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2023 New Jersey CIO Executive Leadership Summit

New Jersey – Thu, 05-18-2023 8:00 AM to 4:00 PM

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.

May 18, 2023
8:00 AM – 3:30 PM

8:00 – 9:00 AM 

Registration, Breakfast and Networking


9:00 – 9:20 AM                                                                         

Welcome and Introduction

Hunter Muller, Founder and CEO, HMG Strategy and Val Thomas, SVP & CIO, Lincoln Educational Services and President, NJ SIM


9:20 – 9:35 AM

EXECUTIVE FIRESIDE CHAT:  Redefining the Role of IT: How to Empower Your Team to Drive Business Transformation

Lookman Fazal, Chief Information and Digital Officer, NJ Transit interviewed by Hunter Muller, Founder and CEO, HMG Strategy

In this fireside chat, Lookman Fazal, CIO of NJ TRANSIT, will discuss the changing role of IT within organizations and how it can drive business transformation. We’ll explore the challenges and opportunities associated with this shift, and Lookman will share anecdotes, insights, and strategies for empowering IT teams to become drivers of innovation and transformation within your organization.


9:35 – 10:10 AM                                                                                          

EXECUTIVE PANEL:  Visionary Leadership:  Driving a Strategic and Secure Digital Agenda

Moderator:  Hunter Muller, Founder and CEO, HMG Strategy

Chris Colla, VP IT & CIO, B & G Foods

Emily Heath, General Partner, Cyberstarts

Scott Strickland, EVP & CIO, Wyndham Hotels and Resorts

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.


10:10 – 10:15 AM

HMG 2023 Global Leadership Institute Award Presentation to Scott Strickland, EVP & CIO, Wyndham Hotels and Resorts


10:15 – 10:35 AM                                                                              

Coffee Break, Networking and Meet Our Partners


10:35 – 11:10 AM                                                                               

EXECUTIVE PANEL:   Tapping Innovative Technologies and Partnerships to Drive Cost Containment and Power Business Growth

Moderator:  Joseph Puglisi, Chairman & Co-Manager, North Andover Investors Collaborative, LLC

Bashir Agboola, VP & Chief Technology Officer, Hospital for Special Surgery

Marianne Bachynski, Chief Information Officer, Investments & Enterprise Systems, Corebridge Financial

Dutt Kalluri, Chief Digital Officer, Celsior Technologies

David Plotzker, Senior Project Portfolio Director, Transformational Initiatives, Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey

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.


11:10 – 11:35 AM                                                                                 

Coffee Break, Networking and Meet Our Partners


11:35 – 11:50 AM                                                                                

EXECUTIVE FIRESIDE CHAT:  Going Beyond the CIO Role: Next-Generation Opportunities for Business Technology Leaders

Adam Noble, Operating Partner, Information Technology|CIO|CTO, Littlejohn & Company interviewed by Hunter Muller, Founder and CEO, HMG Strategy

As CIOs have continued to gain clout in the C-suite, many business technology leaders aspire to become COOs or even CEOs. In this Fireside Chat with HMG Strategy Founder and CEO Hunter Muller, Adam Noble, Operating Partner for Information Technology at Littlejohn & Company, shares his perspectives on the existing skill sets that CIOs can bring to other CXO roles as well as additional skills and capabilities that are needed. 


11:50 AM – 12:50 PM                                                                            

Lunch and Networking

NPower NewsHelen Kogan, Executive Director, NPower New York and New Jersey

SIM New Jersey Update – Val Thomas, SVP & CIO, Lincoln Educational Services and President, NJ SIM

HMG 2023 Global Leadership Institute Award Presentation to Val Thomas, SVP & CIO, Lincoln Educational Services and President, NJ SIM and Gabrielle Wolfson, CIO & CDO, Quest Diagnostics

HMG 2023 Global Leadership Institute Awards Photo

Jon Harding, SVP & Global CIO, Conair LLC

Adam Noble, Operating Partner, Information Technology|CIO|CTO, Littlejohn & Company

Scott Strickland, EVP & CIO, Wyndham Hotels and Resorts

Val Thomas, SVP & CIO, Lincoln Educational Services and President, NJ SIM


12:50 – 1:00 PM

Express Coffee Break, Networking and Meet Our Partners


1:00 – 1:15 PM                                                                                   

START-UP SHOWCASE: The HMG Innovation Accelerator

Moderator:   Emily Heath, General Partner, Cyberstarts

Mike Crowe, Former CIO, Colgate-Palmolive Company and Board of Advisors, Cyberstarts

Shai Gabay, Founder and CEO, Trustmi

Dan Turchin, CEO, PeopleReign 

Research conducted by HMG Strategy reveals that one of the top focus areas for technology executive leaders is working with the CEO and the executive team to enable innovation and grow the business. In this exclusive session, we will ask the CEOs and leaders of innovative technology companies about the challenges they solve for clients, the innovation they deliver to companies, and how their solutions are differentiated in the market.


