Upcoming Summits

2020 Chicago CIO Executive Leadership Summit

Fairmont Chicago, Millennium Park, Chicago, IL


Enterprise 2025: Lead, Reimagine, Reinvent to Execute World-Class Strategies

The speed, scope and nature of disruption facing businesses is unprecedented. In today’s fast-changing economy, only the agile will survive. To tackle these challenges head on and to position the organization for competitive advantage, CIOs and technology executives must apply a fresh mindset to identify and execute on new sources of technology-driven innovation along with the cultural transformation that’s necessary to drive successful business outcomes.

The pioneering mindset and bold leadership skills needed to foster a culture of innovation and carry out winning strategies will be the focal point of the Chicago CIO Executive Leadership summit.

Read more about the summit, here.

Regarding HMG Strategy Summits and COVID-19:

All 2020 HMG Strategy events are proceeding as planned. HMG is committed to ensuring the safety of our participants with our response based on facts, not driven by fear. We’ll continue to monitor developments around COVID-19 and follow the best practices laid out by the CDC, World Health Organization, and other relevant entities. We will continue to monitor the situation closely and will provide updates as necessary.  

 


  • Thomas Anderson
    Senior Director
    Accenture

  • Ted Colbert
    President & CEO, Boeing Global Services
    Executive Vice President
    The Boeing Company

  • Kelly Coomer
    CIO
    Sammons Financial Group

  • Mark Griesbaum
    Managing Partner
    Affinity4U, LLC

  • Ron Guerrier
    CIO & Secretary of Innovation & Technology
    Board Member SBPUSA.org
    State of Illinois

  • Donagh Herlihy
    Former EVP & CIO (Retired)
    Bloomin' Brands, Inc.

  • Daphne Jones
    Board of Directors AMN Healthcare, Barnes Group, Inc. and Masonite International
    Founder
    Destiny Transformations Group

  • Susan Malisch
    VP & CIO
    Loyola University Chicago

  • Paul Martin
    SVP & CIO
    and Board of Director, Unisys Corporation
    Baxter International

  • Quintin McGrath
    Senior Managing Director, Technology Management & Enablement, Global Technology Services
    Deloitte

  • Hunter Muller
    President & CEO
    HMG Strategy

  • Mark Polansky
    Senior Partner, Technology Officers Practice
    Korn Ferry

  • Preston Simons
    Member of the Board of Governors
    Univeristy of St. Thomas - Opus College of Business

  • Julia Anderson
    Global CIO
    Smithfield Foods

  • Joe Cannella
    CIO
    Tempel

    Joe Cannella has spent his entire career in Information Systems working with medium-sized manufacturers across many industries. He is an experienced IS executive with extensive experience leading people, setting vision, and managing large projects and budgets. Joe is known for developing results-oriented teams and creating and executing an IT vision that addresses business needs. He possesses a broad and deep expertise in manufacturing systems and processes. He was recognized by his peers as a Finalist in the 2019 Chicago ORBIE CIO of the Year, and nominated for Chicago CIO of the Year in 2016, 2018, and 2019 by The Executives’ Club of Chicago, AITP, and SIM.

    In 2005 he was hired by Tempel Steel Company to lead their world-wide Oracle EBS implementation. In 2009, he was promoted to lead IS world-wide where he is currently the Chief Information Officer managing a team of 20 employees and 14 service providers. Tempel is a privately held global company founded in 1945 in Chicago with 2100 employees and is one of the world’s leading independent manufacturers of magnetic laminations used for motors, generators, pumps, transformers, and other electrically powered applications.

    Prior to Tempel, Joe spent twenty years in a consulting firm that specialized in systems and operations improvement for mid-sized manufacturers. He started as a systems programmer and designer, advanced to project manager, became a partner, and eventually led the firm as president.

    Joe has taught Materials Management, Supply Chain Management, Lean Manufacturing, and Information Technology classes at the college level and for many companies. He has published articles on Systems Planning and Implementation, ERP Optimization, and Advanced Systems Technologies for Manufacturers; and has been a frequent speaker APICS, IMA, CAMP IT, TEPEE, SIM, and as an independent expert for many software vendors.

    He believes that honesty, integrity, continuing education, and mentoring are key in building professional and personal relationships. He is a member of the SIM, TEPEE, and GSN, and has a Bachelor of Science Degree in Computer Science and Business Management from Northeastern Illinois University, and is Certified in Production and Inventory Control (CPIM) by the American Production and Control Society (APICS).

  • Elisabeth Case
    Managing Director
    Marsh

    Elisabeth Case is the cyber advisory leader and the commercial and technology E&O product leader within Marsh’s Cyber Center of Excellence. She is responsible for overseeing a full range of advisory and placement services to clients with complex cyber and technology risks throughout the country. In addition, Elisabeth serves as the senior cyber and E&O advisor for some of Marsh’s largest clients.

    Elisabeth returned to Marsh in 2012 after a hiatus as the chief underwriting officer of CNA’s Communications, Media and Technology Industry Practice. Prior to CNA, Elisabeth spent five years at Marsh as a placement and advisory specialist in Marsh’s Communications, Media and Technology Practice.

    In 1997, Elisabeth joined The St. Paul Companies as an underwriter and underwriting director in their Technology Industry Practice. At St. Paul, Elisabeth’s responsibilities included the development of forms and coverages for the unique exposures technology clients face, and helped draft St. Paul’s earliest cyber insurance products. Prior to St. Paul Companies, Elisabeth spent the first 10 years of her career in various underwriting and leadership roles at Chubb.

    Since 1987, Elisabeth has developed cutting edge, cost-effective insurance policies and programs that meet the needs that all firms face in the rapidly evolving exposure landscape of the digital age.  BS in psychology, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

  • Kim Day
    Executive Director, Chicago
    Genesys Works

    Kim Day serves as the Executive Director of Genesys Works Chicago. As a founder and innovator of a network of Chicago schools serving 2000 students, Kim saw Genesys Works' impact firsthand—nearly 100 of her schools’ seniors had their college and career success influenced by Genesys Works. With a background in scaling and sustaining complex organizations, Kim is excited to lead the effort to expand life-changing opportunity for Chicago students while helping create a more diverse and inclusive workforce.

