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  Kevin Cohan
  AVP Strategic Applications and Platforms
  Ascension

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  Jamie Fike
  GRC Director
  Cue Health, Inc.

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  Jake Fritz
  Vice President & Chief Information Officer
  Emerson

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  Aaron Geiger
  Chief Technology Officer
  Alberici Group

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  Jesse Ghere
  VP of Data Analytics and Automotion
  Emerson

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  Eric Gorham
  CIO
  REJIS

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  Gary Harbison
  CISO
  Johnson & Johnson

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  Larry Hickman
  Sr. Vice President of Technology Services and CIO
  Morange LLC

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  Pete Hinden
  CTO
  Zelis Payments

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  Ron Hunsaker
  Vice President, Enterprise Application Services
  Maritz Motivation Solutions

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  Don Imholz
  Founder, Owner, and CEO
  Don Imholz Associates

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  Priscilla Jacks
  Vice President - Sr. IT Risk and Compliance
  U.S. Bank

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  Josh Knopp
  VP, CISO
  Enterprise Holdings, Inc.

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  Jim Lammers
  CIO & COO
  Pharmacy Partners, LLC / Altus Infusion

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  Matthew Modica
  Vice President, Chief Information Security Officer
  BJC Healthcare

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  John Newcomer
  SVP Information Security
  Citigroup

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  Rick Nolle
  Adjunct Instructor- Washington University in St. Louis
  Board Member- REJIS
  

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  Mark Polansky
  Executive in Residence, HMG Strategy
  Founder and CEO
  Outlook Solutions

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  Dr. Nalini Polavarapu
  Vice President, Enterprise Analytics and Data
  Bayer

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  Bob Putnam
  Partner/ Investment Committee Member
  Cultivation Capital

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  Adil Rahman
  Digital Strategy & Growth Lead
  Bayer Crop Science

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  Randy Raw
  CISO
  Veterans United Home Loans

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  Holly Reinen
  VP, Global Technology Solutions
  RGAX

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  Suresh Shaddarsanam
  Lead- Enterprise Applications, IT Services & Site Support
  Peabody Energy

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  Tushar Shelar
  CIO
  Murphy Company

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  Joey Smith
  VP & CISO
  Schnuck Markets, Inc.

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  Michael Smith
  CIO
  InnovaPrep

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  Subbu Subramanian
  CIO
  Anchor Packaging

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  Jim Swanson
  EVP and Enterprise CIO
  Johnson & Johnson

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  Haroon Taqi
  VP, Digital Portfolio, Architecture and Governance
  Ameren

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  Jeff Villmer
  Leadership Development Facilitator & Coach
  HRD* | A Leadership Development Company

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  Milo Wieberg
  Director, Innovation and Technology
  Himagine Solutions inc.

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  Andrew Wilder
  VP & Global CISO
  Hillenbrand

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  Erica Wilson
  Vice President, Global Security and Privacy Risk Management
  RGA Reinsurance Company

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  Lina Young
  SVP & CIO
  Peabody Energy

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  Nick Zotti
  Vice President - Director of Technology Operations
  FirsTech, Inc.

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  Supantha Banerjee
  CIO
  EyeCare Partners

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  Supantha is a global leader with a proven track record of breaking down organizations’ digital ambition into specific, relatable and actionable workstreams and execute against those to improve patient & consumer experience, increase revenue and thereby increase stakeholder value across the supplier-consumer value chain. He is an expert in patient & consumer experience, ecommerce, omni-channel, cybersecurity, and M&A and is known for using a distinctive balance of strategic thinking and an engineer's precision to deliver solutions to complex business problems. He has a reputation for effectively leading change from strategy to execution and for building and motivating high-performing teams within both start ups and Fortune 500 companies.   In his most recent role as CIO of EyeCare Partners, a leading eye care provider with 700+ locations in 18 states of US and 10,000 employees, Supantha led digital and technology teams to propel business growth through digital transformation and technology innovation. Under his leadership, the company reimagined its branding, stood up digital experience and ecommerce foundation, developed proprietary PM/EMR platform, constructed a data lake for 360-view of patients & business, transformed supply chain and finance with SAP implementation, grew the company 3X with 50+ M&A integration and 10 de-novo implementations. Prior to EyeCare Partners, under Supantha’s leadership Aspen Dental, leading DSO with 1000+ locations in 40 states, improved patient experience digitizing patient intake/check-in, simplifying online scheduling, enhancing patient portal and building a proprietary PM/EMR system while continuing to grow the business organically through de-novo, one new practice per week.

