David Johnson
Global
Information Officer, Jones Lang LaSalle
As Jones Lang LaSalle’s Chief Information Officer, David is responsible for
leading the Information Technology Group and delivering technology products
and services in support of The Firm’s strategic vision and annual operating
plans. He is currently managing the implementation of several key
initiatives including: the delivery of an innovative and client-focused real
estate business intelligence platform called OneView, implementation of a
technology vision for improvement and standardization of the Firm’s
infrastructure and technology operations environments around the world and
the delivery of a single enterprise platform for managing the Firm’s global
businesses.
David is highly experienced in real estate operations and finance with over
20 years of overall Industry and technology experience. He has served for 5
Years as Chief Information Officer of the Americas and has over 17 years of
real estate management experience. He also has 8 years of operations and
systems consulting to the real estate industry with a client list that
includes many of the industry’s top players including Lend Lease,
Prudential, Microsoft, Bank of America, KeyCorp, Citigroup, and top REITS.
He is the former Practice Leader and Senior Manager for both the Price
Waterhouse Real Estate Operations and Systems Consulting Practice in the
United States and Ernst & Young’s US Midwest Real Estate IT Practice.
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Georg Kell
Executive Director, the United Nations Global
Compact
Georg Kell is the executive director of the United Nations Global Compact,
the world's largest voluntary corporate citizenship. Following extensive
experiences in Africa and Asia as a financial analyst, Kell began his career
at the UN in Geneva, where he worked from 1987 to 1990 with the UN
Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD). In 1990, he joined the New
York office of UNCTAD, which he headed from 1993 to 1997. In 1997, Kell
became a senior officer in the Executive Office of UN Secretary-General Kofi
Annan, responsible for fostering cooperation with the private sector. He has
served as head of the UN Global Compact since 2000. A native of Germany,
Kell holds advanced degrees in economics and engineering from the Technical
University of Berlin.
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Stanley S. Litow
VP, Corporate Citizenship & Corporate Affairs and
President, IBM International Foundation
Stanley Litow is IBM's Vice President for Corporate Citizenship & Corporate
Affairs and President of its Foundation. He heads global corporate
citizenship efforts and corporate social responsibility at IBM across over
170 countries. Under his leadership, IBM has developed innovative voice
recognition technology to help non literate children and adults learn to
read, automatic language translation and bi lingual email, open source
technology to help people with disabilities access the web, a humanitarian
grid to power research on Cancer and AIDS and new digital imaging technology
to improve water quality. He conceived Reinventing Education, a program
serving over 100,000 teachers and 10 million children globally and helped
devise IBM's Global Citizen's Portfolio consisting of matching accounts for
learning and a corporate version of the Peace Corps called the Corporate
Services Corps to train 600 future IBM leaders. IBM's efforts in education
have raised student achievement and won the company two Ron Brown Award's
presented by the President. IBM contributes over $160 million annually and
has over 110,000 employee volunteers providing nearly 7 million hours of
service globally.
Before joining IBM, he served as the Deputy Chancellor of Schools for New
York City, the nation's largest school system, and prior to that he founded
and ran Interface, the non profit "think tank" and served as an aide to both
the Mayor and Governor of New York.
Stanley's articles and essays have appeared in numerous books and
publications including the Yale Law Review, Annual Survey of American Law,
Brookings Papers, the American Academy of Sciences, the Journal for the
Center for National Policy, Education Week, the Urban School's Journal as
well as the New York Times and Newsday.
Stanley is a recipient of the Council on Foundation's prestigious Scrivner
Award for creative philanthropy and awards from the Anne Frank Center,
Martin Luther King Commission, Manhattanville College, Federation of
Protestant Welfare Agencies, Coro Foundation, Helen Keller Services to the
Blind, and the Women's City Club. He has taught at New School University,
the City University of New York and Long Island University.
He chairs the Global Leadership Network and serves on the board of Harvard
Business School's Social Enterprise Initiative, Independent Sector,
Citizen's Budget Commission, and the After School Corporation.
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Sean Worthington
Vice President, IT Business Services, CISCO
Systems, INC.
Sean Worthington is Vice President of IT Business Services at Cisco Systems,
Inc. A member of the Cisco IT Senior Leadership Team, Sean reports directly
to
Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer, Rebecca Jacoby.
The global IT Business Services team provides many of
Cisco’s information technology foundations, as well as transformational
initiatives that include Green IT, Environment Services and Demand Clearing
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Cisco’s change management program to successfully manage the supply and
demand for shared IT resources.
Sean is a seasoned Silicon Valley executive with extensive IT leadership
experience. Before joining Cisco in February 2007 he was CIO and Vice
President of Customer Success at ITM Software Corporation. His previous
roles
have been with other leading high technology organizations including Silicon
Graphics, Inc, Aspect Communications and LSI Logic.
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Alice Tepper Marlin
President of Social Accountability International (SAI)
2007-08 Citigroup Distinguished Fellow in Ethics and Leadership at NYU’s
Stern School of Business
SAI is a global standards-setting organization dedicated to improving
workplaces and communities. SA8000 is based on United Nations and ILO
Conventions and Declarations, and on the ISO management systems. SAI
contracts with Social Accountability Accreditation Agency (SAAS) to license
qualified organizations to verify compliance with the SA8000 Standard. Alice
is also Adjunct Professor of Markets and Ethics at NYU’s Stern School of
Business.
She founded the Council on Economic Priorities (CEP) in 1969 and served as
President & CEO for 33 years. CEP pioneered the social investment field and
regularly published the best selling consumer guide, “Shopping for a Better
World”. Ms. Tepper Marlin has been a frequent public speaker on corporate
accountability for three decades. Her numerous other publications include:
Rating America’s Corporate Conscience (Addison-Wesley, 1987)
Earlier, Alice served as a Securities Analyst and Labor Economist at Burnham
& Co., and as the editor of an international tax journal at the
International Bureau of Fiscal Documentation in the Netherlands. She
designed and managed the first social investment portfolio management
service, in 1968.
Alice is the founding Member, The Global Academy for Social
Entrepreneurship, Ashoka, 2005; and is an advisory Board Member, Ethos
Institute, 2005 to present. Her many honors over the years, include the
National Security Expert Award, Center for Defense Information, 1987.
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Gregory R.
Simpson
Chief Technology Officer, GE
Gregory R. Simpson, as GE's Chief Technology Officer, leads GE's
infrastructure shared services organization known as “GIS” (Global
Infrastructure Services). GIS leverages GE’s scale to deliver solutions to
the entire portfolio of GE businesses.
Greg has had an extensive IT career that spans more than 20 years with GE.
Prior to becoming the CTO of GE, 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. Greg has also
served as a Six Sigma Master Blackbelt for GE Lighting.
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Joshua
Holbrook
Director, Enterprise Research, Yankee Group
Joshua Holbrook is a director in Yankee Group's Enterprise Research group
with
an expertise in Web 2.0 enterprise applications. He analyzes the emergence
of
consumer and enterprise Web 2.0 tools in the workplace and how they are used
to further collaboration. Joshua leads a team of analysts who focus on
topics
such as enterprise social software, mashups, consumerization, unified
communications, enterprise mobility and location–based services.
Before joining Yankee Group, Joshua was a director at Unity Communications,
and helped transform the company into an emerging VoIP service provider.
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Ken Hamilton
Founder/Past Chair itSMF USA; Director, HP Education
Ken Hamilton is Founder and Past-Chairman of itSMF USA, and currently a director
of the ITSM Practice at HP Education Services. He is also a recipient of the
itSMF USA Life-time Achievement award. Ken has over 20 years of experience in
IT, is a certified IT Service Manager and has led the development of IT Service
Management methods and ITIL/MOF best practices in the US.
As a director of ITSM Practice in HP Education Services, Ken drives business
development and growth ITSM training services. He also develops HP's ITSM
strategy in the rapidly growing market in the United States.
Prior to joining HP, Ken was the founder and President of ManageOne in Dallas.
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Russ Daniels
Vice-President & CTO, HP Cloud Services Strategy
Russ Daniels is Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of HP Cloud
Services. Previously Russ was CTO for HP Software. Recognized by InfoWorld
in 2006 as one of the industry’s top 25 CTOs, Russ speaks widely at
conferences. Russ has more than 25 years of industry experience specializing
in software architecture, enterprise management, and software development
methodologies. Prior to joining HP, he spent 15 years at Apple Computer.
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Bruce Carver
CIO, Cummins, Inc.
Bruce Carver is Vice President and Chief Information Officer at Cummins Inc.
Cummins, a global power leader, is a corporation of complementary business
units that design, manufacture, distribute and service engines and related
technologies.
Bruce joined Cummins in April 2008 from automotive parts maker Dana Holding
Corporation, where he was Vice President and CIO. Prior to his work at Dana,
Bruce was a Vice President and divisional CIO for PepsiCo. He also served as
the CIO for Reynolds and Reynolds Company, a provider of integrated IT
solutions to the automotive industry. In 2000, Bruce was listed among the
top 100 information technology executives by Computerworld magazine.
Bruce is a member of the Information Technology Senior Management Forum (ITSMF),
the Society of Information Technology (SIM), the National Black MBA
Association (NBMBAA) and the Project Management Institute (PMI).
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Tom Pyke
CIO, US Department of Energy
Tom Pyke manages the IT resources of the US Department of Energy, with an annual IT budget of
$2.1 billion. Before joining the Department of Energy, Tom was the CIO of
the Department of Commerce (2001 to 2005) with an IT career spanning over 30
years. He began his career at the National Bureau of Standards (now the
National Institute of Standards and Technology).
Tom created and led the High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC)
of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and became
NOAA’s first CIO. He was also Director of the GLOBE Program which now
involves over 20,000 schools in 110 countries.
Tom is the author of more than 40 technical papers and reports, and has
lectures widely at conferences and symposiums. He has received numerous
awards, including the Department of Commerce Gold Medal Award and two
Presidential Meritorious Rank Awards.
Tom is listed in Who's Who in America and is a senior member of the IEEE, a
member of the ACM, AAAS, Sigma Xi, Eta Kappa Nu, and Omicron Delta Kappa,
and is a Fellow of the Washington Academy of Sciences, from which he
received the Engineering Science Award.
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Gail Homberg
Former CIO, Bally Total Fitness
Gail Holmberg is the former CIO at Bally Total Fitness where she drove value
through the implementation of significant new business functionality
including automated CRM capabilities, online sales and real time credit card
processing, a new pricing engine and online nutrition advice for members. In
addition she led major business change rollouts to approximately 400 clubs
across the US and Canada. Her previous experience includes a divisional CIO
role at a major retailer, multiple large-scale ERP implementations,
leadership in the transformation to an HR shared services organization and
consulting within many different industries. Gail is currently President of
Blue Morpho Consulting.
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Larry Bonfante
Chief Information Officer, the United States Tennis
Association
With over 25 years of IT experience, Larry is a seasoned professional who
has held leadership positions in the Financial, Pharmaceutical, Not for
Profit, as well as the Sports and Entertainment industries. As Chief
Information Officer at the United States Tennis Association, Larry’s team is
responsible for IT services supporting the US Open, which is the most highly
attended annual sporting event in the world, as well as online services for
over 750,000 members of the USTA.
Prior to joining the USTA, Larry spent ten years at Pfizer Inc. where he
served in various leadership capacities including Director of Global Network
Services and Director of Global IT Planning. He has extensive experience in
running global services organizations and has implemented and managed a
number of large complex outsourcing partnerships over the course of his
career. Larry serves as President of the Westchester-Fairfield, NY chapter
of SIM. He also serves on the advisory board of LogicWorks as well as on the
boards of the Technology Managers Forum’s Futures Advisory Board and the
Center for Business Information and Technologies at the University of
Bridgeport. He is a founding member of the CIO Executive Council, and serves
on the Editorial Advisory Board for CIO Magazine. Larry is a mentor and
guest lecturer for Columbia University’s Executive Masters program in
Technology Management. He is an experienced public speaker who has presented
at many industry conferences and has written articles that have been
published in trade journals such as CIO, Computerworld, Information Week,
and CIO Insight magazines.
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Chad
Kirkpatrick
State CIO & Director of GITA, State of
Arizona
Chad Kirkpatrick is the Chief Information Officer for the State of Arizona
and Director of the Government Information Technology Agency. He started
this position in April, 2009. Director Kirkpatrick comes to GITA from Wells
Fargo where he had served since 2003, most recently in the role of Vice
President and Business Systems Manager of Compliance Services.
While with Wells Fargo, Director Kirkpatrick was responsible for fully
automating the business process for regulatory compliance testing and
managing the Information Security process for the Phoenix location.
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John
Conley
Deputy CIO,
Governor's Office of Information Technology, State of Colorado
John D. Conley was selected as the Deputy State CIO in February of 2007. As
Deputy CIO, John serves as the liaison between OIT and the Executive
Departments, and assists in statewide IT policy creation and implementation.
Prior to his role as the Deputy CIO, John worked for state and local
government where his responsibilities included performance studies, budget
reviews, and organizational redesigns.
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Laurent Rotival
Senior Vice President and General Manager, GE Healthcare IT
Laurent Rotival is a Senior Vice President and General Manager
for GE Healthcare IT (HCIT), a $1.8 billion segment of GE
Healthcare. GE Healthcare IT is a global leader in delivering
information technology solutions that support high-quality and
cost-effective health care.
Laurent has overall responsibility for the area of the business
dedicated to the clinical solutions that drive customer success
and deliver improved patient outcomes. He oversees all
operations, including Installation, Support, Account Management,
Marketing and Research & Development (R&D) of the Enterprise
Solutions portfolio that delivers Electronic Medical Record (EMR)
software, Specialty Care, such as Perinatal and Perioperative
solutions, Departmental offerings, that include Laboratory and
Pharmacy, as well as the groundbreaking Enterprise Clinical
Information System (ECIS).
He began his career at GE in 1995 with the Corporate Initiatives
Group in Fairfield, Connecticut, where he led GE’s Sourcing,
E-Commerce and ERP Initiatives. From 1997 to 2006, Laurent held
three Global CIO and General Manager positions: GE Oil & Gas in
Florence, Italy; NBC in New York City; and GE Energy Services in
Atlanta, Georgia. In these roles, he consistently built
world-class teams, led transformational business simplification
strategies, directed the deployment of award-winning global ERPs,
and managed high ROI enterprise business application portfolios.
Prior to his service with GE, Laurent spent six years in Europe
with the Dow Chemical Company in roles ranging from Advanced
Composite Materials Engineering, Automotive Application
Marketing and Market Management for Dow Europe and the leading
European Automotive OEMs.
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Ben
Trowbridge
Founder and CEO of Alsbridge
Ben Trowbridge is the Founder and CEO of Alsbridge. Alsbridge draws
upon Ben's many years of experience in the offshore,
outsourcing, and shared services sectors. Ben effectively guides
Alsbridge as it engages client firms and develops new solutions
to complex problems. Recently, Ben and sourcing industry pioneer
Morton Meyerson helped Alsbridge raise a sizeable amount of
venture capital funding from 2M Ventures.
Ben made a name for himself in the outsourcing industry at Ernst & Young.
Working in Ernst & Young’s Outsourcing Services Business, Ben was a Managing
Partner and the COO for Ernst & Young’s Global Outsourcing Business, where
he devised collaborative efforts to generate business and secure contracts.
Ben revolutionized the outsourcing efforts of Ernst & Young, nurturing the
operations from start-up to the point of prime profitability.
He was responsible for a contract value of USD $4+ billion at Ernst &
Young, and his efforts led directly to the global consulting operations’
purchase by French firm Cap Gemini in 2000. A Captain in the U.S. Marine
Corps, Ben advanced a series of long-term professional education programs
for Marines. Captain Trowbridge led the Corp’s first Special Operations
Capable Raid Company and was a four-time Company Commander.
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Venky Rangachari
Chief
Technology Officer, Wyndham Hotel Group
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Paul
Czarnik
Senior
Vice President and Chief
Technology Officer, Compuware
While
Paul Czarnik is Senior Vice President of Technology and CTO for
Compuware Corporation, he is a programmer at heart, and thrives on
understanding the vast and wide-ranging technology industry so that he can
directly and immediately apply that knowledge to his work. He leads a team
of more than 800 employees whom he refers to as “proficient and prolific
technicians.” This team delivers world-class Compuware products to customers
around the world."
Paul brings 33 years of software development experience to his role. He
first joined Compuware in 1981, and has held technical and executive
positions in the Services, Products and IT organizations. In addition,
during his career in the software industry, Paul has held technical,
strategy and management positions in medical software development, and was a
founder of medical and EDI software companies in Michigan.
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Wes Wright
Vice
President and Chief Technology Officer, Seattle's children hospital
In March 2008, Seattle Children’s Hospital welcomed Wes Wright as
vice president and chief technology officer. Wright brings a wealth of
information technology experience within the health care industry. Wright
joined Children’s from Scripps Health in San Diego, where he was deputy
chief information officer. He was responsible for a range of information
services including voice and data networks, business and clinical
application and interconnectivity with biomedical devices. Prior to working
at Scripps Health, he served in different information technology leadership
roles within the U.S. Air Force health system. He is affiliated with the
College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) and
Healthcare Information Management Systems Society (HIMSS). Wright received
his M.B.A from the University of New Mexico, and undergraduate degree from
the University of Maryland.
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Rob Reeg
President,
Global Technology and Operations, MasterCard World Wide
Rob Reeg is president, Global Technology and Operations. Based at the Global
Technology and Operations headquarters in St. Louis, Missouri, he also
serves as a member of the company’s Executive Committee and Management
Council. Employees in Global Operations are located across the globe with
major centers located in St. Louis, Purchase, Miami, Singapore, Brussels,
Sydney, and Chennai.
Previously, Rob was chief technology officer for MasterCard Worldwide. Prior
to his role as chief technology officer, he was responsible for systems
development activities.
Rob was responsible for leading the $160mm core processing systems
reengineering effort at MasterCard. This multi-year effort was delivered on
budget and on schedule and provides MasterCard with the leading payments
processing platform in the industry. The globally deployed software and
computer network processes over 25 billion payment card transactions
annually and is responsible for the transfer of more than $1 trillion
dollars between financial institutions each year.
Prior to joining MasterCard, Rob held IT and business leadership positions
with Sprint Corp., Cleveland Pneumatic, Totco Inc., and Conoco Inc.
Rob serves on the University of Missouri-St. Louis Leadership Council,
Washington University’s Professional Degree Programs Academic Advisory
Board, and the United Way of Greater St. Louis’ Technology Committee. In
addition, he is the chairman of the St. Louis Junior Achievement’s Board of
Directors.
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Joe Held
Senior
Vice President, and Chief Information Officer, Standard & Poor's
Joe Held, senior vice president and chief information officer for
Standard & Poor’s a division of The McGraw-Hill Companies, brings more than
20 years of experience in information technology - focusing on business
reengineering; business acquisitions/new ventures; application development
and information architecture; and technology strategy and implementation. He
currently has responsibility for global business systems S&P-wide.
Before joining S&P, Joe was the executive responsible for Investment
Technology Services at Hartford Life Insurance, where he established an
industry-leading technology service for the Annuity and Mutual Funds lines
of businesses. Joe worked at CIGNA HealthCare from 1995 to 1997 as the
assistant vice president of Application and Information Architecture and
worked in a variety of IT roles for several Aetna Life and Casualty
businesses from 1983 to 1995.
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Adriana Karaboutis
Global
Manufacturing and Labor Information Systems and Services, GM
Adriana Karaboutis is General Motors' Global Manufacturing and Labor
Process Information Officer (PIO). In this capacity, Adriana is responsible
for all vehicle assembly, power train, and stamping plant systems, as well
as manufacturing engineering systems. Prior to this role, she was the Global
Purchasing and Supply Chain Process Information Officer responsible for all
global procurement, order fulfillment, supply operations and logistics
systems. Shejoined GM in August 2004.
Prior to working for General Motors, Adriana spent 15 years at Ford Motor
Company where she began as a programmer/analyst and moved into various
global IT leadership positions with increasing responsibility in
manufacturing, supply chain, finance and purchasing residing in both Europe
and North America. She also moved cross-functionally into Ford's material
planning and logistics organization where she spent six years in various
global production planning and scheduling positions as well as leading the
Order-to-Delivery reengineering initiative.
Before joining Ford, Adriana accumulated a breadth of automotive and defense
industry experience including the development of microprocessor-based
welding controls and gauging inspection devices at Medar, Inc.; test
engineering at Volkswagen of America; and thermoforming process engineering
at GM's Fisher Body Division. Adriana also held positions in scheduling as
part of the shipping industry in Athens, Greece.
Adriana received an Academic Excellence Award jointly from Wayne State
University and Ford Motor Company. She is fluent in the Greek language.
Adriana served as a member of the advisory board for the Michigan Council of
Women in Technology (MCWT) and effective January 2008, was elected president
of the organization.
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Gail Stephens
Vice President, R&D, Business Intelligence Clients,
SAS
Gail Stephens is Vice President of Business Intelligence Client Applications
for SAS. This includes client applications such as Web Report Studio,
Information Map Studio, SAS Enterprise Guide, SAS Add-In for Microsoft
Office, SAS AppDev Studio, SAS Data Integration Studio, SAS Information
Delivery Portal, and OLAP Clients.
Gail has a background developing graphical user interface (GUI) based
products at SAS and has specifically moved into the business intelligence
space. She has also managed other GUI products, including the first one
developed at SAS. Stephens was also the manager and original developer of
both SAS/ASSIST and SAS/EIS.
Gail also serves on the Strategic Advisory board for the computer science
department at North Carolina State University.
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Ian Ayres
William K. Townsend Professor & Anne Urowsky
Professorial Fellow in Law, Yale
Ian Ayres is a lawyer and an economist. He is the William K. Townsend
Professor at Yale Law School and a Professor at Yale's School of Management.
Professor Ayres is a columnist for Forbes magazine and writes for the New
York Times' Freakonomics Blog. He has been a commentator on public radio’s
Marketplace. His research has been featured on PrimeTime Live, Oprah and
Good Morning America and in Time and Vogue magazines.
In 2006, he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Ian
has been ranked as one of the most prolific and most-cited law professors of
his generation. He has previously taught at Illinois, Northwestern, Stanford
and Virginia law schools and has been a research fellow of the American Bar
Foundation. He currently is the editor of the Journal of Law, Economics and
Organization.
Professor Ayres has published 9 books and over 100 articles on a wide range
of topics including (in 2007) Super Crunchers: Why Thinking-By-Numbers is
the New Way to be Smart.
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Glen Salow
Executive
Vice President – Service Delivery and Technology, Ameriprise
Glen Salow joined Ameriprise Financial in May 2005. Salow is
responsible for creating an integrated state-of-the-art technology and
service delivery organization.
Before joining the company, Salow was executive vice president and chief
information officer of American Express, a position he assumed in March
2000, after holding the role of senior vice president in the organization
since 1997. As CIO, he advanced the company to one of the most strategic
users of adaptive technology in the financial services market sector and led
the signing of a $4 billion technology-on-demand agreement with IBM to
improve the flexibility and quality of the company's infrastructure.
Salow serves on the Technology Advisory Boards of British Petroleum and New
York Presbyterian Hospital.
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Nicholas R.
Colisto
Vice President and Chief Information Officer,
Hovnanian Enterprises
Nicholas R. Colisto is senior information technology executive with 23 years
of 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.
He is very active in the information technology and education communities
serving as a member of the Society for Information Management (SIM) in New
Jersey. Nicholas taught a Masters program in Information Technology at
Manhattanville College in New York for several years and also served on its
Advisory Board. He currently serves on the Educational Advisory Board at
Brookdale College in New Jersey.
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Ahmed Mahmoud
Chief Information Officer,
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD)
Ahmed Mahmoud is the Chief Information Officer of AMD, and is responsible
for
managing the company’s global technology infrastructure to best meet
internal needs and serve AMD’s customers.
Ahmed joined AMD in 2008, bringing more than 20 years of enterprise
information technology (IT) leadership experience. Most recently, he spent
13 years at Dell, where he served as vice president of IT. During his time
there, he led a series of transformational efforts across its data
warehousing, virtual storefront, manufacturing, supply chain and corporate
computing operations.
Ahmed also held various IT leadership and instruction positions at Eastman
Kodak, The University of Houston and Texas A&M University.
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Michael F.
Corbett
Chairman, International Association of Outsourcing
Professionals (IAOP)
Michael F. Corbett is one of the best-known experts in the field of
outsourcing and Chairman of the International Association of Outsourcing
Professionals (IAOP) – www.outsourcingprofessional.org. IAOP is the global,
standard-setting organization and advocate for the outsourcing profession.
Michael is author of The Outsourcing Revolution: Why It Makes Sense and How
to Do It Right, which John Sculley, former CEO Apple Computer, calls a
“clear and compelling roadmap (that) leads the reader through the systemic
reinvention of work.”
Michael speaks regularly on outsourcing as a management practice and
on its impact on the global economy and global employment. In 1996, he was
an expert witness on outsourcing at hearings called by President Bill
Clinton and, in 2002, was invited to testify before the Office of Management
and Budget’s Commercial Activities Panel tasked with redefining the Federal
government’s outsourcing policies and practices. Mr. Corbett has worked with
organizations as diverse as American Express, Bell Canada, the U.S.
