Visionary Leadership: Driving a Strategic and Secure Digital Agenda
Inflationary pressures and other macro-economic challenges are creating headwinds for technology executives and fellow members of the C-suite to execute on and achieve strategic goals through 2023. The fast-changing socio-economic landscape is prompting technology executives to become more creative than ever in a cost-conscious environment and to draw upon authentic and inclusive leadership skills to inspire their teams. Meanwhile, tech leaders will need to remain laser focused on new ransomware, phishing and crypto mining attacks amidst budgetary pressures. Here are the four prevailing leadership and technology trends that HMG Strategy will be focusing on throughout its 2023 Executive Leadership Summit Series:
Innovation & Invention to Spur Revenue Growth
Fostering World-Class Collaboration and Teaming
Harnessing Advanced Technology to Drive Cost Reduction
Securing a Global Digital Agenda
Global economic challenges are creating unique opportunities for business technology executives to foster a collaborative culture, embrace fresh innovative approaches, and develop strong partnerships to leverage hot technologies such as AI, ChatGPT, cloud platforms and cyber technologies to securely move the needle for the business and win in tumultuous times.
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September 19, 2023, 8 AM – 4:00 PM ET
8:00 – 9:00 AM
Breakfast and Networking
9:00 – 9:20 AM
Welcome and Introduction
Hunter Muller, Founder and CEO, HMG Strategy
Wayne Bulmahn, President, SIM Chicago
9:20 – 9:35 AM
EXECUTIVE KEYNOTE: Communicating AI to the C-Suite and Board
Talvis Love, SVP & Chief Information Officer, Baxter International
9:35 – 10:00 AM
EXECUTIVE PANEL: Visionary Leadership: Driving a Modern AI Enterprise and a Secure Digital Agenda
MODERATOR: Tony Leng, Managing Partner, H.I.E.C.
Thomas Gerdes, EVP & Chief Information Officer, The Heico Companies
Manish Chawla, EVP, CIO, IAT Insurance Group
Talvis Love, SVP & Chief Information Officer, Baxter International
Mahmood Khan, SVP, Global Chief Security Officer, CNA
Global economic challenges are creating unique opportunities for business technology executives to foster a collaborative culture, embrace fresh innovative approaches, and develop strong partnerships to leverage hot technologies such as AI, ChatGPT, cloud platforms and cyber technologies to securely move the needle for the business and win in tumultuous times. At the same time, tech leaders will need to remain laser focused on new ransomware, phishing and crypto mining attacks amidst budgetary pressures.
In this powerful Executive Panel discussion, world-class CIOs and technology executives will share the steps they’ve taken to cultivate a collaborative culture and embrace innovative approaches to position their companies to succeed in a challenging environment while securing the hybrid workplace.
10:00 – 10:05 AM
HMG 2023 Global Leadership Institute Award Presentation
Talvis Love, SVP & Chief Information Officer, Baxter International
10:05 – 10:25 AM
Coffee Break, Networking and Meet Our Partners
10:25 – 10:50 AM
EXECUTIVE PANEL: Tapping Innovative Technologies and Partnerships to Drive Cost Containment and Power Business Growth
MODERATOR: Hunter Muller, Founder and CEO, HMG Strategy
Brian Slepko, EVP, Corporate Development, Rimini Street
Andrew Ballema, Vice President, Tangoe Advisory Services
Jean Luber, VP, IT, MYR Group
Susan Malisch, SVP, Chief Information Officer, American Medical Association (AMA)
Many technology executives find themselves between a rock and a hard place. CEOs and CFOs are leaning on CIOs and technology leaders to find ways to reduce costs in a tight economy. On the other hand, technology executives are being counted upon to utilize hot technologies that can spark new business innovation and to support digital business models. This panel of executives will share use cases for advanced technologies and partnerships that can lower costs and drive new business value.
10:50 – 11:10 AM
FIRESIDE CHAT: How to Find the Easy Button for AI Data Infrastructure
Michael Cornwell, Field CTO of the Americas, Pure Storage interviewed by Hunter Muller, Founder and CEO, HMG Strategy
The advent of ChatGPT brought AI from the data center into the boardroom. Everyone is asking: “What are WE doing with AI?” Organizations of all kinds are looking to leverage AI to gain insights, secure networks, connect better to customers, etc. The possibilities are limitless, as long as your data infrastructure isn’t the limiting factor.
Join Michael Cornwell, Field CTO Americas for Pure Storage, as he discusses AI infrastructure challenges. There are many roadblocks to success: performance, scalability, complexity, and increasingly power and rack space consumption. Is there an easy button for AI? Find out
11:10 – 11:25 AM
Coffee Break, Networking and Meet Our Partners
11:25 – 11:40 AM
INNOVATION ACCELERATOR PANEL: VC Viewpoint: Top Technology Startups
Saqib E. Awan, Founder & Managing Director of GTM Capital, invites CEOs of top innovative technology companies to share the challenges they solve for clients, the innovation they deliver to companies, and how their solutions are differentiated in the market. They will also provide insights into the current state of the startup landscape, and how CIOs can leverage startups to accelerate their businesses’ success. The panelists will be available to answer questions and provide feedback on how their respective solutions can help CIOs succeed.
MODERATOR: Saqib E. Awan, Founder & Managing Director of GTM Capital
Yotam Segev, Co-Founder & CEO, Cyera
Liav Caspi, Co-Founder & CTO, Legit Security
11:40 AM – 12:00 PM
EXECUTIVE FIRESIDE CHAT: Accelerating Value Realization from Cloud Investments
Venugopal Pai, Chief Evangelist & Customer Experience Manager, Nutanix interviewed by Hunter Muller, Founder and CEO, HMG Strategy
There’s a paradox in the cloud. Public cloud infrastructure has set the standard for increased agility and flexibility — but the cost and refactoring effort is under scrutiny and challenging business’ ability to take advantage of it. In addition, cost management initiatives result in businesses leveraging multiple clouds driving increased complexity.
Hear from Venugopal Pai, Chief Evangelist & Customer Experience Officer at Nutanix as he discusses best practices to continue to innovate in a digital world, while making the most of your on-prem, managed and public cloud investments.
12:00 – 1:00 PM
Lunch and Networking
SIM Chicago Update
Wayne Bulmahn, President, SIM Chicago
Rick Merrick, Chairman, SIM Chicago
HMG 2023 Global Leadership Institute Award Presentation and Photo
Presented by: Hunter Muller, Founder and CEO, HMG Strategy and August Pelliccio, Managing Editor – Digital, HMG Strategy
Rusty Patel, Former SVP & Chief Information Officer, Tenneco
Mike Zachman, VP & CSO, Zebra Technologies
Wayne Bulmahn, CIO & Security Officer, UNITE HERE HEALTH
Mahmood Kahn, SVP, Global Chief Security Officer, CNA
1:00 – 1:20 PM
EXECUTIVE FIRESIDE CHAT: Addressing the Human Experience in the Customer Journey
Andy Watson, Senior Product Marketing Manager, RingCentral interviewed by Hunter Muller, Founder and CEO, HMG Strategy
Developing an elegant customer experience involves creating an experience that is intuitive and simple for customers. As part of this, it’s also important to address the human element of the customer experience.
In this Executive Fireside Chat, Andy Watson, Senior Product Manager, Ring Central interviewed by Hunter Muller, Founder and CEO, HMG Strategy, will share how this logic should be applied to the use of chatbots in the customer experience, along with recommendations for designing a chatbot experience that resonates with customers and naturally extends to their interactions with human agents.
1:20 – 1:45 PM
Coffee Break, Networking and Meet Our Partners
1:45 – 2:10
INNOVATION ACCELERATOR: Cyber Innovation from Start-Ups
MODERATOR: Emily Heath, General Partner, Cyberstarts
One of the benefits of working with start-up technology companies is that they are designed to tackle the top challenges being faced by existing and prospective clients. In this highly informative discussion with the CEOs of innovative cybersecurity companies, Emily Heath, General Partner at Cyberstarts, will moderate a dialogue on the top cyber threats facing companies today along with how each of the cyber startups represented on the panel are uniquely tackling these challenges.
Raanan Raz, Co-Founder and CEO, Avalor
Sriya Potham, Field CTO, Wiz
Shai Gabay, Co-Founder and CEO, Trustmi
Guy Guzner, CEO and Co-Founder, Savvy
2:10 – 2:20 PM
FIRESIDE CHAT: Creating Magical Customer and Employee Experiences with Generative AI
Murali Nemani, CMO, Aisera interviewed by Hunter Muller, Founder and CEO, HMG Strategy
As organizations seek to harness the potential of ChatGPT and Generative AI, they face a critical question: is it possible to leverage Generative AI in the enterprise safely without worrying about AI hallucinations or data leaks? How can trust and confidence be achieved in the responses offered, especially within mission-critical and regulated industries?
This session will address these questions and discuss how to drive a modern AI enterprise securely using enterprise LLMs, which are grounded in your organization’s data, domains and industries. Through examining various deployments, you’ll learn how to leverage these enterprise LLMs to improve employee experience and deliver delightful customer experiences while reducing operational costs.
2:20 – 2:25 PM
HMG 2023 Global Leadership Institute Award Presentation
Anjana Harve, SVP & CIO, BJ’s Wholesale Club
2:25 – 2:45 PM
Coffee Break, Networking and Meet Our Partners
2:45 – 3:15 PM
EXECUTIVE PANEL: Security Innovation: Going Beyond Protection to Make Security a Competitive Advantage
Moderator: Rocco Grillo, Managing Director – Global Cyber Risk & Incident Response Investigation Services, Alvarez & Marsal
Michael Zachman, VP & Chief Security Officer, Zebra Technologies Corporation
Ricardo Lafosse, Chief Information Security Officer, The Kraft Heinz Company
David Bruskin, SVP Cyber Operations Leader, Synchrony Financial
Cybersecurity strategies are often developed with a defensive mindset. But for companies that have strong safeguards in place, this can provide them with a competitive advantage over industry rivals – especially if they are using AI to help strengthen their posture.
In this timely and compelling executive panel discussion, CISOs and security leaders will share how cybersecurity can provide organizations with a competitive edge along with the steps that can be taken to do so and the role that AI can play in these efforts.
