CIO Leadership: Innovation and Invention to Spur Revenue Growth Will Drive the Dialogue at the 2023 Phoenix CIO Executive Leadership Summit on March 24

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Technology leaders will also share fresh approaches for reimagining cybersecurity strategies to better safeguard the enterprise.

Westport, CT — March 12, 2023 — HMG Strategy, the World’s #1 digital platform for enabling technology executives to reimagine the enterprise and reshape the business world, is excited to be hosting its 2023 Phoenix CIO Executive Leadership Summit on March 24 at the JM Marriott Scottsdale Camelback Inn Resort & Spa.

HMG Strategy’s highly interactive events bring together the world’s most distinguished and innovative business technology and security leaders to discuss the most pressing leadership, innovation, strategic, cultural, technology and career challenges and opportunities that they face today – and into the future.

World-class technology leaders and industry experts speaking at this popular in-person event will explore valuable opportunities for leveraging technologies such as AI, ChatGPT, cloud platforms and innovative cybersecurity tools to help move the needle for the business and to better safeguard the enterprise.

“CIOs and business technology leaders are ideally positioned to identify how technologies can be utilized to drive new business opportunities and deliver measurable value to the enterprise.”

Prominent executives speaking at the 2023 Phoenix CIO Executive Leadership Summit will include:

Ed Albanese, COO, Vectara

Saqib E. Awan, Founder & Managing Director, GTM Capital

Susan Barlow, VP & CIO, Clearway Energy Group

Stacy Black, VP of IT, Benchmark Electronics

Kevin Campbell, CIO, TGen

Stefanie Causey, OCM Leader, IBM

Max Chan, CIO, Avnet

Greg Fancher, EVP & Chief Information Technology Officer, PetSmart

Frank Grimmelmann, Founder, President & CEO/Intelligence Liaison Officer, Arizona Cyber Threat Response Alliance

Laura Hemenway, Founder and Principal, Paradigm Solutions, LLC; Treasurer, SIM Arizona

Scott Hicar, SVP & CIO, Benchmark Electronics

David Jarvis, Professor of Practice, Arizona State University

Bipin Jayaraj, SVP & CIO, Rogers Corporation

Hariharan Kolam, Co-Founder & CEO, Findem

Bianca Lochner, CIO, City of Scottsdale

Fred Mapp, President & CEO, Quality Service Solutions, LLC

Daniel Mayo, Assistant Special Agent in Charge, Phoenix FBI Field Office

Mark Morawski, CTO, ZaloPay

Steve Phillips, Board Director, Wick Communications

Gail Ricketts, IT Compliance Manager, Axon

Peter Robinson, VP, Digital Enablement, Avnet

Malcolm Ross, SVP Product Strategy, Appian

Dan Saltich, CIO, Shamrock Foods Company

Bhavin Shah, CEO & Founder, Moveworks

Simon Taylor, EVP, PacketWatch; President, SIM Arizona

Mark Tonnesen, CIO, Achieve

Paul Valente, Co-Founder & CEO, VISO Trust

Rebekah Wilke, Director, Information Security Operations, ON Semiconductor

Rebecca Wynn, Global Chief Security Strategist & CISO, Click Solutions Group

The 2023 Phoenix CIO Executive Leadership Summit will also feature an Innovation Accelerator panel featuring Ed Albanese, COO, Vectara; Hariharan Kolam, Co-Founder and CEO, Findem; Paul Valente, Co-Founder & CEO, VISO Trust; and Saqib E. Awan, Founder and Managing Director of GTM Capital. Executives from these innovative technology start-ups will share the challenges they solve for their clients, the innovation they deliver to companies and how their solutions are differentiated in the market.

Valued Partners for the 2023 Phoenix CIO Executive Leadership Summit include 8×8, Aisera, Akamai, Appian, Aryaka, BetterCloud, Box, Darktrace, Delphix, Fortinet, GTM Capital, Intuitive.Cloud, LastPass, Moveworks, Netskope, Nutanix, OutSystems, Palo Alto Networks, Ping Identity, ReliaQuest, RingCentral, SafeGuard Cyber, SAP, SentinelOne, SHE Informationtechnologie AG, SIM San Arizona, Tonkean, Upwork, Zoom, and Zscaler.

