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The global pandemic has created unthinkable circumstances for business and for society. But one constant as we work through the business challenges spawned by this international crisis is the empathetic leadership that technology executives are demonstrating to their teams to help keep them safe, secure and engaged. The key for CIOs, CISOs and other technology executives to drive success for their companies is to draw from their past and current experiences in the current crisis and to apply a fresh mindset in leading the business forward into a brighter future with courage and compassion.
In this Digital Summit, top technology executives will share their advice on the roles that CIOs and tech leaders can play in driving innovation, reshaping the business and fashioning the future of work.
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"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
Rich Adduci
Founder & Principal Advisor
Esito LLC
Don Anderson
SVP & CIO
Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
Vic Bhagat
President
Matrix CVC
Jack Clare
Chief Information Officer
UNFI
Tom Conophy
EVP & CTO
AutoNation
Stephen Gold
CTO & Chief Process Improvement Officer
Hudson's Bay Company
Ken Grady
CVP & CIO
IDEXX Laboratories
Karl Hick
Chief Digital and Information Officer
Takeda Pharmaceuticals International, Inc.
Sean Lennon
CIO
Medtronic
Sean McCourt
Founder & Managing Director
Longford & Company
Shamim Mohammad
SVP, CIO & CTO
CarMax
Hunter Muller
President & CEO
HMG Strategy
Bill Oates
Public & Private Sector CIO, Adjunct Professor at Boston College, Board Member
Boston College
Mark Polansky
Senior Partner, Technology Officers Practice
Korn Ferry
Brian Shield
VP, IT
Boston Red Sox
Matt Aiello
Partner
Heidrick & Struggles
Andrew Allen
Head of IT Data and Analytics Enablement
Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Wes Arens
Managing Partner & Co-Founder
Digital Brand Insights
Saad Ayub
CDO
Zones, Inc.
Dennis Baden
Partner-In-Charge, Boston Office and Global Financial Services and Technology Officers Practice
Heidrick & Struggles
Shawn Banerji
Managing Partner, Technology, Digital and Data Leaders Practice
Caldwell Partners
Douglas Barta
CIO
Cerevel Therapeutics, LLC
Gerald Beuchelt
CISO
LogMeIn
Anand Bhadouria
Global Account CTO
Microsoft
Bill Brown
CISO & CIO
Abacus Insights
Brook Colangelo
VP & CIO
Waters Corporation
Tim Crawford
CIO Strategic Advisor
AVOA
Michael Curmi
Vice President
Fidelity Investments
Matt Dattilo
SVP & CIO
Vince
Mike Dauber
General Partner
Amplify Partners
Abbas Faiq
Chief Information Officer
PTC
Nirva Fereshetian
Associate Principal Chief Information Officer
CBT Architects
Rocco Grillo
Managing Director - Global Cyber Risk Services
Alvarez & Marsal
Neil Hampshire
CIO
Parallel
Anjana Harve
Senior Vice President & CIO
Fresenius Medical Care
Tom Harvey
SVP & CIO
Alkermes, Inc.
Jamie Head
Chief Digital & Technology Officer
Ocean Spray
Blake Holman
Chief Information & Infrastructure Officer
St. David's Foundation
Jo Hoppe
CIO/CTO/VP & General Manager (P&L)
Software, Life Sciences, Book Publishing
Brad Horst
VP - CIO Advisory Services
Microdesk
Sharon Kaiser
CIO, Director of IT
New England Biolabs
Scott Kessler
EVP & CIO
BJ's Wholesale Club
Susan Kifer
Former CIO & VP Customer Service
Simonds International
Phillip Knutel
VP & CIO
Babson College
Jeff Lamoreaux
CIO
Global Partners LP
Martin Leach
VP, R&D IT, Global Quality IT, Human Experience IT
Alexion Pharmaceuticals
Ken LeBlanc
Partner
CIO Sensei
Eric Lindgren
SVP & CIO
Bright Horizons
William Mayo
CIO
Broad Institute
George Moore
CTO
Cengage Learning
Steve Morin
Vice President IT M&A
Salesforce
Ray Pawlicki
Board Director
Harvard Pilgrim Health Care
Charles Podesta
CIO
UCONN Health
Greg Saltzman
Chief Information Officer
Protective Industrial Products
James Satterthwaite
Partner, Technology & Communications
Egon Zehnder
Paul Scorza
CIO & EVP
Ahold Delhaize
Bill Scudder
SVP & CIO
Aspen Technology
Dan Sheehan
Former EVP & CIO
Beacon Health Options
Mark Sherwood
SVP & CIO
Nuance Communications
Stephen Spagnuolo
NA Digital Security & Risk
Stanton Chase
Tom Stumpek
CISO
Lahey Health
Irwin Weiss
Vice President - SMB & Consumer Business Systems
OpenText
Brad Whitehall
VP of IT & CIO
UniFirst Corporation
Snehal Antani
Co-Founder & CEO
Horizon3.ai
Snehal Antani is co-founder & CEO of Horizon3.ai, a cyber security startup focused on AI-enabled red teaming. Prior to starting Horizon3, Snehal served as CTO for the US Department of Defense, responsible for transforming the technology capabilities of the command to include cyber security, advanced R&D, AI, and data analytics. Snehal was formerly the CTO of Splunk, and before that, a CIO at GE Capital. Snehal started his career at IBM as a software engineer, where he earned 16 patents for his work in cloud, distributed computing, and large-scale data processing. Snehal earned in BS in Computer Science from Purdue, where as a freshman he watched Tom Brady play Drew Brees. He earned is MS in Computer Science from RPI, where he never attended an RPI football game.
Renee Arrington
President and COO
Pearson Partners International, Inc.
Maury Cupitt
VP, Solutions Architect
Sonatype
Maury Cupitt has spent the last 20+ years in enterprise software working with early stage startups and large enterprises to help position the value of their technology and make customers successful. He’s worked at Netscape, AvantGo, Tasktop, CA Technologies and BlueStripe working with customers to solve challenges and advise on strategic solutions. Maury is has an entrepreneurial spirit, enjoys wearing many hats and has a passion for making software work better. Outside of software, Maury has worked on Broadway, is a pilot, enjoys amateur radio, tinkers with Raspberry Pis, teaches shooting sports, and loves DIY projects at home.
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.
Meredith Harper
VP, CISO
Eli Lilly and Company
Meredith Harper serves as vice president and chief information security officer at Eli Lilly and Company. She is responsible for the company’s global information security program.
Prior to joining Lilly in 2018 as senior director, deputy chief information security officer, Meredith served as chief information privacy and security officer at Henry Ford Health System, where she had ultimate responsibility for the protection of Henry Ford’s provider, insurance, retail and research businesses.
Meredith is an active member of the Health Care Compliance Association where she holds dual certifications in healthcare compliance and privacy. She is certified as a Healthcare Information Security & Privacy Practitioner through the International Information System Security Certification Consortium Inc. and a Certified Information Security Manager through the Information Systems Audit and Control Association.
She earned a master’s degree in health services administration and a bachelor’s degree in computer information systems from the University of Detroit Mercy. She also earned a master’s of jurisprudence in health law from Loyola University Chicago School of Law.
Meredith serves on several advisory boards in support of empowering women and minorities to embark upon careers in technology, especially in information security. She has also served her community for 29 years through her Diamond Life membership in Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Inc.
Jamie Head
Chief Digital & Technology Officer
Ocean Spray
Jamie has been a leader in Information Technology within the CPG industry for more than 18 years. Jamie has held roles within Mars, Inc. and GlaxoSmithKline Consumer. While starting his career in the U.K. Jamie has held global roles based out of the USA for more 11 years working across boundaries and bringing people together to drive change and technology for growth.
As Ocean Spray’s Chief Digital and Technology Officer, Jamie is leading our business transformation programs, managing both our Tech division and Digital Team, ensuring the cooperative invests strategically in people and technology to to maintain and grow our business—from supply chain right through to our consumers.
Brooke Lierman
Senior Director of Workplace Technologies
Okta
Brooke Lierman is the Senior Director of Workplace Technologies for Okta. She leads the teams responsible for engaging and innovative technology experiences that power employee productivity, communications, and smart office solutions for dynamic work and our offices of the future. This includes unified communications, virtual events, digital signage, visual collaboration, smart lockers, and much more. Prior to joining Okta, Brooke had over 15 years of experience leading collaboration technologies, unified communications, and employee technology experience for large Fortune 500 companies like Visa and Gap, Inc. Brooke is passionate about employee experience and data, which helps give her a unique perspective on workplace technologies and the office of the future. Brooke holds a bachelor's degree in biological psychology from UC Berkeley and a doctorate degree in biokinesiology and physical therapy from USC.
Sean McCourt
Founder & Managing Director
Longford & Company
Sean McCourt is Managing Director of Longford & Company, based in downtown Boston. Sean has 17 years of industry experience working with IT executives/CIO’s and has become a valuable asset to many CIO’s through his knowledge of the CIO job market and his connections throughout the industry.
In early 2012, Sean started Longford & Company, a technology services firm dedicated to high quality service and delivery for IT executives. The firm’s focus is working with CIO’s to provide consultants for high impact projects, as well as conducting executive/management level searches. Since 1997, Sean’s dedication and passion for helping IT executives achieve their professional and personal goals has enabled him to build a strong reputation in the industry. Sean received a Bachelor’s in Business Administration/Finance from Roger Williams University in Rhode Island.
David Morris
Founder, Chairman & CEO, HiPER Solutions
HiPER Solutions
David has spent his career researching and empowering leaders to transform their teams, their companies and their careers. His passion is to identify High Impact Performers (HiPERs) and help them reach greater success through a hybrid of technology-driven platforms and experience-based advisory. Recent clients have included E*TRADE, DIRECTV, Subway Restaurants, Western Digital, Wendy’s, ON Semiconductor, CBRE, YPO and many others. Previously, David co-founded Seedling Group, a Boston-based retained executive search firm, serving start-ups, publicly-traded companies, and private equity firms. He also helped launched the San Francisco office as a Director at Corporate Executive Board (now Gartner). David graduated from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
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.
David Politis
Founder and CEO
BetterCloud
David Politis is the founder and CEO of BetterCloud, the first provider of SaaSOps solutions to manage and secure the digital workplace. With 300+ employees in Atlanta, New York City, and San Francisco, BetterCloud has raised $107 million to date from investors including Bain Capital Ventures, Accel, Greycroft Partners, and Flybridge Capital Partners.
David's entire career has been dedicated to improving the modern workplace through innovative, next-generation cloud (SaaS) technology. Before founding BetterCloud, David was an executive at Cloud Sherpas (acquired by Accenture [NYSE: ACN]), a leader in cloud advisory and technology services. Prior to Cloud Sherpas, David was the founding employee and general manager of Vocalocity (acquired by Vonage [NYSE: VG]), which he grew into one of the top providers of cloud PBX technology. These companies have served thousands of businesses—of all sizes and across multiple industries—around the world.
David is a long-time contributor to TechCrunch, Mashable, VentureBeat, and Forbes, where he writes about topics like enterprise cloud technology, cloud computing, and entrepreneurship. He has been featured in The New York Times, the BBC, CIO, Fortune, and more. He is the author of two books, The IT Leader's Guide to SaaSOps (Volumes 1 and 2).
In addition, he has been a featured speaker at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and is a frequent guest speaker on panels, podcasts, and at industry conferences. David is a native of New York City and holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from Emory University.
Brian Shield
VP, IT
Boston Red Sox
Brian Shield is responsible for technology for the Boston Red Sox and Fenway Sports Management. He leads the technology team on all phases of the Red Sox strategy from creating a compelling fan experience to enabling an effective front office and baseball operations environment. Shield was named ‘Georgia CIO of the Year’ in 2005, his work in television was recognized with a Technology ‘Emmy’ Award in 2006, and his leadership and commitment to Georgia’s business-technology community was recognized in 2012 when he received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Georgia CIO Leadership Association (GCLA). Prior to joining the Red Sox, Shield was CEO of Shield Consulting Group, LLC, where he assisted companies with their strategic decisions regarding technology direction, digital media and IT strategy and leadership. Prior to starting his own company, Shield served as the EVP and CIO of The Weather Channel where for 14 years he oversaw all technology, including weather.com, mobility, weather systems, broadcast television and IT. Prior to joining The Weather Channel, Shield served as CIO of FTD, Inc. in Chicago, where he was responsible for all IT including their global network reaching more than 125 countries. Preceding his tenure at FTD, he was CTO at the investment firm of Scudder, Stevens & Clark and formerly with Wang Laboratories. Shield completed his education at Bentley College in Waltham, MA where he majored in Computer Information Systems while minoring in Management and Accounting.
Patrick Thompson
CIO
Albemarle Corporation
Chief Information Officer at Albemarle Corporation responsible for developing and executing Global Information & Digital Technology Strategy.
Proven Executive leader helping global fortune 500 companies in achieving operational performance and back office efficiencies. He has worked in several C-Level roles as well as consulting roles working with executive management teams to help build one fortune 1000 and two fortune 500 companies in his career. He has a proven track record of helping build profitable companies and growing the top and bottom line performance.
Patrick was recently honored with the 2019 CIO Hall of Fame award and is a Top 100 CIO honoree from both CIO and Computerworld magazine.
Patrick is also the Co-Chairman of the SAP CEAC (Chemical Executive Advisory Committee).
He started his career as Managing Director of Andersen Business Consulting at Accenture helping companies with strategic planning, business systems planning, merger and acquisition integrations, and operational and sales performance management consulting.
Mike Towers
Chief Security Officer
Takeda Pharmaceuticals International, Inc.
Brad Whitehall
VP of IT & CIO
UniFirst Corporation
Brad Whitehall is Vice President, Information Technology & CIO for UniFirst a leading supplier of uniforms, workwear and related products to businesses big and small since 1936. UniFirst provides a wide range of apparel from traditional uniforms, industrial wear, specialty and protective clothing to corporate casual and executive attire. Brad brings over 20 years of IT management experience having worked previously at Wex Inc., BJ’s Wholesale Club, The MathWorks, Information Resources Inc., Johnson Controls, and United Technologies. Brad holds a PhD from the University of Illinois in Computer Science.
September 11, 2020, 1:00 - 3:00 PM ET
1:00 - 1:05 PM
Welcome and Introduction
Hunter Muller, President & CEO, HMG Strategy
1:05 - 1:15 PM
EXECUTIVE INTERVIEW: Knocking it Out of the Park: Courageously Leading the Boston Red Sox Into the Digital Future
Companies across nearly all industries had to quickly pivot to digital business models since March. As fans are unable to attend Major League Baseball (MLB) games this season, team leaders have had to double down on digital engagement strategies with fans. In this Executive Interview, Brian Shield, VP, IT for the Boston Red Sox, will share his vision for leading the organization’s digital strategy boldly – including opportunities for strengthening the customer experience, driving revenue, and reducing friction at all levels of the organization.
Brian Shield, VP IT, Boston Red Sox
1:15 - 1:25 PM
EXECUTIVE INTERVIEW: The Impact of Accelerating Saas Adoption on the Modern IT Team
David Politis, Founder and CEO, BetterCloud
With this rapid shift to remote work, SaaS solutions play an ever increasing role in the new digital workplace. However, IT teams now need to figure out how they can discover, manage and secure the growing number of SaaS applications being deployed within their IT environments. In this interview between BetterCloud Founder and CEO David Politis with HMG Strategy President and CEO Hunter Muller, discover the challenges IT will likely face in the next phase of distributed work and why legacy IT solutions are not optimized to address these new problems.
1:25 - 1:35 PM
EXECUTIVE INTERVIEW: Leading in Highly Disruptive Times
Patrick Thompson, CIO, Albemarle Corporation
CIOs and other technology executives are facing unique challenges in leading their remote teams during these uncertain times. Join Patrick Thompson, CIO at Albemarle Corporation and Hunter Muller, President and CEO of HMG Strategy, as they discuss fresh approaches for building a high-performing organization, enabling an Agile business and delivering positive business outcomes.
1:35 - 2:05 PM
EXECUTIVE PANEL: Reimagining the Business and the Future of Work
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 panel discussion, 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.
Jamie Head, Chief Digital and Technology Officer, Ocean Spray
Brooke Lierman, Senior Director of Workplace Technologies, Okta
Pat Phelan, VP Market Research, Rimini Street
Patrick Thompson, CIO, Albemarle Corporation
Brad Whitehall, VP of IT & CIO, UniFirst Corporation
Moderator: Hunter Muller, President & CEO, HMG Strategy
2:05 - 2:15 PM
EXECUTIVE INTERVIEW: Slow Down and Automate to Speed Up your Digital Transformation
Maury Cupitt, VP, Solutions Architect, Sonatype
2:15 - 2:30 PM
EXECUTIVE PANEL: Industry Search Executive Update
As COVID-19 swept the globe, CEOs and business executives discovered the true value of their technology leaders who had positioned their businesses to make the digital pivot and support a work-from-home environment. This type of foresight, along with the business savvy many technology leaders have acquired, positions technology executives well for future career opportunities. In this panel discussion, discover key recommendations from search executives on how to position your career trajectory successfully and position yourself for the next big opportunity.
Sean McCourt, Founder & Managing Director, Longford & Company
David Morris, Founder, Chairman & CEO, HiPER Solutions
Mark Polansky, Senior Partner, Technology Officers Practice, Korn Ferry
Moderator: Renee Arrington, President & COO, Pearson Partners International
2:30 - 2:55 PM
EXECUTIVE PANEL: Securing the Future of Work
When the world changed months ago, most CISOs founds themselves facing a new set of challenges. As millions of employees began working from home, any remaining notion of organizations having a defined perimeter to defend was put to rest.
In this panel discussion, top security executives will share their advice on the roles that CISOs and tech leaders can play in reshaping the business and the future of work.
Snehal Antani, CEO, Horizon3.ai
Meredith Harper, VP, CISO, Eli Lilly and Company
Mike Towers, CISO, Takeda
Moderator: Rocco Grillo, Managing Director - Global Cyber Risk Services, Alvarez & Marsal
2:55 PM
HMG Strategy Top Technology Executives to Watch Awards
Anjana Harve, Senior Vice President & CIO, Fresnius Medical Care
Brian Shield, VP of IT, Boston Red Sox
Patrick Thompson, CIO, Albemarle Corporation
Mike Towers, CISO, Takeda
BetterCloud is the first SaaS Operations Management platform, empowering IT and security teams to define, remediate, and enforce management and security policies for SaaS applications. Over 2,500 customers in 60+ countries rely on BetterCloud for continuous event monitoring, quickly remediating threats, and fully-automated policy enforcement. The company established the first-ever "SaaS Application Management and Security Framework" via two published books entitled “The IT Leader's Guide to SaaSOps” — Vol. 1: “A Six-part Framework for Managing Your SaaS Applications" & Vol. 2: “How to Secure Your SaaS Applications." BetterCloud is headquartered in New York City with offices in San Francisco, CA and Atlanta, GA.
https://www.bettercloud.com/Okta is the leading independent provider of identity for the enterprise. The Okta Identity Cloud connects and protects employees of many of the world's largest enterprises. It also securely connects enterprises to their partners, suppliers and customers. With deep integrations to over 5,000 apps, the Okta Identity Cloud enables simple and secure access from any device. Thousands of customers, including Experian, 20th Century Fox, LinkedIn, Flex, News Corp, Dish Networks, and Adobe trust Okta to work faster, boost revenue and stay secure. Okta helps customers fulfill their missions faster by making it safe and easy to use the technologies they need to do their most significant work.
https://www.okta.com/The Sonatype journey started 10 years ago, just as the concept of “open source” software development was gaining steam. From our humble beginning as core contributors to Apache Maven, to supporting the world’s largest repository of open source components (Central), to distributing the world's most popular repository manager (Nexus), we’ve played a meaningful role in helping the world embrace the power of open innovation. Over time, we witnessed the staggering volume and variety of open source libraries that began flowing into every development environment in the world. We understood that when open source components are properly managed, they provide tremendous energy for accelerating innovation. Conversely, when unmanaged, open-source "gone wild" can lead directly to security vulnerabilities, licensing risks, enormous rework, and waste. Our vision today is simple. We are laser-focused on helping organizations continuously harness all of the good that open source has to offer, without any of the risks.
https://www.sonatype.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/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.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).
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