  Supantha holds an MBA from University of Michigan – Ross School of Business. He also holds a bachelor degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Regional Engineering College, Durgapur, India. He earned Digital Marketing Specialization certificate from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and The Materiality of ESG Factors certificate from University of Pennsylvania, Wharton. In addition, Supantha is a certified PMP and PMI-ACP from Project Management Institute and holds several certifications on Cybersecurity, Big Data and Machine Learning.  

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  Moses Bulus
  Global Chief Information Security Officer
  Bunzl PLC

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  Moses Bulus is the Global Chief Information Security Officer at Bunzl PLC. Moses has over 20 years of cybersecurity and IT experience across various industries and technologies. He earned his bachelor’s degree in computer engineering from the University of Missouri, Columbia, and a Master of Science in cybersecurity from the University of Maryland. He is currently completing his doctorate in IT with a specialization in cybersecurity from Capella University, and is a board member of the St. Louis region cyber security.

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  Katie Canty
  Interim Chief Information Officer & Vice President, Cafe Systems
  Panera Bread

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  Jim Cavellier
  EVP & CIO
  Cass Information Systems, Inc.

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  Jim Cavellier is currently the EVP & Chief Information Officer (CIO) at Cass Information Systems. Cass is the nation's leading provider of transportation, energy, telecom and environmental invoice payment and information services.  Within Cass, Mr. Cavellier has responsibility for the company’s global information technology strategy and operations.

  Mr. Cavellier has more than 25 years of experience in strategic technology planning and development of critical systems. His background includes streamlining operations, implementing Agile and Lean methodologies and enhancing business partner alignment.

  Immediately prior to joining Cass, Cavellier was a Domain Chief Information Officer for Payment and Wealth Management technologies within Comerica Bank. Over 16 years at Comerica, he held numerous technology leadership positions ranging from strategic technology planning to operational responsibility for all technology across the U.S..

  Previously, he held technology leadership positions with AAA Michigan, Ernst & Young, LLP and General Motors/Electronic Data Systems.

  Mr. Cavellier earned a bachelor’s degree in Management Information Systems (MIS) and a Master’s degree in Business Administration from Oakland University, Rochester Hills, Michigan.

  Mr. Cavellier was the recipient of the 2021 St. Louis Corporate CIO of the Year ORBIE award.  He currently serves as the Chairman for the St. Louis InspireCIO Chapter, Board member for the University of Missouri - St. Louis (UMSL), and is active with the Society of Information Management (SIM) and St. Louis Regional Business Council (RBC).

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  Eric Druker
  Data Science Director - Central Integrity
  Meta

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  Todd Finders
  SVP & CIO
  Clayco Construction

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  Todd has over 30 years of experience in the technology field and held several technology leadership roles in the manufacturing industry prior to joining Clayco. Todd joined Clayco as Senior Vice President, and CIO in 2020. He currently leads Clayco’s IT Operations, Cyber Security, Data Analytics, and Virtual Design and Construction (VDC) teams. Todd has broad experience in business transformation, technology infrastructure, data analytics, and operational excellence.

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  Peter Hogan
  SVP of Information Technology
  Compana Pet Brands

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  Jennifer Hopper
  CIO
  Save A Lot

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  Brian Kenyon
  Chief Strategy Officer and Co-Founder
  Island

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  Brian Kenyon drives corporate strategy at Island as its Chief Strategy Officer and one of the company’s founding members. Brian has also held the role of CSO at Symantec and Blue Coat Systems. He built his early career in technical roles for more than a decade at McAfee where he was Chief Technical Strategist, as well as CTO, and served as chief architect at start-up Foundstone.
  
  Brian is the author of Security Battleground: An Executive Field Manual; Security Sage: Guide to Hardening the Network Infrastructure; and Special Ops: Host and Network Security. He holds a B.A. degree in Finance from Loyola Marymount University.

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  Zachary Lewis
  AVP IT & CISO
  University of Health Sciences and Pharmacy

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  Zach Lewis currently serves as the CIO and CISO for the University of Health Sciences and Pharmacy.  Zach has responsibility for the company’s information technology strategy and cybersecurity operations, while also serving as the Enterprise Risk Management chair. He volunteers on IT advisory boards for SIUE and UMSL and is an officer in the St. Louis Chapter of Infragard.  

  Zach holds a CISSP, CRISC, CISM, CISA, and CGEIT as well as numerous other IT certifications.  He was a recipient of Cyber Defense Magazine’s Top Global CISOs of 2022 and was named 40 Under 40 Security Leaders by CDO Magazine.  Zach provides his industry expertise to others by speaking at conferences, webinars, and schools throughout the country.  

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  Dan McCarthy
  CIO
  Energizer Holdings, Inc.

