Chandy Ghosh is a well-respected CIO & Technology leader specializing in Digital Transformation.

She was formerly an Executive Partner at ThoughtWorks, a software-engineering company that seeks to revolutionize business by delivering disruptive technologies to address client’s toughest challenges.

Prior to this, Chandy was the Executive Vice President of Technology at Intrado, Longmont, Colorado, running 9-1-1 solutions, the nation’s Critical Infrastructure governed by the Dept of Homeland Security.   Ms. Ghosh has served in several leadership positions including: VP, Customer Digital Strategy, CenturyLink; Global Head, Product Delivery at Johnson Controls/GWS; CIO, CQG & Principal Consultant at KPMG-BearingPoint.

Ms. Ghosh’s education includes Harvard Executive Development Program sponsored by U S WEST; Master of Process, Michael Hammer Program, Cambridge MA; Strategic Leadership, Center for Creative Leadership, Colorado Springs.  She has CJIS certification & degrees in MBA, Information Systems &  MS, Physics, Chemistry and Math.

Chandy is on the Board of HMG Strategy, Colorado Women’s Hall of Fame, SIM C-Suite Colorado & Colorado Technology Association’s Women-in-Technology.

Chandy is frequently invited to speak at industry events & is passionate being a Mentor supporting Diversity / Women in Technology:

• 2017, SIM Symposium Colorado, “BlockChain in the Digital World”
• 2017, 2016 Denver Business Journal, Mentoring Women as Colorado’s “40 Most Influential Women”
• 2017, Executive Women Connecting , sponsored by  Morgan Stanley, “Eliminating Gender Bias”
• 2017, Extraordinary Women Radio Podcast, “Role Models for the Next Generation”
• 2017, Colorado Women’s Hall  of Fame, “Inspirational Women” showcasing Temple Grandin, Diana Hall & Beth Walker
• 2016 Denver Business Journal nomination, “Outstanding Women in Business in Colorado”
• 2016, “Going Digital”, HMG CIO Conference
• 2016, Los Angeles CIO Executive Forum by Argyle & NCS-Madison
• 2015, Colorado Technology Association (CTA) Summit

Chandy remains committed to “luminating” the path for future industry leaders.  She is especially passionate about mentoring women and minorities and serving as a role model for the next generation of technology women leaders.  Chandy joined ThoughtWorks in 2016 when it won the award for Best Place to Work for Women in Technology.

Stephen Katsirubas is a well-known driver of global digital transformation and innovation with a proven track record of achieving results.    

An industry respected leader, Mr. Katsirubas is currently the Chief Information Officer for Hunter Douglas, the world leader in the windows covering and architectural industry.   In this role, Mr. Katsirubas is responsible for the overall IT strategy and technology empowerment of the Hunter Douglas North American organization.   

Over a 25+ successful year career in IT, he has championed numerous successful technology initiatives ranging from $100M+ large scale ERP implementations to leading manufacturing technology solutions as well as digital and mobile innovation, global supply chain transformations, leading edge ecommerce solutions as well as building world class agile global IT organizations.  

Prior to joining Hunter Douglas, Mr. Katsirubas has had a long career in IT as the Global CIO for Crocs, CIO for Clarks, and has held several other positions as a program director, software engineer and a management consultant in the international trade arena.  Other accomplishments include being recognized as a top Colorado CIO in 2015 as well as a being previously nominated as the top Retail CIO of the Year in 2012.  Preceding the IT portion of his career, he distinctly served with the United States Marine Corps as a non-commission officer and is a combat veteran of the first Gulf War.  Mr. Katsirubas holds an MBA from Clarkson University and a Bachelor of Science from Norwich University.  Mr. Katsirubas likes to spend his time with his wife and three children as well as assisting charities that support children.  He currently sits on the board of A Precious Child that is based in Denver, CO.

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.

As Deloitte Global Chief Information Security Officer, Dave is responsible for building and maintaining the vision, strategy, and programs necessary to secure Deloitte’s information assets, technologies, and data. He drives the continuous evolution and deployment of an enterprise-wide information risk management program and has the privilege to lead world class cybersecurity talent.

Prior to joining Deloitte in April 2018, Dave served as the Chief Security Officer (CSO) for CenturyLink, Inc. He also served as the Vice President of Corporate Security for Qwest Communications International, Inc., prior to the merger with CenturyLink where he was responsible for various corporate security programs.

