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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

 

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.

Director of Operations & Senior Marketing Manager

FFF Enterprises

Logistics Officer and Protocol Officer

USMC 

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.

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.

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.

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.

 

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.

 

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.

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.