3:15 – 3:25
EXECUTIVE FIRESIDE CHAT: Blueprint for CIOs to Lead Innovation
Atif Rafiq, Author, Board Member interviewed by Hunter Muller, Founder and CEO, HMG Strategy
In this discussion, Atif Rafiq will introduce breakthrough methods to enable teams to innovate faster and smarter. Based on his WSJ bestseller, Decision Sprint, he will provide a model that address the hardest part of innovation — embracing unknowns and ambiguity. Learn how Decision Sprint can help your organization take on unknowns, make them actionable and move from ideas to action. Get ready for a more purposeful, inclusive and AI-ready approach to innovation and solving meaningful problems.
3:25 – 3:55 PM
EXECUTIVE PANEL: Leading as The CEO of Technology – Preparing for What’s Next
MODERATOR: Paul Koziel, VP, US Digital Delivery & Group Technology Services, Argo Group
Rusty Patel, Former SVP & Chief Information Officer, Tenneco
Madhu Reddy, EVP & CIO, Republic Bank
Anjane Harve, SVP & CIO, BJ’s Wholesale Club
Atif Rafiq, Author, Board Member
Art Hopkins, Global Co-Leader of Technology Officers Practice, Russell Reynolds Associates
The world and the business community has experienced more turbulence in the past 3 years than we’ve seen in a century – a global pandemic, massive supply-chain disruptions, the War in Ukraine, an international recession and other geo-political shockwaves. As the CEO of Technology, CIOs need the ability to peer around the corner and to anticipate what might be coming next to enable the business to succeed. In this compelling Executive Panel discussion, world-class CIOs and industry experts share the type of leadership acumen that’s needed to succeed in today’s uncertain environment, to lead through the C-suite and the Board and to guide employees to a brighter future.
Executive in Residence, HMG Strategy Former Senior Partner
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Jesse Bociek
CISO
Tenneco
Jesse Bociek has 17 years of experience in enterprise risk leadership positions in large multi-national, industrial organizations. He has been responsible for designing and leading cybersecurity, compliance, privacy and enterprise risk functions. His current position is his fourth Chief Information Security Officer role. He has also held Chief Privacy and Chief Compliance roles in previous organizations. Jesse has a degree in Computer Engineering and Business Administration from Milwaukee School of Engineering and has traveled extensively, working in major metropolitan areas across Europe, Central & South America and Asia in years past.
Ali Faraj is an exceptional IT leader and strategist with over 25 years of experience working for companies such as IBM, Verizon, Thomson Reuters, AT&T, Unisys, EXL Services and most recently, DXC Technologies. He has held the titles of Chief Innovation Officer, VP of Innovation, CTO, and Chief Technologist at these firms. Ali is a turn-around and strategic growth expert, who has led several global initiatives by jumpstarting innovation, advancing capabilities, improving productivity, and leading delivery improvement initiatives. He has worked across verticals and is an expert on a wide range of technologies including AI/ML, Cloud, BD&A to ERP, CRM, Applications, Cyber Security, and others. He is a technology expert, that is called upon by Analysts and Expert Networks. In addition, Ali has also assisted several VC’s and Angel Investors in identifying and researching target firms for investment and provided M&A consulting.
Managing Director – Global Cyber Risk Services & Incident Response Investigation
Alvarez & Marsal
Our International Advisory Board is comprised of technology leaders who have global oversight of technology and business strategy at Fortune 2000 organizations. HMG Strategy Executive Leadership Summits have become the most highly regarded thought leadership events for C-level executives and technology executives.
Held in more than 30 locations annually, the content for each unique summit is created through the combined efforts with our regional Advisory Boards. Advisory Board members are invited and encouraged to participate on boards beyond their local region and become a member of our International Advisory Board of global executive leaders.
Cybersecurity Executive Leader with extensive experience leading teams and providing clients with cybersecurity advisory services, incident response investigations, and other technical services, as well as guidance to C-Suite and Board level clients. I serve as a trusted advisor and partner to clients, law enforcement and government agencies, law firms, and industry organizations to address cybersecurity matters including incident response & forensics investigations, as well as vulnerability and threat management matters. He is a Ponemon Institute Fellow and affiliate board advisor to industry organizations including FS-ISAC, Retail-CISC, NH-ISAC as well as other ISACS, and member of the Shared Assessments Steering Committee Board. He has also served on the CLM Cyber Liability Council, the Board of Directors of the NY ISSA, the IT Policy Compliance Group, and the (i-4) Research Committee and he has been Interviewed / quoted in CNNMoney, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The London Times, Thomson Reuters, and other industry publications.
Managing Partner, CIO & CTO Global Functional Head
H.I.E.C
Tony Leng was formerly Managing Director of Diversified Search and led the firm’s Digital Transformation and CIO practice from its San Francisco office. Previously, Tony was Managing Partner of Hodge Partners. Tony has conducted many “C” level searches for organizations where leaders are transforming/building organizations that are taking advantage of digital technologies. He has conducted “C” level searches conducted for organizations such as Aurora Healthcare, Axalta, Catholic Health Initiatives, Blue Shield of California, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan, Delta Dental, Dignity Health, Esurance, Kaiser Permanente, Novant Health, PG&E, Polycom, Sutter Health, Symmetricom, TE Connectivity, and Wellmark.
Prior to his executive search experience, Tony was a Board member of three public companies and CEO of a $600 million Public Company. Before that, Tony ran a $1 billion division of a telephone company focused on corporate users and had responsibility for all data services and networking products. While at the telephone company, he was founder and Chairman of its ISP and a board member of its 2 million-subscriber cell phone subsidiary.
Tony uses his operating experience from being a CEO, financial background as a CPA and CA, and technical knowledge from the work that he has done for Tech companies to drill down and understand at a nuanced level what his clients are seeking to achieve as they build their teams. He has written numerous papers on technology leadership and the challenges facing technology leaders today and authors a blog, ‘Resources for the Modern CIO” (www.tonyleng.com).
The core of Tony’s consulting has been with senior leaders who are seeking to transform their organizations as they face a future of rapid change, digitization, regulation, shifting markets, and increasingly connected and informed customers.
Tony has facilitated the Fisher CIO Forum for the past 12 years. The Forum is a monthly venue for CIO’s and CTO’s to discuss topics of relevance in their daily lives, and has afforded these leaders the opportunity to develop a close network to discuss current challenges in a peer group environment on a confidential basis. Participating companies have included: Blue Shield, Clorox, Cost Plus, Delta Dental, Dignity Health, Esurance, Facebook, FitBit, Franklin Templeton, Gap, Genentech, Kaiser Permanente, Levi Strauss, McKesson, Macys.com, Matson, Mulesoft, Okta, PG&E, Restoration Hardware, Ross Stores, Safeway, Salesforce.com, Schwab, Splunk, Uber, VMWare, and Williams-Sonoma among others.
Tony received a Bachelor of Commerce (with honors), University of Cape Town, South Africa and is a Chartered Accountant and CPA.
Talvis Love is senior vice president and chief information officer.
Love joined Baxter in 2020 from Cardinal Health\’s Pharmaceuticals Segment, where he was responsible for overall IT service delivery, including strategic planning, applications maintenance and support, and new project implementations.
Previously, Love held the positions of senior vice president, eCommerce, Governance Execution, Enterprise Architecture & Chief Information Security Officer of Cardinal Health. His career has also included several executive and management positions within TD Bank Group, Ford Motor Company, Oracle Corporation and Quaker Oats Company, a division of PepsiCo.
He serves as executive sponsor of Early Career Professionals, a business resource group focused on helping early career professionals at Baxter achieve their professional development aspirations and maximize their contributions to Baxter’s business objectives. Love also serves as a member of Baxter\’s Global Inclusion Council.
He currently serves as a director on the board of Goodwill Industries of Greater Detroit and the Tricentis Growth Advisory Board.
Love earned degrees in Technology Management and Information Systems Management from the University of Maryland. He has a master\’s degree in business administration from Michigan State University and completed graduate studies at the University of Chicago.
Susan Malisch formerly served as Vice President and Chief Information Officer for Loyola University Chicago. In this capacity, Susan led the development and implementation of the University’s information technology (IT) strategic direction, and delivers IT services that support student learning, faculty research and teaching, administrative processes, and public service. Prior to joining Loyola, she held technology leadership roles at Novell, Cambridge Technology Partners, UCLA, and ATT (formerly Southwestern Bell Communications). Ms. Malisch was the recipient of the 2010 CIO of the Year award from the Executives Club of Chicago and the Association of IT Professionals. Ms. Malisch is the current President for the Chicago Chapter of the Society of Information Management and volunteers with a number of educational and professional organizations. Ms. Malisch earned a B.S.B.A. degree in Computer Information Systems from Rockhurst University in Kansas City, Missouri.
Former SVP & CIO (Retired) and Board of Directors, Unisys Corporation, Owens Corning and Ping Identity
Baxter International
Our International Advisory Board is comprised of technology leaders who have global oversight of technology and business strategy at Fortune 2000 organizations. HMG Strategy Executive Leadership Summits have become the most highly regarded thought leadership events for C-level executives and technology executives.
Held in more than 30 locations annually, the content for each unique summit is created through the combined efforts with our regional Advisory Boards. Advisory Board members are invited and encouraged to participate on boards beyond their local region and become a member of our International Advisory Board of global executive leaders.
Paul E. Martin is senior vice president and chief information officer for Baxter International, where he has global responsibility for the information technology strategy, operations, processes and team supporting Baxter’s business worldwide. He joined Baxter in 2011 from Rexam PLC, the U.K.- based packaging manufacturing, where he held the position of group chief information officer. During his 11-year tenure with Rexam, Martin served in a variety of key senior management positions, including vice president and CIO, Beverage Can Americas, and head of information technology for American National Can (acquired by Rexam PLC). Prior to Rexam, Martin held IT leadership positions at the CIT Group, BNSF Railway and Frito-Lay Inc.
Martin has served as a board of director of Unisys Corporation since April 2017. In 2016, he was appointed to the board of directors at Baxter Credit Union, and the board of trustees at Rush University Medical Center and Ravinia Festival.
He currently serves as executive sponsor of Baxter’s Black Alliance resource group for employees, which provides a forum to enhance engagement, build on recruitment and retention efforts, and increase the impact of business, charitable, and volunteer initiatives in the African-American community.