As a Supervisory Special Agent with the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Dave was responsible for investigating violations of federal statutes in which the Internet, computer systems, and networks were exploited as the targets of terrorist organizations, foreign government sponsored intelligence operations or criminal activities. He managed programs related to white collar crime, crisis management, critical infrastructure protection, and violent crime.

Currently, Dave is a member of the International Security Management Association (ISMA) and Society of Former Special Agents of the FBI. 

Ginna Raahauge was previously Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer at Catholic Health Initiatives (CHI).   CHI is a $17B and growing healthcare company.  Raahauge is a business-orientated technology leader who has played a key leadership role defining and delivering strategies that bring value to customers, partners, and shareholders of the organizations that she represents.  

Bringing more than 25 years of technology and business leadership experience across the high tech industry vertical, Raahauge has reported to several C-level positions and provided strategic direction and advice to the company and its Board of Directors.  Raahauge has a proven track record and commitment to innovation cycles, operational excellence and unique understanding of the challenges in both developing and applying technology for transformations or turnarounds.   As a respected technology executive, Raahauge was invited to become a member of Sutter Hill Ventures CIO Advisory Board (http://www.shv.com ) which is a highly successful venture firm established in 1962.

For the past 5 years, Raahauge also serves as Board member and member of the Diligence Team for acquisitions, of a non-profit, MentorNet, with a mission to ensure the success of the technology and engineering (STEM) workforce of the future.  As a current Board member, Raahauge has advised through several turnaround scenarios and re-launch assessments, including developing strategies that capture new business models.  Raahauge is a co-founder of an angel investment firm that specializes in bringing capital to demographics that have historically been ignored.   She is an active investor and funded Series A, B, C rounds for early start inventions.

Prior to her roles as a CIO at Riverbed and Informatica, Raahauge served as Vice President, IT at Cisco, where she was responsible for the entire technology platform that delivered Cisco\’s core revenue capturing revenue growth from $36B to $46B.   During her tenure, Raahauge authored and executed on several transformational strategies that enabled several business models to scale across the technology platforms with an eye on simplification and innovative solutions.  Raahauge is also experienced in other Operational functions related to M&A, Risk Management, Integrations, Divestitures, Global Corporate Real Estate. 

Ms. Raahauge is internationally recognized leader and recipient of numerous awards focused on transformational technology initiatives, diversity, and women in technology.  She regularly contributes technology and leadership articles that have been published in Forbes, WSJ, Computerworld, WIRED, CIO.com, HBR Publications – Enterprisers Project, and other international publications.

She and her husband, Jason, enjoy time on the lake wakeboarding, running, biking, attending their son’s swim competitions, and split their time between San Francisco and Denver.   

Molly Rauzi has twenty years of experience leading large, complex business transformation, culture and organizational change initiatives. As a consultant and Chief Information Officer, she provides expert counsel to our clients who are undergoing rapid change. Prior to joining Gagen MacDonald, Molly was the Managing Director leading the Business Advisory Services Practice in the Denver office of Grant Thornton LLP.

From 2007 to 2011, Molly served as an appointee of then Mayor John Hickenlooper (now the Governor of Colorado) to serve as the Chief Information Officer for the City and County of Denver.  Before working for the Mayor of Denver, Molly served as the Director of Technology for Denver International Airport. She has been an active member of her community for more than twenty years. Molly serves on the Board of Directors for Craig Hospital NewCloud Networks, and the Colorado Technology Association.  She also serves on the Center for Information Technology Innovation Board for the University of Colorado Denver Business School. She was voted one of the Twenty five most powerful women in Colorado in 2017. She was honored as Outstanding Woman in Business in 201o by the Denver Business Journal.  Molly holds a Bachelor of Arts in Business Adminstration, Pre-Law with a minor in Sociology from Regis University, and a Master in Systems Management from the College of Systems Science from the University of Denver. 

Matt Schwartz currently serves as Chief Technology Officer at Sage Hospitality. In this capacity, Matt has responsibility for all aspects of IT including applications, infrastructure, business intelligence, project management and security for the entire company. Matt spends most days thwarting cyberattacks, enhancing Sage’s CRM database, and moving as much as possible to the Cloud.

Prior to joining Sage, Matt served as the VP of Digital Solutions at Intrawest where he deployed a cloud-based Central Reservation System (CRS) to all of Intrawest’s resort properties including Winter Park and Steamboat.  Prior to Intrawest, Matt held various leadership positions in IT and Finance at PetSmart and Staples. Matt has a strong passion for technology, starting his career as a “coder” of HTML and SQL.

