Candice Ciresi, SVP General Counsel, Corp. Secretary at David’s Bridal, Recognized with the Legal Innovator of the Year Award!

The Millennium Alliance is proud to announce that Candice Ciresi, SVP, General Counsel & Corporate Secretary at David’s Bridal, received the Legal Innovator of the Year Award at our Transformational Chief Legal Officer Assembly, held September 23–24 at The Wigwam Resort in Phoenix.

See the full list of winners and learn how you could be our next nominee—visit our Awards Page!

About Candice Ciresi

Candace is an accomplished legal executive with more than two decades of in-house experience across major public and private companies. Her expertise spans high-stakes governance, complex transactions, and enterprise risk, with a proven ability to protect the organization while enabling strategic growth.

#MillenniumLive: From MQLs to AI Agents: Reimagining B2B Inbound Demand with Docket

What if the biggest untapped opportunity in B2B isn’t generating more traffic—but actually having a conversation with the people already visiting your website? Nearly all B2B website visitors leave without ever speaking to someone, and in this episode, we have leadership from our partners at Docket to address why that problem has persisted and whether AI agents can finally change it. Arjun Pillai, CEO, Docket and Gary Amaral, VP, Marketing, Docket join Millennium Live to talk through the latest developments in B2B go-to-market. The conversation goes beyond the hype around AI agents to examine how an the Inbound Demand Agent can engage prospects, qualify intent, use trusted company knowledge, Sales Knowledge Lake™ at Docket, and hand off to sales when a human is needed. Arjun and Gary also challenge the traditional MQL model and discuss what happens to marketing and sales roles when the first inbound interaction is no longer handled by a form or a rep.

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About Docket

Docket is the Agentic Marketing platform for B2B revenue teams. Its AI Marketing Agent is always on — engaging website visitors the moment they land, answering product questions from approved knowledge, qualifying intent in the conversation, routing to the right rep, and booking meetings.

Powered by the Docket Sales Knowledge Lake™ — a governed knowledge foundation unifying product, pricing, security, and competitive intelligence — the AI Marketing Agent answers only from what you’ve approved. Every conversation produces an Agent Qualified Lead (AQL): a fully documented lead with qualification status, intent signals, and a context card synced to your CRM before the rep’s first call.

B2B companies deploying Docket see a 36% conversation start rate versus 13% on legacy form flows, 15% more qualified pipeline, 12% higher win rates, and 10% shorter sales cycles. Demandbase automated 93% of seller queries in under two weeks. Docket goes live in 7–14 days.

Docket is SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, and GDPR certified. It does not train on customer data.

To learn more, visit www.docket.io

James Downing, Chief Compliance Officer at JLL Capital Markets, Recognized with the Compliance Innovator of the Year Award!

The Millennium Alliance is proud to announce that James Downing, Chief Compliance Officer at JLL Capital Markets, received the Compliance Innovator of the Year Award at our Transformational Enterprise GRC Assembly, held September 23–24 at The Wigwam Resort in Phoenix.

See the full list of winners and learn how you could be our next nominee—visit our Awards Page!

About James Downing

James is a Chief Compliance Officer and trusted advisor to executive teams, providing practical applications of regulation to businesses to help ensure business objectives are met. He has experience with FINRA, the 1940 Investment Advisers Act, the Investment Company Act in the U.S., as well as extensive international compliance experience. He has worked across both retail and institutional sectors, building compliance programs that meet the letter of the law while aligning with regulators’ and executives’ expectations.

The Millennium Alliance Appoints Jonathan Tam as CMO to Sharpen Its Brand as the Go-To Platform for Enterprise C-Suite Access

New York, NY — September 22, 2026 — The Millennium Alliance is proud to announce the appointment of Jonathan Tam as its new Chief Marketing Officer. A seasoned B2B marketing and information services executive, Tam brings more than two decades of experience spanning marketing strategy, brand transformation, research, digital media, and go-to-market leadership to help drive The Millennium Alliance through its next phase of growth.

