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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Advisory Board
Partners
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Registration Information
October 12, 2023, 7:30 AM – 4:00 PM PT
7:30 – 8:30 AM
Breakfast and Networking
8:30 – 8:50 AM Welcome and Introduction
Hunter Muller, Founder and CEO, HMG Strategy and Drew Martin, Principal, Silicon Beach Advisors
8:50 – 9:15 AM
EXECUTIVE KEYNOTE: From the Front Lines to the C-Suite: Battlefield Lessons for Leading Through Adversity
Colonel Kevin Trepa, USMC, Retired
The world and the business community have 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 relentless cyber security challenges. As the CEO of Technology, CIOs need to understand the challenges their businesses face, proactively shape their operating environments, and build a team that can dynamically flex to respond to complex, simultaneous threats.
Join Kevin Trepa as he shares how he leveraged some of the leadership skills honed on the battlefield in his response to the challenges of the Covid pandemic as the CIO and COO of a billion dollar company. This presentation will set the framework for the rest of our day as we explore the CIO’s business partner leadership role in driving business success in an uncertain world.
9:15 – 9:35 AM
EXECUTIVE FIRESIDE CHAT: Accelerating to Drive Innovation
James Parker, CEO and Board Member, Tangoe, interviewed by Hunter Muller, Founder and CEO, HMG Strategy
In today’s digital-first world, innovation is not only a necessity but also a competitive advantage. However, innovation should not be pursued for its own sake, but rather aligned with the business strategy and goals. James Parker, CEO and Board Member, Tangoe will discuss how CEOs need to align their innovation and cost saving efforts with business strategies and goals.
9:35 – 10:00 AM
Coffee Break, Networking and Meet Our Partners
10:00 – 10:35 AM
EXECUTIVE PANEL: Visionary Leadership: Driving a Modern AI Enterprise and a Secure Digital Agenda
Moderator: Naresh Lachmandas, Sponsorship Chair, SIM San Diego and Partner & Senior Fellow, Avasant
Max Chan, CIO, Avnet
Alan Shen, VP, Solution Management, Digital Workplace Solutions, Unisys
Venky Venkatesh, Senior Director IT Services, General Atomics and Affiliated Companies
John Zavada, Chief Administrative Officer, PETCO Animal Supplies
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.
10:35 – 10:40 AM
HMG 2023 Global Leadership Institute Award Presentation to:
Small Cap CIOAward – Steve Hoyt, Executive Director Information Technology, Aspen Neuroscience, Inc.
Lifetime Achievement Award – Barb Munro, Co-Founder, Partner, The Carrera Agency and Co-Founder and Membership Chair, SIM San Diego
10:40 – 11:00 AM
Coffee Break, Networking and Meet Our Partners
11:00 – 11:20 AM
EXECUTIVE FIRESIDE CHAT: Addressing the Human Experience in the Customer Journey
Joanna Palmer, CX Client Principal of Contact Center, RingCentral interview 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, Joanna Palmer,CX Client Principal of Contact Center, RingCentral, 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.
11:20 – 11:35 PM
EXECUTIVE FIRESIDE CHAT: Delivering on the Digital Agenda
Max Chan, CIO, Avnet interviewed by Steve Phillpott, Board Member and President, SIM San Diego
As companies continue to make the digital pivot, many organizations often struggle with trying to digitize current processes and services without fully understanding what a transition to a digital business model is all about. In this Fireside Chat with Steve Phillpott, President, SIM San Diego, Max Chan, CIO at Avnet, will share how he is leading digital business transformation for the multinational distributor of electronic components as well as the steps he has taken to make diversity, equity and inclusion a top priority for the company.
11:35 AM – 12:00 PM
SIM San Diego News – Barb Munro, Co-Founder, Partner, The Carrera Agency and Co-Founder and Membership Chair, SIM San Diego
Presentation of the SIM San Diego Scholarship Awards – Maria Zack, Professor and Chair of Mathematical, Information and Computer Sciences, Point Loma Nazarene University
12:00 – 1:00 PM
Lunch and Networking
HMG 2023 Global Leadership Institute Award Winner and 2024 Nominee Photo
Small Cap CIO Award – Steve Hoyt, Executive Director Information Technology, Aspen Neuroscience, Inc.
Lifetime Achievement Award – Barb Munro, Co-Founder, Partner, The Carrera Agency and Co-Founder and Membership Chair, SIM San Diego
HMG Champion Award – Naresh Lachmandas, Sponsorship Chair, SIM San Diego and Partner & Senior Fellow, Avasant
Large Cap CAO Award – John Zavada, Chief Administrative Officer, PETCO Animal Supplies
Jerome Bonhomme, CTO, American Specialty Health – TOPIC: The Finish Line is Just the Beginning: Lessons from Endurance Sports for the Challenges of Tech Leadership
Faisal Mushtaq, SVP & CTO, Sleep Number Corporation – TOPIC: Knowing Sleep: The Least Understood 1/3rd of Your Life
Amy M. Sitapati, M.D., Chief and Chair of the Division and Department of Biomedical Informatics, and Chief Medical Information Officer for Population Health, UC San Diego Health – TOPIC: “ChatGPT4 is reading my doctor’s chart!” How Do You Build and Advance Innovation in Artificial Intelligence and Build Strategy in This Dynamic Time?
