Mark Dajani is Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer of Kraft Foods.  Mark is responsible for the company's information systems and technology, and for the shared services organization which includes the shared service centers in San Antonio, Texas and European business service centers in Madrid, Spain and Bratislava, Slovakia.  In addition, Mark is responsible for the travel services team and the leadership of the ongoing shared services initiatives. 

Prior to joining Kraft Foods in 2004, Mark spent 13 years at Altria.  He led several functions within the Information Services organization at Philip Morris USA Inc., including Director of Application Development & Maintenance for Sales, Marketing, Human Resources, and Finance.  He became Chief Technology Officer there in 2000.  In 2003, Mark was named Director, Global Technology, Altria Corporate Services, Inc., responsible for increasing IT value across the Altria family of companies by managing the Global IT portfolio.  Mark joined Kraft Foods as Vice President and Chief Technology Officer in September 2004.  During this assignment, Mark and his team developed and implemented a global framework for organizing technology at the company such as technical roadmaps covering collaboration, connectivity, application development and middleware, business intelligence and data management and end user computing.  Mark was named Vice President, Account Management in December 2006.  He was appointed Senior Vice President, Information Systems in April 2007, and Senior Vice President and CIO in April 2009.

Mark began his career by constructing and managing manufacturing facilities for Frito Lay, Inc. and the Perrier Group of America.

Atefeh (Atti) Riazi is a senior IT executive and a philanthropist.  She has served in both the public and the private sector as a CIO managing large scale Technology projects and initiatives. Currently, as the CIO of NYCHA Atti is responsible for all aspects of technology with the mission to deploy smart building and energy initiatives aimed to reduce the agency’s carbon footprint while focusing on deploying broadband services aimed to reduce the digital divide. 
Atti is also the Executive Director of CIOs Without Borders - a global non-for-Profit organization, focused on using technology and innovation for the good of humanity.

She was recently the Senior Partner and Global Chief Information Officer of Ogilvy and Mather Worldwide, a leading global Marketing and Communications agency with 497 offices in 125 countries supporting more than 2,300 clients.

In her role as CIO, her focus was in driving the technology strategy to create efficient business processes across the organization. Throughout her career, she has had a tremendous track record of innovation and successful large-scale deployments allowing for productivity gains and competitive advantage.

Atti has managed the global systems and infrastructure network supporting an integrated, cross-discipline organization providing marketing communications across all media. Atti was ranked in #49 amongst the top 100 global CIOs. Under Atti's leadership Ogilvy and Mather has earned a place on InformationWeek's 500 list of innovative IT organizations.

Atti is a graduate of electrical engineering with over 23 years experience managing large organizations, private and public, in the manufacturing, engineering, advertising and transportation sectors. Most recently, she was Vice President and CIO of Technology for MTA New York City Transit responsible for implementing the $1.5B MetroCard in New York City. Prior to that she was the Sr. VP of Manufacturing.

Atti has published many articles and studies. She speaks frequently on issues involving technology, organizations and work. . She has delivered keynote addresses and seminars globally and serves on the Board of major financial and marketing organizations.

Yuvi Kochar, as corporate CTO, collaborates with the major divisions of The Washington Post Company in the areas of technology strategy, architecture and Shared Information Technology Services. Under his leadership, Shared IT Services have rapidly expanded to support key Compliance, Identity Management, Security and Privacy, HR, Benefits, Payroll and Procurement processes across all divisions. The team also supports the corporate Intranet and is currently innovating in the areas of Enterprise 2.0, collaboration and flexible architectures enabling rapid deployment of new solutions to respond to the fast-evolving requirements of the company’s business units.  His current focus is in the areas of open source, collaboration, mobile applications and cloud computing.

Prior to joining the Post, Yuvi was the CTO at Brassring (now Kenexa), a leading SAAS solution for Talent Management. Besides Brassring, Yuvi worked at technology startups in France, New York and Southern California. In addition to his diverse startup experience, Yuvi has a strong experience in managing large outsourcing engagements.

His personal technology blog is at http://yuviontech.blogspot.com/.

Bryan Sivak was appointed by Mayor Adrian M. Fenty on October 13, 2009 to the Cabinet post of Chief Technology Officer (CTO) for the District of Columbia. As CTO, Sivak leads the Office of the Chief Technology Officer (OCTO), an organization of more than 500 staff that provides technology services and leadership for 86 agencies, 38,000 employees, residents, businesses and millions of visitors.

Bryan has over 15 years of international experience in building software and internet technologies and organizations. In 2002, he founded and developed InQuira, Inc., a multi-national technology solutions company whose products are used at top private and public sector organizations.

Prior to his work with InQuira, Sivak founded Electric Knowledge LLC, which provided the world's first Natural Language Search engine available on the web. Electric Knowledge eventually merged with Answerfriend, which was the basis for the formation of InQuira.

Peter Whatnell joined Sunoco in November 2001 as CIO. He is responsible for developing and leading the IT renewal strategy for Sunoco, a leading manufacturer and marketer of petroleum and petrochemical products with revenue of over $33 billion and 14,000 employees. Previously, he spent 17 years with Texaco in various roles, including Head of IT Europe in London. In 1995, Peter moved to the USA where he served in several Corporate Director positions covering IS, Telecommunications, Advanced Technology Services, ERP, the IT member on Texaco's global technology policy and strategy team, and General Manager IT in the shared services company for Texaco, Shell and Saudi Refining Inc.

Peter is on the advisory councils for the IT programs at Villanova and LaSalle Universities, the Philadelphia Chapter of Black Data Processing Associates; he is a board member with Opera Company of Philadelphia and is the Chairman of the Philadelphia Chapter of the Society for Information Management.

As the VP-I.T. and Chief Information Officer, Mark Lohsen is responsible for evolving VESNA’s systems while managing the daily operations of all I.T. activities hosted at the Networking Operations Center in Greenfield, WI. The I.T. department provides all "back office" services in support of the three divisions of VESNA, its 12,000 employees, and its 300+ field offices. This same support is being extended to sister companies in North America, with the hosting of Veolia Energy, Veolia Transportation, and Veolia Water equipment and staff at the NOC.

Prior to joining Veolia, Mark was VP – I.T. and CIO for IKON Technology Services – a division of IKON Office Solutions. Mark spent the previous 20 years as a business systems consultant, leading the development of integrated networks and software applications for major companies. Mark served as a Senior Manager in the consulting divisions of Ernst & Young and KPMG-Peat Marwick.