Meet our Customer Experience Faculty and Leadership
Carol BuehrensAs our Faculty Chair, Carol Buehrens is the author of the best-selling customer experience book Happy RAVING Customers! Carol is a leading customer experience expert and speaker, and has been constructing extraordinary customer experiences for over 30 years for major companies such as Liberty Mutual, Northrop, McDonnell-Douglas, Bechtel, GE, Mercury Marine, and ICW Group Insurance Companies.
Carol’s passion for improving customer experience has resulted in numerous awards, including the prestigious “CX Innovation Award” from the Customer Experience Professionals Association (CXPA), ICW Group CEO Award, the Liberty Mutual Star Award, and is listed in the World's Top 30 Customer Service Professionals. A Founding Member and Expert Panel Member of the international Customer Experience Professional Association (CXPA), Carol is also an active member of the San Diego Customer Experience Special Interest Group (CX SIG), and Professor at California State University Fullerton and University of California San Diego. |
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JC QuintanaJC Quintana is a fervent believer in the importance of winning and keeping customers, employees, and business partners through similar relationship-building strategies. His impressive resume includes entrepreneurial and senior executive roles over global, multiregional and multicultural initiatives in customer experience, customer relationship management, human capital, and channel alliances programs for companies that have included DHL, SAGE, ADP, and Hewlett-Packard.
JC is the author of Speaking Frankly About Customer Relation Management and Serious Relationships, both focused on identifying the core components of business relationship success and better adoption of the strategies and technology that support them. He is the founder of education and adoption company Corporate Relationship Group, and lives in Kennesaw, GA. |
Erich Dietz
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Erich Dietz is the Vice President of Worldwide Strategic Accounts for InMoment. He has over 15 years of executive experience spanning consulting, business development, and solutions architecture. Erich joined InMoment in 2003 and primarily works with InMoment’s large, complex client organizations within their B2B, B2B2C, and B2C markets. Erich partners with clients to architect and implement Customer Experience Management (CEM) & Voice of the Customer (VoC) programs that enhance critical business measures including; revenue generation, operational efficiency, cross-channel service alignment, customer retention, base management, loyalty, and brand advocacy. He is also a designated CXPA Expert and regular contributor to the community’s Google+ Hangouts and other events.
Prior to InMoment, Erich was a Management Consultant for several global consulting firms. He holds a B.S. in Industrial Engineering from Rutgers School of Engineering. |
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JP Saini JP Saini is a C-level IT executive for a B2B company with 20 years of in-depth business, technology, operations experience and strong leadership skills. Developed from his portfolio of business, technology and operations experience is his ability to advance the overall strategic direction of information technology in alignment with strategic business plans, growth goals and position IT as a strategic business enabler and partner. His sharp focus on Excellence is driven by his knowledge of client service and performance based metrics.
Mr. Saini has been successfully managing IT business and strategy through the harnessing of technology for business growth and profitability, risk mitigation, and the identification of commercial opportunities. |
Donna Peeples
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As a recognized Customer Experience leader, the first Chief Customer Experience Officer at AIG and current president of Motivated, a global Customer Experience consultancy, Donna Peeples is a pioneering, strategic thinker with a dynamic record of driving sustainable growth and managing resources by connecting people, process and technology to deliver business results.
Her extensive P/L responsibilities with start-ups and Fortune 50 companies have shown that effective customer experience strategies must have a verifiable ROI. Donna’s process for identifying key metrics, modeling, and performance monitoring of the front, mid, and back office make her uniquely qualified to address the challenges and opportunities in an increasingly faster evolving business landscape. A frequent speaker at the most respected Customer Experience forums across the world, Donna is a master communicator who works with global corporations to define business objectives and articulate the corporate vision in a way that inspires imagination and compels action throughout the organization. Whether managing cost, influencing the top line or creating vibrant and productive partnerships, her focus is on blending business strategy with creativity – touching the heart and moving the mind – the result is: true paradigm shifts, sustainable change and the achievement of overall business objectives. |
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Curtis BinghamThe first to promote the role of chief customer officer (CCO) as a catalyst for competitive advantage, Curtis N. Bingham is recognized as the world’s foremost authority on CCOs. For over 20 years, he has been helping companies strategically engage their customers in order to create sustainable competitive advantage and dramatically grow revenue and profits.