1:15 – 1:50 PM      

EXECUTIVE PANEL: Security Innovation:  Going Beyond Protection to Make Security a Competitive Advantage

Moderator: Ajoy Kumar, Managing Director & CISO, The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation

Christopher Callahan, CISO, The Weichert Companies

Rocco Grillo, Managing Director, Global Cyber Risk Services & Incident Response Investigation, Alvarez & Marsal

Gurdeep Kaur, Managing Director, Chief Information Security Officer, PSEG

Mandar Rege, Managing Director, Operational Risk Management – Technology and Cybersecurity, Citigroup

Ransomware, supply-chain and other types of cyber-attacks continue to escalate. Ransomware attacks alone have increased by 13% year-over-year, according to the Verizon 2022 Data Breach Investigations Report. As these and other malicious attacks continue to become more prevalent and dangerous, it’s clear that CISOs and security leaders need to take a fresh approach to their cybersecurity strategies.

In this timely and compelling executive panel discussion, CISOs and security leaders will share the steps they’re taking to reimagine their cybersecurity game plans to better safeguard the organization both now and into the future.


1:50 – 2:00 PM

HMG 2023 Global Leadership Institute Award Presentation to Jon Harding, SVP & Global CIO, Conair LLC and Adam Noble, Operating Partner, Information Technology|CIO|CTO, Littlejohn & Company


2:00 – 2:25 PM  

Coffee Break, Networking and Meet Our Partners   

Chairs

Craig Cuyar

SVP & Global CIO
Omnicom

Lookman Fazal

Chief Information & Digital Officer
NJ TRANSIT

Jon Harding

SVP & Global CIO
Conair LLC

Warren Kudman

VP & CIO
Turner Construction Company

Justin Lahullier

Chief Information Officer , Chief Information Security Officer, Delivering Technology Solutions
Delta Dental of New Jersey

Raymond Lipps

Managing Director, Cyber, Risk & CISO Advisory
Ernst & Young

Brian Mecca

VP of IT Infrastructure
Taylored Fulfillment Services

Hunter Muller

Founder & CEO
HMG Strategy

Adam Noble

Operating Partner – Information Technology|CIO|CTO
Littlejohn & Company

Mark Polansky

Executive in Residence, HMG Strategy Former Senior Partner
Korn Ferry

Michael Del Priore

Technology Advisor / Consultant / Former CIO
Del Priore Consulting

Tianbing (TQ) Qian

CIO
Genesee & Wyoming Inc.

John Repko

EVP & CIO
AIG

Gabrielle Wolfson

CIO & CDO
Quest Diagnostics

Advisory Board

Rizwan Akhtar

Executive Vice President, Chief Technology Officer
Anywhere Real Estate Inc.

Roota Almeida

Head of Security Governance
Amazon Stores

Sandeep Bajaj

Group CIO
Player\’s Health

Mark Barash

Trustee and Past President- SIM New Jersey
SIM New Jersey

Gene Barskiy

Executive Board Director and Past President
SIM New Jersey

Deepak Batheja

CIO
Water Street Healthcare Partners

Douglas Benalan

CIO
Cure Insurance/NJ Pure/Silver Rock Risk Solutions

Akash Bhate

Senior Product Manager
Amazon

Shivani Bhatia

Senior Director Procurement, Global Delivery & Operations
Johnson & Johnson

Dora Boussias

Senior Director, Data Strategy & Architecture
Stryker

Leonard Brinson

Senior Vice President & Chief Information Officer
South Jersey Industries

Eric Bulis

SVP of Operations & CIO
Gerber Life Insurance Company

Ben Cabrera

Principal & Fractional CIO
Freeman Clarke

Christopher Callahan

Chief Information Security Officer
The Weichert Companies

Chris Colla

VP IT & CIO
B&G Foods

William Compton

SVP & Chief Information Officer
Seagen

Jason Cooper

CTO
Paradigm

James Eichmann

Chief Technology Officer
Worthy Financial

Richard M. Entrup

Managing Director, Head of Emerging Solutions – Enterprise Innovation
KPMG

John Erickson

Director, IT Infrastructure & Support
Berje Inc.