We know that passion and purpose drive performance. In this innovative format, three Technology thought leaders each share a topic about which they’re currently passionate. Each will share their insights, experiences, and best practices on a topic of their choosing. They’ll cover the specific techniques they’re using to lead their organizations in the digital age as well as challenges and lessons learned. To keep the lightening round pace, we’ll save any Q&A for the coffee break.
2:00 – 2:25 PM
Coffee Break, Networking and Meet Our Partners
2:25 – 3:00 PM
EXECUTIVE PANEL: Security Innovation: Going Beyond Protection to Make Security a Competitive Advantage
Moderator: Joshua Barons, Head of Information Security, San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance
Todd Friedman, CISO, ResMed
David Lin, CISO,GIA (Gemological Institute of America)
Mani Keerthi Nagothu, Americas Field CISO Associate Director, SentinelOne
Billy Norwood, CISO, FFF Enterprises
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.
3:00 – 3:05 PM
Transition Break
3:05 – 3:40 PM
EXECUTIVE PANEL: Tapping Innovative Technologies and Partnerships to Drive Cost Containment and Power Business Growth
Moderator: Rebecca Maffei, CIO, Fashionphile
Beau Mersereau, Global CTO, Toppan Merrill
Ravi Nemani, EVP & CIO, Enlyte
Lance Ralls, Vice Chair, SIM Southern California
Evelyn Travnik, former Global Software Engineering Leader, Digital Science Solutions, Thermo Fisher Scientific
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.
3:40 – 4:00 PM
Raffle Prizes
Closing Remarks
Yasmin Shah, Chief Executive Officer and CIO, SeenADriver
Executive in Residence, HMG Strategy Former Senior Partner
Chairs
Doug Cyphers
Vice President, SIM San Diego
VP IT, WD-40 Company
Doug Cyphers leads IT Strategy and Leadership for WD-40’s Americas and APAC locations. Having over 30 years of experience in IT, Doug is a former CIO that has held Executive or Senior Level positions with organizations in a variety of industries that have ranged in size from “Startup” to Fortune 50. Notable accomplishments include being a major contributor to one company gaining “Inc500 Hall of Fame” status, working for one of the largest event and license registration companies in the US, implementing cutting edge End-to-End Encryption solutions with the nation’s top credit card processors, and winner of San Diego’s 2014 “Top Tech Exec” award. He continues to work with nonprofit organizations in a variety of roles and currently serves as Secretary for SIM San Diego.
Seasoned IT professional with over twenty years of experience within a diverse range of industries including healthcare, media and non-profits. Henderson has a proven track record of success in strategic planning, technology development, cybersecurity, and product commercialization.
In his role as CIO for leading Life Sciences company, Millennium Health located within San Diego’s biotech hub, Henderson recently oversaw the successful development and implementation of an intuitive online drug test ordering platform that will transform the way clinicians improve patient care and ensure compliance. This innovative new technology leverages over 10 years of laboratory excellence proprietary data intelligence and clinical expertise to offer comprehensive insight to benefit patients, payers and customers nationwide.
Henderson has a demonstrated history of affecting broad-scale transformation across complex organizations, resulting in increased strategic advantages while reducing expenses. Previously, Henderson was the chief information officer at GenomeDx Biosciences where he led the digital transformation of the company’s business processes. Prior to that, he was the chief information officer at Sequenom Inc., where he was part of the executive team that commercialized their ground breaking non-invasive prenatal diagnostic test. He also held leadership roles CBS Corporation and Paramount Pictures Corporation, supporting world wide global IT operations as well as several mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures.
Henderson is a member of the San Diego State University Fowler College of Business, Management Information Systems Advisory Board and of DocuSign’s Healthcare and Life Sciences Advisory Board. He was also a past winner of the San Diego Business Journal’s Top Tech Awards, 2015 Small Public Company Category.
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.
