John R. Dick joined Western Union as Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer (CIO) in March, 2008.  In that role he has accountability for all information systems and technology functions across the company.

A native of Arlington, Virginia, Dick has more than 28 years of financial services and information technology experience.  Most recently, he served as EVP and CIO of Regions Financial Corporation, a top ten financial services company headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama.  In that role he was widely recognized in the industry for innovation and effective technology leadership.

Dick has served in senior leadership and consulting positions with GMAC, First Union (now Wachovia) Corporation, Price Waterhouse and Crestar (now Suntrust) Bank.

A graduate of the University of Virginia, Dick earned a Masters of Business Administration degree from Virginia Commonwealth University, and graduated from the School for Bank Administration at the University of Wisconsin.  He has served on the Information Technology board of American University’s Kogod Graduate School of Business, and the global advisory boards of Microsoft and NCR Teradata.  Dick has completed executive leadership programs at the Center for Creative Leadership and the MIT Sloan School of Business.

im is Vice President, Information Technology Development & Operations. He is responsible for all corporate information technology (IT) applications and infrastructure for P&G worldwide. He also manages key IT relationships with HP, BT, Accenture, SAP, and Oracle that help drive the necessary operations and innovations for P&G’s Global Business Services (GBS) organization. In addition, Jim plays an active role in sponsoring global IT talent supply, as well as U.S. diversity.

Jim has been in the shared services organization from the beginning. Prior to joining P&G, he spent four years in accounting and finance with the U.S. Air Force and four years as an information systems analyst/programmer.

Personal values of importance to Jim include deepening his faith, developing his family spiritually, and establishing relationships built on honesty, trust, dedication, and work.

Jim holds a master’s degree in finance from St. Louis University. He is based in Cincinnati and resides in Villa Hills, KY.

Gregory R. Simpson, GE's Chief Technology Officer is responsible for driving the future of GE's IT infrastructure. In addition to advising business CIO's on new technology directions, Greg leads GE's infrastructure shared services organization known as "GIS" (Global Infrastructure Services). This "service business" leverages GE's scale to deliver solutions to the entire portfolio of GE business. This not only increases controllership and decreases costs but also facilitates better collaboration across GE through common solutions. GIS currently supports traditional IT infrastructure for all of GE's businesses including:

- GE's collaboration environment including 420,000 mainboxes, 220,000 IM Clients, and GE's Telepresence environment.
- Over 7000 midrange systems supporting the entire portfolio of GE businesses
- Mainframe Systems, AS400 Systems
- Data Network and Voice solutions around the world
- Level 1 Help Desk Services and >200,000 client systems
- GE's shared data centers globally

Greg has an extensive IT career that spans more than 25 years with GE. Prior to becoming the CTO of GE in November of 2005, Greg served in a number of business CTO roles, including GE's Healthcare, Aviation, and Lighting businesses. Greg's role as the CTO of Aviation was instrumental in the launch of one of the first cross-business synergy teams, the Technology Services Group, servicing the Rail, Aviation, Energy and Oil & Gas businesses in GE. Earlier in his career, serving as a Master Blackbelt for GE Lighting, Greg led the Six Sigma initiatives for commercial operations, including the implementation of one of the first web-based order tracking/status systems at GE.

Greg received his BSME from Purdue University and his MSME from Case Western Reserve University. He resides in Loveland, Ohio with his wife and their 2 children.