  • Chris Gates
    Chief Technology Officer
    Allstate

     

  • Laszlo Gonc
    Co-Founder & Managing Partner, CIO, CISO
    Next Era Transformation Group

  • Rocco Grillo
    Managing Director - Global Cyber Risk Services
    Alvarez & Marsal

    Cybersecurity Executive Leader with extensive experience leading teams and providing clients with cybersecurity advisory services, incident response investigations, and other technical services, as well as guidance to C-Suite and Board level clients. I serve as a trusted advisor and partner to clients, law enforcement and government agencies, law firms, and industry organizations to address cybersecurity matters including incident response & forensics investigations, as well as vulnerability and threat management matters. He is a Ponemon Institute Fellow and affiliate board advisor to industry organizations including FS-ISAC, Retail-CISC, NH-ISAC as well as other ISACS, and member of the Shared Assessments Steering Committee Board. He has also served on the CLM Cyber Liability Council, the Board of Directors of the NY ISSA, the IT Policy Compliance Group, and the (i-4) Research Committee and he has been Interviewed / quoted in CNNMoney, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The London Times, Thomson Reuters, and other industry publications.

  • Ron Guerrier
    CIO & Secretary of Innovation & Technology
    Board Member SBPUSA.org
    State of Illinois

    Ron Guerrier serves as the State of Illinois Chief Information Officer and Secretary for the Department of Innovation & Technology (DoIT). Illinois Governor JB Pritzker appointed Guerrier to serve in these roles in March of 2019, based on his extensive background and leadership in the innovation and technology fields.

    Guerrier has more than 20 years of experience managing technology in the private sector and has served as chief information officer for multibillion-dollar companies since 2012. Most recently, he held the position of CIO at Express Scripts, the nation's largest pharmacy benefit manager, and functioned in the same role at Farmers Insurance Group from 2015 to 2018. Prior to that, Guerrier spent 19 years at Toyota North America, rising from a customer service representative to IT manager to chief technology officer to vice president and chief information officer.

    Guerrier earned a bachelor’s degree in economics and finance from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and a master’s degree in operations management and supervision from North Park University. In addition, he has earned a certificate in IT management from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, an executive certificate in developing organizational innovation from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology – Sloan School of Management, a certificate in innovation from the University of California, Berkeley; and a certificate in IT performance management from Boston University Questrom School of Business.

    Guerrier serves as the Chairman of the Board of IS Associates at the University of California, Los Angeles and is the Executive Advisor for STEM Advantage, a non-profit organization that opens doors for young women and underserved communities to pursue their dreams of a career in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM). Guerrier sits on the Board of Directors of SBP (SBPUSA.org), an organization which assists with the rebuilding of homes after natural disasters.

    Throughout his career, Guerrier has earned numerous honors and awards, including the 2019 Crane’s Top 50 Award, 2019 Top Technology Executive to Watch from HMG Strategy, CIO Breakaway Leader of the Year, Digital Edge 50 Award, CIO Lifetime Achievement Award, 3x and was included in the Black Enterprise Most Powerful Executives in Corporate America List. He has also written numerous articles for publications such as Entrepreneur, CIO Review and Fortune Magazines.

  • Anjana Harve
    CIO
    Hill-Rom

    Anjana is currently the CIO at Hillrom, a leading global medical technology company, where she is driving a large business transformation through digital solutions. Prior to that she held several leadership positions at Novartis as the Americas CIO for Alcon, Global Head of Commercial IT Operations and Global Head of Compliance Services & Information Management. She has more than 20 years of experience across the Life Sciences industry as well as in consulting.  Anjana has had the opportunity to take on some tough challenges and successfully drive large scale transformations throughout her career journey.  She is known for being a change catalyst with a penchant for inspiring, motivating and coaching teams to achieve uncommon results.

    Anjana strongly believes that information is a strategic asset that should be leveraged as a competitive differentiator. She has presented her ideas at various conferences and written articles about it.

    Anjana has an MBA from the Wharton School and a B.S. in Computer Science Engineering from Bangalore University, India.

  • Ahmed Jamil
    Technology Officer's Practice
    Russell Reynolds Associates

    Ahmed Jamil is a member of the firm’s technology officers practice and leads the firm’s global cyber security practice. He has deep experience the past several years advising organizations on technology leadership, recruiting CIOs and other technology/security leaders to multi-national and Global Fortune 1000 companies across industries. Ahmed also leads financial officer and CFO assignments, mainly for technology and PE sponsored companies. He is based in Chicago.

    Before joining the firm, Ahmed spent several years at CME Group (formerly the Chicago Mercantile Exchange). Most recently, he spearheaded technology and innovation efforts in CME's data business. Ahmed had previously served as the Chief of Staff to the CEO, working cross-functionally to deliver on major internal programs and initiatives. Before that, he led the company’s enterprise risk management function. Earlier in his career, Ahmed spent four years in EY’s risk advisory services business, working in both audit and technology advisory.

    Ahmed received his B.B.A. from the University of Michigan and his M.B.A. from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

  • Daphne Jones
    Board of Directors AMN Healthcare, Barnes Group, Inc. and Masonite International
    Founder
    Destiny Transformations Group

    Daphne E. Jones is an accomplished and seasoned executive with extensive experience using digital technologies strategically, entrepreneurially, and globally within multi-national corporations. She has over thirty years of experience in general management and executive level roles at IBM, Johnson & Johnson, Hospira (now Pfizer) and General Electric. During her tenure at GE, she served as: SVP for Future of Work, SVP & CIO.  She ran IT for Product Engineering, Imaging, and Ultrasound, and was Senior Executive & CIO For Global Services – all comprising a $13B segment within GE Healthcare.

    Prior to GE Healthcare, her early career days were spent at IBM and Johnson & Johnson as an IT Executive followed by her role as a Corporate Officer, SVP & CIO at Hospira, Inc. a  $5B global pharmaceutical and infusion technology company.  She was the first woman and African American to report to the Chairman of the Board with accountability for all aspects of Hospira’s enterprise, cyber, digital & analytics technology. A driver of change acceleration and leadership development, her career has been spent using digital technologies to transform business models, distribution channels and products. 