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  Dan’s career spans more than 25 years in business and IT leadership roles across the food and consumer packaged goods and consulting industries. His previous experience includes Hostess Brands and Post Holdings, following eight years of IT consulting at Accenture. He’s highly experienced at leading global IT teams through enterprise transformations and complex merger and acquisition integrations.

  Dan holds a bachelor’s degree in engineering management from the Missouri University of Science and Technology.

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  Dara Meath
  SVP & CTO
  Build-A-Bear Workshop

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  Dara A Meath was formerly the Divisional Chief Information Officer and Head of Digital / Ecomm at Conair Corporation. Prior to joining Conair, Dara was the Vice President of Information Technology at The Camuto group. She provides executive leadership as Head of Global IT. Responsible for all aspects of strategic IT planning, implementation and support worldwide as an integral component of business the plan. Redesign cost-effective system strategies, policies, and procedures. Before devoting her work fulltime to The Camuto Group, Dara served as Director of System Implementation at Apparel Business Systems. Re-engineered, developed, and advised companies on existing and new platforms. Designed a customized application structure to support a full business solution. Managed custom modular applications, project management, application training, and implementation plans.

  Dara is also the owner of DestinyintheSkye, a local CT accessories business designed to give back the majority of sales to local and global organizations in need. The business was started for her two children, Destiny and Skye with a simple goal to always be passionate in what you do and always give to those in need!

  In addition, Dara is actively involved with many Advisory Boards, an active participate of many Organizations, Speaker and Writer for Technology and Business.

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  Mark Miller
  Former VP of High Performance Leadership
  Chick-fil-A

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  My career at Chick-fil-A began more than 40 years ago as an hourly team member in one of the local restaurants. Shortly thereafter, I become the 16th corporate employee — my first job: working in the warehouse. Since that day, I have worked all across the business, from starting our Corporate Communications group and our Quality & Customer Satisfaction Team to leading in Restaurant Operations, Training & Development, Leadership Development and more! Currently, I serve as Vice President of High Performance Leadership at Chick-fil-A.
  
  For the last 20 years, I have focused much of my time on serving leaders, helping them grow themselves, their teams, and their organizations. In addition to my role at Chick-fil-A, I’ve also had the privilege to teach and lead in not-for-profit organizations domestically and globally. Although the context is different in every organization, the problems have common roots and so do the solutions. Along the way, I have been fortunate to author (and co-author) a few books – nine and counting. Today, more than a million books are in print in 25+ languages. My approach to writing has always been to find what is true in principle and figure out how to make it applicable to the real world. I look forward to our journey together unlocking your full potential as a High Performance Leader.

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  Dennis Muilenburg
  Former CEO
  The Boeing Company

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  Dennis Muilenburg joined Boeing in 1985. He served as president from December 2013 to December 2019, as CEO from July 2015 to December 2019, and as chairman of the board from March 2016 to October 2019.

  Until July 2015, Muilenburg served as vice chairman, president and chief operating officer of Boeing, where he supported the company's aerospace business operations and focused on specific growth enablers, including important global relationships, leadership initiatives and development program performance.

  Before that, Muilenburg served as president and chief executive officer of Boeing Defense, Space & Security (BDS).

  Earlier, Muilenburg was president of BDS's Global Services & Support business, vice president and general manager of the Boeing Combat Systems division, and program manager for Future Combat Systems. Prior to that, he served as vice president of Programs & Engineering for Boeing Air Traffic Management and director of Weapon Systems for the proposed Boeing Joint Strike Fighter aircraft. He also held program management and engineering positions on F-22, Airborne Laser, High Speed Civil Transport and the Condor reconnaissance aircraft, among others.

  Muilenburg spent the first 15 years of his Boeing career in the Puget Sound region of Washington, where he held a number of program management and engineering positions in support of both the commercial airplanes and defense businesses.

  A native of Iowa, Muilenburg earned a bachelor's degree in aerospace engineering and an honorary doctor of science degree from Iowa State University, as well as a master's degree in aeronautics and astronautics from the University of Washington.

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  Hunter Muller
  Founder & CEO
  HMG Strategy

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  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 Founder 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.

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  Lisa Nichols
  CEO
  Technology Partners

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  Lisa Nichols is the CEO and co-founder of Technology Partners, a Women-Business Enterprise and provider of premier IT staffing, solutions and software. Lisa and her husband Greg founded Technology Partners in 1994 driven by their passion to revolutionize the staffing industry with their transparent business model. They co-lead the business today. Greg and Lisa have made it their priority from day one, to create mutual wins for their employees, clients and the communities in which Technology Partners operates. This has, in large part, led to Technology Partners winning the Top Workplaces 2018 for Work/Life Flexibility.

