Mark Szypko is the Director of Total Rewards & HR Technology at Magic Leap in Plantation Florida. Szypko’s 35+ plus years of expertise include total rewards plan design, development and implementation, with emphasis on base pay, sales, international and executive plans. Additionally, he holds expertise in international benefits, mergers and acquisitions, and HR vendor selection and implementation.

Mark has worked within numerous technology leaders including IBM, Comcast, Kronos, Wang Laboratories, and Honeywell. With WorldatWork, he’s been a recipient of their prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award, a faculty member in their certification program and is a frequent author and lecturer.

Mark holds an MBA from Western New England College and a B.S. in Business Administration from Suffolk University. While Currently working in Florida, Mark’s roots are in New England where he cofounded the New England Compensation Consortium (NECC).

Michelle Comella serves as Vice President, Enterprise Organizational Effectiveness and HR Data Analytics for Mastercard. In this role, she manages a global team that is responsible for providing a consistent methodology around organization effectiveness principles, change management and key performance indicators.

Ms. Comella has spent more than ten years working with analytics, previously leading a workforce planning and reporting function within the company’s Global Business Shared Service Center, providing a strong linkage between human capital and financials. Because of her analytic background, she also is responsible for HR analytic enhancement, providing key insights in support of the overall function and company strategy.

Ms. Comella began her career at Mastercard in 2000 as a Financial Analyst in the IT organization.  Prior to joining Mastercard, she held finance positions in the Oil and Gas and Manufacturing industries.

Ms. Comella earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting from The University of Missouri – Columbia.  She is based in St. Louis, Missouri.

As Director of Global Compensation at Asahi Kasei America, Mr. Scott’s current role is to develop and harmonize pay programs for Asahi Kasei’s U.S. business units and their non-U.S. operations.

He has 21 years’ experience in corporate HR and in HR consulting at his own firm, Lindsay Scott & Associates, and with Aon, Buck Consultants, and the Hay Group. At LS&A, he managed the 15-year relationship providing compensation outsourcing services for a Fortune 75 firm’s North American operations. He also developed internal software analytics to manage comprehensive and large-scale compensation outsourcing operations for LS&A clients.

Prior to joining the HR ranks, he spent 18 years in big data analytics as an energy analyst developing econometric forecasting systems in the energy industry. This included a 20-year economic/energy forecasting system for a large Southeast electric utility and workforce analytics/labor cost forecasting systems for a major provider of nuclear power generation.

With more than 20 years’ experience, Tori Finucane leads the compensation function at Collette as Compensation Manager. In this role, Tori is helping Collette take a more strategic approach to pay by developing the philosophy and strategic direction of all the company’s compensation programs from the ground up.

Prior to Collette, Tori held HR and compensation roles at leading New England-based organizations, including the University of Massachusetts Boston, J. Jill, Rogers Corporation, Monster, and AMAG Pharmaceuticals. At these organizations, she led efforts in developing base pay structures, variable pay program design, executive compensation, implementing new sales incentives, and more.

Tori is certified professional of human resources. She has a Masters degree from Boston University and received her Bachelor of Arts from Purdue University.

Paul Reiman is the Head of Rewards and HR Operations for Commvault, a global provider of data management software and related solutions. In his role, he oversees the global vision and execution of the organization’s compensation, benefit, mobility, HR systems, and HR analytics programs.

Prior to joining Commvault in early 2016, he held a similar role with Morningstar. Before taking corporate HR leadership roles, Paul spent over a decade in HR consulting.

Paul has a degree in economics from the University of Chicago, and lives in the Chicago area. Paul also founded GetNerdyHR, a blog and podcast devoted to creating a better (and nerdier) way of doing HR.

With over 30 years of HR experience in various industries, Mario Ellis has a proven track record in Human Resources Operations and Functional Management. With a strong background in HR consulting, Mario has gained experience in aligning corporate vision and strategy with human resources policy and practices. Mario is an experienced team builder with a demonstrated ability to lead others toward achieving common goals, and a definite change agent and strategic partner with experience in compensation, benefits administration, project management, change management, systems implementation, and HR consulting.

In his current role as Senior Director of Compensation and Retirement Benefits for Cleveland Clinic, Mario is responsible for leading and directing the planning, administration, implementation and communication of wage and salary management programs and retirement programs.

Mario has a Bachelor’s of Science degree in Human Resource Management.

Adam Murphy is the Compensation Manager for ARUP Laboratories, a national clinical and anatomic pathology reference laboratory and a worldwide leader in innovative laboratory research and development.

Prior to joining ARUP Laboratories, he worked for L-3 Communications and later spent time in the financial industry at Goldman Sachs and Mountain America Credit Union before joining ARUP Laboratories.

Adam graduated in business with an HR emphasis from Weber State University located in Ogden, Utah. He went on to later receive his Certified Compensation Professional certification from WorldatWork in 2016.

With 13 years of Human Resources experience and over a decade in healthcare compensation, Frank has led many Human Resources healthcare standardization initiatives during his career.

In addition to his experience, he holds a Bachelor of Arts in Economics with concentrations in Statistics and Sociology from Cleveland State University. This experience and education has given Frank a keen eye for gathering and analyzing internal business metrics and external market trends which have helped him develop effective Compensation tools and resources in the healthcare industry.

Currently, Frank is the Manager of Total Rewards in Compensation. He and his team help support over 50,000 caregivers and 40 unique healthcare service lines at the Cleveland Clinic.

Rick Leone currently serves as Vice President, Total Rewards at Mastercard. In this role, he is responsible for Compensation Program Design and Development, with a current focus on MasterCard’s Global Career and Rewards Framework and Job Architecture. Mr. Leone joined MasterCard in 1998 and has over 20 years of compensation experience. During his tenure at MasterCard he has held several positions in the Compensation function and has managed the compensation consulting team tasked with providing expertise to our business units. He has also led the delivery of the annual compensation planning process, global market pricing platform, and designed Mastercard’s global career levels and job evaluation program.

Prior to joining MasterCard, Mr. Leone served as a Survey Team Leader at Towers Perrin where he managed the General Industry and Financial Services Compensation Databases.

Mr. Leone earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology from Buffalo State College and a Masters of Business Administration from Pace University. He is currently based in Purchase, New York.