Matt earned a B.S. with Honors from Cornell University and an M.B.A from MIT’s Sloan School of Management. 

Bart Waress is a veteran IT leader known for his business partnering and strategic technical road mapping. Bart has lead IT teams in oil & gas, healthcare, banking and finance, warranty, and telecommunications and cable industries over the last 20 years.

Denis Zerr serves as Chief Information Officer for Radiology Partners. Previously, Denis held the role of Chief Information Officer and Senior Vice President for Catholic Health Initiatives and served as Vice President of Information and Business Services for Amgen, the world’s largest biotechnology company. He has a strong track record of developing and leading IT programs in healthcare and life sciences organizations.

Denis earned a master’s degree in information systems from Telecom Ecole de Management in Paris and an additional master’s degree in business and management from Universite Paris Dauphine.

Experienced Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) and Cybersecurity Risk Management Executive focused on aligning security programs with desired business objectives. Positive outcomes are achieved through established partnerships resulting from long-term relationship development with key stakeholders. Security controls are tailored to protect information systems and data (cloud or on-premises) in support of organizational activities.

Demonstrated history of successfully transforming multiple organizations (5-400+ team members) by focusing on the establishment of positive culture and increasing efficiency to improve business outcomes. Leverages extensive information technology and operations management experience to translate organizational requirements into relevant, repeatable and scalable security solutions.

Michael Archuleta is a highly respected leader in the field of Health Information Technology and serves as the Chief Information Officer of Mt. San Rafael Hospital in Trinidad, Colorado. He is widely recognized for his innovative and visionary leadership skills and has been honored with several awards and recognitions, including being named a Top Hospital and Health System CIO to know and receiving the HITEC 100 award, which recognizes the most influential Hispanics in the technology industry.

As an active member of the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives, Michael advises and guides healthcare providers on the adoption and integration of HIT. He is also a technology and cybersecurity advisor and board member of several startups, leveraging his expertise to foster the growth of new healthcare technologies. Additionally, Michael is a renowned speaker on HIT topics, sharing his insights and knowledge with healthcare professionals across the industry.

Michael was recently appointed by the Governor of Colorado to serve as a Commissioner on the Colorado eHealth Commission, where he provides expert guidance on advancing health information technology in the state.

Under Michael\’s leadership, Mt. San Rafael Hospital has become one of the leading hospitals in Colorado for leveraging advanced technology to enhance the patient and provider experience. Through his innovative and driven approach, the hospital has achieved HIMSS Analytics Stage Six recognition, a significant accomplishment only attained by thirty percent of U.S. hospitals. Furthermore, the Information Systems Department under Michael\’s direction has been awarded the Healthcare\’s Most Wired Award for seven consecutive years (2015-2021), recognizing the hospital\’s exceptional progress in adopting and integrating health information technology to improve performance in infrastructure, business, administrative management, quality, safety, and clinical integration.

Michael Archuleta\’s impact on the healthcare industry is immense, and his contributions have earned him widespread recognition and respect. He continues to lead the way in implementing and advancing health information technology, helping to improve patient outcomes and revolutionize the healthcare industry.

JP Batra is a Technology executive and a thought leader who has revitalized IT departments, turned around stalled strategic initiatives and managed them to success. He work has resulted in business acceleration using technology, better employee engagement and improved time to market.  His successes include re-energizing revenue, stock and reputation impacting initiative for a Fortune 500 client and applying emerging tech to gain market share over entrenched services leaders for his client company.

JP thrives on innovation and innovative ideas. He assists IT prepare for innovation and emerging tech opportunities, and its integration with mainstream IT.  His thought leadership papers are posted on his linkedin profile (https://www.linkedin.com/in/jpbatra/).   JP can be reached at jp.batra@BlueRiverIntnl.com

William Chumley currently serves as Chief Customer Officer for the Governor\’s Office of Information Technology (OIT) for the State of Colorado.  William\’s visionary and collaborative leadership developed five-year IT roadmaps across 17 executive branch agencies while delivering on 400+ projects totaling $600m.  His cross-functional team raised survey scores 50 percent for service excellence, 31 percent for customer satisfaction, 14 percent for employee engagement, and 12 percent for reducing information security risk.  

