care information technology industry's fastest growing companies.

Richard (Rich) Gelfond is Chief Executive Officer of IMAX Corporation. Under Gelfond's leadership, IMAX has evolved from a niche purveyor of nature and science documentaries to a Hollywood movie force — both as high-tech exhibitor and, increasingly, as creative partner in the movie-making process – and one of the world's leading entertainment technology companies. Gelfond, one of entertainment's longest-tenured executives, joined IMAX in 1994 as co-chairman after his firm, Cheviot Capital Advisors, bought the company. Gelfond previously served as an investment banker in mergers and acquisitions with Drexel Burnham Lambert. Gelfond is a member of the board of directors of the Atlantic Council. He is also a member of the Motion Picture Academy of Arts & Science.  In 1996, Gelfond and investment partner Brad Wechsler received an Academy Award on behalf of IMAX for Scientific and Technical Achievement. 

Brian Kelley is President, Chief Executive Officer and Director of GMCR. He joined GMCR in December 2012 from The Coca-Cola Company, where he held a number of senior leadership positions—President of Coca-Cola Refreshments, Chief Product Supply Officer of Coca Cola Refreshments and President of Coca-Cola's North America Business Integration, during which he led the total integration of the acquisition of the North American assets of Coca-Cola Enterprises into a new company, Coca-Cola Refreshments. Prior to Coca-Cola, Kelley was President and Chief Executive of SIRVA, Inc. (formerly North American Van Lines), a $3.7 billion leading provider of relocation solutions to a well-established and diverse customer base around the world; President of Ford Motor Company's $13 billion Lincoln/Mercury division; and Vice President and General Manager, Sales and Distribution at GE Appliances.

Join more than 300 executives from around the world at Palladium's Annual Global Summit, Executing Strategy in a Changing World.  You also don't want to miss Drs. Robert S. Kaplan and David P. Norton creators of the Kaplan-Norton Balanced Scorecard™ share their views on "Innovating Beyond Simple Profits:  Why Companies Need to—and How they Can—Create Shared Value" and "Developing Human Capital."

Our Global Summit Speakers also includes leading Management Thinkers and Senior Executives from a variety of industries and academic backgrounds such as:

• Fabian Dattner, Partner, Dattner Grant
• Joseph B. Fuller, Senior Lecturer of Business Administration, Harvard Business School
• Dr. Hal Gregersen, Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank Chaired Professor of Innovation and Leadership, INSEAD;
• Vincent A. Forlenza, Chairman of the Board, CEO and President, Becton, Dickinson and Company
• Prof. Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Ernest L. Arbuckle Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School
• John D. McClellan, CEO, Palladium Group, Inc.
• Bruce Harris, VP & Chief Risk and Strategy Officer, VW Credit, Inc.
• Didac Lee, Chairman and Founder, Zyncro
• Michael Novelli, Global Vice President, Operations and Engineering, InterGen
• D. Michael Wege, Senior Vice President, Chief Growth and Marketing Officer, The Hershey Company
• Pamela Patsley, CEO, MoneyGram International, Inc.
• Jeffrey M. Puckett, Senior Vice President; Chief Strategy, Development & Performance Integration Officer, CHRISTUS Health
• Dr. Venkat Ramaswamy, Professor, Ross School of Business, Author and Speaker on Co-Creation
• Dr. Michael Treacy, Author, The Discipline of Market Leaders and Double-Digit Growth; Founder, Treacy & Company

To learn more about these powerful leaders, please visit: globalsummit.thepalladiumgroup.com

Here you can register for the 2013 Global Summit - Executing Strategy in a Changing World -October 30-31, 2013 – The Westin Copley Place – Boston, MA –USA featuring a Kaplan-Norton Master Class™ preceding the Global Summit, October 28-29.

Palladium Group, Inc.

Palladium Group, Inc. is the global leader in helping organizations solve pressing strategy execution challenges. We are dedicated to understanding and addressing the strategic issues that drive successful results. Founded by Dr. Robert S. Kaplan and Dr. David P. Norton, we help clients achieve superior performance through a set of integrated consulting services. We deliver tangible results, building enduring internal capabilities with supporting technologies and education programs. Our approach combines expertise in proven strategy execution with integrated change management and leadership development programs. Our methods include the Execution Premium Process™ (XPP™), the Kaplan-Norton Balanced Scorecard™, and other best-practice frameworks that translate concepts into programs that deliver measurable results. The benefits of our approach are demonstrated in the Balanced Scorecard Hall of Fame for Executing Strategy^®, which recognizes organizations that improve performance through outstanding execution. Our offices located throughout the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Asia-Pacific enjoy a successful track record with over 700 clients. www.thePalladiumGroup.com

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