Nicholas R. Colisto is a senior information technology executive with experience providing innovative, business driven IT solutions.  He serves as the Vice President and Chief Information Officer at Hovnanian Enterprises, Inc., a large residential homebuilder. 

Prior to joining Hovnanian, he held key information technology leadership positions at large organizations including Pepsi-Cola, Priceline.com, Hyperion Solutions, Boehringer-Ingelheim, and Bayer Corporation (formerly Sterling Winthrop).

Colisto is very active in the information technology, education, and healthcare communities.  He has served on the Governing Body for the CIO Leadership Network and has been a speaker at the executive summits.  He is a member of the Society for Information Management (SIM) and has served on its programs committee.  Colisto taught a Masters program in Information Technology at Manhattanville College in New York for several years and also served on its Advisory Board.  He lectured at Columbia University’s CIO Leadership Workshop.  He currently serves on the Industrial Advisory Board at Rutgers University, on the Educational Advisory Board at Brookdale College in New Jersey, and on the Foundation Board of Trustees for Bayshore Community Hospital.

He is the recipient of many industry awards, including the 2011 Computerworld Premier 100 IT Leaders Award, 2010 CIO 100 by IDG’s CIO Magazine, 2009 InfoWorld 100, 2009 and 2010 InformationWeek 500, and the 2011 InfoWorld Green 15 Award.

As SVP & CIO of ARAMARK Mr. Kaufman is responsible for overseeing information systems and personnel for all of ARAMARK's global food, facilities and support services lines of business. In this role, Mr. Kaufman provides ARAMARK with systems and infrastructure planning and development leadership, as well as drive strategic internal and external information technology business solutions.  Mr. Kaufman joined ARAMARK in 2005.

Mr. Kaufman has more than 25 years of IT management experience in a variety of industries. Before joining ARAMARK, he was Global Vice President for Supply Chain and Quality Information Technology at Schering-Plough. Prior to joining Schering-Plough, Mr. Kaufman was with PepsiCo, Inc. where his assignments included responsibility for all of PepsiCo's corporate systems as well as Pepsi's manufacturing and international systems.

Marc Brown is Sr. Vice President Corporate Service Center and Chief Information Officer of Del Monte Foods Company, one of the country’s largest and most well known producers, distributors and marketers of premium quality, branded and private label food and pet products for the U.S. retail market, generating over $3.8 billion in pro forma net sales.  Mr. Brown is responsible for Del Monte’s Pittsburgh-based Corporate Service Center and leads all Information Technology strategic planning, development, implementation and support throughout the Del Monte network.

He is a past Chair of the Grocery Manufacturers of America (GMA) Information Systems Committee, which comprises chief technology executives from its member companies that, collectively, represent annual U.S. sales of more than $500 billion.

Before joining Del Monte in 2002, Mr. Brown worked in a variety of Information Technology positions for Heinz North America and Heinz Frozen Foods divisions.  Prior to working for Heinz, Mr. Brown held a variety of consulting positions with Andersen Consulting.

Mr. Brown earned his BS in Civil Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University and holds a MM degree from the J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University.

Mr. Vaughan is accountable for the firm’s global IT capabilities and resources that support operational and business strategies.  He is charged with effectively integrating information technology into engineering, procurement, construction, project controls, accounting, and HR functions.  Keys to his success are developing relationships with major technology providers to jointly explore means to continuously drive value and maintain technology leadership in the industry; developing and maintaining information technology practices including leading or supporting implementation and integration throughout the company; and integrating common information technology solutions across the enterprise.  Mr. Vaughan is also responsible for developing key performance measurements to monitor effectiveness of information technology activities.

In 2005, Mr. Vaughan successfully led a company-wide initiative to create an integrated global IT services delivery platform resulting in the selection of EDS (now HP) as B&V’s strategic technology partner.  The effort has resulted in enhanced support of core business operations, improved user support services, and reduced cost.

As the Chief Technology Officer for the Department of Energy Peter Tseronis is responsible for identifying and supporting innovative programs to transform and modernize the technology and methods in which the department executes our mission, leads the government and supports our citizens.

Peter helps bridge the divide among public and private sectors as well as across federal agencies, and ultimately helps supports our mission by cultivating a department-wide vision for our national initiatives.

Recognized as a federal thought leader and transformation agent, Peter is focused on the impact and importance technology and information management to in supporting the Nation’s objectives.

Federally, he is engaged with policy initiatives to represent the Department and incorporate these strategies into our IT management practices and as a result of his leadership has been asked to lead numerous activities to mature federal technology and information infrastructure.

Peter began his federal career more than 20 years ago, previously serving as the CTO and Director of Network Services for the U.S. Department of Education.