William Chumley joined OIT in 2011, bringing with him 23 years of team management and customer relationship accomplishments in public and private sectors, small and large profit and not-for-profit organizations, and corporate and personal business environments. In his initial role as the Deputy IT Director supporting the Department of Revenue, he helped to improve overall service delivery from OIT to the department while implementing project management and intake processes in collaboration with the agency partners. In a subsequent appointment as Deputy Director of Enterprise Applications, William established an entirely new organizational structure and process flow for that team while emphasizing improved customer delivery on application support and enhancement. He also served as the Business Portfolio Director within the Customer Office before becoming the Chief Customer Officer in September 2014. 
Having started as an assembly language programmer for United Airlines, William quickly became an influential leader and moved to Sabre/Travelocity. At Sabre, William established application development centers in a variety of international locations while supervising and leading a matrixed team of developers, business analysts, infrastructure teams, architects, and managers. William is adept at transitioning teams from current state into innovative and successful new approaches.
William’s passion is to analyze the goals and objectives of an organization, determine reality, and then establish a plan to connect reality to the ultimate vision. One of his core strengths is discovering the key talents of individuals and teams and leveraging those strengths to meet the business objectives, while also managing personal growth and development of every employee and each team.
William brings a calm, centered, clear, collaborative, and comfortable approach to his job. He has a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Information Systems and a Masters Degree in Business Administration. William balances his work life with significant participation with local marching bands, color guards, and dance teams serving as a consultant and judge for numerous events.   

Kelvin is the CEO and Executive Director of the National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA).  In this role, he works with the world’s most recognizable tech and financial services companies (members hold $4.5 trillion in market capital) to build strong partnerships around cybersecurity.

Prior to NCSA, Kelvin was CEO of Route 2 Strategies (RT2) where he worked with several organizations including the National Defense ISAC.  Before RT2, Kelvin served as a Strategic Director at FireEye, a threat intelligence company.  He managed National Security Agency/Department of Defense issues related to government intelligence networks.  Kelvin also spent many years with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security\’s Office of Cybersecurity and Communications where he served as Director of Intergovernmental Affairs and Staff Director of the President’s National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee.  During the Obama Administration, he worked at the White House as Director of State Engagement at the National Security Council – Cyber Directorate. 

Based out of the firm’s Denver, Colorado office, Martin T. Coover serves as executive vice president for Jobplex, Inc., a DHR International company. Martin has more than a decade of domestic and international corporate experience. Having served in various marketing management and communications leadership positions across the education, international non-profit, retail, and food & beverage segments, Martin utilizes an in-depth understanding of the global workplace to bring a unique and focused perspective to the world of executive search. Currently in his third year with the firm, Martin has managed projects across an array of market segments and continues to develop impactful relationships throughout the worlds of education, non-profit, food & beverage, manufacturing, construction management, direct sales, software and technology, energy/oil & gas, real estate, and health care among others.  Never straying too far from his education roots, Martin also currently serves as a member of the Corporate Work Study Program Board at Arrupe Jesuit, and is an active fundraiser and committee member with the Denver Scholarship Foundation. Prior to moving to Denver and joining DHR International, Martin and his wife spent time living and working in the city of Quito, Ecuador.  While working at the British School of Quito, he also provided marketing, communications, and consulting services to various educational non-profits. Before heading to South America, Martin worked in the marketing department for leading food-ingredient manufacturer Newly Weds Foods, Inc., out of Chicago, IL. Martin earned a Bachelor of Science in Secondary Education from Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana and counts conversational Spanish among his qualifications and interests.

Jamie Cutler is a 17 year veteran in technology and corporate management. He has held leadership positions in the public, hospitality, technology and most recently the oil and gas sectors over his career. Today, Mr. Cutler serves as the Chief Information Officer at QEP Resources Inc., an S&P 500 Energy company based in Denver, Colorado and he was previously with MarkWest Energy Partners in Denver.

Jeff Fithian has over 20 years of technology leadership experience in consulting, consumer products, high-tech, and industrial manufacturing.  Since 2014, he has served as Chief Information Officer for DMC Global, Inc, a publicly held, global, diversified technology products company based in Broomfield, Colorado.  He is currently leading DMC’s Global Digital Transformation Initiative and is also Chairman of DMC’s Enterprise Risk Management Committee.

Prior to his current role, Jeff was the Vice President of Information Technology for Karcher North America in Denver and has held technology leadership positions with Sun Microsystems, Corporate Express, StorageTek, and Andersen Consulting.  He holds a Bachelor’s and Master’s Degree in Industrial and Systems Engineering from Virginia Tech.  Jeff currently lives in Boulder, CO with his wife and two sons.