  Technology Partners’ 360 Degree IT services include: Scalable Workforces, IT Staffing, Custom Mobile and Web Applications, Managed IT Services, Cloud Productivity, Marketing Technology, Digital Media and Design, Data Analytics, Digital Transformation, Business Process Management, Enterprise Resource Planning, and Helpdesk Support.

  Lisa devotes her time to many professional and philanthropic organizations including CEO Forum, as well as YPO Christian Fellowship network, the St. Louis Independence Center, YWCA and United Way.

  Lisa’s most recent project is her all new podcast, “Something Extra” produced by Technology Partners. She interviews leaders from around the world and across the for profit and non-profit spaces. Each episode explores the guest’s journey and what they believe is the “something extra” every true leader possesses that define them.

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  Julie O'Brien
  Chief Marketing Officer
  Dazz

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  Julie O’Brien holds more than 25 years of experience in driving go-to-market strategies for large enterprise, mid-sized, and startup companies. She’s held marketing leadership roles with some of the tech industry’s most influential companies including Nutanix, Box, and Cisco. Prior to joining Dazz as Chief Marketing Officer (CMO), she was the CMO of cybersecurity company AttackIQ. Julie is a board member of non-profit Workforce Opportunity Services, an advisor to privately-held Influitive, and community volunteer of the Neighbor Brigade. She graduated from Bentley University in Waltham, MA with a BA/MBA.

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  Dennis Pellegrini
  Vice President, Strategic Program Management
  Mastercard

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  Scott Richert
  CIO
  Mercy

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  Scott Richert is the Chief Information Officer for Mercy.  Named one of the top five large U.S. health systems for four consecutive years by IBM Watson Health, Mercy serves millions annually. Mercy is one of the nation’s most highly integrated, multi-state health care systems, including more than 40 acute care, managed and specialty (heart, children’s, orthopedic and rehab) hospitals, convenient urgent care locations, imaging centers and pharmacies. Mercy has 900 physician practices and outpatient facilities, more than 4,000 Mercy Clinic physicians and advanced practitioners and 40,000-plus co-workers serving patients and families across Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri, and Oklahoma.

  As CIO of Mercy Scott is transforming the role of the technology organization to enable a consumer-centric delivery of digital capabilities that will provide personalized, predictive, and proactive care to those they’re privileged to serve.  By combining the deliveries of these transformative capabilities with excellence in technology service management Scott and his teams will help shape the future of healthcare for Mercy. Serving in various roles within Mercy for over 30 years Scott has successfully implemented innovative technology solutions that have helped transform healthcare at Mercy all while delivering on the promise of reliable, scalable, and cost-effective technology services for his organization.  In addition, Scott and his team provide hosting and electronic health record support and optimization services for other health systems across the country.

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  Teresa Sanzottera
  Vice President IT
  Barry-Wehmiller

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  Teresa Sanzottera is a senior Information Technology executive with over 25 years’ experience leading technology across multiple industries.   Her career reflects a demonstrated track record leading successful IT transformations, optimizing IT processes, and executing various M&A transactions worth over $13B.  She brings deep knowledge and experience in IT strategy, governance, operations, controls, risk management, cybersecurity, and advanced technologies.

  Ms. Sanzottera is currently Vice President, IT at Barry-Wehmiller.   She also serves as an Advisory Board member of an Artificial Intelligence (AI) start up.   Prior to joining Barry-Wehmiller, she was Vice President and CIO for a global specialty generics company where she was a member of the executive leadership team and Operating, Compliance, and Enterprise Risk Management committees and chaired the Information Technology committee.

  She holds a bachelor’s degree from Webster University in International Studies, a Master of Business Administration from Maryville University and Executive Certificates in Strategy and Innovation and Leadership from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.  

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  Jericho Simmons
  VP & CISO
  Sound Physicians

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  Carraig Stanwyck
  VP / Head of Global Cybersecurity and Compliance
  Avnet

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  With a foundation rooted in over 10 years of experience in the intelligence community, Carraig has spent the past decade building and leading cybersecurity programs. As the leader of Avnet's global cybersecurity function, Carraig is known for sharing practical insights on business-centric security, talent acquisition, and neurodiversity. Leveraging his extensive background in intelligence and cybersecurity, Carraig has built comprehensive programs for diverse organizations, including government agencies, startups, and enterprise-level companies.