Joe Fisher

President
Affinity IT Security

Stephen Fraser

Principal
W Group

Michael Friedlander

Senior Director IT Strategy and Transformation
PepsiCo, Inc.

Dennis Glacken

Professor School of Business
Stevens Institute of Technology

Rocco Grillo

Managing Director – Global Cyber Risk Services & Incident Response Investigation
Alvarez & Marsal

Alex Gutman

Chief Technology Officer
Gilbane Building Company

Jean Hill

Managing Director & National Digital and Technology Solution Leader
Alvarez & Marsal

Amit Honwad

VP – Commercial Insurance IT
Chubb Group of Insurance Companies

Gerard Insall

CIO
Avis Budget Group

Michael Iwanoff

SVP & CIO
iConectiv

Rise Jacobs

CIO & CTO
Multiple Employer Benefit Plan

Saro Jahani

Head of Innovation & Simulator Development
HelpMeSee

David Jenkins

Director
Evercore

Sudhanshu Kairab

VP Cybersecurity Governance, Risk, & Compliance at Comcast Cable
Comcast

Dutt Kalluri

Chief Digital Officer
Celsior Technologies

Bilal Khan

Chief Technology Officer (Infrastructure & Operations)
NJ TRANSIT

Husain Khan

Senior Director/Head – Automation Strategy and Value
Workato

Brian Krail

VP IT Services
Wyndham Hotels and Resorts

Stan Kreydin

Fractional CTO, CISO & Digital Change Agent
Resogy, LLC

Ajoy Kumar

Head of Application Security
Wells Fargo

Stephen Landry

Chief Information Officer
Seton Hall University

Andy Laudato

Chief Operating Officer
The Vitamin Shoppe

Michael Lederman

VP of IT
The Leading Hotels of the World

Nelson Lin

Director, Digital Business Program Management
Prudential

Richard Martin

Senior IT Director, Global Commercial, Consumer, Customer, Communications & PEP Foundation
PepsiCo, Inc.

Aref Matin

EVP & CTO
John Wiley and Sons

John McCaffrey

CIO
H2M Architects+Engineers

Douglas McCrea

Senior Vice President of Information Technology
Coventry

Ken Morris

CTO
Neptune Retail Solutions

Ganesh Murugan

Head of Cyber Strategy & Execution
Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group

Rajeev Nair

CIO
Knipper Health

Al Omari

VP & CIO
DCH Auto Group

Tamir Peres

VP & Chief Information Officer
Herc Rentals

Joseph Puglisi

Chairman & Co-Manager
North Andover Investors Collaborative, LLC

Armughan Rafat

Principal
Tekformations LLC

Mark Sander

Chief Digital & Information Officer
Azurity Pharmaceuticals

Venkat Sathyamurthy

Advisor
Rebellion Defense

Pete Sattler

SVP and Chief Information Officer
CIRCOR International

Ariane Schiereck

Chief Information Officer
Hollister Incorporated

Candida Seasock

CEO
CTS Associates, LLC

Allen Spokane

CTO
Carisk Partners

Karthik Sridharan

Chief Operations & Technology Officer
Fulton Bank

Paul Strong

Technical Director, Office of the CTO
Google Cloud

Millie Torres

GTO Global Head of Risk, Control, Regulatory and Reviews
Broadridge

Jeffrey Wills

SVP, Global Head of IT
BeautyHealth

Jaime Zetterstrom

VP of Product Managment
Somos, Inc

Gold Partners

  • Aryaka
    Aryaka, the Cloud-First WAN company, brings agility, simplicity and a great experience to consuming the WAN-as-a-service. An optimized global network and innovative technology stack delivers the industry’s #1 managed SD-WAN service and sets the gold standard for application performance. Aryaka’s SmartServices platform offers connectivity, application acceleration, security, cloud networking and insights leveraging global orchestration and provisioning. The company’s customers include hundreds of global enterprises including several in the Fortune 100. https://www.aryaka.com/?utm_source=hmg&utm_medium=syndication&utm_content=home-page
  • Denodo

    Denodo is a leader in data management. The award-winning Denodo Platform is the leading data integration, management, and delivery platform using a logical approach to enable self-service BI, data science, hybrid/multi-cloud data integration, and enterprise data services. Realizing more than 400% ROI and millions of dollars in benefits, Denodo’s customers across large enterprises and mid-market companies in 30+ industries have received payback in less than 6 months. For more information, visit www.denodo.com or call +1 877 556 2531 (US) / +44 (0) 20 7869 8053 (UK) / +65 6950 7489 (Singapore).