    Daphne serves on the board of directors for AMN Healthcare, Inc., Barnes Group Inc, and Masonite International Corp and is regarded as an authority on how to prepare for and land a corporate board seat.  She is the recipient of the University of West Indies’ Luminary Award,  was named one of Illinois’ Most Powerful and Influential Women by the National Diversity Council, and was Computerworld Premier 100 CIO.   She is a member of the National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD), Accenture Cybersecurity Women’s Council, The Digital Directors Network (DDN), and Executive Leadership Council (ELC). 

    Daphne’s contemporary experience and thought-leadership helps drive innovation globally; enabling business transformation across major industries.  A corporate advisor, mentor and budding author; her inspiring life story from poverty to executive leadership has made her a sought after speaker and consultant.

    Daphne earned her MBA and BS from Illinois State University.

  • Tony Leng
    Managing Director, Digital Transformation and CIO Practice Lead
    Diversified Search

    Tony Leng is a Managing Director of Diversified Search and leads 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.

  • John Madera
    Corporate Officers Practice
    Russell Reynolds Associates

    John Madera is a member of our Corporate Officers practice.  His primary area of advisory and search expertise is in Information Officers for public and private companies across all industries. Prior to joining Russell Reynolds Associates, John spent several years with Ernst & Young as a Senior Manager, Business Advisory. There, he managed a range of business and technology transformation initiatives for Fortune 500 clients across industries. Before this, he spent four years with BearingPoint Inc. as a Manager, Management Consulting. John's work there included helping a major client develop a company-wide, cross-functional merger integration methodology that aimed to boost speed of target integration, increase cross-functional collaboration, and capture merger synergies. John began his career as a Senior Procurement Specialist at KBR, Inc. in the Middle East. John received his B.S. from Illinois State University.

  • Susan Malisch
    VP & CIO
    Loyola University Chicago

    Susan Malisch currently serves as Vice President and Chief Information Officer for Loyola University Chicago. In this capacity, Susan leads the development and implementation of the University’s information technology (IT) strategic direction, and delivers IT services that support student learning, faculty research and teaching, administrative processes, and public service. Prior to joining Loyola, she held technology leadership roles at Novell, Cambridge Technology Partners, UCLA, and ATT (formerly Southwestern Bell Communications). Ms. Malisch was the recipient of the 2010 CIO of the Year award from the Executives Club of Chicago and the Association of IT Professionals. Ms. Malisch is the current President for the Chicago Chapter of the Society of Information Management and volunteers with a number of educational and professional organizations. Ms. Malisch earned a B.S.B.A. degree in Computer Information Systems from Rockhurst University in Kansas City, Missouri.

  • Dan Manley
    Managing Director & CISO
    CME Group

    Dan Manley serves as Managing Director and Chief Information Security Officer at CME Group. He is responsible for establishing an information security strategy, directing the development of architecture and ensuring effective incident response, compliance, and reporting.   Prior to joining CME Group, Dan gained more than 25 years of experience in cybersecurity, information technology, audit and risk management through leadership positions in Information Security at Allstate Insurance Corporation, KPMG LLP, Bank of America, and Diebold.  Dan began his professional career as a Project and Program Manager for the United States Air Force. 

  • Paul Martin
    SVP & CIO
    and Board of Director, Unisys Corporation
    Baxter International

    Paul E. Martin is senior vice president and chief information officer for Baxter International, where he has global responsibility for the information technology strategy, operations, processes and team supporting Baxter’s business worldwide. He joined Baxter in 2011 from Rexam PLC, the U.K.-based packaging manufacturing, where he held the position of group chief information officer.  During his 11-year tenure with Rexam, Martin served in a variety of key senior management positions, including vice president and CIO, Beverage Can Americas, and head of information technology for American National Can (acquired by Rexam PLC).  Prior to Rexam, Martin held IT leadership positions at the CIT Group, BNSF Railway and Frito-Lay Inc.

    Martin has served as a board of director of Unisys Corporation since April 2017. In 2016, he was appointed to the board of directors at Baxter Credit Union, and the board of trustees at each of the Rush University Medical Center and Ravinia Festival. 

    He currently serves as executive sponsor of Baxter's Black Alliance resource group for employees, which provides a forum to enhance engagement, build on recruitment and retention efforts, and increase the impact of business, charitable, and volunteer initiatives in the African-American community.

    In 2017, Martin was named to the CIO Hall of Fame by CIO Magazine for IT innovation and business leadership and was recognized in Black Enterprise’s 2017 Most Powerful Executives in Corporate America. In 2014, Martin was named among the "100 Diverse Corporate Leaders in STEM" by STEMconnector and previously recognized as a Business Leader of Color by Chicago United.

    Martin received a Bachelor’s degree in Management Information Systems from Western Kentucky University.

  • Troy Mattern
    Vice President for Product and Services Cybersecurity
    Motorola Solutions, Inc.

    Troy Mattern is the Vice President for Product and Services Cybersecurity at Motorola Solutions.  Having joined Motorola Solutions in June of 2017 he leads all policy, strategy and prioritization for cybersecurity efforts pertaining to Motorola Solutions Products and Services. 

    Troy is a retired Marine Corps Officer with 23 years of active duty service.  His military career included roles in field artillery, U.S. Embassy security, intelligence and full spectrum cyber operations.  He served in units ranging from those supporting tactical operations to the National Security Agency, the Pentagon and USCYBERCOM.  His career included multiple deployments including combat tours for Operation Desert Storm and for the Global War on Terrorism.  

    Upon retiring from the Marine Corps Troy focused on cybersecurity.  As the first Technical Director for Cyber Intelligence at Carnegie Mellon University’s Software Engineering Institute his team conducted research on private sector cyber intelligence programs seeking to improve the ability of the private sector to understand and protect itself against cyber threats.  Simultaneously he also served with the Intelligence and National Security Alliance (INSA) as the first Chair of the Cyber Intelligence task-force where he was the principal author of Operational Levels of Cyber Intelligence and led the development of the cyber intelligence series of white papers.  Troy’s last position, prior to joining Motorola Solutions, was as the Vice President of Cybersecurity for Zurich Insurance Group.

  • Quintin McGrath
    Senior Managing Director, Technology Management & Enablement, Global Technology Services
    Deloitte

    Quintin McGrath is a passionate leader, a global team builder, and an energetic champion for change. He joined Deloitte 20+ years ago as the first South Africa CIO. In 2001, he moved with Deloitte to the US as a key member of the Global CIO’s leadership team. He continues to serve on Deloitte’s Global Technology Executive team.