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  Suda Suvarna
  Global Chief Solutions Officer and US Chief Solutions Delivery Officer
  Deloitte

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  Doug Weaver
  Solutions Consultant
  Apptio

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  I’ve been with Apptio for over three years as a Solutions Consultant specializing in both Private and Public Sectors across organizations of all sizes and industries.  Prior to Apptio I’ve worked in roles as an Analytics and Insights manager and Business Architect for Metlife and Cisco.  Education background includes Master’s degrees from UNC Chapel Hill and Boston University.  Prior to that I served as an Army Officer with three combat tours.  

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  Erin Williams
  VP and CIO
  Hussmann Corporation

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  Jennifer Wischnowsky
  Senior Director, Data, Analytics & Transformation
  Ameren

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  Jen is responsible for leading enterprise data, customer analytics, business analytics, the center of automation, the innovation center, and supports the customer transformation. Jen oversees execution of the One Ameren Analytics, Automation & AI strategy and roadmap including the build-out of Ameren’s modern data and analytics platform with machine learning and AI capabilities and delivering significant value through automation, analytics, and AI to transform business processes across the enterprise.

  Jen has over 19 years of experience in analytics and automation, strategy and performance management, business process transformation, accounting, and mergers and acquisitions. Prior to joining Ameren, Jen was at Exelon Corporation in the external financial reporting team and accounting policy and research. Jen started her career at PricewaterhouseCoopers in capital market transactions and audit functions. Jen served as Chair and Vice-Chair of the Edison Electric Institute (EEI)’s Accounting Standards Committee from 2017-2020 and is currently a member of the Utility Analytics Institute Executive Advisory Council. Jen received the Public Utilities Fortnightly 40 Under 40 award in 2020, is a graduate of the Greater Missouri Leadership Challenge and TechLX Leadership Development programs.

  Jen earned a Bachelor of Science in Accountancy and Bachelor of Science in Business Administration (Marketing) from the University of Illinois. Jen is a licensed Certified Public Accountant.

Platinum Partners

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  Apptio is the leading software to fuel digital transformation. We help technology and finance leaders make smart decisions as they plan, analyze, and optimize technology investments in pursuit of digital transformation.  Apptio’s software uses machine learning to translate technology costs and utilization across on-premises systems, vendors, projects, agile and cloud systems into a holistic, business-centric view. With Apptio, IT leaders make smarter digital transformation investments.

  http://www.apptio.com

Gold Partners

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  Netskope, a global cybersecurity leader, is redefining cloud, data, and network security to help organizations apply zero trust principles to protect data. Fast and easy to use, the Netskope platform provides optimized access and zero trust security for people, devices, and data anywhere they go. Netskope helps customers reduce risk, accelerate performance, and get unrivaled visibility into any cloud, web, and private application activity. Thousands of customers, including more than 25 of the Fortune 100, trust Netskope and its powerful NewEdge network to address evolving threats, new risks, technology shifts, organizational and network changes, and new regulatory requirements. Learn how Netskope helps customers be ready for anything on their SASE journey.

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

  https://www.tanium.com/
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  • LastPass is an award-winning password manager which helps more than 33 million registered users organize and protect their online lives. For more than 100,000 businesses of all sizes, LastPass provides password and identity management solutions that are convenient, easy to manage, and effortless to use. From enterprise password management and single sign-on to adaptive multi-factor authentication, LastPass for Business gives superior control to IT and frictionless access to users.

  https://www.lastpass.com/

Supporting Partners

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  Evolving Solutions is a technology solutions provider that helps clients modernize and automate their mission-critical applications and infrastructure to support business transformation. Our business is client-centric consulting and delivery of technical solutions to enable modern operations in a hybrid cloud world. And, our deep partner relationships, that help us deliver exceptional results to meet our clients’ technology needs.

  www.evolvingsol.com
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  Bluewave is an advisory and sourcing partner transforming how companies acquire and manage technology solutions. Our team of technology experts and analysts, leveraging our proven approach, guides businesses of all sizes to make well-informed technology decisions. Specializing in modernizing the IT and telecom infrastructure, Bluewave partners with proven cloud, colocation, network, mobility, security, and CX providers to develop the best solution while maximizing technology investments and ensuring long-term success. Learn more at bluewave.net

  https://bluewave.net
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  Proofpoint Inc. is a leading next-generation security and compliance company that provides cloud-based solutions to protect the way people work today. Proofpoint solutions enable organizations to protect their users from advanced attacks delivered via email, social media and mobile apps, protect the information their users create from advanced attacks and compliance risks, and respond quickly when incidents occur.

  https://www.proofpoint.com/us

Trailblazer Partners

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  We’re reinventing cloud security from the inside out. Led by an experienced and visionary team, we are on a mission to help organizations create secure cloud environments that accelerate their businesses. By creating a normalizing layer between cloud environments, our platform enables organizations to rapidly identify and remove critical risks.

