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Location: South Seas Foyer North
Start the morning off right with a continental breakfast provided by the InformationWeek Conference
Location: South Seas Foyer North
Start the morning off right with a continental breakfast provided by the InformationWeek Conference
Location: South Seas D
Speaker: Rob Preston, VP and Editor In Chief, InformationWeek
Location: South Seas D
The NFL not only is the country's most successful professional sports organization and one of its most iconic brands, it's also a cutting-edge digital business, whether it's rolling out Wi-Fi-enabled services to improve the fan experience at games or data analytics software to help teams evaluate player performance and talent. But like her peers in a range of industries, NFL CIO Michelle McKenna-Doyle understands that the digital revolution can be as much a challenge as an opportunity, as HDTV and other innovations potentially lure fans away from the stadium. In this keynote presentation, McKenna-Doyle will discuss the NFL's aggressive digital strategy in a range of on-the-field and off-the-field areas, from the evolving game to the Internet of things. Which digital technologies stand to make the biggest difference for teams, coaches, players, and fans?
Speaker: Michelle McKenna-Doyle, Senior VP and CIO, NFL
Location: South Seas D
In this session, the dynamic CIOs of three very different enterprises reveal in rapid-fire (15-minute) vignettes how they're building closer ties with customers by using the latest digital technologies in unconventional ways. These interactive presentations will explore the hard lessons they learned as well as the results they achieved.
Presenters: Loretta Early, CIO, University of Oklahoma
Mike Meadows, CTO, Eli Lilly
Rudy Wolfs, Senior VP, Card IT, Capital One
Moderator: Chris Murphy, Editor, InformationWeek
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Location: Banyan C
The one and only way CIOs can unlock the funding necessary to pursue those snazzier and unquestionably vital new initiatives like Cloud, Social, Mobile is to make a bold decision and take an entirely new approach to IT spending. Far too many companies today find they need to devote 70% or even 80% of their IT budget just to run and maintain what they've already got, leaving as little as 20% for innovation. CIOs need to determine which vendors are exacerbating this problem, and which ones offer modern alternatives that are better, faster, and cheaper.
CIOs willing to tackle this issue will not only earn recognition but also will unlock increased value for their companies.
Speakers: Sebastian Grady, President & COO, Rimini Street
Amy Amerson, Business Unit CIO, Entergy Corp
Location: Banyan B
Vanson Bourne recently surveyed 1,300 IT leaders to understand their use of DevOps strategies and processes, including awareness and adoption, the key drivers and obstacles, the investments they are making, and the real benefits they are experiencing.
The results are revealing and provide valuable insight for any organization who may be considering a DevOps approach, or who may want to expand their current use of DevOps methodologies. What Smart Businesses Know About DevOps will guide you through the research as well as case studies from customers that have significantly sped up their application delivery processes.
Speaker: Andi Mann, VP, Strategic Solutions, CA Technologies
Location: South Seas D
UPMC, a $10 billion a year healthcare provider and insurer, has an explicit goal to drive revenue with its IT innovations. The IT organization's top priority is to improve patient care and lower healthcare costs, but UPMC (formerly University of Pittsburgh Medical Center) also partners with tech vendors and invests in tech startups to create new products to sell to other healthcare providers. At its Technology Development Center, more than 100 people work full time to develop technologies to serve UPMC clinicians, patients and other operations -- and then market what they develop as commercial products. This Q&A session will explore the practical realities of how to drive IT innovations and when it's worth trying to commercialize them.
Speakers: Dan Drawbaugh, Senior VP and CIO, UPMC;
Rebecca Kaul, President, UPMC Technology Development Center
Interviewer: Chris Murphy, Editor, InformationWeek
Location: Palm Foyer
Share ideas from the day as you enjoy a hot lunch with attendees and speakers
Location: South Seas D
Every new wave of technology creates rumors of the CIO's and IT organization's imminent demise. Digital business is no exception. The CIO and IT organization aren't going anywhere, but their roles are changing. In this session, the leader of Accenture's digital business practice will focus on the future of the CIO and IT organization in a digital enterprise, using case examples from a range of industries and geographies. How do the IT organization's role and contribution change? Where does IT play and create value in a world of BYOD, cloud services, data analytics and social networking? Why should companies increase their investments in IT for this digital world?
Speaker: Mark McDonald, Managing Director, Accenture
Dave Bent, Senior VP, Global Information Solutions, Avnet
Location: South Seas D
Sometimes "big data" is a big misnomer. Not every organization will amass petabytes of information, but that doesn't mean they can't take advantage of the latest big data technologies. But there are also cases where large scale is best handled by a conventional database. How can you tell which tool is right for the task at hand? In this panel session, executives on the front lines of data-driven decision-making will discuss their breakthrough applications and the technologies that make them tick, as well as the cases when conventional data technologies do just fine.
Moderator: Doug Henschen, Executive Editor, InformationWeek
Panelists: Bryson Koehler, Executive VP and CIO, The Weather Company
George Llado, VP of Information Technology, Merck & Co.
Andrew Robbins, CEO, Paytronix
Location: South Seas D
This fast-paced, interactive Q&A session brings together three very different startup CEOs and a longtime tech industry investor to challenge the IT status quo—and get some sparks flying. Are CIOs and IT organizations ready for today's digital innovations and speed of business? Is the CIO becoming less relevant? Can the cloud handle ERP and other core applications? These are the kind of rapid-fire questions the CIOs and IT leaders in the audience will discuss and debate.
Moderator: MR Rangaswami, co-founder, Sand Hill Group
Panelists: Sandra Kurtzig, founder and CEO, Kenandy, and founder and former CEO, ASK Group
Frederic Laluyaux, CEO and President, Anaplan
Gaurav Dhillon, CEO, SnapLogic
Location: Palm Foyer
Join your peers in taking a moment to reflect on the day over drinks and hors d'oeuvres
The InformationWeek Conference and Elite100 Awards takes place during Interop Las Vegas. This year it will be held at Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino in Las Vegas. All InformationWeek Conference attendees are welcome to attend Interop keynotes and visit the exhibit floor.
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Lynden Tennison was named senior vice president and chief information officer of Union Pacific Corporation in February 2005. In his position, Tennison is responsible for organizing and managing the development, implementation and operation of Union Pacific Railroad's information and telecommunications technologies.
Before his promotion, Tennison was vice president of Information Technologies and chief technology officer for Union Pacific Railroad. Tennison was named to that position in 2001 and had responsibility for the application systems and architectures for the entire company. From 1998 through 2001, Tennison was president and chief executive officer of Nexterna, a technology subsidiary of Union Pacific. Nexterna develops applications and hardware solutions for the mobile asset marketplace.
Prior to joining Union Pacific in 1992, Lynden spent five years with American Airlines' SABRE division and was responsible for the Knowledge Systems organization. From 1979 through 1987, Lynden worked on various management and technical capacities for AT&T and Southwestern Bell Telephone.
Tennison has a bachelor's degree from the University of Texas at Arlington. He is married to Sue Tennison and has one daughter, Victoria Tennison. He is a member of the Board of Directors for several Corporation Boards and is involved in both church and community activities.
Filippo Passerini is Group President, Global Business Services (GBS) and Chief Information Officer responsible for delivering more than 170 services and solutions to Procter & Gamble's employees worldwide.
Under Filippo's leadership, the GBS organization has created a business model that is considered unique and progressive in the Shared Services industry. The organization's focus is on transforming the way business is done, driving growth, value, and competitive advantage for P&G. Innovative in structure, scope, and philosophy, GBS has saved the company more than one billion dollars to date.
GBS has been recognized three times as one of the Ten Most Admired Shared Services Organizations. In 2009, the Shared Service and Outsourcing Network awarded GBS as the Best Mature Outsourced Services Delivery. Filippo has also received numerous awards for CIO excellence and IT leadership, including the 2006 and 2008 Shared Service Thought Leader of the Year, the 2010 NASSCOM Excellence in IT award, Information Week's Chief of the Year, as well as being named a Breakaway Leader by CIO Executive Summit. In 2010, he was inducted into the CIO Hall of Fame. Most recently, Filippo was presented with the George Washington Carver Leadership Award by Tuskegee University.
Filippo has more than 30 years experience with P&G and has held leadership roles in the UK, Latin America, Greece, Italy, Turkey, and the United States. Filippo attributes his business and personal style to a lesson learned while playing competitive chess as a teenager: "You can think and anticipate as much as you want, but you can only think so long, and the clock is ticking. At some point you have to make a move."