Philippe Marchand is COO for Biosplice Therapeutics, a San Diego therapeutics startup dedicated to the development of small molecule Wnt pathway modulators, for oncology, degenerative diseases, and regenerative medicine. Until March 2015, he was Global Head of Information Technology for Novartis Molecular Diagnostics and CIO of Genoptix Medical Laboratory (a Novartis Company), since the 2011 acquisition of Genoptix by Novartis. At Genoptix, Dr. Marchand successfully led the IT organization through the creation of the Diagnostics Laboratory, the subsequent IPO, and the acquisition by Novartis. Prior to rejoining Genoptix in June 2007 as Chief Information Officer, he was founder and CTO of Celula, a spin-off company of Genoptix dedicated to the development and commercialization of microfluidics based instruments. Before that, starting in 2001, Dr. Marchand directed the research and technology development efforts at Genoptix. The projects yielded the first ever implementation of a microfluidic instrument capable of sorting mammalian cells. Prior to joining Genoptix, Dr. Marchand was Advanced Projects Director at Optical Micro Machines, Inc. from 1999 until 2001 and he was a Research Faculty at the University of California, San Diego from 1991 to 1999. He was also the co-founder of Parallel Solutions Inc., a startup specializing in advanced optoelectronic design and prototyping for various DOD applications. Dr. Marchand received a M.S. (Hons.), a Ph.D., and the Research Habilitation in Electrical Engineering from the Université de Haute Alsace, France where he also was a Lavoisier post-doctoral fellow.
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.
Co-Founder and Membership Chair, SIM San Diego
Co-Founder, Partner, The Carrera Agency
Barb Munro, Co-founder and Partner at The Carrera Agency, a Talent Management Agency for IT professionals, has over 25 years experience in the Information Technology industry, holding leadership positions in organizations ranging from Fortune 100 firms to start-up software and consulting companies. She carries a wide breadth of industry knowledge including experience in software development and data base design, product management, quality assurance, customer relationship management, and sales and marketing. She is also the Co-founder and Membership Chair of SIM San Diego.
Steve brings 20+ years of leadership experience across multiple industries and companies such as Qualcomm, Gateway, Western Digital, Illumina and Intel spin-off, Solidigm.
Steve led a one of a kind, complex simultaneous integration of 3 Fortune 500 companies, Western Digital, Hitachi Global Storage(HGST) and SanDisk. He used this opportunity to completely transform the technology foundation of the company and deploy one of the largest cloud ERP applications helping to modernize business processes and streamline application support.
He has continually deployed diverse technologies achieving better business outcomes including running the world’s largest commercial Cloud based High Performance Computing (HPC) simulation, leveraging 1 million cores across 3 of Amazon’s Data Centers, improving performance of an engineering product simulation from 30 days down to just 7 hours driving improved product time to market.
In his role as Chief Data /Analytics Officer, he drove the 5+ year vision and deployment of a big data analytics/AI platform architecture that led to the consumption of over 100 trillion manufacturing data points per day while delivering near real time information used to make important business decisions and drive improved product quality and saving over $ ½ Billion.
A recognized industry expert, Steve has received numerous awards including 2020 CIO Hall of Fame. He is a frequent speaker on IT innovation, transformation, Data/Analytics/AI and cloud optimization strategies at many leading industry events.
Executive in Residence, HMG Strategy Former Senior Partner
Advisory Board
Srilekha Akula
Vice President | Software, Network, and DataVice President | Software, Network, and Data
Optum
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.
Srilekha has 20 years of experience building teams to launching products, while maturing organizational execution models. Srilekha is a Computer Science graduate, and has worked as a Software Engineer, Engineering Manager, to now a cross functional leader. Her passion lies in building scalable organizations that broaden human possibilities using technology.
Srilekha leads the Prime WW Tech Shared Services at Amazon where her team is working on inventing on behalf of Prime customers, solving hard problems that are unique to Prime at Amazon. Prior to Amazon, Srilekha was with Google where she led the GSuite Enterprise Program Portfolio and Augmented Reality programs using AI/ML, Geospatial Intelligence and Computer Vision.
Outside Amazon, Srilekha is a visiting faculty at Harbour.Space university. Srilekha serves on the Board of PCs For People, a non-profit helping bridge the digital divide by providing the necessary tools to low-income families.
Todd Barnum is the Chief Information Security Officer for GoPro in San Mateo California. In this role, he leads the information security team, and helps GoPro secure its critical information assets.
Prior to GoPro, Todd spent time at two consulting firms, KPMG LLP, and Forrester Research. In both positions Todd led Information Security Consulting Practices.
Prior to these consultant gigs, Todd was the Vice President and Chief Information Security Officer at Warner Bros Entertainment in Burbank California. At the same time Todd also had the pleasure of serving Warner Bros as the Vice President of Enterprise Architecture, and was responsible for architecting and securing the transition from and entirely insourced IT model to one that was entirely outsourced and off-shored.
Prior to Warner Bros, Todd spent 8 years at AMGEN, headquartered in Los Angeles where he served as Corporate Director and Chief Information Security Officer.
Early in his career, Todd learned the details of information security as a Naval Officer managing some of the Navy’s largest telecommunication systems. Todd got his Masters in Telecommunications from the United States Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey California, and his Bachelors from the University of Hawaii.