  https://www.wiz.io/about
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  Dazz accelerates cloud remediation for security and engineering teams. The Dazz Remediation Cloud maps your code-to-cloud pipelines, reduces security alerts to their key root causes, and remediates issues right in the developer's workflow. With Dazz, you gain full pipeline visibility, cut through alert noise, increase the value of existing tools, and shrink your risk window by reducing time to remediate. Visit us at dazz.io and follow us on Twitter at @dazz_io and LinkedIn at dazz-io.

  https://www.dazz.io/
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  Island is the browser designed for the enterprise that makes work fluid, frictionless, and fundamentally secure. With core security controls embedded in the browser itself, Island enables organizations to shape how anyone, anywhere works with their information, while delivering the Chromium-based browser experience users expect. It’s work as it was meant to be, where security is native to all users, applications, and the data between them, without it ever getting in the way.

  https://www.island.io/about

Marketplace Partners

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  8x8 is transforming the future of business communications with XCaaS™ (eXperience Communications as a Service™). 8x8 XCaaS is the only integrated platform for contact center, voice, video meetings, team chat, and CPaaS embeddable APIs. Unlike multi-vendor environments, 8x8 XCaaS provides platform-wide reliability, lowers costs, boosts employee productivity and customer engagement, and delivers intelligence through AI-powered experiences and insights. More than 2.5 million people around the world rely on 8x8 to collaborate quicker, work smarter, and serve customers better with real-time analytics across every interaction. For organizations relying on Microsoft Teams for collaboration, 8x8 offers its 8x8 Voice for Microsoft Teams direct routing solution and 8x8 Contact Center for Microsoft Teams which is certified by Microsoft. 8x8 Voice for Microsoft Teams provides advanced telephony and contact center capabilities to further empower Microsoft Teams users. Today, more than 150,000 users rely on 8x8 for advanced communications for Teams. 8x8 is a ten-time Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Unified Communications as a Service (UCaaS), Worldwide and seven-time Challenger in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Contact Center as a Service (CCaaS).

  https://www.8x8.com/
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  Akamai secures and delivers digital experiences for the world’s largest companies. Akamai’s intelligent edge platform surrounds everything, from the enterprise to the cloud, so customers and their businesses can be fast, smart, and secure. Top brands globally rely on Akamai to help them realize competitive advantage through agile solutions that extend the power of their multicloud architectures. Akamai keeps decisions, apps, and experiences closer to users than anyone — and attacks and threats far away. Akamai’s portfolio of edge security, web and mobile performance, enterprise access, and video delivery solutions is supported by unmatched customer service, analytics, and 24/7/365 monitoring.

  https://www.akamai.com
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  BetterCloud is the leading SaaS Management Platform (SMP) that enables IT professionals to discover, manage and secure the growing stack of SaaS applications in the digital workplace. With an expanding ecosystem of SaaS integrations, thousands of forward thinking organizations like Zoom, Walmart, and Square now rely on BetterCloud to automate processes and policies across their cloud application portfolio. A pioneer of the SaaSOps movement, BetterCloud has built a community of more than 45K IT professionals who are embracing the new role of SaaSOps within IT organizations. The company launched the first-ever annual SaasOps-focused conference, Altitude, and publishes annually the definitive market research report, State of SaaSOps, on the market and category. BetterCloud is headquartered in New York City with offices in San Francisco, CA and Atlanta, GA. The company's total amount raised to date is $187 million. Investors include Warburg Pincus, Accel, Bain Capital Ventures, Flybridge Capital Partners, and Greycroft Partners.

  https://www.bettercloud.com/
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  Darktrace is the world’s leading cyber AI company and the creator of Autonomous Response technology. Its self-learning AI is modeled on the human immune system and used by over 4,500 organizations to protect against threats to the cloud, email, IoT, networks and industrial systems. The company has over 1,500 employees and headquarters in San Francisco and Cambridge, UK. Every 3 seconds, Darktrace AI fights back against a cyber-threat, preventing it from causing damage.

  https://www.darktrace.com/
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  Fortinet (NASDAQ: FTNT) makes possible a digital world that we can always trust through its mission to protect people, devices, and data everywhere. This is why the world’s largest enterprises, service providers, and government organizations choose Fortinet to securely accelerate their digital journey. The Fortinet Security Fabric platform delivers broad, integrated, and automated protections across the entire digital attack surface, securing critical devices, data, applications, and connections from the data center to the cloud to the home office. Ranking #1 in the most security appliances shipped worldwide, more than 565,000 customers trust Fortinet to protect their businesses. And the Fortinet NSE Training Institute, an initiative of Fortinet’s Training Advancement Agenda (TAA), provides one of the largest and broadest training programs in the industry to make cyber training and new career opportunities available to everyone. Learn more at https://www.fortinet.com, the Fortinet Blog, or FortiGuard Labs.

