Kathie Kinde Clark

I believe the best ideas in the AWS ecosystem shouldn't be locked behind paywalls or big marketing budgets. That's why I spend a lot of my time building communities where knowledge flows freely.

I'm VP of Operations at Rhythmic Technologies, where I lead Sales, Marketing, Alliances, Customer Success, and Compliance. But the work I'm most proud of happens outside my day job.

I founded the AWS Partner User Group—a free, peer-driven community of 100+ partners helping each other navigate the AWS ecosystem. I lead the AWS Cleveland and AWS DMV User Groups. I lead AWS DMV Community Day and serve on the organizing committee for AWS Midwest Community Day. In 2025, AWS recognized this work with the "Invent & Simplify Champion" award and a Community Travel Grant. Most recently, I was awarded Female MSP Leader of the Year by Superops. 

I have a pattern of seeing gaps nobody's filling and stepping in. Sometimes that's building a community. Sometimes that's mentoring early-career women so they don't have to learn lessons the hard way. Sometimes it's just asking the question everyone else is afraid to ask.

In my free time, I'm a passionate but frustrated Cleveland sports fan, an avid photographer, GenAI enthusiast, and mom to three grown children and three unruly cats.

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Fred Rutman

Author "The Summer I Died Twenty Times (now on Amazon), Host of The Dead Man Walking Podcast

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Aspiring author, podcaster, motivational speaker

Asper Alumni Toronto Chapter

Co-Chairing the chapter, with roughly 1100 Alumni residing in the GTA.  Along with my co-chair, driving annual Mentoring program featuring senior executives sharing their wisdom with approximately 20 alumni for 1.5 hours.  Also developing a PD event, a social event and supporting our annual event (roughly 150 attendees).

Former Founder, Co-Chair, Chair

Sheridan College

2005 – 2010:Finance & Marketing Prof, Sheridan – Created/taught 30 finance/sales/marketing courses including business communications, case analysis, marketing planning, report writing.
•	Received above average ratings for teaching effectiveness and student pass rates
•	Designed courses & tests/cases, pro formas, budgets/wrote cases on a variety of businesses
•	Utilized e-learning, Social Media, virtual learning tools (WebVista, WebCT & online testing)
•	Highlighted real-world transference, utilizing metrics, traditional, new media, causes of trends

Professor, Marketing, Finance and Communication

Channel 1 Media

Day-to-day B2B marketing/branding/messaging & business development of digital/web 2.0 content.  
•	Assisted clients with integration of digital into their marketing planning
•	Directly grew revenue by 25%, primarily in the professional sports vertical
•	Created Press releases, sales sheets, quality checklists & a variety of communications 
•	Conceived/led development of branding/customer acquisition video game for Woodbine Ent.

Director of Marketing/Business Development

Canada Life

Marketing lead for Life Products division, with a mandate that included creating regional and national marketing programs, product development, sales support and branding.  

Managed 3 Product Lines.  Responsibilities: B2B, branding, budgeting, CI, forecasting, product development, Marketing Planning, pricing, sales software & illustration, segmentation, SME for wholesalers (5 VPs, 40 Reps).
•	Grew premium from $18 Million to $30 Million
•	Executed in undefined newly-established role during hostile takeover, combining duties of marketing manager, product manager and SME for the wholesalers/business partners.
•	$200 Savings per policy issue – Recommended elimination of underperforming product line
•	Authored content for CL monthly magazine, wrote all copy for brochures, campaigns and releases
•	Developed & managed Advisory Committee 
•	Direct mail - Designed mailers, brochures, call centre scripts, email communications
•	Campaign launches –2 Product repricings, 2 software releases, Term Life Conversion Program, new Term insurance product, Online Survey and Conference Boost 
•	Formalized Competitive Intelligence capability, resulting in better & faster internal decisions
•	Lunch & learns – face-to-face & conf. calls, emphasized product knowledge, sales process 
•	Presentations – results, sales technique, new product, training, business cases to Exec. Team, functional areas, wholesalers and brokers  

·	"Oversaw" sales illustration software and features

Senior Marketing Manager

Synergy Concepts

Provided services to the following organizations: CAMI Canadian Anglo Machinery Inc., Campbell AgriBusiness, Centennial College, CGP Canada, CRS Technologies, Elite Cellular, Fresh Hemp Foods, Humber College, International Academy of Design, ISM (Subsidiary of IBM Global Services), London Life Insurance, MacDonald Academy, ParentsNKids Magazine, Prairie Terminal Consultants, Private Corporation (Non-Disclosure Agreement), Seneca College, Sympatico Manitoba, Telephone Depot, Toronto Dominion Bank

Principal Consultant

London Life

Financial Planner

I am often known as Repeatedly Dead Fred. I am an author, podcaster and motivational speaker (feel free to reach out).  Before I was repeatedly dead, I had careers in academia, marketing, life insurance (both as a planner and a head office guy). It's been an interesting life. 

I am the author of the medical trauma memoir The Summer I Died 20 Times. Available for pre-order via https://www.blackrosewriting.com/biographymemoir/thesummeridiedtwentytimes. Use PREORDER2023 before March 9 to receive a 15% discount. The memoir chronicles my statistically improbable medical misadventures over the last 11 years, including being clinically dead a few dozens times. I throw in a splash of brain trauma, post-concussion syndrome, PTSD, along with how Intermittent Fasting saved my life. 

The Dead Man Walking Podcast is my current baby (you can see the dead theme, right)? I cover four major segments: People who, like me, overcome adversity and build resilience, small business and financial literacy, emerging/interesting authors, and of course, health/mental health and Intermittent Fasting (remember, it saved my life).

Not that this matters so much in my current role, but my traditional career had me performing roles as a Senior strategy & marketing professional with substantial head office/senior management experience.  Premium on driving innovation and providing superior service.  Wide variety of marketing touchs from product development to proprietary sales software and taking a project from concept through launch. I was also a professor of marketing, finance, communications and management theory.

I am available to guest on your podcasts, speak at events or maybe you are a fit for my podcast. Oh, and blatant call to action. Buy The Summer I Died Twenty Times.

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