Martin was the recipient of the 2020 Chicago CIO of the Year Leadership ORBIE Award. In 2017, Martin was named to the CIO Hall of Fame by CIO Magazine for IT innovation and business leadership and was recognized in Black Enterprise’s 2017 Most Powerful Executives in Corporate America. In 2014, Martin was named among the “100 Diverse Corporate Leaders in STEM” by STEMconnector and previously recognized as a Business Leader of Color by Chicago United.
Martin received a Bachelor’s degree in Management Information Systems from Western Kentucky University.
Hunter Muller is a charismatic industry pioneer and a modern-day Renaissance Man. As a global C-suite advisor and coach for the past 30 years, Hunter’s insights and concepts have been successfully applied by Fortune 1000 organizations worldwide to accelerate executive performance, propel the career ascent of C-level executives, and to drive transformative innovation and create new waves of value.
Hunter is the Founder and CEO of HMG Strategy, LLC, the largest independent, objective, transparent and collaborative executive network in the world. HMG focuses on innovation and breakthrough strategies for core, parallel and new markets while studying the most successful organizations eco-systems and platforms such as Amazon and Microsoft.
HMG Strategy is the provider of thought leadership and networking events for CIOs, CISOs, and senior technology executives. HMG Strategy offers a unique, integrated model for enabling C-level executives and their companies to draw upon courageous leadership to reimagine, reinvent, and rebuild their business models to attain the genius-level thinking required in today’s dynamic business landscape to achieve competitive advantage in the digital frontier.
Hunter\’s passion for the role of the technology executive in transforming the business is reflected in the 7 Pillars of Trust which embody HMG Strategy\’s unique business model.
Complementing HMG Strategy’s world-renowned events is HMGNextVentures, a venture capital accelerator aimed at helping connect CIOs with the most innovative technology companies and entrepreneurs from Silicon Valley to Tel Aviv. HMG Strategy also partners with the world’s leading venture capital firms, including Amplify Partners, Greylock Partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners, and Sequoia Capital. HMG Strategy connects CEOs, CIOs, and other C-level executives with startup technologies backed by the leading VCs to identify opportunities for innovation and business transformation.
Meanwhile, HMG Strategy’s award-winning Research Team advises the world’s technology companies such as Adobe, Nutanix, and Workday on branding, messaging, and Voice of the Customer strategies.
Hunter has published five that draw from his extensive business experience: The Transformational CIO (Wiley, March 2011), On Top of the Cloud (Wiley, January 2012), Leading the Epic Revolution (Wiley, September 2013) and The Big Shift in IT Leadership (Wiley, July 2015) and The CEO of Technology (Wiley, January 2018). Hunter is now working on his sixth book: \’Enterprise 2025\’, which is slated to be published in January 2020. As a result, Hunter’s unique position of knowing the thoughts, challenges, and opportunities of the IT Leader, he is asked to speak at a variety of venues such as IBM’s Cloud Expo and on TheStreet.com.
Hunter and HMG Strategy support a variety of charitable causes, including the American Cancer Society, Save the Children, and Year Up, and Hunter personally gives back his time and ideas as a member of the Executive Committee of the Fairfield/Westchester Chapter of the Society for Information Management.
An intrepid international athlete, Hunter is an ardent yacht racer, a world-class skier, and an extreme fitness guru. Hunter is passionate about ocean and mountain adventures and spending time with his sons, Chase and Brice.
Hunter earned a Bachelor of Science in the Babson College School of Management.
Rusty Patel, former Tenneco senior vice president and chief information officer, was responsible for leading the company’s global information technology operations. When DRiV Incorporated spun from Tenneco, Patel served in the same position with DRiV™.
Patel joined Tenneco in February 2018 with an extensive background in information technology spanning more than 25 years. Most recently, he served as vice president, information technology for the building technologies and solutions business at Johnson Controls (JCI). Prior to JCI, Patel held leadership roles in information technology with multinational companies including Tyco, VWR International and Motorola, Inc. He began his career with EDS, supporting Delphi Automotive.
Rusty holds a bachelor’s degree in accounting from Marquette University and an MBA from the University of Notre Dame.
Executive in Residence, HMG Strategy Former Senior Partner
Korn Ferry
Our International Advisory Board is comprised of technology leaders who have global oversight of technology and business strategy at Fortune 2000 organizations. HMG Strategy Executive Leadership Summits have become the most highly regarded thought leadership events for C-level executives and technology executives.
Held in more than 30 locations annually, the content for each unique summit is created through the combined efforts with our regional Advisory Boards. Advisory Board members are invited and encouraged to participate on boards beyond their local region and become a member of our International Advisory Board of global executive leaders.
Mark has extensively recruited chief information officers, chief technology officers, chief information security officers and other senior IT leadership talent across varied vertical sectors including Industrial, Consumer, Life Sciences and Higher Education. His consultative approach to search encompasses talent strategy, organization design, search process and diversity recruiting. Mark ’s clients range from the Fortune 100 (McKesson, General Electric, Hewlett-Packard, Boeing) to smaller high-growth companies (Under Armour, Regeneron, DirecTV) as well as prestigious public and private universities (Harvard, Rockefeller, University of Florida).
Before entering the search field, Mark developed and marketed information systems within the Financial Services and Higher Education sectors. He currently serves on the Advisory Committee for Columbia University’s executive graduate program in Information Technology Management.
Mark frequently addresses conferences and writes on information technology and career management topics. He is the creator of the “Executive Career Counsel” column in CIO Magazine and on CIO.com. He is a member of the Society for Information Management (SIM) and has served as President of the New York Chapter. He sits on the Advisory Boards of The Information Technology Senior Management Forum (ITSMF), the national organization dedicated to fostering executive talent among African-American IT professionals, and HITEC, the Hispanic Information Technology Executive Council.
Mark holds a master’s degree in Computer Science from Pratt Institute and a bachelor’s degree in Mathematics and Electrical Engineering from Union College.
President, COO & Director
Pearson Partners International, Inc.
Renee Arrington offers clients over 20 years’ experience in retained executive search. She excels in recruiting senior executive talent for Fortune 500 companies, private-equity-backed businesses and not-for-profit organizations. She is a member of the Pearson Partners board of directors and leads the firm’s Fort Worth office and CIO and IT leadership practice with clients in technology, retail, financial services, business services, distribution and R&D. Renee conducts searches for board members, presidents and executive directors among other senior leadership positions.
Renee was named one of the top 40 Gatekeepers to the C-Suite by Hunt Scanlon Media, a search industry analyst. She is an active member of IIC Partners and the Association for Executive Search Consultants (AESC).
Renee is attentive to diversity and believes a well-run search can deliver market insight. Renee appreciates the value of using assessment instruments as part of the search.Prior to joining Pearson Partners in 2006, Renee was a vice president in the technology practice of a global retained search firm, and was previously a shareholder and partner in the technology practice of another global firm.
In addition to serving on Pearson Partners’ board of directors, Renee serves on the board of directors of IIC Partners, one of the world’s top 10 executive search organizations, with 50 offices in 35 countries (Pearson Partners is a member of IIC Partners). Additionally, she serves on the boards of directors of the Dallas/Fort Worth chapter of the Society for Information Management (SIM), the National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD) North Texas Chapter and the Foundation for the Young Women’s Leadership Academy in Fort Worth, where she serves as chairman of the board. She is an executive committee member of Dallas Executive Women’s Roundtable (EWR) and a member of Fort Worth’s Women Steering Business (WSB). Renee has previously served on the board of North Texas Public Broadcasting (NPR Affiliate) and was board chairman of the YWCA of both Fort Worth and Tarrant Counties and the Fort Worth Westside YMCA.
Renee was honored with the Association of Executive Search & Leadership Consultants’ prestigious Commitment to the Community Award in 2018, recognizing her excellence in executive search and leadership consulting together with her strong commitment to community service and volunteerism toward charitable causes. She has been selected as a 2018 C-Suite Award Winner by the Fort Worth Business Press for her business leadership as well as the civic and social contributions she has made to the community of Fort Worth and its organizations.
Renee is a frequent speaker at the HMG Strategy CIO Summits around the country, and is a prolific business writer, having written a monthly column for CIO Decisions magazine and been quoted in The Wall Street Journal, CareerJournal.com, IT World, Network World and Business Process Outsourcing: The Competitive Advantage (Wiley 2005). She was honored among the finalists in D CEO’s 2016 CIO/CTO Awards in the Technology Advocate category.
Renee earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in communications from Trinity University and studied at Parsons School of Design in Paris. She and her husband, Michael, live in Fort Worth.
I love transforming businesses and industries with great products and technology. I am a partner, a builder and a leader. Over the past 25 years, I\’ve had the chance to work in multiple industries, countries and companies. One consistent lesson that I have learned is that the more you engage your customers and employees in the transformation the better the outcomes.
While many of our products have won industry and other awards there is no better success than seeing the impact of the change in the daily lives of customers and teammates. The formula for success isn\’t a big secret. It’s about spending time to understand the problems and building compelling solutions that are high quality and have intuitive designs. Regarding digital transformation, the Peter Drucker quote, “Culture eats strategy for lunch” has never been truer. Building a culture that never stops experimenting, constantly learns new and better ways to solve problems and fails fast is critical to be successful.
From that understanding, you can identify opportunities to redefine your industry, marketplace and customer experience. By focusing on these outcomes for the business and its customers, Digital Leaders/ CIOs/ CDOs must lead from the front. This is what I have found it takes to drive change.
I have had the opportunity (the pleasure) of helping many businesses set their technology direction and have driven the necessary technology transformation required for success.
Bill Blount is Vice President and Chief Information Officer at VelocityEHS. He has a 30-year track record of building collaborative, high-functioning teams in rapidly growing companies. He is known for his people-first approach that delivers consistent value through highly scalable and resilient digital solutions. Bill was a consultant for a diverse roster of clients, including the United States Department of Health and Human Services, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), and Oracle Corporation. In addition, he directed operational successes for notable companies like PayFlex, where, as CIO, he led the company’s post-acquisition integration into Aetna, and for the private equity-backed benefitexpress resulting in its acquisition by WEX. Bill is the President-Elect of SIM Chicago and mentors several professionals and college students. He was named the 2021 CIO Innovator of the Year by SIM Chicago, The Executives Club of Chicago, and AITP Chicago. Bill earned his BS in Business Administration from the University of Wisconsin – La Crosse and is pursuing his MBA through the University of Wisconsin MBA Consortium.
