Our Management Team

Board Members

David Eaton Co-Founder	Ernest Gundling Co-Founder	Ted Dale President & Co-Founder
Senior Leadership Team

David Reilly Chief Financial Officer	Karen Cvitkovich Managing Director, Global Talent Development	Anita Zanchettin Managing Director, Global Talent Strategy

Rita Bennett Senior Vice President, Strategy & Global Talent Management		Brad Bungum Managing Director, Global Account Management/ EMEA
Practice Group Leaders & Regional Leadership

Keiko Sakurai Practice Group Leader, Global Teams	Henry Bak Zinglersen Managing Director, ME&A	Pamela Leri Director of Consulting, Asia-Pacific

	Noriko Ogami Director, Global Executive Coaching

David Eaton - Co-Founder
Mr. Eaton is a co-Founder and co-President of Aperian Global and leads the company's Global Business Transformation area. Over the last fifteen years, he has coached companies on the critical issues related to developing global competencies. As a strategic consultant, he works closely with senior management to design globalization strategies for mergers & acquisitions, joint venture management, cross-border outsourcing, human resources development, manufacturing, and sales & marketing. Mr. Eaton has a Master of Arts in International Relations from Lesley Graduate School.

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Ernest Gundling - Co-Founder
Dr. Gundling is a co-Founder and co-President of Aperian Global and acts as a Senior Asia specialist, assisting clients in developing strategic global approaches to leadership, organization development, and relationships with key business partners. He coaches executives with global responsibilities and works with multicultural management teams to help them formulate business plans based upon strong mutual understanding and a joint commitment to execution. Dr. Gundling holds a Ph.D. and a Master of Arts from the University of Chicago, and a Bachelor of Arts from Stanford University.

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Ted Dale - Co-Founder & President
Mr. Dale is a co-Founder and co-President of Aperian Global and has overseen the company's development of intercultural training tools, including 25 videos on global business issues and a suite of web tools including GlobeSmart^® and Global Teams Online^SM, since the company's inception in 1990. Mr. Dale received his Bachelor of Arts from the University of Colorado and his Master of Arts from the Monterey Institute of International Studies, where he formerly taught as an adjunct professor.

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Brad Bungum - Managing Director, Global Account Management/EMEA
Mr. Bungum is the Managing Director, Global Account Management/EMEA for Aperian Global and oversees Client Relations, Business Development, Finance and Operations for the European region. Mr. Bungum has over 25 years of experience as a manager and educator in cross-cultural training and consulting, experiential learning, and language instruction. Prior to Aperian Global, he spent six years as Director of Studies and Managing Partner at a language center in Copenhagen. Mr. Bungum speaks fluent Danish and has lived and worked in over 30 countries.

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Henry Bak Zinglersen - Managing Director, ME&A
Mr. Zinglersen is the Managing Director for the Middle East and Africa region and has been with Aperian Global for over ten years. As a highly experienced trainer, facilitator, and executive coach, Mr. Zinglersen conducts some of Aperian Global's highest level and most customized client interventions, training programs, and process facilitations. He studied for his Master of Business Administration in International Human Resource Management and Business Administration at the Copenhagen Business School, Cranfield School of Business, EM Lyon, and University of Wisconsin.

Rita Bennett - Senior Vice President, Strategy & Global Talent Management
Ms. Bennett is the Senior Vice President, Strategy and Global Talent Management for Aperian Global and serves as senior advisor to the Board and Senior Leadership Team on strategy, organization development, global market expansion, and global staffing. Ms. Bennett has over 25 years of international experience as a business executive and leader in the intercultural training and consulting field. Prior to Aperian Global, she built and led three successful firms. She speaks German, has lived and worked in Germany, Switzerland and Hong Kong, and worked in more than 40 additional countries. She serves on the Board of Directors of Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) where she Chairs the Strategy Committee.

David Reilly - Chief Financial Officer
Mr. Reilly serves as Aperian Global's Chief Financial Officer and is responsible for the organization's Shared Services functions (accounting, IT, marketing and client relations services). Dave has a broad entrepreneurial background that includes corporate strategy, management of technology and operations, sales, and new product development. Dave received a Master of Business Administration in Finance and Entrepreneurship from the Wharton School of Business and a Bachelor of Arts in Biology from the University of Virginia.

Karen Cvitkovich - Managing Director, Global Talent Development
Ms. Cvitkovich is the Managing Director of Global Talent Development at Aperian Global. She designs and facilitates seminars for intact teams, team leaders and individual contributors on subjects including globalization, multinational teambuilding, global leadership and virtual communications. Ms. Cvitkovich has worked in intercultural consulting, coaching, and multinational teambuilding for over a decade. She knows first hand, from managing a team of over sixty staff and contractors located throughout North America, Europe, Latin America and Asia, the challenges of managing virtually and globally .

Anita Zanchettin - Managing Director, Global Talent Strategy
Ms. Zanchettin is the Managing Director of Global Talent Strategy, responsible for ensuring Aperian Global's delivery of high quality client solutions worldwide. In her role as Practice Group Leader for Global Diversity & Inclusion, she provides consulting, training and web tools to achieve business results at client organizations. Ms. Zanchettin co-authored the book Global Diversity: Winning Customers and Engaging Employees within World Markets with Dr. Ernest Gundling. She has been a speaker at The Conference Board, the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), and the World Diversity Leadership Summit on the subjects of employee engagement; strategies for effectively globalizing a corporate diversity initiative; global leadership competencies for a diverse business world; and global acumen for HR leaders. Ms. Zanchettin has lived in France, Iran, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Spain and currently resides in Chicago, Illinois, U.S.

Pamela Leri - Director of Consulting, Asia-Pacific
Ms. Leri serves as the Director of Consulting, Asia-Pacific and is responsible for the practice areas focusing on outsourcing, offshoring, collaboration and global project management. Her expertise is in providing a blended approach to enhancing the effectiveness of outsourcing and offshoring initiatives through the use of innovative web tools, consulting, facilitation, and training. Ms. Leri is responsible for the implementation and customization of Aperian Global’s Collaboration Toolkit solutions and works closely with other practice leaders to develop strategic global approaches to mergers and acquisitions, diversity and inclusion, global teams and leadership.

Noriko Ogami - Director, Global Executive Coaching
Ms. Ogami is an executive coach and consultant with Aperian Global. She has over 15 years of work experience in the global consulting field with expertise in: Organization Development, Negotiation, Leadership Development, Multicultural Team Management, Training and Development, Intercultural Business Communication, Presentation Assertiveness in Mind and Action, Team Facilitation, Co-Active Coaching, Conflict Resolution, and Diversity and Inclusion. Ms. Ogami has completed the Co-Active Coaching Program for Professional Coaches at Coaches Training Institute along with a ten-month, intensive Leadership Development Program for Global Leaders.

Keiko Sakurai - Practice Group Leader, Global Teams
Ms. Sakurai is responsible for the Global Teams practice area at Aperian Global and is experienced in multi-national organization development, teambuilding, leadership development, management skills training and executive coaching. Ms. Sakurai holds a Masters of Business Administration from the Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley, with a certificate in Global Management and a Bachelor of Arts in Commerce and Management from Hitotsubashi University, Japan, where she graduated with top honors. Ms. Sakurai is a CPA, and holds a certified MBTI user license and NLP practitioner license. She is bilingual in Japanese and English.