Department of the Navy, EDS, GlaxoSmithKline, Hallmark, IKON, Pitney Bowes,
Sentara Healthcare, CB Richard Ellis Unisys, Xerox, India’s NASSCOM, and the
People’s Republic of China.
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Neil
Jarvis
Vice President and Chief Information Officer, AAA
NCNU
Mr. Neil Jarvis is responsible for AAA Northern California, Nevada & Utah’s
(AAA NCNU) technology strategy, management and delivery including
applications, infrastructure intellectual property, data protection,
information security, and interoperability policies and standards. Prior to
joining AAA NCNU in September 2007 Neil worked for Fortune 1000 EDS and CNA
Insurance, Neil has over 27 years in IT. He held CIO-level roles managing
multi-billion dollar budgets and thousands of globally dispersed personnel.
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Damon
Anderson
Chief
Information Officer, State of Pennsylvania
- Conservation and Natural Resources (PA-DCNR)
Damon began serving the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in June of 1992 and is
currently serving the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources as
Chief Information Officer and is credited with the creation of DCNR’s Bureau
of Information Technology. The Central office of the Pennsylvania Department
of Conservation and Natural Resources is located in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
and consists of 117 State Parks, 20 Forest Districts and numerous regional
and satellite offices totaling around 138 facilities across the
commonwealth.
During his 17 year career with the commonwealth, Damon has run the gambit of
Information Technology serving as a network technician, application
developer, database administrator, technical coordinator, project
planner\manager and supervisor.
Damon’s 20 + years of professional work experience include positions at:
• PA Department of Conservation and Natural Resources
• PA Department of Community Affairs
• Ford New Holland Americas, (New Holland Geotech NYSE:NH)
• SEI Inc. Wayne, PA (NYSE:SEIC)
• US Army Reserves, Pennsylvania (79th and 99th ARCOM HQ (Army Reserve
Command Headquarters)).
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Stephanie
L. Reel
Chief Information Officer for all divisions, Johns
Hopkins University and Health System
Vice Provost for Information Technology and CIO, Johns Hopkins University
Vice President for Information Services, Johns Hopkins Medicine
Stephanie Reel is the Chief Information Officer for all divisions of the
Johns Hopkins University and Health System. She was appointed Vice Provost
for Information Technology and CIO for the Johns Hopkins University in
January 1999. She is also Vice President for Information Services for Johns
Hopkins Medicine, a post she has held since 1994.
As CIO Stephanie leads the strategic plan for IS as well as clinical,
research, and instructional technologies. She has more than twenty-five
years experience in Information Systems, and under her direction, the Johns
Hopkins Health System is enhancing and advancing the use of the Johns
Hopkins Electronic Patient Record. Also under her direction, the Johns
Hopkins University has implemented self-service solutions for faculty, staff
and students, leveraging the power of Internet 2 and other emerging
technologies to support electronically enhanced education and research.
Stephanie was recognized as one of Maryland’s Top 100 Women in 2008, and has
also been recognized as the Alumna of the Year at the University of Maryland
Baltimore County in 2008. She was named CIO of the Year 2000 by the College
of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) and is the 2002
recipient of the National CIO 20/20 Vision Leader Award. She is a member of
the Healthcare Information Management and Systems Society, the Healthcare
Advisory Council, the American Medical Informatics Association, and Educause.
She is a member of the College of Healthcare Information Systems Executives
and serves on the faculty of CHIME’s CIO Boot Camp. She is a member and past
President of the Healthcare Information Systems Executive Association.
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Tim Zoph
Senior Vice President, administration and Chief Information
Officer, Northwestern Memorial Hospital
Tim serves as the Senior Vice President, Administration and CIO for
Northwestern Memorial Hospital. This year marks his 16th anniversary at
Northwestern Memorial and 22 years as a CIO in the health care industry.
Through Tim’s leadership, Northwestern Memorial has been awarded one of the
100 Most Wired Hospitals for 9 years. He was recently named the 2008 CIO of
the Year by the Executives’ Club of Chicago along with The Association of
Information Technology Professionals. Tim is also a faculty member of the
Chime CIO Boot Camp that is dedicated to training current and future
information technology leaders in the healthcare industry.
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Ron Thieme,
Ph.D.
Vice President and Chief Information Officer,
AIT Laboratories
Dr. Ron Thieme is Vice President and Chief Information Officer at AIT
Laboratories. As a member of the executive team he is responsible for
general leadership and management for IT, and engaging with the broader life
sciences community. Prior to AIT Ron served as a business and technology
consultant, advising firms in the life sciences, financial, and logistics
sectors. Ron co-founded, managed, and ultimately sold Cambient, a successful
business and IT consulting company. He is a member of the Society for
Information Management, and serves on the boards of Lutheran Child & Family
Services and Community Hospitals of Indianapolis.
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Michael
Manchisi
Chief Technology Officer, Global Technology and
Operations, MasterCard World Wide
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Suzanne Gordon
VP Information Technology and Chief Information
Officer, SAS Institute Inc.
Chief Information Officer Suzanne Gordon has focused her 300-person staff on
the alignment of IT resources with other business units within SAS.
Suzanne was elevated to CIO from Vice President of the SAS Information
Systems Division (ISD) in 2003, the same year she was named a ComputerWorld
Premier 100 IT leader. She was honored for her innovative, effective
approach to providing hardware, software and project management support for
national and international operational systems.
Suzanne headed the
management information services department in ISD for nearly 20 years, where
she helped develop the company's information- and applications-rich
intranet. She joined SAS in 1980.
A graduate of North Carolina State University, Suzanne maintains close ties
to the university. A member of the board of trustees, she has also served on
the alumni association board and College of Management Advisory board.
Suzanne is a frequent speaker and mentor to women pursuing technical
careers, and is also active in a medical ministry that provides services to
low-income individuals.
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Tony Tortorice
Chief Technology Officer, State of Washington
Governor Chris Gregoire named Tony Tortorice, a California Information
Technology executive with more than 25 years of IT experience in both the
private and public sectors, to head Washington’s Department of Information
Services. Tony’s term began on July 1st of this year.
A California resident for the past 30 years, Tony Tortorice, 57, was the
chief information officer for the Los Angeles Unified School district, the
nation’s second largest public school system. There, he led the recovery of
a troubled HR/Payroll implementation. Tortorice was also the senior IT
executive for the Los Angeles Community College District, the largest system
of community colleges in the nation. Before working with the community
college system, he was a partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers.
Prior to beginning a doctorate program in public administration at the
University of Southern California, Tony served in the U.S. Navy, where
he started his career in IT by installing his command’s first work
processing system.
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Brendan O'Malley
Vice President and Chief Information Officer, Tasty
Baking Company
Brendan O’Malley is Vice President and Chief Information Officer of Tasty
Baking Company. Before coming to Tastykake Brendan worked at Price
Waterhouse, PwC and IBM. He has more than twelve years of experience leading
and managing business software projects.
Brendan is a frequent speaker and panel member discussing IT management and
best practices. He has been featured and quoted in Consumer Goods
Technology, Mobile Enterprise, CIO, and other trade magazines.
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Donald F. Martin
Vice President and CIO, Armstrong World Industries
Don is vice president and chief information officer of Armstrong World
Industries where he is currently managing several web initiatives.
Don came to Armstrong in March 2002 from OfficeMax where he was vice
president of Information Systems. Prior to this, he was program director at
LTV Corporation where he designed and implemented one of the largest
domestic SAP projects at the time. Early in his career, he was project
manager at NASA’s Glenn Research Center. At NASA, he was instrumental in
building the power system for the International Space Station, the largest
scientific cooperative program in history, and he managed a 250-person team
that “flew an experiment” on the space shuttle to isolate the nature of
combustion in zero gravity conditions.
Don is technology advisor for Villanova University College of Business; a
member of the Society of Information Management Advanced Practices Council;
and governing body member of the CIO Executive Summit of Philadelphia and
Washington, DC.
In the Lancaster, Pa., community where Armstrong is based, Don sits on the
Lancaster General Hospital Information Technology Committee Board of
Trustees, and the Lancaster Alliance Board of Directors.
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Merv Tarde
VP, Information Technology and Chief Information Officer
Vice President of Facilities and Property Management, Interstate
Battery System of America, Inc.
Merv Tarde has served as the Chief Information Officer of Interstate
Batteries since August 1998. Prior to joining Interstate Batteries, Merv
spent more than 20 years in the telecom industry beginning with Bell
Laboratories and ending with AT&T Wireless where he held several executive
level positions.
Merv served eight years on the Board of Directors for the Society of
Information Management’s Dallas-Ft. Worth Chapter, including the position of
Chairman of the Board for two years. Current board of director positions
include: The Center for Decision & Information Technologies and the National
Kidney Foundation of North Texas. In addition, he is a member of the
Advisory Council for the Dallas Catholic Foundation, an advisory board
member of the Information Technology & Decisions Sciences group at the
University of North Texas and a member of the CIO Advisory Council for the
Dallas Oracle Users Group. Merv is the 2007 recipient of the Information
Technology Executive of the Year award presented by the Dallas-Ft. Worth SIM
Chapter.
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Brian
Simmermon
Vice President and
Chief Information Officer, Subaru of America, Inc.
Brian Simmermon is Chief Information Officer for Subaru of America, Inc. (SOA),
headquartered in Cherry Hill, N.J. Brian joined SOA in 2005.
Prior to joining SOA, Brian was Senior Vice President of Enterprise
Applications Development at QVC, Inc. where he orchestrated a strategic move
to Enterprise applications in UK, Germany, Japan and the US.
From 1986-2003, Brian was with the Franklin Mint, most recently as Vice
President and Chief Information Officer. He took on progressive leadership
roles such as Vice President & Chief Operating Officer of European
Operations with facilities in 11 international locations. Brian's
accomplishments include a strategic business plan that reduced costs by 60
percent; P&L responsibility for the $120 million European business; and the
successful launch of an e-commerce Web site.
Brian is active in several Information Technology organizations including
the Society of Information Management Professionals and the Greater
Philadelphia Senior Executive Group. He also is chair person for a local CIO
round table group.
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Gerry
McCartney
VP of Technology and CIO, Purdue University
Gerry McCartney is the VP of Technology and CIO for Purdue
University. In June 2009, he became the first Olga Oesterle
England professor of information technology. Gerry is currently
interested in the commercial opportunities for creating new
markets in quantitative research. He is also investigating the
declining role of the general purpose computing facility as a
cost center, and the changing relationship between education and
the use of technology.
Previously, Gerry served as Associate Dean and CIO of the
Wharton School for 11 years. Gerry is a frequent speaker at
industry and education events on topics surrounding the
strategic use of technology and future trends in technology.
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Gopal Khanna
Chief Information Officer, State of Minnesota
Gopal Khanna was appointed Minnesota's first State CIO by
Governor Tim Pawlenty on August 15, 2005, and unanimously
confirmed by the State Senate on March 20, 2006. Gopal was
appointed to a second term by Governor Pawlenty effective
January 2, 2007, and, again, unanimously confirmed by the State
Senate January 17, 2007. Minnesota's Executive Branch spends an
estimated $600 million per year on information technology
through 66 different agencies with 2400 staff and 1000 networks,
and operates over 500 websites.
Gopal is currently president of the National Association of
State CIOs (NASCIO).
Prior to assuming his position with the State of Minnesota,
Gopal served in the administration of President George W. Bush
in Washington, D.C., from June 2002 through August 2005, and is
credited with leading major reforms in the federal government.
As the CIO and CFO of the U.S. Peace Corps, he was responsible
for the successful implementation of a standardized computing
platform for the Peace Corps' 72 posts worldwide; design and
implementation of an enterprise architecture program that serves
as the framework for the agency's systems modernization
strategy; and transformation of financial management systems
that resulted in the issuance of the first set of audited
financial statements in the agency's 43-year history.
Prior to his leadership role in government, Gopal was in the
private sector where he held several corporate senior leadership
positions. He has a broad-based management background which
includes experience in information technology, finance,
operations, strategic planning, business development, and
consulting.
From 1996 to 2002, Gopal was president and CEO of International
Technology Consultants, Inc. From 1990 to 1996, he was with the
American Hardware Insurance Group, a Minneapolis-based property
and casualty insurance group, where he held several positions
including vice president of operations, vice president of
systems, and vice president of information technology and
administration. From 1981 to 1990, he was with the National
Council on Compensation Insurance in Boca Raton, Florida, where
he held several positions including director of operations and
director of strategic planning. Prior to that, Gopal lived in
New York where he held positions in marketing, sales management,
merchandising, and corporate training and development with the
MONY Financial Services Group.
Gopal has a long history of civic and charitable involvement. He
has served on several professional and community boards and is
currently a member of the board of trustees of the Hindu Society
of Minnesota.
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Peter Gapp
Vice President and Chief Information Officer, Siemens
Canada Limited
As the Chief Information Officer for the Siemens Cluster Canada,
Peter is responsible for the management of strategic information
technology for several Siemens operating companies in the
region.
Peter has over 15 years of experience in energy, industry,
healthcare, technology, communications and financial services
industries with a main focus on mergers & acquisitions, business
integrations, cost reduction programs and corporate
reorganizations. He began his career with Siemens in 1993 and
has held various IT leadership positions for Siemens in the
United States and Germany. Most recently, Peter was the Senior
Vice President and CIO for Siemens Financial Services, Inc.
Prior to moving to Canada, he had an assignment as an
Information Systems Auditor in Munich, Germany conducting
strategic IT audits of global organizations within Siemens AG.
Before working for Siemens, Peter ran his own software and
hardware development company, servicing customers in the
Automotive and Healthcare industries.
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James
Markarian
Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Informatica
James Markarian serves as senior vice president and chief technology officer
of Informatica. James joined Informatica in 1998 from Oracle where he served
for ten years in a number of roles. Prior to joining Informatica, James was
architect of the Oracle Tools Division, where he held responsibility for
cross-product architectural planning and integration decisions. He also
served on Oracle's Architecture Review Board.
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Robert Rosen
Chief Information Officer, NIAMS (National Institute of Arthritis and
Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases), NIH
Past President SHARE (IBM)
Robert Rosen is a chief information officer with the National Institute of
Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases, part of the National
Institutes of Health, and earlier served in various information technology
management roles for the Army Research Laboratory.
He has been a member of the SHARE (IBM user group) for more than 30 years.
In his volunteer roles with the organization, he has served as president,
vice
president and director of SHARE’s eBusiness strategies, director of
strategic
business initiatives and chair of the executive committee of USERblue. He
also
has served as a member of the nominating committee. For an eight-year period
in the 1980s and 1990s, Mr. Rosen was SHARE’s division officer for science
and
engineering.
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Dr. Albert Esser
Vice President of Data Center Infrastructure, DELL
.Dr. Albert A. Esser serves as vice president of Dell’s Data Center
Infrastructure group.
Prior to joining Dell, Albert was an advisor to Anzode, a HiTech Battery
company and was Vice President Technology, Fluid Power Group, Eaton, based
in Cleveland, Ohio. At Eaton, he was a member of the Eaton Technology
council and responsible for Eaton’s central research.
Prior to Eaton, Albert was the CTO and VP, Emerson Network Power, Emerson
Electric and served as Technology Business Leader, Network Power Group. As
CTO, he oversaw the global R&D and product development of Emerson Network
Power, which had engineers in 6 continents. He is a Founding Member of the
GridWise Architecture Board, sponsored by the DOE.
Albert has held the position of SVP – Corporate Research at Hilti,
Liechtenstein. He held several positions with increasing responsibilities in
GE having started as Project Manager in GE’s Corporate R&D Center, Power
Controls Program, where he was Manager and had responsibility for GE’s
Research in electronics. Prior to this he was at GE Medical Systems, MRI
where
he eventually became the Global Manager. He was one of GE’s first Certified
Master Blackbelt and was part of the initial 6 Sigma effort in GE Medical
Systems.
Albert started his career with Daimler-Benz as a Staff Scientist and member
of
the Corporate Technology Exchange Program.
Albert has published a book on wireless transmission of electric power and
signals for robots, 10 papers, received an Outstanding Prize Paper Award
jointly from the IEEE/Industrial Application Society and the IEE Japan
(1993),
and holds 12 US patents. He has received numerous company awards including
GE’s Dushman award, GE’s highest ranking team award..
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Rohit Ghai
Vice President of Engineering, Storage and Availability Management Group,
Symantec Corporation
Rohit Ghai is a recognized expert in the design, development, and release of
data center and security management software solutions. He is currently vice
president for the storage management product line within the Storage and
Availability Management Group at Symantec. Prior to joining Symantec, Rohit
was responsible for managing the development of the storage management
product line for the BrightStor business unit at CA, where he was
instrumental in driving the M&A strategy in this area for CA, and built up
the product line through acquisitions and subsequent integration of those
technologies into the BrightStor suite.
Before this, Rohit had a stint in India as the CTO for Computer
Associates-India. This entailed managing all the technology initiatives,
operations and personnel for the joint ventures of CA in the region. Rohit
joined CA in 1996 upon its acquisition of Cheyenne Software, Inc., where he
held a variety of senior development positions in eTrust and ARCserve
product development.
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John Pescatore
Vice president and Research Fellow, Gartner
Research
John Pescatore is a Vice President and Research Fellow in Gartner Research,
with 24 years experience in computer network and information security. He is
frequestly quoted in such publications as BusinessWeek Online,
InformationWeek, and other publications.
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Carey
Nachenberg
Chief Architect and Symantec Fellow, Security
Technology and Response, Symantec
Carey Nachenberg, Symantec Fellow and Chief Architect of Symantec’s Security
Technology and Response (STAR) division, has been an innovator at Symantec
Corporation for the past eighteen years. His work has garnered 25 United
States patents.
In addition to presenting papers at VB, ICSA, and CSI conferences, Carey has
contributed to four books, including Internet Security Professional
Reference
and Windows NT Server 4: Security, Troubleshooting and Optimization.
He is a regular contributor to Virus Bulletin, Secure Computing, and
Communications of the ACM and other major computer security journals. He has
also appeared in a variety of television and print interviews, and speaks
regularly at computer security conferences on behalf of Symantec.
Much of Carey's early work at Symantec (and his master's thesis), was based
on
polymorphic computer virus detection and eradication. He serves as a member
of
UCLA’s Computer Science Alumni Advisory Board and as a staff lecturer.
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Al Kirkpatrick,
CISM, CISSP
VP, CISO, First American Corporation
Al Kirkpatrick is vice president and chief information risk officer for The
First American Corporation. Responsible for First American’s 250
subsidiaries, including significant international holdings. Additionally, al
also supports the corporation’s global subsidiaries and customers regarding
risks related to international operations.
Prior to joining First American, Kirkpatrick held chief information security
officer positions at two large, technologically advanced corporations. He
has also held various technology management positions, including the
management of fossil and nuclear power plant information systems for the
nation’s largest investor-owned utility company.
AL has several certification credentials, including the Certified
Information Security Manager, Certified Information Systems Security
Professional and Nuclear Quality Assurance Auditing designations. He is
acknowledged as a thought leader regarding risk management and a regular
speaker at domestic and international conferences. His new book, Risk
Management Across the Globe© is scheduled for publication Fall, 2008.
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George
Dolicker
CISO, Lenovo
George J. Dolicker is Lenovo’s Chief Information Security Officer. Lenovo is
the world’s 3rd largest PC manufacturer and has 25,000 employees world-wide.
Prior to Lenovo, George was the Global Security Practice Leader at
International Network Services with eleven years of tenure. He is a frequent
speaker internationally on topics including Security Architecture and
Program Design, Incident Response, Security Training and Awareness,
Intrusion Detection, Standards and Regulations, Security Audits and
Assessments, Penetration and Vulnerability Testing, Privacy, and
Cryptography.
George holds CISSP and CISA credentials; is certified by the NSA in InfoSec
Assessments and Evaluations; and is a member of ISSA, ISACA, CSI, and
InfraGard.
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Mark Katz
VP Global IT and Chief Information Officer, Esselte
Corp
Mark Katz is Vice President and Chief Information Officer for Esselte
Corporation. In this role he is responsible for IT applications and
operations
worldwide. Esselte is a leading global office supplies manufacturer, and
holds
dominant positions in the filing and hobby and Craft industries.
Mark has more than 20 years experience in IT Prior to Esselte, Mark was
head of Professional Services, EMEA for Blue Martini Software. Mark has
broad industry experience and has held senior positions at Levi Strauss,
Apple Computer, Sprint and Wells Fargo Bank
Mark was recipient of the 2006 CIO Decisions Leadership Award and his
passions
lie in applying ‘lean manufacturing’ concepts to IT operations and rapid
deployment models for ERPs.
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Dr. Janis L. Gogan
Professor, Information & Process Management, Bentley College, Waltham, MA
Dr. Janis L. Gogan holds EdM, MBA, and DBA degrees from Harvard University.
A member of the Information & Process Management faculty at Bentley College,
she teaches IT management and conducts field-based research on complex IT
projects, management of emerging technologies, inter-organizational systems,
eCommerce strategies, and inter-organizational information sharing in
time-pressed situations. Janis’ publications include 30 Harvard Business
School cases, which have been taught in the U.S. and around the world. She
is
also a former columnist at Information Week.
Currently Janis teaches a required MBA course at Bentley titled, Strategic
Information Fundamentals. The course helps future managers recognize how
companies use IT for business value, the challenges in ensuring system and
process reliability, the non-IT manager’s role in assessing and helping to
mitigate IT project risks, the role of the CIO and the board of directors in
IT planning and governance, and the unique business and technical challenges
brought on by the rapid advancement of hardware, software and communications
technologies. Since the 1980’s, Janis has been researching on how companies
identify, purchase and assimilate new technologies. Her current focus is
telemedicine tools and processes in urgent care situations.
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Larry S. Thomas
VP and CIO, Landstar, Inc.
Larry S. Thomas joined Landstar in 1994 as Director of Information Services
at
one of its subsidiaries. In 2000, Larry was named Vice President of
Research and Engineering for Landstar System, Inc. and relocated to
Jacksonville, Florida . The following year he was promoted to Vice President
and Chief Information Officer. Prior to joining Landstar Larry served in
various positions at IBM, Whirlpool Corporation and Kimbal International.
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Dan Mintz
CIO, US Department of Transportation
Daniel G. Mintz currently serves as the Chief Information Officer (CIO) for
the United States Department of Transportation (DOT). Dan’s professional
career has spanned thirty years. He came to DOT from Sun Microsystems, where
he most recently served as the Director for Government Compliance Programs
and was responsible for leading a corporate-wide group responsible for
security, legal, and regulatory compliance for Sun’s US Government business.
In 2005, Dan served as a Delegate to the White House Conference on Aging. He
earlier served as a member of the State of Maryland Advisory Panel on
Electronic Commerce.
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Steve Phillips
Senior Vice President, Chief Information Officer
Avnet, Inc.
Steve Phillips is senior vice president and chief information officer for
Avnet, Inc., reporting to Avnet Chief Operating Officer Rick Hamada. He is
also a member of the Avnet Executive Board and a corporate officer.
Steve came to Avnet with the 2005 acquisition of Memec, where he had served
as
senior vice president and chief information officer since 2004. Prior to
joining Memec, Steve was senior vice president and chief information officer
for Gateway Inc. He joined Gateway in 1999 and served as vice president of
information technology (IT) in London and San Diego before his appointment
in
2003 as chief information officer. Between 1996 and 1999, he worked for
Diageo, the international food and drinks group, where he was information
technology director for its European foods division. He previously spent
eight
years in a variety of leadership roles at Thorn EMI, a UK
defense-electronics
company.
In May 2007 he was elected to the board of directors of the Arizona
Technology
Council. During the same month he was named to eWeek's Top 100 CIOs. Ranked
No. 56, Mr. Phillips was referenced as being "a leader in IT best practices
and a big proponent of business intelligence solutions."
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Jeffrey F.
Lucchesi
Senior Vice President, Chief Information Officer of
BMHC
Jeffrey Lucchesi joined the BMHC in August 2004 as Senior Vice President and
Chief Information Officer. From 2000 to 2004, he was Senior Vice President
of
Worldwide Operations for Corio, Inc., an enterprise application service
provider. Jeff also served from 1994 to 2000 as Vice President and Chief
Information Officer for DHL Express, a leader in international air express
services.
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Howard A.
Schmidt
President & CEO of the London based Information
Security Forum (ISF)
Professor of Practice, The Georgia Institute of Technology's GTISC
Former White House Cyber-Security Advisor
Distinguished Fellow, The Poneman Institute
Professor of Research, Idaho State University
Board Member and Security Strategist with ISC Squared
Howard A. Schmidt has had a distinguished career in defense, law enforcement
and corporate security spanning almost 40 years. He most recently served in
the position of Chief Security Strategist for the U.S. CERT Partners Program
for the National Cyber Security Division, Department of Homeland Security.
He retired from the White House after 31 years in public service. He was
appointed by President Bush as the Vice Chair of Critical Infrastructure
Protection and as the Special Adviser for Cyberspace Security in 2001. Prior
to the White House, he was chief security officer for Microsoft Corp.
Howard was with the FBI at the National Drug Intelligence Center, where he
headed the Computer Exploitation Team.
Howard served with the U.S. Air Force in various roles from 1967 to 1983,
and
as a member of the U.S. Army Reserves he is a Special Agent in the Criminal
Investigation Division .