Alwin Brunner holds the position of Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer for Heidrick & Struggles, world’s most established Leadership Company. Alwin leads the technology strategy and solutions to support Heidrick’s global business. In addition Alwin oversees Heidrick’s knowledge management function. Prior to joining Heidrick & Struggles, Alwin held several senior positions at the Adecco Group. Alwin Brunner was appointed Chief Information Officer for all Adecco business in North America in early 2004. Prior to this, Alwin held the Chief Technology Officer position for all of the Adecco Group and in this position and prior positions he was an operational leader. Most notably, Alwin lead the internal Adecco IT service companies, providing IT services to Adecco businesses in Europe, Asia Pacific and the Americas. Prior to joining the Adecco Group, Alwin had several years of experience as an interim manager and as a consultant, managing several transformations and change projects for larger and public commercial organizations. Alwin holds a business administration degree from the Polytechnical Faculty of Rotterdam. He is married, has two children and is a sailing enthusiast.
Chief Information Officer/Security Officer
UNITE HERE HEALTH
Wayne is an IT business doctor. For over 30 years, he has helped heal IT organizations, transforming them from reactive firefighters to proactive teams that help solve business challenges and enable growth. Wayne is currently the CIO and Security Officer for UNITE HERE HEALTH, a $1.3B national labor management trust fund focused on providing high-quality, affordable health care to participants. He is also the President-Elect and a Board Member for SIM-Chicago, the leading CIO professional organization in Chicago.
Dr. Chahino has served as the Chief Information Officer at Elgin Community College (ECC) since May 2017, and as the Executive Director of Network Operations and Information Security since January 2006. He is also an adjunct faculty member of ECC and taught in the areas of computer & information systems, economics, business, and management. Prior to working at ECC Dr. Chahino worked in different capacities with DeVry University, the National University of Health Sciences, the Universal Technical Institute and as a Research Economist at the Near East Bureau of the US State Department. Dr. Chahino earned a bachelor degree and a master degree in international economics from Illinois State University and has a doctorate degree in educational technology from Northern Illinois University
Ali Faraj is an exceptional IT leader and strategist with over 25 years of experience working for companies such as IBM, Verizon, Thomson Reuters, AT&T, Unisys, EXL Services and most recently, DXC Technologies. He has held the titles of Chief Innovation Officer, VP of Innovation, CTO, and Chief Technologist at these firms. Ali is a turn-around and strategic growth expert, who has led several global initiatives by jumpstarting innovation, advancing capabilities, improving productivity, and leading delivery improvement initiatives. He has worked across verticals and is an expert on a wide range of technologies including AI/ML, Cloud, BD&A to ERP, CRM, Applications, Cyber Security, and others. He is a technology expert, that is called upon by Analysts and Expert Networks. In addition, Ali has also assisted several VC’s and Angel Investors in identifying and researching target firms for investment and provided M&A consulting.
Chief Information Officer
Bronson Healthcare Group
Ash Goel, MD, MBA, is senior vice president, chief information officer (CIO), for Bronson Healthcare. His responsibilities include: overseeing the broader IT strategy for the organization, enable the digital transformation journey, consumer focused growth, managing effective use of technology to further patient care, and developing and enhancing the use of data analytics throughout the health system to make informed decisions that support better clinical and business outcomes. He,in addition, he practices medicine as an adult hospitalist on a part-time basis.
Dan serves as Principal and Chief Information Officer for ZS Associates, a professional services firm whose experts work side by side with clients, leveraging analytics, technology and strategy to create solutions that work in the real world. He is a proven leader in helping businesses innovate, move to the cloud, and rapidly scale. His focus is to drive new booked business, develop innovative products, and get customers rapidly to ROI by combining strong leadership with a track record of building high performing teams. Dan is passionate about developing IT leaders who align with the corporate strategy, with an eye toward revenue growth and profitability. He leverages interpersonal skills and business acumen to connect with individuals at every level of an organization, truly interested in knowing what people need in order to optimize productivity and deliver on goals.
Dan spends a great deal of time implementing systems that help his firm’s employees securely collaborate, innovate, and work efficiently across different geographies. Combining hands-on experience in software engineering, new product development, security and cloud engineering, the protection of intellectual property, firm assets, and client information is incorporated into all his initiatives.
He has held the CIO and other senior leadership positions across many industries including pharma, healthcare payer and provider analytics firms, Fortune 500 media and entertainment companies, and Internet and Marketing leaders.
He holds an MSMIT Master of Science degree from the University of Virginia, a Bachelor of Information Systems from Pace University, and was an MSMIT Advisory Board Member at University of Virginia for many years.
Dan is a native New Yorker who currently resides in Chicago with his wife Catherine. He enjoys spending quality time with his four grown children who are busy pursuing careers in all different parts of the US.
As Director of Digital Strategy at Gagen MacDonald, Kristy advises clients on how to use technology to execute their corporate strategy, enhance their culture, their communications, and the employee experience. As a former software developer and IT Director who also has deep experience in applying behavioral science to improve organizations, she thrives at the intersection of people and technology.
Prior to joining Gagen, Kristy was responsible for the people and strategy areas of the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud practice at a top technology consultancy, where she helped clients identify technology strategy and modernize their IT portfolios. She also has worked internally, most recently as the Director of IT/PMO for a manufacturing company where she led the implementation of a new ERP system, spearheaded the establishment of both the IT and enterprise-wide PMOs and oversaw the transformation of their intranet into a modern, interactive platform.
Kristy has spoken at multiple conferences on the subject of using technology in combination with behavioral science to improve people’s working lives. She was the Chair of the 2019 Organization Development Network (ODN) Conference in Las Vegas and served on the ODN Board of Trustees.
She earned her MS in Organization Development from Pepperdine University, her BA in Journalism from Indiana University and is certified as both a Prosci Change Practitioner and an AWS Cloud Practitioner.
Managing Partner, CIO & CTO Global Functional Head
H.I.E.C
Tony Leng was formerly Managing Director of Diversified Search and led the firm’s Digital Transformation and CIO practice from its San Francisco office. Previously, Tony was Managing Partner of Hodge Partners. Tony has conducted many “C” level searches for organizations where leaders are transforming/building organizations that are taking advantage of digital technologies. He has conducted “C” level searches conducted for organizations such as Aurora Healthcare, Axalta, Catholic Health Initiatives, Blue Shield of California, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan, Delta Dental, Dignity Health, Esurance, Kaiser Permanente, Novant Health, PG&E, Polycom, Sutter Health, Symmetricom, TE Connectivity, and Wellmark.
Prior to his executive search experience, Tony was a Board member of three public companies and CEO of a $600 million Public Company. Before that, Tony ran a $1 billion division of a telephone company focused on corporate users and had responsibility for all data services and networking products. While at the telephone company, he was founder and Chairman of its ISP and a board member of its 2 million-subscriber cell phone subsidiary.
Tony uses his operating experience from being a CEO, financial background as a CPA and CA, and technical knowledge from the work that he has done for Tech companies to drill down and understand at a nuanced level what his clients are seeking to achieve as they build their teams. He has written numerous papers on technology leadership and the challenges facing technology leaders today and authors a blog, ‘Resources for the Modern CIO” (www.tonyleng.com).
The core of Tony’s consulting has been with senior leaders who are seeking to transform their organizations as they face a future of rapid change, digitization, regulation, shifting markets, and increasingly connected and informed customers.
Tony has facilitated the Fisher CIO Forum for the past 12 years. The Forum is a monthly venue for CIO’s and CTO’s to discuss topics of relevance in their daily lives, and has afforded these leaders the opportunity to develop a close network to discuss current challenges in a peer group environment on a confidential basis. Participating companies have included: Blue Shield, Clorox, Cost Plus, Delta Dental, Dignity Health, Esurance, Facebook, FitBit, Franklin Templeton, Gap, Genentech, Kaiser Permanente, Levi Strauss, McKesson, Macys.com, Matson, Mulesoft, Okta, PG&E, Restoration Hardware, Ross Stores, Safeway, Salesforce.com, Schwab, Splunk, Uber, VMWare, and Williams-Sonoma among others.
Tony received a Bachelor of Commerce (with honors), University of Cape Town, South Africa and is a Chartered Accountant and CPA.
Talvis Love is senior vice president and chief information officer.
Love joined Baxter in 2020 from Cardinal Health\’s Pharmaceuticals Segment, where he was responsible for overall IT service delivery, including strategic planning, applications maintenance and support, and new project implementations.
Previously, Love held the positions of senior vice president, eCommerce, Governance Execution, Enterprise Architecture & Chief Information Security Officer of Cardinal Health. His career has also included several executive and management positions within TD Bank Group, Ford Motor Company, Oracle Corporation and Quaker Oats Company, a division of PepsiCo.
He serves as executive sponsor of Early Career Professionals, a business resource group focused on helping early career professionals at Baxter achieve their professional development aspirations and maximize their contributions to Baxter’s business objectives. Love also serves as a member of Baxter\’s Global Inclusion Council.
He currently serves as a director on the board of Goodwill Industries of Greater Detroit and the Tricentis Growth Advisory Board.
Love earned degrees in Technology Management and Information Systems Management from the University of Maryland. He has a master\’s degree in business administration from Michigan State University and completed graduate studies at the University of Chicago.
Successful technology leader with a proven track record of creatively solving business problems. I have strengths in teaming with business leadership, leading startups, actively identifying and pursuing business opportunities for value creation through cost reduction and strong project management skills.
As former CIO of Laidlaw Education Services, a premier yellow school bus transportation company, my experience included developing and managing systems that supported the financials, human resources, operations and infrastructure for 550 locations with 45,000 employees.
My target goal is to be a CIO reporting to a CEO/COO
Specialties: Large scale/successful ERP project management, Data Center management, Information Technology Strategic planning, Leading startups
Fractional CIO/CTO and Strategic Advisor
Elevate Digital
Our International Advisory Board is comprised of technology leaders who have global oversight of technology and business strategy at Fortune 2000 organizations. HMG Strategy Executive Leadership Summits have become the most highly regarded thought leadership events for C-level executives and technology executives.
Held in more than 30 locations annually, the content for each unique summit is created through the combined efforts with our regional Advisory Boards. Advisory Board members are invited and encouraged to participate on boards beyond their local region and become a member of our International Advisory Board of global executive leaders.