    Over his career, Quintin has led various global technology programs and provided leadership through many critical technology transformations. He spent 8 years leading the Global Application Development team. In 2015, he initiated the transition of Deloitte to becoming a shared services-based organization and now leads a global group that covers a range of IT disciplines to provide frameworks, tools, and capabilities to enable a more agile and responsive global IT team. This includes the global Enterprise Architecture, Innovation, Quality and Certifications, Services Standards and Catalog, Project Management Office, and Change Management pillars.

    Quintin is an Electronic Engineer by profession, holding an MS Degree in Engineering from the University of Cape Town. He also has a Business Leadership MBA from the University of South Africa and a MA from Wheaton College in Chicago. As a proponent of life-long learning, he is currently pursuing a Doctor of Business Administration from the University of South Florida with a focus on ethics and AI.

    Along with his determination for personal growth, he is dedicated to developing the people around him, and especially the next generation of millennial leaders. He enjoys photography, spending time with his family, especially his three grandchildren who affectionately call him GQ (for Grandad Quintin), and is an environmental sustainability enthusiast. Quintin currently resides in Chicago, IL with his wife Megan.

  • Rick Merrick
    CIO
    President, SIM Chicago Chapter
    TCS Education System

  • Patrick Moroney
    CIO
    Central States Funds

  • Hunter Muller
    President & CEO
    HMG Strategy

    Hunter Muller is a charismatic industry pioneer and a modern-day Renaissance Man. As a global C-suite advisor and coach for the past 30 years, Hunter’s insights and concepts have been successfully applied by Fortune 1000 organizations worldwide to accelerate executive performance, propel the career ascent of C-level executives, and to drive transformative innovation and create new waves of value.

    Hunter is the President and CEO of HMG Strategy, LLC, the largest independent, objective, transparent and collaborative executive network in the world. HMG focuses on innovation and breakthrough strategies for core, parallel and new markets while studying the most successful organizations eco-systems and platforms such as Amazon and Microsoft.

    HMG Strategy is the provider of thought leadership and networking events for CIOs, CISOs, and senior technology executives. HMG Strategy offers a unique, integrated model for enabling C-level executives and their companies to draw upon courageous leadership to reimagine, reinvent, and rebuild their business models to attain the genius-level thinking required in today’s dynamic business landscape to achieve competitive advantage in the digital frontier.

    Hunter's passion for the role of the technology executive in transforming the business is reflected in the 7 Pillars of Trust which embody HMG Strategy's unique business model.

    Complementing HMG Strategy’s world-renowned events is HMGNextVentures, a venture capital accelerator aimed at helping connect CIOs with the most innovative technology companies and entrepreneurs from Silicon Valley to Tel Aviv. HMG Strategy also partners with the world’s leading venture capital firms, including Amplify Partners, Greylock Partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners, and Sequoia Capital. HMG Strategy connects CEOs, CIOs, and other C-level executives with startup technologies backed by the leading VCs to identify opportunities for innovation and business transformation.

    Meanwhile, HMG Strategy’s award-winning Research Team advises the world’s technology companies such as Adobe, Nutanix, and Workday on branding, messaging, and Voice of the Customer strategies.

    Hunter has published five that draw from his extensive business experience: The Transformational CIO (Wiley, March 2011), On Top of the Cloud (Wiley, January 2012), Leading the Epic Revolution (Wiley, September 2013) and The Big Shift in IT Leadership (Wiley, July 2015) and The CEO of Technology (Wiley, January 2018). Hunter is now working on his sixth book: 'Enterprise 2025', which is slated to be published in January 2020. As a result, Hunter’s unique position of knowing the thoughts, challenges, and opportunities of the IT Leader, he is asked to speak at a variety of venues such as IBM’s Cloud Expo and on TheStreet.com.

    Hunter and HMG Strategy support a variety of charitable causes, including the American Cancer Society, Save the Children, and Year Up, and Hunter personally gives back his time and ideas as a member of the Executive Committee of the Fairfield/Westchester Chapter of the Society for Information Management.

    An intrepid international athlete, Hunter is an ardent yacht racer, a world-class skier, and an extreme fitness guru. Hunter is passionate about ocean and mountain adventures and spending time with his sons, Chase and Brice.

    Hunter earned a Bachelor of Science in the Babson College School of Management.

  • Earl Newsome
    CIO, Americas IT
    Linde

    Earl Newsome serves as Chief Information Officer of the Americas IT organization for Linde PLC, a $28 billion global industrial gases and engineering firm formed by the merger of Linde AG and Praxair, where he served as CIO. He is also a member of the Board of Directors for First Independence Corporation and First Independence Bank, Detroit.

    As CIO of Americas IT at Linde, Earl provides leadership and strategic vision for the Americas IT organization, drives key IT projects and leads cultural integration so that diverse IT teams work together effectively. Prior to joining Linde, Earl served as Corporate CIO and Vice President, Digital, at technology company TE Connectivity (NYSE:TEL), where he built a world-class IT organization that accelerated each business unit’s success with more than 350 staff, a $30 million budget and $27 million in capital. He also innovated a prototype smart cabinet that catalyzed core business growth. His efforts increased energy efficiency by 30 percent within an industrial cabinet and leveraged big data to deliver advanced analytics and recommend $10 million in churn reductions. In addition, he optimized the IT architecture, organization and sourcing strategy to enhance the company’s core competencies that lead to a more than $8 million reduction in application support costs.

    Previously, as Vice President, Global IT Services at Estée Lauder (NYSE: EL), Earl transformed the Shared Services organization into a global team, prepared the enterprise for global SAP deployment and established its Global Innovation Lab. As Senior Director, Strategy and Integration and Global Operations, for Bowne & Co., he directed the M&A strategy of the digital business unit and managed global operations. As VP and CIO of Owens-Illinois, he directed IT strategy and transformed the IT organization into a center of customer service excellence.  

