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Professional Executive Research

Delivered January 8, 2020. Contributor: Elizabeth W.

Goals

To have a brief overview of Jamie Dimon (J.P. Morgan Chase), Satya Nadella (Microsoft), Jeff Bezos (Amazon), Donna Morris (Adobe), Maria Martinez (CISCO) and Jon Herstein (BOX), including their current title, short bio/work history, the topics/areas of expertise they talk about or champion most often, where/how often in the media they are quoted, what boards they're on, recent speak engagements and recent awards.

Early Findings

During our preliminary research, we were able to provide the current title and bio/work history (including any boards) for each of the executives mentioned above. Below is an overview of our early findings.
Jamie DimonJamie Dimon currently holds the position of Chief Executive Officer and President for JPMorgan Chase. He has been in this position since 2005.
Dimon earned his Bachelor of Arts degree from Tufts University. He also received a Master of Business Administration degree from Harvard Business School.
Jamie started his professional career in 2000 as a Chairman and Chief Executive Officer for Bank One. He left this position in 2004.
He then became President and Chief Operating Officer for JPMorgan Chase in 2004, before being promoted to his currently position in 2005. 
He also currently sits as Chairman of the Board for JPMorgan Chase. 
Satya NadellaSatya Nadella is currently the CEO of Microsoft. He has been in this position since 2014. 
Satya received his Electrical Engineering Bachelor's degree from Manipal Institute of Technology and a Master's degree in Computer Science from University of Wisconsin-Milwuakee. 
The only position he has ever held is his current position as CEO of Microsoft.
However, he does currently also sit on the boards of Fred Hutch, Starbucks, and the University of Chicago.
Jeff BezosJeff Bezos is the current founder and CEO of Amazon.com. He has been in this position since 1995.
Jeff graduated from Princeton University with a degree in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering.
He began his professional career in 1988 as a Product Manager for Bankers Trust.
Lastly, before founding Amazon, in 1990 Bezos began working at D. E. Shaw & Co as the Senior Vice-President until 1994. 
He also currently sits as the Chairman of the Board for Amazon.com.
Donna MorrisDonna Morris is currently the Chief Human Resources Officer & Executive Vice President of Employee Experience for Adobe. She has been in this role since December 2018.
Morris has a Bachelor's degree in Political Science from Carelton University.
She has also received multiple professional certificates such as a Human Resources Certificate and a Certificate in Strategic HR Management.
Donna started out her professional career as a HR Generalist for Rogers Communication. She was in this role from 1992 to 1994.
She then worked as a Compensation Analyst from 1994 to 1996 for the City of Ottawa. 
After that, she became a Manager of Human Resources for Fulcrum Software, where she worked from 1996 to 1998.
From 1998 to 2002, she held the position of Vice President of Human Resources for Accelio.
From there, from 2002 to 2006, she worked as a Vice President of Global Talent Management/Senior Director for Adobe.
In 2005, she moved up to the position of Vice President of Global Operations for Adobe. She then became the Senior Vice President of Global People and Places for the company.
In 2015, she moved up to the Senior Vice President of Customer and Employee Experience for Adobe, where she then became the Executive Vice President of Customer and Employee Experience in 2016 before being promoted to her most recent position. 
She has also been on the board, Advisory Board, or Board of Directors for Second Harvest Food Bank of Santa Clara and San Mateo Counties, Foothill-De Anza Community College District, SHRM, Adobe Foundation, and Marvell Semiconductor. 
Maria MartinezMaria Martinez currently holds the position of EVP and Chief Customer Experience Officer for Cisco. She has been in this role since April 2018.
Maria received her Bachelor's in Electrical Engineering from the Universidad de Puerto Rico (University of Puerto Rico) and a Master's degree in Computer Engineering from Ohio State University.
She began her professional career in 1980 as the Department Head for AT&T Bell Labs, where she worked until 1991.
From 1991 to 2000, she held the position of Vice President of Motorola. 
She then became the President and CEO of Embrace Networks from 2000 to 2003.
From 2003 to 2006, Maria worked at Microsoft as the CVP of the Communications Sector.
She then was promoted to CVP of Microsoft Services from 2006 to 2009.
In 2010, Maria began her career at Salesforce. In her 8 years with the company, she worked as the Chief Growth Officer & EVP Customers for Life, President of Sales and Customer Success, and President of Global Customer Success & Salesforce Latin America. 
She currently is on the Board of Directors for the Silicon Valley Education Foundation and McKesson. 
Jon HersteinJon Herstein is currently the Chief Customer Officer for Box. He has been in this role since September 2018.
He also currently holds the position of Senior Vice President, Customer Success for the company. He has held this position since 2011.
He also currently works as an Advisor for Remix Software, Inc., where he has been working since 2016. 
Jon received his Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from the University of Maryland. 
Herstein began his professional career in 1990 as the Senior Manager for Accenture, where he worked until 1999.
From 1999 to 2007, he worked as the Senior Director of Professional Services for Informatica.
Lastly, from 2007 to 2011, Jon worked for NetSuite as the Vice President of Professional Services.
He also currently sits on the Board of Directors for Box.
Proprietary Research In addition to this public search, we scanned our proprietary research database of over 1 million sources and were unable to find any specific research reports that address your goals.

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In order to provide a more in-depth overview of the requested executives, we suggest diving deeper with additional research to provide an overview of each executive's topics/areas of expertise they talk about or champion most often. We will focus on 2 executives for each block of research.

We also suggest diving deeper with additional research to 1) compile a list of recent speak engagements (within the last 6 months) for each of the requested executives. For each engagement, we will provide an overview of what the engagement was for/about, the date, and location. If the executive had less than 3 speaking engagements over the last 6 months, we will expand to speaking engagements over the last 12 months. We will focus on 2 executives for each block of research, and 2) A list of awards each of the executives have received over the last 12 months. If the executive has won less than 3 awards over the last 12 months, we will expand our research to the last 24 months. For each award, we will provide an overview of what the award is, what they won the award for, and when they won the award. We will focus on 2 executives for each block of research.

Lastly, we suggest conducting a press search for each of the requested executives to compile a list of 3-5 articles where EACH executive was either mentioned or quoted in the last 6 months. If at least 3 articles cannot be found from within the last 6 months, we will expand our research to the last 12 months. For each article, we will provide the link to it, a brief summary of what the article is about, and an overview of why the executive was mentioned or their quote from the article. We will focus on 2 executives for each block of research (for a total of 6-10 articles per block of research).