Mark is a 27-year IT executive who currently serves the city of Greeley, Colorado as its CIO.  Greeley is a part of the rapidly growing region of northern Colorado that includes Greeley, Loveland, and Fort Collins.  His team serves over 1000 city employees and works with city departments to leverage emerging trends in Smart City technologies. (www.greeleygov.com)

Prior to joining the City, he worked on a SaaS startup called ProcessMetric, an electronic forms-based workflow and analytics platform. ProcessMetric streamlines inter- and intra-company transactions, especially in highly collaborative industries such as custom manufacturing and distribution.  (www.processmetric.com)

Mark moved to Colorado in 2012 to lead the multi-national Software Engineering division of  VirtualSite Solutions (VSS), a joint venture between Caterpillar and Trimble Navigation. VSS\’ flagship product, VisionLink, is the industry leading IoT / big-data / business intelligence solution for the heavy construction industry. (www.myvisionlink.com/)

He joined VirtualSite solutions after a 17 year career as CIO at Eagan, MN based Skyline Exhibits, a leading manufacturer of portable, modular and custom trade show exhibits. (www.skyline.com)

Christopher Mandelaris was formerly the Vice President, Chief Information Security Officer and Chief Privacy Officer for Chemical Bank responsible for Information Assurance, Privacy, IT Governance and IT Risk for the organization. 

Mandelaris was most recently with Talmer Bank as Managing Director, Chief Information Security Officer. He started his career in IT Infrastructure Ford Motor Credit as a system analyst and currently holds a Master of Science in Information Systems from Walsh College of Business and maintains several certifications as C|CISO, CISM, CRISC, CISA, PMP, MCSA, ITILv3, Six Sigma Greenbelt, MCP and CNA.

Chemical Bank has 266 branch locations in Michigan and Northeast Ohio and total about $16 billion in assets and $13 billion in deposits. It is the sixth largest bank in Michigan by deposits, and the only one of those six headquartered in Michigan.

Mark Martinet has over 25 years of US and international experience leading and transforming businesses within large enterprises and start-ups. Mark most recently served as the Chief Information officer at Level 3 Communications from 2009 to 2013 where he led a successful and broad global IT transformation across talent, architecture, data center operations and applications development. Previously, Mark spent 5 years at BT Group in London where he led the reconstruction of the BT Online businesses and served as the CIO and CTO of the UK business division. Prior to joining the BT Group Mark was in Corporate Development and Strategy at Qwest and served as a product GM for managed services and data center products. In years prior Mark also worked at MFS Communications in sales and sales management and a sports marketing firm in Luxembourg that focused on formula auto racing. Mark started his career as a founder and CEO of a clothing design and manufacturing company called NET Sportswear located in San Diego, CA. Mark holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Marketing from the University of Arizona and an MBA from University of Denver.

Sam Masiello has been working with email, messaging, and fighting internet pollution for over 25 years. Mr. Masiello currently serves as the CISO at Gates Corporation where he is responsible for the company\’s data security, risk, and global compliance compliance initiatives.  Prior to Gates, he served as the CISO at TeleTech where he oversaw the protection of employee, consumer, and customer data for all of the organization\’s clients, which includes many Fortune 500 companies.

Sam has also been the Chief Security Officer, head of Application Security, and head of Security research at companies such as Groupon, Return Path, and McAfee.  He currently serves as Director-at-Large of The Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial Email (CAUCE), National Advisory Board Member for SecureWorld, a 2018-2019 Co-Chair for Evanta, and an Executive Board Member of Colorado Cyber. He has previously served as a member of the Board of Directors for the Messaging, Malware, and Mobile Anti-Abuse Working Group (M3AAWG), the Steering Committee of the Online Trust Alliance (OTA) and a member of the Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG).  In 2017, Sam was recognized as a Colorado CISO of the Year finalist by the Colorado Technology Association.

Current role and objective of ELT member at Wiley Aref Matin is Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer at John Wiley & Sons, Inc., a global leader in scholarly research and education. He’s led the company’s evolution as a world-class, fully integrated technology organization serving the research and education sectors. Aref is a technology innovator adept at building world-class technology teams, developing products, and modernizing and globalizing technologies and platforms. 

Previous role(s) and achievements Aref has held executive leadership roles in several industries including professional training, publishing, and communications. Prior to joining Wiley, Aref was EVP and CTO at Ascend Learning, an industry-leading provider of career training content. There, he consolidated technologies and organizations and developed a highly successful standardized training platform. Previously, at Pearson Global Education Services, Aref defined the company’s technology and product strategy and led a highly complex global technology and product transformation in partnership with the business.

