How do you create an environment that enables all people to thrive every day? It has to be within your organization’s DNA and mission. It means involving everyone in the room, and proactively creating leadership frameworks where everyone can succeed from the outset. When you do this, you have the power to attract the best tech minds that can accelerate the transportation industry into today’s digital world so that truck drivers can be supported not only during the week, but nights, weekends, and holidays. Creating a positive environment for all, including women, can help elevate the industry to achieve new heights.
Triumph Financial (TFIN) is a success story for this framework: women represent 63% of the overall team member population at TFIN, 33% of management at SVP and EVP levels, and women represent 40% of the TriumphPay team. In an industry where 31.6% of C-suite executives are women and 36.9% of company leaders are female, TFIN can share important touchstones for success. Attend this session to learn:
How to foster a diverse and inclusive environment within the transportation industry. Attendees can see results from the presenters’ efforts on the CEO Council on Diversity and Inclusion at Triumph Financial, and how they were able to make changes as executive members. Involving team members in a collective mission to align business goals, corporate values and the company’s future can be rewarding.
Ways to adopt a leadership framework. The audience can benefit from seeing how Triumph Financial has implemented a leadership framework and how that can guide leadership within other organizations. It will be demonstrated on how to lead yourself, lead others, and lead the organization so that you can develop others and create a diverse and inclusive environment.
How to build a unique vision. The audience will learn how striving for common principles like diversity and inclusion, in addition to other transformative goals, can lead to greater success and create a wider perspective within organizations."
MEET THE SPEAKERS
Melissa Forman
President TriumphPay
Melissa Forman
President TriumphPay
Melissa Forman is President at TriumphPay, where she leads a team that created the industry’s first ever open payments network for the trucking industry. She has held numerous leadership roles in the transportation sector, where less than 15% of executive leaders are women. Forman also held various roles in finance, including nearly a decade leading sales and strategic partnerships for eCapital and several years with ACS Expedited Services, where she oversaw multiple software-as-a-service programs servicing thousands of trucks. Her business acumen and experience supports her ability to provide insights on the trucking ecosystem and the technological innovation that is changing how payments are made and transactions are handled among carriers, brokers, shippers and factors.
Renee Galitis
Executive Vice President and Chief Information Officer Triumph Financial
Renee Galitis
Executive Vice President and Chief Information Officer Triumph Financial
Renee Galitis joined Triumph Financial, Inc. (Nasdaq: TFIN) as Executive Vice President, Chief Information Officer in 2021. She is responsible for executing the information technology strategy, providing direction and oversight for information technology and security teams. She leads existing and emerging enterprise technology initiatives that drive operational excellence for the company.
Galitis joined the company with a successful track record of working for high-growth financial service companies. Before Triumph Financial, she served as Executive Vice President, Chief Information Officer with Caliber Home Loans, a publicly traded mortgage company located in Coppell, Texas, where she was responsible for all technology supporting Caliber’s aggressive growth plan and innovation in creating the “Ultimate Home Buying Experience.” Prior to Caliber, Galitis was Chief Technology Officer at Black Knight, Inc., a company that provided integrated technology, data, and analytics to the mortgage and real estate industry. She has also served in several senior management positions at both technology and mortgage firms including Bank of America and Nexstar Financial, a KKR venture capital backed start-up specializing in mortgage process outsourcing and software innovation.
Galitis earned a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Tufts University.
