The Hatchery and Wimlink present:

Joanne Zaiac
President, Digitas NY Region

As President of the Digitas New York region, Joanne is responsible for driving the strategy and execution of Digitas services across the region’s client base (including American Express, TIAA CREF, Kraft, Delta, and Samsung). She oversees the development and growth of the NY City, Stamford, CT and Altanta locations. During her tenure as President, she has driven significant expansion and growth of Digitas New York, adding several Fortune 500 clients and recruiting some of the industry’s top talent. Joanne’s career as an integrated marketer began in general advertising at Havas Dentsu Marsteller. She then spent 14 years in Direct Marketing at Wunderman Worldwide/Young & Rubicam. She joined Digitas in 1999 to gain more experience in digital marketing.

Joanne serves on the Board of Directors for Junior Achievement New York and on the Advisory Board for SheSpeaks.com.   She was honored in 2011 by Advertising Women of NY (AWNY)  and Working Mother Magazine as Advertising Working Mother of the Year.  She is also an honored recipient of the Academy of Women Achiever’s (YWCA) Women Achiever Award. Joanne graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University with a BA in History and Literature, and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. She lives in Manhattan with her husband and three children.

Diane Oshin

Group Publisher/allyou & Cooking Light
Time Inc

 Diane Oshin, a 16-year Time Inc. veteran, has overseen the marketing and growth of women’s content brands including ALL YOU, Parenting, Vogue and Woman’s Day. In 2004, she launched ALL YOU, focusing on the expanding market of value-driven consumers. ALL YOU has experienced exponential growth in print, digital and social media outlets, providing promotional and activation tools for the value-oriented shopper.

Oshin holds an MBA in marketing/finance from Columbia University and a BA from Tufts University.

As an executive leadership development coach and management consultant, Valia propels business leaders to reach their full potential across a wide array of business challenges and opportunities. From developing processes and strategy to enhancing personal balance and power, Valia guides her clients to transformational, meaningful, and long-lasting change. Her clients range across industry and scope from entrepreneurs in Real Estate and Retail to established business leaders in Financial Services and Manufacturing to world-renown brands.

Valia’s passion for coaching is driven by 10 years of professional experience in marketing, management, and consulting with a focus on developing business strategy, generating licensing partnerships, leading interdisciplinary teams, and creating audience development and communications programs. In addition to executive coaching engagements, Valia offers leadership training seminars and speaking engagements on intuitive leadership and personal power in business.

The Evening’s Agenda:

6pm – Doors open for pre-event drinks, snacks, and networking.

6:30pm - Opening remarks from event co-hosts Tania Yuki and Yao Huang.
Leadership expert Valia Glytsis introduces our key discussion themes as well as the changing face of women’s leadership today and into 2012.

6:45 - 8:00pm - Leadership Lessons Learned followed by Q&A with Joanne Zaiac, Diane Oshin and Angela Leaney

8:00 - 8:45pm -  Follow up Q&A, drinks, dessert and networking

Event co-hosts:

Yao Hui Huang
Founder of The Hatchery

Yao-Hui Huang is a highly entrepreneurial executive who works with businesses and startups in many industries with a focus on technology, helping them to grow their organizations in a market-smart and cost-effective way. Yao has started and run several companies in the technology, digital media, and venture space.

She is a Founder and Managing Director of The Hatchery, a venture collaboration organization with international reach bridging the gap between entrepreneurs and investors through resources, advisory, funding and building communities.  She has had multiple successes as an entrepreneur and supports other companies in advisory and C level management roles.  With greater and greater needs and access by entrepreneurs, The Hatchery was found.

Tania Yuki
Founder of wimlink and VP TV Advertiser Solutions, Visible World.

Tania is a digital media executive who began her career as a filmmaker and media attorney, and specialized in film finance and development as well as documentary and feature film productions. After working in film for several years however, she was seduced by digital and went on to run an online video content network as head of acquisitions and has also lead product management for comScore's Video Metrix, the world's leading online video ratings service. Currently, she runs the TV Ad Solutions group with TV ad targeting company Visible World. She has been hosting events for women with wimlink since founding at the start of 2008. More about wimlink can be found here