A native of Rome, Filippo earned his Doctorate in Statistics & Operating Research. Filippo sits on the Board of Directors for United Rentals, the largest equipment rental company in the world. He resides in Cincinnati with his wife and has three children.
Randy Mott is GM Vice President and Chief Information Officer, effective February 27, 2012. His most recent position was executive vice president and chief information officer of Hewlett-Packard, where he was responsible for the global information technology (IT) strategy and all of the company's IT assets. This included company-wide application development, data management, technology infrastructure, data center operations and telecommunication networks worldwide.
Mott's vision and leadership approach has garnered him global recognition in leading transformational initiatives focused on optimizing IT as a business. In June 2007, he received the "Roger Milliken Career Achievement Award" from the Voluntary Interindustry Commerce Solutions Association for his dedication and contributions to enabling the retail and consumer-focused industries through the creation and implementation of supply chain standards and best practices.
Previously, Mott was senior vice president and chief information officer for Dell, Inc., which he joined in 2000. He was responsible for managing that company's global IT infrastructure, which included the backbone of its extensive Internet and web-based capabilities. Mott significantly enhanced the company's IT executive talent and focused the organization on global, scalable and common systems.
Prior to Dell, Mott spent 22 years at Wal-Mart Stores Inc., where he held a variety of technical and management positions and pioneered retail and supply-chain systems automation. In 1994, Mott was named senior vice president and chief information officer. For the next six years, Wal-Mart almost tripled in revenue and its IT group earned a "best-of-class" reputation as it cost-effectively leveraged global and common IT systems. In 1996, Mott was promoted to Wal-Mart's executive committee and in 1997 InformationWeek named him "Chief of the Year."
Mott has a bachelor of science in mathematics from the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. In 2005, he was named in the Fulbright College Alumni Academy as a Distinguished Alumni.
Jim Hagemann Snabe was appointed co-CEO of SAP alongside Bill McDermott in February 2010. In this capacity, and as a member of the SAP Executive Board and Global Managing Board, Jim Hagemann Snabe focuses on developing and executing SAP's strategy together with Bill McDermott. The co-CEOs strengthen relationships with customers and partners, drive SAP's innovation portfolio across all markets, and ensure operational excellence across the company.
Jim Hagemann Snabe joined SAP in 1990 and has been a member of the SAP Executive Board since July 2008. Since 1990, he has held various management roles in consulting, sales, and development. Beginning as a consultant with SAP Denmark, he quickly went on to lead the local consulting practice. Jim Hagemann Snabe briefly moved to IBM Denmark in 1994 and rejoined SAP in 1996 as managing director (MD) of SAP Sweden, successfully developing this market over the following three years. He was then appointed MD of the SAP Nordic region, and became a member of the SAP EMEA management team.
In 2002, Jim Hagemann Snabe was asked to join the company's global development unit to bring product development efforts closer to the market. As senior vice president and chief operations officer of SAP's business solution group, he was responsible for the design and creation of the flagship enterprise resource planning software, SAP ERP, as well as SAP solutions for financial and public services industries. Later, Jim Hagemann Snabe led SAP's industry business unit, and was responsible for creating industry-specific solutions for more than 24 industry segments. In 2006, Jim Hagemann Snabe was appointed corporate officer of SAP AG, and subsequently was named a member of the Executive Council.
Jim Hagemann Snabe's views about the role which leaders and IT need to play in creating sustainable growth and responsible business strategies has been strongly shaped by his commitment to environmental and humanitarian issues. His management style is influenced by his interest in classical music, and inspired by leaders like the famous conductor Benjamin Zanders. Long distance running keeps him fit in body and mind, as a way to clear his thoughts and allow new ideas to form.
He is a member of the board of Thrane & Thrane A/S in Denmark - a role which keeps him abreast of new trends in IT, globalization and leadership. In addition, he has also joined the board of directors of Bang & Olufsen Holding A/S in Denmark - a globally well recognized company for high end technology and outstanding design.
Snabe received a master's degree in operational research from the Aarhus School of Business in Denmark. He lives with his family in Copenhagen, Denmark.
As the world's leading provider of business software, SAP is an over €64 billion company with more than €14 billion in revenue in 2011. SAP's more than 55,000 employees and its vast ecosystem enable 183,000 customers of all sizes in more than 24 industries and 120 countries worldwide. SAP AG is headquartered in Walldorf, Germany, where Snabe is based.
Paul Mascarenas is chief technical officer and vice president, Ford Research and Innovation. He leads Ford's worldwide research organization, overseeing the development and implementation of the company's technology strategy and plans.
Prior to his current role, Mascarenas served as vice president of Engineering for Global Product Development, with responsibility for engineering the car, truck, SUV and crossover vehicles for Ford Motor Company brands. He also was instrumental in the development and implementation of the global Ford brand 'DNA'.
Since joining Ford in 1982, Mascarenas has amassed extensive experience in product development, having held various positions in product planning, program management, body engineering and powertrain while on assignments in Germany, the United Kingdom and the United States. He was appointed a company vice president in January 2005 and has held his current position since January 2011.
Mascarenas holds a Mechanical Engineering degree from the University of London, King's College in England. He is a Fellow of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, an SAE International Fellow and serves as a member of the FISITA Honorary Committee.
Michael Lock oversees the Americas Sales and Operations organization for Google's Enterprise division. Since joining Google in 2005, Michael has helped rapidly expand Google's footprint within the global Enterprise marketplace. Currently, he is responsible for teams driving customer acquisition of Google's Enterprise offerings in the product areas of Search, Maps, Earth, Apps and Postini.
A 25-year veteran of the enterprise information technology industry, Michael began his career at IBM where he held roles in the general systems and enterprise systems divisions. He moved to Silicon Valley as a sales and marketing executive for Oracle in the 90's and subsequently, took positions in several Silicon Valley start-ups. Michael played a pivotal role in the success and eventual acquisition of Virage, a pioneer of multimedia search and content management software.
Michael holds a bachelor's degree in business administration from Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
Nicholas Colisto is a senior IT executive with over 26 years of experience delivering innovative technology-enabled business solutions in the consumer products, pharmaceutical, software, and construction industries. Throughout his career, he has led large transformational initiatives using technology to drive business value. Colisto serves as the vice president and chief information officer at Hovnanian Enterprises Inc., a large national homebuilder.
Prior to joining Hovnanian, he held IT leadership positions at global organizations including Pepsi-Cola, Priceline.com, Hyperion Solutions, Boehringer-Ingelheim, and Bayer Corporation.
Colisto is very active in the education, IT, and health-care communities. He lectures at Columbia University's CIO Institute. He serves on the academic advisory boards at Rutgers University and Brookdale Community College. He taught as an adjunct professor in IT at Manhattanville College in New York at the graduate level for several years and also served on the school's advisory board.
He is a member of the governing body for Evanta's CIO executive summits in New York and New Jersey and is a regular speaker. Colisto is a repeat guest on CIO talk radio, where he shares best practices on IT leadership and innovation. He is a member of the Society for Information Management (SIM) and serves on its governing body for CIO leadership summits.
Colisto also serves on the foundation board of trustees for Bayshore Community Hospital, part of the Meridian Health Network.
He is the recipient of several industry awards, including the 2011 InformationWeek Top 250 and the 2011 Computerworld Premier 100 IT Leaders. Colisto is the author of The CIO Playbook.
He lives with his wife and two children in Marlboro, New Jersey.
Matt Manzella has more than 20 years of experience spanning the practices of finance, technology, consulting and innovation. Currently Matt is a director at Allstate Insurance Company and leads the Technology Innovation group, which is responsible for engaging employees to develop innovative solutions to big problems by leveraging game mechanics, crowdsourcing, and rapid prototyping and testing of concepts. Prior to joining Allstate in 2005, Matt worked for Capgemini Consulting for 12 years. Matt earned both a BA and an MBA from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Clay Bavor leads product management for some of Google's most popular cloud-based applications including Google Docs, Drive and Google Apps for business, education and government.
Clay joined Google in 2005, and has been involved with number of projects across the company, including in search and ads. Most recently, Clay led the integration of the AdMob acquisition. Prior to that, Clay managed Google's European product management and engineering teams for advertising products and was responsible for building key parts of Google's search ads serving systems.