He also serves as the international president of the ISSA and was the first
president of IT-ISAC. He served as an augmented member to the President’s
Committee of Advisors on Science and Technology in the formation of an
Institute for Information Infrastructure Protection.
Howard has been appointed to the ISPAB to advise the National Institute of
Standards and Technology, the Secretary of Commerce and the Director of the
Office of Management and Budget on information security and privacy issues
pertaining to Federal Government information systems.
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Steve Moffett
VP of Solutions Delivery, DSW Inc.
Steve Moffett recently joined DSW as Vice President of Solutions Delivery
for the Brand Technology Services organization. DSW is a U.S. specialty
branded footwear retailer.
Steve is a former executive of Intuit Inc., a leading provider of business
and financial management solutions. Flagship products and services include
QuickBooks, Quicken, and TurboTax software.
Prior to joining Intuit, Steve worked with the parent company of NASDAQ,
Citicorp, and numerous other groups in software process improvement based
upon the teachings of Dr. Deming and Carnegie Mellon’s Software Engineering
Institute (SEI). Steve was the first person authorized by SEI to train and
evaluate teams of SEI qualified assessors to evaluate and help improve
software development organizations and teams.
Steve also served in the Air Force as a combat A-10 pilot, in Desert
Shield/Storm, and led the introduction of software process improvement
across the United States Air Force.
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Shawn Banerji
CIO Practice, Russell Reynolds Associates, Inc.
Shawn Banerji is a member of the Information Officers and Business and
Professional Services Practices within the Technology Sector at Russell
Reynolds Associates. Based in New York. Shawn recruits CIO's across a
variety of industries and has extensive experience in the technology and
business process outsourcing marketplace. This includes shared/business
services search work for large corporations as well as extensive work for
private equity investors and their portfolio companies.
Shawn has more than a decade of executive recruiting experience and joined
Russell Reynolds Associates in 1999. Prior to executive search, Shawn worked
in the advertising industry at Ogilvy & Mather.
Shawn is a member of the Society for Information Management, the Financial
Services Technology Consortium, the Indian American Council and TiE. In
addition, he serves on the Advisory Boards of several emerging technology
and services companies that utilize global resourcing operating models.
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Brian R. Lurie
Vice President, Information Technology, Stryker
Orthopaedics
For the past 10 years, Brian R. Lurie has served as Vice President,
Information Technology at Stryker Orthopaedics, the largest operating
division of the Stryker Corporation ($6 Billion plus in annual sales).
Additionally, Brian is a founding member of Stryker’s Business Technology
Council and Enterprise Project Management Office.
Brian has more than 20 years of experience in the field of information
technology and has held a number of key leadership positions. Prior to his
current position, Brian served as the CIO for Penn Engineering and
Manufacturing during which the company’s business grew at a rate of more
than 30% during his tenure.
From 1984 through 1994, Brian worked for the Unisys Corporation, culminating
his tenure as the Bid Integrity Manager for the Tri-State area. Brian serves
on the panel for the Global Technology Confidence Indicators (GTCI), an
executive research and analysis unit at Stevens Institute of Technology in
Hoboken, NJ., and is a Charter Board Member on the Temple University
Computer and Information Sciences Advisory Board.
He is a frequent guest speaker and contributor to various academic and
technology groups and is an annual technology guest speaker at the
University of Pennsylvania. He has spoken at several CIO Summits and events
both in the United States and Europe and is a member of the governing body
of the New Jersey CIO Summit.
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Robert W. Blair
Senior Vice President – Enterprise Delivery
Services, SunTrust Banks, Inc.
Robert Blair is a twenty year veteran of the Information Technology industry
and has six and a half years CIO experience. Robert is currently a
technology executive at the 7th largest US Based Bank, SunTrust Banks.
SunTrust Banks, Inc., with total assets in excess of $177 billion, is one of
the nation's largest and strongest financial holding companies.
He manages technology investment portfolio for all core banking systems as
well as the retail delivery channels which includes support for 2500+ ATMs,
1700+ retail branches including supermarket branches, and support of 1500+
seat call centers across several locations.
Prior to his existing role, Robert was the Chief Information Officer and
Executive Vice President of Product and Technology with Vital Processing
Services, a wholly owned subsidiary of Total Systems (NYSE: TSS) where his
retooling of the IT organization resulting in the most reliable platforms in
the payments industry.
Robert was also involved with CitiStreet, a joint venture of CitiGroup and
State Street Bank, in the benefits outsourcing industry. Robert has years of
experience in large-scale, technology-intensive service businesses as well
as complex technology environments. Robert started his career at Barnett
Bank in their technology subsidiary where he held several key senior
leadership positions.
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Mark Polansky
Managing Director, North America Information
Technology Officers, Korn/Ferry International
With more than 25 years of executive search experience, all in technology,
Mark has extensively recruited chief information officers, chief technology
officers and other senior IT leaders across a wide range of vertical
industry sectors. He also has expertise in recruiting for both general and
technical management for public and private high-tech companies, managed
service providers, professional services organizations, venture firms and
their portfolio companies.
Mark joined Korn/Ferry in 1997. Before entering the search field in 1979, he
spent 11 years at two large information technology organizations engaged in
the development, support and marketing of information systems in the
financial services and higher education sectors.
Mark previously taught computer science at Pratt Institute, Brooklyn
College, and Southern Connecticut State University. He currently serves on
the advisory board of Columbia University's executive graduate program in
information technology management.
He frequently addresses conferences and writes on information systems
subjects as well as career management and human resources topics, and he is
the creator of the “Executive Career Counsel” column in CIO Magazine. He is
a member of the Society for Information Management previously serving as
chairman and president of the New York Metro Chapter. Mark currently serves
on the advisory boards of The Information Technology Senior Management
Forum, the national organization dedicated to fostering executive talent
among African-American IT professionals, and HITEC, the Hispanic Information
Technology Executive Council.
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Jeff Sutherland
Scrum co-founder and CEO of Scrum, Inc., CTO of
PatientKeeper
Jeff Sutherland started the first Scrum at Easel Corporation in 1993. He
worked with Ken Schwaber to emerge Scrum as a formal process at OOPSLA ’95.
Together, they extended and enhanced Scrum at many software companies and IT
organizations and helped write the Agile Manifesto.
Jeff is the CEO of Scrum, Inc. powered by OpenView Venture Partners and is
Agile coach to over 20 portfolio companies and to the OpenView venture group
staff which runs all its operations with Scrum. As Senior Advisor to
OpenView and CTO of PatientKeeper he focuses on using Scrum to transform
companies as well as empower software developers. PatientKeeper quadrupled
revenue in 2007 and the OpenView venture capital group is using it to create
similar high performance portfolio companies.
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Frank
Modruson
CIO, Accenture
Frank B. Modruson, CIO of Accenture, leads a high-performance global IT
organization supporting a $23.39 billion company and enabling over 186,000
employees in 49 countries worldwide to work anytime, anywhere. Frank
formerly served as a client partner in Accenture’s Communications & High
Tech and Products groups.
CIO Magazine recently selected Accenture as one of 100 innovative
organizations that use IT effectively to create business value.
InformationWeek recognized Accenture’s IT organization as the 52nd most
innovative IT organization out of 500 North American companies and Accenture
was named to the 2007 InfoWorld 100 for is network transformation project..
Frank is a member of The Executive's Club of Chicago Technology Strategy
Group. He helped establish the Penn State College of Information Sciences
and Technology.
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Ewald
Comhaire
Director, Global Infrastructure Services, HP Services,
Hewlett-Packard Company
Ewald Comhaire manages the global practice for infrastructure services and
solutions within HP services. This practice, in partnership with the Microsoft
Services practice, is responsible for solutions, services and methodologies in
the areas of IT Shared Services, IT consolidation, data center services, IT
migrations, adaptive infrastructure, virtualization, grid and high performance
computing, IT architecture, business continuity and availability, data base
infrastructure, storage and information lifecycle management.
During his career, Ewald has been working with HP R&D organizations as a
consultant and architect on the HP Intel Itanium program, the 5 nines: 5 minutes
(99.999% continuous availability) program and the “always-on Internet
infrastructure” program (HP’s utility data center).
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Jerry
Johnson
Chief Information Officer and Director of Information
Technology Services at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland, WA
PNNL is a Department of Energy Office of Science national laboratory that solves
complex problems in energy, national security and the environment, and advances
scientific frontiers in the chemical, biological, materials, environmental and
computational sciences. PNNL employs 4,200 staff, has a $750 million annual
budget, and has been managed by Ohio-based Battelle since the lab's inception in
1965.
Jerry is responsible for IT Infrastructure involved in the information intensive
business of scientific research and technology development, including a high
performance network supporting one of the world’s most powerful supercomputers,
unique information discovery and retrieval tools, and trusted capabilities for
collaborating with researchers world-wide.
Jerry also represents PNNL interests concerning information technology to DOE
and other federal and state agencies, and develops strategic relationships with
other Battelle and DOE laboratories, universities, business partners, and
suppliers.
Jerry chairs the DOE National Laboratories CIO Council and the Virtual
Possibilities Network (VPnet) Board of Directors, and represents PNNL in the
Northwest Academic Computing Consortium.
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William
H. Morgan
Executive
Vice President and Chief Information Officer, the Philadelphia Stock Exchange
(PHLX)
William has been a member of the PHLX’s Technology Management Staff since
1982, serving in various technical and managerial capacities. He is responsible
for the Financial Automation of the Philadelphia Stock Exchange (PHLX), and his
management supports the PHLX’s businesses including Equity Trading, Equity
Options Trading, Foreign Currency Options Trading, Futures and Clearing
Services.
In February 2004, William was appointed President and Chief Executive Officer of
Advanced Tech Source (ATS), a subsidiary of the PHLX that provides technology
hosting services.
William has been a finalist for the Computerworld Smithsonian Award, and he was
recently presented with the Sun Microsystems Stellar Performance Award and the
LaSalle University Information Technology Leadership Award. His work has been
featured in articles published in Computer World, Information Week, LAN
Magazine, Securities Industry News and Wall Street Technology Magazine. William
is also on the boards of various universities as well as the Society for
Information Management (SIM). William has also served on the Securities Industry
Association (SIA) Year 2000 Steering Committee.
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Sandra
Palumbo
Program Manager, Global Enterprise Services, The Yankee Group
Sandra is a program manager in Yankee Group’s Enterprise Research group with
expertise in managed services—specifically network, security and enterprise
mobility. Her research focuses on the SMB, mid-market and enterprise space
addressing both supply- and demand-side drivers, inhibitors and the strategic
direction and growth of the managed services space. She is also responsible for
the coverage of mobile security and enterprise device management, focusing on
products and services targeting the enterprise end user and securing and
managing the Anywhere EnterpriseTM. She also oversees the enterprise services
research agenda for North America, EMEA and Asia-Pacific.
Previously at Yankee Group, Sandra was responsible for research pertaining to
managed network services, legacy data services, managed security services and
the global telecommunications.
Sandra has extensive telecommunications and networking experience, and she
joined Yankee Group from AT&T Solutions, the professional services arm of AT&T
Corporation. During her time at AT&T Solutions, She worked in the networking
operations and management organization as a process manager and developer for
network activities associated with the monitoring, management and performance of
a corporate network.
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Bob Keefe
Past President (2008), SIM
Senior Vice President and CIO, Mueller Water Products, Inc.
Bob is the immediate past president of the Society for Information
Management,
having served as president during 2008 which was SIM’s 40th anniversary of
service to its members. Bob has more than 25 years experience in information
systems having begun his career in the medical industry working with
Brookhaven National Laboratories and Wyeth Pharmaceuticals. He worked with
Kraft Foods for twelve years holding several senior IT management positions.
He then joined ConAgra Foods serving as Vice President and Chief Information
Officer for their refrigerated foods division. He was previously Vice
President and Chief Information Officer for Russell Corporation. Currently,
Bob's is Senior VP and Chief Information Officer for Mueller Water Products,
Inc. located in Atlanta, GA.
Bob is active with Atlanta’s technology community serving with United Way's
Tech Initiative, Women in Technology's outreach program and TechBridge's
non-profit advocacy. He is also involved with local business schools: a
"Mentor in Residence" at Georgia Tech, on the advisory board at University
of
Alabama and a guest lecturer at Georgia State University. Bob is a graduate
of
SIM’s Regional Leadership Forum, an active member of SIM’s Advanced
Practices
Council and has served on the SIM Atlanta Chapter's Board of Directors since
2003.
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Michael L. Capone
Corporate Vice President and CIO, Automatic Data
Processing, Inc.
Mike Capone is Corporate Vice President and Chief Information Officer for
Automatic Data Processing, Inc. ADP’s R&D organization delivers products
that
support more than 500,000 clients while its IT professionals are responsible
for enterprise security, infrastructure, messaging, and business
applications.
Mike is a twenty-year veteran of ADP and has held positions in product
development, information technology, and operations. Most recently, he has
been Senior Vice President and General Manager of GlobalView, an
award-winning multilingual, multicurrency human resources outsourcing
solution. In this
role, Mike led ADP’s efforts to develop a global HR BPO business for large
multi-national corporations in partnership with SAP.
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Leo Collins
VP of Advocacy and Communities of Interest, SIM
CIO, Lion’s Gate Entertainment
Leo Collins is the CIO of Lionsgate Entertainment, the largest independent
motion picture studio, based in Santa Monica, CA. Leo began his career in
entertainment when he joined the major-mini studio Artisan Entertainment in
October 1998. Artisan was acquired by Lionsgate in late 2003. Prior to Artisan,
Leo was responsible for advanced technology at Home Savings of America and
PacifiCare Health Systems. For the past several
years Leo has served on the Executive Board of Southern California SIM in a
number of positions including responsibility for the CIO Roundtable, Programs,
and Chairman. In 2007 he also served SIM as the VP for Advocacy and Communities
of Interest.
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Patricia A.
Coffey
Executive Board member, SIM
Advanced Practices Council member, SIM
Vice President, Distribution Marketing and Enterprise Applications,
Allstate Insurance Company
Patricia Coffey is Vice President of Distribution Marketing and Enterprise
Applications at Allstate Insurance Company, with expertise in the creation
and delivery of strategic technology solutions for the nation’s largest
publicly held personal lines insurer. Her major accomplishments include
delivery of an improved Web experience (Allstate.com) that has
industry-leading capabilities, such as an anonymous quoting tool; delivery
of an integrated material ordering and warehouse management system; and
creation of business-technology strategies for Allstate’s protection
business.
Prior to assuming her current position, Patricia was head of technology for
Allstate Financial, where she implemented the award-winning AccessAllstate
Website - the number one site for financial producers. She has continued to
hold positions of increasing responsibility since joining Allstate in 1979.
Patricia serves as a member of both the Advanced Practices Council and the
Executive Board of the Society for Information Management, as well as the
Technology Council of the American Management Association. In 2007 she was
elected to the Board of Directors of Lake Forest Graduate School of
Management.
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Kevin Walker
SVP and CIO, American Electric Power
Kevin Walker is senior vice president and chief information officer for
American Electric Power. Previously, he was president and chief operating
officer for AEP Ohio, serving approximately 1.44 million customers in Ohio
and the northern West Virginia panhandle, with authority for distribution
operations and a wide range of customer and regulatory relationships.
Before joining AEP in 2004, Kevin was vice president, Maintenance and
Construction Services, for Consolidated Edison of New York, including the
five boroughs of New York City and Westchester. Kevin was instrumental in
directing recovery of energy service following the collapse of the World
Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001.
Kevin spent approximately 13 years with Consolidated Edison in various
leadership positions. He served as Waterside Plant Manager, Steam Operations
Department Manager, and as New York City public affairs liaison was the
primary interface with the New York City mayor’s office during the
administration of former Mayor Rudy Giuliani. Kevin also served for more
than six years as a Captain in the United States Army.
Kevin serves as board chair for the Ohio Business Development Coalition, and
the Columbus/Franklin County Community Action Agency Task Force. He serves
on the board of various organizations and is board advisor for Comprehensive
Development Inc., a nonprofit organization that supports mentoring and
development programs for the Manhattan Comprehensive Night and Day High
School.
In 2005, Kevin Walker was recognized by Black Enterprise Magazine as one of
corporate America’s 75 top black business leaders. He was also featured in
the 2006 edition of Who’s Who in Black Columbus (Ohio). In 1999, he received
the Harlem YMCA’s Black Achiever in Industry Award.
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Ken G. Fulmer
Chief Technology Officer, Sunoco, Inc.
Ken Fulmer is currently the Chief Technology Officer at Sunoco and part of
the IT leadership team at Sunoco. He has been with Sunoco for 25 years, in
various positions within the Information Technology field. His current
responsibilities as CTO include managing the Project Management Office (PMO),
the IT planning and application architecture group. He is also directing the
enabling layer of applications including SOA and EAI, Web Services, Portals,
Document Management, Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing.
Ken started at Sun Oil (as it was then known) in the Commercial products
group. He then managed the Sun Information Services (now Sungard) consulting
group of over 200 consultants, leading projects in the government and
financial services sector. He later managed a series of large internal
projects for various business segments in Sunoco, including introducing the
Cstore systems, implementing a pipeline financial tracking system,
implementing the refinery maintenance and asset management system, HES
systems, and replacing the financial and procurement systems. He also
managed the IT development
for treasury, tax, and business line performance and sales reporting groups.
Prior to his current role, Ken managed Sunoco's backoffice and financial
applications, as well as being the IT director for the Mid-America business
line. He has also lead several business process re-engineering teams, and
was part of the corporate quality program at Sunoco for IT.
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Ben Grimes
CTO, Avocent Co.
Ben Grimes is Chief Technology Officer of Avocent. Prior to joining Avocent,
Ben had a 17-year career with IBM, most recently in the appointed position
of
Distinguished Engineer, an executive position he held from 2002 to 2007. In
that role, he served as the lead architect for software development for IBM
xSeries and blades. That position overlapped with a two year special
assignment in which he worked directly with large financial institutions to
develop industry-specific customizations for software products.
Ben’s earlier years with IBM included five years as the lead designer and
engineer for embedded systems management for xSeries after serving as a
programmer in embedded firmware. He was awarded 9 patents for his
innovations in systems software.
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Steve Workman
Vice President, Product Management, LANDesk Software, an Avocent Co.
Steve Workman started his career at Intel working on a then-nascent
technology
known as systems management that was later spun-off to become LANDesk
Software. He later joined Soronti Inc., a maker of KVM switches. KVM was
later
acquired by Avocent. From there, Steve served at Avocent for many years. In
2006, he was appointed general manager of LANDesk Software after LANDesk was
acquired by Avocent Corporation in early 2006. Steve has more than 14 years
in IT, having worked at Intel Corporation, EFI Electronics, and Dayna
Communications.
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Barbara M. Crane
Vice President, IT
Customer Service, ARAMARK
Barbara Crane has served as the Vice President for Information Technology
(IT) Customer Services for ARAMARK’s North America Food, Hospitality and
Facility Services since 2003. In addition to having primary responsibility
for the Call Center and other support related services, she is responsible
for Information Security and IT Compliance standards. Barbara initially
joined ARAMARK’s Sports & Entertainment division in 1997. In 2001, Crane was
promoted to Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of ARAMARK
Healthcare Support Services.
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David S. Kaufman
Senior Vice President
and Chief Information Officer, ARAMARK
As SVP & CIO of ARAMARK David S. Kaufman is responsible for
overseeing information systems and personnel for all of ARAMARK's global
food, facilities and support services lines of business. David joined
ARAMARK in 2005.
David has more than 20 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, David 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.
David is a member of the Temple University MIS Advisory board
and the Villanova Technical Advisory Board.
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Fred Broussard
Research Director, Enterprise System Infrastructure
Software, IDC
Frederick "Fred" W. Broussard is a Research Director in the System
Infrastructure Software group, specifically focusing on PC and device
management software and enterprise IT management and operations. He also
covers compliance and security within the remit of client and device
management, as well as issues relating to implementation of Information
Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL)-based processes within IT
departments. He is based in Framingham, MA, USA. Prior to joining the group,
Fred was a research analyst in IDC's IT Advisor Group which focused on the
management of the help desk and customer relationship management (CRM)
function within the IT Department. Prior to joining IDC in 1997, Fred spent
eight years in the U.S. Air Force in various capacities, including IT, and
received three high-level Air Force awards.
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Dan Ariely
Luis Alvarez Renta Professor of Management Science,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Dan Ariely is the Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Behavioral Economics at MIT,
where he holds a joint appointment between MIT's Program in Media Arts and
Sciences and the Sloan School of Management. He is also a visiting scholar
at
the Boston Federal Reserve Bank and a fellow at the Institute for Advance
Study at Princeton.
At MIT, Dan is the principal investigator of the Media Lab's eRationality
group, a co-director of the Lab's Simplicity consortium, and the founder of
the Center for Advanced Hindsight. He and his students are conducting
experiments that illuminate day-to-day irrationality in decision-making and
creating software solutions to overcome persistent human shortcomings.
As a behavioral economist, Dan studies how people actually act in the
marketplace, as opposed to how they should or would perform if they were
completely rational. His interests span a wide range of daily behaviors such
as buying (or not), saving (or not), procrastination, dishonesty, and
decision
making under different emotional states.
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Elizabeth
Hackenson
Chief Information Officer; Director, LGS, Alcatel-Lucent
Elizabeth Hackenson is the Chief Information Officer for Alcatel-Lucent and
was named to this position at the time of the merger between Alcatel and
Lucent Technologies. She previously had been CIO for Lucent. Before joining
Lucent in April of 2006, she held the position of Executive Vice President
and Chief Information Officer for MCI. During her five years at MCI, Ms.
Hackenson held several senior positions in the company’s IT and supply chain
organizations, leading various transformation projects, including the
development of a centralized shared service model and a state-of-the-art
customer self-service portal infrastructure.
Prior to MCI, she worked for UUNET for three years, where she managed the
development of Internet products and implemented web-based tools for the
company’s supply chain, resulting in additional revenue and a more
cost-effective customer service process. Earlier in her career she worked
for Concert Communication, where she was responsible for leading the
development and deployment of the company's flagship voice product. She also
has held IT management positions at EDS, Computech, TRW and Grumman &
Sperry.
In 2005, Computer World named her one of its top 100 premier IT leaders. The
Washington Post named her one of the top 200 female executives in 2004 and
Information Week ranked the department she lead as one of the top 100 for IT
leadership. Elizabeth is a member of the Serena Software Board of Directors
and is on the
Board of Advisors for HP’s Communications, Media and Entertainment segment.
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John D. Conley
Deputy CIO, State of Colorado
John D. Conley was selected as the Deputy State CIO in February of 2007. He
oversees the Governor's Office of Information Techology (OIT), and serves as
the liaison between OIT and the Executive Departments. Prior his role as the
Deputy CIO, John worked for state and local government.
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Bruce J. Goodman
SVP and Chief Information Officer, Humana
Bruce J. Goodman is Humana’s senior vice president and chief service and
information officer, a position he has held since September 2002. Under
Bruce’s leadership, Humana was a national finalist for Best Customer Service
organization in transforming service delivery in the 2004 American Business
Awards. Bruce was also honored as the national winner of the 2004 American
Business Award for Best Product Development or Engineering Executive. Bruce
was named to the CIO 100 by CIO magazine (August 2003) and Computerworld’s
Premier 100 (January 2004). Since March 2005, Bruce has served as chairman
of the policy workgroup for the Committee on Operating Rules for Information
Exchange (CORE), a national, multi-stakeholder initiative organized by the
Council for Affordable Quality Healthcare (CAQH).
Bruce joined Humana in April 1999 and served as its senior vice president
and chief information officer prior to his current position. Bruce was also
previously CEO of Prudential Service Company where he led 2,800 employees
dispersed over more than 20 locations throughout the United States and
controlled a $650 million direct budget. Before Prudential, Bruce was SVP
and CIO for MetLife, which he has joined in 1970.
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David Ricardo
Orellana Moyao
CIO, Mexicana Airlines
David Orellana has held the position of IT Director at the Federal Institute
for Access to Public Information (IFAI). In addition to his teaching
experience, David is experienced in added-value satellite solutions.
David joined Mexicana Airlines in 2006 as Chief Technology Officer
responsible for the company’s operating systems, technological architecture
and information security. Among his many achievements is the implementation
of an administration and support model tailored to meet the company’s
business needs, which utilizes best practices and has resulted in a
significant improvement in the airline’s operating and financial efficiency.
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Barry Carter
Corporate Information Officer (CIO), for Alliance
Data Systems
Barry Carter is Corporate Information Officer (CIO) for Alliance Data
Systems. He joined the company in August 2004. He is responsible for the
shared information technology needs of eight lines of business and includes
Corporate Applications Development, Systems Integration, Service Delivery
and Service Support. Barry has teams in Dallas and Columbus.
Prior to joining Alliance Data Systems, Barry was CIO of Capital One Auto
Finance. At Capital One, Barry managed capitaloneauto.com, the world’s #1
website for auto financing; and was instrumental in building relationships
with 70 business partners. Before Capital One, Barry was CIO of AirTran
Airways. There, he stabilized a very shaky infrastructure and provided a low
cost systems environment to allow AirTran to successfully compete with Delta
and US Airways. Barry’s professional experience includes various
applications development leadership positions at United Healthcare, American
Airlines, Sabre, and EDS. Barry has a long history of implementing large
systems and conversion.
