Simone Caudill is a Commercial Planning Director at PepsiCo, where she leads Commercial Governance and Portfolio Planning for the PepsiCo Beverages portfolio. In this role, she partners across Commercial, Marketing, and Finance to drive portfolio strategy, innovation planning, executive governance forums, and long-term business planning initiatives. Since joining PepsiCo in 2014, Simone has held leadership roles across commercial planning, sales strategy, shopper marketing, and category management, supporting some of the company's most iconic brands and growth initiatives.

Simone earned her Bachelor of Science in Marketing with a concentration in Sales Leadership and Category Management from DePaul University, graduating Cum Laude in 2014. As a member of the Sales Leadership Center Advisory Board, she is passionate about helping students build the skills, experiences, and confidence needed to thrive in their careers.

Outside of work, Simone enjoys spending time with family and friends, reading a good book, and keeping up with the latest Bravo shows. She lives with her husband and two children, who keep life busy, rewarding, and full of laughter.

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Dan serves as an operationally-engaged member of the boards of directors of several high growth, PE-owned enterprise cloud software and services portfolio companies

As CEO of SpringCM, Dan led the acquisition of SpringCM by DocuSign in August 2018 for $270M, after growing the company to $30M in annual revenue, 675 customers and 190 employees.

Dan joined Salesforce.com as a sales leader in 2002 when the company had fewer than 150 employees and less than $50M in annual revenue. Over the next 11 years, he helped fuel Salesforce.com’s growth to over 12,000 employees, over $4B in annual revenue, and 150,000+ customers.

Dan’s sales career has also included successful leadership roles at Siebel Systems, Sybase, and Oracle -- all during their IPO and expansion phases.

After earning a bachelor’s degree in General Engineering/Computer Science from the Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a master’s degree in management from Northwestern University’s Kellogg Graduate School of Management.

At the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and at DePaul University's Kellstadt Graduate School of Business, Dan is a frequent guest lecturer.

His civic engagements include ALS United of Greater Chicago, The Chicago Giving Circle, and 4MOM (fighting Alzheimer's).

Matt is an accomplished sales leader with more than 25 years of experience in the medical device industry. His ability to build successful teams, develop high-level customer relationships and negotiate critical contracts has won him numerous awards and recognition. He currently serves as Zone Vice President for B. Braun Medical Inc. where he is responsible for $245M in revenue and a team of more than 40 sales professionals. Matt received his M.B.A from Kellstadt Graduate School at DePaul University in 2005 with a focus on International Management.

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Mike Grady is a business development and sales professional with more than 15 years of experience working with leading brands across the retail and consumer packaged goods industries. At Propelis, Mike partners to identify opportunities for growth and craft solutions that bring together expertise across brand strategy, design, innovation and creative execution.

Throughout his career, Mike has built strong partnerships with business leaders, helping organizations strengthen their brands, navigate evolving markets and bring ideas to market effectively. He is also passionate about supporting the next generation of talent through the sharing of thought leadership and mentoring.

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Hannah Hosty is an Enterprise Account Executive at Workday, based in Denver, Colorado. She began her career in technology sales at Salesforce and has progressed through BDR/SDR, SMB, mid-market, and enterprise sales roles. Throughout her career, she has worked across healthcare, manufacturing, professional services, and technology.

A Chicago native and proud DePaul University alumna, Hannah graduated in 2018 with a degree in Marketing and a minor in Sales Leadership. During her time at DePaul, she served as a Sales Ambassador for two years, helping shape her passion for sales and her career in technology. Hannah is excited to give back to DePaul and support the next generation of sales professionals through her role on the Center for Sales Leadership Advisory Board.

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Jeremy Paul sells ADP’s enterprise HCM platform to large enterprise companies across North and South Carolina. In just over a decade at ADP he has been selected for President’s Club six times and for Board of Directors, ADP’s top sales award, three times.

His route was not the usual one. He served in the U.S. Marine Corps from 2003 to 2006, including a deployment to Iraq, then came to DePaul and graduated summa cum laude in Marketing with a Sales Leadership concentration. He joined ADP as a Small Business District Manager and worked his way into enterprise sales.

Jeremy is glad to help DePaul students with interview prep, the job search, and breaking into enterprise sales, and he will make time for any student who reaches out.

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Clancy Ryan has been making AI actually useful since long before it was cool. Back in 2014, he was on the team that built Kim Kardashian's AI-powered digital twin for her blockbuster mobile game — one of the earliest large-scale personalization engines, and an early lesson in what it takes to make AI feel natural to millions of real users.

That lesson became his career. At Arc XP, the Jeff Bezos-backed CMS platform, Clancy helped architect and scale AI tools for major media organizations — the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, El País (Spain), Chosun Ilbo (Korea), and Grupo Clarín (Argentina) — turning intelligent automation into audience growth at massive scale. He's partnered with NFL teams to deploy AI for smarter content creation and fan engagement (making fans feel even more personally invested — without the shoulder pads).

Today, at Covetrus, Clancy applies that decade of AI implementation experience to a harder problem: sales enablement for national field sales teams. He works with reps who live in their territories, not at desks — building AI-powered pre-call intelligence, coaching, and workflows that sellers actually adopt. With more than 20 years as a growth-obsessed sales executive and as Founder of the Center for Sales Leadership at DePaul University, he's proof that the hard part of AI was never the technology — it's getting real people to use it. That's his superpower.

Tanya Jones-Fosu is a senior commercial and category leadership executive with more than 20 years of experience across leading Fortune 500 and global CPG companies. Her career spans category leadership, sales and channel strategy, shopper insights, and enterprise transformation, with a focus on building capabilities and developing future leaders. Tanya holds an MBA from Centenary College of New Jersey and a Bachelor of Science in Marketing and has supported mentoring and career-development initiatives in partnership with several universities. She brings to the DePaul University CSL Advisory Board the perspective of a longtime industry practitioner, business leader, mentor, and lifelong learner, with a passion for strengthening the connection between classroom learning and the skills, experiences, and relationships that prepare students to thrive in the workplace.

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