Todd is also an Adjunct Professor at California Luther University where he’s taught computer science courses since 2001. Todd also served as a Board member of the Ventura County YMCA, and was a part Orange County’s Big Brother Big Sister Program.
Head of Information Security
San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance
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.
Josh Barons oversees information security, including the development and maintenance of the overall information security program for San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance. Prior to joining the San Diego Zoo he was Head of Information Security for Zocdoc. Previously, Barons served as Director of Information Security for Abacus Group LLC, globally responsible for all aspects of information security and risk for the company. Earlier in his career, he held information security management positions for Sony Corporation of America, Condé Nast, and other technology and media companies. He has spoken at security conferences such as RSA, Zero Day Con and Evanta. He is CISSP and CRISC certified and holds a bachelor’s degree in fine arts from Cornell University and a master of fine arts from Parsons School of Design.
Jonathan Behnke is the Chief Information Officer for the City of San Diego. He has over 20 years of IT experience managing and implementing technology for a broad range of industries including public sector, contract services, oil, construction, automotive, distribution, consulting, and manufacturing.
In Jonathan’s current role he is responsible for the technology strategy and operations for America\’s eighth largest City including data center, network, voice, public safety wireless communications, web services, enterprise applications, portfolio management, cybersecurity, and GIS, in support of over 11,500 users and 1.4 million residents.
Jonathan also serves on the Board of Directors for SanGIS, a joint powers authority between the City and County of San Diego responsible for maintaining a regional GIS land base and data warehouse. In support of CA Governor\’s Office of Emergency Services, he also serves on the California Cybersecurity Task Force. Jonathan is also a member of the Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center, The San Diego Infragard, and Metropolitan Information Exchange representing a group of CIO’s from the largest cities and counties in the USA.
Amy Benton is currently the Vice President and Head of Information Technology at Travere Therapeutics. She is a successful IT Executive with a diverse background across multiple industries including high tech and pharmaceutical/biotech. Amy has extensive experience supporting corporate compliance initiatives and requirements such as Data Privacy, Sarbanes-Oxley, Enterprise Risk Management, Title 21 of the CFR, and Sunshine Act. She is a highly regarded manager, coach, and mentor who leads and inspires high-performing cross-functional teams.
Amy leveraged and embraced cloud computing technology from networks to systems and applications to build an IT infrastructure at Travere that is completely in the cloud. She also implemented a robust cybersecurity program.
Amy currently serves as a Client Advisory Board member at PCI and a Committee Member for the Society of Information Management, San Diego Women in Technology group.
Amy has a master’s degree in Business Administration, with a Concentration in Technology Management. She has a bachelor’s degree in Applied Mathematics, with a Concentration in Scientific Programming.
Sr. Director, Global Application Delivery
Bose Corporation
Carrie Craig, MBA, ITILv4
Enterprise Business Director | Architectural Leadership | Cross-Functional Team Leadership | Organizational Change Management
Carrie Craig is an organizational change leader with a record of success bridging business needs with innovative, streamlined, and integrated technology solutions. She skillfully translates vision and broad objectives into clear, actionable processes, programs, and procedures. Her deep experience leading and supporting domestic and global digital transformations, and realizing large-scale, concurrent initiatives are consistently focused on attaining tangible, business-driven ROI.
Carrie’s superpowers include Identifying talent; building, leading, and empowering ground-up cross-functional teams. She cultivates positive working relationships with stakeholders at all levels and fosters a culture of knowledge sharing and collaboration.
Earlier in her career, Carrie served in the United States Marine Corps as a Logistic and Protocol Officer. She has been honored with numerous personal service awards for meritorious service during Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom. Carrie was named “A Women Who Sets the Standard” by The International Women’s Review Board and she has been honored by the Cambridge Who’s Who Registry of Executives and Professionals. Carrie has been the recipient of multiple WD-40 Company team choice awards and she is a proud International Rotary Foundation Paul Harris Fellow.
Experience
Director of Enterprise Business Systems WD-40 Company
Led a $16M IT digital transformation, including conducting joint application design (JAD) sessions with 6 selected vendors, that consolidated over 25 legacy applications into 6 strategic SaaS applications.
Formed and currently lead the organization’s Architectural Review Board (ARB) strategic roadmap process improvements; inform, advise, and educate executives and steering committee stakeholders in defining program governance and key performance indicators (KPIs).
NuVasive
Leader -PMO
Promoted by executive leadership to manage a global $27M IT budget and delivered major, multiple concurrent portfolio initiatives under constrained time frames.
Oversaw the revision of governance KPIs, Project Management Framework (PMF), and PPM software application and Infrastructure teams.
