Leadership

Cathy Pickoski has more than 30 years of experience leading high performing sales, marketing and operations teams in environments of rapid growth and change. With Scantron for nearly 10 years, Cathy was recently named Chief Executive Officer of Scantron after successfully driving strategy, execution, and growth during her 2 year tenure as President of Scantron Technology Solutions.

She began her career at Verizon establishing herself in progressive leadership roles within the Consumer, Commercial and Public Sector Markets, which culminated in leading the Field Segment Marketing team for Western Global Accounts with annual revenues in excess of $800M.  She then moved to Lumen running the North Texas/Oklahoma Region and growing revenues more than 400% during her tenure. In late 2005, she joined Edmentum to lead sales teams in the K12, post-secondary, and channel markets as the organization transformed to a Software-as-a-Service business. During this period, her teams exceeded annual revenue goals and secured key contracts at the state level along with winning multiple contracts at the district and post-secondary level.  Prior to her current role at Scantron, over the last eight years, Cathy has lead global sales, marketing, print operations, and customer support within the business.

Professional Highlights:

• More than 30 years of success in transforming sales and marketing organizations.
• Extensive experience in the technology and assessment market segments
• Expertise in global market development and operations

Twitter: @CathyPickoski

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/cathy-pickoski-84a68ba/

Kevin has over 30 years of financial and operational leadership experience with Fortune 500 and private equity-sponsored companies. He has completed numerous acquisitions and has significant experience integrating, optimizing, and scaling companies for growth. His industry experience includes Managed IT Services, Technology Enabled Products and Services, Software/SaaS, and manufacturing.
Kevin has a BBA in Accounting from the University of Iowa and an MBA in Finance from the University of Minnesota. He is a Certified Public Accountant (inactive).

Professional Highlights:
• Extensive experience building high-performance teams and culture
• Expertise in business optimization
• Partnered with the executive leadership team to acquire and integrate over 20 companies
• Divested a division of a publicly traded company with revenue over $1B

Associations and Affiliations:
• American Institute of Certified Public Accountants
• Financial Executives International
• CFO Leadership Council
• Association for Corporate Growth

Jodi Hilton, SPHR, is a culture-focused People executive passionate about leading organizations to success. For over 25 years, she has been committed to improving business outcomes through meaningful people experiences and focusing on processes that give her employees what they need and crave. At Scantron, Jodi is responsible for the People division, which includes all activities related to the company’s People functions, including Payroll, Talent Acquisition, Benefits, Compensation, Training, Culture, and Employee Benefits. She partners with leadership to strategically optimize the biggest and most important company asset.

Her philosophy:

1. Be proud of what you do
2. Connect
3. Learn
4. Have fun

Before serving in her current role, Jodi worked in various People leadership roles in multiple markets, sectors, and industries. Before joining Scantron, Jodi led other Human Resources (HR) departments, performing hands-on work in all areas of HR in the public sector, logistics, IT, manufacturing, and even mining! In her roles, Jodi has worked in union and non-union environments and has extensive experience in Mergers and Acquisitions. Prior to her work in the field of Human Resources, Jodi taught at the college level while obtaining her Master of Science in Industrial Psychology (HR Consulting) at Emporia State University.

Professional Highlights:

• 25 years of hands-on experience leading the People function
• Repeatedly design, develop, lead, and transform all areas of Human Resources to find, retain, and engage employees
• Proactively manage risk for the company and leverage consistent resources to encourage employees to provide extraordinary performance
• Deep expertise in Workforce Planning, Training, Process Transformation, Culture, and Engagement

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jodihilton

Mary Michael Pontzer, PhD is a strategic executive passionate about implementing aggressive growth strategies to diversify revenue and optimize operational excellence. For nearly 20 years, she has been committed to improving business outcomes through meaningful product and service experiences based on thoughtfully crafted strategy and customer-centric transformation initiatives. At Scantron, Mary Michael is responsible for the Data Capture Solutions division, which includes all activities related to the company’s iconic scoring and scanning machines, as well survey and examination products and services across K-12, higher education, corporate, and government markets. These responsibilities include establishing and driving existing and future strategic direction for the division, as well as driving innovation, leveraging market insights to conceptualize new solutions to fill customer needs, and empowering growth through rapid and reliable data capture and a wide range of print and digital survey solutions for clients worldwide

Prior to serving in her current role, Mary Michael was the Vice President of Portfolio Management at Scantron, focusing on digital assessment solutions. Before joining Scantron, Mary Michael served in other senior leadership roles in the education, workforce, and assessment industries, at organizations such as ACT, Inc. as the Vice President of Product, and Learning Ally, Inc. as the Vice President of Professional Learning Solutions. Additionally, she held progressively responsible positions at Stride, Inc., including Director of New Business Planning. Prior to her work in the field of product and portfolio management, Mary Michael taught at community colleges and universities in Northeast Georgia and began her professional career as a high school English teacher in metro-Atlanta. Mary Michael earned a PhD in International and Comparative Education from the University of Georgia.

Professional Highlights:

• Adept at leveraging strong understanding of domestic and international markets, digital and print technology trends, and market intelligence to drive competitive advantage.
• Deep expertise in strategic planning and execution, business optimization, holistic portfolio management, and corporate transformation.
• Repeated success building exceptional teams passionate about customers, solving challenges, and the executing on ambitious goals.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mmp11/