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Vinny Licht
Chief Information Officer, TAUCK WORLD DISCOVERY
Vinny Licht joined Tauck World Discovery as Chief Information Officer in
2002 and has 30 years of experience with information technology. Vinny has
led major
implementation projects including the deployment of new systems to more than
20 countries around the world. Prior to joining Tauck, Vinny was an industry
analyst and an IT Director at Avon Products, Inc.
Vinny is a member of the Fairfield-Westchester chapter of the Society for
Information Management. He is certified in Integrated Resource Management
(CIRM) by APICS and has completed IT leadership education at Harvard
University.
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Mike Afergan
SVP & CTO, Akamai Technologies
Dr. Mike Afergan was named Chief Technology Officer of Akamai in October
2005. In addition to serving as CTO, Mike is a Senior Vice President with
the company. A veteran of Akamai's distinguished engineering organization,
Mike joined Akamai in 1999, and has served in various roles within Akamai's
Engineering and Product Management departments, including Director of
Technology Strategy and Director of Load Balancing and Mapping.
Mike has also had a distinguished academic research career. At MIT's
Laboratory for Computer Science and at Harvard, he has conducted research in
the areas of networking and distributed systems and has authored a number of
academic publications and has served as a teaching fellow and guest lecturer
at Harvard University.
Mike has authored several trade magazine articles and books including the
Java Quick Reference (translated into six languages). Mike's work has won
him several industry accolades, and he is an invited speaker in a variety of
industry and academic forums.
Mike graduated magna cum laude with highest honors from Harvard College with
an A.B. in Computer Science and a focus on Economics. He holds a S.M. from
Harvard University and a PhD from MIT, both in Computer Science. He is also
a graduate of the Greater Boston Executive Program from the Sloan School at
MIT.
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Steven Rubinow
Executive Vice President & Chief Information Officer, NYSE EURONEXT
Steve Rubinow is Executive Vice President and Chief Information Officer,
NYSE Euronext. Prior to joining NYSE Euronext, Steve was Chief Technology
Officer of Archipelago Holdings, Inc, prior to its merger with the NYSE in
2006. He was Chief Technology Officer since July 2001 for Archipelago, whose
staff is located in Chicago, New York, Orlando and San Francisco.
Prior to Archipelago, Steve worked in Silicon Valley as Senior Vice
President and Chief Information/Technology Officer at NextCard, Inc., a
leading Internet provider of consumer credit that had a successful IPO in
1999, and was responsible for all aspects of the technology. Prior to
joining NextCard, he was the Chief Information Officer at another successful
start-up, AdKnowledge, Inc. which was acquired by CMGI in 2001.
Steve was Vice President, Corporate Management Information Systems at
Fidelity Investments where he developed an Information Architecture to
integrate the information housed in a vast array of software and hardware
technologies across Fidelity’s 40+ divisions. He also developed critical
systems for use in the core mutual fund investment area and evaluated new
companies as potential candidates for investment by Fidelity Ventures. He
served on the adjunct faculty in Computer Science at DePaul University from
1986-1994, where he taught undergraduate and graduate classes in database
technology and analytic systems.
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Imad Mouline
Chief Technology Officer of Gomez, Inc.
Imad Mouline has years of software architecture, research and development
experience. Prior to Gomez, Imad held the position of chief technology
officer
at S1 Corp, where he played a variety of roles across various departments.
Previous to that, Imad served as director of engineering in the office of
the
CTO at BroadVision later acquired by Interleaf. At Interleaf, Imad held
various roles, and served as the director of engineering for product
architecture.
Imad has been a speaker at various user conferences and technology events
(e.g., Interop, Internet Retailer Conference, Social Networking Conference,
MIT CIO Symposium).
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Dave Cullinane
Chief Information Security Officer, eBay Inc.
Dave Cullinane is the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) for eBay
Marketplaces, including 21 additional eBay properties such as Shopping.com.
Dave is also responsible for the security of the overall corporate
infrastructure which includes Skype and PayPal. Prior to joining eBay in
November 2006, Dave was the CISO for Washington Mutual, one of the largest
banks in the United States. Prior to Washington Mutual, Dave was a Senior
Consultant for nCipher, Inc. and also served as the Director of Information
Security for Sun Life of Canada's U.S. operations, helping to create Digital
Equipment Corporation's Security Consulting Practice. He has more than 30
years of security experience and is Board Certified in Security Management
by ASIS International as a Certified Protection Professional (CPP). He is
also a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) and a
former Certified Business Continuity Professional (CBCP).
Dave is a Charter Member of the Alliance for Enterprise Security Risk
Management (AESRM) – an alliance of security professional associations
dedicated to advancing the Profession. He is the current Past International
President of the Information Systems Security Association (ISSA); and a
Charter Member of the Global Council of Chief Security Officers. He serves
on ASIS International's Information Technology Security Committee (ITSC) and
is on the Editorial Advisory Board of CSO Magazine, SC Magazine and Security
Technology & Design Magazine. He was nominated for Information Security
Executive of the Year for 2004 and 2005 and awarded SC Magazine’s Global
Award as Chief Security Officer of the Year for 2005. He was recently
awarded CSO Magazine’s 2006 Compass Award as a “Visionary Leader of the
Security Profession.”
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Stephen C. Savage
Senior Vice President, Chief Information Officer,
CA, Inc.
Stephen Savage is senior vice president and chief information officer at CA.
Stephen manages the implementation of the global ERP system and oversees the
internal adoption and implementation of CA solutions based on the company's
Enterprise IT Management (EITM) vision.
He has also been responsible for corporate strategy and SOX compliance and
has held international roles within CA, which included running the
Application Products Group in Europe as well as European professional
services. Earlier in his career, Stephen was general manager of Singer
Sewing Machine Corporation.
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Atefeh Riazi
World Wide CIO, Ogilvy Mather
Atefeh (Atti) Riazi Senior Partner and 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. With
over 17,000 employees worldwide working in over fifty languages Ogilvy and
Mather's client list includes a roster of blue chip brands that include;
American Express, BP, DuPont, Ford, SAP, Cisco, IBM, Kodak, Kraft, Motorola
and many others.
Throughout her career, she has had a tremendous track record of innovation
and successful large-scale deployments allowing for productivity gains and
competitive advantage. Under Atti's leadership Ogilvy and Mather has earned
a place on InformationWeek's 500 list of innovative IT organizations and is
viewed in the advertising sector as a leader in new and innovative
technologies
Atti has over 25 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
Atti has published many articles and studies and 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.
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Molly A. O’Neill
Assistant Administrator and Chief Information
Officer
Office of Environmental Information U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
(EPA)
Molly O’Neill was confirmed by the Senate as EPA’s chief information officer
and assistant administrator for the Office of Environmental Information in
December 2006.
As EPA's CIO, she is a member of the Federal CIO Council, where she
currently
serves as the co-chair of the Architecture and Infrastructure Committee.
Before joining the EPA, Molly was state director for the National Environmental
Information Exchange at the Environmental Council of the States (ECOS) where
she led the efforts of environmental department participants from every
state.
Molly also served as the executive coordinator of the Exchange Network. In
recognition for her leadership, she received a 2004 Federal 100 award as one
of the top executives influencing government technology.
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Wendy Bell
CIO of GE Capital Solutions Fleet Services
Wendy Bell is the Global Chief Information Officer for Fleet Services. Her
IT team manages services in Australia, Canada, Europe, Japan, and the United
States.
Wendy began her career with GE in 1981 in the Information Management
Leadership Program (IMLP). After two years as an IMLP, she went on to and
graduated from the Financial Management Program (FMP). Wendy has held a
variety of positions at GE, from Programmer to Black belt to CIO. GE
businesses with whom she has worked include Appliances, Lighting, and
Motors. She also led a 2 year initiative to put in a single source HR system
throughout all of the Capital businesses worldwide.
In 2001 she became CIO of Information Technology Services. Wendy moved to GE
Fleet Services in Eden Prairie as Global CIO in 2003. In 2006, she was
honored with the Corporate Award from the Twin Cities International
Leadership Institute for work involving technology training for people in
impoverished areas of South Africa. Wendy is the sponsor for GE’s Twin
Cities Asian Pacific Forum. Wendy also serves on the Board of Directors of
the Minnesota High Tech Association, [MHTA].
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Pat Lawicki
Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer,
Pacific Gas and Electric Company
Pat Lawicki joined Pacific Gas and Electric Company in 2005 and is currently
the Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer, and leads a team of
over 1400 employees.
In 2007, Pat’s IT organization was named the top innovator in the Energy and
Utility sector and ranked in the top 10% on the InformationWeek 500 list of
top business technology innovators. Pat has made significant energy
efficiency
improvements to the company’s IT infrastructure and has been an advocate for
development of energy efficient products within the high tech sector.
Pat has over 25 years of experience in the information technology (IT) field
and came to PG&E after holding a number of leadership positions at NiSource,
Inc. Most recently, she was Vice President of Enterprise Integration and
Strategy, as well as CIO.
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Ashok Singhal
Chief Technical Officer, Founder, 3PAR
Ashok brings over 20 years of strong technical experience to his position at
3PAR. Prior to helping found 3PAR in 1999, he was Chief Architect at Sun
Microsystems, responsible for the system architecture for Sun's
next-generation, extremely successful Enterprise 3000 to 6000 server family.
As a Sun Distinguished Engineer, he designed and specified the system
interface and cache coherence protocol for the UltraSPARC III processor. He
was awarded the President's Award in 1996 for his contributions to Sun
servers. Earlier, he served as a field engineer for Schlumberger Wireline
Services in the People's Republic of China (oilfield services) for two
years.
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Karl Triebes
Senior Vice President & Chief Technology Officer,
F5 Networks, Inc.
Karl Triebes is responsible for overseeing the company's technology roadmap
and leading their engineering team. Triebes has a successful track record of
driving the development of enterprise networking and next-generation
telecommunications products, including Layer 4-7 switches. Prior to joining
F5, Triebes was CTO and Vice President of Engineering at Foundry Networks in
San Jose, where he was responsible for the strategic direction of corporate
product architectures, including the technology roadmap.
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Mark Fabbi
VP Distinguished Analyst for Gartner’s Networking
and Communications Equipment practice
Mark Fabbi is a vice president, distinguished analyst and leads Gartner's
research in Enterprise Network Infrastructure. His research focuses on all
aspects of enterprise network design and advising clients on improving
application reliability and performance.
Prior to joining Gartner, Mark worked for Bell Canada and affiliated
companies for 10 years, in a variety of technical and management positions
developing internetworking, managed network service offerings and
establishing key channel relationships with the pioneers of the emerging
internetworking market. Mark has 13 years with Gartner, and a total of 23
years in IT.
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Mark Tonnesen
VP IT, CIO, Logitech
Mark Tonnesen is Vice President and CIO at Logitech Inc. Prior to Logitech,
Mark served as Vice President of IT at Cisco Systems where he spearheaded
Cisco’s extended e-Business strategy. Mark also contributed to the book,
Cisco.com, by Patricia Seybold. Prior to Cisco, Mark spent two years with
Electronics For Imaging (EFI).
Recently, Mark served as a Senior Advisor with the Department of Homeland
Security during its creation, with a specific focus on Transportation
Security.
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Kevin R. Faughnan
Director, IBM Academic Initiative, Software Group
Kevin joined IBM in 1974 as a systems engineer/salesman. He has held
numerous customer-facing professional, management, and executive assignments
responsible for IBM relationships and associated revenue with companies in
Manufacturing, Distribution, Communications, Defense, Health Care, and other
industries. In addition, he has held business planning executive positions
in our Server Systems division, and Product Marketing Management in our
Software division. Kevin helped launch new business lines for IBM and has
worked extensively with IBM Independent Software Vendor (ISV) partners.
Earlier in his career Kevin served a two year assignment in IBM CHQ running
IBM WW Executive Development programs.
Since March 2004 Kevin’s responsibilities have been to lead a team of
professionals driving a company-wide initiative working with faculty and
administration at higher education institutions worldwide to increase the
pipeline of skilled graduates. Our objective is to address the need for
skills in response to the demand for Open Standards-based solutions in our
multi-trillion dollar industry ecosystem.
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Jack Staehler
Group Vice President, Technology, Orbitz Worldwide
Jack Staehler has more than 20 years within the e-commerce and entertainment
business environments, including retail, travel, gaming, and television
production.
At Orbitz Worldwide, Jack is responsible for the company’s travel sites
across the globe. Before leading the entire technology organization at
Orbitz Worldwide, Jack managed the team supporting the company’s corporate
travel business.
Prior to Orbitz Worldwide, Jack was the Senior Vice President and Chief
Information Officer for Cendant Travel Distribution Services (TDS) retail
services group, which included supporting the company’s acquisition and
integration of CheapTickets.com and development of the Trip.com technology
platform.
Prior to Cendant TDS, Jack managed a number of technology organizations in
the Seattle area. As Vice President of retail technology at Netmarket Group,
Jack created a unique world class e-commerce environment, resulting in the
launch of Hagglezone.com. As director of creative development for Cendant
Interactive, Jack was responsible for web standards and innovation for
Cendant’s portfolio of corporate websites, including Netmarket,
TravelersAdvantage, AutoVantage, ERA.com, Cendant.com and several other
company sites.
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John Rowell
CTO, Opsource
Over the past decade, John has held senior management positions with leading
hosting, telecommunications, and Internet services companies. Prior to
co-founding OpSource, he was Vice President of Operations for Metromedia
Fiber Network (MFN), whose leading enterprise customers included BP Amoco,
Deutsche Bank, JP Morgan Chase, Microsoft, Paramount, and Sony. He joined
MFN through the acquisition of SiteSmith, where he was Vice President of
Operations.
Before joining SiteSmith, John was Director of Enterprise Services for
UUNET Technologies. Clients included AutoNation, Disney, The Go Network,
Levi
Strauss, Marriott International, mySap.com, Sony Playstation, and Symantec.
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John Stevenson
Past president, SIM
Former CIO,
Sharp Electronics Corporation
John Stevenson is a past president of the Society for Information
Management. He is a recent Chief Information Officer with over 25 years of
senior executive experience. His broad experience includes key executive
assignments in large corporations spanning high technology, consumer goods,
pharmaceuticals and heavy manufacturing industries.
John’s most recent assignment was as Vice President and Chief Information
Officer at Sharp Electronics Corporation, a maker of consumer and business
electronics. There he managed information technology for the Americas Group
for this global company. John previously served as Chief Information Officer
at Avaya Communications, a $6 billion manufacturer of voice and data
switching equipment, he was also the corporate information officer at Lennox
International, the number two global heating and air conditioner equipment
manufacturer. During the late 1990’s, John was the top information executive
for the Bristol-Myers-Squibb $16 billion Pharmaceutical Group and for over
eight years prior to that he was the lead information executive at Dr
Pepper/Seven-Up Corporation. In the 1980’s at the age of 35, John became the
top information executive at Princeton Packaging Company. In his early IT
career he held a number of information technology management assignments at
United Technology Corporation and Texas Instruments Corporation.
John presently serves on the board as Vice Chairman of the Barton Group, a
global mining and abrasives manufacturer.
He is current president of JG Stevenson Associates.
He also serves on the boards of GridApp Software Corporation and The Society
for Information Management Foundation.
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Ashvin Vellody
Senior Vice President, Yankee Group
Ashvin Vellody, senior vice president, leads Yankee Group’s Building and
Powering on the Anywhere Network research group, focused on tracking the
technologies that are transforming Anywhere global connectivity.
Vellody has more than 15 years of expertise as a leader in defining IT
strategy. Before Yankee Group, he was director of enterprise architecture
and
strategy planning at U.S. Cellular, where he oversaw IT planning, asset
management and solutions architecture. Vellody also worked at Capgemini LLC
as
manager of consulting services, where he led the North American software
engineering practice as well as oversaw consulting engagements and client
relationships. Vellody has also held consulting and engineering roles at
i-flex solutions and Asea Brown Boveri in India.
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Dr. Claudio F.
Abreu
President & CEO, Bayer Business and Technology
Services (BBTS) LLC
Head of Global Information Technology
Operations
Head of Bayer Business Services NA Region
Dr.
Claudio F. Abreu is the President and CEO for Bayer Business and
Technology Services with responsibility for all service-related functions in
support of Bayer businesses in North America. Claudio is also the Head of
Bayer Business Services (BBS) North America, and of the Global Information
Technology Operations Business Unit for Bayer Business Services.
Claudio joined Bayer in 1990. Since then, Claudio has established the North
America Competency Center as the first new organizational concept
implemented
in the region. Under his leadership as Vice President of Technology &
Operations, he achieved one of most significant accomplishments for
Information Systems (IS) in North America - the consolidation of the overall
North American IS infrastructure, which included the Data Center,
Telecommunications Network, the ServiceDesk and Desktop Support
regionalization, and the implementation of the Information Technology (IT)
Infrastructure Library best-practice processes - which resulted in a savings
of more than US $100 million. Under his leadership as SVP and CIO, he
supported the Bayer Group in performing the most significant phase of
business portfolio changes in Bayer's history, with more than US $30 Billion
in acquisitions and divestitures.
Claudio serves on the Boards of Directors of the Bayer USA Foundation,
Business Leadership Network, and The Epilepsy Foundation. He is also a
member
of the Bayer North America Council, and Board of Advisors for Cisco
Services.
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Ashwin Rangan
Former CIO, Wal-Mart
Aswin Rangan
currently serves as the Chief Information Technology Officer (CITO) for
MarketShare Partners (MSP), backed by Elevation Partners. MSP is a leading
Numerati firm, offering the world’s most advanced decision analytics using
econometrics. MSP’s customers are Chief Marketing Officers (CMOs) and
Brand-stewards of some of the world’s most prestigious Brands.
Prior to this, Ashwin was a strategy consultant with Bank of America’s
Consumer Banking Sector. Ashwin stepped-down in 2006 as the General Manager
and Chief Information Officer (CIO) of Wal-Mart global.com. Prior to this
assignment, he served as CIO for walmart.com. Before that, he was senior
vice president and CIO of Conexant Systems Inc. Ashwin was a member of the
founding team that spun-out Rockwell Semiconductor Systems (in January 1999)
and created Conexant. Before Rockwell, he served in various senior IT
management positions at AST Computer (later, Samsung Electronics).
Ashwin serves as a Board member with a handful of promising start-ups. He is
a published author, having recently released a book entitled “Tomorrow’s
CIO: Strategic Conversations that align IT with the Board Room”.
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Tim Payne
Research Director, Gartner, Inc.
Tim has 4 years experience with Gartner, and 23 years experience in the IT
industry. Prior to joining Gartner, Mr. Payne worked in supply chain
management for multinationals for 15 years including NCH Europe, where he
was the European Supply Chain Director for 2 years and 3M Europe, where was
European Supply Chain Analysis & Development Manager for 17 years. Tim has
led many European supply chain re-engineering, improvement and optimization
programs, including several supply chain system implementations.
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Simon Ellis
Practice Director, Supply Chain Strategies, IDC
Simon Ellis currently leads the Supply Chain Strategies practice at
Manufacturing Insights, one of IDC’s industry research companies. With over
20 years experience in the industry, Simon most recently was the Supply
Chain Strategy Director/Futurist for Unilever North America, a $12 billion
division of Unilever, the maker of such well-known products as Dove, Suave,
Wisk, all, Q-tips and Vaseline. Simon was responsible for leading the
implementation of key new technologies that impacted the future of the
Unilever Supply Chain.
Prior to Unilever North America, Ellis worked for Unilever subsidiaries
Lipton/Foods in finance from 1985-1990, and Lever Brothers in finance and
logistics from 1990-1997.
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Larry Lapide,
Ph.D.
Research Director, Demand Management Solutions
Group
Director,
Demand Management, MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics
Dr. Lapide managed the launch of MIT’s Supply Chain 2020 Project. He is
currently an advisor to it, oversees CTL’s Demand Management initiatives,
and is responsible for its Strategy Alignment training workshops. He is also
directs the research supporting the Demand Management Solutions Group (www.demandmanagementsolutionsgroup.com)
,a consortium of companies looking to advance DM strategies, principles and
methods.
Dr. Lapide has extensive experience as a consultant, high-tech manager,
software market analyst, and business researcher. He is a frequent presenter
at supply chain events and has written numerous publications, including his
co-authorship of a book on e-business and SCM. He has worked at AMR
Research, Accenture, Data General and A.D. Little. Dr Lapide holds an SMEE
from MIT and a Ph.D. in OR from the Wharton School.
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Alex Cullen
Vice President and Research Director, Forrester
Research
Alex Cullen is a vice president and research director at Forrester Research.
He is a leading expert on IT planning and strategy, governance,
organizational structure, and process improvement. Prior to joining
Forrester, Alex was the director of enterprise architecture and IT process
improvement with John Hancock Financial Services. Alex has published many
articles and has spoken at conferences on technology strategy, IT planning,
and architecture.
To attend or
listen to an archive of Forrester’s free Lean IT webinar from March 10th,
please visit
www.forrester.com/leanitwebinar.
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John W. Lambeth
SVP & CIO, Erickson Retirement Communities
John W. Lambeth is Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer of
Erickson Retirement Communities. Prior to joining Erickson in January 2008,
Mr. Lambeth served as Vice President, Information Technology & Security for
Blackboard, Inc. While at Blackboard, he led the IT organization through an
initial public offering and established standards necessary to meet rigorous
Payment Card Industry and Sarbanes-Oxley regulations. He led the IT
organization through multiple mergers and acquisitions. His 20 years of
information technology experience has also included significant roles at
CIGNA and Xerox Corporation, where he managed large IT programs and staff
operations both in the US and internationally.
JOhn is a Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA), Certified
Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) and certified Project
Management Professional (PMP).
John is very committed to volunteer service in the community. Currently, Mr.
Lambeth serves as a board member for the Society for Information Management
and the Kogod School of Business at American University. He has served on
various community organizations and also organized teams to participate in
Habitat for Humanity projects.
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Joe Burton
CTO, CISCO-Unified Communications
Joe Burton is Vice President and Chief Technology Officer in Cisco’s Voice
Technology Group. His team is responsible for vision, technical strategy and
advanced research for Unified Communications at Cisco. During his career at
Cisco, Joe has led the development of many of Cisco’s Unified Communications
products. Joe has also been instrumental in several Cisco acquisitions
including Latitude, WebEx, and Securent.
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Stephen J.
Pickett
CIO, Penske Corporation
Past
President, SIM International
Stephen Pickett is Vice President and Chief Information Officer at Penske
Corporation, a closely-held diversified transportation services company
which includes: Penske Truck Leasing Corporation; Penske Motor Group, Inc;
Penske Automotive Group, Inc.; Penske Transportation Components, LLC;
Transportation Resource Partners, LLC; Penske Performance, Inc.; Penske
Racing, Inc.; Penske Racing South, Inc.; and Penske Motorsports, Inc. Penske
Corporation and its subsidiaries manage and operate businesses with annual
revenues approximating $18 billion and employ 40,000 people at more than
1,700 worldwide locations.
Prior to
joining Penske Corporation, Pickett spent many years in the automobile
industry with OEMs on two continents (American Motors, Volkswagen) and
automotive suppliers in North America. He also holds the position of
Immediate Past President of SIM, is a member of their Advanced Practices
Council and a member of the SIM Detroit board. Established in 1968, the
Society for Information Management (SIM) is the premier network for IT
leaders comprised of over 3,600 members, including CIOs, senior IT
executives, prominent academicians, consultants, and other IT leaders.
SIM is a community of thought leaders sharing experiences and rich
intellectual capital that can be applied, and exploring future IT direction.
In partnership with its 30 plus chapters, SIM provides resources and
programs inspired by IT leaders for IT leaders that enable CIOs to further
develop the leadership capabilities of themselves and the key and emerging
leaders in their organizations. SIM provides the collective voice to
advocate policy and legislation on behalf of the IT profession across
industries.
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Ben Pring
Research Vice President, Gartner IT Services and
Sourcing Group
Ben Pring is a research vice president in Gartner Research, where he is part
of the IT Services and Sourcing group. He covers business process
outsourcing services, application outsourcing and IT utility computing
(including "on demand" and "software as a service"). His background is in
outsourcing and enterprise application solution markets. Ben has been with
Gartner for 11 years, and has a total of 23 years in IT.
Prior to joining Gartner, Ben was a market analyst at Input, responsible for
Input's Business Integration Program. Before this, he was a market analyst
in the IT practice of PricewaterhouseCoopers (formerly Coopers & Lybrand),
where he worked on business development activities and client engagements.
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Brian Shield
CIO, The Weather Channel Companies
Brian P. Shield is executive vice president and chief information officer of
The Weather Channel, Inc., a position he has held since joining the company
in 1998.
Brian is also responsible for designing and delivery all TWC technology
products and services including: ITV, VOD and industry leading digital video
solutions for cable, satellite and telecommunication distributors. Products
and content delivery services extend across The global marketplace of The
Weather Channel. These include: on-air products, radio, newspaper, and
satellite, and the distribution of content to support the weather.com web
site, web partnerships, desktop applications and mobile platforms.
Prior to joining The Weather Channel in 1998, Brian served as CIO of FTD
Inc. in Chicago, Illinois. At FTD, he was responsible for all IT including
their global network reaching over 125 countries. Preceding his tenure at
FTD, Brian had been CTO and head of software development at the investment
firm of Scudder Kemper, in Boston, and formerly with Wang Laboratories.
