Featured Speaker(s)

Michelle Bergquist, our Moderator, is a nationally recognized author, award-winning entrepreneur and professional speaker. Currently, Michelle is CEO & Co-Founder of Connected Women of Influence. She is Co-Founder to the annual and historic Business Women’s Mega Mixer events that celebrate Women’s History Month.




Sue-Jean Lin, Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer for Allergan, a multi-specialty pharmaceutical company headquartered in Irvine, California. Lin is a senior business leader with over 25 years broad based management experience in both Financial Management and Information Technology. She joined Allergan in 1989 and has held a series of positions, each succeeding position accompanied with growing responsibilities. Prior to joining Allergan, Lin worked for Sierra Pacific Power Company in Nevada and Northrop Grumman Corporation in California. Lin attended the University of Nevada, Reno, where she completed a Bachelor of Science degree and later, a Master's of Business Administration degree. She is a certified management accountant.


Pandora Ovanessian, formerly Vice President of Management Information Systems at Thermo Fisher Scientific-One Lambda Inc., a healthcare and technology development company. Prior to Thermo Fisher, Ms. Ovanessian was CIO at Golden State Foods, and Alpha Therapeutic. Ms. Ovanessian also served as Division Manager-CIO at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Ms Ovanessian is a graduate in Business/Economics and minor in Pre-med from UCLA. She earned an MBA specializing in Information Technology from Pepperdine University.


H. Lynn Ryan is the Principal of ExecITCIO providing Executive consulting in Information Technology, Business Strategies and Operations. Previously, Ryan was Executive Vice President and Chief Information Officer (CIO) of loanDepot, LLC. Prior to loanDepot, LLC., she served in Senior Vice President and CIO roles at CIT Group Inc., Novastar Financial Inc., Ameriquest Capital Corp. and Sanwa Bank.
Ryan is a Board Member of SCSIM and Board Advisor to WITI OC. Ryan earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Management from the University of Phoenix and has participated in executive IT and business programs at Harvard University, the University of Colorado and California State University.


Jeanette Sanchez is the Chief Information Officer for AMN Healthcare Services, Inc. and is responsible for the design, delivery and support of AMN technologies. Prior to AMN, Jeanette was Vice President, IT at CareFusion responsible for all technologies in the Medical Systems and has also served as Vice President at Mattel and Bausch & Lomb and also worked for Edwards Lifesciences, Baxter International and Allergan.