Jay Keyse has over 20 years experience in the IT Industry, predominantly gained in the oil & gas, commercial business and IT-Outsourcing fields.
Jay joined HP Enterprise Services (then EDS) in 1996 to lead the Pan-European Xerox UNIX Systems Team following that with the role of EDS EMEA Intranet Services Manager and then Electronic Business Technical Consultant. Between 2000 and 2009 Jay fulfilled the role of Chief Architect for the EMEA Automated Hosting Services organisation, the role of Global Chief Technologist for the Infrastructure Portfolio Product Development group, and then the role of CTO for HP Enterprise Services Data Centre Services Service Line.  More recently Jay has transitioned to the role of Director of Strategy for the Data Centre Services-Service Line.

Jay also has a unique focus within the technical community of HP ES that of a Capability/Product definer matching market perceived business need to technology and delivery capabilities in support of HP ES’ Market facing Services.

Jay is a member of the CTO Practice. A specialist Group of Senior Technologists who form a network community to share  knowledge, best practises and industry wide awareness of Strategies, IT Architecture, best of Breed Products selection and general Technology Direction and future roadmaps. She has a particular interest in Cloud & Utility Compute, virtualization technologies plus Internet Infrastructures, Systems Management and Service Delivery all in the wider context of how these support the Business.

A disciplined and energetic Strategist with a unique external market face coupled with an internal execution focus. Equally used to working as part of a team and mentoring or taking a leadership role.

Stephen Bozzo is 1-800-FLOWERS.COM’s Chief Information Office, a position he assumed in April, 2007.  Steven is responsible for all aspects of IT Planning, Development, Delivery Management, Infrastructure, and E-Commerce. In addition, Mr. Bozzo is responsible for the management of the award winning 1-800-FLOWERS.COM Customer Service Center.

 Prior to joining the company, Bozzo served as Vice President and Chief Information Officer of the International division of MetLife Insurance Company, where he was responsible for the management and oversight of MetLife locations in 17 countries.  Before MetLife, he held positions at Bear Stearns as Managing Director, AIG as Senior Vice President of Telecommunications and Technical Services, and Chase Manhattan Bank, where he served as Senior Vice President of Global Telecommunications.

Stephen Bozzo is a mentor at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Business.  He has been a member of many associations including the Board of Directors for the Security Industry Association Technology Committee, the Education Committee of the International Communications Association, the Advisory Board for New York City Technical College, Director of the Wall Street Telecommunications Association, the Board of Directors of Forgotten Voices International, the Board of Directors of Long Island Software and Technology Network (LISTNET) and is co-chair of the LISTNET CIO Council. 

“Everything we do in IT should help the business make and sell our products.” This vision is how Harish Ramani, Global Chief Information Officer, embodies the role of IT at Constellation Brands. Born in Bombay, India, he has lived all over the world, in such as places as United Arab Emirates, England, India and Saudi Arabia, as well as California and Texas in the United States. Harish currently lives in Victor, New York.

Harish gravitated toward technology in his education and career. He earned a BA-MIS from the University of Texas at Austin and an MBA in Finance from Dallas Baptist University. After college, his career started with Exxon/Mobil as a senior analyst. After working for the oil and gas company, Harish’s career expanded into the beverage industry where he worked for Dr Pepper/Seven UP as director of IT. Next, he spent 10 years working for Cadbury Schweppes as director of IT and then Red Bull Americas as the head of IT before joining Constellation Brands in 2007 as Chief Information Officer for the North American region. In 2010 he was named Global Chief Information Officer.

A common thread throughout Harish’s career is the ability to bring people together to accomplish a goal. This talent allows him to draw in both business and IT perspectives to work together on creative answers to technology challenges. Harish’s experience helped shape his approach to keeping a global company like Constellation connected and engaged.

Shailesh Grover is the Global Head of Quality and Continuous Improvement at Barclays Bank PLC, since July 2007.

He has over 20 years of experience at various levels within global organizations. For the past 10 years his core focus has been organizational transformation/change.

Shailesh is a Change agent with a reputation for aligning IT and business strategies, championing organizational learning, integrating end-to-end Business & IT processes, and turning around underperforming organizations. He has extensive experience improving Customer value & experience, Colleagues experience and Company Performance by leveraging best practices like Six Sigma, Lean, and AGILE, etc..

Prior to Barclays, some of the roles Shailesh has held are - Executive Director at the new ATT – World’s largest telecommunications company, Senior Director at Cingular Wireless – Largest Wireless Service Provider in the US, General Manager at ATT Wireless, VP Technology Architecture at NextCard – world’s first true online only credit card company, to name a few.