Friday Breakfast Keynote Speaker

Nancy Weber - Chief Marketing Officer for the Meredith Publishing Group

Nancy Weber is chief marketing officer for the Meredith Publishing Group. Weber, one of the publishing industry’s leading marketing executives, develops Meredith’s initiatives designed to expand the company’s brands across media and special event platforms. In addition, she was instrumental in launching Meredith 360°, the company’s recently created business marketing unit designed to give clients total solutions to their marketing objectives by using the broad portfolio and platforms of Meredith’s print, broadcast, internet and event products and services.

She also has responsibility for the internal Meredith marketing groups within the company. She works with these groups to ensure that they are fully leveraging the company’s strength in creating unique programs for the 75 million women decision makers that Meredith reaches in the marketplace. Her responsibilities also include oversight for Meredith’s research department, the Family Circle Tennis Cup, the corporate creative services department and experiential marketing.

Prior to joining Meredith, Weber served as the senior vice president, Marketing and Business Development for The Golf Digest Companies where she was responsible for Research and Corporate Marketing, Events and Sports Marketing, Corporate Creative Services & Custom Publishing, and Business Development. In this role, Weber negotiated partnership agreements with the PGA Tour, PGA of America, The Golf Channel and Business Week. She also developed licensing and credit card affinity programs, retail and internet partnerships, books, and television programming.

Her professional background and experience also includes serving as the vice president, Marketing and Promotion for the New York Times Company Magazine Group where she oversaw marketing and promotions for Golf Digest, Golf World, Tennis, Snow Country, Cruising World, and Sailing World magazines and other ancillary products.

Weber has also held positions as the marketing director of The Newspaper Association of America, and as senior vice president, Marketing and Sales Development for McCalls magazine where she was responsible for all marketing components of the McCalls LPGA Classic. She also held marketing and promotion positions with Family Circle and House & Garden magazines.

Weber earned a bachelor of science from the University of Colorado Journalism School and currently resides in New York City.

Saturday Professional Leadership Breakfast Keynote Speaker

Sue Ortenstone - Senior Vice President of Human Resources and Administration El Paso Corporation

Sue Ortenstone is senior vice president of Human Resources and Administration for El Paso Corporation. In her current role, Ortenstone oversees corporate Human Resources, Corporate Communications and Community Outreach, IT, Facilities and Real Estate functions for the company.  A major focus for her is driving the company’s culture transformation across the organization.  The new performance driven culture focuses on talent management, leadership development, recognition and the employee experience and achieving the company’s vision of being the Place to Work, the Neighbor to Have and the Company to Own.

Ortenstone began her career as an engineer in training for Tennessee Gas Pipeline, a division of Tenneco, Inc.  She has held various positions with increasing levels of responsibility in engineering, operations, marketing, business development and strategy.  Her most recent previous position was chief executive officer of Epic Energy, Australia’s largest natural gas pipeline company at that time. 

Ortenstone earned a Bachelor of Science degree in civil and environmental engineering from the University of Wisconsin and is a registered professional engineer.  She is on the Board of Junior Achievement, the Advisory Board for the University of Texas College of Engineering and the Business Advisory Council for Goodwill Industries.