Lauren Beam is a Strategic Account Executive at Connecteam, where she partners with multi-location organizations to modernize frontline operations through workforce management technology. She works closely with businesses to streamline communication, scheduling, time tracking, training, and daily operations, helping teams improve efficiency, accountability, and employee engagement.

Lauren specializes in understanding the unique operational challenges of distributed workforces and delivering tailored solutions that drive measurable business outcomes. She is passionate about building strong customer relationships and helping organizations create scalable processes that support growth while empowering their frontline teams.

Ceris Burns is Managing Director of CBAi and a CPD-accredited AI trainer specialising in practical AI adoption for cleaning and facilities management. With more than 20 years' experience working exclusively in essential industries, she helps organisations move beyond AI experimentation towards deliberate, ROI-driven implementation.

A Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Marketing and a Chartered Environmental Cleaner, Ceris has worked with leading international organisations and industry bodies including ISS, BICSc, GOJO, Mitie and i-team Global. She founded CBAi to address a critical gap: businesses want to adopt AI but don't know where to start, how to prioritise, or what readiness actually looks like and her work gives them the frameworks to find out. 

Samuel Clayton is an operator who has spent more than 15 years helping businesses grow from the inside out. Starting in operations in 2011, he developed a firsthand understanding of what it takes to align people, processes, and performance. Over the years, he has led initiatives across operations, marketing, sales, and customer success - building a reputation for bringing clarity to complexity and turning vision into measurable results.

As COO of Otuvy, Samuel helps organizations create foundational systems that accelerate growth, and build businesses that run with greater accountability, consistency, and purpose. His insights are forged through years of leading teams, solving real-world challenges, and helping companies transform operational excellence into a competitive advantage.

Matt Christou is the Co-Founder of Big League Clean, a commercial cleaning company serving enterprise and national accounts across multiple markets throughout the west coast.

He also builds the technology that runs it, in house. Rather than buying off-the-shelf software, Matt develops his own AI systems to handle operational overview, data collection and organization, sales follow-up, marketing, and reporting. Much of that now operates with minimal day-to-day oversight and allows him to have much more data available than would be considered normal.

Over the past several years, he has focused on a single question: how far automation can be pushed inside a cleaning company that operates every day.

Brad Cox - Assistant Vice President - Supply Chain Management. The Budd Group provides comprehensive, customized facility solutions to customers across the Southeast United States. Brad is responsible for supply chain strategy - overseeing the vendor life cycle. His goals are to drive efficiency, promote service excellence, mitigate risk, and identify value creation opportunities for The Budd Group and its clients. Before joining the Budd Group, Brad served as Vice President at Bank of America and in the United States Army as a Transportation and Logistics officer.  

Jeff Durand serves as the Director of IT at Vonachen Group, bringing over 25 years of experience in IT management. Since joining Vonachen in 2021, Jeff has matured the organization’s technology stack by overhauling processes, migrating infrastructure to the cloud, writing code to integrate third party systems, developing custom internal tools, and engineering a centralized data warehouse that allows his Business Intelligence team to display a holistic picture of the business to the executive team. Before Vonachen Group, he started out in advertising and CPG. He helped MultiAd transition from a print company to a technology company that built B2B web portals for Fortune 500 companies. He then led a team of over 60 IT engineers spread out over 5 continents as the Director of Global Infrastructure and Operations at SGS&CO. He now leverages his experience in driving large-scale digital transformations in the BSC space.

Bianca Espinosa is the Vice President of Revenue Management Operations at Harvard Maintenance, where she leads enterprise initiatives focused on revenue operations, client solutions, analytics, and operational transformation. With deep expertise in work order management, dashboarding, and real-time operational intelligence, Bianca specializes in turning complex data into actionable insights that drive accountability, efficiency, and client experience. She is passionate about leveraging technology and data strategy to modernize facility services operations and empower smarter decision-making at scale.  

Andy Jedynak is a seasoned author and tech pioneer with over 25 years of experience leading businesses across emerging sectors such as digital media, IoT, mobile, SaaS, AI, and crowdsourcing. He is the President & CEO of ClientPoint, a top-rated AI-driven global B2B SaaS platform, with a mission to become the front office of the business world. Prior to his career in tech, Andy worked produced television at NBC. Prior to that, he played professional basketball in the German Bundesliga. His diverse background blends technology innovation with leadership across various industries.

Charles H. Keenum Jr., Senior Vice President of Operations at The Budd Group, brings over 20 years of experience in the cleaning industry. His expertise in operational excellence and strategic management has driven significant growth and innovation within the organization.

Stephanie is a passionate product manager with over a decade of experience shipping complex software. She specializes in owning ERP products for security and janitorial operations, turning chaotic workflows into functional systems designed to perform in the field and deliver measurable impact.

Joe Pizzimenti is the CEO of CClean Commercial Cleaning in New York and founder of Finally Clean in Connecticut, where he has built a reputation as an innovative, data-driven leader in the facilities services industry. He is passionate about technology integration that delivers meaningful value: efficiency, accountability, and stronger long-term client relationships. Blending innovation with a strong people-first culture that emphasizes customer experience, training, and communication has helped his companies achieve exceptional client retention and expand strategically across multiple service areas. 

Josh Vesely has spent 20 years in the trenches of the workforce solutions industry, and he understands how technology and labor impacts both the culture and the margin. At Findd, Josh helps organizations modernize their operations and enable the frontline with measurable, data-driven competitive advantage that scales across the field. Based in the Midwest, when Josh is not working with his team or customers, you can findd him at home with his family, on his bike or if he is lucky on the golf course.