    Earlier in his career, Earl served as Partner at Deloitte & Touche, where he led the Mid-America/Gulf Coast Integration, Development and Infrastructure, and Oracle practices, while managing the U.S. Knowledge Communities for Enterprise Application Integration and Enterprise Architecture. Prior to Deloitte, he was a partner at BDO Seidman and held management roles at Grant Thornton, Andersen Consulting and J.I. Case.

    Earl served as a Captain in the U.S. Army and earned his bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from the United States Military Academy at West Point. He is active in several business and leadership organizations, including Knowmail’s Board of Advisors, the Executive Leadership Council, the Information Technology Senior Management Forum and the Technology Committee for the West Point Association of Graduates’ Board of Directors.

    Earl’s speaking credits include presentations at CIO forums, Gartner Symposium, the Harvard Business School, and for numerous webinars. He is also a regular contributor of commentary for IT and business publications. In 2019, he was the recipient of the New York CIO of the Year ORBIE Award l Super Global from the New York CIO Leadership Association. Black Enterprise and Savoy magazines have also recognized him as among the world’s most influential and transformative business leaders.

  • John Phillips
    President & CIO
    Briggs Healthcare

    John Phillips is an information technology executive with over 30 years of professional experience at publicly traded and privately held companies. His accountabilities and expertise include information systems strategy, daily operations, and organizational alignment. In addition to being the Chief Information Officer, John also holds executive accountability for the enterprise supply chain including inventory planning, inventory procurement, inventory deployment, distribution, warehouse management, general facilities management and inbound / outbound logistics. Prior accountabilities at Briggs Healthcare have included Customer Service, Quality Control, and Regulatory Affairs where John guided the enterprise through its first ISO 13485 certification.

    John is currently serving as the Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer for Briggs Healthcare and its subsidiaries (Briggs Corporation, DMS Holdings, Briggs Medical Supply Company, Mabis Healthcare, Duromed Industries, and OmniMed). Previous positions include the CIO of Uline in Waukegan, Illinois, the Corporate Director (CIO) of Information Technology & Services at Trinity Industries in Dallas, Texas, the CIO of a US Freightway’s reverse logistics subsidiary in Dallas, Texas, the Director (CIO) of Management Information Systems for PrimeSource Building Products in Carrollton, Texas, and progression through several levels of management at Frito-Lay and Texas Instruments.

    John has a Master of Arts degree in Information Systems from the University of Texas at Dallas. He earned his bachelor’s degree from Illinois State University with a major in Computer Science and a minor in Psychology.

    John is active in several professional societies and organizations, and is a Trustee Board member for the Chicago Chapter of the Society for Information Management (SIM), and held similar Board positions for the Dallas-Fort Worth SIM Chapter.

    John has published articles in Handheld PC Magazine and Internet Week, and has been a guest speaker at many industry events including the Micro Focus International Users Conference, Burton Group’s Catalyst Conference, and Gartner’s regional client briefings.

  • Dean Pierpoint
    VP - Global Application Services
    DRiV

    Dean is a business focused transformational leader who creates value and solves business challenges with the effective and efficient use of technology and organizational change across complex enterprises. He has experience at Board level, and able to liaise across an entire organization with a focus on formulating strategy and gaining approval for ideas using an understandable approach.  Dean has 25+ years in all areas of business combined with the management skills gained during operational and leadership roles has placed him in the unique position that he can quickly grasp business challenges, requirements, and opportunities.

    As Vice President of Global Application Services Dean is responsible for leading and managing the on-going strategic direction, design, development and support of DRiV's global business application platforms to ensure predicable, reliable, and continuously improving business operations and capabilities. The position has a direct bearing on short- and long-term IT investments supporting all businesses and functions and has a substantial influence on global IT systems strategy and tactics.

    Dean is based at DRiV’s Headquarters in Lake Forest, IL.  Prior to joining DRiV in 2010 he worked with Meijer, Smiths Group, CSC, KPMG and General Electric. Dean earned a Bachelor of Science degree in business and finance from Manchester University. He and his family live in Naperville, IL.

  • Mark Polansky
    Senior Partner, Technology Officers Practice
    Korn Ferry

    Mark has extensively recruited chief information officers, chief technology officers, chief information security officers and other senior IT leadership talent across varied vertical sectors including Industrial, Consumer, Life Sciences and Higher Education. His consultative approach to search encompasses talent strategy, organization design, search process and diversity recruiting. Mark ’s clients range from the Fortune 100 (McKesson, General Electric, Hewlett-Packard, Boeing) to smaller high-growth companies (Under Armour, Regeneron, DirecTV) as well as prestigious public and private universities (Harvard, Rockefeller, University of Florida).

    Before entering the search field, Mark developed and marketed information systems within the Financial Services and Higher Education sectors. He currently serves on the Advisory Committee for Columbia University's executive graduate program in Information Technology Management.

    Mark frequently addresses conferences and writes on information technology and career management topics. He is the creator of the “Executive Career Counsel” column in CIO Magazine and on CIO.com. He is a member of the Society for Information Management (SIM) and has served as President of the New York Chapter. He sits on the Advisory Boards of The Information Technology Senior Management Forum (ITSMF), the national organization dedicated to fostering executive talent among African-American IT professionals, and HITEC, the Hispanic Information Technology Executive Council.

    Mark holds a master’s degree in Computer Science from Pratt Institute and a bachelor’s degree in Mathematics and Electrical Engineering from Union College.

  • Gary Sorrentino
    CIO Advisor, Global CIO Office
    Zoom

    Gary Sorrentino currently serves as CIO Advisor in the Global CIO Office at Zoom Video Communications. A former Managing Director for J.P. Morgan Asset & Wealth Management, Gary was the Global Head of Client Cyber Awareness and Education.

    For over 12 years, Gary was the Chief Technology Officer for J.P. Morgan AWM’s global technology infrastructure initiatives, where he managed its Data Privacy program and was responsible for Infrastructure, Application and End User Technology Production Support. In 2014, he assumed a new role as the lead for their Cybersecurity efforts and developed a firm-wide “Protect the Client” Cyber program designed to raise cybersecurity awareness among employees and clients.

    With almost 40 years of experience in Information Technology, Gary has served in various other IT leadership positions in firms across the financial services industry. Prior to joining J.P. Morgan in 2005, Gary was Head of Global Infrastructure and Head of Technology Efficiencies at Citi Private Bank, where he was responsible for Global Infrastructure Support and strategic technology initiatives. Other roles he has held include Global Technology CFO at Credit Suisse and North America IT Controller at UBS.