Mr. McGhee has more than 35 years of experience in delivering business strategies and technology solutions, primarily in the financial services sector and has held various CIO/CTO positions. Prior to joining Cognizant and Discover, he was Senior Vice President of Technology in the Credit Loss Management division of Fannie Mae. He led the implementation of a new servicing platform that supported more than 20 million loans that is being reused by FHFA to create new MBS businesses. Mr. McGhee also managed Fannie Mae’s e-commerce group for more than six years, architecting a large-scale business-to-business transaction system with a consumer website. Additionally, as Fannie Mae’s primary contact for federal regulators, Mr. McGhee brings a strong understanding of audit and compliance requirements.
Prior to joining Fannie Mae, Mr. McGhee was a consultant at IBM, and he earned a bachelor’s degree in systems engineering from the University of Virginia, where he concentrated on the application of emerging technologies and built a working prototype of a computer system that can be controlled by severely handicapped individuals.
In his spare time, Mr. McGhee also serves as a mentor to startup businesses in the Chicago metro area including The Garage at Northwestern University.
A 24-year veteran of the Information Technology industry, Mr. McGillen is the founder and CEO of Practically Digital, a digital transformation consulting firm based in Chicago IL. Mr. McGillen was previously with Grant Thornton LLP in leadership roles worldwide over 18 years, including Global head of technology and CIO for Grant Thornton LLP from 2008 to 2015. Rob is recognized as a thought leader, speaker, and futurist on the topics of digital business and global transformation.
Mr. McGillen is responsible currently for the digital transformation for the promotional products company AIA (www.aiacommunity.com), providing digital leadership for the owners, customers, and employees of AIA.
Bud McQuade is Duracell’s Vice President of Information Technology. Bud joined Duracell’s transition team in July 2015, prior to the divestiture from Proctor & Gamble (P&G), to build the IT team in Chicago. As the leader of the global IT team, Bud developed Duracell’s IT vision and strategy to match Duracell’s new business model under the Berkshire Hathaway company portfolio.
Before joining Duracell, Bud served as Tellabs’ (Coriant) Vice President of Information Technology. Bud’s leadership was vital to the successful merger of Tellabs and Coriant Gmbh in 2014 under the private ownership of Marlin Equity Partners.
Previously, Bud was the Global Director of Infrastructure for Ipsos, a global market research company. He was responsible for the IT infrastructure in 90+ countries, all data collection platforms, information security, and IT procurement services, with a core focus on standardization, strategic investments and customer satisfaction.
Bud spent five years at Argo Group International, a global property and casualty insurance company, as Division CIO before being promoted to Chief Infrastructure Officer. He was responsible for transforming Argo Group’s infrastructure team into a shared services model to meet the needs of the company\’s diverse business units.
As a founding employee, and during his 11 years at CarMax, Bud established the strategic direction, architecture and operational practices of various information technology teams. During that time, CarMax grew from a single store location in Richmond, VA into a Fortune 500 company.
Rusty Patel, former Tenneco senior vice president and chief information officer, was responsible for leading the company’s global information technology operations. When DRiV Incorporated spun from Tenneco, Patel served in the same position with DRiV™.
Patel joined Tenneco in February 2018 with an extensive background in information technology spanning more than 25 years. Most recently, he served as vice president, information technology for the building technologies and solutions business at Johnson Controls (JCI). Prior to JCI, Patel held leadership roles in information technology with multinational companies including Tyco, VWR International and Motorola, Inc. He began his career with EDS, supporting Delphi Automotive.
Rusty holds a bachelor’s degree in accounting from Marquette University and an MBA from the University of Notre Dame.
John Phillips is an information technology executive with over 30 years of professional experience at publicly traded and privately held companies. His accountabilities and expertise include information systems strategy, daily operations, and organizational alignment. In addition to being the Chief Information Officer, John also holds executive accountability for the enterprise supply chain including inventory planning, inventory procurement, inventory deployment, distribution, warehouse management, general facilities management and inbound / outbound logistics. Prior accountabilities at Briggs Healthcare have included Customer Service, Quality Control, and Regulatory Affairs where John guided the enterprise through its first ISO 13485 certification.
John is currently serving as the Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer for Briggs Healthcare and its subsidiaries (Briggs Corporation, DMS Holdings, Briggs Medical Supply Company, Mabis Healthcare, Duromed Industries, and OmniMed). Previous positions include the CIO of Uline in Waukegan, Illinois, the Corporate Director (CIO) of Information Technology & Services at Trinity Industries in Dallas, Texas, the CIO of a US Freightway’s reverse logistics subsidiary in Dallas, Texas, the Director (CIO) of Management Information Systems for PrimeSource Building Products in Carrollton, Texas, and progression through several levels of management at Frito-Lay and Texas Instruments.
John has a Master of Arts degree in Information Systems from the University of Texas at Dallas. He earned his bachelor’s degree from Illinois State University with a major in Computer Science and a minor in Psychology.
John is active in several professional societies and organizations, and is a Trustee Board member for the Chicago Chapter of the Society for Information Management (SIM), and held similar Board positions for the Dallas-Fort Worth SIM Chapter.
John has published articles in Handheld PC Magazine and Internet Week, and has been a guest speaker at many industry events including the Micro Focus International Users Conference, Burton Group’s Catalyst Conference, and Gartner’s regional client briefings.
Dean is a business focused transformational leader who creates value and solves business challenges with the effective and efficient use of technology and organizational change across complex enterprises. He has experience at Board level, and able to liaise across an entire organization with a focus on formulating strategy and gaining approval for ideas using an understandable approach. Dean has 25+ years in all areas of business combined with the management skills gained during operational and leadership roles has placed him in the unique position that he can quickly grasp business challenges, requirements, and opportunities.
As Vice President of Global Application Services Dean is responsible for leading and managing the on-going strategic direction, design, development and support of DRiV\’s global business application platforms to ensure predicable, reliable, and continuously improving business operations and capabilities. The position has a direct bearing on short- and long-term IT investments supporting all businesses and functions and has a substantial influence on global IT systems strategy and tactics.
Dean is based at DRiV’s Headquarters in Lake Forest, IL. Prior to joining DRiV in 2010 he worked with Meijer, Smiths Group, CSC, KPMG and General Electric. Dean earned a Bachelor of Science degree in business and finance from Manchester University. He and his family live in Naperville, IL.
Chief Information Security Officer
Federal Home Loan Bank of Chicago
Eric Poole is the Assistant Director of Information Security at the Federal Home Loan Bank of Chicago and has over 10 years of security experience ranging from Identity and Access Management, Compliance, Engineering and Operations. In his current role he oversees security control engineering and operational security monitoring. Recent focuses include modernization of security monitoring to better leverage automation and control testing to provide assurance of operation. While Eric has always had an interest in solving business problems with technology, he is drawn to information security for its unique blend of technology and risk challenges. Eric’s work has been published by SANS in an article titled ‘Quantifying the Value of Information Security Projects’. Eric resides in Chicago with his wife and two children.
Allison Radecki was appointed Chief Information Officer at Beam Suntory Inc., the world’s third largest premium spirits company, in November 2013. In this role, she is responsible for the IT function globally, including strategic planning, project delivery, operations, security, controls and compliance. She is charged with leading the IT team to be a competitive asset for the company by focusing resources and prioritizing initiatives that deliver the greatest opportunities for revenue growth and improved business performance. Allison joined Beam Suntory following a two decade-long career in IT strategy, business transformation and systems integration.
Prior to joining Beam Suntory, she served as Senior Director Information Systems, Global Integrated Supply Chain, for Mondelez International, the $35 billion global snacks company, which until 2012, was previously known as Kraft Foods. Prior to joining Kraft in 2011, Allison spent ten years at GS1 US as Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer. She was responsible for building the technology strategy to align to and achieve the organization’s goals.
Allison began her career in management consulting at PricewaterhouseCoopers where she spent ten years specializing in supply chain management process re-engineering and information systems implementation for the consumer products industry.
Allison received her Bachelor of Science degree in Industrial Engineering from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. She lives in Chicago and enjoys running, cooking, spending time with her husband, Steve, and their three daughters, Madeline (13), Claire (11) and Isabelle (8).
Raphael Savastano is Chief Information Officer and executive team member for 1888 Mills, a leading global manufacturer of home and commercial textiles catering to the retail, hospitality, and healthcare markets. He is responsible for the creation, direction, and leadership of the Information Technology strategy.
Raphael has 20+ years of experience identifying, designing, and implementing structural improvements that grow sales and reduce costs. He has a broad background in technology, business strategy, manufacturing, process design, security, and sales. He is highly valued for his cross-functional leadership and ability to cultivate loyal and dedicated teams. As an adaptable leader, he basis his approach on honesty and a strong personal code of ethics. He is a change agent, taking action to achieve results and a problem solver who leads during crises.
Since joining TTX as the VP IT and CIO in late 2006, Bruce led TTX through a six-year program to reengineer and refresh all aspects of Information Technology serving our business and its customers, while changing the culture and perception of IT. Leveraging this transformation, Bruce has continued to lead TTX through technology and business transformation; introducing mobile business services and analytics in both operational systems and systems of innovation that directly drive TTX’s strategic value to the rail industry. Prior to joining TTX, Bruce led the strategic development of computer systems for several of the businesses within Wachovia Investment Bank including their railroad fleet; and held various positions providing data science and analytics in the U.S. Air Force and the AAR. He holds a M.S. in Operations Research from AFIT and a B.S. in Economics from the United States Air Force Academy.
Igor Strashko Is an innovative technical leader with 18 years of experience in IT industry. Igor uses his technical expertise and business acumen to enable companies deliver on their business goals. After spending last 12 years in technical leadership roles across multiple organizations, Igor knows how to create an effective Software Engineering practice that delivers on business goals in a most effective way. Igor has extensive experience in driving change in organizations using practices such as Agile as well as utilizing Cloud, SaaS and other modern tools to streamline delivery of business outcomes.
Igor holds BS in Computer Science from DePaul University as well as an MBA with concentration in IT Management from Argosy University.
Digital and Technology Transformation Advisor
DIGIRYT
Our International Advisory Board is comprised of technology leaders who have global oversight of technology and business strategy at Fortune 2000 organizations. HMG Strategy Executive Leadership Summits have become the most highly regarded thought leadership events for C-level executives and technology executives.