Tam joins The Millennium Alliance following his tenure as Chief Marketing Officer at EMARKETER, where he led the company’s marketing organization and played a key role in rebranding and modernizing the business, launching new products, campaigns and its portfolio of events and industry experiences. During his tenure, he helped connect research, data, and insights with the needs of senior marketing and business leaders.

Prior to EMARKETER, Tam served as Vice President of Marketing at Liferay and held senior research leadership roles at Forrester. His career has included leadership across marketing, research, analytics, and technology, giving him a unique perspective on how organizations can translate market intelligence into stronger brands, deeper customer engagement, and sustainable growth.

“Enterprise leaders are drowning in content and starving for something that actually feels real, and that’s what Millennium has built for 12 years. Right now, the results are ahead of the recognition, and closing that gap is exactly what I’m here for. That means a brand that lands just as strong with the C-suite leaders in the room as it does with the partners who help make the room possible.” – Jonathan Tam, CMO of The Millennium Alliance

In his new role, Tam will lead strategic initiatives focused on strengthening The Millennium Alliance’s global brand, advancing its use of data and market intelligence, and expanding its market presence. Working closely with the executive and marketing leadership teams, he will help shape the company’s brand strategy, deepen understanding of its Enterprise C-Suite audience, and identify new opportunities to drive engagement and long-term growth.

“Jonathan brings an exceptional combination of strategic marketing leadership, B2B expertise, and a deep understanding of how to build brands in information-driven businesses,” said Alex Sobol, Co-Founder and Managing Partner of The Millennium Alliance. “His experience across marketing, research, data, and technology makes him a tremendous addition to our executive team. We’re excited to have him help shape the next chapter of Millennium as we continue to expand our platform and reach.”

For more information or to get in contact with The Millennium Alliance directly, contact [email protected].

ABOUT THE MILLENNIUM ALLIANCE

Founded in 2014, The Millennium Alliance is a premier technology and business advisory firm dedicated to transforming the digital enterprise. By bridging the gap between enterprise C-Suite leaders and their technology partners, we’ve become a global leader in corporate-level executive education and peer-to-peer engagement.

We provide unparalleled access to the enterprise technology community through a combination of premium digital properties and high-impact, in-person experiences, helping organizations of all sizes effectively engage this influential audience.

Our Impact & Reach

We provide senior executives with tangible, real-world learning through a mix of curated in-person experiences and a supporting multimedia ecosystem, including:

High-Impact Events: Exclusive multi-day global Assemblies, ABM-focused community dinners, and one-day city sessions designed to foster meaningful connections, actionable insights, and peer-to-peer collaboration
Digital Leadership: Robust online platforms and premium digital properties
Elite Research: Collaborative projects with world-renowned academic institutions and think tanks

A Global Community

Now one of the world’s fastest-growing platforms for the Enterprise C-Suite, the Alliance serves organizations of all sizes across the private and public sectors. Headquartered in Midtown Manhattan with European operations in the heart of London, we continue to evolve as an international hub for the innovation and technology community.

How to Stay Calm as a CISO: 8 Serious-ish Tips for the Age of AI Phishing with Brightside AI

Contributed by Brightside

Alert fatigue, endless audits, and a CFO who might be a deepfake. 8 tongue-in-cheek tips to help CISOs stay calm, plus one that actually lowers the cognitive load.

As a CISO, you’ve probably had enough of the “are we secure?” question. Your board wants the one-word answer, not the four-paragraph reality you’re actually thinking about.

Then there are a compliance calendar that never actually ends, alert fatigue, 3am pages, a budget that grows slower than your attack surface, and the fact that one person clicking one link can undo a year of your work. Now add AI-generated phishing, cloned voices, and deepfake video calls to the pile, and “staying calm” starts to feel like a compliance requirement nobody wrote down.