Education and (optional) any extracurricular activities (board appointments/advocacy groups) Aref earned his Master of Science and Bachelor of Science in Electronic Engineering from Northrop University in California and certification from the Executive Business Leadership Programs at Harvard Business School and Yale University.

Areas of expertise: 

• Technology-led digital transformation
• Harnessing technologies such as machine learning and artificial intelligence
• Utilizing big data to reinvent business
• Creating products for adaptive smart content

Mark has 20 years of combined technology, security, risk and leadership experience.  As a visionary thinker and one who studies the evolving behaviors of bad actors and threat vectors, Mark continues to evolve what he refers to as the evolution of “Best Practices”.  Mark will tell you that best practices is a moving target on a yearly basis.  For example, what may have applied a year ago evolves as a combination of compliance and regulatory bodies enhance their requirements.  Today we are seeing an increase in the pace of strengthening the compliance programs at a faster pace than ever before.  Keeping up with these changes has become a challenge for many organizations today.

Mark started his career being hands on with the largest B2B office supply company as their senior system engineer, from there he moved into the global area of e-commerce and faced the challenges of the building and securing a platform that did business in every country across the globe.  As Mark would say, everyone had us in their cross hairs but we won every time.  Mark continued his career as CIO of AAA Colorado but decided that protecting one organization at a time wasn’t enough for him.

Mark found his true professional calling in helping as many organizations as he could become better in protecting their brand, employees, customers and data.  Mark’s experience has crossed industries from technology, insurance, retail, gaming, telecommunications, government, and healthcare, just to name a few.  Mark also is well versed in such compliance, regulatory and data privacy laws such as PCI, HIPAA, SOX, FISMA, SOC 1, ISO 27001 and EU GDPR. 

Mark earned his MBA and went on to obtain his CISSP certification.

Matt Mehlbrech leads the global IT organization at CoorsTek, Inc. as Vice President of Information Technology. CoorsTek is a global leader in engineered ceramics, serving numerous industries, from semi-conductor manufacturing, to energy and defense solutions, to medical devices.

In his role, Matt leads the definition and execution of the information technology strategy for CoorsTek, partners with the various business units, manages all IT resources, and supports all business systems and processes, including ERP and manufacturing-related systems, global infrastructure, information security, and end-user tools.

Prior to joining CoorsTek, Matt spent over 18 years with Eaton Corporation, a $20B power management company providing products and services in the electrical, vehicle, hydraulics and aerospace industries.  There, he served as vice president of IT for its Industrial Sector, representing $7.5B in revenue. 

Matt holds a BA in Business Administration and Honors Program in Management Information Systems form the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Matt is based out of the Golden CoorsTek headquarters office. 

Suma Nallapati is an accomplished technology leader and consultant with more than seventeen years progressive experience in establishing and executing value driven global IT service strategy and delivery. She has extensive experience with leading technology driven innovation for business transformation, health care infrastructure operations, and global enterprise business applications. She is a people leader who builds high performance teams within multi-cultural, globally distributed workforce through mentoring, coaching and inspiration. Suma is a champion of collaboration, breaking silos and achieving excellence across all organizations. As Colorado’s Secretary of Technology and Chief Information Officer, she is committed to positioning the Governor’s Office of Information Technology (OIT) as a leader in IT innovation for state government. She is also passionately committed to innovating everyday solutions for our customers and end users. Suma comes to OIT from Catholic Health Initiatives (CHI), one of the nation’s largest healthcare networks, where she led service delivery operations for a complex multi-state rapidly growing healthcare IT footprint leading distributed teams that included data center and network operations, service desk and end user computing. Previously, Suma worked at TeleTech where she served as the Global Director of Enterprise applications. Suma worked to deploy complex ERP, self-service business applications and related systems in a governed, best practices framework across 19 countries and helped with the transformation of the technology organization to a true service provider model. Suma co-founded a highly successful IT consulting firm that translates proven CRM, ERP, e-business and Business Intelligence technologies business solutions for its clients across the United States. This has helped her cultivate a “think like an owner” attitude which helps her align a company\’s vision, mission, value, and culture with the daily activities of the business. She earned a master’s degree in nuclear physics from the Andhra University India, a Professional Management certification from Mountain States Employers Council and a Project Management certificate from the Project Management Institute. She has made Colorado her home for the past 17 years along with her husband Srinivas and two children. She is actively involved with several charities around health and education.