  https://www.fortinet.com/
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  Nutanix offers a single platform to run all your apps and data across multiple clouds while simplifying operations and reducing complexity. Trusted by companies worldwide, Nutanix powers hybrid multicloud environments efficiently and cost effectively. This enables companies to focus on successful business outcomes and new innovations.

  https://www.nutanix.com
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  Palo Alto Networks, the global cybersecurity leader, is shaping the cloud-centric future with technology that is transforming the way people and organizations operate. Our mission is to be the cybersecurity partner of choice, protecting our digital way of life. We help address the world's greatest security challenges with continuous innovation that seizes the latest breakthroughs in artificial intelligence, analytics, automation, and orchestration. By delivering an integrated platform and empowering a growing ecosystem of partners, we are at the forefront of protecting tens of thousands of organizations across clouds, networks, and mobile devices. Our vision is a world where each day is safer and more secure than the one before. For more information, visit www.paloaltonetworks.com.

  www.paloaltonetworks.com
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  RingCentral, Inc. (NYSE: RNG) is a leading provider of business cloud communications and contact center solutions based on its powerful Message Video Phone™ (MVP™) global platform. More flexible and cost effective than legacy on-premises PBX and video conferencing systems that it replaces, RingCentral empowers modern mobile and distributed workforces to communicate, collaborate, and connect via any mode, any device, and any location. RingCentral offers three key products in its portfolio including RingCentral MVP™, a Unified Communications as a Service (UCaaS) platform including team messaging, video meetings, and cloud phone system; RingCentral Video™,  the company's video meetings solution with team messaging that enables Smart Video Meetings™; and RingCentral cloud Contact Center solutions. RingCentral’s open platform integrates with leading third-party business applications and enables customers to easily customize business workflows. RingCentral is headquartered in Belmont, California, and has offices around the world.

  https://www.ringcentral.com/
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  SafeGuard Cyber protects the human connections businesses need to thrive in a digital world. Our award-winning platform utilizes a unique mix of direct API integration, Natural Language Understanding, advanced policy engines, and deep relationships with cloud-based digital platforms to give you unmatched, real-time monitoring and mitigation on over 50 cloud communication channels. With SafeGuard installed your team can use whatever tools they wish to do what they do best: create value and drive growth.

  https://www.safeguardcyber.com/
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  Tonkean is the OS for Business Operations, empowering operations teams to rapidly improve efficiency with an enterprise-grade, composable automation platform. By allowing ops teams to automate, monitor, and manage mission-critical business processes with no-code, while still maintaining compliance and security, Tonkean enables enterprises to accelerate operational velocity at scale. The Tonkean platform makes automating complex business processes simple and accessible to non-developers, such as business operations teams and process owners, by abstracting the high technical barrier and coding expertise needed to deliver robust, enterprise-grade process solutions via composability. Ops teams compose custom process solutions using building blocks called “enterprise components” or ECs. ECs are modular, interchangeable, and reusable capabilities that perform actions or complete steps in a business process. ECs are fully governed and curated, typically by IT. They can be adopted from vendors or custom built, or they can simply be extensions of existing tools and systems. This allows ops and process experts to rapidly build holistic process solutions that can work with different systems, easily adapt to changing needs, and measure cross-functional KPIs–all with no-code and no change management. Enterprises like Google, EVERSANA, Instacart, Grubhub, Crypto.com, and more rely on Tonkean to optimize and align their operations across functions—including sales, marketing, customer support, legal, finance, and more. With Tonkean, enterprises can expand the pie of who can deliver software to make a world of Makers.

  https://tonkean.com/
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  Upwork is the world’s largest work marketplace that connects businesses with independent talent from across the globe. We serve everyone from one-person startups to large, Fortune 100 enterprises with a powerful, trust-driven platform that enables companies and talent to work together in new ways that unlock their potential. Our talent community earned over $3.8 billion on Upwork in 2022 across more than 10,000 skills in categories including website & app development, creative & design, customer support, finance & accounting, consulting, and operations.

  https://www.upwork.com/enterprise/
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  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
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  Zscaler, the only zero trust platform that securely connects any user, any device, and any app over any network. Back in the day when your users were all on the network and your applications resided in your physical data center, it made sense to establish a secure perimeter around your network. But those days are over, the perimeter is gone, and network security is all but irrelevant. Instead, you need to put your defenses and controls where the connections occur— the internet — so that every connection is fast and secure, no matter how or where users connect or where their applications reside. By moving applications and infrastructure to the cloud and untethering employees from their desks, you can realize tremendous advantages in productivity, agility, and cost containment. With our 100% cloud built secure platform, Zscaler can help you make the move to the cloud, securely.