Feeling the pressure? Click here for 8 serious-ish tips to help CISOs stay calm in the age of AI phishing.

About Brightside AI

Brightside AI is a Swiss cybersecurity company helping organizations defend against AI-enabled social engineering — including phishing, vishing, and deepfake-driven attacks.

Modern attackers increasingly target people rather than systems. Brightside AI helps CISOs and security teams reduce human risk through realistic attack simulations and training that reflect how today’s adversaries operate across email, sms, voice and other channels.

The platform delivers AI-powered phishing and vishing simulations together with security awareness programs designed for the GenAI threat landscape. Scenarios cover threats such as:

– deepfake impersonation
– multi-channel spear phishing
– business email compromise (BEC)
– vendor impersonation attacks

Employees experience lifelike attack scenarios tailored to their role and context, while security leaders gain clear visibility into behavioral vulnerabilities and measurable improvements over time. Brightside AI is used by CISOs, security awareness leaders, and GRC teams who need to demonstrate real risk reduction, not just training completion. The platform provides human-risk analytics that help prioritize security investments, support audits, and align awareness programs with frameworks such as NIST and ISO 27001.

To learn more, visit www.brside.com

AI is Only as Good as the Data Beneath It with Robling

Contributed by Robling

Every retail leader has heard the same promise for a few years now: AI is about to change how the business runs. Gartner predicts that through 2026, organizations will abandon 60% of AI projects that are not backed by AI-ready data, and in over a dozen private meetings at the Retail Innovation and Transformation Assembly this August, Robling CEO Jeff Buck heard why. Almost nobody asked for another dashboard or another model. What executives described was hundreds of reports nobody can read, weekly numbers still pulled together by hand, and customer, transaction and inventory data sitting in three systems that nothing joins. The decisions that matter, what to buy, what to move, where margin is quietly slipping, keep arriving a step too late, and the data underneath the AI was never ready to answer them.

Robling’s founder, Jeff Buck, has spent more than 25 years on exactly that problem. He built QuantiSense in 2001, sold it to Aptos in 2014, then founded Robling in 2018, and along the way his teams have untangled retail data for names like Pacsun, Belk and Michael Kors. When Robling’s platform pulled Hot Topic’s fulfillment data into one place, it surfaced the split-shipment losses buried in online orders, and the policy change that followed saved over $200,000 in the first weekend alone. Sell-Thru.AI is what that groundwork now feeds: a narrative application that sits on top of the data a retailer already runs, defines every retail measure once using logic hardened across more than sixty retail brands, and scans the full dataset continuously to say what moved, what is off, and why. The piece that makes it possible is a universal semantic layer, and our guide for CIOs walks through the five points that decide whether one actually works.

Click here to learn more.

About Robling

Robling helps retailers unite data across silos and unlock insights that generate millions in new revenue, increased margins and enhanced productivity across the enterprise. Customers like Belk, Hot Topic and Accent Decor use Robling to put data and analytics at the fingertips of everyone who needs it, from data scientists to retail executives, using any BI or analytics front-end tools they prefer. Unlike typical data warehousing approaches, Robling’s Data-as-a-Service (DaaS) is a product, not an endless project. Robling’s fully cloud-based analytics foundation — featuring connectors to common retail systems — rapidly delivers on retailers’ most valuable and pressing analytic use cases, all backed by the company’s software and its unique blend of retail, technical and analytics expertise.

To learn more, visit robling.io.

Michael Jones, Chief Talent Officer at Medtronic, Recognized with the HR Leadership Award!

The Millennium Alliance is proud to announce that Michael Jones, Chief Talent Officer at Medtronic, received the HR Leadership Award at our Transformational Talent Attraction & Development Assembly, held August 18–19 at The Four Seasons in Austin.

See the full list of winners and learn how you could be our next nominee—visit our Awards Page!