Scott Newman is the Chief Information Officer for the City of Aurora, CO, and has served in this capacity since March 2020. He oversees a department of just over 60 individuals, and works collaboratively with City Leadership, Departmental Directors, and external partners to establish the City’s technology strategy. He guided the City through the technical transformations required by Covid and continues to build upon those changes to bridge the digital divide while improving service for the community at large. Scott has worked at the City for 4 ½ years but has spent 20 years working in technology both in the private and public sectors. 

Helmut Oehring has extensive experience leading information technology supporting manufacturing, healthcare, global supply chain management, and marketing.  As CIO with Fleet Response, he envisions and implements technology strategies to grow revenue and improve profitability.  Helmut has experience pursuing global customers with CRM solutions, supporting LEAN manufacturing with ERP deployments, automating shop floors with AI & Industrial IoT innovations, delivering cutting edge Business Intelligence solutions, and managing IT transitions through M&A activities.

Previously, as the CIO for Ascend Clinical, Helmut established a CRM strategy leveraging Salesforce, fully automated the lab floor with Siemens technology, and delivered an innovative digital product that retained customers.  Formerly, he was Executive Vice President with Asteelflash, envisioning and implementing technology strategies to grow revenue and improve profitability.  He was responsible for the Integration and IT divisions for the company including staff with locations across North America, Europe, North Africa and Asia with headquarters in Paris, France.  Helmut was also a Vice President at CoorsTek with broad responsibilities for Business Transformation through IT, manufacturing ceramic materials, and purchasing raw materials globally from a portfolio of suppliers.  He managed three operating facilities in the US supplying ceramic materials for customers worldwide. 

Helmut earned a MBA from Indiana University after spending his undergraduate years at the University of Illinois graduating with a B.S. degree in Computer Science.  After growing up in the suburbs of Chicago, Helmut and his wife Vicki enjoy family-life with four children in the Denver, Colorado area.  Broncos, scuba, and skiing are household favorites.

Bill graduated from Missouri University of Science and Technology in Rolla, Missouri with an BS degree in Electrical Engineering.  Bill started his professional career with Monitor Labs developing technical applications with focus on data analytic.  That eventually led to a fourteen year technical and leadership career at Cavion Plus as Senior Software Engineer, Director of Software Development, and Head of Software-As-A-Service Channel.  It was this capacity that he conceived products and services that successful launched a start-up business then  IPO.  Most recently, within Visa Inc., Bill is the Head of Technology Strategy.  He droves technology transformation and has applied innovation agenda through conducting proof-of-concepts and developing a pipeline of feasible solutions and reference architectures in building the business/engineering innovation. 

Matt Schwartz currently serves as Chief Technology Officer at Sage Hospitality. In this capacity, Matt has responsibility for all aspects of IT including applications, infrastructure, business intelligence, project management and security for the entire company. Matt spends most days thwarting cyberattacks, enhancing Sage’s CRM database, and moving as much as possible to the Cloud.

Prior to joining Sage, Matt served as the VP of Digital Solutions at Intrawest where he deployed a cloud-based Central Reservation System (CRS) to all of Intrawest’s resort properties including Winter Park and Steamboat.  Prior to Intrawest, Matt held various leadership positions in IT and Finance at PetSmart and Staples. Matt has a strong passion for technology, starting his career as a “coder” of HTML and SQL.

Matt earned a B.S. with Honors from Cornell University and an M.B.A from MIT’s Sloan School of Management. 

Gautam Sethi is the CTO & Acting-COO for Douglas County School District, a suburb of Denver CO. Douglas County with its 91 schools serves over 67,000 students and 8,000 staff members with an annual budget of $700M. 

Gautam joined DCSD with over 18 years of Information Technology experience. In those years he started work as a technology consultant for companies like Verizon and Johnson & Johnson prior to joining New York City Department of Education (NYCDOE). It was at NYCDOE he discovered his passion for solving deeply complex educational and operational problems using technology. During his 8 years at NYCDOE he managed various IT projects impacting the 1.4 million students and 1,600 schools. He then moved from the largest school district in the US to Atlanta Public Schools (APS) to work in an urban environment with significant equity issues as it relates to technology. 

He holds a Bachelors in Computer Science from Delhi University, India and a Masters in Business Administration (MBA) from Emory University, Atlanta.

Michael Spandau is FMIC’s Senior Vice President of Global Information Technology and CIO.