  https://www.zscaler.com/
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  • LastPass is an award-winning password manager which helps more than 33 million registered users organize and protect their online lives. For more than 100,000 businesses of all sizes, LastPass provides password and identity management solutions that are convenient, easy to manage, and effortless to use. From enterprise password management and single sign-on to adaptive multi-factor authentication, LastPass for Business gives superior control to IT and frictionless access to users.

  https://www.lastpass.com/
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  Ping Identity provides secure and seamless digital experiences for your employees, partners and customers. We do it by securely connecting users to cloud, mobile, and on-premises applications and APIs while managing identity and profile data at scale.

  https://www.pingidentity.com/en/solutions/business-priority/innovate-digital-experiences.html
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  Delphix is the industry leader for DevOps test data management. Businesses need to transform application delivery but struggle to balance speed with data security and compliance. Our DevOps Data Platform automates data security, while rapidly deploying test data to accelerate application releases. With Delphix, customers modernize applications, adopt multi-cloud, achieve CI/CD, and recover from downtime events such as ransomware up to 2x faster. Leading companies, including Choice Hotels, and Fannie Mae, use Delphix to accelerate digital transformation and enable zero trust data management. Visit us at www.delphix.com. Follow us on LinkedIn, Twitter, and Facebook.

  www.delphix.com

Strategic Partners

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  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
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  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
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  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
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  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
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  Intuitive is one of the fastest-growing companies in the Americas (recognized by CRN & INC 5000) focused on IT solutions, and services supporting 100+ Fortune 1000 & ISV customers on a global scale. With the reputation of being a Tiger Team & a Trusted Partner, Intuitive’s solution-centric SMEs across its core Superpowers (Public/Private/Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure, Cyber Security, AppDev, AppSecOps/DevSecOps, SRE, Data, AI/ML, Network and Digital Workspace) help solve most complex challenges and initiatives for Enterprises. Intuitive is also one of the very few recognized ProServe partners AWS (ProServe), Azure (ECIF), GCP (PSF), VMware (PSO/PCT), PANW, and Zscaler delivering engineering excellence.

  https://www.intuitive.cloud

Alliance Partners

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  Menlo Ventures is a venture capital firm that strives to have a positive impact on everything we do. That’s why we support businesses including Betterment, Carta, Roku, Poshmark, Uber, and Warby Parker that are reimagining life and work for the better. Over 43 years, we’ve grown a portfolio that includes more than 70 public companies, over 100 mergers and acquisitions, and $5.5 billion under management. We invest at every stage and in every sector, with expertise in Consumer, Enterprise, and Healthcare. From developing market strategies to creating communities, we provide real impact where entrepreneurs need it most. When we’re in, we’re all in.

  https://www.menlovc.com/
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  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
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  We have spent years building industry leading companies. We bring this trove of experience and relationships to every venture we invest in. Cyberstarts was the brainchild of many deep conversations with our most successful cyber peers to distill the holy grail that enabled us to build important companies. It soon became clear that the trajectory to success is determined at a venture’s earliest start. That our deep inside perspective and highly engaged network during this critical earliest stage were unique ingredients in our successes. By aggregating these close relationships for entrepreneurs who we believe in, we knew that we can create incredible value for our tight network of CISOs who enjoy the earliest access to solutions that they help to define. These peers became investors and Cyberstarts became the only VC primarily funded by the industry’s most successful cybersecurity founders.

  https://cyberstarts.com/about
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  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
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  GTM Capital is singularly focused on helping our portfolio companies gain a massive competitive advantage by rapidly accelerating customer traction.

  https://gtm-capital.com
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  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

Association Partners

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  Technology Partners is an award-winning, certified Women Business Enterprise that provides premier IT staffing and solutions. With a focus on partnership, we have worked with hundreds of clients across a range of industries nationwide, and held client and consultant relationships that have lasted as long as we've been in business. Built upon a revolutionary transparent-margin business model, Technology Partners provides better value for our clients while giving our consultants higher salaries and career control. We're committed to partnerships with our clients and consultants, assessing their needs and providing them with the absolute best service.

  http://www.technologypartners.net

Chase Park Plaza Royal Sonesta

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.

Special Needs - We fully support the Americans with Disabilities Act. If you require special assistance of any kind, please call us at (203) 243-1674 or email us at registrar@hmgstrategy.com.