A native of Los Altos, California, Clay studied Computer Science at Princeton University. When not working on Google's apps, Clay enjoys taking photos and reading books
Anthony Bettini is the CEO and part of the founding team at Appthority, The Authority in App Security. His professional security experience comes from working for companies like Intel, McAfee, Foundstone, Guardent, Bindview and Netect. Anthony joined McAfee through its acquisition of Foundstone, where he was the research manager. After the acquisition, Anthony managed the Foundstone, Entercept (HIPS), threat intelligence (MTIS), network access control (NAC) and compliance teams with McAfee Avert Labs. Anthony's presentations have been delivered at such conferences as RSA Conference, FOCUS, NISSC, FIRST, SyScan and the CARO Workshops. Anthony has published new vulnerabilities found in Microsoft Windows, ISS Scanner, PGP, Symantec ESM and other popular applications. In addition to contributing to a handful of security books, Anthony was also the technical editor for Hacking Exposed 5th ed., the best-selling computer security book of all time, which has been used in courseware at universities such as MIT, Harvard and Carnegie Mellon.
Richard Boly is a career U.S. diplomat and currently the Director of the Office of eDiplomacy, an applied technology think tank for the U.S. Department of State. Previously, he was a National Security Affairs Fellow the Hoover Institution at Stanford University , where he launched the Global Entrepreneurship Program. He served in U.S. Embassy, Rome, where he developed and ran a program to promote entrepreneurship in Italy. Other embassy assignments include the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, and Paraguay. Richard is the most junior diplomat to win the Cobb Award for commercial diplomacy. Richard is a 2012 finalist for a Service to America Medal, known as the "Oscars for Federal Employees."
In a prior life, he was the first Presidential Management Fellow with the Inter-American Foundation, was a consultant with the Inter-American Development Bank, and founded and ran a shrimp hatchery in coastal Ecuador. In a stint with the Silicon Valley iconic PR firm, Regis McKenna, he helped launch the first Apple Macintosh. Richard is a graduate of Stanford University and the Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies at UCSD, where he was selected as 2011 Co-Outstanding Alumni Award Winner.
Erik Brynjolfsson is the Director of the MIT Center for Digital Business, a Professor at the MIT Sloan School, and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. His research examines the effects of information technologies on business strategy, productivity and employment. His recent work studies data-driven decision-making, the pricing implications of Internet commerce and the role intangible assets. Prof. Brynjolfsson has received numerous awards for his research and lectures worldwide on technology and strategy. BusinessWeek has profiled him as an "ebusiness visionary" and he is a director or advisor for several technology-intensive firms. His recent books include Wired for Innovation: How IT is Reshaping the Economy and Race Against the Machine: How the Digital Revolution is Accelerating Innovation, Driving Productivity and Irreversibly Transforming Employment and the Economy. He received his A.B. and S.M. degrees from Harvard and his Ph.D. from MIT. You can read his blog at http://www.economicsofinformation.com, download his papers from http://digital.mit.edu/erik and follow him on Twitter at @erikbryn.
Nicholas Colisto is a senior IT executive with over 26 years of experience delivering innovative technology-enabled business solutions in the consumer products, pharmaceutical, software, and construction industries. Throughout his career, he has led large transformational initiatives using technology to drive business value. Colisto serves as the vice president and chief information officer at Hovnanian Enterprises Inc., a large national homebuilder.
Prior to joining Hovnanian, he held IT leadership positions at global organizations including Pepsi-Cola, Priceline.com, Hyperion Solutions, Boehringer-Ingelheim, and Bayer Corporation.
Colisto is very active in the education, IT, and health-care communities. He lectures at Columbia University's CIO Institute. He serves on the academic advisory boards at Rutgers University and Brookdale Community College. He taught as an adjunct professor in IT at Manhattanville College in New York at the graduate level for several years and also served on the school's advisory board.
He is a member of the governing body for Evanta's CIO executive summits in New York and New Jersey and is a regular speaker. Colisto is a repeat guest on CIO talk radio, where he shares best practices on IT leadership and innovation. He is a member of the Society for Information Management (SIM) and serves on its governing body for CIO leadership summits.
Mike Cuddy is Vice President and Chief Information Officer at Toromont Industries Ltd. Toromont Industries is a Canadian public company with operations in Canada and the United States. Toromont operates multiple business units involved in the design, construction and sale of specialized industrial equipment and is the authorized Caterpillar dealer in Ontario, Manitoba, Nunavut, Newfoundland and Eastern Labrador. Toromont employs approximately 3,500 people in more than 100 locations.
Mr. Cuddy joined the company in 1995 as General Manager, IT, when the company employed approximately 1,500. During his tenure, the core infrastructure was constructed and through acquisitions, Mr. Cuddy now oversees the operations and management of 100 networked locations, 3,000 connected employees and multiple ERP and EIS management systems. Mr. Cuddy was appointed Vice President and CIO in 2005 and is an officer of the corporation.
Toromont operates through multiple independent business units, and has completed multiple ERP conversions and implementations. Toromont develops managerial reporting and analysis systems in-house, with a dedicated software team of approximately 30 staff located in Toronto, Canada. Toromont has also sold its software to approximately 40 other companies worldwide.
Prior to joining Toromont, Mr. Cuddy was Director, Systems Planning for Bell Mobility, one of Canada's two major cellular carriers. During his employment with Bell, Mr. Cuddy was responsible for strategic planning, systems assessments and project management.
Prior to Bell Mobility, Mr. Cuddy was employed for 10 years by Imperial Oil Limited, Exxon Mobil's Canadian affiliate. During this time he held positions in IT, Finance and Accounting, Logistics and Supply, and Product Marketing.
He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering, and an MBA, both from the University of Toronto. Mr. Cuddy's opinions have been referenced in Information Week, CIO Canada, The Toronto Star, The Globe and Mail and Canadian Business Magazine.
Jonathan Feldman, in his role as director of IT Services for the City of Asheville, NC, fosters innovation through the application of business technology. Asheville, a rapidly growing city, is the new home of New Belgium Brewing and Sierra Nevada Brewing, and has been recognized nationally and internationally (including the International Economic Development Council New Media and the Public Technology Institute awards) for improving services to citizens and reducing expenses through IT innovation.
Jonathan's 20 years' experience with government, military, law enforcement, financial services and healthcare technology informs his work with IT innovation. He's written, taught and consulted extensively on security, human resource management and IT soft skills, notably as co-author of Maximum Security and author of Teach Yourself Network Troubleshooting. As a consultant and award-winning Network Computing and InformationWeek contributing editor, he has worked with dozens of public and private sector organizations, helping them calculate the real business benefits, risks and appropriate governance of new technologies and surrounding practices and policy.
Jonathan is a frequent speaker at venues including Interop and Cloud Connect, and holds an MS degree from Georgia Tech.
Steve Garrity, an expert in developing scalable enterprise software solutions, Steve Garrity is the CTO and co-founder of Hearsay Social, which provides a platform to achieve regulatory compliance, build stronger customer relationships, and bolster brand presence across all the major social networks, including Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Google+. Mr. Garrity was recently highlighted in The Start-up of You, a new book by LinkedIn founder and chairman Reid Hoffman, as exemplary of the entrepreneurial spirit, and was most recently featured on Jon Sakoda's blog as an example of a great founder. Before founding Hearsay Social, Mr. Garrity worked as aan engineer at Microsoft Corporation in Seattle where he developed the Azure.net services platform. He is a graduate of Stanford University with a BS and MS in Computer Science. At Stanford, he was selected as a Mayfield Fellow while studying Computer Science.
Mr. Garrity has spoken at large Microsoft events (MEDC, PDC) about everything from mobile app development to cloud infrastructure.
Additionally, he and Hearsay Social CEO Clara Shih spoke together at Stanford's Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders series in 2010. For the upcoming year, Mr. Garrity is confirmed to share presentations at the 2012 UC Berkeley Tech Talk as well as the MIT TECH Fair.
Daniel Drawbaugh, senior vice president and chief information officer at UPMC, is a nationally recognized pioneer in developing and adopting technology to improve the quality, safety and efficiency of health care.
Mr. Drawbaugh was named CIO of the health system in 1996. Under his leadership, UPMC has signed trail-blazing agreements with such vendors as IBM and Alcatel-Lucent that are transforming computing and communications at UPMC to better serve patients and clinicians.
UPMC has invested more than $1 billion in information technology over the past five years, including the development of "big data" analytics and one of the industry's most extensive systems for collecting and exchanging electronic medical records across all care settings, from hospitals and laboratories to physicians' offices and long-term care facilities.
In 2013, UPMC was named by InformationWeek magazine as the most innovative user of technology across all industries. With nearly 1,800 IT professionals, UPMC also has been consistently recognized as one of the nation's "Most Wired" hospitals by Hospitals & Health Networks, the journal of the American Hospital Association.
