Our Speaker Line-Up

Joseph Raczyinski

Technologist/Futurist

Joseph Raczynski is a global leader in leveraging emerging technologies to improve economic competitiveness, equity, and business resilience. He delivers actionable and forward-thinking technological intelligence with a focus on future trends guidance shaping the world. His focus is on Thought Leadership, Communications, Product, and Customer Success.

His primary focus is around the future of technology, speaking globally about Blockchain, Artificial Intelligence, Cryptocurrency, DAOs, NFTs, and the Metaverse, Cybersecurity, ChatGPT, and LegalTech. He also writes about economic, political, and global technology trends as they impact the crossroads of our personal and professional lives. He has been quoted hundreds of times in over a dozen languages. Joseph hosts Technology Snippets Today a video podcast series, exploring cutting edge technology and innovation. He served as a mentor with the Columbia | IBM Blockchain Accelerator and is a presidential committee appointee to the American Bar Association, Center for Innovation Governing Council, and serves as a corporate liaison to the Council on Foreign Relations. He earned a dual degree in Economics and Sociology and holds a Masters in eCommerce and an MBA.

Dane Chamorro

Partner, Control Risks

Dane Chamorro is a Partner at Control Risks and head of the Global Risk Analysis and Business Intelligence practice in the Americas. Specializing in the politics and economic development of China, political/regulatory risk and due diligence, Dane regularly advises strategic investors and private equity firms on political and partner risks, corporate governance and high-profile business disputes globally.

A former US diplomat with over 30 years’ professional experience in the Asia Pacific region, Dane previously served as the Markets and Partnerships lead for Control Risks in Asia Pacific, as well as Managing Partner for the Southeast Asia business. Prior to this he acted as Director of Global Risk Analysis for the Asia Pacific region and Managing Director of the company’s North Asia business, encompassing Greater China, Korea and Mongolia.

Kathryn Unger

Vice President ESG, Boston Scientific

Kathryn Unger is the Vice President of Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) at Boston Scientific, a role that aligns with the company's increasing focus on sustainability and responsible corporate practices. Her extensive experience in managing complex business units and navigating intricate government relations at Cummins Inc. and Cargill has prepared her well for her current position.

Kathryn has a personal interest in sustainability, having previously managed an organic farm in North Carolina with her husband, where they practiced sustainable agriculture. She also serves on the board of Urban Ventures, a nonprofit organisation dedicated to ending generational poverty, reflecting her dedication to community development.

Kathryn's approach to ESG is pragmatic, focusing on adapting to evolving regulations, changing customer expectations, and ongoing scientific advancements to continuously improve the company's impact on its communities and the environment.

Boston Scientific's 41,000 employees in approximately 115 countries all contribute to company initiatives aimed at addressing challenges including inequity, economic disparity, climate change and environmental protection. In her role, Kathryn leads the company’s global ESG council, comprised of subject matter experts from across the company, which provides updates to the company’s board of directors. This framework is intended to create shared accountability for ESG progress.

Kathryn Unger holds a Master of Business Administration (MBA) in Business Administration and Management from Stanford University Graduate School of Business, where she served as Co-Chair of the Black Business Students' Association. She also earned a Master of Accounting from the UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School between 1999 and 2000. Additionally, Kathryn completed her undergraduate studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, earning a Bachelor of Arts in Spanish Education K-12 in 1996.

Geneva Brown

Vice President of DEI and ESG, The Cigna Group

Geneva is known for being a strategic leader with a track record for delivering results through principled and profitable ways to manage laws and risks in an effort to innovate within the healthcare industry.

Geneva is the Global Head of ESG & DEI for The Cigna Group, a Fortune 20 healthcare company covering more than 165 million lives with nearly 70,000 employees. In this role, she is responsible for the development and execution of the enterprise’s strategies to transform the health ecosystem into one that is well-functioning, sustainable, inclusive, accessible, and equitable for all. Specifically, Geneva spearheads The Cigna Group’s focus on environmental, social and governance issues as well as the meaningful work related to diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging, which involves engagement with a broad range of internal and external leaders and stakeholders to shape and advance the company’s strategies, policies, practices and programs.

Geneva previously focused her legal practice on supporting governance and operational matters with boards of directors and executive leadership, providing expert legal oversight for corporate governance, shareholder engagement, securities trading practices, enterprise structural issues and charitable giving. Prior to that, Geneva supported corporate transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, venture capital investments and strategic deals, as well as general business and antitrust advising within the healthcare industry.

Moray McLaren

Co-Founder, Lexington Consultants

Moray has been advising law firms for nearly 30 years. A lawyer by training, he completed an MBA in legal services before specialising in client relations within one of the global firms. Today he advises the top independent law firms as they review their approach to clients and markets. He also assists global law firms as they review their practice performance or enter new markets.

For the last decade, he has focused on fast-changing legal markets across Asia, Europe, Latin America and the Middle East. Many of the firms are founder-led and all are seeking growth and increasing professionalisation. As part of the Lexington Academy, Moray designs and delivers learning and development programmes to Partners at many of the top law firms globally including, for instance, Freshfields, Kirkland & Ellis and Latham & Watkins. He regularly designs and delivers law firm Board and Partner retreats.

He was the inaugural chair of the Strategy Working Group of the Law Firm Management Committee of the International Bar Association (IBA). He is the co-director of the IBA’s new Leadership Academy and leads their Talent & Leadership Sub-Committee.

Moray is particularly interested in innovation within legal services and is one of the judges for the Financial Times Innovative Lawyers Awards. He is also a Business School professor and a member of the Moller Institute at the University of Cambridge.

Moray has been a guest speaker at, amongst others, Harvard Law School and Kings College London. He is a Fellow of the Harvard-affiliated Institute of Coaching.

Mari Cruz Taboada

Head of Client Management & Legal Innovation, Lexington Consultants

Mari Cruz is a lawyer by training, mediator and entrepreneur who advises law firms as they modernise, seek growth and enter new markets through alliances and mergers. She specialises in client management, talent development and performance in the legal sector.

She has worked with both global leading law firms helping specific practice areas develop client relationships as well as leading independent firms. Passionate about innovation and change, Mari Cruz has been an Associate Professor at IE Business School in Madrid for over a decade – teaching on the MBA and executive education programs. She also taught the Law Unplugged course at IE Law School.

She was the co-founder of Iberian Legal Group (publishers of Iberian Lawyer) serving as their CEO from 2011. Mari Cruz qualified as a lawyer in Barcelona before training and gaining accreditation as a mediator at the Centre for Dispute Resolution (CEDR) in London – Europe’s largest centre for commercial dispute resolution –where she was recruited by their business development team. Over the years, she has assisted parties in more than 300 mediations across employment, civil and commercial disputes.