Aron J. Ain serves as executive chair of the UKG Board of Directors.

Aron firmly believes that great businesses are powered by great people, anything is possible when people are inspired at work and in life, and great management is the single-largest business component that adds to shareholder value and company performance. As executive chair, Aron is actively involved with the company. He works closely with current and future UKG customers and partners, providing support to the leadership team, and promoting the UKG brand worldwide.

Before transitioning into the executive chair role in 2022, Aron served as longtime chief executive officer (CEO) of UKG, which is the only company he has worked for. Aron joined Kronos Incorporated in 1979 and held a role in nearly every functional department over the years, working his way up to become CEO in 2005. In 2020, as founding CEO, Aron helped lead the merger between Kronos and Ultimate Software to become UKG amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The following year, UKG made history by becoming the first newly merged entity to land on the Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For® list, debuting at #6. 

A multiple-time honoree on Glassdoor’s Top CEOs list, Aron is regarded as a pioneer in workforce and human capital management. In 2018, Aron released his debut book, “WorkInspired: How to Build an Organization Where Everyone Loves to Work” (McGraw-Hill Education). The book chronicles how he and the company’s leadership team used employee engagement as a business strategy to impart leadership lessons onto senior leaders, HR professionals, and people managers.

Corey Thomas is the CEO of Rapid7, as well as the chairman of its board of directors.

In 2021, Corey became a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and was appointed class-C director and deputy chair of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. Corey serves on the Massachusetts High Technology Council’s Board of Directors and Executive Committee. He also serves on the Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts board of directors, LPL Financial board of directors, and Vanderbilt University board of trust. He is an active angel investor to technology companies, advisor to organizations undergoing technology transformation, and sought-after speaker and panelist. Previously, he served on the US Commerce Department’s Digital Economy Board of Advisors.

Corey has extensive experience leading technology companies to the next stage of growth and innovation. Prior to joining Rapid7, Corey spent time at Parallels, Inc., Microsoft, Deloitte Consulting, and AT&T. Corey received a B.E. in electrical engineering and computer science from Vanderbilt University and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Justin Greis is a partner in the firm’s Chicago office. He is a leader of McKinsey Digital and the Risk & Resilience Practices, with a focus on cybersecurity, cloud, technology strategy, and digital transformation. Justin designs, builds, and activates secure and trusted digital transformations to help organizations accelerate their mission and protect their purpose. Justin brings a wealth of experience across a wide variety of industries.  

Prior to joining McKinsey, he served as the global and the Americas cybersecurity transformation leader for EY. In this role, he helped clients assess, improve, and operate world-class cybersecurity programs. Justin was also a consultant for Protiviti in France. Before that, he led the technology organization of the Eppley Institute for Parks and Public Lands, a not-for-profit consulting group. Justin began his career as an entrepreneur, founding BrainOrbit, a digital consulting company that designed, built, and implemented dynamic websites, collaboration portals, and interactive digital solutions.  

In addition to his work with McKinsey, Justin serves as a professor at the Kelley School of Business, Indiana University. He teaches IT governance, risk, and controls in the MSIS and MBA programs. Justin has won numerous awards for his real-world curriculum and innovative teaching methods.  

Strong believers in the power of education, Justin and his wife created a scholarship focused on providing higher education opportunities to students. He is a frequent speaker at industry forums such as ISACA, Information Security Forum (ISF), the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS), and various other executive and board councils. He is a published thought leader on the topics of technology strategy, cybersecurity, IT risk management, and digital transformation.  

Justin holds a Bachelor of Science and a Master of Business Administration in accounting and information systems from the Kelley School of Business. He holds the following professional certifications: CDPSE, CGEIT, CIPP/US, CISA, CISM, CISSP, CRISC, GIAC/GSEC, ITIL, PMP, and TOGAF. 

Justin enjoys playing drums, harmonica, ukulele, photography, snorkeling, fishing, geology, and rock collecting. An avid learner, Justin frequently writes on his blog, progressology.com, where he explores a variety of topics focused on the central theme of “progress.” Justin lives in the Chicago suburbs with his wife and two children.

Peter B. de Menocal is the 11th President and Director of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.

A marine geologist and paleoclimatologist, de Menocal’s research uses deep-sea ocean sediments as archives of how and why Earth’s ocean and climate have changed in the past in order to predict how they may change in the future.

Prior to assuming leadership of WHOI, de Menocal was the Thomas Alva Edison/Con Edison Professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory. He served as Columbia’s Dean of Science for the Faculty of Arts & Sciences and founded Columbia’s Center for Climate & Life, a climate solutions research accelerator.

He has received numerous awards and distinctions, including Fellow of the American Geophysical Union, AGU Emiliani lecturer, a Columbia Lenfest Distinguished Faculty award, and a Distinguished Brooksian award. He earned a doctorate in geology from Columbia University and a master’s degree in oceanography from the University of Rhode Island and was awarded an honorary doctorate from St. Lawrence University.

As Analog Devices, Inc. (ADI) Chief Technology Officer, Mr. Leibholz develops and leads ADI’s long-term technology strategy for applications across the company’s end markets, working closely with ADI’s business units and manufacturing operations to drive ADI’s competitive advantage. 

Mr. Leibholz is responsible for identifying, sourcing, and cultivating new business, technology and research opportunities, as well as developing foundational technology capabilities in support of the current and future needs of our markets and customers.

Previously, Mr. Leibholz held the position of Vice President of the Communications Business Unit, during which time he oversaw a period of tremendous growth in the Business Unit as the company delivered best in class offerings for 4G and 5G in the wireless market and continued success in optical networking.  Prior to that, he served as Vice President of ADI’s Consumer business, and Vice President of ADI’s Embedded Systems Product and Technology Group.  Mr. Leibholz joined ADI in 2008 as Director of Engineering for ADI’s Digital Signal Processing business.

Prior to joining Analog Devices, Mr. Leibholz served as an Engineering Director and Fellow at Advanced Micro Devices, and as a Distinguished Engineer at Sun Microsystems, having leadership responsibilities for processor architecture and development.  He was also a Consulting Engineer at Digital Equipment Corp. and is listed as an inventor on 18 patents in computer architecture.

Mr. Leibholz earned his BSEE and MSEE degrees from Brown University and serves on Brown’s School of Engineering Corporate Advisory Board and on the Board of Directors of the Massachusetts Science and Education Fair.

Nick Rotker is MITRE’s Chief BlueTech Strategist and leads the Underwater and Acoustic Systems department within MITRE Labs. 

Nick leads MITRE’s efforts to solve big challenges in the BlueTech space, including internal R&D, partnerships, and government work programs. He has experience developing and leading solutions in underwater acoustics, SONAR, signal processing, algorithm development, and distributed sensing systems. Nick facilitates maritime innovation-related collaboration across the government, industry, and academic stakeholders, and provides connection and mentorship to early-state entrepreneurs.  

Prior to MITRE, Nick worked as an Acoustic Research Scientist at Scientific Solutions, Inc. He holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Vermont and a M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Tufts University.