Shield was named Georgia CIO of year in 2004 and was a technical Emmy award
winner for his work in television in 2007.
Shield is a member of SMPTE, SCTE, Co-Chair of Media/Entertainment, CIO
Executive Council, Georgia CIO Leadership Association Advisory Council,
Atlanta CEO High Tech Council board of advisors, and SIM.
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James P. Andrew
Senior Partner and Director of BCG, The Boston Consulting Group
Jim Andrew is a Senior Partner and Director of BCG, and is the global leader
of BCG’s Innovation Practice. He regularly works closely the executive teams
of some of the world’s most innovative companies and leads BCG’s research in
this area, including BCG’s annual survey with BusinessWeek on the world’s
most innovative companies. His expertise covers all areas of innovation,
including developing an innovative culture and set of capabilities,
leadership requirements, customer/consumer insight, R&D, new product
development, product launch, life-cycle management, and innovation
measurement.
Jim is the lead author of the highly-acclaimed book Payback: Reaping the
Rewards of Innovation (published by Harvard Business School Press), recently
named as one of Business Week’s Top 10 Innovation books for the year. He has
appeared on CNBC’s Squawk Box and CBS Market Watch. He and his work have
also been featured in Harvard Business Review, the Economist, the Financial
Times, Business Week and many other publications. He is also one of the
judges for the annual Chilean National Innovation Awards.
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Calvin S.
Sihilling
Chief Information Officer and Executive Vice
President, Nash Finch Co.
Calvin S. Sihilling has been an Executive Vice President and a Chief
Information Officer of Nash Finch Co. since July 31, 2006. Cal most recently
served as Chief Information Officer and Executive Vice President of
AmeriCold
Logistics LLC, a leading third-party provider of supply chain solutions in
the
consumer packaged goods industry for five years. Before that, cal was Chief
Information Officer of the Eastern Region of Richfood Holdings, Inc.,
SuperValu Inc. for three years. In the ten years prior, he was Vice
President,
Information Systems at Alex Lee, Inc. Prior to that, Cal also held various
leadership positions servicing IT systems at such companies as Pepsico Food
Systems, Dr. Pepper Company and Electronic Data Systems.
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Michael J. Gelb
Noted Author, Lecturer on Innovation & Creativity
Michael J. Gelb is a pioneer in the fields of creative thinking, accelerated
learning, and innovative leadership.
He leads seminars for organizations such as DuPont, IBM, Merck, Microsoft,
Nike, and YPO.
Michael J. Gelb's publications include the international bestseller�"How to
Think Like Leonardo Da Vinci: Seven Steps to Genius Every Day." His latest
book is, "Innovate Like Edison: The Success System of America's Greatest
Inventor" co-authored with Sarah Miller Caldicott, the great grand niece of
Thomas Edison .
In 1999, Michael Gelb shared the Brain Trust Charity's "Brain of the Year"
award with former U.S. senator John Glenn. Previous honorees include Prof.
Stephen Hawking, Bill Gates, Garry Kasparov and Gene Rodenberry.
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Melissa Webster
Program Vice President, Content & Digital Media
Technologies,
IDC
Melissa Webster leads IDC's Content and Digital Media Technologies research
program. This program tracks, analyzes, and forecasts markets and trends in
document and content management, records management, digital asset
management, digital rights management, and authoring and publishing
software. Melissa has more than 20 years of experience in technology, and
has held senior management positions with companies ranging from Fortune 500
companies to venture-backed startups.
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Carl Kessler
Vice President, Worldwide Development, IBM
Carl Kessler is the Vice President, Worldwide Development, for IBM’s
Enterprise Content Management (ECM) business. He is responsible for the
technology strategy, research, architecture, development and support of the
ECM products.
Previously, Carl was Vice President, Worldwide Development & Quality for
IBM’s Software Group. Carl has held senior software engineering executive
positions at IBM for more than a decade. While at IBM’s Research Division,
Carl was Director of Software Technology, responsible for the Corporation’s
research agenda in software engineering and applied computer science. He
also served as the Chief Information Officer for IBM’s multiple worldwide
Research Division laboratories.
Carl holds several US and foreign patents and is a Senior Member of the
IEEE. He is the co-author of the book, “Outside-in Software Development: a
Practical Approach to Building Successful Stakeholder-based Products,”
published by Prentice-Hall in 2007.
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Razmik Abnous
Vice President, Chief Technology Officer,
Documentum Founding Engineer, EMC Content Management and Archiving Division
Razmik Abnous leads EMC's Content Management and Archiving (CMA) technology
efforts. Razmik is one of the original designers of the Documentum platform
architecture. He has lead the development and architecture of several
Documentum product releases since the inception of Documentum.
Razmik has more than 25 years of experience in leading and architecting
software products. Prior to EMC Documentum, he worked at Digital Equipment
Corporation and Ashton-Tate on object-relational databases, artificial
intelligence, image-processing systems and silicon compilers.
Razmik is the co-author of two books: Intelligent Offices and Object
Orientation, both published by John Wiley.
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Barry Vandevier
CTO, Travelocity.com L.P.
Barry Vandevier has been Travelocity’s chief technology officer since
October 2002, and is responsible for all architecture decisions and
technical direction. Vandevier joined Travelocity as lead software developer
in 1996 where he was instrumental in implementing site functionality. Prior
to joining the company, he was a consultant for Sabre Holdings. Before Sabre,
Vandevier was employed as an industrial engineer for American Airlines.
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Dale W.
Meyerrose
Major General (Retired),
The Honorable Dale W. Meyerrose Associate Director
of National Intelligence and Chief Information Officer
President George W. Bush appointed Dale W. Meyerrose the first Associate
Director of National Intelligence and Chief Information Officer on December
21, 2005, with the advice and consent of the United States Senate. Dale
serves as the Chief Information Officer for the United States Intelligence
Community and the Intelligence Community Information Sharing Executive. Dale
manages activities relating to the information technology infrastructure and
enterprise requirements of the Intelligence Community. Dale came to this
position after over thirty years of military service, culminating with his
retirement from the United States Air Force as a Major General in November
2005. His career highlights include service as a director and Chief
Information Officer in three Air Force major air commands and three unified
combatant commands, a deployed Joint Task Force Director of Communications
in Southwest Asia, and a commander of two major Air Force communications
units. Dale has been honored with the Distinguished Service Medal, Defense
Superior Service Medal, two Legions of Merit, two Defense Meritorious
Service Medals, and six Meritorious Service Medals. .
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Jane
Landon
CIO, NYC Department Of Finance, NY, NY
In January of 2007, Jane joined New York City Department of Finance, as
Deputy
Commissioner and CIO for the Agency. As CIO, Jane is responsible for
supporting the Agency’s 16 Divisions that are involved in collecting over $24 Billion
in City annual revenues.
Prior to joining the NY City Department of Finance, Jane was the General
Manager and CIO for Microsoft’s WW Public Sector, and prior to that she was
General Manager of .Net Market Development and presence wtihin the Fortune
100 and Global 100 enterprise customer market place.
Prior to joining Microsoft, Jane was with Prudential Financial, where she
was
the CIO for the Institutional Division that supported six business groups.
During her ten years at Prudential, Jane also held several key technology
positions, including Vice President of new application development for the
Retail Insurance Division. Jane has also held key technology positions at
Bankers Trust Company and Chase Manhattan Bank, NA.
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Charles
Hunsinger
Vice President, Chief Information Officer,
Corporate Express
US
Charles Hunsinger joined Corporate Express in 1995 to lead design activities
for multiple applications to support the national consolidation of the
company's office products acquisitions. He was promoted to Director of
Enterprise Applications in 1998 and to Vice President of Software
Engineering
in 2001. Hunsinger was named CIO for Corporate Express US in August 2007.
Prior to joining Corporate Express, Hunsinger was with Andersen
Consulting/Accenture, serving clients in the distribution and transportation
industries.
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Dan
Mahlebashian
Chief Contracting Officer, IS&S, General Motors
Corporation
Dan Mahlebashian is the Chief Contracting Officer, General Motors
Corporation, Information Systems and Services. He is responsible for all
contract management activities for IS&S globally at General Motors including
contracting, standards and related processes. In addition he is responsible
for the IT contracting compnents of BPOs. Dan has been a Contract Management
executive for General Motors for the past 6 years, and has over twenty years
of extensive experience in contract and financial management areas. Dan is
also involved in industry conferences including ICEX, IACCM and has talked
at the University of Michigan on the subject of outsourcing.
Prior to joining GM, Dan successfully launched a Technology based start-up
company where he held the role of Chairman and CEO. From 1996 to 2000, Dan
was Senior Director of Borders Group, Inc, a $4.0 billion global retailer of
books and other information and entertainment items. At Borders, Dan was
responsible for financial management for various business operations
including the Superstore chain and the Borders.com and Fulfillment business
where he played a critical role in launching the Borders.com business. Prior
to Borders, Dan spent 12 years at Florists Transworld Delivery, Inc (FTDI)
where he held various positions of major responsibility including the
development and launch of FTD.com .
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Les Mara
Business Process Outsourcing, EMEA, Hewlett-Packard
Ltd
Les has had a 25 year career in the Services Industry, working for companies
such as Capgemini. Over this time Les has worked in most industry sectors
including pharma, automotive, and manufacturing, and with many significant
organisations throughout Europe such as Glaxo, Ericsson, SKF, GM, and ICI,
on challenging business change & Outsourcing programmes. For the past 5
years Les has focused his efforts on developing the BPO Services market in
Europe with confidential clients.
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Christopher J. Rence
Vice Present, Chief Information Officer, Fair Isaac
Christopher Rence leads Fair Isaac’s Technology Solution and Infrastructure
Organization. Christopher was an Associate Partner with Accenture and held a
number of roles that included development, ERP systems, technical
infrastructure and engineering, data center engineering and Global Solution
Office and Center construction during his 12 year tenure. Mr. Rence also
held a number of positions with Minneapolis based companies including CVN,
Carlson Companies and the Federal Reserve Bank.
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Dr. Timothy
Chester
Vice Provost and
Chief Information Officer, Pepperdine University
Dr. Timothy M. Chester is Vice Provost and Chief
Information Officer at Pepperdine University in Malibu, California. Tim is
a recognized authority in three areas: the design and support of technology
services for international university campuses; the use of XML to integrate
client-server and Web-based software applications with mainframe systems and
other enterprise system architectures; and, strategy and operational support
regarding the use of information technology in emergency operations and
crisis management. His writings have appeared in CIO Magazine, EDUCAUSE
Quarterly, Dr. Dobb’s Journal, Visual Studio Magazine, and IT Pro. His work
has been profiled by Gartner Executive Programs, Microsoft, and Apple, as
well as leading industry publications such as The Chronicle of Higher
Education, Computer World, eWeek, and Ziff-Davis Publications.
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Matthew Jett
Hall
Associate Vice Chancellor, Information
Technology Services
Associate Professor of the Practice of
Computer Science, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Infrastructure, Vanderbilt University
Chief Information Architect,
Infrastructure Vanderbilt University
.Matthew Jett Hall is the Assistant Vice Chancellor for Information
Technology Services, Associate Chief Information Architect for Enterprise
Infrastructure, Assoc. Professor of the Practice of Computer Science, and a
Faculty Fellow in the English department at Vanderbilt University. He
coordinates enterprise IT architecture processes with members of the
research, clinical enterprise, and teaching communities. Matt assumed his
appointment in April 2004.
Matt started his career with Bank of America in 1992 in Tampa, Florida. He
spent time on the Technology Planning & Control team before moving to the
Global Corporate Investment Bank. There, he completed corporate credit
training and managed a Business Assessment & Software Development team that
supported Corporate Finance, Capital Markets (NCMI), Loan Syndications,
Corporate Credit Services, High Yield Capital Markets, FX Trading, and the
Financial Buyers Groups in Chicago, Charlotte, Dallas, and New York.
In 1997, he joined the Petroleum Trading Group at Koch Industries assigned
primarily to acquisition due diligence and development of the new petroleum
and derivatives trading floor in London. He led merger and acquisition
diligence for various refineries and petroleum distillation operations in
Rotterdam, London, Luxembourg, Breda, and Dusseldorf. He also supported
petroleum-trading operations in Wichita, London, and Singapore.
After returning from London in 1998, he resumed his employment with Bank of
America. In 2001, he assumed responsibility for business planning and
project management of Bank of America's Global Corporate Investment Bank,
Global Treasury Services, and the Asset Management Group's network and data
center infrastructure. He managed $163 million in expense allocations and
over $69 million in annual capital expenditures on behalf of the
shareholders.
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Charles A. Bremer
Vice President, Information Technology, Ameren
Corporation
Charles A. Bremer is Vice President, Information
Technology, Ameren Corporation. He assumed the position of Vice President, Information
Technology in 1993 and added the responsibility for the newly formed Ameren
Services Center in 2005. Prior to that time he directed Technical Services.
He assumed the Technical Services title in 1988 after serving as Vice
President, Supply Service.
Charles joined Union Electric Co. (now a part of Ameren Corp) in 1966 as a
student engineer and joined the Legal Department as an attorney in 1973. In
1982, he was named director of Supply Service.
Charles has been active in a number of utility industry organizations,
including service on the Research Advisory Committee of the Electric Power
Research Institute, and is currently on the Electric Energy Institute’s
Technical Advisory Group. He is active in a number of civic and charitable
organizations and is a member of the American Bar Association, the Missouri
Bar Association and the St. Louis Metropolitan Bar Association.
Charles is an initial board member of Enporion and has been actively
involved in the organization of this exchange.
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William Bryan
Chief Information Officer, State of Missouri
Bill is a third-generation Missourian – born, bred and educated in the
Show-Me State. Bill was appointed state CIO in 2009.
Prior to being appointed as state CIO, Bill served as Assistant Attorney
General. During his 18 year career at the Attorney General’s Office, Bill
obtained broad experience, working in all but 2 divisions. He was recognized
nationally and internationally for his work encouraging the implementation
of next generation technology in animal agriculture. Bill was also lead
counsel in the Taum Sauk Disaster litigation, a disaster caused in part, by
faulty programming logic unearthed by the AGO team.
Throughout his tenure, Bill championed the use of leading technologies and
was the first lawyer in state government with a desktop computer. He also
was one of the pioneers in using technology to persuasively present
non-computer evidence at trial and simply as an out-of-court advocacy tool.
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Doug Ross
Vice President, Chief Technology Officer at
Western & Southern Financial Group
Doug Ross is vice president and chief technology officer at Western &
Southern Financial Group (Western & Southern), based in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Ross joined the organization in 2005 with his current role, reporting
directly to the chief information officer at Western & Southern.
Prior to joining Western & Southern, he
served in technology leadership roles at Northrop Grumman Electronic Systems
and Cap Gemini Ernst & Young. He also led development of mass-market
consumer software packages as the chief technologist at Alpha Software
Corporation.
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Tom Clewett
VP IT Enterprise Solutions, Exelon Corporation
Tom Clewett is a Chicago-based executive employed by Exelon
Corporation. He has over 20 years of information technology experience,
primarily in the Energy and Consumer Products industries. He has an
established track record of successfully leading large-scale, complex
business and technology transformation initiatives.
Prior to Exelon, Tom was a Senior Manager at Andersen Consulting
(Accenture) and a member of their national retail and consumer products
practice.
Outside of Exelon Tom has served on several non-profit boards in
addition to supporting the missions of Misericordia Heart of Mercy and his
local church through volunteer and fund raising opportunities.
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Urs Fischer,
CISA, CPA (Swiss), CIA
Lead Developer, ISACA.org’s Risk IT framework
Vice President and head of IT governance and risk management, SwissLife
Group
Urs Fischer, CISA, CPA (Swiss), CIA, is lead developer of ISACA’s new
Risk IT framework and is also vice president and head of IT governance and
risk management within the SwissLife Group. Before taking that role in 2003,
he worked for four years as head of IT audit for the SwissLife Audit
Department based in Zurich, Switzerland. Fischer has worked in the IT
governance and risk management area (including IT audit and IT security)
since 1989 and has gained during his work extensive information risk
management and systems security experience, especially in the finance and
insurance area.
Fischer is very active in the IT control and security community. In addition
to his international involvement with ISACA and ITGI, he has also spent
eight years on the ISACA Switzerland Chapter Board and has served on the
program committee for six of ISACA’s European Computer Audit, Control and
Security (EuroCACS) Conferences.
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Rich Adduci
Vice President and Chief Information Officer, Boston Scientific
Rich Adduci joined Boston Scientific in 2006 as Boston Scientific’s CIO. In
his role as CIO, Rich is focused on integrating multiple IS organizations
into a single global team of IS professionals. In his role as CIO, Rich also
serves as a member of Boston Scientific’s Operating Committee, Quality
Management Board, and Capital Committee.
Prior to joining Boston Scientific, Rich was a Partner at Accenture. During
his 18 year career at Accenture, Rich was a leader in Accenture’s Health and
Life Science practice, leading the Contracting Excellence and Supply Chain
practices within the Health and Life Sciences Industry vertical. Rich holds
more than 15 European Patents and two United States Patents for the
development of modeling tools to support Business Strategy and Market Entry
for new wireless technologies..
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Tony Young
Chief Information Officer, Informatica
Tony Young serves as senior vice president and chief information officer of
Informatica. During his tenure at Informatica, Tony and the Information
Technology department have won prestigious industry awards, including the
2006 CIO Decision Midmarket Leadership Award, the 2006 Ventana Research IT
Performance Management Leadership Award and the 2007 100 Best Places to Work
in IT by ComputerWorld.
Prior to joining Informatica in 2002, Tony served at Mindcrossing and
Converge, where he was responsible for overseeing product development and
product management. Tony began his career at HP where he served for 11 years
in a number of information technology and marketing roles. A major milestone
at HP included building the first partner portal, as well as building an
enterprise portal and e-commerce infrasructure.
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Doug Robinson
NASCIO Executive Director
Doug Robinson serves as Executive Director for the National Association of
State Chief Information Officers (NASCIO), Representing state CIOs and
information technology executives.
Doug is a frequent speaker, panelist and author representing NASCIO issues,
state CIOs, emerging trends and state government IT. In addition, he
represents NASCIO on several national boards, committees and advisory
groups. Among his recognitions, he was named to Government Technology
magazine’s 2006 Top 25 Doers, Dreamers and Drivers in public sector
information technology. Doug’s career spans over thirty years in state
government, higher education and public sector IT. Prior to joining NASCIO
in 2004, he served as Executive Director in the Governor's Office for
Technology, Commonwealth of Kentucky. Doug also spent several years as
Vice‐Chair of NASCIO’s Enterprise Architecture Committee.
Doug's other state government leadership positions included executive
director of the Kentucky Information Resources Management Commission and
executive director of the Kentucky Office of Geographic Information Systems.
For 15 years, he served in university public service and technical
assistance roles as acting director and technology coordinator for NASA's
Technology Applications Center at the University of Kentucky.
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Chris Buse
Chief Information Security Officer (CISO), State of
Minnesota
Christopher Buse is the Chief Information Security Officer for the State of
Minnesota. Before accepting this position, Christopher served as the Manager
of Information Technology Audits for the Minnesota Office of the Legislative
Auditor. During his 19 years as an auditor, Christopher planned and oversaw
information technology audit work done on large government computer systems.
Christopher also provided state of the art technology tools and training for
audit professionals. Christopher is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA),
Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA), and a Certified Information
Systems Security Professional (CISSP).
Christopher is active in many professional
organizations and currently serves on the Executive Committee of the Multi
State Information Sharing and Analysis Center. He also sits on the
Information Systems Audit and Control Association (ISACA) International
Professional Influence and Advocacy Committee, and has held numerous Board
of Director positions in the Minnesota Chapter. Christopher was awarded the
2008 Security Professional of the Year by the Information Systems Security
Association's Minnesota Chapter.
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Lieutenant
General Harry D. Raduege Jr. (USAF, Ret)
Director, Deloitte & Touche LLP
Chairman, The Deloitte Center for Network
Innovation
Harry D. Raduege, Jr. retired after serving
35 years in the U.S. military. He worked in the areas of technology,
including telecommunications, space, information and network operations. He
served more than 17 years in joint duty assignments. In his last position,
he led Department of Defense netcentric operations as the director of the
Defense Information Systems Agency. In that role, Harry directed planning,
engineering and implementation of interoperable communications and
intelligence systems serving the needs of the president, the secretary of
defense, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, combatant commanders and the military
services. Notably, he led efforts to restore communications to the Pentagon
following the September 11 terrorist attacks; upgraded presidential
communications; and led the successful expansion of the department's Global
Information Grid through a $1 billion transformational communications
program.
Harry was also appointed by the secretary of defense as the commander of the
Joint Task Force for Global Network Operations, and as deputy commander for
Global Network Operations and Defense for the U.S. Strategic Command. In
these roles, he was the first commander assigned responsibility for
directing the operation and defense of the Global Information Grid to ensure
timely and secure netcentric capabilities across the entire department.
Harry also served as the manager of the National Communications System and
led the nation's efforts to prioritize the restoration of telecommunications
throughout New York City and the Pentagon following the 9/11 attacks.
Prior to his last assignments, Harry directed command and control systems
for North American Aerospace Defense Command, U.S. Space Command and Air
Force Space Command. He also served as the chief information officer for all
three commands, was the architect for computer network defense and attack
capabilities established within the Department of Defense, and was the
national spokesman for the department during the successful "Year 2000"
computer rollover efforts. Harry directed command and control communications
at the U.S. Central Command for three years, including the relocation
efforts required after the 1996 Khobar Towers bombing in Saudi Arabia.
Earlier, he served as the first commander of the Air Force C4 Agency and was
the Joint Chiefs of Staff architect for all satellite communications
supporting more than 500,000 deployed military members during the Gulf War
in 1991.
Harry serves as a senior counselor to The Cohen Group; on the World Board of
Governors of the United Services Organizations (USO); on the Executive
Council of the Network Centric Operations Industry Consortium (NCOIC); as
co-chair of the Center for Strategic and International Studies’ (CSIS)
Commission on Cyber Security for the 44th Presidency; as a member of the
Center for U.S. Global Engagement’s National Security Advisory Council; and
on the Board of Directors and Executive Committee of Armed Forces
Communications and Electronics Association (AFCEA) International. He also
serves as an advisor to the Defense Science Board, and is a member of the
Board of Trustees and chairs the Technology Committee for Capital University
in Columbus, Ohio.
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Will Pelgrin
Director and Chief Cyber Security Officer, NYS Office of Cyber Security and
Critical Infrastructure Coordination, NY State
Founder and Chair, Multi-State
Information Sharing and Analysis Center
William F. Pelgrin is the Director of the NYS Office of Cyber Security &
Critical Infrastructure Coordination (CSCIC) and the Chief Cyber Security
Officer for New York State. William has been actively involved in cyber
security issues since 1996 and was asked to lead CSCIC upon its creation in
2002 in recognition of his leadership and expertise in cyber security.
William is responsible for directing New York State's efforts regarding
cyber readiness and resilience, and geographic information technologies,
especially in emergencies, where CSCIC is the single point-of-contact. The
CSCIC has established a 7x24 Cyber Security Center to analyze and respond to
intrusions and other anomalous cyber activity; deployed intrusion/prevention
detection architecture for critical segments of the State’s network and
computing infrastructure; developed statewide cyber security policies;
implemented statewide cyber security training for state and local
government; and enhanced the capabilities of the State’s critical
infrastructure application to assist in responding to any emergency.
William also chairs the Public/Private Sector Cyber Security Workgroup,
which comprises a talented cadre of senior representatives from State and
local government, academia, the private sector from not only New York, but
New Jersey, as well as the federal government. He has brought together a
diverse community that is working collaboratively to enhance cyber security
in the public and private sectors for the collective benefit of all.
William established the Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center
(MS-ISAC) in January 2003 in recognition of the need for collaboration
across states to better prevent, detect, respond to and recover from cyber
incidents. The MS-ISAC has representation from all 50 states, the District
of Columbia, local governments and U.S. Territories and serves as a
collaborative mechanism to share information regarding cyber security
issues. Because of the success of the MS-ISAC, the U.S. Department of
Homeland Security has recognized the MS-ISAC for its proactive role in
coordinating state and local government cyber readiness and response.
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Mark Weatherford
Director and Chief Information Security Officer (CISO), State of California
Office of Information
Security
Mark Weatherford was appointed to his position as Director and Chief
Information Security Officer of the California Office of Information
Security in June 2008 by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. Mark was also
recently selected to guide the efforts of a Governor’s Reorganization Plan (GRP)
initiative which consolidated four IT organizations into the California
Office of the State Chief Information Officer.
Mark previously served as the Chief Information Security Officer for the
State of Colorado where he was appointed by two successive governors. A
former U.S. Naval Cryptologic Officer, Mark led the U.S. Navy’s Computer
Network Defense operations and the Naval Computer Incident Response Team and
as a member of the Raytheon Company, he successfully built and directed the
Navy/Marine Corps Intranet Security Operations Center (SOC) in San Diego,
CA.
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Richard
(Dick) C. Schaeffer, Jr.
