Saad Ayub is the Chief Information Officer for Scholastic Incorporated. He is responsible for providing Scholastic’s overall IT vision and strategic direction.

Prior to Scholastic, Saad worked at The Hartford and Aetna where he led various IT organizations. Key technical areas that he was responsible for included:  call center automation, internet technologies, content management, data warehouse, and customer service systems (web, IVR, and the call center). Saad joined Aetna from McKinsey and Company, where he worked with various financial and insurance companies on numerous projects including business and IT strategy, application portfolios, infrastructure management, and project implementations. Before McKinsey, Saad was with GTE Labs in Waltham, MA, where he was involved in the development of business support systems, refinement of business processes, and various application development efforts.

Saad is a member of SIM, the Society for Information Management.

Alex Pettit was appointed as the State of Oklahoma's Chief Information Officer by Gov. Brad Henry in April 2010. 

In 2009, Alex was brought in as an independent consultant responsible for implementing a fully functional and tested disaster recovery plan for Brown University, where he also coordinated the renovation of the university’s sole data center. Prior to that, Alex worked for Marsh McLennan in the areas of business continuity planning (BCP) strategy and vision, disaster recovery and business resumption planning focusing on the proactive preparation of people to effectively survive through and recover from a major crisis event. For a decade, Alex has been actively involved in continuity of operations planning, crisis leadership, emergency operations center design, civil defense planning in Texas, and has personally managed and supported teams through major crises.

Alex is a recognized leader in Enterprise Architecture and has received the Best of Texas Award for IT Leadership, the Public Technology Institute IT Leadership Award and the Society for Information Management (SIM) IT Executive of the Year Award. He is a published author on IT Leadership in Studies in E-Government, Government Technology Magazine, Texas Technology Magazine, the Journal for Enterprise Architecture and most recently, the SIM Guide to Enterprise Architecture (2009).

Alex teaches classes on Technology Survival Planning, Enterprise Architecture, and E-Business and is a Certified Business Continuity Professional (CBCP). In addition, he holds certifications with Novell, Filenet, Sun Systems and IBM, and is a member of The Disaster Recovery Institute International, the International City Managers Association, the Texas City Managers Association, SIM, the Society of Information Managers and the American Institute of Technology Professionals (AITP).