Leader – International Business Systems Applications
Developed the playbook and enterprise application roadmap for evaluating business infrastructure and migrating processes for 13 international subsidiaries across 50+ different legacy applications.
Led the on-time, on-budget delivery of a multiyear, multimillion-dollar global initiative that replaced all subsidiary IT infrastructure with multilingual and localized capabilities, integrated with U.S. SAP ECC technologies; drove sustainability, compliance, efficiency, streamlined growth, and long-term ROI.
Information Technology Product Manager LA Fitness, LLC
Collaborated with corporate CFO to upgrade and customize the organization’s ERP system and multiple infrastructure initiatives impacting over 550 service sites and 25,000 employees throughout U.S. and Canada.
Led all project management ERP upgrades, service packs, and year-end tax updates to dramatically improve operational efficiency.
Andy Enskat is the Vice President of Information Technology at SMS Equipment. He provides leadership and strategic information technology direction for the organization and its subsidiaries. His primary responsibilities include:
IT Strategy
IT Project Delivery
ERP, Business Applications and Business Intelligence
Cyber Security
eCommerce
IT Operations and Service Desk
Information Technology Organization across Canada, Mongolia and Alaska
He has spent over 25 years in Information Technology in a variety of international organizations and recently numerous years in large Heavy Equipment organizations. He collaborates with the senior management team to establish and formulate tactical and strategic goals for Information Technology to ensure a competitive advantage. He has a successful track record of demonstrated leadership in providing innovative solutions in all areas of Information Technology in many industries.
He holds a Bachelor of Education Degree from the University of Alberta, Project Management Professional, Certified Computing Professional and Information System Professional Designations and a Six Sigma Black Belt Certificate.
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.
Todd Friedman was named CISO for ResMed, a global company that manufactures and distributes medical equipment and solutions for diagnosing, treating and, managing sleep-disordered breathing and other respiratory conditions.
Todd is a versatile leader with more than twenty-five years’ experience in information risk and security management. His career has spanned the healthcare, toy, entertainment and insurance industries, during which Todd led numerous functions, including infrastructure planning and management, systems integration, PMO, project management, governance, compliance, strategic planning, and for the past decade, information risk and security management. Prior to joining ResMed in early 2015, Todd was the CISO of Mattel, and prior to that the SVP and CISO of Universal Music Group, the world largest music company.
A native of Los Angeles, he holds an MBA from UCLA and a B.A. from UCSD.
Erica Hausheer is the Senior Vice President, Chief Information Officer for Teradata, reporting to the Chief Financial Officer.
In this role, Erica leads the Information Technology, Analytics, and Security (ITAS) organization. She is accountable for IT systems that enable secure Teradata business operations, enabling improved business insights and decision making through trusted enterprise-wide data, and enhancing the security of Teradata products and corporation.
Erica is a veteran technology executive with extensive expertise in all strategic aspects of the Information Technology function with demonstrated ability to apply technology to transform business operations, lower costs, and accelerate global alignment while building a collaborative and high-performance culture. Prior to Teradata, Erica served as Senior Vice President & CIO of 3D Systems from 2016 to 2020. In 2019, she added global sourcing & procurement to her responsibilities at 3D Systems, leading this critical function in the early stages of the COVID supply chain disruptions. Prior to 3D Systems, Erica spent 20 years at Hewlett Packard / Hewlett Packard Enterprise in various roles of increasing responsibility, including the role of VP of Global IT Architecture for the newly formed HPE company. Prior to HP, Erica proudly served as a US Naval Officer for six years.
Erica holds an MBA from Oregon State University and a BS in Science from Pennsylvania State University.
Erica lives in San Diego and has three children. In her free-time, Erica pursues outdoor activities with family and friends.
Executive Director Information Technology
Aspen Neuroscience, Inc.
Steve Hoyt is an accomplished IT Executive with over 20 years’ experience in Medical Device, Life Sciences, and Laboratory industries. With Steve’s combined backgrounds in Technology, Business Process Re-Engineering, and Program Management, he is often tapped to lead business transformations whether due to organizational change, merger and acquisitions, or periods of high growth.
Steve is currently Executive Director of Information Technology at Aspen Neuroscience. Previously, he was Vice President of Information Systems at QuidelOrtho during a period of explosive growth from $250M to over $1.6B in revenue, leading the company through a global expansion of operations due to M&A and a 10X increase of production during the Global COVID-19 Pandemic, including an expansion of the business into Retail.
Steve started his career at GE Healthcare holding various leadership positions over 16 years including global ERP expansions, leading business intelligence operations, improving business process as a Lean Six Sigma Master Blackbelt, and integrating Mergers and Acquisitions for the Life Sciences division. Following GE, he held leadership positions at both NeoGenomics and Human Longevity advancing human health through laboratory diagnostics, imaging, and genetics.