Curtis is founder and Executive Director of the Chief Customer Officer Council™, the first peer-led advisory group for CCOs, and President of Predictive Consulting Group, Inc. Through his work with Council members and more than 200 chief customer officers, Curtis has identified and codified best practices in customer centricity, customer engagement, employee engagement, customer innovation, and more. He has created the CCO Roadmap and the Customer Centricity Maturity Model; groundbreaking, proprietary works that assist companies achieve customer-centric culture and revenue growth. |
Desirree Madison Biggs
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Desirree Madison Biggs leads CX and NPS Programs at Airbnb. She has spent over 15 years as a customer experience and advocacy leader passionate about managing high-performing teams to create global programs designed to drive increased customer loyalty and employee engagement. Working in both small start-up companies and large complex business environments, she has established scalable, actionable listening solutions that provide customer focus and inspire cross-functional improvement initiatives that get results.
Desirree is a frequent featured speaker at conferences and webinars on best practices for voice of the customer programs and is a Certified Net Promoter practitioner, performance coach and customer experience mentor. |
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Bob TaylorBob Taylor is the Chief Customer Officer for Samsung SDS America. In this role, he leads our innovation efforts with clients to ensure their success by working to help clients frame up the business issue, scan the technology landscape for best practices, integrate or develop a leading edge solution that ultimately leads to an exciting and engaging customer interaction. He is also responsible for executing organizational change to enable growth, productivity and innovation.
Bob has over 20 years in experience management and customer analytics working with some of the largest companies in the world. From the inception of the internet as a channel, to the mobile device as a primary interface to co-creating an environment that changes based on the consumer – it has been an exciting journey. He has spent the last 5 years focused on digital and mobility; including, offshore agile mobile development programs. Prior to joining Samsung SDS, Bob worked with a wide-range of customers at Ernst & Young and IBM. |
Gary TuckerAs CEO of DealerRater.com, Gary is using his over 20 years experience in CX to grow the world's largest online rating service in the car industry. Prior to joining DealerRater.com in 2014, Gary spent 12 years at J.D. Power and Associates as senior vice president of global product management and marketing, reporting directly to the company’s president. He was responsible for developing products and services as well as developing brand marketing.
Prior to his work at J.D. Power, Gary served as vice president of marketing and product planning for American Isuzu Motors Inc. for three years. He also held various marketing and sales positions with GE Capital Auto Financial Services. |
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Jen GlossAs a senior vice president of LPL Financial, Jen provides visionary leadership for LPL’s independent financial advisors. With more than 20 years industry experience working directly with advisors and their clients, she steers the Client Experience group, focusing on advisor education to drive branch office growth and productivity and plays a key role in determining direction and development of new programs and services.
Prior to joining LPL Financial, Jen worked for American Financial Group in a variety of leadership roles which included service, training, marketing, and financial advising. She holds a BBA from Thomas More College and a Master’s of Science in Executive Leadership from the University of San Diego. |
Robert BergmanRobert Bergman is Partner and Director of UX and Product Management at Black Light Design (BLD). Utilizing his deep knowledge of UX, Robert manages the product development of industry leading companies such as BitTorrent, Cablevision, Comcast, DIRECTV, HBO, Lenovo, LPL Financial, Time Warner Cable, TiVO and Vodafone and helps to shape the public image of their goods and services. His unique process consciously and methodically considers every customer touch point to formulate a unique and unifying customer experience. With over ten years' of developing products for the global economy, he has brought to market many of the products we use on a daily basis.
Prior to joining BLD in 2007, Robert was the Lead User Interface Designer at DIRECTV. While at DIRECTV, he influenced all aspects of the customer experience from front-end development, hardware design, product packing and call center management. This unification propelled DIRECTV’s customer satisfaction to #1 in the industry for 14 consecutive years. In addition, Robert is an inventor on several patents in the areas of system interfaces and digital advertisements. |
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