Employee-Oriented Tech

As Head of Hospitality, Andrada leads Beekeeper’s effort to help hospitality organizations improve communication and ultimately drive employee engagement and performance. Previously, Andrada served as Executive Director, Luxury Internal Communications and Engagement at AccorHotels and Executive Director, Communications & Strategy at Fairmont Raffles Hotels International. In that capacity, she collaborated with Beekeeper to bring the nearly 50,000 frontline employees working together as one dispersed, yet united, team. Andrada also served as a consultant with McKinsey & Co., working on strategy and organizational transformations with large multinational companies in the EMEA region. She holds an MBA from the Wharton School and an MA in International Studies from the University of Pennsylvania.

David Sherwyn is the John and Melissa Ceriale Professor of Hospitality Human Resources and a Professor of Law at Cornell University’s Nolan School of Hotel Administration. He is also the academic director of the Cornell Center for Innovative Hospitality Labor and Employment Relations as well as a research fellow at the Center for Labor and Employment Law at New York University’s School of Law. In addition, Professor Sherwyn is of counsel to the law firm of Stokes & Wagner. Prior to joining the School of Hotel Administration, Professor Sherwyn practiced management-side labor and employment law for six years.

Professor Sherwyn has published articles in the Arizona State Law Review, Berkeley Journal of Labor and Employment Law, Cornell Hospitality Quarterly, Fordham Law Review, University of California Hastings Law Journal, Indiana Law Journal, Northwestern Law Review, Stanford Law Review, and the University of Pennsylvania Labor and Employment Law Journal. His research interests include arbitration of discrimination lawsuits and union-management relations.

Kyle is a leader within the Deloitte Hospitality practice, specializing in combining People, Process and Technology to create outstanding business value.  Kyle has vast experience from business case creation to delivery and operational support.  He has deep experience on advising multi-national companies on complex business challenges ranging from core operations to strategic priorities.  He has led projects that are complex and require global delivery teams both in systems integration and operations.

Nigel Beck is CEO and founder of When Labs: artificial intelligence for augmenting management, driving compliance, employee engagement, retention, and productivity. Beck’s passion for HR and management comes from over two decades of building and managing teams from two to thousands around the globe, and led to his acquisition of Kenexa, a human-capital management company, the sixth-largest acquisition IBM had ever made. As founding CTO of Footprint Software, a fintech startup, he engineered the largest retail-banking system of its kind, building the fastest-growing startup in Canada at the time, which sold to IBM. There, he architected IBM’s entry into open source software, making IBM the first major corporation to embrace Linux and Apache, and was the founding product line manager for their most successful organic software product of the last two decades, WebSphere. Along the way, he founded one of the earliest commercial bot companies, liketribe, which used artificial intelligence and social graph data to provide personalized recommendations.

Shawndra Jones is a Senior Counsel in the Employment, Labor & Workforce Management practice in the New York office of Epstein Becker Green. In addition to having experience representing clients in litigation and alternative dispute resolution matters and providing workplace trainings, she has counseled clients regarding various labor and employment issues, including anti-discrimination, family and medical leaves, disability accommodations, wage and hour matters, veterans’ rights, and questions arising at the intersection of technology and the workplace. 

Ms. Jones has lectured extensively on legal and ethical issues associated with e-discovery, social media, and emerging technologies. She has also co-authored articles about technology and employment law topics, such as “Using Technology in the Hiring Process – Should Employers ‘Like’ Social Media?,” which appeared in the National Bar Association Magazine in 2016, and has jointly prepared updates for the “Civil Discovery Issues” chapter for the Practising Law Institute’s treatise on Social Media and the Law since 2018. 

Active in multiple professional organizations, Ms. Jones currently serves as the vice-chair of the New York State Bar Association’s (“NYSBA’s”) Committee on Technology and the Legal Profession, a co-chair of NYSBA’s Committee on Continuing Legal Education, and a delegate to NYSBA’s House of Delegates. She previously served as a co-chair of the Diversity in the Judiciary Subcommittee of the New York City Bar Association’s Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee (formerly the Enhance Diversity in the Profession Committee). 

Ms. Jones is a 2016 recipient of the National Bar Association’s 40 Under 40 Nation’s Best Advocates and Excellence in Innovation awards. In addition, the New York State Bar Association recognized Ms. Jones as a 2016 Empire State Counsel® Outstanding Pro Bono Volunteer. She was also selected to become a member of The National Black Lawyers – Top 40 Under 40 – for New York in 2016 and a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation in 2015.

After graduating cum laude with Distinction in Psychology from Yale University, Ms. Jones earned her juris doctorate from Columbia Law School, where she was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar, a co-chair of the Student Senate’s Graduation Committee, and the editor in chief of the Columbia Journal of Law and Social Problems. Following law school, Ms. Jones served as a law clerk to the Honorable Alvin W. Thompson in the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut before entering private practice at Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP.