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As regional economies gradually open up, many executives believe that both business and the nature of work will change forever. In order to support the business effectively, CIOs and technology executives need to help reimagine and reinvent the business and help the CEO and line-of-business leaders identify new opportunities in core, parallel and new markets. Technology executives also must work with the executive team to identify what the future of work looks like and provide the infrastructure and tools necessary to support this new way of working.
In this Virtual Summit, top technology executives will share their advice on the roles that CIOs and tech leaders can play in reshaping the business and the future of work.
"As an attendee of the HMG Virtual Summit I enjoyed the fact that it was fast moving, insightful and presented a variety of speakers, both local and non-local. The duration was just right and did not require tying up an entire day. I thought the content and format was absolutely terrific!"
John Phillips, President, Briggs Homecare and CIO Emeritus, Briggs Healthcare
Craig Cuyar
SVP & Global CIO
Omnicom
Dale Danilewitz
Former EVP & CIO
AmerisourceBergen Corporation
Michael Del Priore
CIO
Diversey
Lookman Fazal
Chief Information & Digital Officer
NJ TRANSIT
Clark Golestani
Managing Director
Advisor, Investor, Board Member
C Sensei Group LLC
Jon Harding
Global CIO
Conair Corporation
Justin Lahullier
CIO
Delta Dental of New Jersey
Raymond Lipps
Executive Director
Ernst & Young
Hunter Muller
President & CEO
HMG Strategy
Adam Noble
SVP & Chief Technology and Innovation Officer
American Water
Mark Polansky
Senior Partner, Technology Officers Practice
Korn Ferry
Phyllis Post
Former VP & CIO, Global Human Health IT
Merck
Tianbing (TQ) Qian
CIO
Genesee & Wyoming Inc.
John Repko
EVP & CIO
AIG
Gabrielle Wolfson
CIO & CDO
Quest Diagnostics
Rizwan Akhtar
CIO & SVP
Cartus, a Division of Realogy Holdings Corp.
Roota Almeida
CISO
Delta Dental of NJ and CT
Sandeep Bajaj
Chief Information Officer (Reinsurance) & Chief Digital Officer
Everest Reinsurance Company
Shawn Banerji
Managing Partner, Technology, Digital and Data Leaders Practice
Caldwell Partners
Mark Barash
President
SIM New Jersey
Gene Barskiy
Head of Information Technology
Fisk Alloy
Upendra Belhe, Ph.D.
Former Global Chief Analytics Officer
Gen Re
Douglas Benalan
Director of Technology
Chubb Group of Insurance Companies
Akash Bhate
Director Product Management, eCommerce
SUEZ Water Technologies & Solutions
Shivani Bhatia
VP Global Shared Services
Berlitz
Dora Boussias
Transformational IT Leader
Stryker
Leonard Brinson
Chief Information Officer
South Jersey Industries
Eric Bulis
SVP of Operations & CIO
Gerber Life Insurance Company
Ben Cabrera
Principal
Freeman Clarke
Chris Colla
VP & CIO
B&G Foods
William Compton
SVP & CIO
Integra Life Sciences
James Eichmann
Chief Technology Officer
Worthy Financial
Richard M. Entrup
Managing Director, Enterprise Innovation and 5G Solutions
Verizon
Joe Fisher
President
Affinity IT Security
Rocco Grillo
Managing Director - Global Cyber Risk Services
Alvarez & Marsal
Gaurav Gupta
BISO, Goldman Sachs Research
Goldman Sachs
Jean Hill
Managing Director
Alvarez & Marsal
Amit Honwad
VP - Commercial Insurance IT
Chubb Group of Insurance Companies
E. Jeffrey Hutchinson
Global Chief Information Officer
Bombardier
Gerard Insall
CIO
Avis Budget Group
Rise Jacobs
CIO & CTO
Multiple Employer Benefit Plan
Saro Jahani
Head of Simulator Development
HelpMeSee
David Jenkins
Director
Evercore
Sudhanshu Kairab
VP Cybersecurity Governance, Risk, & Compliance at Comcast Cable
Comcast
Dutt Kalluri
SVP, Global Digital & Technology Transformation
Broadridge
John Kavak
Former Group CIO
Sims Metal Management Limited
Bilal Khan
Chief Technology Officer (Infrastructure & Operations)
NJ TRANSIT
Stan Kreydin
CTO & CISO
Wyndham Destinations
Warren Kudman
VP & CIO
Turner Construction Company
Ajoy Kumar
Head of IT Risk Analysis and Reporting
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation
Stephen Landry
Chief Information Officer
Seton Hall University
Beverly Lieberman
President
Halbrecht Lieberman Associates
Nelson Lin
Former Chief Information Officer
Konica Minolta Business Solutions USA
Richard Martin
Senior Director & Global IT Leader - Procurement, Real Estate, Agriculture and PepsiCo Ventures Lab
PepsiCo, Inc.
Aref Matin
EVP & CTO
John Wiley and Sons
John McCaffrey
Director of IT
H2M Architects+Engineers
Ken Morris
Senior Consultant, Business Technology Strategies Practice
Cutter Consortium
Daniel Mullin
Managing Director
Accenture
Thomas Murphy
VP IT and University CIO
University of Pennsylvania
Ganesh Murugan
Head of Cyber Strategy & Execution
Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group
Al Omari
VP & CIO
DCH Auto Group
Tamir Peres
VP & Chief Information Officer
Herc Rentals
Joseph Puglisi
VP IT
Nice-Pak Products, Inc.
Armughan Rafat
Chief Data Officer
Clarivate Analytics
Mark Sander
Managing Partner
MFS Solutions LLC
Joseph Santamaria
Director Customer Solutions and Migrations
Amazon Web Services
Venkat Sathyamurthy
Chief Product Officer
OneLogin
Pete Sattler
SVP and Chief Information Officer
CIRCOR International
Candida Seasock
Founder and President
CTS Associates, LLC
Stephen Spagnuolo
NA Digital Security & Risk
Stanton Chase
Allen Spokane
CTO
Carisk Partners
Karthik Sridharan
EVP & CIO
OceanFirst Bank N.A.
Paul Strong
Technical Director, Office of the CTO
Google Cloud
Millie Torres
GTO Global Head of Risk, Control, Regulatory and Reviews
Broadridge
Alissa Abdullah
Deputy CSO, SVP of Cybersecurity Technology
Mastercard
As vice president and chief Information security officer of Xerox Corporation, Dr. Alissa Johnson is responsible for protecting the information assets of the $11 billion technology leader. In her role, she established, and currently leads, a corporate-wide information risk management program. She identifies, evaluates and reports on information security practices, controls, and risks in order to comply with regulatory requirements and to align with the risk posture of the enterprise.
Prior to Xerox, Dr. Johnson served as the first chief information security officer at Stryker Corporation, a multi-billion dollar medical technology company. At Stryker, she oversaw global activities related to information security. She also established the standards and governance around information security issues related to products. She managed all security transformation initiatives and worked closely with business leaders and heads of regional infrastructure to ensure security policy and strategy was implemented consistently.
Dr. Johnson spent three years as deputy chief information officer of the White House. Beginning in March 2012, she helped to modernize the Executive Office of the President's IT systems, with cloud services and virtualization. She employed new cybersecurity strategies, and enhanced technology across the office of the President while serving as chair on multiple boards.
Previously, she served as associate vice president for the Enterprise Solutions Division at Catapult Technology, and as a deputy chief technology officer at Lockheed Martin Corporation. She began her career with the Department of Defense as a cryptologic mathematician.
Dr. Johnson holds a PhD in Information Technology Management from Capella University; a master’s degree in Telecommunications and Computer Networks from The George Washington University; and a bachelor’s degree in mathematics from Savannah State University.
Roota Almeida
CISO
Delta Dental of NJ and CT
Roota Almeida is a dynamic senior IT Executive responsible for successful implementation of information security, risk and compliance systems and strategies across multiple industries with global operations. Currently, she is the Head of Information Security at Delta Dental of NJ and CT, leading the development and implementation of enterprise-wide information security strategy, policies, risk assessments and controls.
Prior to Delta Dental, Roota was the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at Covanta Holdings Corp., a leader in Energy-from-Waste. As a CISO she led all aspects of Information security and risk, including global information security awareness programs, policies, business continuity and incident response teams.
Roota has over 15 years of direct experience in establishing and maintaining global security strategies, architectures, standards, and compliance while driving the necessary cultural changes to affect measurable improvements in the organizations’ security posture. Roota is a recognized thought leader in the industry and serves as a Co-Chair for Evanta’s NJ CxO Summits and Advisory Board Member for HMG’s CIO and CSO Summits. She is also a Governing Body Member for various other technology conferences. She is a frequent speaker at various conferences such as MIT’s CIO Symposium, HMG’s CIO Summit of America. Her in-depth experience and expertise in the field of Information Security and Risk Management can be measured by the various articles, eBooks, interviews and podcasts she has to her credit.
Renee Arrington
President and COO
Pearson Partners International, Inc.
Sandeep Bajaj
Chief Information Officer (Reinsurance) & Chief Digital Officer
Everest Reinsurance Company
Brian Brockway
VP, CTO
Commvault
Since 2015, Brian Brockway has been driving Commvault’s technology strategy, product innovation and integration expansion across the partner ecosystem. He has served in a variety of product management and marketing roles at Commvault, which he joined after working as a strategic consultant at Gartner and an equities analyst at Schwab Soundview Capital Markets. He holds an MBA degree from NYU Stern and an Aerospace Engineering Bachelor of Science degree from SUNY Buffalo, and served in the U.S. Navy Reserves. After years of working to spot global market shifts and acting as his family’s technology guru, he’s challenged daily by his daughters’ mastery of emerging (social) media platforms. He’s called MacGyver by his neighbors for his problem-solving skills and fondness for spy novels, and dreams of joining a surfer band when he’s not finding innovative solutions for customers.
Jim Fowler
CIO
General Electric
As GE's chief information officer, Jim Fowler is driving GE's global information technology (IT) strategy, services, and operations, and aggressively delivering innovative and transformational solutions for GE, our customers, and employees. Jim brings 15 years experience as an IT leader with GE Capital, Aviation, Intelligent Platforms, Power Generation Services, and Power & Water. Prior to GE, he served in IT roles with NCR and Accenture. Jim holds a bachelor of science degree in management information systems and marketing from Miami University and an MBA from Xavier University.
Hugo Fueglein
Managing Director, CIO/IT Practice
Diversified Search
Hugo Fueglein is a Managing Director in Diversified Search’s New York City office. He is a leader in the CIO & IT Management Practice in the United States and is a core member of the Global CIO Practice for Diversified Search. Mr. Fueglein is also a leading member of the Global Technology Practice at Diversified Search. He has placed technology executives in key positions across all industries. Hugo’s specialization is in the placement of Chief Information Officers, Chief Technology Officers, and technology executives in IT Architecture, IT Infrastructure, Application Development, and IT Operations.
Prior to joining Diversified Search, Mr. Fueglein was an Executive Vice President with DHR International and formerly an integral member of the CIO and IT Practice at CTPartners. He served clients across industries, recruiting talent to fill critical roles in corporate technology functions. Hugo has completed assignments for CIOs and key leadership positions in technology for a broad scope of clients that continuously utilize technology as a strategic initiative. Industry sectors served include technology, consumer goods, retail, energy, financial services, health care, pharmaceutical, manufacturing, and industrial.
Hugo’s search career also includes being a Principal with both Korn/Ferry International and Morgan Samuels. During his seven year tenure with Korn/Ferry, he was instrumental in the creation of the CIO Center of Expertise. Earlier in his career, Hugo was an economist with Chase Econometrics and The WEFA Group (Wharton Economic Forecasting Associates). While serving as an economist with The WEFA Group (Wharton Economic Forecasting Associates), Hugo refined his strategic process management and developed superior communication abilities in working with a diverse clientele.
Education
BS, Agricultural Economics, University of Connecticut
MS, Agricultural Economics, University of Connecticut
Gerard Insall
CIO
Avis Budget Group
Gerard Insall is the Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer for Avis Budget Group, Inc. In this role, Gerard is responsible for the management of all facets of Information Technology for Avis Rent-A-Car, Budget Rent-A-Car and Budget Truck including Enterprise Applications, IT Operations, Networks, Architecture and IT Strategy. Prior to this position, he served as the Vice President of IT Operations for Avis Budget Group, Inc. where he led the IT Operations separation effort for the former Cendant Corporation as Cendant split into four companies.
Gerard has held various management positions over the last 20 years working with Cendant Corporation, Avis Rent A Car, WizCom International LTD, and Resorts Condominium International. His positions have been in the areas of application development, business systems management, project management, relationship management, and IT Operations. Among Gerard’s accomplishments at Avis Budget Group, Gerard has led several strategic negotiations for the company and is highly regarded for his negotiating abilities. Gerard also led the strategic initiative for the Business Process Outsourcing of several areas within the company’s finance and accounting function. Gerard has a strong record of building talent, motivation, and teamwork among his staff and organizations.
Gerard has a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from Saint John’s University in New York.
Dutt Kalluri
SVP, Global Digital & Technology Transformation
Broadridge
I am a futurist, visionary, technology strategist and a digital transformation evangelist with proven ability to define transformative business-focused IT strategies to maximize today’s opportunities while preparing for the future. I successfully defined and executed technology vision and strategy to evolve enterprises as technology organizations, managed global digital transformation programs, developed cost take out strategies and worked on emerging technologies like AI/ML, Blockchain, Robotic Process Automation. I am a recognized thought leader known for innovating fast and reliable solutions
I am a strategic and versatile executive with extensive international and domestic leadership success at both multinationals and start-ups. I believe strongly in integrating core values into business vision, connecting strategy to execution, and inspiring colleagues and teams to achieve their best.
My colleagues view me as a transparent leader with uncompromising integrity and high expectations of performance, as a coach who seeks to challenge and develop staff, and as a mentor who wants to help guide and counsel top performers. Most importantly, I am valued for inspiring colleagues to achieve their best in a collaborative, team-based environment. I am known as a calming force who drives organizational and process change initiatives while maintaining high standards for performance.
My core competencies include P&L Management; Enterprise IT Strategy, IT Development, Technology Implementation, Transformation, Aligning Business & Technology, Risk Management, Strategic Planning & Analysis, Performance Turnarounds, Team Development & Leadership, Client Relationship Management, Cross-Functional Leadership, Emerging Technologies, Product Lifecycle Management, Enterprise Architectures, Public/private/hybrid cloud strategy & execution, organizational design and effectiveness.
Ajoy Kumar
Head of IT Risk Analysis and Reporting
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation
Stephen Landry
Chief Information Officer
Seton Hall University
Dr. Stephen G. Landry has been CIO at Seton Hall University for twenty years. Dr. Landry has worked with Seton Hall University’s leadership on a number of important initiatives, including moving Seton Hall’s data center to the cloud, implementing analytics to support strategic decision making, developing a student laptop program, and supporting faculty in creating fully online graduate programs.
Prior to becoming CIO, Dr. Landry was a faculty member in Seton Hall University’s Department of Mathematics and Computer Science. He received his Ph.D. in Mathematics from Wesleyan University (Middletown, CT) in 1989.
Beni Lopez
Managing Director, Industrial and US Market
Softtek
Beni Lopez joined Softtek in 1989 and today holds a dual role as Managing Director for Softtek’s Industrial vertical, as well as the company’s US market. Beni and his team are strengthening the company's capabilities to help clients across the globe in the Industrial sector apply technology to their value chains to evolve their business. Prior to Softtek’s vertical restructuring, Beni held the role of Chief Globalization Officer, where he directed and coordinated the firm’s global accounts strategy.
Beni joined Softtek in 1989 and has played a central role in defining and executing Softtek’s technology developments, in addition to the company’s globalization and growth strategies. He is experienced in leading innovative new offerings, directing Softtek’s globalization efforts and establishing long lasting partnerships with Softtek’s largest clients. Furthermore, Beni mentored the concept of Neashore™ services, pioneered by Softtek in 1997, expanding Softtek’s frontiers first to the US market and later to other global locations, including China.
Beni holds a Computer Systems Engineering degree from Instituto Tecnológico de Estudios Superiores in Monterrey, Mexico, and has been a speaker and panelist for numerous outsourcing and offshore/nearshore conferences around the world.
Cecilia McKenney
SVP & CHRO
Quest Diagnostics
Cecilia McKenney is Senior Vice President, Chief Human Resources Officer for Quest Diagnostics Incorporated, the world’s leading provider of diagnostic information services. McKenney joined Quest in February of 2018 and is responsible for all human resources activities across the company. In her tenure, Ms. McKenney has implemented several people initiatives that are progressive, technology-enabled and promote workplace flexibility while being fiscally responsible and ultimately contribute to Quest’s goal of creating an inspiring workplace for 47,000 colleagues. Most recently, she has been partnering with the Senior Leadership Team to navigate through the COVID-19 crisis and lead Quest’s Race for Equality Plan. She also is the co-sponsor of the PRIDE employee business network.
Prior to Quest, Ms. McKenney spent more than a decade at Frontier Communications, where she led the telecommunications company’s human resources function and held senior leadership roles leading the Consumer Division — sales, marketing, business operations and customer service. She built the HR strategic plan to upgrade talent and transformed labor relations by reducing employee benefit costs for both union and non-union employees. Before Frontier, Ms. McKenney had a 16-year career at The Pepsi Bottling Group and PepsiCo. In her last position, she was the Group Vice President, Headquarters Human Resources. Ms. McKenney directed the development of PBG’s Human Resources function following the spinoff from PepsiCo. Prior to PepsiCo, Ms. McKenney worked at L.F. Rothschild Inc. and Mutual of New York in a variety of employee benefits roles.
Ms. McKenney earned a bachelor’s degree in business administration at Franklin & Marshall College, and an Employee Benefits Specialist certification from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and the International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans.
Ms. McKenney is a member of the Board of Trustees of Catholic Charities, Archdiocese of New York and a member of the President’s Leadership Council for Franklin & Marshall College. In May 2014, she was honored as the Human Resources Person of the Year for Large Employers by SHRM of Southern Connecticut. She was featured in the book, Marketing for Tomorrow, Not Yesterday by Zain Raj as a Marketing Decathlete and was awarded a Champion for Child Care by the Child Care of Westchester and the Hall of Fame Award from St. Patrick’s School in Bedford, NY.
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.
Pat Phelan
VP Market Research
Rimini Street
Pat Phelan is responsible for research across the enterprise software market, including applications and technology strategies, software vendor support, third-party support, IT leadership discussions, business development and sales execution by providing enterprise software licensees with quantitative and qualitative strategic insights. She works across the organization to support planning for – and management of – the enterprise applications roadmap.
Prior to joining Rimini Street, Ms. Phelan spent 18 years with worldwide analyst firm Gartner, where she served as research vice president for enterprise software and ERP products, and was the leading analyst covering third-party enterprise software support. During her time at Gartner, Phelan provided thousands of CIOs and IT leaders with research and advice on strategies and options for managing the business application life-cycle and costs, and published nearly 300 research reports. Prior to Gartner, she managed the HR systems practice at Grant Thornton, and before this helped to build an HR systems practice at Ernst & Young. Ms. Phelan started her career at Marathon Oil Company as a systems analyst.
Ms. Phelan attended Indiana State University, where she studied Accounting and Computer Science.
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.
Mandar Rege
Managing Director, Operational Risk Management - Technology and Cybersecurity
Citi
Senior executive in Information Security and Technology Risk Management with strong experience in striking the right balance between cost, operational effectiveness and technology risk as a component of operational risk management. Hands-on operations experience with a proven record for driving transformation and recovering troubled projects. Strong executive presence to lead teams and drive consensus with senior leadership to deliver business outcomes.
My goal is to solve business problems and 'take away the pain' as opposed to just deploying technical point-solutions. This requires a top-down, business-risk driven approach, which provides an end-to-end solution that translates a strategy vision into real operational execution.
Specialties: Technology Risk Management, IT Strategy, IT Governance, Privacy, Network Architecture and Management, IT Security, IT Audit
Michael Salas
Chief Information & Digital Officer
SUEZ in North America
Michael Salas serves as chief information officer for SUEZ in North America, a subsidiary of SUEZ. In this position, he is responsible for all aspects of the company’s IT strategy, governance, project delivery, systems development, infrastructure and service delivery. Michael has over 15 years of experience and a proven ability to lead major technology-based business transformation programs and consistently drives for best practice and superior customer service. Michael first joined the SUEZ group as chief information officer for Australia, in which he successfully managed the technology strategy, project delivery and service delivery of both the waste and water businesses in Australia and New Zealand. Prior to joining SUEZ, he worked for some of Australia’s most prominent companies in various roles related to technology planning and strategy, client management, and operations and service management. He has also worked abroad leading technology teams delivering projects for clients in Hong Kong, Germany, the Netherlands and Puerto Rico.
Mark Sander
Managing Partner
MFS Solutions LLC
Mark Sander has over 25 years of industry experience in the Pharmaceutical and Consumer Products industries. With a proven record of leading business transformation through the use of technology, he is a CIO, board member and digital strategist who builds bridges between IT and the business, transforms IT organizations to align with business operations and uses digital transformation to drive top and bottom line growth.
He has held senior leadership roles at several major pharmaceutical companies (Pfizer, Merck/Schering-Plough) as well as two start-ups, most recently leading Information Technology for Global Quality Operations at Teva Pharmaceuticals, servicing 35,000 users across 130 locations globally. Prior to joining Teva, Mark served as the VP and Global CIO for Church & Dwight, the $3.5B Consumer Products company.
Mark earned his B.S. double major in Applied Mathematics (Operations Research and Management Science) and Industrial Management (Tepper) from Carnegie Mellon University. Additionally, he earned an M.B.A. (International Business and Finance) from the Stern School of Business at New York University.
An active member of the New Jersey chapter of the Society for Information Management (SIM), Mark has previously served multiple terms on the Executive Committee (Vice President of Administration & Vice President Communications), been active in the mentoring program, and co-founded the North Jersey CIO Roundtable. Mark has also held a seat on the Board of Advisors for TenFour, an IT Infrastructure Services company, since 2016.
Mark Taylor
CEO
Society for Information Management
July 16, 2020 1:00 - 3:00 PM
All time listed are Eastern Time.
1:00 PM
Welcome: Hunter Muller, President and CEO, HMG Strategy Stephen Landry, CIO, Seton Hall University and President, SIM New Jersey and Mark Taylor, President, SIM National
1:05 PM
Executive Interview: Lessons Learned in a Pandemic
Cecilia McKenney, SVP & CHRO, Quest Diagnostics
1:15 PM
Executive Interview: Leading in Uncertain Times
Gerard Insall, CIO, Avis Budget Group
1:25 PM
Executive Interview: Securing & Protecting Your Sensitive Data in the New Normal
Brian Brockway, VP CTO, Commvault
1:35 PM
Executive Interview: Back to the Future......of Work
Jim Fowler, CTO, Nationwide
1:45 PM
EXECUTIVE PANEL: Reimagining the Business and the Future of Work
Sandeep Bajaj, CIO/CDO, Everest Reinsurance Company
Gerard Insall, CIO, Avis Budget Group
Dutt Kalluri, SVP, Global Technology, Broadridge
Pat Phelan, VP Market Research, Rimini Street
Michael Salas, CIO/CDO, SUEZ in North America
Moderator: Hunter Muller, President and CEO, HMG Strategy
2:15 PM
EXECUTIVE PANEL: Industry Search Executive Update
Renee Arrington, President and COO, Pearson Partners International
Hugo Fueglein, Managing Director, Diversified Search
Mark Polansky, Senior Client Partner, IT Officers, Korn Ferry
Moderator: Mark Sander, Managing Director, MFS Solutions, Inc.
2:30 PM
EXECUTIVE PANEL: Securing the Future of Work
Alissa Abdullah, Deputy Chief Security Officer, Mastercard
Roota Almeida, CISO, Delta Dental of NJ & CT
Beni Lopez, Managing Director, Industrial and US Market, Softtek
Mandar Rege, Managing Director, Operational Risk Management - Technology and Cybersecurity, Citi
Moderator: Ajoy Kumar, Head of IT Risk Analysis and Reporting, The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation
Commvault is a leading provider of data protection and information management solutions, helping organizations worldwide activate their data to drive more value and insight for their business. As a result, Commvault customers are able to reduce IT cost, better leverage data, improve IT operations, and increase overall efficiencies. With solutions and services delivered directly and through a worldwide network of partners and service providers, Commvault solutions comprise one of the industry’s leading portfolios in data protection and recovery, cloud, virtualization, archive, file sync and share.
https://www.commvault.com/Rimini Street, Inc. (Nasdaq: RMNI) is a global provider of enterprise software products and services, the leading third-party support provider for Oracle and SAP software products and a Salesforce partner. The Company offers premium, ultra-responsive and integrated application management and support services that enable enterprise software licensees to save significant costs, free up resources for innovation and achieve better business outcomes. Nearly 1,900 Global Fortune 500, midmarket, public sector and other organizations from a broad range of industries rely on Rimini Street as their trusted enterprise software products and services provider.
https://www.riministreet.com/Founded in 1982, Softtek is a global company helping organizations drive digital operations, platforms and enablement. With presence in North America, Latin America, Europe and Asia, Softtek provides Global 2000 organizations with technology solutions that create value through technology
http://www.softtek.com/Nutanix makes datacenter infrastructure and clouds invisible, elevating IT to focus on the applications and services that power the business. The company’s Enterprise Cloud OS software converges private, public and distributed clouds, bringing one-click simplicity to infrastructure and application management. Nutanix Enterprise Cloud solutions integrate virtualization, storage, networking and security to power any application, at any scale – and are delivered as turnkey hyper converged infrastructure (HCI) appliances, software for popular server platforms, and innovative Xi Cloud Services.
https://www.nutanix.comEgon 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.comHeidrick & 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.comAt 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.comFounded 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.comAmplify 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.comGlynn 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 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.comLightspeed 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.comSequoia 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.comSIM New Jersey is one of over 30 chapters and 4000+ members that play a vital role in the success of SIM by extending its vision and mission into IT communities across the United States. Our chapter is an excellent way to take advantage of the wealth of IT resources available in New Jersey, as well as the tri-state region. Through workshops, presentations, conferences, meetings and social outings, SIM New Jersey helps you stay informed on key industry issues while enabling members to establish valuable local, regional and even national contacts.
http://njsim.org/
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