Information Assurance Director, National Security
Agency (NSA)
Dick Schaeffer is the Information Assurance Director at the National
Security Agency (NSA). The Information Assurance Directorate (IAD) is
responsible for the availability of products, services, technology and
standards for protecting and defending our nation’s critical information
systems from adversaries in cyber space. IAD is a key contributor to the
Information Assurance Strategy to protect the Department of Defense’s (DoD)
Global Information Grid (GIG) and other National Security Systems of the
U.S. government. It supports ongoing military operations by delivering
solutions that enable the secure and dynamic sharing of information between
and across security domains at multiple classification and sensitivity
levels.
Collaboration and partnerships with the DoD, intelligence community, allies,
academia, and industry is key to IAD’s success. Additionally, IAD’s
partnership with colleges, universities and Service academies, through its
Centers of Academic Excellence (CAE) program, continues to produce a growing
number of Information Assurance professionals for the government and
industry workforce.
Prior to leading the IA Mission at NSA, Dick was Chief of the National
Security Operations Center (NSOC). NSOC manages the U.S. Cryptologic System
around the clock, serving as the command-and-control center for
time-sensitive operations and crisis response. Other major assignments have
included IA Deputy Director; Acting Associate Director of Research; NSA
Deputy Chief of Staff; and Director, Infrastructure and Information
Assurance, Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Command, Control,
Communications and Intelligence). He has held positions as Chief, IA
Research Office; Chief, Network Security Infrastructure Office; Deputy
Chief, Office of Developmental Systems Security Evaluations; Deputy Chief,
Tactical Systems Security Office; Deputy Chief, Weapons Systems Office;
Chief, Special Projects Division as well as various engineering and
management positions. Richard served in the United States Marine Corps,
including two tours in Vietnam.
Dick serves on the Board of Directors, Armed Forces Communications and
Electronics Association (AFCEA), Central Maryland Chapter and the Board of
Directors, Intelligence and National Security Alliance (INSA).
Dick has received numerous awards including the Armed Forces
Communications and Electronics Association (AFCEA) Meritorious Service Award
(2008); the Presidential Rank Award (2005 and 1999); Secretary of Defense
Medal for Meritorious Civilian Service (2001); Office of the Secretary of
Defense Award for Excellence (2000); Secretary of Defense Productivity
Excellence Award (1987); and NSA Meritorious Civilian Service Award (1984).
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Arthur W.
Coviello, Jr.
Executive Vice President, EMC Corporation and
President, RSA, The Security Division of EMC
Art Coviello is the president of the RSA
security division of EMC and was previously CEO of RSA Security, Inc. prior
to its acquisition by EMC in 2006. For almost 15 years he has been a driving
force in RSA’s rapid growth, increasing revenue from $25 million in 1995 to
more than a half billion in 2007. Under his stewardship RSA has become
acknowledged as the de facto standard for two-factor authentication,
anti-fraud and encryption. Art's expertise and influence have made him a
recognized leader in the industry where he plays a key role in several
national cyber-security initiatives. He currently serves as Co-Chair of
TechNet New England, has spoken at dozens of conferences and forums around
the world, and is a sought-after expert by the global media community.
He has more than 30 years of strategic, operating and financial management
experience in high technology and currently serves on the Board of Directors
at Sana Security, Crossbeam Systems and EnerNOC.
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D. James Bidzos
Chairman
of the Board of Directors, Executive Chairman, VeriSign, Inc.
James Bidzos, chairman of the board of directors, executive chairman and
founder of VeriSign, is an Internet and security industry pioneer whose
accomplishments include building RSA Security into the early standard-bearer
for authentication and encryption, and launching VeriSign as a company in
1995 to develop the digital certificate infrastructure for Internet
commerce. In August 2009, VeriSign announced the appointment of James as
executive chairman.
James served as VeriSign's first president and CEO and also served as
VeriSign's chairman of the board of directors from April 1995 until December
2001, as vice chairman from December 2001 to July 2007, and as interim CEO
from July 2008 to August 2009. James served as president and CEO of RSA
Security from 1988 to February 1999, and then served as RSA's vice chairman
from 1999 to May 2002. He has been named one of Time Magazine's "Digital 50"
and is in CRN's "Computer Industry Hall of Fame".
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André V. Mendes
Chief
Information Officer, Special Olympics International
At SOI, André Mendes is responsible for all strategic and operational
aspects of the organization’s information technology infrastructure. SOI
coordinates operations in all fifty states and over 150 countries serving
over 2.25 million athletes affected by intellectual disabilities.
Previously, André was responsible for developing and implementing technology
strategy in both the Broadcasting Engineering and Information Technology
divisions of the Public Broadcasting Service. He also oversaw the daily
operations of PBS’s entire technology infrastructure. Mr. Mendes had also
previously served the organization from 1998 to 2001, and rose to the
position of Chief Information Technology Officer during that time.
Before returning to public television, André was Chief Operating Officer at
Pluvita Corporation, a venture-backed company in Bethesda, MD that employs
cutting-edge genetic science and bioinformatics to accelerate drug discovery
and development processes. With more than 20 years experience through
positions he held at General Health, SatoTravel and USASSIST, Mr. André has
also consulted as a subject matter expert in information technology and
medical laboratory environments with such companies as Amoco, Arco, AT&T,
Ford Motor Company, IBM, Pacific Bell and Procter & Gamble. His expertise
encompasses mission critical IT and broadcasting facilities, large scale
web, e-commerce and analytical environments, systems security, as well as
complex bioinformatics systems.
In May 2001, André was named by Computerworld magazine as one of the
“Premier 100 IT Leaders” in the U.S. More recently, he gained recognition
as one of the “Top 100 Hispanic IT Executives” for 2010 and also won a 2008
“MIT CIO Innovation Award”. André was also named the “2006 IT Executive of
the year” for the Mid-Atlantic region in the non-profit category, was
bestowed a “2005 Technology Leadership Award” by Broadcasting & Cable
Magazine and a 2006 Mid-Market Leadership Award by CIO Decisions magazine.
He is a co-author of the critically acclaimed “CTO Leadership Strategies”
from Aspatore Books.
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Arshele Stevens
Chief
Information Officer, Board of Education, City of Chicago
Arshele Stevens has five years of tenure with the Board of Education of the
City of Chicago, and leads a full-time staff of 235 people with a combined
annual operating and capital budget of more than $50 million.
Arshele’s key contributions to CPS include:
• The implementation of a compliance tool for the 68,000 children who
receive Special Education Services;
• The introduction of Technical Project Management services, which
significantly increases the district’s ability to effectively deliver
application hosting;
• The expansion of the Information Security Department to focus on policy,
standards and compliance;
• The transition to high performing teams that are founded on collaboration
and trust.
Prior to joining CPS, Arshele led merger and acquisition efforts for the
Securities division of Wachovia Bank; prior to that she managed the
Configuration Management Department for CNA Insurance.
Arshele holds certificates through the Project Management Institute, Six
Sigma, and Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL).
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Gaurav Dhillon
Chairman, and Chief
Executive Officer, Snaplogic
Gaurav was most recently the Chief Executive Officer of Informatica
Corporation, (Nasdaq; INFA) a silicon valley company that he co-founded in
1992. As its first employee, and CEO for more than 12 years, he led
Informatica from startup idea to leading software enterprise with customers
and operations around the world.
He led Informatica through its initial launch, its successful IPO, and
expansion to Europe and Asia. He was the leading figure in developing
alliances with major technology players, ultimately forging a broad
acceptance of the vision he pioneered in the software industry. Prior to
Informatica Gaurav held management and engineering positions at Sterling
Software and Unisys Corp.
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Jeff Chapman
Head of
Technology, ING Direct
As Head of Technology, Jeff oversees and coordinates all technology
projects, development and systems that support ING DIRECT USA’s business
units.
Prior to joining ING DIRECT USA, Jeff was Vice President of Product
Development for Applimation Inc., a leading independent application data
management provider (recently purchased by Informatica). Earlier in his
career, he was the Director of IT Development for Wit Capital, an online
investment bank. Prior to that, Jeff was the Director of Database
Development for theglobe.com which successfully achieved an IPO in 1998.
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R “Ray” Wang
Partner,
Altimeter Group, Author
Softwareinsider.com
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Don Campbell
Chief
Technology Officer, Analytics and Performance Management, IBM
As CTO of Analytics and Performance Management at IBM, Don Campbell oversees
Cognos Software's technology adoption strategy and its application within
the IBM Cognos BI platform today and tomorrow. He leads the charge on
leading-edge technologies such as grid computing, search, and wireless
information delivery in a performance management context.
Don Campbell has 25 years of high tech experience, 21 of which were with
Cognos prior to the company's acquisition by IBM in 2007. He has held
various roles from research to software development to management, and has
led the creation of several award-winning products. He sits on various
industry technology boards and advisory committees.
His message of technology, performance management, and entrepreneurism has
taken him around the globe, speaking to over 40,000 people in 16 countries.
In 2005, he was awarded with the International Business Award for Best
Product Development or Engineering Executive. In addition, he has authored
several published articles and a weekly technology column. Mr. Campbell
holds a Bachelor of Computer Science degree from Carleton University, in
Ottawa, Canada.
In June of 2009, Don was named an IBM Distinguished Engineer and appointed
to the IBM Academy of Technology cementing his position among the most
accomplished technical minds in the industry.
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Stephen Brobst
Chief
Technology Officer, Teradata Corporation
Stephen Brobst is the chief technology officer for Teradata Corporation. He
is widely regarded as a leading expert in data warehousing and joined the
Teradata team in October of 1999. Previously, Stephen successfully launched
three start-up companies related to high-end database products and services
in the data warehousing and e-business marketplaces: Tanning Technology
Corporation (IPO on NASDAQ), NexTek Solutions (acquired by IBM) and
Strategic Technologies & Systems (acquired by NCR). Stephen also taught
graduate courses at Boston University and the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology in both the MBA program at the Sloan School of Management and in
the computer science departments of both universities. He received the
instructor of the year award for two of his last five years in the MET
Computer Science department at Boston University and continues as a frequent
guest lecturer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Kellogg
Graduate School of Management.
Stephen performed master's and Ph.D. research at the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology, where his dissertation focused on load-balancing and resource
allocation for parallel computing architectures. He also holds an MBA with
joint course and thesis work at the Harvard Business School and the MIT
Sloan School of Management. Stephen completed his undergraduate work in
electrical engineering and computer science in just three years at
University of California, Berkeley, and was awarded the highest honor given
to a graduating senior in the College of Engineering (Bechtel Engineering
Award). Stephen is an elected member of the Phi Beta Kappa, Eta Kappa Nu,
Tau Beta Pi, Sigma Xi, New York Academy of Sciences, University of
California, Berkeley Alumni Scholars Association, and the California
Scholarship Federation honor societies. He also serves as an advisor to the
National Academy of Sciences in the area of IT workforce development.
Stephen has authored numerous journal and conference papers in the fields of
data management and parallel computing environments and is an
internationally recognized practitioner in the area of breakthrough systems
implementation. He co-authored a book, Building a Data Warehouse for
Decision Support, published by Prentice Hall PTR. Stephen is currently
working on a second book focused on active data warehousing for the
real-time enterprise. He has published dozens of technical articles in
Intelligent Enterprise Magazine, The International Journal of High Speed
Computing, Communications of the ACM, The Journal of Data Warehousing,
Enterprise Systems Journal, DM Review, Database Programming and Design and
many others. Stephen has been a member of the faculty of the Data
Warehousing Institute since 1996 and teaches courses related to active data
warehousing and high-performance data warehouse design.
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Emil G. D'Angelo,
CISA, CISM
International
President, ISACA
Senior Vice
President at the Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, Ltd.
Emil G. D'Angelo is international president of ISACA and a security
management professional with more than 25 years of experience in the
financial services industry.
He is the senior vice president overseeing the corporate data security
department at the Bank of Tokyo Mitsubishi UFJ, with responsibility for
information security, disaster recovery, audit liaison and IT
compliance-related matters. D'Angelo initiated his career in security and
audit by joining Deloitte & Touche, where he worked on the development of
their audit software, IT audit approach and spent 10 years in their
management services division. He also worked at Chase, where he coordinated
the global security and business continuity program, and at Marsh, where he
established a security and business continuity program.
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Dr. Melodie
Mayberry-Stewart, Ph.D.
New York State
Chief Information Officer, Director of the Office For Technology
Dr. Melodie Mayberry-Stewart serves as New York State Chief Information
Officer and Director of the Office for Technology. As the Governor’s top
information technology advisor and a member of the Governor’s cabinet,
Melodie develops, implements and oversees IT investments for the State of
New York, a $130 billion enterprise with over 190,000 employees serving a
statewide population of 19 million. The State has approximately 5,600 IT
professionals, and spends approximately $2 billion in information technology
annually.
Melodie, a veteran of IT, started her career in Information Technology 30
years ago as a Systems Engineer for the IBM Corporation. Subsequently, she
worked as an IT executive in two Fortune 20 companies, the largest
healthcare hospital in the country, and in the public and private non-profit
sectors.
During her 13 years with IBM, she quickly rose through the ranks and served
as an Instructor in Database and Data Communications at the IBM Advanced
Technical Education Center in Los Angeles and authored several courses
published by Science Research Associates.
After leaving a successful career at IBM, Dr. Mayberry-Stewart became a
Chief Information Officer in the health care industry as the first CIO at
Community Health Corporation, (California), St. Thomas Hospital (Tennessee)
and Beth Israel Medical Center (New York). After 14 years in healthcare IT,
she turned her interest to the energy industry where she became a Vice
President and General Manager of Shared IT Services and Global IT Delivery
for the Amoco Corporation, with global headquarters in Chicago, and was
acquired by BP Oil in the UK.
Melodie has worked extensively with non-profit companies to help their
organizations better serve their constituents. Her work brought her to the
attention of the newly elected Mayor of Cleveland, Ohio. In 2002 he
appointed her as the City’s first Chief Technology Officer (CTO) and CIO. In
May 2007, Dr. Mayberry-Stewart was appointed NYS CIO and Director of the NYS
Office for Technology.
Melodie has been nationally recognized in InformationWeek’s 2009 Government
CIO 50 list. In addition, she received numerous honors including,
Computerworld’s Premier 100 IT Leaders for 2009, Year Up 2009 Urban
Empowerment Award, ITT Technical Institute 2009 Woman of Inspiration Award,
2009 Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Black MBA Association and
the National Technical Association Lifetime Achievement Award, US
Engineering and Technology Women of Color Technology Award for Managerial
Leadership and the NAACP Legal Defense Fund.
Melodie serves on the boards of the Harriman Research and Technology
Development Corporation, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) Center for
Computational Nanotechnology Innovation, and is a member of the Advisory
Council of Center for CIO Leadership where she provides strategic advice and
counsel to Center leadership and assures the Center’s research, education
and content are directly relevant to the professional growth and challenges
facing CIOs.
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Hardik Bhatt
Chief
Information Officer, Commissioner for Innovation & Technology, City of
Chicago
Hardik's was appointed as Chief Information Officer (CIO) by Chicago's Mayor
Richard M Daley in February 2006. He is also the Commissioner for the
Department of Innovation & Technology (DoIT). As the CIO of the City of
Chicago, Hardik oversees several Technology Implementations, Mobile
Solutions and Information Sharing projects, including Geographic Information
Services (GIS).
Hardik is spearheading Mayor Daley's vision of establishing technology
career academies which will be supported by more than 80 large and small
businesses. Hardik also co-chair's Mayor Daley's council of Technology
Advisors comprised of leading CIO's of the region from companies including
Boeing, Bexter, CNA, Exelon, Aon and HCSC as well as leading representatives
from technology, non-profit and academic sectors.
Prior to joining the public sector, Hardik worked as a consultant with
Oracle corporation in the US and Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) in India.
As an active community member, he is a part of Economic Club of Chicago's
membership subcommittee for technology and telecom.
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Jeanne W. Ross
Director and
Principal Research Scientist, Center for Information Systems Research (CISR),
MIT
Jeanne W. Ross is Director and Principal Research Scientist at the MIT Sloan
School’s Center for Information Systems Research. As Director, Jeanne
directs academic research that targets the challenges of senior level
executives at the Center’s seventy global sponsors. Her own research
examines the organizational and performance implications of enterprise
architecture initiatives, IT governance, and new IT management practices.
Her work has appeared in major practitioner and academic journals, including
Sloan Management Review, Harvard Business Review, the Wall Street Journal,
MISQ Executive, MIS Quarterly, the Journal of Management Information
Systems, IBM Systems Journal, and CIO Magazine.
Jeanne has served on the faculty of customized courses for firms such as
PepsiCo, McKinsey, Johnson & Johnson, General Electric, TRW, Pfizer, Nomura,
Novartis, News Corporation, Commonwealth Bank of Australia, IBM, and Credit
Suisse. She regularly appears as a speaker for Microsoft, the Society for
Information Management, Gartner, and university research centers, where she
addresses the question of how companies get value from information
technology.
She is coauthor of three books: IT Governance: How Top Performers Manage IT
Decision Rights for Superior Results, Enterprise Architecture as Strategy:
Creating a Foundation for Business Execution and IT Savvy: What Top
Executives Must Know to Go from Pain to Gain. All three books were published
Harvard Business School Press. She is a founding senior editor and former
editor in chief of MIS Quarterly Executive.
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Russ
Bostick
EVP Technology and Operations, Conseco
Russ Bostick joined Conseco in February 2005 as executive vice president and
chief information officer (CIO) of the company. In August 2008, he was
promoted to executive vice president, technology and operations. Bostick is
responsible for all enterprise technology and operations shared services.
Russ is also responsible for the IT that supports Colonial Penn Life
Insurance Company.
Before joining Conseco, Russ served for seven years as chief technology
officer of Chase Insurance, the insurance arm of J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. and
also as CIO for Zurich Life U.S., where he led an IT organization through
two transformations in less than one year, as Bank One and then Chase
ultimately acquired the company.
Before Chase, Russ was chief technology officer for Corporate Software &
Technology, a licensed software reseller in Norwood, Massachusetts.
Previously, Russ held key technology positions at CNA Insurance from
1994-1997, and at IBM from 1979-1994. While at IBM, he was introduced to the
financial services industry, serving for three years as the client executive
for CNA.
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Paul Gossen
Business Transformation Expert
Paul Gossen has facilitated more than 120 breakthrough programs and
conducted large organizational transformation initiatives for American
Express, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and dozens of other companies.
Paul is widely respected for having the credibility to get even old-school
conservative executives to accept and adopt business transformation
programs.
After 25 years as a successful serial entrepreneur and business leadership
innovator, Paul Gossen is well known for his credibility and high impact
results in accelerating organizational transformation. Paul occasionally
serves as a Board Director or in an interim C-level role in early stage
portfolio companies for the venture capital community. His most recent book,
Business Transformed, is a simple and powerful model for accelerating
business transformation. An international success, the book is on its third
printing and is available in English and Russian, with pending Turkish,
Ukrainian and Mandarin editions.
Paul has given his time to serve as a Board Director in 9 companies. He is a
committed proponent that business transformation is integral to the
management and governance of organizations. Paul’s style is unique and fresh
with a high-energy presentation manner. Paul is located in Vancouver Canada
and conducts programs worldwide. An acclaimed keynote speaker, his passion
is assisting business leaders to accelerate organizational results.
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Richard Hunter
Group Vice-President and Gartner fellow in Gartner
Executive Programmes
Richard Hunter was elected a Gartner Fellow in 2003, and is vice president
and research director in Gartner Research, where his recent work has focused
on matters of interest to CIOs. Mr. Hunter is the author of "World Without
Secrets: Business, Crime and Privacy in the Age of Ubiquitous Computing"
(Wiley, NYC, 2002), “IT Risk: Turning Business Threats Into Competitive
Advantage” (Harvard Business Press, Boston, 2006), and “The Real Business of
IT: How CIOs Create and Communicate Value” (Harvard Business Press, Boston,
2009), the latter two works with co-author George Westerman. Mr. Hunter is
in much demand as a speaker and advisor to CIOs.
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George Westerman
Research Scientist in the Center for Information
Systems Research at the MIT Sloan School of Management
George Westerman is a research scientist in MIT Sloan’s Center for
Information Systems Research and faculty chair for the course IT for the
Non-IT Executive. His research and executive presentations focus on senior
management challenges such as IT risk, value measurement, and innovation.
His work has been published in Sloan Management Review, MIS Quarterly
Executive, and IESE Insight, as well as academic journals. George’s first
book IT Risk: Turning Business Threats Into Competitive Advantage (Harvard
Business School Press, co-authored with Richard Hunter), was named one of
CIO Insight magazine’s Top Ten Books of 2007. His new book The Real
Business of IT: How CIOs Create and Communicate Value (also with Richard
Hunter) will be published by HBS Press in September 2009. A noted speaker
and workshop facilitator, George works regularly with executives to improve
the business value of IT.
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Scott Gibson
CIO & Senior VP of Distribution, Best Western
International
Gibson joined Best Western in 2005 as Chief Information Officer and Senior
Vice President of Distribution. He brings more than 22 years of experience
in the hotel industry technology sector to his role, along with a reputation
for planning and producing solid technology infrastructures. As CIO and SVP
of Distribution, Gibson leads the Information Technology, Global Channel
Distribution and Worldwide Delivery departments from the company
headquarters in Phoenix.
Gibson has held a variety of leadership positions throughout the hospitality
industry. Most recently, he served as Senior Vice President and Chief
Information Officer for Kerzner International Resorts. His primary
responsibilities at Kerzner included driving technology leadership for the
company's Paradise Island and U.S. operations, including the development of
a new reservations system.
Gibson also served as a Reservations System Development Director for Red
Lion Hotels and Inns, where he also developed and implemented a new central
reservations system. He then moved to Cendant Corporation, where he held
various director-level technology posts before ultimately being named Senior
Vice President and Chief Information Officer for the company's hotel
division. During his time there, Gibson was responsible for delivering the
technology needs for the hotel division and its nearly 6,000 franchisees. He
also led the technology integration plan supporting the formation of Cendant
Travel Group, which brought together all travel-related business units of
the company.
Gibson began his hotel technology career with Ramada, and followed that with
a six-year term with Anasazi, where he managed projects to develop and
deliver custom reservation systems to four major hotel companies.
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Robin Arendt
Chief Information Officer for Zurich North America
Commercial
Robin Arendt is chief information officer for Zurich North America
Commercial and is responsible for end-to-end delivery of IT Services in
North America. She also develops and maintains strong relationship with the
Executive team, Global IT Management and internal and external business
partners in order to identify emerging technology needs and effectively
manage resource spend to deliver the right solutions to the business at the
right time. Prior to joining Zurich in 2008, Ms. Arendt served as vice
president for IT at Safeco Insurance.
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John A. Fiore
Executive Vice President,
Chief Information Officer,
BNY Mellon
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Dennis
Quan
Director of Autonomic Computing, IBM Software Group
Former CTO,
IBM's Blue Cloud Initiative &
High Performance group
Dennis Quan is Director of Development in IBM's
Autonomic Computing division. He launched the IBM/Google Cloud Computing
partnership in October 2007 to empower the next generation of engineers with
Cloud Computing resources and skills. Dennis was also instrumental in the
creation of the IBM Blue Cloud initiative announced in November 2007, a
multi-year effort spanning software, hardware, and services offerings for
supporting clients' adoption of Cloud Computing technologies.
Previously, Dennis held various technical leadership positions within IBM,
including CTO of the IBM High Performance On Demand Solutions group,
development manager for IBM DataPower's XML Technologies team, and research
scientist and manager of the High Performance SOA department at the IBM T.
J. Watson Research Center. Dennis holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, as well as degrees in Chemistry and
Mathematics, also from MIT.
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Rudy Wolfs
Chief Customer Service & Chief Information Officer, ING Direct
Rudy Wolfs, ING DIRECT USA’s Chief Customer Service Officer and Chief
Information Officer, joined ING DIRECT USA in 2000. With his software
development background, Rudy joined the team to develop and manage the ING
DIRECT USA Technology platform.
Previously, Rudy co-founded EveryWare Development Corporation in 1989, an
Internet Application Server leader and publicly traded company, which grew
to 120 employees and sold to Pervasive Software in 1999. In 1997, he also
co-founded an email software solutions management company – Emailtopia
Corporation, located in Toronto with 30 employees, which was later sold.
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Dr. Daniel D. Frye
Vice President, Open Systems Development, IBM
Systems & Technology Group
Dr. Daniel D. Frye, Vice President - IBM Open Systems Development, is the
head of IBM's Linux development team - the IBM Linux Technology Center (LTC)
- and is responsible for overseeing IBM's Linux technical strategy and IBM's
participation in the open source Linux development community. Dan is also
responsible for emerging workloads, such as Web 2.0 and cloud computing,
including its Blue Cloud Initiative.
Prior to his current responsibilities, Dan was a member of IBM's Emerging
Technologies and Business Opportunities team where he worked on company-wide
technical strategies that predicted future trends and transitions in the IT
industry. It was during this time that Dan co-authored the original IBM
corporate strategies for Linux and open source. Since then, Dan has been a
key participant in both the IBM-wide Linux and open source core teams that
have overseen the adoption of Linux and open source as key strategic
initiatives for IBM. Dan is a member of multiple Linux and open source
industry groups including being a founding Board Member of The Linux
Foundation..
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David
Mitchell
SVP IT Research, OVUM
David Mitchell is responsible for Ovum’s global IT research activities,
focusing on major supply- and demand-side issues in the IT value chain.