Steve is a Certified Lean Six Sigma Master Blackbelt (MBB), a Project Management Professional (PMP) and graduate of GE’s well-regarded Executive Leadership Programs in Information Technology as well as being an alumnus of the University of Wisconsin – Madison, School of Business.
Chief Information Officer
San Diego Housing Commission
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.
Beto Juarez is the Chief Information Officer overseeing the San Diego Housing Commission’s (SDHC) Information Technology Department, as well as the agency’s Project Management Office.
Mr. Juarez has more than 20 years of experience in Information Technology. Prior to joining SDHC, Mr. Juarez was the Vice President of Information Technology and Chief Technology Officer for ConAm, a leading provider of multifamily housing management services.
His experience also includes serving as Director of Information Technology for Lyon Communities; Director of Information Systems & Technology for the San Diego Association of Realtors; and nationwide Manager of Information Technology for Home Depot.
Mr. Juarez earned his master’s degree in technology management from Texas A&M University.
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.
Abe Lietz is SVP & Chief Information Officer (CIO) for KinderCare Education. In this role, Mr. Lietz leads the Information Technology function for KinderCare and is charged with driving digital transformation to support business growth and managing all key enterprise business systems which includes in-center, family facing, mobile, data analytics and back office applications as well as all supporting infrastructure. Abe is leading a multi-year transformation of KinderCare’s digital capability by reorganizing its people, process and technology to deliver on value creation initiatives through the use of cloud-first architectures (SaaS, IaaS, & PaaS), as well as delivering multiple innovative mobile, web, and data solutions for its customers and staff.
A recognized industry expert, Abe has received multiple industry awards, including being recognized as San Diego’s Top Technology Executive in 2015. He is a frequent speaker on IT transformation and cloud migration strategies and has been featured in many publications including CIO.com, The Wall Street Journal, Forbes and many others.
Prior to joining KinderCare, Mr. Lietz was CIO & VP, Customer Service Operations for Curves and Jenny Craig where he led a complete transformation of the IT organization, as well as managing the service contact center for both brands to drive a best-in-class service experience for customers, franchise owners and corporate users. Prior to Curves & Jenny Craig, Mr. Lietz was Chief Architect & Head of Divisional IT for Life Technologies (now part of Thermo Fisher Scientific) where he was responsible for driving technology strategy, new technology incubation, and overall technical architecture for the IT infrastructure and applications footprint, as well as all instrument and software system product lines.
Mr. Lietz holds a B.A. in Business & MIS from Washington State University.
Drew Martin has been Vice President and Chief Information Officer since November 2016. He was previously Executive Vice President and Chief Information Officer for Lytx Inc. (formerly DriveCam) from October 2011 to December 2014. He previously held IT leadership positions with Sony Electronics and PepsiCo, and from January 2015 until November 2016, was owner and a principal in Silicon Beach Advisors, a technology strategy consulting firm. Drew has a bachelor’s degree in engineering from Cornell University and serves on several advisory boards, including the Information Technology Advisory Board for Sharp Healthcare and the Classroom of the Future Foundation. He has over 25 years of experience in corporate IT and innovation.
Erez Nir is the Chief Technology Officer of Mitchell International. In his role Erez oversees corporate IT functions (engineering, operations, business systems, and support services) as well as Enterprise Architecture, Enterprise Reporting, and IT Enterprise Services across Mitchell\’s three primary business units—Auto Physical Damage, Auto Casualty Solutions and Workers\’ Compensation Solutions.
Erez previously served as Mitchell\’s Senior Vice President of Technology. In this role he defined Mitchell\’s technology vision and underlying roadmap to meet the challenges of the company\’s customers and its business partners.
Before joining Mitchell, Erez served as Vice President of Product Management and Marketing of Mobilitec Inc., and Vice President of Information Engineering for San Diego-based Wingcast, a Ford and Qualcomm joint venture. Early in his career he worked at Motorola™ and Nice™ Systems Ltd. in a variety of engineering, operations, and general management positions. Erez holds a BSc in Computer Science from the Technion, Israel\’s Institute of Technology, and an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.
Billy is the Chief Information Security Officer for FFF Enterprises and its subsidiaries running their cybersecurity program while also being a key contributor to both the risk management and privacy and data protection programs. He has over 20 years’ experience in Information Technology and Security in a variety of industries and serves on several technical advisory boards focusing on SaaS companies. Billy holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Park University in Management Information Systems, and a Master of Business Administration degree from the University of Colorado, Denver, as well several industry certifications.
Shelly Selvaraj has been Senior Vice President and Head of Information Technology at Dexcom since May 2016.
Shelly has a wide range of experience within global organizations in the fields of supply chain management, healthcare informatics and information technology. Prior to joining Dexcom Shelly held various IT leadership roles at CareFusion (a Becton Dickinson Company) and ResMed in San Diego. Earlier in his career he worked for Motorola and ON Semiconductor in Phoenix, Arizona.