Held in more than 30 locations annually, the content for each unique summit is created through the combined efforts with our regional Advisory Boards. Advisory Board members are invited and encouraged to participate on boards beyond their local region and become a member of our International Advisory Board of global executive leaders.
Vikas has over 25 years on global technology leadership experience and is currently the VP, Global Technology Services for WBA. In this role Vikas successfully led the transition of the services delivery to a global managed services partner in a 10 year $1.5B contract so the WBA teams can focus on transformational agenda towards the strategic priorities. Besides Global Service delivery, Vikas is also responsible to provide scalable, sustainable infrastructure platform for unified IT operating model to modernize WBA business and create new innovative products and services.
Before joining WBA, Vikas was the VP of IT Infrastructure & Architecture for The Wendy’s company and prior to that he was the Divisional VP of infrastructure and operations for Family Dollar stores for Dollar Tree corporation. Vikas earned a Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics and Telecommunication from National Institute of Technology, Durgapur India in 1995 and has attended various leadership and management programs from leading companies.
Vikas is passionate about business and technology integration for creating new technology enabled business models. He focuses on collaboration with business to drive innovation towards improving the customers and colleague experiences.
SVP & Chief Information Officer
Boyd Group Services Inc.
Creighton Warren is the Chief Information Officer at USG Corporation, a leading manufacturer and distributor of building product solutions. In 2014, his leadership team received the Most Effective IT Team award sponsored by the Chicagoland chapters of the Society of Information Management (SIM) and Association of Information Technology Professionals (AITP). He joined USG in 2003 and was accountable for the IT portion of major (> $150 MM) customer satisfaction initiative involving the company wide deployment of Oracle eBusiness Suite across fifty plus manufacturing facilities. Immediately prior to his current role, he was Senior Director, Technology – Information Technology at USG Corporation, responsible for the Application, Architecture, and Operations organizations.
Mr. Warren started his career at Andersen Consulting (now Accenture) and was a manager in the firm’s Network Solutions consulting practice. He moved to Heller Financial, a middle market commercial lender, where he was Vice President Information Technology responsible for Major Projects and eCommerce Technology Strategy. While at Heller, he successfully led Heller’s largest IT investment in over 10 years, an enterprise-wide technology architecture and integration initiative. As a result of that project, he was recognized as one of the Top 5 IT project managers in North America with the receipt of the 1998 Project Leadership Award sponsored by ABT Corporation. Prior to joining USG, Mr. Warren worked at a B2B Internet startup, Commerx, often recognized by its flagship marketplace Plasticsnet.com, as well as a small Chicago based consulting firm.
He earned his BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Notre Dame, and his MM with a concentration in Finance and Strategy from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University.
Jim joined SourceLink in January 2007 and has over 20 years of experience in information systems and technology. His role includes further integrating technology, driving innovation and operational process improvement to grow our online and offline communications. In 2012, SourceLink was accredited with the website marketing standard of excellence award along from the WEB Marketing Association, and the technology innovation award from the National Center for Data Marketing. In 2011, Jim expanded his role and became a Division President managing the Marketing Database Operations including: customer analytics, product marketing solutions and enterprise technology.
Before joining SourceLink Jim was a Management Consultant with Fujitsu located at AT&T, where he directed global teams to provide integration testing and environment management for a multi-billion dollar media project call u-verse. Prior to that, Jim worked in the financial sector as a Chief Information Officer at Relational Funding Corp and was accredited with the technology leasing award and the Microsoft pinnacle award for analytics. Jim has also held senior positions at Vanstar and ServiceMaster.
Mike Zachman is currently the Vice President and Chief Security Officer (CSO) at Zebra Technologies, the market leader in rugged mobile computers, barcode scanners and barcode printers enhanced with software and services to enable real-time enterprise visibility. He has global responsibility for its enterprise-wide product security, information security, corporate security, and business continuity programs. Zachman is a globally experienced leader with extensive information security, risk management and information technology expertise. Prior to Zebra, Zachman was the first Chief information Security Officer (CISO) at Caterpillar as well as Ecolab. Zachman holds an undergraduate degree in management information systems from Millikin University, and a master’s degree in business administration from Bradley University. He is a Certified Information Security Manager, Certified Internal Auditor and is Certified in the Governance of Enterprise IT. He is an active volunteer with Junior Achievement and serves on the National Board for Easter Seals.
Executive in Residence, HMG Strategy Former Senior Partner
Aisera is the industry’s first proactive, personalized, and predictive AI Service Management (AISM) solution that is purpose-built to automate tasks and actions for IT, HR, Facilities, and Customer Service. Aisera’s next-generation AI Service Desk works with existing service desk solutions to deliver an end-to-end AI Service Experience for employees and customers. The AI Service Desk automates and resolves more than 50 percent of tasks, requests, and workflows to deliver self-service to users.
Nutanix offers a single platform to run all your apps and data across multiple clouds while simplifying operations and reducing complexity. Trusted by companies worldwide, Nutanix powers hybrid multicloud environments efficiently and cost effectively. This enables companies to focus on successful business outcomes and new innovations.
Pure Storage helps customers build a better world with data. The Pure Storage Data Platform, powered by all-flash storage, offers a simpler, more effective, and more flexible solution for cloud infrastructure and data-rich applications like artificial intelligence, machine learning and big data analytics. With Satmetrix-certified NPS performance in the top 1% of B2B companies, Pure has an ever-expanding range of customers who are some of the happiest in the world.
RingCentral, Inc. (NYSE: RNG) is a leading provider of business cloud communications and contact center solutions based on its powerful Message Video Phone™ (MVP™) global platform. More flexible and cost effective than legacy on-premises PBX and video conferencing systems that it replaces, RingCentral empowers modern mobile and distributed workforces to communicate, collaborate, and connect via any mode, any device, and any location. RingCentral offers three key products in its portfolio including RingCentral MVP™, a Unified Communications as a Service (UCaaS) platform including team messaging, video meetings, and cloud phone system; RingCentral Video™, the company’s video meetings solution with team messaging that enables Smart Video Meetings™; and RingCentral cloud Contact Center solutions. RingCentral’s open platform integrates with leading third-party business applications and enables customers to easily customize business workflows. RingCentral is headquartered in Belmont, California, and has offices around the world.
Rimini Street, Inc. (Nasdaq: RMNI), a Russell 2000® Company, is a global provider of end-to-end enterprise software support, products and services, the leading third-party support provider for Oracle and SAP software and a Salesforce and AWS partner. The Company has operations globally and offers a comprehensive family of unified solutions to run, manage, support, customize, configure, connect, protect, monitor, and optimize enterprise application, database, and technology software, and enables clients to achieve better business outcomes, significantly reduce costs and reallocate resources for innovation. To date, over 5,200 Fortune 500, Fortune Global 100, midmarket, public sector, and other organizations from a broad range of industries have relied on Rimini Street as their trusted enterprise software solutions provider. To learn more, please visit riministreet.com, and connect with Rimini Street on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook and LinkedIn. (IR-RMNI)
Tangoe is the leading technology expense and asset management solution. Tangoe seamlessly integrates with hundreds of providers globally to deliver the reporting and insights needed by enterprises of all sizes and scales. Fueled by an innovative automation framework and unified customer experience, Tangoe optimizes spend and resources across telecom, mobile, cloud, and IoT. For more information on the power of Tangoe and how it can transform your business, visit www.tangoe.com or connect with the company on LinkedIn and Twitter.
The future of workforce productivity will rely on digital employee experience and elimination of digital blindspots. Lakeside addresses this need with a modern cloud platform that uniquely combines complete real-time and historical experience data with intelligent edge-based analytics needed for IT to proactively improve digital employee experience at scale.
LastPass is an award-winning password manager which helps more than 33 million registered users organize and protect their online lives. For more than 100,000 businesses of all sizes, LastPass provides password and identity management solutions that are convenient, easy to manage, and effortless to use. From enterprise password management and single sign-on to adaptive multi-factor authentication, LastPass for Business gives superior control to IT and frictionless access to users.
Netskope, a global cybersecurity leader, is redefining cloud, data, and network security to help organizations apply zero trust principles to protect data. Fast and easy to use, the Netskope platform provides optimized access and zero trust security for people, devices, and data anywhere they go. Netskope helps customers reduce risk, accelerate performance, and get unrivaled visibility into any cloud, web, and private application activity. Thousands of customers, including more than 25 of the Fortune 100, trust Netskope and its powerful NewEdge network to address evolving threats, new risks, technology shifts, organizational and network changes, and new regulatory requirements. Learn how Netskope helps customers be ready for anything on their SASE journey.
Apptio, an IBM company, is the leading technology spend and value management software provider. Apptio’s AI-powered data insights empower leaders to make smarter financial and operational decisions across Information Technology (IT), multi-cloud FinOps, and digital product development. Apptio’s mission is to deliver business value with every technology investment and team. Powered by Apptio’s cloud platform, Apptio’s SaaS applications translate technology spend into clear business outcomes and financial ROI. As a pioneer and category leader in Technology Business Management (TBM), FinOps, and Agile Portfolio Management, Apptio works with thousands of customers, partners, and community members worldwide. For more information, please visit www.apptio.com.
Box (NYSE:BOX) is the leading Content Cloud, a single platform that empowers organizations to manage the entire content lifecycle, work securely from anywhere, and integrate across best-of-breed apps. Founded in 2005, Box simplifies work for leading global organizations, including AstraZeneca, JLL, and Nationwide. Box is headquartered in Redwood City, CA, with offices across the United States, Europe, and Asia. Visit box.com to learn more. And visit box.org to learn more about how Box empowers nonprofits to fulfill their missions.
Fortinet (NASDAQ: FTNT) makes possible a digital world that we can always trust through its mission to protect people, devices, and data everywhere. This is why the world’s largest enterprises, service providers, and government organizations choose Fortinet to securely accelerate their digital journey. The Fortinet Security Fabric platform delivers broad, integrated, and automated protections across the entire digital attack surface, securing critical devices, data, applications, and connections from the data center to the cloud to the home office. Ranking #1 in the most security appliances shipped worldwide, more than 565,000 customers trust Fortinet to protect their businesses. And the Fortinet NSE Training Institute, an initiative of Fortinet’s Training Advancement Agenda (TAA), provides one of the largest and broadest training programs in the industry to make cyber training and new career opportunities available to everyone. Learn more at https://www.fortinet.com, the Fortinet Blog, or FortiGuard Labs.