David has worked in the IT industry since the early 1990s, working across
many segments of the industry from management consulting, system integration
and outsourcing, to software companies. Prior to working for Ovum, David
worked for Oracle, Coopers & Lybrand and Unisys. Before moving into the
commercial sector, David was a lecturer at Edinburgh University. He
researched geographic information systems, their adoption in business, and
their eventual economic benefits.
David is a regular contributor to the international technology and business
press across a wide range of topics, for both print and television media. He
regularly presents at international conferences and workshops.
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Kevin M.
Campbell
Group Chief
Executive - Outsourcing, Accenture
Kevin Campbell is responsible for Accenture's $7.84B outsourcing business,
which provides application, infrastructure and business process services to
more than 625 clients globally. He leads a team of 70,000+ professionals.
Accenture's outsourcing business provides cross-industry and
industry-specific services delivered leveraging our global delivery network
of more than 40 centers located across five continents.
Prior to assuming his current role, Kevin led Accenture's burgeoning
Business Process Outsourcing business from February 2005 to September 2006.
He was previously with Accenture from 1982 to 1999, during which time he led
outsourcing for our Resources operating group and helped pioneer Accenture's
BPO activities. He rejoined Accenture in 2005 from Exult, where he was
president and chief operating officer. Exult was an HR outsourcing pure play
that later merged with Hewitt.
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Simon
Telfer-Smith
VP
Information Technology, Elekta Group
Elekta is an international medical technology group, providing oncologists,
radiation therapists, neurosurgeons and many other medical specialists with
state of the art tools to fight serious disease. Elekta provides advanced
clinical solutions, comprehensive management and information systems as well
as services for improved cancer care and management of brain disorders.
Elekta's systems and solutions are used in over 4,500 hospitals around the
world. The corporate headquarter is located in Stockholm, Sweden and there
are over 2,000 employees globally, working from 30 offices in 20 different
countries.
Simon is responsible for driving an IT Strategy which supports the growth
and acquisition objectives of the group whilst ensuring that the cost of IT
becomes fully visible and controlled. In order to implement common standards
and provide the geographic reach and flexibility that the business requires,
a number of key vendor agreements have been created for the procurement of
IT services, solutions and infrastructure and the competence of the IT
Organization is being shifted from "delivery of IT" to "management of IT
delivery".
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Mindy
Blodgett
Analyst, Enterprise Research - Business Process Outsourcing Strategies,
Yankee Group
Mindy Blodgett is an analyst in Yankee Group’s Enterprise Research group
with an expertise in business process outsourcing strategies. Blodgett’s
main coverage areas are IT and business process outsourcing, finance and
accounting, procurement and other BPO markets.
Mindy has covered the IT and business space for 10 years as a reporter and
editor for industry trade publications. Prior to joining Yankee Group, she
was a writer and senior editor at CIO magazine for eight years. Before that,
she was a writer at Computerworld, covering the mobile and wireless space.
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Bill
McCorey
Vice President of Global Infrastructure, IBM
Bill McCorey is Vice President of Global Infrastructure at IBM. Prior to
joining IBM, he was Senior Vice President - Chief Information Officer for
Circuit City Stores. He graduated from West Virginia State College with a
degree in Accounting and has 30 years of experience in Information
Technology. Bill was selected as one of Computerworld's Premier 100 IT
Leaders for 2003 and serves on the boards of CIO Executive Summit, Big
Brothers Big Sisters, and Greater Richmond Technology Council.
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James A. (Jim)
Fortner
Vice President Information Technology Development & Operations, Global
Business Services, The Procter & Gamble Company
Jim Fortner is the Vice President, Information Technology Development &
Operations, reporting directly to the office of the CIO. He is responsible
for all Corporate IT applications and infrastructure for P&G worldwide. Jim
also manages key IT relationships (HP, BT, Accenture, SAP and Oracle) which
help drive the necessary operations and innovations for Global Business
Services. GBS is a global shared services organization responsible for
Computers & Communications Services, Employee Services, Accounting and
Financial Services, and Business Information Services to P&G’s employees and
business partners worldwide. In addition, Jim plays an active role in
sponsoring global IT Talent Supply as well as U.S. diversity. Prior to
joining P&G, he spent 4 years in the U.S. Air Force in Accounting and
Finance and 4 years in Information Systems Analyst/Programming.
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Vittorio
Cretella
VP – CIO of Wrigley and CTO of Mars IS
Vittorio Cretella has been the Mars Information Services global CTO since
2002. Vittorio is responsible for the delivery of infrastructure services to
more than 45000 users over more than 160 countries . The division provides
24X7 operations in “follow-the-sun” mode, as well as technology development
services and innovation projects. Under Vittorio’s initiative, Mars IS has
standardized and consolidated infrastructure components, reducing costs
while increasing reliability and throughput. Infrastructure capabilities are
provided to business units in the form of a “service catalog” with specific
service levels and price points. Vittorio is currently leading a major
technology program to deploy a new desktop environment and consolidate
network and data center services.
Since June 2009, Vittorio was also appointed as CIO of the Wrigley
Gum/Confection segment, following the acquisition of Wrigley by Mars Inc.
Vittorio is leading the Wrigley organization through the program to create a
single IT service for Mars by integrating both Wrigley IT and Mars IS
capabilities.
Vittorio joined Mars in 1991 and has over 24 years experience in Information
Technology. When not travelling to visit units and sites around the world,
Vittorio’s main working locations are the IT offices in Chicago, IL and in
Mt.Olive, NJ.
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Gerry
Coady
VP and CIO,
Frontier Airlines Holding, Inc.
Gerry was most recently the Chief Technological Officer and Executive Vice
President of Engineering at Evident Software in Bloomfield, N.J. Prior to that,
he was the Chief Information Technology Officer at Xcel Energy in Denver. Coady
led Xcel to the top spot in the energy and utilities industry in the 2004
InformationWeek 500 Top IT organizations list, and the 20th spot overall that
year. He has also held leadership positions at IBM, J.D. Edwards and Company,
and spent many years with Digital Equipment Corporation both in the United
States as well as in Ireland and France. Coady lectures in Enterprise Systems at
the University of Denver, School of Management.
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Santiago
Ontañón
Executive Vice President and Chief Information Officer, Mexicana Airlines
Santiago Ontañón, is Executive Vice President and Chief Information Officer for
Mexicana de Aviación (MX) since 2005. Previous to joining Mexicana, he was
General Manager of Computer Associates in Mexico and before that, Deputy
Postmaster General of Mexico.
He started his professional career as a consultant with McKinsey & Co. in the
areas of Telecommunications, Transport and Government. In 1995 he was part of
the group that made Direct To Home Television a reality in Mexico, working for
Grupo Televisa as Director of New Technologies and as an active participant in
the operation of Sky Latin America. His experience in DTH took him to become
part of a group of global pioneers, with Tachyon Inc., that revolutionized
Satellite Data Communications and made IP-over-satellite a reality.
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John Deane
SVP, AIM
Management Group
Chief
Technology Officer INVESCO Plc
John joined AIM in 1997 from JPMorgan. He gained 29 years of securities industry
management experience while working at such firms as Morgan Stanley Group and
Salomon Brothers, in addition to JPMorgan. During the 1980’s, he lived in Tokyo
and managed both IT and Securities Operations for both
Morgan Stanley Group and Salomon Brothers in the Asia-Pacific region. In
addition, he was a partner with Price Waterhouse, where he consulted with
broker-dealers, banks and other firms in the securities industry.
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Timothy Kasbe
SVP and
Chief Information Officer, Sears Holding Corporation
Timothy Kasbe is Chief Information Officer for Sears Holdings Corporation.
Sears Holdings was created in connection with the merger of Kmart Holding
Corporation and Sears, Roebuck and Co., which was completed on March 24,
2005. The company generates approximately $47 billion in annual revenues and
includes approximately 3,900 full-line and specialty retail stores, and
related service businesses in the United States and Canada.
Timothy brings to the company over 20 years of experience in global IT
within the retail, banking and telecom industries, and he reports to the
Sears Holdings Company Business Unit Board.
Prior to Sears Holdings, Tim served as Chief Information Officer at Reliance
Retail Ltd. (RRL), a subsidiary of Reliance Industries Ltd. RRL is a startup
retail chain in India, that in the past two years has opened 978 stores and
79 distribution centers for 14 different formats including; supermarkets,
specialty and convenience stores. Before joining RRL, he spent over 10 years
at IBM holding many global leadership roles which involved leading the IBM
PC Company reengineering initiative, the launch of ibm.com, the startup of
B2B e-Commerce and working with retailers around the world. He held
international positions for Andersen Consulting in Banking and Finance and
Westpac Banking Corporation in their Information Technology, Money Market &
Treasury Groups.
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David Smoley
Senior Vice President
and Chief
Information Officer, Flextronics
David Smoley is Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer of
Flextronics, a position he has held since December 2006. Previously, Dave
served as Vice President and Chief Information Officer of Honeywell's
Aerospace Electronics Systems. Prior to Honeywell, he was Vice President and
Limited Partner for Lovett Miller & Co., Venture Capital. Dave's extensive
IT career also includes management positions with General Electric where he
most recently held the position of Director and Chief Information Officer
for GE Power Controls in Barcelona, Spain.
Flextronics is a $31 billlion revenue global manufacturing and services
provider operating in more than 30 countries worldwide. Flextronics designs,
builds and ships complete packaged products for its OEM customers and
provides logistics, after-market and field services to support customer
end-to-end supply chain requirements.
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Jane Barrett
Research Director, AMR Research
As an analyst with AMR Research’s Research and Advisory Group, Jane Barrett
specializes in supply chain research for manufacturers. Jane covers trends
and best practices in supply chain with a specific focus on Sales &
Operations Planning, Supply Management, Supplier Relationship Management,
Scorecards, and Collaborative Commerce.
Jane brings over 20 years of experience in business consulting and ERP to
her role as a research director. She has helped global organizations and
mid-market manufacturers plan, design, and implement solutions that achieve
their business objectives, involving globalization, standardization and
change management. She has led the development of tools and methodologies to
enable project management, process design, lean initiatives, and performance
metrics.
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Jon Prall
VP of
Operations, Six Apart
Jon Prall is the Vice President of Operations for Six Apart. Six Apart is the
leader in the Blogging market and offers products for both personal Blogging and
professional Blogging.
Previously, Jon served as Vice President of Operations at Postini where he
oversaw the operations with a growth from 5 million messages to over 1 billion
messages per day. In working with key staff at Postini Jon was able to offer an
SLA of 99.999% to a customer base of over 9 million end users, and helped to
implement redundant datacenter locations in 4 countries around the world.
Previously, Jon was also the CTO of NOCPulse, a company that created an MSP for
monitoring large scale infrastructures. NOCPulse was eventually purchased by
RedHat.
Jon was also responsible for Excite's growth and scale as VP of Operations,
where he and his team oversaw more than 5,000 servers in over 28 datacenters
worldwide, of which 33,000 sq ft were built directly by Excite.
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Jeff Lush
Executive
Chief Technology Officer, OI&T Operations and Security, US Department of
Veterans Affairs
Jeff Lush is the Executive Chief Technology Officer, Office of Information and
Technology Operations and Security, US Department of Veterans Affairs. Jeff has
almost 25 years in service and support of the US Federal Government. Prior to
his recent assignment returning to the Veterans Administration, Jeff served at
Dell Inc. as a Regional Manager of a business unit producing annual revenue
exceeding $250 million.
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Carlos
Galarce
SVP, CIO Infor
As Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer, Carlos Galarce is
responsible for IT operations at Infor, including setting strategic direction
and building the IT infrastructure to integrate the company’s offices worldwide.
Before joining Infor, he held senior vice president and CIO positions at SSA
Global and APAC Customer Services, and held IT positions at Sears Roebuck and
Co., Automatic Data Processing (ADP), Electronic Data Systems (EDS) and General
Motors.
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Carl
Theobald
SVP of Products, Serena Software, Inc.
Carl Theobald is responsible for overseeing worldwide research and development
operations for Serena’s Application Lifecycle Management solutions. Previously,
Carl served in a variety of roles at Oracle Corporation, including VP of
development in Oracle's applications division. Carl has also worked at multiple
venture-backed companies in senior management positions.
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Gregory
Jones
VP of Information Technology, Sprint Nextel
Greg is currently the Vice President of Enterprise Applications at Sprint
Nextel. Gregory Jones has worked in the IT industry for nearly 20 years. He has
managed nearly all aspects of the IT portfolio including Billing, Care,
Ordering, Business Intelligence, Web Portal, Identity Management, Data
Management, and Middleware applications.
Greg has worked in nearly a dozen countries, and has worked at IBM, Xerox, Booz
Allen & Hamilton, AT&T, Concert, and Sprint Nextel. He is a frequent speaker at
conferences and universities, and has been contributed to several published
articles. In May 2007, he received the coveted "Ones to Watch" award from CIO
magazine, reserved for those individuals that are considered to be the next
generation of CIOs.
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Daniel
Goleman
Lecturer,
author of the 1995 book: Emotional Intelligence, co-chairman of The Consortium
for Research on Emotional Intelligence in Organizations, based in the Graduate
School of Applied and Professional Psychology at Rutgers University
Daniel Goleman is an internationally known psychologist who lectures frequently
to professional groups, business audiences, and on college campuses. As a
science journalist, Goleman reported on the brain and behavioral sciences for
The New York Times for many years. He is the author of the 1995 book, Emotional
Intelligence, a New York Times bestseller, with more than 5,000,000 copies in
print worldwide in 30 languages. His latest book is Social Intelligence: The New
Science of Human Relationships (September 2006).
Goleman is co-chairman of The Consortium for Research on Emotional Intelligence
in Organizations, based in the Graduate School of Applied and Professional
Psychology at Rutgers University, which recommends bests practices for
developing emotional intelligence abilities, promotes rigorous research on the
contribution of emotional intelligence to workplace effectiveness.
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John Von
Stein
Executive
Vice President and Chief Information Officer (CIO) of The Options Clearing
Corporation (OCC)
John is Executive Vice President and Chief Information Officer
(CIO) of The Options Clearing Corporation (OCC). Von Stein joined OCC in 2004
and is responsible for all OCC Technology Services.
Prior to joining OCC, John was Vice President of Information Technology
(IT) at Cargill Inc. (Cargill). In his 10 years at Cargill, John held the
following positions: VP of IT for Cargill's Latin America Region, Global IT
Leader for the Grain and Oilseed Supply Chain Platform, Divisional CIO of
Cargill Investor Services, and Global Information Technology Manager of Cargill
Energy Trading. Prior to joining Cargill, John worked in several capacities
including trading operations management, financial services consulting and
sales/marketing for Louis Dreyfus Energy Corp., Deloitte & Touche Consulting,
and IBM respectively.
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Ben Hope
SVP CIO, Fox Networks Group
Benjamin (Ben) Hope is a Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer
for Fox Networks Group (FNG). Ben is responsible for the overall management
and leadership of the Information Technology (IT) department, including
technology operations, software development, and project management, for the
more than 30 broadcast, cable and regional sports networks within the FNG
portfolio. In addition, Ben is a Six Sigma Master Black Belt with extensive
experience in the standardization of business practices into a centralized
service model.
Prior to FNG, Ben spent 12 years at NBC Universal in increasingly
responsible executive roles, joining the network in 1996 as Director of
Financial Planning and Analysis, and ultimately rising to Senior Vice
President of Entertainment Systems for NBC Universal Global Entertainment
Division.
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Anne
McCrory
Editorial Director/ Editor in Chief, CIO Decisions
Magazine and Conference
Anne McCrory brings an MBA and 12 years of IT journalism experience to the
position of editor in chief of the CIO Decisions Media Group at TechTarget.
The media group includes CIO Decisions magazine, the only publication serving
the midmarket CIO, and companion Web sites SearchCIO.com and SearchSMB.com.
In addition to her 10 years as an editor at Computerworld, where she held
various senior editing positions, Anne has served in business roles in event
marketing and public relations and strategy consulting.
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Antoine
Shagoury
Executive Vice President, Chief Information Officer -
The American Stock Exchange, LLC
Antoine Shagoury has served as Executive Vice President and Chief Information
Officer of the American Stock Exchange since 2004. Antoine is responsible for
the development of Exchange technology, directing the Amex efforts to advance
its corporate, regulatory and trading technologies as well as support business
development, market structure, and strategic planning initiatives. Prior to his
appointment, Antoine served as a senior advisor to the Exchange on advanced
trading technology and provided counsel on key operational and technology
planning activities.
Prior to joining the Amex, Antoine was Chief Technology Officer at Instinet
Services, LLC. Throughout his tenure at Instinet, his responsibilities included
technology acquisition due-diligence and strategic integration, global IT risk
management, application and network development, and advanced client site
engineering.
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Everett C.
Johnson Jr., CPA
Past international president of ISACA and the IT
Governance Institute (ITGI)
Everett C. Johnson, Jr., CPA, is past international president of ISACA and
the IT Governance Institute (ITGI), and has served on ISACA’s board of directors
since 2002.
Everett is a partner (retired) with Deloitte & Touche (Deloitte) in Wilton,
Connecticut, USA, where he served as regional director of Deloitte’s enterprise
risk services line in Latin America and as both the US and the global director
for the Deloitte’s IT audit, control and security practice. He has more than 40
years of experience in financial audit and IT audit, control and security, and
has served many of Deloitte’s largest clients in various capacities.
He was named one of the Top 100 Most Influential Accountants in America.
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Lynn Lawton,
CISA, FBCS CITP, FCA, FIIA, PIIA
International president of ISACA and the IT
Governance Institute (ITGI)
Lynn Lawton, CISA, FBCS CITP, FCA, FIIA, PIIA, is the international
president of ISACA and the IT Governance Institute (ITGI). Previously, she
was a vice president on ISACA’s International Board from 1999 to 2002, and
returned to the International Board as an appointed director of ISACA in
2006. Lawton has been a member of ISACA since 1989 and served on the North
of England UK Chapter board for 10 years, including six years as chapter
president. She served on ISACA's global Standards Board for four years prior
to chairing it for two years, and set up and chaired ISACA’s Governmental
and Regulatory Agencies Board for three years and its Assurance Committee.
Lynn is a director at KPMG LLP in Watford, UK, where she is responsible
for risk management in KPMG’s UK Risk Advisory Services function. She has
more than 20 years of experience providing IT assurance services and
security advice across a range of industries. She has led teams of IT audit
and security specialists engaged in activities including the IT aspects of
financial statement audit and internal audit, as well as improving business
and IT processes and controls and system security, system testing,
benchmarking of information security, IT strategy implementation and
outsourcing implementation.
Lynn is a member of the Programme Advisory Board for the CASS Business
School’s MSc in Management (London, UK), and a Trustee of The University
Women’s Club.
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Jeff
Johnson
VP, IT Infrastructure, Constellation Energy
Jeff Johnson currently leads the IT Infrastructure organization at
Constellation Energy. IT infrastructure supports a diverse set of businesses
on a global basis including: Baltimore Gas And Electric, Global Commodities
Group, Customer Supply Group, and Constellation Energy Generation (nuclear,
fossil and renewable power generation). Jeff's experience includes
corporate IT management experience at Enron, the United Bank of
Switzerland, and Andersen Consulting.
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Pete
Gibson
Senior Vice President, Information Technology and
Systems Development Wyndham Hotel Group
Pete Gibson was appointed senior vice president, information technology and
systems development, for Wyndham Hotel Group, in October 2005, and is
responsible for the global infrastructure and operations.
Pete, an information technology veteran with more than 21 years experience,
joined Wyndham Hotel Group after serving as a consultant, and then director,
for R.I. Heller, a management and crisis consulting company in Fort
Lauderdale, FL.
From 2001 to 2004, Gibson was director of Alamo Rent a Car in Fort
Lauderdale.
From 1999 to 2001 he served as a manager at IBM in Research Triangle Park,
NC, handling all aspects of its worldwide e-commerce operations.
From 1986 to 1999 he was an officer for the US Navy, responsible for
Tomahawk
cruise missile and unmanned aerial vehicle programs. He also served the
Pentagon on strategy and technology matters.
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Harry R.
Lewis
Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science, Harvard
College
Harry Lewis stumbled upon computer programming through a part-time job, and
fell in love with the emerging field. Lewis’s undergraduate thesis, written
under the direction of computer graphics pioneer Ivan Sutherland, was on
handwriting recognition, parsing handwritten mathematical notation, and
their
use in experimental mathematics. Harry served for two years as a
commissioned
officer of the US Public Health Service at the National Institutes of Health
in Bethesda, Maryland, doing work on image processing and on systems and
application programming. Harry joined the Harvard faculty in the fall of
1974,
and became Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science in 1981. In 2003 he
was honored with the title of Harvard College Professor. He is a Fellow of
the
Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard. From 1995-2003 Harry
served as Dean of Harvard College. He is a long time member of the College’s
Admissions Committee.
Harry is the author of five books and numerous articles on various aspects
of
computer science. His books include: Excellence Without a Soul - Does
Liberal
Education Have a Future? (a Boston Globe best-seller and the subject of
favorable reviews in both the Boston Globe and the Wall Street Journal). It
has been translated into Chinese (with Taiwanese and mainland editions) and
into Korean. In 2008 he coauthored, with Hal Abelson and Ken Ledeen, a book
on the origins and public consequences of the explosion of digital
information -
Blown to Bits: Your Life, Liberty, and Happiness After the Digital
Explosion.
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Diane
Morello
Research VP and Gartner Fellow
Diane Morello is a vice president and research director in Gartner Research. She
covers numerous areas, including workforce strategies, people-oriented resource
management, the impact of outsourcing on people and organizational change
management. Prior to joining Gartner in 1990, Diane worked for 12 years as a
journalist for
technical, business, financial and trade publications.
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Dr. Merrick Furst
Distinguished Professor and Associate Dean of the College of Computing at
Georgia Tech
Merrick Furst is professor and associate dean of the College of Computing at
Georgia Tech and is co-author of a recent white paper discussing the need for
colleges to look into new approaches for helping US computer science graduates
and undergraduates compete in the increasingly competitive global business
environment. Dr. Furst's innovative ideas for the Georgia Tech Computing program
have also been cited by well known author, Thomas L. Friedman, in his book, "The
World is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century." Merrick recently
co-founded the anti-botnet startup, Damballa, Inc.. Prior to Georgia Tech he was
a professor at UC Berkeley, and president of the International Computer Science
Institute at Berkeley. Earlier he was professor and associate dean in the School
of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon.
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Zeus Kerravala
Senior Vice President, Yankee Group
Zeus Kerravala, senior vice president, leads Yankee Group’s Mobilizing and
Capitalizing on the Anywhere Network research group. Kerravala’s team
analyzes the impact of connectivity transformation on the Anywhere Consumer
and the Anywhere Enterprise, and probes the changes to behaviors,
motivations and technologies that result.
Before Yankee Group, Kerravala was a senior engineer and technical project
manager for Greenwich Technology Partners, a leading infrastructure
consulting firm. Earlier, he was the vice president of IT for Ferris, Baker
Watts, a mid-Atlantic brokerage firm, deploying corporate-wide technical
solutions to support the firm’s business units. Kerravala was also an
engineer and technical project manager for Alex. Brown & Sons, where he was
responsible for the technology related to the equity trading desks.
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Robert J. Vitello
Chief Information Officer (Deputy Commissioner for
Planning
and Technology) for the New York State Department of Labor
Robert J. Vitello is Chief Information Officer (Deputy Commissioner for
Planning
and Technology) for the New York State Department of Labor.
For the twelve previous years Robert was
CIO and Director of Legal Technology & Systems Management for the Office of
the New York State Attorney General where he built a finely tuned electronic
discovery support service that was instrumental in the prosecution of such
celebrated cases as those against Merrill Lynch, AIG, and Prudential. Also,
previously, he served as Director of the Computer Science Laboratory at the
Wadsworth Health Labs.
From 1989 to 1995, he was Executive Director of the Strategic Systems
Laboratories, a research and development arm of the New York State Office of
General Services. From 1981 to 1989, he served as the Director of the
Computer
Services Bureau of the NYS Department of State. From 1975 to 1981, he lead
MIS efforts for the City of Buffalo's grants with federal Labor, HUD, and
Justice
Departments.
He is a frequent lecturer on such topics as Service Oriented Architecture,
agile
programming, open source development, legal electronic discovery, and
enterprise technology management.
Robert is a member of the New York State CIO Council, and a member of the
Economic Security and Human Services Advisory Board. He is a member of the
National Association of State Workforce Agencies Technology Committee. He
sits
on various OASYS standards committees, including legalXML and SOA Reference
Architecture. He was Chair of the Office of General Services Computer Center
Advisory Board, which was a precursor to today's Office for Technology, and
is a
former member of the Government Open Code Consortium.
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Pieter Schoehuijs
VP and Chief Information Officer, Church & Dwight
As VP and CIO, Pieter Schoehuijs oversees IT operations at Church & Dwight,
where he is also involved in various steering committees, supporting M&A due
diligence, and responsibility of all other international IT functions and
activities.
Prior to joining Church and Dwight, Pieter had leadership roles at Engelhard
/ BASF Catalysts, Flowserve, IBM, and Ernst & Young.
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Rich Gius
VP and CIO, Atmos Energy
Richard (Rich) Gius is Vice President and Chief Information Officer for
Atmos Energy Corporation. Rich joined Atmos in October of 2007 as a CIO and
corporate officer.