  • Brad Strock
    Independent Director, Elevate Credit
    CIO, PayPal (Retired)

    Most recently, Brad Strock served as the CIO of PayPal, a Fortune 250 company that is  transforming the world of global payments, commerce, and how individuals access financial  services.  Brad has over 30 years of experience in helping companies grow through disruptive  technologies and digital transformation.  Throughout his career, he has led numerous business  turnarounds, acquisitions, divestitures, and strategic growth initiatives.  Brad has a unique mix of  expertise spanning business strategy, finance, risk management, and operations, coupled with a  deep passion for technology and how it can transform businesses to drive growth through digital  transformation.  He has demonstrated experience in influencing and driving change spanning the  boardroom to the individual contributor level.

    Brad led a broad scope of responsibilities contributing to PayPal’s ten‐year revenue growth rate  of over 20% annually. He led a team of over 1,400 providing both IT functions and software  development for operations platforms supporting a global enterprise operating in 200 markets,  24 languages and 65 locations. Brad served at PayPal for over seven years, and in the CIO role  he led the transformation of PayPal's operations platforms to support dramatic user growth  while holding costs flat and creating incremental revenue opportunities. He also transformed  how technology can enable a large global workforce to operate with the speed and flexibility of  a startup.  Brad also led the IT separation from eBay in 2015.

    Prior to PayPal, Brad held several senior executive roles at Bank of America, including leading  the Next Generation Payments and Commerce team that created what is now the Zelle  payments platform. Prior to Bank of America, Brad led the creation of a new rewards platform  at JP Morgan Chase that has delivered innovative new credit card products propelling  growth.  Brad's early career spanned a wide range of strategy and financial roles including M&A  work, turnarounds, and strategic planning roles.   

    Brad currently serves as an Independent Director of Elevate Credit (NYSE: ELVT), as well as  Hiinga, a nonprofit providing micro loans in Africa.  He is a frequent speaker at both business  and technology forums and has authored numerous articles on innovation as well as being a coinventor on several U.S. Patents.  He is a passionate supporter of building diverse, high  performing teams.  He received his MSM (MBA) in Finance from the Krannert School of  Management at Purdue University, along with a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Purdue.  He  and his wife, Vicky, have been married for 30 years and have three children. 

  • Paolo Vallotti
    Global CISO
    Mondelēz International

    Paolo is the Global Chief Information Security Officer for Mondelēz International (makers of Oreo, Ritz, Trident, Toblerone, and other popular snacking brands). Paolo is responsible for establishing and maintaining Mondelēz’s corporate-wide information security management program to ensure that information assets are adequately protected. Additionally, he is responsible for identifying, evaluating, protecting and reporting on information security risks in a manner that meets compliance and regulatory requirements, and aligns with and supports the risk posture of the enterprise.

    Before joining Mondelēz International, Paolo was the Chief Information Security Officer and Head of IT Global Design for Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA), based in Auburn Hills, Michigan. He was responsible for establishing the Information Security strategy to ensure information systems were adequately protected. He ensured that the global information security program was in alignment with business objectives, and he defined the security priorities and ensured technology roadmaps address existing and future threats. He had CTO responsibilities for North America, and he also led the IT plant operations for FCA in North America for several years.

    Prior to his relocation to the United States, Paolo worked as Chief Technology Officer for Fiat Powertrain Technologies where he gained significant experience with security and technology, also thanks to the participation into multiple Joint Ventures with companies around the world. Before starting to work in the Architecture and Infrastructure, Paolo worked in the security area for Fiat-GM Powertrain Joint Venture, earning the CISSP and the CISA certifications. Paolo also spent many years working as consultant and trainer in different Information Technology domains.

    Additionally, he recently worked on global standardization and convergence initiatives, on large outsourcing contracts for several infrastructure services for all four Regions where FCA operates, as well as on organizational transformation.

     

  • Kenneth Zeng
    AVP of Product Marketing, GTM
    RingCentral

    Ken Zeng brings 20 years of enterprise technology experience to his role as AVP of Product Marketing, GTM at Ring Central. He is focused on developing and executing GTM strategies to drive disruption and accelerate digital transformation in the communications space with SaaS, cloud, analytics, mobility, ML, and AI solutions. Throughout his career, Ken has led strategy, GTM, and solution architecture teams, helping customers tackle challenges in data management, database, big data, analytics, security, and content management. In addition, he has industry experience in online collaboration, online advertising, IT outsourcing, and data center management operations. Before joining RingCentral, he worked at enterprise companies such as Navisite, Oracle, and WebEx. He has a bachelors degree in Computer Science from California State University, Chico.

  • Nabil Zoldjalali
    Director of Cloud Security
    Darktrace

    Based in Toronto, Nabil specializes in the application of cloud technologies and works closely with Darktrace’s Research & Development team. He advises strategic Fortune 500 customers across North America on advanced threat detection, cyber AI, and Autonomous Response for cloud and SaaS environments. Nabil is a frequent speaker at leading industry conferences across North America, including Microsoft Ignite, Black Hat, and the World AI Forum. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from McGill University and is an advisory board member of the EC Council.

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March 5, 2020, 7:30 AM - 5:30 PM
Fairmont Chicago, Millennium Park

7:30 AM - 8:30 AM        

Registration, Continental Breakfast and Networking

8:30 AM - 8:50 AM  

Welcome and Introduction

Hunter Muller, President and CEO, HMG Strategy
8:50 AM - 9:10 AM

HMG Lead, Reimagine, Reinvent Tech Talk:  Leading with Technology - Lessons Learned While Driving Change

Snehal Antani, Former CTO, United States Department of Defense

CIO’s are playing an instrumental role in transforming the technical DNA of their organizations. In this session, Snehal Antani will talk about the lessons learned while driving change during his time as a senior executive in financial services, enterprise software, and now the Department of Defense.
9:10 AM - 9:40 AM

EXECUTIVE BRIEFING: Systems of Experience – The Role of the CIO in Shaping the Future of Work