Nutanix offers a single platform to run all your apps and data across multiple clouds while simplifying operations and reducing complexity. Trusted by companies worldwide, Nutanix powers hybrid multicloud environments efficiently and cost effectively. This enables companies to focus on successful business outcomes and new innovations.
Proofpoint Inc. is a leading next-generation security and compliance company that provides cloud-based solutions to protect the way people work today. Proofpoint solutions enable organizations to protect their users from advanced attacks delivered via email, social media and mobile apps, protect the information their users create from advanced attacks and compliance risks, and respond quickly when incidents occur.
Avalor is the data fabric for security teams, providing quick access and analysis of disparate data pipelines overlayed with business critical context. Avalor’s open data platform takes a modern, source-agnostic approach to security – dynamically ingesting, normalizing, and enriching data from any source (legacy systems, data lakes, data warehouses, sql databases, applications, etc.) to build a complete picture of all weaknesses or adversaries (CVE, code flaw, misconfigurations, app security findings, external attack surface risk, third party risk, user behavior risk, etc.). With Avalor, organizations can embed business context and KPIs into prioritization workflows and achieve full cycle risk assessment, remediation, and reporting while expanding into additional use cases with full transparency of their data.
Trustmi is the only end-to-end payment security solution that helps businesses protect their bottom line by eliminating losses from cyberattacks, internal collusion and human error. Trustmi’s flexible and modular solution offers businesses full control to use only the tools they need for securing their payment processes and managing their vendors. Founded in 2021 by Shai Gabay and Eli Ben Nun, Trustmi is headquartered in Tel Aviv with an office in New York City. For more information, visit https://www.trustmi.ai/.
We’re reinventing cloud security from the inside out. Led by an experienced and visionary team, we are on a mission to help organizations create secure cloud environments that accelerate their businesses. By creating a normalizing layer between cloud environments, our platform enables organizations to rapidly identify and remove critical risks.
Egon Zehnder was founded in 1964 with a distinctive vision and structure aimed at achieving two basic goals – to place our clients’ interests first and to lead our profession in creating value for our clients through the assessment and recruitment of top-level management resources. The most fundamental expression of our client-first vision resides in our structure, which is unique to our profession. Our 390 consultants, operating from 63 wholly owned offices in 37 countries, are organized around a single-profit center partnership. This is designed to eliminate competitive barriers between our offices. It allows us to operate seamlessly when engagements call for us to mobilize across many offices in a country or a region. Large or small, local or global, our clients benefit from our structure by having access to our most relevant resources and relationships wherever they may reside. Underpinning this unique structure is our private ownership. We have chosen to operate our firm independent of any outside interests and are motivated solely by a desire to exceed our clients’ expectations.
Heidrick & Struggles actively solves business problems for our clients every day. Through our Leadership Advisory framework, we help companies attract, develop and retain the world’s most talented individuals. For almost 60 years, we have focused on quality service and built strong leadership teams through our relationships with clients and individuals worldwide. Today, Heidrick & Struggles leadership experts operate from principal business centers in North America, Latin America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia Pacific.
At Korn Ferry, we design, build, attract and ignite talent. Since our inception, clients have trusted us to help recruit world-class leadership. Today, we are a single source for leadership and talent consulting services to empower businesses and leaders to reach their goals. Through our vision, research and tools across 80 offices and 3,700 employees, we convert potential into greatness. Our solutions range from executive recruitment and leadership development programs, to enterprise learning, succession planning, and recruitment process outsourcing (RPO). Organizations around the world trust Korn Ferry to manage their talent – a responsibility we meet every day with passion, expertise, integrity and results.
Founded in 1956 and privately owned, Spencer Stuart is one of the world’s leading executive search consulting firms. We are the advisor of choice among top companies seeking guidance and counsel on senior leadership needs. We have unrivalled access to leading executives around the world. Our clients range across industries, from the world’s largest companies to medium-sized businesses and entrepreneurial start-ups. We operate out of 51 offices in 27 countries. Last year we conducted more than 4,000 assignments around the world. Our team of more than 300 consultants possesses a unique blend of professional search experience and industry expertise. Consultants are organized in practices and work in teams, often across international boundaries that maximize sector specialization and knowledge-sharing. These client service teams are supported by first-rate associates and researchers, and backed by state-of-the-art technology. We place quality at the center of everything we do and solicit candid feedback at every opportunity in order to continually improve our service to clients. We channel our knowledge and expertise into a wide range of publications for the benefit of existing and prospective clients.
Egon Zehnder was founded in 1964 with a distinctive vision and structure aimed at achieving two basic goals – to place our clients’ interests first and to lead our profession in creating value for our clients through the assessment and recruitment of top-level management resources. The most fundamental expression of our client-first vision resides in our structure, which is unique to our profession. Our 390 consultants, operating from 63 wholly owned offices in 37 countries, are organized around a single-profit center partnership. This is designed to eliminate competitive barriers between our offices. It allows us to operate seamlessly when engagements call for us to mobilize across many offices in a country or a region. Large or small, local or global, our clients benefit from our structure by having access to our most relevant resources and relationships wherever they may reside. Underpinning this unique structure is our private ownership. We have chosen to operate our firm independent of any outside interests and are motivated solely by a desire to exceed our clients’ expectations.
Heidrick & Struggles actively solves business problems for our clients every day. Through our Leadership Advisory framework, we help companies attract, develop and retain the world’s most talented individuals. For almost 60 years, we have focused on quality service and built strong leadership teams through our relationships with clients and individuals worldwide. Today, Heidrick & Struggles leadership experts operate from principal business centers in North America, Latin America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia Pacific.
Intuitive is one of the fastest-growing companies in the Americas (recognized by CRN & INC 5000) focused on IT solutions, and services supporting 100+ Fortune 1000 & ISV customers on a global scale. With the reputation of being a Tiger Team & a Trusted Partner, Intuitive’s solution-centric SMEs across its core Superpowers (Public/Private/Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure, Cyber Security, AppDev, AppSecOps/DevSecOps, SRE, Data, AI/ML, Network and Digital Workspace) help solve most complex challenges and initiatives for Enterprises. Intuitive is also one of the very few recognized ProServe partners AWS (ProServe), Azure (ECIF), GCP (PSF), VMware (PSO/PCT), PANW, and Zscaler delivering engineering excellence.
At Korn Ferry, we design, build, attract and ignite talent. Since our inception, clients have trusted us to help recruit world-class leadership. Today, we are a single source for leadership and talent consulting services to empower businesses and leaders to reach their goals. Through our vision, research and tools across 80 offices and 3,700 employees, we convert potential into greatness. Our solutions range from executive recruitment and leadership development programs, to enterprise learning, succession planning, and recruitment process outsourcing (RPO). Organizations around the world trust Korn Ferry to manage their talent – a responsibility we meet every day with passion, expertise, integrity and results.
Menlo Ventures is a venture capital firm that strives to have a positive impact on everything we do. That’s why we support businesses including Betterment, Carta, Roku, Poshmark, Uber, and Warby Parker that are reimagining life and work for the better. Over 43 years, we’ve grown a portfolio that includes more than 70 public companies, over 100 mergers and acquisitions, and $5.5 billion under management. We invest at every stage and in every sector, with expertise in Consumer, Enterprise, and Healthcare. From developing market strategies to creating communities, we provide real impact where entrepreneurs need it most. When we’re in, we’re all in.
Founded in 1956 and privately owned, Spencer Stuart is one of the world’s leading executive search consulting firms. We are the advisor of choice among top companies seeking guidance and counsel on senior leadership needs. We have unrivalled access to leading executives around the world. Our clients range across industries, from the world’s largest companies to medium-sized businesses and entrepreneurial start-ups. We operate out of 51 offices in 27 countries. Last year we conducted more than 4,000 assignments around the world. Our team of more than 300 consultants possesses a unique blend of professional search experience and industry expertise. Consultants are organized in practices and work in teams, often across international boundaries that maximize sector specialization and knowledge-sharing. These client service teams are supported by first-rate associates and researchers, and backed by state-of-the-art technology. We place quality at the center of everything we do and solicit candid feedback at every opportunity in order to continually improve our service to clients. We channel our knowledge and expertise into a wide range of publications for the benefit of existing and prospective clients.
Greylock Partners backs entrepreneurs who are building disruptive, market-transforming consumer and enterprise software companies. We invest in companies that define new markets, including Airbnb, AppDynamics, Cloudera, Docker, Dropbox, Facebook (Nasdaq: FB), LinkedIn (NYSE: LNKD), Medium, Nextdoor, Palo Alto Networks (NYSE: PANW) and Workday (NYSE: WDAY).
Lightspeed Ventures is a global VC firm headquartered in Silicon Valley, with offices in India, Israel, and China. With over $7 billion under management, Lightspeed invests in both enterprise and consumer tech startups from early-stage to late-stage. With over 300 active startups in the portfolio, Lightspeed has invested in companies like Brocade, Informatica, Nutanix, AppDynamics, Mulesoft, zScaler, etc. Lightspeed has also created a CIO Innovation Advisory Network to connect forward-thinking IT leaders with Silicon Valley.
Menlo Ventures is a venture capital firm that strives to have a positive impact on everything we do. That’s why we support businesses including Betterment, Carta, Roku, Poshmark, Uber, and Warby Parker that are reimagining life and work for the better. Over 43 years, we’ve grown a portfolio that includes more than 70 public companies, over 100 mergers and acquisitions, and $5.5 billion under management. We invest at every stage and in every sector, with expertise in Consumer, Enterprise, and Healthcare. From developing market strategies to creating communities, we provide real impact where entrepreneurs need it most. When we’re in, we’re all in.
Sequoia is a venture firm with a 40+ year track record of partnering with daring entrepreneurs. Founded in 1972, we’ve been early business partners with many of technology’s biggest companies (Apple, Google, Oracle, Cisco, and more) along with many emerging leaders (WhatsApp, Palo Alto Networks, ServiceNow, FireEye, LinkedIn, Dropbox, Airbnb, etc).