    https://www.denodo.com/en
  • FPT Software

    FPT Corporation is a global leading technology and IT services provider headquartered in Vietnam, with nearly US$1.3 billion in revenue and 30,000 employees. As a pioneer in digital transformation, FPT delivers world-class services in Smart factory, Digital platforms, RPA, AI, IoT, Enterprise Mobility, Cloud, AR/VR, Business Applications, Application Services, BPO, and so on. The company has served over 700+ customers worldwide, a hundred of which are Fortune Global 500 companies in the industries of Aerospace & Aviation, Automotive, Banking and Finance, Logistics & Transportation, Utilities and more.

    https://www.fpt-software.com/
  • OutSystems

    OutSystems is a global leader in high-performance application development. We partner with visionaries to turn their big ideas into software that moves business, people, and the world forward. The OutSystems high-performance low-code platform gives technology leaders and developers the tools they need to rapidly build, deploy and manage their own business-critical applications. The company’s network spans more than 600,000 community members, 400+ partners, and active customers in 87 countries across 22 industries. OutSystems is “The #1 Low-Code Platform®” and a recognized leader by analysts, IT executives, business leaders, and developers around the world.

    https://www.outsystems.com/
  • Rapid API

    Rapid is a software company based in San Francisco, CA. Rapid offers an API Marketplace to assist developers in finding, connecting, and managing all of their APIs. Founded in 2015, Rapid (formerly RapidAPI) created the world’s largest public API marketplace at rapidapi.com. Their public API marketplace boasts over 40,000 APIs from top global companies, ultimately serving millions of developers. Rapid has taken the platform that powers their public API Marketplace and offered it as an Enterprise API Hub, a private and custom-branded API Marketplace platform. Rapid’s platform is used by large organizations to showcase their valuable data and services as APIs on a centralized marketplace. This platform encourages consumers to discover and connect with these APIs, fostering deeper partnerships, improving brand recognition amongst developers, and introducing new revenue opportunities through top-notch API programs.

  • SentinelOne

    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.

    https://www.sentinelone.com/
  • Tangoe

    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.

    https://www.tangoe.com/
  • Tanium

    Tanium, the industry’s only provider of converged endpoint management (XEM), protects every team, endpoint, and workflow from cyber threats by integrating IT, Compliance, Security, and Risk into a single platform that delivers comprehensive visibility across devices, a unified set of controls, and a common taxonomy for a single shared purpose: to protect critical information and infrastructure at scale. State and local governments, educational institutions, federal civilian agencies and the U.S. armed forces trust Tanium to protect people; defend data; secure systems; and see and control every endpoint, team, and workflow everywhere. That’s the power of certainty.

    https://www.tanium.com/

Supporting Partners

  • Cyberstarts

    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.

    https://cyberstarts.com/about
  • Intuitive Cloud

    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.

    https://www.intuitive.cloud
  • PeopleReign

    AI is the new UI. Voice is the new app. Today’s intelligent enterprise is powered by smart features that understand how employees work. There’s nothing artificial about automating the decision-making process with natural language processing and machine learning. Our team of Data Scientists, linguists, Software Engineers, and Service Management practitioners are passionate about developing amazing technology that brings teams together, fixes problems faster, and improves lives. PeopleReign is the culmination of more than a century of people-years worth of research and development. We’re motivated by our customers and committed to creating a new world of work where employees are empowered to focus on critical thinking, empathy, coaching, and intuition – innately human skills – while AI automates mundane tasks.

  • Trustmi

    Trustmi is the only end-to-end payment security solution that helps businesses protect their bottom line by eliminating losses from cyberattacks, internal collusion and human error. Trustmi’s flexible and modular solution offers businesses full control to use only the tools they need for securing their payment processes and managing their vendors. Founded in 2021 by Shai Gabay and Eli Ben Nun, Trustmi is headquartered in Tel Aviv with an office in New York City. For more information, visit https://www.trustmi.ai/.

    https://www.trustmi.ai/
  • Varonis

    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.

    https://www.varonis.com/

Association Partners

  • SIM New Jersey

    SIM New Jersey is one of over 30 chapters and 4000+ members that play a vital role in the success of SIM by extending its vision and mission into IT communities across the United States. Our chapter is an excellent way to take advantage of the wealth of IT resources available in New Jersey, as well as the tri-state region. Through workshops, presentations, conferences, meetings and social outings, SIM New Jersey helps you stay informed on key industry issues while enabling members to establish valuable local, regional and even national contacts.