Prior to joining Atmos, Rich spent more than two decades at Cardinal Health,
rising through various positions of increasing responsibility. In 2003, he
was named by Computerworld Magazine as a Premier 100 IT Leader, recognizing
IT leaders who have applied information technology in effective, creative
and innovative ways to advance their organization's strategy. Under Rich’s
leadership, Cardinal Health's ValueLink business application was recognized
in 1997 by CIO Magazine's Application Hall of Fame as one of the 12 most
influential business applications of the past decade, and its SAP ERP and
CRM implementations were honored as a 1999 national finalist for the
Computerworld Smithsonian Business Technology Award. Before joining Cardinal
Health, he held positions in both marketing and technology at Boise Cascade
Corporation from 1979 to 1982.
Rich serves on the University of North Texas’ Information Technology &
Decision Sciences Advisory Board, Oklahoma University’s Center for
Management Information Systems Studies Executive Committee, Vice-Chair for
the American Gas Association Technology Advisory Council, and AT&T Mobility
Customer Guidance Council.
Rich is also a former member of the board of directors of the Health
Industry Business Communications Council (an ANSI-accredited standards
development organization for information technology standards in the
healthcare industry), and MediClick, Inc. (financial ASP-based solutions).
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Eric Dirst
Senior Vice President and CIO, DeVry Inc.
Eric Dirst is Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer for DeVry
Inc. DeVry Inc. is a publicly-held, global provider of educational services
and is the parent organization of Advanced Academics, Apollo College, Becker
Professional Review, Chamberlain College of Nursing, DeVry University, Fanor,
Ross University, and Western Career College. DeVry’s institutions offer
degree and non-degree programs in business, healthcare and technology.
Dirst, who joined DeVry in 2008 as Vice President and CIO, brings 23 years
of experience within the information technology field. Eric joined DeVry
from SIRVA Inc., a global provider of relocation and moving services for
consumers, corporations and governments. SIRVA's brands include Allied
International, Allied Van Lines, North American Van Lines, and SIRVA
Relocation. While at SIRVA, Eric served most recently as Vice President and
Chief Information Officer where he was responsible for streamlining business
processes, consolidating operations and maximizing ROI. Under Eric's
leadership, SIRVA was named to CIO Magazine's Top 100 Innovative
Organizations in 2006 for its effective use of IT to create business value.
Prior to SIRVA, Eric held senior positions with firms including IQ4hire
Inc., KPMG Peat Marwick, and Covansys, a NASDAQ company which was acquired
by Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) in 2007.
Eric is a member of the CIO Leadership Network and the Midwest Technology
Executives Club.
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Paul Massiglia
Chief Technology Strategists, Agami Systems.
Paul Massiglia has been associated with the data storage industry for over 25
years. During that time, he has held engineering and other positions with major
storage hardware and software suppliers, including, the former Digital Equipment
Corporation, Adaptec Inc., Quantum Corporation, and VERITAS (now Symantec, where
he created and directed VERITAS Publishing. He has been vice-chairman of the
RAID Advisory Board, a Board of Directors member of the SNIA, as well as a
member of other industry organizations including the Fibre Channel Association,
the Fibre Channel Loop Community, and the SCSI Trade Association. Paul is also
the author or editor of thirteen books on data storage-related topics, he is
also a frequent participant in and speaker at industry conferences.
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George F. Chappelle
SVP & CIO at Sara Lee Corporation
From June 2005 George has held the position of Senior Vice President and Chief
Information Officer at Sara Lee Corporation, and is responsible for global
information systems. As part of the company’s public transformation program he
is responsible for large scale global re-platform activities. In addition to his
I/S responsibilities he leads the companies Continuous Improvement program with
LEAN / Six Sigma methodology.
Prior to Sara Lee, George was Vice President & Chief Information Officer of H.
J. Heinz, in charge of the global information systems organization and all
aspects of application systems and technology infrastructure in the company. He
also held the position of Vice President of Business Transformation where he
focused on growth and waste elimination in all business areas.
George has held positions including Group Senior Vice President, Global
Infrastructure & Services based at Asea Brown Boveri (ABB), Inc. in Zurich,
Switzerland and several IS positions during his 12 year stint at the Gillette
Company, in both the US and Europe. In his last position at Gillette, George was
European Supply Chain Manager responsible for inventory control and production
planning based in London supporting approximately $2b in sales.
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Marti Menacho
SVP and CIO, JDS Uniphase
Marti Menacho is responsible for JDSU's Information Technology function.
Prior to joining JDSU she was Vice President and CIO at Brocade
Communications, where she was responsible for the companywide IT function
that enabled the company to expand into adjacent markets. Before Brocade,
Marti was at TIBCO Software, where she was responsible for TIBCO's global IT
presence. Prior to joining TIBCO, Marti was the Sales and Marketing
Executive Vice President for Saama Technologies. Marti also held Chief
Information Executive positions at Nortel Networks and Clarify Corporation.
At Nortel she was an integral part of integrating new company acquisitions
into the business structure. Marti has also held management positions at
3Com, SGI, ASK Computer Systems and Syntex. She was a member of Vice
President Gore's eGovernment committee during the Clinton administration.
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Robert Fort
CIO for Virgin Entertainment Group’s North America Megastores
Robert Fort is the CIO for Virgin Entertainment Group’s North America
Megastores. At Virgin, Robert has implemented a real-time data warehouse,
converged voice & data network, and a chain-wide POS system. He architected
the company’s highly regarded “digital preview stations”, including the
world’s largest single store implementation in Times Square.
Robert is a member of the National Retail Federation CIO Council, RIS News
Advisory Board, Kiosk.Com Advisory Board and Microsoft Retail Advisory
Board. In 2005, he was selected one of the Top 15 Pacesetters by RIS News
Magazine, in 2006, one of Computerworld’s Premier 100 IT Leaders, and in
2008 one of RIS News Magazine’s Top 10 Influential’s.
Prior to Virgin, Robert has held senior management roles at MGM/UA, Nestle,
Polygram/A&M Records, and Koo Koo Roo.
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Dennis E. Wisnosky
Chief Technical Officer of the Department of Defense (DoD) Business Mission
Area
Dennis is the Chief Technical Officer (CTO) of the Department of Defense (DoD)
Business Mission Area within the office of the Deputy Under Secretary of
Defense for Business Transformation (OUSD (BT)). This role incorporates
oversight of the DoD Business Enterprise Architecture (BEA) - the corporate
level systems, processes, and data standards that are common across the DoD,
in addition to the business architectures of the services and defense
agencies. Dennis also serves as an advisor on the development of requirements
and extension of DoD net-centric enterprise services in collaboration with the
office of the DoD Chief Information Officer.
Dennis is recognized as a creator of the Integrated Definition (IDEFs)
language, the standard for modeling and analysis in management and business
improvement efforts. In addition, he is the author of several books including
DoDAF Wizdom, considered the decisive source within DoD and other government
organizations for managing enterprise architecture projects.
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Tom Peck
Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer, MGM Mirage
Tom Peck is the Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer with MGM
Mirage where he is responsible for the overall management and leadership of the
company's Information Technology (IT) department, including technology, software
development, operations and project management. Tom is a Six Sigma Master Black
Belt with extensive experience in the standardization of business practices into
a centralized service model.
Prior to MGM Mirage, Tom served as Executive Vice President and Chief
Information Officer with NBC Universal Global Entertainment Division.
Previously, Tom held IT management positions at General Electric (GE), NBC
Universal's parent company..
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Phil Edholm
Enterprise CTO and VP Network Architecture, Nortel Networks
Phil Edholm is the Chief Technologist and Vice President of Network Architecture
for Nortel Enterprise Solutions. Prior to Nortel, Phil had 9 years with Sytek/Hughes
LAN Systems and 4 years with Silicon Valley start-ups.
Phil was a member of the IEEE 802.3 standards committee during the definition of
broadband Ethernet and 10BaseT, developed the first multi-protocol network
interfaces, and was a founder of the Frame Relay Forum. He’s been a featured
speaker at many international conferences and is recognized as a visionary and
leader of the convergence transformation. Phil has been in the VoiceCon Great
Debate three times and is recognized by the IEEE as the originator of Edholm’s
Law of Bandwidth as published in July 2003 IEEE Spectrum magazine. [Edholm, Phil
[SC100:4154:EXCH]] He has been recognized by Frost and Sullivan for Lifetime
Achievement in Growth and Innovations in the Telecommunications Industry. Phil
has 9 patents with 15 patent applications pending.
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Jeffrey M. Nick
Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, EMC Corporation
Jeff Nick is Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at EMC
Corporation, where he leads EMC's Office of Technology and works directly with
EMC customers and leading technologists, as well as with the industry in
developing standards.
Nick joined EMC in September 2004 from IBM, where he held the distinguished
title of IBM Fellow, the highest technical honor that IBM bestows on its IT
innovators. During his 24-year career with IBM, Nick filed more than 80
inventions and holds more than 50 U.S. patents in computer systems technology.
Most recently, he was Vice President, Architecture and Design, eBusiness On
Demand, IBM's On Demand initiative. He also led IBM's Grid Computing strategy,
responsible for the definition and evolution of IBM's Open Grid Services
Architecture.
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Hubert Yoshida
Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Hitachi Data Systems Corporation
Hubert Yoshida is
Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Hitachi Data Systems Corporation
Hubert Yoshida, is vice president and CTO, of Hitachi Data Systems. Hu is also
well known within the storage industry, and his blog was recently (2007) ranked
among the “top 10 most influential” within the storage industry by Network
World. In 2006, he was named “CTO of the Year” by Jon Toigo, and in October of
2006, Byte and Switch named him one of “Storage Networking’s Heaviest Hitters.”
Prior to joining Hitachi Data Systems in 1997, Yoshida spent 25 years with IBM’s
storage division, where he held management roles in hardware performance,
software development and product management. Since joining Hitachi Data Systems,
he has worked to develop open standards for storage management, and in his
previous role as vice president of Data Networks he helped to define Hitachi
Data Systems’ strategy for various storage and data technologies.
Hu has also served on the advisory boards of several technology companies and
currently sits on the Scientific Advisory Board for the Data Storage Institute
of the Government of Singapore.
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John Webster
Principal
IT Advisor, Illuminata, Inc.
John is a highly respected expert on storage and information management,
including storage utility and grid services, integration strategies,
storage-server evolution, storage virtualization, ILM, and distributed data
protection.
His prior positions include Senior Analyst at Data Mobility Group; Vice
President, Marketing, for Storage Computer Corporation; Director of
Computing Research at the Yankee Group; and Senior Analyst at the Clipper
Group and International Data Corporation.
In addition to being past Chairman of the Greater Boston Regional Computer
Measurement Group, John is a member of the Storage Networking Industry
Association (SNIA) Storage Management Forum and serves as liaison to the
SNIA End User Council (EUC). He a featured speaker at industry events and
conferences, including Storage Networking World, Storage Management, Storage
World Conference, and COMDEX.
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Mark Bregman
Executive Vice President, Chief Technology Officer,
Symantec
Mark Bregman is the executive vice president, chief technology officer of
Symantec, responsible for the Symantec Research Labs, emerging technologies,
architecture and standards, and developing the technology strategy for the
company. He also guides Symantec’s investments in advanced research and is
responsible for the development centers in India and China.
In addition, Mark leads the field technical enablement team, which works
closely with the technical sales team to ensure they are prepared to assist
customers in managing the impact of changing and emerging technical
requirements.
Mark joined Symantec through the company’s merger with VERITAS Software. At
VERITAS, Bregman served as chief technology officer, responsible for
cross-product integration, advanced product development, merger and
acquisition strategy, and the company's engineering development centers in
Pune, India and Beijing, China. He also served as VERITAS’ executive vice
president in charge of product operations since joining the company in 2002.
Previously, Mark spent 16 years at IBM where he led the RS/6000 and
Pervasive Computing divisions and held senior management positions in IBM
Research and IBM Japan. He was also technical assistant to IBM CEO Lou
Gerstner. He also serves on the Board of Directors of ShoreTel.
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Simon Crosby
Chief Technology Officer of the
Virtualization and Management Division of Citrix (formerly CTO of XenSource)
Simon Crosby was founder and CTO of XenSource prior to the acquisition of
XenSource by Citrix. Previously, Simon was a principal engineer at Intel
where he led strategic research in distributed autonomic computing, platform
security and trust. He was the founder of CPlane Inc., a network
optimization software vendor, where he held a variety of executive roles.
Prior to CPlane, Simon was a tenured faculty member at the University of
Cambridge, UK, where he led research on network performance and control, and
multimedia operating systems. He is author of over 35 research papers and
patents on a number of datacenter and networking topics including security,
network and server virtualization, resource optimization and performance. In
2007, Simon was awarded a coveted spot as one of InfoWorld’s Top 25 CTOs.
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Tom Bishop
Chief Technology Officer, BMC Software
Tom Bishop is the Chief Technology Officer of BMC Software, Inc. Tom joined
BMC in 2005 from VIEO, Inc., in Austin, Texas, where he served as Chief
Technology Officer and was named one of the top 25 CTOs by InfoWorld
magazine in 2004. While at VIEO, Tom was a pioneer in SOA.
For more than 20 years, Tom has served in senior technology and strategy
roles at leading organizations including UNIX International, Tandem
Computers and CompuCare Management Systems. Tom was an early employee of
Tivoli Systems and rose quickly through the organization, eventually being
named Chief Technology Officer and General Manager for IBM Tivoli’s Embedded
Solutions business unit.
A well-known technology innovator, Bishop holds nine patents and has been
involved in industry standards organizations such as the Distributed
Management Task Force (DMTF) and POSIX. He is a member of the Board of
Directors for Symbiot, an Austin-based software startup, and Witness
Systems, an Atlanta-based software company. Also, he serves on the technical
advisory board for AlterPoint, based in Austin, TX, and Qlusters, based in
Palo Alto, CA.
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Dr. Tim Marsland
Sun Fellow, Chief Technology Officer, Software
Organization, Sun Microsystems Inc.
Dr. Tim Marsland is a Sun Fellow, Vice President and CTO in the Software
Organization at Sun Microsystems. In his 17 year career at Sun he has
contributed to every Solaris release. His current interests include hardware
and software virtualization technologies.
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Brian Stevens
CTO and Vice President, Engineering, Red Hat
Brian Stevens, CTO and Vice President of Engineering at Red Hat, has over 20
years of enterprise engineering experience in UNIX and Linux technologies,
including work on the first commercial release of the X Window System. Since
joining Red Hat's senior management team in 2001, Brian has been critical to
the company's enterprise operating system, storage, and clustering
strategies. He now leads the Emerging Technologies group.
Prior to joining Red Hat, Stevens served as CTO of
Mission Critical Linux. Brian also spent 14 years at Digital/Compaq as a
Senior Member of Technical Staff, where he was involved with Tru64 OS and
the inaugural release of Digital's TruCluster product.
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Jean Grant
VP of Advanced Technology, March Networks
As Vice President of Advanced Technology at March Networks, Jean Grant is a
visionary and oversees the company's strategic direction for video security,
video surveillance and all IP networked-video for some of the world's
largest companies.
Jean Grant joined March Networks in January 2006 as Director of Product
Management. In August of the same year he was appointed Vice President of
Research and Development and, in April 2008, he was selected for the
position of Vice President, Advanced Technology, reporting to President and
CEO Peter Strom. Prior to joining March Networks, Jean spent 15 years with
Mitel, a manufacturer of Voice over IP solutions, in a number of senior
management positions. Jean has more than 20 years of experience in the
communications technology industry.
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Mark Kirstein
President of Multimedia Intelligence
Mark Kirstein is President and Founder of MultiMedia Intelligence. He has
over 20 years of technology industry experience. He has worked with numerous
firms in the technology, equipment, financial, operator and media space,
contributing to their decision-making process and success. Prior to founding
Multimedia Intelligence, Mr Kirstein founded a business unit for market
research firm, iSuppli. Previously, Mark was president of In-Stat. In this
role, he had full P&L responsibility for the market research firm.
Mr Kirstein has extensive market expertise across the video surveillance
industry, with customers and interfaces in all segments. He is widely quoted
on video surveillance markets, competitors and technology due to his years
of market research. His research on video surveillance sizes and forecasts
the total market, segments key product types and customer segments, and does
competitive and trend assessment.
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Pat Hanavan
Vice President, Product Management, Symantec
Corporation
Pat Hanavan is the Vice President of Product Management of the Symantec’s
Data and Systems Management business unit. These products are essential for
effective disaster recovery implementation. As the industry leaders in their
respective categories, Backup Exec and Backup Exec System Recovery are
regularly awarded by users and publications for their innovations, ease of
use and performance.
Prior to his product management responsibilities, Pat was responsible for
the Backup Exec engineering team for many years and was a major contributor
to driving technology innovations in collaboration with key partners. The
technology innovations within VERITAS’ products were in the areas of SAN
based backup solutions, disk based data protection methods, open file
protection and alternate backup methods. Hanavan was also a founding member
and active contributor to the company’s Patent Filter Committee, and is a
Symantec inventor as well.
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William DiMartini
Senior Vice President, SunGard Availability
Services
Over the course of his 15 year career with SunGard, Bill DiMartini has
worked closely with both IT and business leaders to address their business
continuity needs and challenges, making him very effective at bridging the
gap between business problems and technology solutions. As Senior Vice
President, he oversees a team of nearly 200 business continuity experts
working in the field with end users to help them develop and implement their
information availability strategies – representing more than 400 customer
engagements annually.
Prior to joining SunGard, Bill served as a Records Manager and Business
Continuity Manager for a large insurance carrier. He was also a Legislative
Information Specialist for the US House of Representatives and Information
Technology Analyst for the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.
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Tim Cowen
Chairman,
IACCM
General
Counsel, Commercial Director, BT Global Services
Since November 2002, Tim has been General Counsel for BT
Global Services. Prior to that he was General Counsel of BT Ignite. He became
General Counsel and Commercial Director in May 2004 to reflect his expanded
responsibilities for the worldwide commercial contracts teams in BT. He is a
member of the BT Global Services Executive Team, with director-level
responsibility. He leads and manages Commercial Legal and Regulatory teams
across 20 business locations in continental Europe, the US and Asia Pacific and
is responsible for all law and regulation covering a wide variety of issues
involving Commercial Contracts with customers and suppliers, Telecoms Law and
Regulation litigation, etc.
He has personally led the negotiations of some of BT’s largest corporate
transactions and commercial deals, in particular the outsourcing and ICT deals
for which BT Global Services has become renowned.
Tim originally joined BT in 1991 from private practice as a European lawyer in
the Regulatory, Competition and Public Law Division. From 1994 to 1999, he was
Head of European Law, responsible for all aspects of EU law and
Telecommunications Regulation affecting the BT Group and was the Head of the
Legal and Regulatory team dealing with deregulation and worldwide alliances. He
was an integral member of the BT team involved in BT’s first wave of
international expansion, with much of the 1990s being spent on one deal or
another; BT/MCI(1), FT/DT/Sprint, Global One, BT/MCI(2), BT/Viag Interkom, BT/Telfort,
BT Banco Santander, BT/Telenordia, BT/AT&T and BT/AT&T Concert Unwind. From 1999
to 2000 he was promoted to Chief Counsel for Competition Law and Public Policy,
managing teams lobbying on EU and UK legislation as well as leading
transactional work on BT's major transactions and oppositions to deals and
developments. He led the combined BT/AT&T team making representations on the
Worldcom MCI/Sprint transaction, one of the few decisions blocked by the
European Commission; which changed the shape of the communications industry. He
won the prestigious De Somogyi Award for European Law.
From early work on deregulation and liberalisation of markets during the 1980’s
Tim has been involved in the International Chamber of Commerce working groups
and is now BT’s ICC Council member. Tim has been a member of the Ad-hoc Council
for Europe for about 5 years and represents BT on the Competition Working Group
at the European Round Table.
He Chairs the Development Board of the British Institute of International and
Comparative Law (BIICL) and is a member of the CBI Competition Panel.
In 2006 he was elected to the Board of the International Association of
Commercial Contract Managers (IACCM).
In 2007 Tim was elected to the Chairmanship of IACCM.
He is regularly invited to speak at International conferences on management of
commercial/legal departments, and issues relating to multinational trading. He
has written several academic papers which include: - “Toward a Matrix
Infrastructure”: Fordham Corporate Law Institute, 1995; “Computer Law”, Chris
Reed Ed. 2000; “EEC Law and Information Technology”, “Information Technology and
the Law”, 1990; “Applied Computer and Communications Law”, 1990; “Opening the
Market for Data Transmission in the EC”, 1989.
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Mario Lavoie
Vice-President, Contracts & Negotiations at IBM - Global
Mario T. Lavoie is Vice-president, Contracts &
Negotiations, Global - IBM Corporation. From October 2002 to October 2007, Mario
was with Contracts & Negotiations - IBM Europe/Middle East/Africa, and posted in
Paris with a responsibility for the negotiation and management of all IBM
commercial contracts in EMEA with a team of 350 professionals. From 1993 to
2002, Mario was Vice-president and General Counsel for ISM Information Systems
Management Corporation (an IBM Canada subsidiary) and Assistant General Counsel
and Director, Contracts & Negotiations for IBM Canada, and posted in Toronto
with a responsibility for the negotiation and management of all IBM commercial
contracts in Canada with a team of about 40 professionals. From 1991 to 1993,
Mario was Senior Counsel for a marketing division of IBM Corporation posted in
Somers, NY. Prior to 1991, he held various managerial positions in the Legal
department of IBM Canada posted in Montreal and Toronto.
Mario is a lawyer, a member of the Quebec Bar (1974), and is a speaker on the subject of outsourcing and negotiations to
various groups including the Ontario Bar Association and the Toronto Computer
Lawyers Group.
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Robert G.
DiGiaro
Director, IT Sourcing - America, CREDIT SUISSE
Rob is the Director of IT Sourcing America with Credit Suisse. He is
responsible for the sourcing of all Software, Hardware, Market Data,
Professional Services, Offshoring, and Outsourcing Governance.
Prior to Credit Suisse, Rob worked for Merrill Lynch and has held several
positions supporting the technology and business groups within the firm. He
has led the Global Managed Desktop Services outsourcing program, where his
mission was to perform a detailed evaluation of internal processes and TCO
analysis of the firm's desktop support, which addressed 70,000 desktops in
37 countries. In the course of meeting all of his objectives, he negotiated
and transitioned outsourcing contracts valued in excess of $300 Million.
Prior to Merrill Lynch, Rob worked for Nomura Research Institute America for
eight years and was responsible for capacity planning, and mainframe
technology sourcing.
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Ash Ashutosh
Vice President and Chief Technologist for StorageWorks, Hewlett-Packard
Company
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Stanley Crane
CTO, Allscripts
Stanley Crane has over30 years of healthcare and consumer-related software
experience during which his teams
have produced electronic medical record software, electronic prescribing,
web-based medication sales, online physician education, resource scheduling,
financial systems, materials management, medical translation software and voice
recognition dictation systems.
Prior to a decade plus in healthcare IT, Stanley was
involved in Silicon Valley where he held positions with many well-known software
companies. As the General Manager of Lotus cc:Mail, he brought in $110,000,000
in annual revenue and introduced the first remote mail
products. He was also the Vice President of Engineering at WordStar
International, and Director of Applications at Ashton-Tate.
Stanley was one of the founders of 2 Internet startups: MaxMiles, an automated
frequent flier mileage aggregator, and Shopping@Home, which was acquired by Allscripts in 1999.
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Neville Rademeyer
SVP and CIO, Solo Cup Company
Neville Rademeyer is Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer for
Solo Cup Company, a leading provider of disposable foodservice products.
Neville is originally from Johannesburg South Africa where he led major change
initiatives for BMW, SAB (now SAB Miller) - CIO, Coors Brewing Company (now
Molson Coors) - and most recently at Solo Cup.
Neville held the position of Vice President of IT at Molson Coors Brewing
Company, CIO at SAB and head of SAP and Financial Systems at BMW.
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Dr. John J. Gattorna
International Supply Chain Thought Leader and Writer
Over the last 25 years, John Gattorna has earned an international reputation in
the supply chain management field. He is a renowned lecturer and task force
leader with a pragmatic approach to solving complex business problems.
Despite a demanding work schedule John is a prolific writer, having published 10
books and numerous articles in his areas of interest. His books have been
translated into Chinese, Japanese, and Russian.
His most recent book is Living Supply Chains: How to mobilize the enterprise
around delivering what your customers want.
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Jeffrey P. Chasney
EVP, Strategic
Planning, and CIO. CKE Restaurants, Inc.
Having joined CKE Restaurants, Inc. as senior vice president and chief
information officer (CIO) in April 2000, Jeff Chasney was named executive
vice
president, strategic planning and chief information officer in October 2003.
He is responsible for providing the Company with performance forecasting and
strategic direction for using technology and information to enhance
corporate
profitability.
Before joining CKE Restaurants, Inc., Chasney was with Clark Refining and
Marketing for four years as vice president and chief information officer.
Additionally, Chasney has more than 13 years experience in the foodservice
industry, having served as vice president and chief information officer at
VICORP Restaurants, Inc. and Long John Silver's, Inc.
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Brian Prentice
Research Vice President, Gartner's Emerging
Trends and
Technologies Group
Brian Prentice is a research vice presiden