Ken Zeng, AVP, GTM Product Marketing, RingCentral

The role of the CIO is now front and center to defining the digital culture of an organization with a mega-trend at play that I like to call, ‘Systems of Experience.’  The CIOs future of work and the CIOs role in changing the digital culture of the company is starting to focus on the systems of experience, which is driven by customers engaging with companies and brands through various mediums of technology or employees doing their work and thinking about their engagement with the digital assets at work. During this session, I will focus on the role of the CIO amidst this shifting tide and what it takes to create a digital culture to support the future of work.
9:40 AM - 10:10 AM Coffee Break, Networking and Meet Our Partners
10:10 AM - 10:50 AM

EXECUTIVE PANEL:  Advanced Technologies Driving Speed to Market

Joe Cannella, CIO, Tempel

Anjana Harve, CIO, Hill-Rom

Deepak Kaul, CIO, Zebra Technologies

Patrick Moroney, CIO, Central States Funds

Dean Pierpoint, VP, IT, Global Application Services, DRiV

Moderator:  Laszlo Gonc, Co-Founder & Managing Partner, CIO, CISO, Next Era Transformation Group

Rapid technological change represents both threats and opportunities for businesses. Advanced technologies such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, data analytics and the Internet of Things (IoT) can enable business leaders to identify and act on emerging customer and market trends and to drive operational efficiencies.

This panel of executives will share use cases for advanced technologies that are enabling competitive differentiation and speed to market.
10:50 AM - 11:20 AM

Coffee Break, Networking and Meet Our Partners
11:20 AM - 12:00 PM

EXECUTIVE PANEL: Enabling the Secure Enterprise for Agility and Innovation

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

Dan Manley, Managing Director & CISO, CME Group

Troy Mattern, Vice President for Product and Services Cybersecurity, Motorola Solutions

Paolo Vallotti, Global CISO, Mondelez International

Moderator: Elisabeth Case, Managing Director, Marsh Cyber Center of Excellence

Securing the enterprise has become more difficult in these unprecedented times of escalating risk. In today’s global cyber theater, enterprise risks are accelerating at an extraordinary rate, including nation-state backed initiatives. This session will deliver straight talk around mitigation strategies and advanced threat protection approaches that are working today while positioning the enterprise for agility and innovation.

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM  

 Luncheon

Chicago SIM News - Rick Merrick, CIO, TCS Education Systems and President, Chicago SIM

Genesys Works News - Kim Day, Executive Director


HMG Strategy 2020 Global Technology Executives Who Matter Awards, presented to:

  • Deepak Kaul, CIO, Zebra Technologies
  • Julia Anderson, Global CIO, Smithfield Foods

and Elite Alumni:

  • Ron Guerrier, CIO and Secretary of Innovation & Technology, State of Illinois
  • Brad Strock, Former Global CIO, Paypal
1:00 PM - 1:30 PM

EXECUTIVE PANEL:  Accelerating Your Career Ascent:  Crafting Your Personal Brand and Attracting Top Talent

Ahmed Jamil, Technology Officers Practice, Russell Reynolds Associates

Tony Leng, Managing Director, Digital Transformation and CIO Practice Lead, Diversified Search

Susan Malisch, SVP & CIO, Loyola University Chicago

Mark Polansky, Senior Partner, Technology Officers Practice, Korn Ferry

Moderator: John Phillips, President & COO, Briggs Healthcare

Forward-thinking technology executives devote the time and energy needed to extend their personal brands via public speaking, media interviews and other forms of professional promotion. Doing so enables technology leaders to power their career progression while positioning themselves to attract coveted IT and digital talent. This panel of top technology search executives will share priceless insights into the steps that top-tier technology executives are taking to trademark themselves, to recruit and retain sought-after talent and to become boardroom ready.  
1:30 PM - 2:00 PM 

Coffee Break, Networking and Meet Our Partners
2:00 PM - 2:20 PM HMG Lead, Reimagine, Reinvent Interview: What's Missing From Cloud Security

Nabil Zoldjalali, Director of Cloud Security, Darktrace, interviewed by Hunter Muller, President and CEO, HMG Strategy, LLC

As Cloud Service Providers continue to bolster their cyber defenses, sophisticated criminals are increasingly targeting the weak link in the cloud’s Shared Responsibility Model: you.  In fact, Gartner estimates that at least 99% of cloud security failures will have occurred on the customer’s portion of this model by 2023 — the result of insider threats that legacy tools aren’t designed to detect and machine-speed attacks that incident responders can’t contain.

The latest cyber AI systems employ a fundamentally unique approach to safeguard today’s borderless networks, one that defends multi-cloud and hybrid infrastructures in real time. Unlike conventional security tools that look only for known malware variants at the perimeter, cyber AI works by self-learning what constitutes normal behavior for each user, device, and container it protects, monitoring the entire digital estate to catch the subtly anomalous behavior indicative of both novel and insider threats. Most critically, cyber AI response capabilities can now autonomously neutralize cloud-based attacks in seconds — before it’s too late. Such attacks have unfortunately become a fact of life for today’s cities and companies, but with cyber AI, data stored in the cloud can weather the storm.

In this session, you will learn:

  • How cyber AI response tools neutralize cloud attacks that strike at machine speed
  • Where criminals are exploiting key blind spots on modern, borderless networks
  • Why only the AI anomaly detection approach can catch cloud-based insider threats
  • What gaining 100% visibility across your virtual environments, third-party clouds, and hybrid deployments can reveal about your latent vulnerabilities
2:20 PM - 2:50 PM

EXECUTIVE BRIEFING:  Digital Workplace: It's About Culture, People and Technology 

Gary Sorrentino, CIO Advisor, Global CIO Office, Zoom

When culture, people and technology come together seamlessly - real results follow. The world of work is changing and we've already started to glimpse the future workplace, and it's not a place or a building or a cubicle. The difference today between high performing organizations and those that are seeking to become high performers is a willingness to embrace employee values, empower people to work the way that they want to work and support this with enabling technology.
2:50 PM - 3:20 PM

Coffee Break, Networking and Meet Our Partners

3:20 PM - 4:00 PM

EXECUTIVE PANEL:  Preparing Yourself to be Boardroom Ready

Paul Martin, SVP & CIO, Baxter International and Board of Director, Unisys Corporation

Earl Newsome, CIO, Americas IT, Linde PLC and Board of Directors, First Independence Corp. and First Independence Bank

Brad Strock, Independent Director, Elevate Credit and CIO, PayPal (Retired)

Moderator:  Daphne Jones, Board of Directors AMN Healthcare Services, Barnes Group, Inc. and Masonite International and Founder, Destiny Transformations Group

Every company is on a digital journey. CIOs and CTOs are best positioned to guide that process – but not many find themselves on company boards. Why?