A graduate of Temple University with a bachelor's degree in biomedical and electrical engineering, Mr. Drawbaugh was recruited as director of biomedical engineering for Shadyside Hospital (now UPMC Shadyside) in 1983. He was named the hospital's chief information officer in 1990 and joined UPMC when it acquired Shadyside six years later. He holds a master's degree in business administration from Duquesne University in Pittsburgh.
Aaron Levie co-founded Box with friend and Box CFO Dylan Smith in 2005. The Box mission is to provide businesses and individuals with the simplest solution to share, access, and manage their information. Aaron is the visionary behind Box's product and platform strategy, which is focused on incorporating the best of traditional content management with an easy-to-use user experience suited to the way people collaborate and work today. Box is one of the fastest-growing
companies in enterprise software, used by more than 20 million individuals and 180,000 businesses worldwide.
Aaron studied at the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California before leaving to found Box.
John Winborn is responsible for technical operations for the Dallas Cowboys Football Club, AT&T Stadium and all Jones Family related entities. Winborn oversees a team of IT professionals dedicated to maintaining the Cowboys' reputation as the leading franchise in professional sports and supporting businesses ranging from oil and gas to real estate development.
Previously, Winborn spent 13 seasons in Major League Baseball with the San Diego Padres, Milwaukee Brewers and San Francisco Giants. He has an extensive background in international sports including stints with the 1994 FIFA World Cup, the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games and the 2004 Olympics in Athens.
The Dallas Cowboys are the premier franchise of the National Football League. The franchise shares the record for most Super Bowl appearances (8) with the Pittsburgh Steelers, corresponding to most NFC championships (8). In addition to being home to the Dallas Cowboys, AT&T Stadium has hosted Super Bowl XLV, the 2010 NBA All Star Game, and the annual AT&T Cotton Bowl Classic. In 2014, the 1.2 billion dollar facility will be home to the NCAA Men's Final Four and in 2015 it will host the inaugural College Football Playoff Championship Game.
Jim is the Chief Information Officer for GE's Power & Water business. He is responsible for developing and delivering simple and consistent global business processes digitized through information technology, as well as global ERP strategy. Jim is a member of GE's Information Management Council and an active participant in driving the direction of GE's commercial digital strategy.
Headquartered in Schenectady, NY, GE Power & Water works in all areas of the energy industry, including renewable resources such as wind and solar; biogas and alternative fuels; and coal, oil, natural gas and nuclear energy. The business has more than 40,000 employees and 700 locations globally with $28B in revenue in 2012.
Jim has nearly 20 years of IT experience, including 14 years with several diverse GE businesses. He joined GE in 2000 as Manager of UNIX technology with the Aviation business. He also held roles as an IT Six Sigma Black Belt and Manager of Human Resource Systems for GE Corporate. In 2005, he was named Chief Technology Officer for Architecture and Technology for GE Infrastructure. In this role, he was responsible for defining and implementing the technology standards for four large GE businesses. In 2009, he was promoted to CIO for GE Aviation's Supply Chain organization. He was responsible for managing all IT systems used in Aviation's manufacturing, assembly and repair plants around the world. He also served as CIO for GE Intelligent Platforms, where he led a global team responsible for driving process excellence and LEAN initiatives, as well as process digitization efforts within the business.
He joined GE's Power Generation Services business in 2012 as CIO. In this role, he was responsible for developing and delivering a global information technology strategy which included process excellence and advanced analytics programs to best support both internal and external customers. He was also responsible for developing commercial offerings that used internal and customer data to drive optimization of customer assets. In 2013, his role was expanded to include the Power Generation Products business, and he was named to his current role in February 2014.
Prior to GE, he held IT roles with NCR and Accenture.
Jim holds a Bachelor of Science in Management Information Systems and Marketing from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, as well as an MBA from Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio. He is also Six Sigma Black Belt certified. Jim and his family are based in Atlanta,
Loretta Early serves as University Vice President and CIO at the University of Oklahoma (OU). Loretta is charged with leading efforts to develop and execute strategic plans for Information Technology (IT) for OU's three campuses, as it pertains to instruction, research, administration, and community service. She serves as a member of the President's Cabinet, as well as campus policy and advisory groups, and industry, government, state, regional, and national consortiums. During her tenure at OU, the organization has been recognized twice as one of Computerworld's Best Places to Work in IT, and appeared consecutive years on Princeton's "Most Wired Campus" list. Before her appointment at OU, Loretta served at The College of William and Mary (W&M) for 12 years in several leadership positions, ultimately rising to the position of CIO. During this time Loretta also served as an adjunct faculty member. She has more than twenty-five years of progressive leadership experience in Information Technology organizations, including over 22 years in public sector higher education. Her service to information technology in higher education includes appointments on numerous advisory boards, institutes, and professional organizations, including the EDUCAUSE Institute Leadership Program, EDUCAUSE Enterprise Information Technologies Program Committee, EDUCAUSE Annual 2012 Program Committee, and EDUCAUSE Annual 2013 Program Committee Chair. Loretta also has served as a grant reviewer for the National Science Foundation. Prior to her higher education service, Loretta consulted for a variety of national corporations in private industries, including brokerage and financial services, computer services, food services, and construction management. Loretta is an alumnus of the University of Virginia.
As President of the UPMC Technology Development Center, Ms. Kaul leads a team of over 100 business, design, clinical, software engineering, and architecture professionals in evaluating and developing new health care technology solutions. Through strategic partnerships, she champions the implementation and commercialization of these innovations. She collaborates with the International and Commercial Services Division and their corporate partners to bring UPMC health care intelligence into the technology development process. She oversees all functional areas within the organization, including product development, product management, engineering, operations, architecture, quality assurance, design, and strategic planning.
In May 2013, Ms. Kaul was ranked as one of the top 20 health IT leaders driving change nationally by InformationWeek Healthcare and, she was recognized in September when UPMC was ranked as the number one leading innovator of business technology nationally through the InformationWeek 500 award.
Ms. Kaul is a board member of several innovative organizations, including a UPMC/GE joint venture, Omnyx, and Pittsburgh DataWorks. She is a steering committee member of the GE/UPMC joint development agreement and the Optum/UPMC joint development agreement. Within the last year, Ms. Kaul was also a featured speaker at the UPMC International Telemedicine Symposium "Tomorrow's Telemedicine Shown Today" in Brussels, Belgium and a panelist at the Pittsburgh Technology Council's "CIOs of Life Sciences and Energy Sector IT Speaker Series."
Prior to leading the Technology Development Center, Ms. Kaul ran a UPMC joint venture, A-Life Hospital, in which she helped to develop a hospital coding product so powerful that UPMC sold its ownership for a significant profit.
Ms. Kaul has multiple degrees, including a Master of Business Administration from New York University as well as a Master of Information Systems Management and a Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering with a double major in Engineering and Public Policy, both from Carnegie Mellon University.
Onyeka Nchege is the Chief Information Officer and for the past six years has had strategic and operational responsibility for developing the information technology strategy and management of IT platforms and technical infrastructure for Coca Cola Bottling Co. Consolidated (CCBCC), the largest independent Coca-Cola bottler in the United States. The CCBCC mission is To Make, Sell, and Deliver soft drinks better than anyone else.
Onyeka began his career working for Wachovia, a major financial organization, as a technical business analyst designing and implementing e-commerce solutions. He spent a total of 7 years in the Banking industry working for Wachovia, Fleet Mortgage Group and Check Free Corporation. He then transitioned to the manufacturing industry, where he provided strategic leadership to technical application software developers and business functional professionals in a multi-platform/multi-location environment for Pillowtex Corporation (Fieldcrest Cannon).
A frequent speaker on technology empowerment, leadership development, and business improvement, Onyeka is a graduate of the Georgia State University J. Mack Robinson College of Business. Onyeka currently serves on the Board of Directors for Apparo, Advisory Board for UNC Charlotte's College of Computing and Informatics, Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Charlotte, and Bethel Baptist Church Ministries. Onyeka is married to Yulanda and they have 4 beautiful children; Charisse, Christopher, Kalu, and Nnenna.
A product visionary and Paytronix's team leader, Andrew motivates us to be innovative, maintain focus, and serve our customers beyond their wildest expectations. He has earned engineering degrees and a graduate business degree from some of the nation's most prestigious universities – Princeton, MIT, and Harvard.
Bryson Koehler is executive vice president and chief information officer (CIO) of The Weather Company (Weather). He is responsible for setting the strategic vision, financial planning, technical operations, direction and execution of strategic technology initiatives for the company. Koehler came to Weather from Exigen Capital, a private equity firm, where he was an operating partner overseeing the firm's investments and operations in the travel and entertainment sectors.