About Michael Jones

Michael leverages his 20+ years of global executive experience to coach, guide, and support the Board, the C-suite, and their teams in developing and executing strategies that drive organizational performance and deliver business results, with a proven track record of transforming talent, processes, and systems across diverse industries and markets.

Michael also serves as an investment advisor for Astia, a venture capital and angel investment fund for women-led businesses.

The Retail AI Data Problem with Robling

Contributed by Robling

Gartner predicts that through 2026, organizations will abandon 60% of AI projects that aren’t backed by AI-ready data. These projects don’t fail because the models are weak. They fail because the data underneath them was never ready.

Retail feels this harder than most. Its data sits in a series of disconnected silos, all with their own formats, item codes, and reporting schedules. Point AI at that and you get fast, confident answers you can’t trust.

Jeff Buck, CEO of Robling, has spent 25 years solving this exact problem for specialty retail. There, he crafted the go-to data foundation that makes business intelligence work. Now he has brought that same expertise to the single most important ingredient for making AI work: Robling’s retail AI semantic layer, the shared language that lets AI make sense of retail data.

Sell-Thru.AI, Robling’s agentic application, is the intelligence layer that sits on top, putting the latest models to work to give you instant, actionable insights.

Click here to learn more.

About Robling

To learn more, visit robling.io.

5-Step Guide to Monday Morning Retail Clarity With Neurotrack

Contributed by Neurotrack

This guide for Specialty Retailers covers 5 steps to replace stitched-together spreadsheets with a single, decision-ready view of your retail performance so you can end the weekly data war between Finance and Merch and get one version of the truth for margins, sell-through, and promotions.

I’ve spent 20 years building retail-native data infrastructure for brands like Foot Locker, Michael Kors, Hot Topic, and Belk. My mission is to replace fragmented silos with a single version of the truth, ending the “Analytic Loop of Despair” so your merchants can stop acting as data janitors and get back to driving margin.

Click here to get your FREE guide and start turning your retail data into smarter, faster decisions.

About Neurotrack

Neurotrack is a cognitive care enablement platform that helps primary care teams detect, diagnose, and manage cognitive decline earlier. Founded on decades of neuroscience research, Neurotrack replaces outdated paper-based screeners with a fast, reliable digital assessment that fits into routine visits or can be self-administered by patients at home, before an appointment, or anywhere care happens. The result: providers gain the confidence to act on cognitive concerns rather than refer and wait, and patients get answers years sooner.

Earlier detection also carries direct economic value. Under CMS’s V28 risk adjustment model, accurate dementia diagnosis and documentation protect appropriate reimbursement, while earlier intervention reduces the avoidable hospitalizations and emergency utilization that drive costs in undiagnosed populations. With seamless integration into leading EMRs, including Epic, Neurotrack partners with health systems, health plans, and value-based care organizations to close the gap between the first signs of cognitive decline and a documented diagnosis with a care plan behind it.

To learn more, visit neurotrack.com.

Sharilyn Campbell, SVP & Chief Financial Officer at Sentara Health Plans, Recognized with the Healthcare Payers CFO of the Year Award!

The Millennium Alliance is proud to announce that Sharilyn Campbell, SVP & Chief Financial Officer at Sentara Health Plans, received the Healthcare Payers CFO of The Year Award at our Transformational CFO Healthcare Payers Assembly, held August 11–12 at The Four Seasons in Austin.

See the full list of winners and learn how you could be our next nominee—visit our Awards Page!

About Sharilyn Campbell

Senior financial executive with “Big 4” public accounting background and a demonstrated track record of success guiding large-scale accounting, finance, operations, and technology functions within complex, highly-regulated environments.

Recognized throughout career for extensive strengths developing teams, leveraging technology, promoting innovation and cost efficiency, and collaborating effectively with executive teams and internal staff. Exceptional communicator, comfortable presenting detailed financial subject matter and recommendations to various audiences—including financial peers and non-financial stakeholder groups / board members.