Advisory Board Members 2024-25

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Chair - Erin Livingston

Erin Livingston is the Global Enablement Manager of Adobe Field Engineering  at Adobe, where she is innovating new hire and solution enablement through automation and personalization. Erin has spent the past six years in program management leading global strategic initiatives to operationalize deliver, go to market, data and insights, and operations. She has overseen and launch Adobe Premier Support, a paid services offering that has evolved over the past three years.

Erin is customer focused and an operational leader with a proven record of success in executing strategic plans driven by executive vision quarter over quarter. Highly skilled in developing high-performing teams and collaborating cross-functionally to implement business initiatives, improve workflow efficiency, and decrease operating costs. Offer excellent communication and interpersonal skills to build strategic alliances and motivate others throughout the project life cycle. Has over 15 years technical experience working at Bluehost, Utah Valley University and Ivanti (formerly LANDesk). Erin has BS degree from Utah Valley University in Technology Management with minors in Digital Media and Six Sigma Green Belt Certified.

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Ryan Mackerell

Ryan Mackerell is the Vice President of Corporate Strategy and Technology for Ultradent Products Inc. in South Jordan, Utah. Ultradent is a leader in oral healthcare products with sales, manufacturing, and distribution operations around the globe. With almost 30 years of information technology experience, Mr. Mackerell has also worked in the Internet e-commerce and Internet service provider industries. Ryan has a B.S. in Information Technology Management from Western Governors University and an MBA from the University of Utah.

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Jared Stein

Jared is VP of Higher Education Strategy for Instructure, makers of Canvas, the open learning platform. In this role, Jared engages with higher ed leaders and practitioners at colleges and universities around the world to figure out how technology can help education tear down barriers, build up learners, and inspire innovators. Before joining Instructure, Jared worked in higher education as a leader in online and blended teaching and learning for over a decade, and is author of Essentials for Blended Learning: A Standards-Based Guide, now in its second edition.

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David Trent

David Trent has been an Executive Vice President and COO at IMSAR LLC since 2016. Based in Springville Utah, IMSAR is a world leader in small, low cost, high performance multi-mode radar systems.  IMSAR radar systems are designed to integrate on manned and unmanned aircraft of all sizes.

Prior to working at IMSAR, David worked at Blendtec, Computrol and Wolf Electronix in various manufacturing and operations management positions. David was an original founder of Wolf Electronix and has had the opportunity to create multiple manufacturing factories from the ground up. David has extensive experience in Manufacturing, Operations, Quality systems, Engineering, and Corporate Leadership.

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