Prior to his time at Exigen Capital, Koehler spent 10 years at InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG), the world's largest hotel company, most recently as the senior vice president of global revenue and guest technology. Koehler also served as vice president and director of global distribution technology earlier in his tenure at IHG.
Prior to IHG, Koehler served as director of global technology sales for Vicorp.com and held various technical leadership positions for USWeb, where he managed the technical relationships for a broad array of clients. He began his technology career at Arthur Anderson as a technology strategy consultant, where he helped implement knowledge-sharing platforms on emerging Internet technologies for a diverse group of clients.
Koehler earned bachelor's degrees in political science and in communications from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC, and in 2010 was named CIO Magazine's One to Watch winner. He lives in the Atlanta area and has two children. He is active in his community with Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF), Duke Cancer Research Hospital and American Red Cross disaster relief. He is also the chief of his son's YMCA Indian Guides program.
Mark Hurd is President of Oracle Corporation and a member of the company's Board of Directors. He joined Oracle in 2010. As President, Mr. Hurd oversees the corporate direction and strategy for Oracle's global field operations, including marketing, sales, consulting, alliances and channels, and support. He focuses on strategy, leadership, innovation, and customers. Mr. Hurd's leadership in managing past acquisition integrations has enabled him to take a significant role in Oracle's acquisition strategy. He is also responsible for Oracle's global business units for industries, which build products for specific industries such as telecommunications, financial services, health sciences, retail, utilities, and public sector enterprises.
Before joining Oracle, Mr. Hurd served as Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer, and President of HP, where his focus on customers, innovation, improved operational efficiency and execution led to significant company growth. Prior to that, he spent 25 years at NCR Corporation, where he held a variety of management, operations, sales, and marketing roles, ultimately serving as the company's Chief Executive Officer and President and leading a successful effort to improve operational efficiency, strengthen the product line, and drive growth.
Mr. Hurd earned a bachelor's degree in business administration in 1979 from Baylor University, in Waco, Texas, which he attended on a tennis scholarship.
M.R.Rangaswami is the co-founder of the Sand Hill Group and has been a strategic advisor to several fast-growing companies. He has held global VP marketing positions at Baan and Oracle Corporation. He was the host of the prestigious Enterprise and Software conferences for top technology leaders. He also authors reports on the latest tech trends in the enterprise space.
M.R. was profiled on the front page of the Wall Street Journal and has been named in Forbes' "Midas 100 List" as one of the most influential investors in technology.
Software industry pioneer Sandra Kurtzig founded Kenandy in 2010 with the vision to once again transform the world of enterprise management software. She did this the first time in 1972, when she founded ASK Computer Systems and created the groundbreaking MANMAN product family. During her 20-year tenure as founder, chairman and CEO of the ASK Group, Kurtzig grew the company into one of the ten largest software companies in the world.
Now, as Chairman and CEO of Kenandy, she is helping to create and drive the new industry paradigm of enterprise management on the cloud, supporting a growing, global community of companies that design, manufacture and distribute products.
Kurtzig has been widely covered in the media and has received numerous business awards. She was the first woman to take a technology company public, and was included on Business Week's list of the top 50 corporate leaders. Her best-selling autobiography, CEO: Building a $400 Million Company from the Ground Up, was published by Harvard Business School Press and is available on amazon.com and on Google Books.
Since retiring from ASK in 1993, Kurtzig has been the managing partner of SLK Investment Partners, a private equity investment partnership. She has also been a mentor for and investor in entrepreneurial technology companies, and has taught the Business for Engineering class at Stanford University.
She has served on the boards of Harvard Business School, Hoover Institution, Stanford's School of Engineering, Stanford Engineering Strategic Council, UCLA's Anderson Graduate School of Management, and UC Berkeley's Haas School of Management.
Kurtzig has a B.S. in mathematics from UCLA and an M.S. in aeronautical engineering from Stanford University.
Erik Bataller is a Principal Consultant with Neohapsis Inc., a Chicago-based information security consultancy. Erik has spent two decades in IT and security management in a variety of roles and organizations. His main focus has been leading and managing the strategy, architecture, engineering, implementation, and operations of enterprise security teams for private sector and government organizations.
Michael A. Davis, CTO of security consultancy CounterTack, has earned a reputation as one of the nation's leading authorities on IT. The list of organizations that rely on his council includes AT&T, Sears, Exelon, and the US Department of Defense. Before CounterTack, Michael was president of External IT, a national managed IT and cloud services provider. In 2005, he founded Savid Technologies, an IT security consulting firm, and before that was senior manager of global threats at McAfee, where he led a team of researchers.
Michael Healey is President of Yeoman Technology Group, an engineering and research firm that focuses on maximizing organizations' technology investments. Michael has more than 25 years of experience in technology integration and business development. He has a BA in operations management from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and an MBA from Babson College.
Mr. Grady is a 27 year veteran of the enterprise software industry with proven executive leadership experience. He has a strong track record in global customer service, enterprise software sales and marketing, enterprise software maintenance sales and service delivery. Mr. Grady has led global enterprise software firms and has developed emerging high-growth technology start-ups into successful ventures. Mr. Grady oversees all revenue operations for Rimini Street worldwide, including Global Sales, Global Marketing, and Global Client Care & Success teams.
Prior to joining Rimini Street, Mr. Grady was president and COO at Altus Corporation, a provider of video search and management software for sales enablement. During his tenure at Altus, Mr. Grady was responsible for overseeing the company's field operations. Under his leadership, Altus emerged as the leader in enterprise on-demand rich media solutions for sales enablement, events and knowledge-sharing, with global clients including Oracle, SAP, Cisco, GM, IBM and Symantec. Under Mr. Grady's leadership, Altus experienced a 500-percent increase in revenue over a six year period. Previously, Mr. Grady served as president and COO of Saba Software where he helped drive a 300-percent increase in revenue during his tenure.
Prior to Saba, Mr. Grady held several executive positions at PeopleSoft, including most recently vice president and general manager of the $600 million Customer Sales Division, which grew to become the company's largest and fastest-growing business unit. The Customer Sales Division included global enterprise software maintenance sales and telesales. Earlier in his career, Mr. Grady managed large information systems projects for Fortune 500 clients as a consulting manager at Andersen Consulting (now Accenture).
Mr. Grady earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
Gaurav is the CEO of SnapLogic, the leader in Elastic Integration platform as a service (iPaaS). SnapLogic helps companies connect enterprise applications in the cloud and on-premise for improved business agility and faster decision making and is funded by leading venture investors, including Andreessen Horowitz and Ignition Partners. Gaurav has spearheaded the rapid growth of the company and manages its financing, products, strategic relationships, and operations. As the former CEO of Informatica Corporation, (Nasdaq; INFA) a silicon valley company that he co-founded in 1992, Gaurav feels that there is more to be accomplished in connecting companies' applications and data sources. He should know; as he was Informatica's first employee, and CEO for more than 12 years, where he led Informatica from a startup idea to a leading software enterprise with customers and operations around the world. His tenure at Informatica included the initial company launch, its successful IPO, and expansion to Europe and Asia. Gaurav 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.
John H. Sawyer is a senior security analyst with InGuardians, where he specializes in network, mobile, and Web application penetration testing. John has developed and taught cybersecurity training for a large university and spoken at events for industry and law enforcement. He has consulted with federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies on malware analysis, hacker attacks, and digital forensics. John is the author of the popular blog "Evil Bytes" at DarkReading.com, and he's a member of the winning team from DEF CON 14's and 15's Capture the Flag competition.
As Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Mr. Meadows leads the Global Information Services organization responsible for business technology direction and delivering IT infrastructure and enterprise application services to over 50,000 employees and collaborators globally. He has overseen an enterprise-wide strategic sourcing initiative to consolidate and transform infrastructure and IT delivery processes to globally-managed external service providers, has contributed to the redesign of the IT organization from a federated to centralized model with the outcome of substantially reducing Lilly IT spend, and is modernizing the IT infrastructure in support of mobility and new computing paradigms. Mr. Meadows also has led improvement initiatives in other areas of global responsibility including project management, vendor management, and quality processes for IT.
Prior to his current position, Mr. Meadows led the final stages of Lilly's ERP program, at the time considered to be one of industry's largest single-instance SAP implementations. The initiative included defining and installing global common business processes in finance, human resources, manufacturing, distribution, and project tracking.
With more than 30 years of IT experience, Mr. Meadows has also held positions of CIO for the Lilly Diabetes Business Unit, Program Manager, Financial Analyst, Systems Analyst, and Network Analyst. He is experienced in pharmaceutical and medical device businesses.