Shelly holds a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from India and a master’s degree from the Industrial Management Systems Engineering Department of Arizona State University. He also serves as the Program Chair for the SIM – San Diego Chapter.
Terrence Weekes serves as Chief Information Security Officer for Jack in the Box Inc., a publicly traded quick service restaurant company based in San Diego, California that operates and franchises Jack in the Box® restaurants, one of the nation’s largest hamburger chains.
Prior to joining Jack in the Box, Weekes was the CISO and Vice President of IT Operations for DJO Global, a medical device manufacturer with worldwide operations and products sold in over 50 countries.
Prior to DJO, Weekes served as a member of Optiv Security\’s Office of the CISO where he provided executive advisory consulting services to enterprise organizations seeking assistance on information security program design and execution, and he previously directed cybersecurity programs for several global organizations including Business Wire, Caesars Entertainment Corporation (formerly Harrah’s Entertainment), and SPAWAR.
Professor and Chair of Mathematical, Information and Computer Sciences
Point Loma Nazarene University
Dr. Zack holds a Ph.D. in Mathematics from UCSD. Her industry experience includes consulting work for the Institute for Defense Analysis Center for Communications Research, as well as involvement in numerous strategic planning efforts in the US and abroad. She has been awarded NSF, MAA and Wesleyan Center grants and has organized conferences for CSHPM, CCSC, SPAWAR, ACMS, MAA, Nexus and more. Dr. Zack is an integral part of the University\’s accreditation process and regularly serves on review boards for WSCUC. Her extensive involvement in the mathematics and architecture community greatly enriches our academic programs.
Dr. Zack\’s research interests include connections between engineering and mathematics, mathematical history, architecture and mathematics, cryptography and cryptanalysis. She is an active member of the Nexus Network, for which she has published papers on Portuguese engineering, the astronomical research of Robert Hooke and Christopher Wren\’s contributions to the architectural rebuilding of London. She is a member of the editorial board of the Nexus Network Journal and she is the editor of the refereed Proceedings of the Canadian Society of History and Philosophy of Mathematics. She shares her enthusiasm for mathematical history, engineering and architecture by taking students to England to study every other summer.
Outside of the classroom, Dr. Zack enjoys cooking, reading and traveling. She is a member of the Board at Lamb\’s Player\’s Theatre and has been a trustee of the Medical Benevolence Foundation, for which she often travels to Kenya to visit church plants and the Tumutumu Hospital. She is also involved with the Plant with Purpose organization, which works to reverse deforestation. Her other hobbies include studying church architecture and baking desserts for the department.
John is responsible for leading Petco’s information technology strategies, teams and projects, including the company’s business process optimization and enterprise program management office. Before joining Petco, John served as senior vice president and chief information officer at Restoration Hardware. Previously, he filled chief information officer roles at Guitar Center, Big Lots, Limited Inc., Victoria\’s Secret Stores, and others. John holds a bachelor’s degree in business information systems from California State Polytechnic University.
Chief Information Officer & Chief Administrative Officer
ACADIA Pharmaceuticals Inc.
Mike Zill is the Former SVP Global Shared Services, BD, which recently aquired CareFusion. Prior to joining CareFusion in 2011, Mr. Zill spent 25 years in operations and information technology leadership positions at Motorola, ON Semiconductor, Cisco Systems and ResMed. Mike and his team are focused on the mission of CareFusion which is to improve the safety and cost of healthcare for generations to come. Mike’s community activities include participation on the board of Society for Information Management, SIM San Diego, the Cal State San Marcos Advisory Board and Technology Advisor and fund raiser to YWCA – Becky’s House of San Diego. Mike earned his Bachelor of Science in Industrial Engineering from the University of Tennessee at Knoxville and his Masters of Science in Financial Management from the University of Texas at Dallas.
Executive in Residence, HMG Strategy Former Senior Partner
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.
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.
SentinelOne delivers autonomous endpoint protection through a single agent that successfully prevents, detects and responds to attacks across all major vectors. Designed for extreme ease of use, the S1 platform saves customers time by applying AI to automatically eliminate threats in real time for both on premise and cloud environments and is the only solution to provide full visibility across networks directly from the endpoint.
Unisys is a global information technology company that specializes in providing industry-focused solutions integrated with leading-edge security to clients in the government, financial services and commercial markets. Unisys offerings include security solutions, advanced data analytics, cloud and infrastructure services, application services and application and server software.
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.
MINDSPRINT’s purpose is to reimagine business with talent, technology, and insights-driven services. With a proven track record in enabling global organizations in their business and technology transformation journey, MINDSPRINT is a differentiated digital and business transformation partner with offerings ranging from digital transformation solutions, enterprise technology, business process services, and cybersecurity solutions. Powered by 2400+ employees, we are headquartered in Singapore with presence in India, US, and UK.