Spandau joined Fender in October 2005 and orchestrated the remediation efforts related to Fender’s SAP implementation. He has responsibility for managing, developing and executing Fender’s Global IT strategy.

Prior to joining Fender, Spandau worked for twelve years at Deloitte Consulting, leading complex international ERP implementations and IT initiatives for a diverse international business clientele. Prior to Deloitte Consulting he worked for Shell Chemicals in Europe and on Worldbank projects located East Africa and Indonesia.

Michael holds a diploma in Computer Science with special focus on Business Economics from the Hochschule Reutlingen, Germany.
 

As Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer, John Swieringa is responsible for enterprise information technology strategy and operations at DISH. Swieringa joined DISH in 2007 and was most recently responsible for software development and enterprise systems architecture as Vice President of IT Application Development and Architecture. Swieringa spent the first 10 years of his career working in Corporate Finance for DISH and other Fortune 500 companies, before making the switch to IT. He was recently recognized by IDG’s CIO magazine and the CIO Executive Council as a recipient of a 2014 CIO Ones to Watch™ Award honoring future CIOs who have demonstrated leadership, drive, innovation and delivered value to their business. He earned his Bachelor’s degree from Bucknell University and a Masters of Business Administration from the University of Denver\’s Daniels College of Business.

Technology is designed to be simple; leaders should simplify complex business processes and enable the digital technology to build best-in-class customer, employee and partner experiences. Enterprise transformation starts with leaders that can influence their people and nurture the organization culture and mindset for success. Strategy is what you will do and as important what you won’t do. Sujan is a trusted business partner and accomplished IT global leader who can tie all things digital with strategy, simplification & execution and establish a strong sense of purpose for the teams in support of a larger organizational context and deliver outstanding customer-centric business value.  

• Focus Areas: IT & Digital Strategy, 3-yr Product Roadmaps, Boardroom Presentations, Business Partnership, Business Processes Optimization, Business Relationship Management, Change Management, Cloud-first & Mobile-first, Data-driven Digital Transformation, Innovation with Emerging Technologies, Bimodal Teams, Continuous Improvement, Reduce Waste, Robotic Process Automation (RPA), Agile Methodology, Pace-layered Enterprise Architecture, DevOps, Advanced BI & Analytics, Cyber & Data Security, Modern Digital Architecture, Connected & Intelligent Post-Modern ERP
• Industry Experiences: FinTech, Telecommunications, Aerospace, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Education, Consulting
• Social Causes: Preparing kids for the game of life – focus on mindfulness exercises, develop athleticism at a young age, and make them believe in themselves 

• Professional Affiliations: Colorado CDO Governing Body, CIO 100 Elite, Denver CIO Executive Leadership Advisory Board
• Awards: CIO 100, Center Stage Awards for Excellence in Delivery (First Data), LPO Leadership (Accenture & Microsoft)

Mike Wade is currently Senior Vice President & CIO of Global Technology and Enterprise Project Management Office for Terumo BCT.  Terumo BCT is a leader in the medical device industry, focusing on blood component, therapeutic apheresis and cellular technologies.  In his role, Mike is responsible for providing global leadership and direction for both long-term strategy as well as day-to-day operations, incorporating all functions and disciplines of IT as well as leading the company’s enterprise PMO.  Mike has over 30 years of IT, cybersecurity, and project management experience in diverse industries including medical devices, financial services, banking, and oil and gas.

Prior to joining Terumo BCT, Mike held leadership and technology positions for Janus Capital Group, UMB Bank, and Koch Industries.  He has a bachelor’s degree in management information systems, and a master’s degree in business administration with a finance emphasis

Steve Winterfeld is Akamai’s Advisory CISO. Before joining the team, he served as CISO for Nordstrom Bank and Director of Incident Response and Threat Intelligence at Charles Schwab.  Steve focuses on ensuring Akamai’s partners are successful in defending themselves and their customers as well as determining where we should be focusing the security platform’s capabilities. Steve has published a book on Cyber Warfare and holds CISSP, ITIL and PMP certifications.

Denis Zerr serves as Chief Information Officer for Radiology Partners. Previously, Denis held the role of Chief Information Officer and Senior Vice President for Catholic Health Initiatives and served as Vice President of Information and Business Services for Amgen, the world’s largest biotechnology company. He has a strong track record of developing and leading IT programs in healthcare and life sciences organizations.

Denis earned a master’s degree in information systems from Telecom Ecole de Management in Paris and an additional master’s degree in business and management from Universite Paris Dauphine.