Mr. Meadows is married with 3 sons. He holds a B.A. in Mathematics and Computer Science from Hanover College and an M.B.A. in Finance from Indiana University's Kelley School of Business.
With more than 20 years as a leader in the EPM sector, Fred has built his career focusing on providing solutions that help organizations worldwide achieve financial and business excellence. Prior to Anaplan, Fred was the SVP and GM for SAP Applications for EPM, GRC, and Finance Line of Business. Fred started his career in the area of CPM, leading ALG's global operations until acquired by Business Objects.
Laurianne McLaughlin currently serves as InformationWeek.com's Editor-in-Chief, overseeing daily online editorial operations. Prior to joining InformationWeek in May, 2011, she was managing editor at CIO.com. Her writing and editing work has won multiple ASBPE (American Society of Business Publication Editors) awards, including ASBPE's 2010 B2B Web Site of the year award for CIO.com. Previously, McLaughlin served as a senior editor, online for Business 2.0 and as a senior editor for PC World, where she started her technology journalism career in 1992 as a news reporter. She is a graduate of Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism.
Mr. Ravin is a 30-year enterprise software industry veteran who pioneered the independent enterprise software support industry. In 2005, The Enterprise Software Observer named Mr. Ravin one of the 25 next-generation leaders of the enterprise software industry. In 2010, Mr. Ravin was featured in Deal Architect CEO Vinnie Mirchandani's new book, The New Polymath: Profiles in Compound-Technology Innovations, where he is credited with enacting a visionary, disruptive strategy for dramatically reducing the cost of information technology and ushering in a new era of customer choice.
In September 2005, Mr. Ravin launched Rimini Street, Inc. with a mission to redefine enterprise software support using innovative, next-generation support services delivered at more than a 50 percent savings in fees compared to a software vendor's annual support program. Rimini Street currently offers support services for Oracle and SAP products.
Prior to his success launching independent maintenance and support programs, Mr. Ravin was an executive with PeopleSoft, Inc., where he served most recently as vice president of the customer sales division. Earlier in his PeopleSoft career, Mr. Ravin held several senior roles of increasing global responsibility, including corporate director of customer services and programs and corporate manager of upgrades and installations. Mr. Ravin's PeopleSoft responsibilities included worldwide release support policy; release retirement programs; account management; Y2K software update and readiness program management for thousands of licensees; and development and delivery of special support programs for customers with unique needs. To meet the needs of customers who wanted to run a mature software release for many additional years beyond the official supported life span of a release without mandatory upgrades, Mr. Ravin successfully designed and launched the enterprise software industry's first specialized extended support programs for Fortune 500, public sector and midmarket organizations.
Mr. Ravin also served as vice president of customer sales for Saba Software, Inc., worked in Russia on defense conversion programs, and worked in Washington, D.C. assisting the Clinton Administration with Congressional passage of the GATT global trade agreement in 1994.
Mr. Ravin holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from the University of Southern California.
Michelle R. McKenna-Doyle has been named NFL senior vice president and chief information officer (CIO), the National Football League announced today.
McKenna-Doyle joins the NFL office in New York City from Constellation Energy in Baltimore, where she served as CIO. In her role with the NFL, McKenna-Doyle will lead the league office's information technology team to continue delivering operational excellence and innovative technology solutions. She will be responsible for the league's technology strategy, shared service delivery, and corporate technology.
McKenna-Doyle brings extensive experience in driving organizational change and launching major business initiatives. Her proven leadership skills will enable the NFL to continue driving a high performance culture.
Before joining Constellation Energy, she worked in various senior management and information technology positions at several FORTUNE 500 corporations. This included serving as senior vice president and chief information officer for Universal Studios and Centex Homes, as well as vice president of information technology for Walt Disney Parks and Resorts.
Randy Mott is Senior Vice President, Global Information Technology & Chief Information Officer, effective February 27, 2012. His most recent position was executive vice president and chief information officer of Hewlett-Packard, where he was responsible for the global information technology (IT) strategy and all of the company's IT assets. This included company-wide application development, data management, technology infrastructure, data center operations and telecommunication networks worldwide.
Mott's vision and leadership approach has garnered him global recognition in leading transformational initiatives focused on optimizing IT as a business. In June 2007, he received the "Roger Milliken Career Achievement Award" from the Voluntary Interindustry Commerce Solutions Association for his dedication and contributions to enabling the retail and consumer-focused industries through the creation and implementation of supply chain standards and best practices.
Previously, Mott was senior vice president and chief information officer for Dell, Inc., which he joined in 2000. He was responsible for managing that company's global IT infrastructure, which included the backbone of its extensive Internet and web-based capabilities. Mott significantly enhanced the company's IT executive talent and focused the organization on global, scalable and common systems.
Prior to Dell, Mott spent 22 years at Wal-Mart Stores Inc., where he held a variety of technical and management positions and pioneered retail and supply-chain systems automation. In 1994, Mott was named senior vice president and chief information officer. For the next six years, Wal-Mart almost tripled in revenue and its IT group earned a "best-of-class" reputation as it cost-effectively leveraged global and common IT systems. In 1996, Mott was promoted to Wal-Mart's executive committee and in 1997 InformationWeek named him "Chief of the Year."
Mott has a bachelor of science in mathematics from the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. In 2005, he was named in the Fulbright College Alumni Academy as a Distinguished Alumni.
Mark McDonald is a Managing Director and Digital Business Strategy Lead in Accenture Strategy, which helps clients to strategize, architect and innovate to create value and revenue from digital capabilities. He has responsibility for digital business strategy and architecture in North America.
In the recent past, Mark was a Group Vice President and Fellow at Gartner a technology research and advisory company. At Gartner, Mark was a member of the Executive Programs Leadership Team and Head of Executive Programs Research. He is the author of The Digital Edge: Exploiting Information and Technology for Business (2012), The Social Organization: How to Use Social Media to Tap the Collective Genius of Your Customers and Employees (2011) and the eProcess Edge: Creating Customer Value & Business in the Internet Era (2000).
Mark was named in the Huffington Post as one of the 100 most influential technology bloggers. He is a contributor to the Wall Street Journal, Harvard Business Review, Financial Times and other publications on issues of technology and strategy. He has lectured at Oxford University and currently teaches courses at Columbia University in New York and the University of Wisconsin Business School.
Mark graduated from Colgate University, with Honors in Economics and Political Science, Trinity College, Hartford CT with a Masters in Economics and International Finance and TU Delft with a PH.D. in Technology Policy Management. He is based in Chicago, Illinois, USA where he lives with his family.
With more than 30 years of IT experience, Bent brings a wealth of international experience to his Senior VP, Global Information Solutions role, having most recently served as CIO at United Stationers Inc. Prior to United Stationers Inc., Bent held leadership positions at Visteon Ford and Acterna. His international business acumen was acquired through his experiences during multiple overseas assignments, including four years in the U.K. and 11 years in Germany. Bent holds a Bachelor of Science degree in civil engineering from the University of Bristol, England.
Chris Murphy is editor of InformationWeek and Global CIO columnist on IT strategy issues. He has been covering technology leadership and strategy issues for InformationWeek since 1999. Before that, he was editor of the Budapest Business Journal, a business newspaper in Hungary; and a daily newspaper reporter in Michigan, where he covered everything from crime to the car industry. Murphy studied economics and journalism at Michigan State University, has an M.B.A. from the University of Virginia, and has passed the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) exams.
Rob Preston currently serves as VP and editor in chief of InformationWeek, where he oversees the editorial content and direction of its various website, print and digital magazine, Webcast, live and virtual event, and other products. Rob has 25 years of experience in high-tech publishing and media, during which time he has been a senior-level editor at CommunicationsWeek, CommunicationsWeek International, InternetWeek, and Network Computing. Rob has a B.A. in journalism from St. Bonaventure University and an M.A. in economics from Binghamton University.
Doug Henschen is Executive Editor of InformationWeek, where he covers the intersection of enterprise applications with information management, business intelligence, big data and analytics. He previously served as editor in chief of Intelligent Enterprise, editor in chief of Transform Magazine, and Executive Editor at DM News. He has covered IT and data-driven marketing for more than 15 years.
Adrian Cockcroft has had a long career working at the leading edge of technology. He's always been fascinated by what comes next, and he writes and speaks extensively on a range of subjects. At Battery, he advises the firm and its portfolio companies about technology issues and also assists with deal sourcing and due diligence.
Before joining Battery, Adrian helped lead Netflix's migration to a large scale, highly available public-cloud architecture and the open sourcing of the cloud-native NetflixOSS platform. Prior to that at Netflix he managed a team working on personalization algorithms and service-oriented refactoring.
