Pete is a Senior Director with the Customer Contact Leadership Council of the Corporate Executive Board. In his role, Pete provides support to member executives identifying and applying insight to address their most critical customer-facing challenges. Pete provides advice for executives across a number of critical decision areas, including: strategy, planning, talent management, issue resolution, loyalty and channel management.

Pete joined the CEB in 2007 after spending nine years in a financial services contact center, ultimately leading the commercial & retail centers.

Pete received a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Notre Dame and a Masters in Teaching from the University of Portland. Pete lives in Wilmington, Delaware.

Sarah joined KBM Group in February of 2011 and has 25 years of experience in call center operations including 4 years in data fulfillment and strategic sourcing. She is responsible for the strategic leadership of the BPO call center, data entry and fulfillment center as well as account leadership for two key KBMG clients.    Prior to KBMG, she started her career as a credit management trainee with Sears and helped to launch one of the first consolidated national credit call centers in Dayton, Ohio.  With the launch of the Discover Card in 1988, Sarah moved to the Merchant Services division, leading the call center teams supporting the business owners that accepted the Discover Card in their place of business.  She continued with Discover Card, relocating to Salt Lake City and then Chicago, where she serviced Discover customers in both customer service needs as well as in the outbound Collections division.  In 1999, she joined America Online as the General Manager for their 700 seat call center in Ogden, Utah supporting AOL members in sales, retention and technical support.  Just prior to joining KBM Group, Sarah was the Vice President of Customer Service and Call Centers with H&R Block out of Kansas City where she was instrumental in establishing operational improvements and key performance metrics, driving improved customer service and satisfaction.  From 2007 to 2010, she led the Northwest Division, supporting 1200 company and franchise owned retail outlets in eleven western states, driving innovative hiring strategies, talent management and revenue growth while improving margins through operational improvements.

In her role as VP of Strategic Marketing at inContact, Madelyn is responsible for market intelligence, demand generation, channel development, product positioning and messaging. Prior to joining inContact, Madelyn worked for Fortune 50 firms to small startups, including Sprint, Hallmark Cards, and H&R Block. During that time she’s worked in Marketing, Product, Sales, and Operations. Madelyn has worked in and managed teams in blended call centers at Hallmark and Sprint.

A passionate connector of people, Erica Marois is a customer and employee experience enthusiast who loves helping others find unique solutions to their biggest challenges. She has 12+ years of experience in content creation and community building and volunteers as a facilitator for CX Accelerator. A content marketing specialist with 8x8, Erica works from home in Richmond, VA, where she lives with her husband and their lab-mix, Quinn. Outside of work, she loves cooking, traveling, and reading.