8×8 is transforming the future of business communications with XCaaS™ (eXperience Communications as a Service™). 8×8 XCaaS is the only integrated platform for contact center, voice, video meetings, team chat, and CPaaS embeddable APIs. Unlike multi-vendor environments, 8×8 XCaaS provides platform-wide reliability, lowers costs, boosts employee productivity and customer engagement, and delivers intelligence through AI-powered experiences and insights. More than 2.5 million people around the world rely on 8×8 to collaborate quicker, work smarter, and serve customers better with real-time analytics across every interaction. For organizations relying on Microsoft Teams for collaboration, 8×8 offers its 8×8 Voice for Microsoft Teams direct routing solution and 8×8 Contact Center for Microsoft Teams which is certified by Microsoft. 8×8 Voice for Microsoft Teams provides advanced telephony and contact center capabilities to further empower Microsoft Teams users. Today, more than 150,000 users rely on 8×8 for advanced communications for Teams. 8×8 is a ten-time Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Unified Communications as a Service (UCaaS), Worldwide and seven-time Challenger in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Contact Center as a Service (CCaaS).
As the world’s largest and most trusted cloud delivery platform, Akamai makes it easier for its customers to provide the best and most secure digital experiences on any device, anytime, anywhere. Akamai’s massively distributed platform is unparalleled in scale with over 200,000 servers across 130 countries, giving customers superior performance and threat protection. Akamai’s portfolio of web and mobile performance, cloud security, enterprise access, and video delivery solutions are supported by exceptional customer service and 24/7 monitoring.
BetterCloud is the leading SaaS Management Platform (SMP) that enables IT professionals to discover, manage and secure the growing stack of SaaS applications in the digital workplace. With an expanding ecosystem of SaaS integrations, thousands of forward thinking organizations like Zoom, Walmart, and Square now rely on BetterCloud to automate processes and policies across their cloud application portfolio. A pioneer of the SaaSOps movement, BetterCloud has built a community of more than 45K IT professionals who are embracing the new role of SaaSOps within IT organizations. The company launched the first-ever annual SaasOps-focused conference, Altitude, and publishes annually the definitive market research report, State of SaaSOps, on the market and category. BetterCloud is headquartered in New York City with offices in San Francisco, CA and Atlanta, GA. The company’s total amount raised to date is $187 million. Investors include Warburg Pincus, Accel, Bain Capital Ventures, Flybridge Capital Partners, and Greycroft Partners.
Box (NYSE:BOX) is the leading Content Cloud, a single platform that empowers organizations to manage the entire content lifecycle, work securely from anywhere, and integrate across best-of-breed apps. Founded in 2005, Box simplifies work for leading global organizations, including AstraZeneca, JLL, and Nationwide. Box is headquartered in Redwood City, CA, with offices across the United States, Europe, and Asia. Visit box.com to learn more. And visit box.org to learn more about how Box empowers nonprofits to fulfill their missions.
Darktrace is the world’s leading cyber AI company and the creator of Autonomous Response technology. Its self-learning AI is modeled on the human immune system and used by over 4,500 organizations to protect against threats to the cloud, email, IoT, networks and industrial systems. The company has over 1,500 employees and headquarters in San Francisco and Cambridge, UK. Every 3 seconds, Darktrace AI fights back against a cyber-threat, preventing it from causing damage.
Delphix is the industry leader for DevOps test data management. Businesses need to transform application delivery but struggle to balance speed with data security and compliance. Our DevOps Data Platform automates data security, while rapidly deploying test data to accelerate application releases. With Delphix, customers modernize applications, adopt multi-cloud, achieve CI/CD, and recover from downtime events such as ransomware up to 2x faster. Leading companies, including Choice Hotels, and Fannie Mae, use Delphix to accelerate digital transformation and enable zero trust data management. Visit us at www.delphix.com. Follow us on LinkedIn, Twitter, and Facebook.
Fortinet (NASDAQ: FTNT) makes possible a digital world that we can always trust through its mission to protect people, devices, and data everywhere. This is why the world’s largest enterprises, service providers, and government organizations choose Fortinet to securely accelerate their digital journey. The Fortinet Security Fabric platform delivers broad, integrated, and automated protections across the entire digital attack surface, securing critical devices, data, applications, and connections from the data center to the cloud to the home office. Ranking #1 in the most security appliances shipped worldwide, more than 565,000 customers trust Fortinet to protect their businesses. And the Fortinet NSE Training Institute, an initiative of Fortinet’s Training Advancement Agenda (TAA), provides one of the largest and broadest training programs in the industry to make cyber training and new career opportunities available to everyone. Learn more at https://www.fortinet.com, the Fortinet Blog, or FortiGuard Labs.
LastPass is an award-winning password manager which helps more than 33 million registered users organize and protect their online lives. For more than 100,000 businesses of all sizes, LastPass provides password and identity management solutions that are convenient, easy to manage, and effortless to use. From enterprise password management and single sign-on to adaptive multi-factor authentication, LastPass for Business gives superior control to IT and frictionless access to users.
Netskope, a global cybersecurity leader, is redefining cloud, data, and network security to help organizations apply zero trust principles to protect data. Fast and easy to use, the Netskope platform provides optimized access and zero trust security for people, devices, and data anywhere they go. Netskope helps customers reduce risk, accelerate performance, and get unrivaled visibility into any cloud, web, and private application activity. Thousands of customers, including more than 25 of the Fortune 100, trust Netskope and its powerful NewEdge network to address evolving threats, new risks, technology shifts, organizational and network changes, and new regulatory requirements. Learn how Netskope helps customers be ready for anything on their SASE journey.
Nutanix offers a single platform to run all your apps and data across multiple clouds while simplifying operations and reducing complexity. Trusted by companies worldwide, Nutanix powers hybrid multicloud environments efficiently and cost effectively. This enables companies to focus on successful business outcomes and new innovations.
Palo Alto Networks, the global cybersecurity leader, is shaping the cloud-centric future with technology that is transforming the way people and organizations operate. Our mission is to be the cybersecurity partner of choice, protecting our digital way of life. We help address the world’s greatest security challenges with continuous innovation that seizes the latest breakthroughs in artificial intelligence, analytics, automation, and orchestration. By delivering an integrated platform and empowering a growing ecosystem of partners, we are at the forefront of protecting tens of thousands of organizations across clouds, networks, and mobile devices. Our vision is a world where each day is safer and more secure than the one before. For more information, visit www.paloaltonetworks.com.
Ping Identity provides secure and seamless digital experiences for your employees, partners and customers. We do it by securely connecting users to cloud, mobile, and on-premises applications and APIs while managing identity and profile data at scale.
RingCentral, Inc. (NYSE: RNG) is a leading provider of business cloud communications and contact center solutions based on its powerful Message Video Phone™ (MVP™) global platform. More flexible and cost effective than legacy on-premises PBX and video conferencing systems that it replaces, RingCentral empowers modern mobile and distributed workforces to communicate, collaborate, and connect via any mode, any device, and any location. RingCentral offers three key products in its portfolio including RingCentral MVP™, a Unified Communications as a Service (UCaaS) platform including team messaging, video meetings, and cloud phone system; RingCentral Video™, the company’s video meetings solution with team messaging that enables Smart Video Meetings™; and RingCentral cloud Contact Center solutions. RingCentral’s open platform integrates with leading third-party business applications and enables customers to easily customize business workflows. RingCentral is headquartered in Belmont, California, and has offices around the world.
SafeGuard Cyber protects the human connections businesses need to thrive in a digital world. Our award-winning platform utilizes a unique mix of direct API integration, Natural Language Understanding, advanced policy engines, and deep relationships with cloud-based digital platforms to give you unmatched, real-time monitoring and mitigation on over 50 cloud communication channels. With SafeGuard installed your team can use whatever tools they wish to do what they do best: create value and drive growth.
As the market leader in enterprise application software, SAP is helping companies of all sizes and in all industries run better by redefining ERP and creating networks of intelligent enterprises that provide transparency, resiliency, and sustainability across supply chains. Our end-to-end suite of applications and services enables our customers to operate profitably, adapt continuously, and make a difference worldwide.
Tonkean is the OS for Business Operations, empowering operations teams to rapidly improve efficiency with an enterprise-grade, composable automation platform. By allowing ops teams to automate, monitor, and manage mission-critical business processes with no-code, while still maintaining compliance and security, Tonkean enables enterprises to accelerate operational velocity at scale. The Tonkean platform makes automating complex business processes simple and accessible to non-developers, such as business operations teams and process owners, by abstracting the high technical barrier and coding expertise needed to deliver robust, enterprise-grade process solutions via composability. Ops teams compose custom process solutions using building blocks called “enterprise components” or ECs. ECs are modular, interchangeable, and reusable capabilities that perform actions or complete steps in a business process. ECs are fully governed and curated, typically by IT. They can be adopted from vendors or custom built, or they can simply be extensions of existing tools and systems. This allows ops and process experts to rapidly build holistic process solutions that can work with different systems, easily adapt to changing needs, and measure cross-functional KPIs–all with no-code and no change management. Enterprises like Google, EVERSANA, Instacart, Grubhub, Crypto.com, and more rely on Tonkean to optimize and align their operations across functions—including sales, marketing, customer support, legal, finance, and more. With Tonkean, enterprises can expand the pie of who can deliver software to make a world of Makers.
Upwork is the world’s largest work marketplace that connects businesses with independent talent from across the globe. We serve everyone from one-person startups to large, Fortune 100 enterprises with a powerful, trust-driven platform that enables companies and talent to work together in new ways that unlock their potential. Our talent community earned over $3.8 billion on Upwork in 2022 across more than 10,000 skills in categories including website & app development, creative & design, customer support, finance & accounting, consulting, and operations.
Zoom is the leader in modern enterprise video communications, with an easy, reliable cloud platform for video and audio conferencing, chat, and webinars across mobile, desktop, and room systems. Zoom Rooms is the original software-based conference room solution used around the world in board, conference, huddle, and training rooms, as well as executive offices and classrooms. Founded in 2011, Zoom helps businesses and organizations bring their teams together in a frictionless environment to get more done.
Zscaler, the only zero trust platform that securely connects any user, any device, and any app over any network. Back in the day when your users were all on the network and your applications resided in your physical data center, it made sense to establish a secure perimeter around your network. But those days are over, the perimeter is gone, and network security is all but irrelevant. Instead, you need to put your defenses and controls where the connections occur— the internet — so that every connection is fast and secure, no matter how or where users connect or where their applications reside. By moving applications and infrastructure to the cloud and untethering employees from their desks, you can realize tremendous advantages in productivity, agility, and cost containment. With our 100% cloud built secure platform, Zscaler can help you make the move to the cloud, securely.
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