Adrian was a founding member of eBay Research Labs, developing advanced mobile applications and even building his own homebrew phone, years before iPhone and Android launched. As a distinguished engineer at Sun Microsystems he wrote the best-selling "Sun Performance and Tuning" book and was chief architect for High Performance Technical Computing.
He graduated from The City University, London with a Bsc in Applied Physics and Electronics, and was named one of the top leaders in Cloud Computing in 2011 and 2012 by SearchCloudComputing magazine. He can usually be found on Twitter @adrianco.
Brian Gillooly has spent the past 22 years establishing a trusted and significant presence in the business technology community. One of the most recognized personalities in IT media, Brian has built valuable relationships with the most influential practitioners in the technology industry and counts among his closest contacts CIOs from Fortune 50 companies to small businesses. As the editor-in-chief of events for the InformationWeek Business Technology Network, Brian is responsible for developing a vision that provides both the audience and the client with clarity and insight into today's most challenging business technology issues. Previously, as editor-in-chief of Optimize and editor-in-chief of InformationWeek Events, Brian not only engaged the people who help shape the direction of business technology notables -- like Jack Welch, C.K. Prahalad, Ralph Szygenda, and Michael Dell -- but also shared trusted opinions and ideas through his CIO Nation blog and weekly columns, as well as hands-on insight through presentations at numerous live events and one-on-one meetings. In his career in event content-generation, moderating, and presenting, Brian has developed a unique rapport with his audiences by eschewing the staid, lecture-style presentation and establishing a comfortable, often fun (but always informative) approach. From July 2007 to July 2008, as VP of member services for nGenera, the Toronto-based think tank founded by renowned strategist Don Tapscott, Brian helped Fortune 500 companies navigate the challenges of the Enterprise 2.0 era.
Andi Mann is an accomplished digital business executive with extensive global expertise as a strategist, technologist, innovator, marketer, communicator, and thought leader. For over 25 years and across five continents, Andi has built success with Fortune 500 corporations, technology vendors, governments, and as a leading research analyst and business consultant.
Andi is a sought-after commentator on business technology – published in USA Today, New York Times, Forbes, CIO, and Wall Street Journal; presented at Gartner ITxpo, VMworld, CA World, Interop, Cloud Expo, SAPPHIRE, and Citrix Synergy; participated and hosted interviews for radio, television, webcasts, podcasts, and live events; and more.
Andi has been named to Business Insider's Top Thought-Provoking Enterprise Tech Execs, Huffington Post's Top 100 Cloud Computing Experts, Gathering Clouds Top 5 Cloud Experts – Who's Who in Cloud, SAP's Top 50 Cloud Computing Influencers, SYS-CON/Cloud Expo DevOps Summit Tech Chair, and in research firm ITSMA's Best Practices in B2B Thought Leadership.
Andi is co-author of the popular handbook, 'Visible Ops – Private Cloud'; and most recently, 'The Innovative CIO'. He blogs at 'Andi Mann – Übergeek' (http://pleasediscuss.com/andimann), and tweets as @AndiMann.
Outside work Andi is an avid sports fan who loves cycling, skiing, basketball, and rugby; he also enjoys cooking, eating, travelling, art, photography, and gaming.
Rudy Wolfs leads Capital One's Card Technology team and is responsible for defining and implementing a strategy that focuses on technology innovation, accelerating Card's digital transformation and ensuring systems are always on for customers. Previously Rudy led Capital One's Digital & Middleware team, capitalizing on his experience building the Nation's leading direct bank and his deep understanding of digital platforms and capabilities to further Capital One's digital agenda.
Rudy joined Capital One in 2012 when they acquired ING Direct USA. Rudy served as ING DIRECT USA's Chief Marketing Officer and Chief Information Officer. He joined ING DIRECT USA in 2000 as part of the startup team. His responsibilities included the development and management of the bank's information technology plan and leadership roles in technology, sales and marketing. Rudy was also a member of the bank's Senior Management Committee, Credit Risk Committee, Asset-Liability Committee, Production & Operations Committee, Operational Risk Committee and the Project & IT Steering Committee.
Rudy's entrepreneurial experience in development, marketing and sales of technology-based solutions started when he co-founded an Internet company. After growing to 120 employees, the company was sold to Pervasive Software in 1999. He continues his entrepreneurial mindset within Capital One as an Intrapreneur along with his partnership position at Robin Hood Ventures (an angel venture capital group).
Rudy received his MBA from The Richard Ivey School of Business at the University of Western Ontario. His community support includes Board positions at NPowerPA (technology services to support charities) and Easter Seals of Delaware. His sports achievements include being a nationally ranked competitive swimmer and sailor; and Mr. Wolfs was a member of the Canadian National Sailing Team at the 2003 Pan American Games. He is also an instrument-rated private pilot. Mr. Wolfs and his family reside in Hockessin, Delaware.
George Llado is VP of IT with Merck & Co., the world's second largest pharmaceutical company. When Merck completed its $41B merger with Schering-Plough in 2009, Llado represented Global Services as the Integration Lead for the IT/Shared Business Services Team that was responsible for functional merger management of the two companies. In his current role as VP, Merck Manufacturing Division IT, Llado leads the planning and development of IT solutions for the Merck Manufacturing Division, which recently pioneered a big data analytics optimization project around the production of vaccines.
Amy Amerson joined Entergy in 2008 to lead the Tax department's Technology Transformation initiative. Three years later Ms. Amerson transferred to Entergy's Information Technology division as a Program Manager responsible for IT's vast portfolio of financial applications. In 2014, she was promoted to her current position as Business Unit CIO of Corporate & Shared Services.
Prior to joining Entergy, Ms. Amerson served as a Senior Manager in the National Tax Advisory practice for Ernst & Young. Her clients included numerous Fortune 500 companies across the United States which benefited from her focused expertise on people, processes and technologies.
Ms. Amerson's background includes a Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting from Southeastern Louisiana University and she is a Certified Public Accountant in the state of Louisiana. She also sits on the audit committee reporting to the Board of Directors of Riverland Credit Union.
As DISH's Vice President of Application Development and Testing, Rob Dravenstott is responsible for data warehousing and analytics, website and mobile development, retail and by-mail applications, ERP, workforce management and quality assurance.
With Dravenstott's direction, DISH's IT department undertook an enterprise-wide information technology overhaul that advanced DISH's ability to deliver customer service and manage its national operations. The initiative resulted in the largest billing conversion in U.S. telecommunications in many years, the largest cloud-based mobile workforce management system implementation in North America, new IVR and customer care systems, and a new state-of-the-art data center and optical network.
Additionally, Dravenstott helped deliver DISH's SmartMobility platform that leverages Samsung Galaxy mobile devices to standardize the management of more than 15,000 field technicians who interact with thousands of customers daily. Using low-cost consumer technologies for enterprise use, SmartMobility includes cloud-based HTML5 workforce application which enables customer signature capture, consolidated communications, navigation and technician workflow improvements.
Prior to his time at DISH, Dravenstott held a distinguished career as Vice President for Technology at First Data, where he oversaw large-scale applications development and maintenance for government clients, including the Electronic Federal Tax Payment System.
Dravenstott is a graduate of Purdue University with a dual degree in Computer and Electrical Engineering.


