Featured Speakers
Sit back and listen to compelling keynote presentations brought to you from some of the best innovators in GIS. Find out how these leading companies gain actionable intelligence across all lines of business in order to drive business change.
Rob Reiner
Director of Real Estate Research
Darden
Darden is the operator of Red Lobster, Olive Garden, Longhorn Steakhouse, The Capital Grille, Seasons 52, Eddie V’s, Bahama Breeze and Yard House restaurants across the United States. As director of real estate research, Rob is responsible for the strategic deployment plans, sales forecasting and GIS tools for the enterprise.
Rob has 30 years’ of experience in the development, implementation and use of GIS-based forecast systems from both the client and consultant perspective for restaurants and retailers. Prior to rejoining Darden in 2004, he spent 14 years with Thompson Associates/MapInfo.
Gregg Katz
Director of Innovation & Technology
The Shopping Center Group
Born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia, where the Shopping Center Group is also located, Gregg serves as Director of Innovation & Technology. He is responsible for the creation and integration of the technology strategy for the company. Using a forward thinking approach, Gregg’s focus is to create an infrastructure for data, analytics, social platforms, website, GIS, mobile technology and branding by leveraging information and tools to align the Company’s tactical plans and future growth with the needs of the company’s clients.
Gregg joined The Shopping Center Group in 2006 as a Tenant Rep Broker. Prior to joining the Company, he spent 15 years in restaurant operations, consulting, marketing and site selection, including owning and operating a quick-casual restaurant group in Orlando, Florida from 1996-2001. A graduate of Boston University with a degree in Business Management, he received his MBA from the University of Florida. Gregg, and his wife Elena, are the proud parents of two amazing boys.
Jill Boughton
President & CEO
SWRI
Jill Boughton has spent 24 years in global product development with PROCTER & GAMBLE, emphasizing in Disruptive and Transformational Innovation. Jill has extensive hands on experience in the full range of product development, from initial concept and consumer research, to formulation/prototype development, to technology transfer and manufacturing, to mass production and launch, to management and development of large and varied product portfolios. Most recently, Jill led a corporate-wide effort known as “Waste to Worth”, which is dedicated to delivering on P&G’s long-term sustainability goal of eliminating consumer solid waste that is sent to landfills.
Jill has recently retired from her successful career at PROCTER & GAMBLE and has assumed the role of President & CEO at the Sustainable WasteResources International (SWRI). SWRI will create an interactive global map/data base of waste management systems that will identify key locations of significant amounts of waste around the world. Focusing on these mapped out areas and other data acquired, the foundation will then bring together stakeholders in the waste management sector, including waste pickers, developers and governments, to create solutions that convert waste into valuable resources.
Jill graduated from Ohio State University, Cum Laude in Chemical Engineering, with distinction and holds a US Patent.