    http://njsim.org/

Alliance Partners

  • Amplify Partners

    Amplify Partners, an early-stage venture capital firm committed to redefining IT infrastructure, invests in technical entrepreneurs pursuing the multi-hundred-billion dollar Infrastructure 2.0 disruption. Amplify helps talented founders build valuable businesses by investing the right amount of early-stage capital and providing active company-building assistance. Amplify offers the unique combination of deep domain expertise, early-stage focus and a network of Venture AmplifiersTM to improve outcomes for infrastructure entrepreneurs.

    http://www.amplifypartners.com
  • Glynn Capital

    Glynn Capital is focused on investments in leading private and public technology growth companies. We seek to be long-term investors in a limited number of excellent companies with world-class management teams, sustainable business models, and long-term growth potential.

    http://www.glynncapital.com/
  • Greylock Partners

    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).

    http://www.greylock.com
  • Lightspeed Venture Partners

    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.

    http://lsvp.com
  • Menlo Ventures

    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.

    https://www.menlovc.com/
  • Sequoia Capital

    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).

    https://www.sequoiacap.com

Strategic Partners

  • Egon Zehnder

    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.

    http://www.egonzehnder.com
  • Heidrick & Struggles

    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.

    http://www.heidrick.com
  • Korn Ferry

    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.

    https://www.kornferry.com
  • Spencer Stuart

    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.

    https://www.spencerstuart.com

Marketplace Partners

  • Akamai

    As the world’s largest and most trusted cloud delivery platform, Akamai makes it easier for its customers to provide the best and most secure digital experiences on any device, anytime, anywhere. Akamai’s massively distributed platform is unparalleled in scale with over 200,000 servers across 130 countries, giving customers superior performance and threat protection. Akamai’s portfolio of web and mobile performance, cloud security, enterprise access, and video delivery solutions are supported by exceptional customer service and 24/7 monitoring.

    https://www.akamai.com
  • BetterCloud

    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.

    https://www.bettercloud.com/
  • Darktrace

    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.

    https://www.darktrace.com/
  • Fortinet

    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.

    https://www.fortinet.com/
  • Globant

    We are a digitally native company that helps organizations reinvent themselves to create a way forward and unleash their potential. We are the place where innovation, design and engineering meet scale. • We have more than 25,500 employees and we are present in 21 countries working for companies like Google, Rockwell Automation, Electronic Arts and Santander, among others. • We were named a Worldwide Leader in CX Improvement Services by IDC MarketScape report. • We were also featured as a business case study at Harvard, MIT, and Stanford

    https://www.globant.com/
  • Netskope

    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.

    https://www.netskope.com/
  • Nutanix

    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.

    https://www.nutanix.com
  • Palo Alto Networks

    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.

    www.paloaltonetworks.com
  • RingCentral

    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.

    https://www.ringcentral.com/
  • SafeGuard Cyber

    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.

    https://www.safeguardcyber.com/
  • Skybox

    Over 500 of the largest and most security-conscious enterprises in the world rely on Skybox for the insights and assurance required to stay ahead of dynamically changing attack surfaces. At Skybox, we don’t just serve up data and information. We provide the intelligence and context to make informed decisions, taking the guesswork out of securely enabling enterprises at scale and speed. Our unified security posture management platform delivers complete visibility, analytics and automation to quickly map, prioritize and remediate vulnerabilities across your organization. The vendor-agnostic platform intelligently optimizes security policies, actions and change process across all corporate networks and cloud environments. With Skybox, security teams can now focus on the most strategic business initiatives while ensuring enterprises remain protected. We are Skybox. Secure more, limit less.

    https://www.skyboxsecurity.com/
  • Tonkean

    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.

    https://tonkean.com/
  • Upwork

    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.

    https://www.upwork.com/enterprise/
  • Zoom

    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.

    https://zoom.us
  • Zscaler

    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.

    https://www.zscaler.com/

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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

– OR – 

  • Full time academicians

If you meet the criteria above, there is no fee to attend.

All registration requests will be reviewed and approved based upon above stated criteria. 

If you meet the criteria above, there is no fee to attend. Due to the fact that these are virtual events, please only register if you plan to virtually join us on the summit date and time.

* Sales/marketing individuals or consultants from non-sponsoring vendor organizations are not permitted.

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