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Great for Travel-portable and lightweight We use the crate for traveling in the car with our 50 lb dog and the large size works perfectly in the back of our 2013 escape. The crate is easy to set up and tear down and is lovingly referred to as "Katie's pack-and-play." I would highly recommend this product to anyone who wants a portable crate and has a dog who is crate trained. As this crate has a good deal of mesh, I would not recommend this crate for dogs with crate anxiety or highly destructive dogs. We are currently on our second soft-sided crate. The fabric is extremely durable and I think the crate's weak spot is the mesh. As our then puppy was not 100% crate trained, the first crate did a good job withstanding lots of pawing, but was eventually sent back after almost a year of use since our then puppy had ripped a few holes in the mesh and had ripped off the zipper clip. We had no problems returning the first crate and were happy to receive a new one. January 10, 2014
Nice product Love the product. Wish the side zipper would unizip from the top so dog could poke his head out just a little. The xl size is very big. I could almost fit two 90 lbs. labs in there. January 19, 2011
Even the dog loves it! We ordered the largest crate for our Great Dane and even with the large size of the crate it is very portable and easy to set up. With the option to open the side or front (and even the top) this crate fits into a corner or against a wall without having to stick out into the room too far. Highly recommend this product. March 25, 2011
Excellent travel crate I bought this crate in order to have lightweight crate that still gives my golden retriever as much space as she has in her crate at home. I've only traveled with the new crate once, but so far I like it. Doors on both sides make it easy to fit in any space, and my dog likes the 'sunroof' up top. She didn't seem tempted to scratch chew at any of the fabric (it's very taut). The carrying handle and the light weight make it easy to carry up stairs and load into the car. There are clips on the sides to keep it tightly packed when carrying. The floor is vinyl, which I like because I plan to take it camping. It took me a little time to get it to fold down the first time, as the frame seemed to be a little 'stiff' and it felt like I had to force it, but if you fold back the fabric out of the way a little, it works great. All in all, I think it was worth the money. April 6, 2010
So glad So glad you had this available; it's just what we needed. Just adopted a 4yr old terrier mix & needed a crate for travel, daytime shade outdoors, and in home. Well made, easy to carry or fold up, perfect size, great color; favorite feature is the three sides of access. Thank you, Frontgate! July 7, 2014
NIce crate This crate is perfect for a behaved dog, i have seen my friends crate, their dog is just BAD , he chews everything and destroyed the crate in about 30 minutes. As for my dog he loves it and does not chew it. If I had one recommendation , it would be to make the mesh screen weaved tighter, my dog sheds A LOT and his fur does get through the screen into the car. I had to improvise my own additional screen to act as a second barrier. It is easy to set up easy to put away, its not heavy. August 6, 2013
must have for traveling I was using a hard plastic crate for travel. It was very bulky and awkward to take in and out of vehicle. The portable crate from Front Gate is very light weight, attractive and user friendly for me and my dog. It's nice to be able to access from several ways. very happy with purchase. December 1, 2009
Soft Sided Dog Crate Great product. Easy to assemble and tear down. Loved the heavy waterproof liner on the bottom. May 21, 2010
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What are the weights of the sizes of the crates?
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Answer:Thank you for your interest in the soft sided dog crates, the weight of the item are as follows:
extra small- 3 pounds
small - 5 pounds
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what size would be right for a 65-75 pound golden retriever?
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Answer:To ensure that your dog has enough room, we recommend that you first measure your dog at shoulder and their full length and compare to the dimensions of each crate. Most likely the Large or Extra Large will be the best fit.
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What would be the right size crate for a Havanese
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Answer:We appreciate your interest in this item. A Havanese is typically a smaller dog, which when full grown will weigh between 10-16 lb and stand 8-12 inches tall. Depending on the exact size of your dog, we would recommend either the x-small or small size crate - depending on which would give your dog the ability to stand up completely.
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Could I use this for every day use? Would I need a soft bed inside it?
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Answer:We appreciate your interest in this item. This item can be used as an everyday dog crate. It does not feature any type of padding on the bottom so it would depend on your pet and personal preference if a soft bed was needed.
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Answer:Thank you for your interest in the Soft Sided Portable Dog Crate. THe various sizes are not based on the weight of the dog, but the overall size. i have listed the sizes of the crates below for you.
X-Small Soft Crate (51739): 21"L x 15"W x 15"H, 10-1/2 lbs.
Small Soft Crate (51740): 26"L x 18"W x 21"H, 12-3/4 lbs.
Medium Soft Crate (51741): 30"L x 21"W x 23"H, 15 lbs.
Large Soft Crate (51742): 36"L x 24"W x 27"H, 19-1/3 lbs.
X-Large Soft Crate (51743): 42"L x 28"W x 31"H, 25-1/2 lbs
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UPDATE: Wednesday - 2/27/2013, 4:24pm ET The man wanted in connection with the killing of 80-year-old Nelson Slack and his 74-year-old wife, Ethel, has been arrested, police say.
John Wesley Jeffries was taken into Fredericksburg police custody around 4 p.m. on Wednesday and is being held on outstanding warrant charges.
Earlier: Monday - 2/25/2013, 11:24am ET
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WASHINGTON - Police across Northern Virginia are searching for a man with a violent history after authorities found an 80-year-old man and his 74-year-old wife dead in Fauquier County's first double murder since the 1980s.
Deputies found Nelson and Ethel Slack, long-time residents of The Plains, dead in their home on Bunker Hill Road Sunday afternoon, according to Lt. James Hartman, a spokesman for the Fauquier County Sheriff's Office.
The Fauquier County's Sheriff's Office wants to talk to John Wesley Jeffries, 60, of Fredericksburg, Va. Police have identified Jeffries as a "person of interest."
"He has some family ties to the neighborhood where the Slacks lived, and a vehicle known to be operated by Jeffries was found about a half mile from the scene," says Hartman.
Authorities have not charged Jeffries with the Slacks' murders. Jeffries is wanted in another case. He is charged in Spotsylvania County with kidnapping, felony strangulation and malicious wounding, Hartman says.
In the Fauquier case, family members called the sheriff's office after the Slacks failed to show up for church Sunday, something Hartman said was unusual.
Deputies went to the Slacks home twice, Hartman says. The first time it looked as though no one was home. They then returned with a family member's key. When the key didn't work, they broke down the door and found the bodies around 1:15 p.m. Sunday.
Hartman says the Slacks' car, which was taken from their home, was found in Fredericksburg, in an area Jeffries frequented.
Jeffries is considered armed and dangerous. He is described as white, about 5 feet 8 inches tall, 160 pounds, balding with gray hair and blue eyes. He is listed as a "sexually violent offender."
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Authentic Enchiladas
|Kristen J. Gough
|Red Chili Sauce Ingredients:
10 dried ancho chiles (or you can use a combination of chiles)
2 garlic cloves, minced (or 1/4 to 1/2 Tbsp. garlic powder)
1 1/2 cup chicken broth (or water)
1 tsp. salt
1/2 tsp. cumin
3 tomatoes (or one 14.5 oz. can diced tomatoes, drained)
1/4 cup chopped onion
Optional: one fresh Serrano chili (seeded and diced; add 1 or 2 if you want the sauce hot); ¼ cup minced cilantro
Other ingredients:
18 corn tortillas
1 rotisserie chicken, shredded
2 cups mozzarella or Monterrey Jack cheese
Sour cream
Oil for frying
|1. Prep the dried chiles. On a medium-high heat skillet, toast the chiles until the skins start to look softer and slightly cooked (around 4 minutes, rotating the chile as it heats). Immediately place the chiles into a large bowl of hot water. Prepare the other sauce ingredients while the chiles soften.
2. In a blender, combine the tomatoes, onion, garlic, salt, chicken broth, cumin and optional ingredients.
3. Remove the chiles from the water. Carefully cut around the tops of the chiles and remove as much of the seeds as possible. Add the chile skins to the other blended ingredients. Blend again. (The sauce should be slightly thick and smooth, not chunky. You may need to add more water or chicken broth.)
4. At this point, you can either cook the enchilada sauce in a crockpot or you can cook it on the stovetop. I often triple this recipe and then put it in the Crock-Po to cook the sauce then once it's cooled I store small Ziploc baggies of the sauce in the freezer for months of use.
5. To prepare the sauce for immediate use, add 1 Tbsp. vegetable oil to the bottom of a heavy saucepan. Bring the oil to medium-high heat and then add the sauce. Warning: The sauce may splatter and it stains – so wear your apron!
6. Simmer the sauce for about 30 minutes before preparing the rest of the meal.
7. Enchilada assembly! In a small saucepan, bring about 1 cup vegetable oil to medium high heat (a piece of bread should immediately begin to sizzle and rise to the top when you place it in the oil). As an alternative to frying, you can toast the tortillas on a hot cooking surface and then keep them warm by covering them with a kitchen towel.
8. Assemble your enchilada making station. Have two bowls ready: 1 with shredded chicken and the other with shredded cheese. Also, have 1 "messy plate" where you'll assemble the enchiladas and then drag them onto the serving plates.
9. Get your long-handled tongs ready! Place 1 tortilla into the hot oil. Let the tortilla cook just until it starts to barely harden. Immediately submerge the hot tortilla into the red sauce then back onto your messy plate. Put about 1 1/2 Tbsp. chicken and 1 Tbsp. cheese into each tortilla. I prepare one person's serving of enchiladas at a time. In other words, I'll prepare 1, 2, then 3 tortillas together on my messy plate, then gently push them onto a serving plate. Three enchiladas make for one adult serving; kids usually eat two.
10. Once all the serving plates are assembled: Reheat each individual dish for about 45 seconds in the microwave. Top with an extra scoop of sauce, cheese and then sour cream. To make the enchiladas look extra special, I scoop the sour cream into a Ziploc bag, then cut a small hole in one corner. Then I top the enchiladas with swirls of sour cream. Yummy!