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.
Trace3 is the premier provider of IT solutions. We integrate IT products and services with insightful consultation in order to provide total transformation for both executives and organizations. Our elite engineers implement tomorrow’s systems and hardware to solve today’s most pressing IT problems, standing shoulder-to-shoulder with our clients to protect and serve their interests. We pride ourselves on our boutique-style approach to customer service. Our consultants, engineers, and executive team immerse themselves in each client’s unique culture in order to better understand their individual needs. From big data intelligence and cloud services to organizational health, we create customized solutions to address all aspects of a client’s infrastructure. Through elite engineering, dynamic leadership, and unparalleled VC connections, Trace3 stays on the leading edge of the innovation curve to empower our clients with the most advanced technologies and solutions in the industry. We pride ourselves on our boutique-style approach to customer service. Our consultants, engineers, and executive team immerse themselves in each client’s unique culture in order to better understand their individual needs. From big data intelligence and cloud services to organizational health, we create customized solutions to address all aspects of a client’s infrastructure. As part of our mission of organizational empowerment, we seek to inspire CIOs and other executives through our VC briefings: We expose a select group to the technologies of the future, which we have exclusive access to through our Silicon Valley connections. These executives can then return to their organizations with the tools they need to become leaders and innovators for their industries.
ArmorCode supercharges security teams so their organizations can ship secure software faster. The ArmorCode Platform unifies AppSec and vulnerability management to normalize and correlate findings and orchestrate workflows so teams can identify, articulate, and remediate their most critical risks.
Expedient is a full stack cloud service provider, helping companies transform their IT operations through award-winning multi-cloud solutions and managed services including enterprise cloud, disaster recovery, virtual desktop infrastructure, edge computing, security and compliance, and more. Named VMware’s Americas Cloud Partner of the Year and acknowledged in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Disaster Recovery as a Service, Expedient provides best of breed solutions backed by white glove services and support.
Meriplex is a managed technology solutions provider that enables transformation by combining secure, innovative technology with advanced expertise. As a trusted partner, we deliver business-driven solutions that provide the scalability and support needed to power growth for organizations. To learn more, visit www.meriplex.com or follow us on LinkedIn.
she.net is a German-Romanian software development company that offers you high quality software outsourcing to Europe at a fair price. With over 250 employees, we have a wide pool of highly qualified software engineers who can start working on your project within a few days. Our customers appreciate our more than 35 years of experience, an enormously low turnover rate rate as well as the time zone turbo: Benefit now from waking up when your next software project is ready!
Varonis is a pioneer in data security and analytics, specializing in software for data protection, threat detection and response, and compliance. Varonis protects enterprise data by analyzing data activity, perimeter telemetry, and user behavior; prevents disaster by locking down sensitive data; and efficiently sustains a secure state with automation.
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.
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.
We have spent years building industry leading companies. We bring this trove of experience and relationships to every venture we invest in. Cyberstarts was the brainchild of many deep conversations with our most successful cyber peers to distill the holy grail that enabled us to build important companies. It soon became clear that the trajectory to success is determined at a venture’s earliest start. That our deep inside perspective and highly engaged network during this critical earliest stage were unique ingredients in our successes. By aggregating these close relationships for entrepreneurs who we believe in, we knew that we can create incredible value for our tight network of CISOs who enjoy the earliest access to solutions that they help to define. These peers became investors and Cyberstarts became the only VC primarily funded by the industry’s most successful cybersecurity founders.
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).
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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Leading Courageously and Authentically in Times of Crisis
Reimagining the Business and the Future of Work
Winning the War on Talent
Creating a Workplace of Diversity and Inclusion to Foster Innovation
Executive in Residence, HMG Strategy Former Senior Partner
Registration
The CIO Executive Leadership Summit is created for CIOs/IT leaders. It also has strong appeal to leaders interested in better positioning their organizations and themselves for what’s ahead in business and to achieve the greatest benefits through the use of information technology.
To ensure a high-quality environment and to maximize the networking experience, all attendees must be:
Employed C-Level executives (non-vendor) or equivalent, CIOs, Direct Reports of CIOs, or Senior Most IT Professional in an organization with $200M or greater revenue, or from not-for-profit or government organizations with comparable size
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Full-time academicians
If you meet the criteria above, there is no fee to attend.
All registration requests will be reviewed and approved based on above-stated criteria.
COVID policy: For those that are vaccinated, masks are optional. If you are not vaccinated we recommend that you wear a mask.
* Sales/marketing individuals or consultants from non-sponsoring vendor organizations are not permitted.
Special Needs – We fully support the Americans with Disabilities Act. If you require special assistance of any kind, please call us at (203) 243-1674 or email us at registrar@hmgstrategy.com.