This panel comprises top technology executives who sit on company boards.  They will share insights into what it takes to be boardroom ready, how to get on a board, and what skills are needed to be effective in that role.

4:00 PM - 4:10 PM

Transition Break

4:10 PM - 4:50 PM

EXECUTIVE PANEL:  Enterprise 2025:  Lead, Reimagine, Reinvent to Execute World-Class Strategies

Julia Anderson, Global CIO, Smithfield Foods

Chris Gates, CTO, Allstate

Ron Guerrier, CIO & Secretary of Innovation & Technology and Board Member SBPUSA.org, State of Illinois

Paul Martin, SVP & CIO, Baxter International

Quintin McGrath, Senior Managing Director, Technology Management & Enablement, Global Technology Services, Deloitte

Moderator: Hunter Muller, President and CEO, HMG Strategy

The speed, scope and nature of disruption facing businesses is unprecedented. In today’s fast-changing economy, only the agile will survive. To tackle these challenges head on and to position the organization for competitive advantage, CIOs and technology executives must apply a fresh mindset to identify and execute on new sources of technology-driven innovation along with the cultural transformation that’s necessary to drive successful business outcomes.

This panel of top technology executives will share leadership skills needed to foster a culture of innovation and carry out world-class strategies.

4:50 PM - 6:00 PM

Raffle Prizes and Executive Networking Reception

Presenting Partners

  • 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 3,000 organizations to protect against threats to the cloud, email, IoT, networks and industrial systems. This includes insider threat, industrial espionage, IoT compromises, zero-day malware, data loss, supply chain risk and long-term infrastructure vulnerabilities.

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

    RingCentral, Inc. is a leading provider of global enterprise cloud communications and collaboration solutions. More flexible and cost-effective than legacy on-premises systems, RingCentral empowers today’s mobile and distributed workforce to communicate, collaborate, and connect from anywhere, on any device. RingCentral unifies voice, video, team messaging and collaboration, conferencing, online meetings, and integrated contact center solutions. RingCentral’s open platform integrates with leading business apps and enables customers to easily customize business workflows. RingCentral is headquartered in Belmont, California, and has offices around the world.

    https://www.ringcentral.com/
  • 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

Gold Partners

  • Appian

    Appian provides a low-code automation platform that accelerates the creation of high-impact business applications. Many of the world’s largest organizations use Appian applications to improve customer experience, achieve operational excellence, and simplify global risk management and compliance.

    http://www.appian.com/
  • Globant

    We are a digitally native company where innovation, design and engineering meet scale. We use the latest technologies in the digital and cognitive fields to transform organizations in every aspect.

    https://www.globant.com/
  • Info-Tech Research Group

    Info-Tech Research Group was established in 1997 and is currently the world’s fastest growing and most innovative information technology research and advisory company, proudly serving over 35,000 IT professionals. We produce unbiased and highly relevant IT research to help CIOs and IT leaders make strategic, timely, and well informed decisions. Focused on providing practical research solutions to help IT professionals implement key projects and build core processes we partner closely with IT teams to provide everything they need from actionable tools to analyst guidance. Info Tech helps CIOs and their teams drive measurable results and enhanced decision making through our data driven approach evolving the value of IT to their organization.

  • TmaxSoft

    TmaxSoft is a global software innovator focused on cloud, infrastructure and legacy modernization, with solutions that offer enterprise CIOs viable alternatives to support their global IT powerhouses and drive competitive advantage. OpenFrame is a mainframe rehosting solution developed by TmaxSoft that helps customers move existing mainframe assets to an open system environment without changing the source code, business logic or user interface. This “lift and shift” approach is faster, less risky and more cost efficient than other options. Founded in Korea in 1997, TmaxSoft has 20 strategic centers around the world with its global headquarters located in Chicago.

    https://www.tmaxsoft.com/

Trailblazer Partners

  • Zscaler

    Zscaler enables the world’s leading organizations to securely transform their networks and applications for a mobile and cloud-first world. Its services, Zscaler Internet Access™ and Zscaler Private Access™, create fast, secure connections between users and applications, regardless of device, location, or network. Zscaler services are 100% cloud delivered and offer the simplicity, enhanced security, and improved user experience that traditional appliances or hybrid solutions are unable to match. Used in more than 185 countries, the Zscaler multi-tenant, distributed security cloud protects thousands of customers from cyberattacks and data loss, so they can embrace cloud agility, speed, and cost containment—securely.

    https://www.zscaler.com/

Preferred Research Partners

  • Info-Tech Research Group

    Info-Tech Research Group was established in 1997 and is currently the world’s fastest growing and most innovative information technology research and advisory company, proudly serving over 35,000 IT professionals. We produce unbiased and highly relevant IT research to help CIOs and IT leaders make strategic, timely, and well informed decisions. Focused on providing practical research solutions to help IT professionals implement key projects and build core processes we partner closely with IT teams to provide everything they need from actionable tools to analyst guidance. Info Tech helps CIOs and their teams drive measurable results and enhanced decision making through our data driven approach evolving the value of IT to their organization.

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

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
  • 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

Association Partners

  • SIM Chicago

    The Society for Information Management (SIM) is the premier network for IT leaders, comprised of over 3600 members, including CIOs, prominent academicians, consultants, other senior-level IT leaders, and vendors. SIM is a community of thought leaders who share experiences and rich intellectual capital that is applied for the future direction of IT. The Chicago SIM Chapter is one of the largest chapters in the association with more than 200 members. Chicago SIM provides a unique opportunity to interact with thought leaders throughout the technology field and to join peers in giving back to the industry and community. Chicago SIM serves the Northern Illinois area.

Fairmont Chicago, Millennium Park

200 N. Columbus Drive
Chicago, IL

Room rate is $159/night. This rate expires on February 3, 2020.

To book a room, please call 1-800-441-1414 and mention the HMG CIO Executive Leadership Summit.

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.

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

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