Recipients of HMG Strategy’s 2023 Global Leadership Institute Awards at the Phoenix CIO Summit will include:

Stefanie Causey, OCM Lead, IBM

Max Chan, CIO, Avnet

Scott Hicar, Senior Vice President & Chief Information Officer, Benchmark Electronics

Bipin Jayaraj, SVP & CIO, Rogers Corporation

Bianca Lochner, CIO, City of Scottsdale

Fred Mapp, President & CEO, Quality Service Solutions, LLC

Dan Saltich, CIO, Shamrock Foods Company

Bhavin Shah, CEO & Founder, Moveworks

To learn more about the 2023 Phoenix CIO Executive Leadership Summit and to register for the event, click here.

HMG Strategy will also be hosting its 2023 Dallas CIO Executive Leadership Summit on April 6 at Brookhaven Country Club in Farmers Branch, TX. At this summit, CIOs, CISOs and global technology executives from the Greater Dallas/Fort Worth area will share different ways they are leveraging innovative technologies and partnerships to help support cost containment and to drive business growth.

Distinguished technology executives speaking at the 2023 Dallas CIO Executive Leadership Summit on April 6 will include:

Srini Alagarsamy, VP, Digital Technology, GM Financial

Michael Anderson, Special Agent in Charge, Chicago, FBI

Chris Andrews, CIO, Unleashed Brands

Renee Arrington, President, COO & Director, Pearson Partners International

Saqib E. Awan, Founder & Managing Director, GTM Capital

Patrick Benoit, Global CISO, Brink’s

Nellson Burns, Managing Partner, Destination IT, LLC

Kevin Christ, Partner, Concentre

Mignona Cote, Chief Security Officer, NetApp

Alain Espinosa, Sr. Business Information Security Officer, Rent-A-Center

Edward Gustenhoven, EVP, CIO, Dal-Tile Corporation

Blake Holman, CIO, BBG

Stuart Kippelman, CIO, Commercial Cybersecurity Business Leader, Parsons Corporation

Keith Landau, Chief Technology Director, Information Technology Services, Deloitte

Andy Laudato, COO, The Vitamin Shoppe

Tony Leng, Managing Director, Practice Lead and OMP, Diversified Search

James Parker, CEO, Tangoe

Ajay Patel, VP, Business & Technology Services, Mary Kay, Inc.

Bhavin Shah, Founder & CEO, Moveworks

Tanweer Surve, Control Sr. Officer – Technology CTO (Cloud), Wells Fargo

Gertrude Van Horn, SVP & CIO, NCH Corporation

Denis Zerr, Chief Information & Technology Officer, Radiology Partners

Valued Partners for the 2023 Dallas CIO Executive Leadership Summit include 8×8, Aisera, Akamai, Apptio, Aptum, Aryaka, BetterCloud, Box, Darktrace, Delphix, Fortinet, GTM Capital, LastPass, Moveworks, Netskope, Nutanix, Palo Alto Networks, Ping Identity, RingCentral, SafeGuard Cyber, SAP, SIM Dallas/Fort Worth, Tangoe, Tanium, Tonkean, Upwork, Zoom, and Zscaler.

Recipients of HMG Strategy’s 2023 Global Leadership Institute Awards at the Dallas summit will include:

Mike Anderson, Chief Digital & Information Officer, Netskope

Chris Andrews, CIO, Unleashed Brands

Patrick Benoit, Global Chief Information Security Officer, Brink’s Inc.

Nellson Burns, Co-Owner, Destination IT, LLC

Mignona Cote, Chief Security Officer, NetApp

Stuart Kippelman, CIO & Commercial Cybersecurity Business Leader, Parsons Corporation

Denis Zerr, Chief Information & Technology Officer, Radiology Partners

To learn more about the 2023 Dallas CIO Executive Leadership Summit and to register for the event, click here.

HMG Strategy will also be hosting its 2023 New York CIO Summit with the Global Women in Technology Summit on April 13 at the Harvard Club of New York City. At this event, global business technology executives and industry experts will discuss the importance of demonstrating resilient leadership in the face of economic headwinds.

Elite CIOs and other business technology leaders speaking at the 2023 New York CIO Summit of America with the Global Women in Technology Summit will include:

Beena Ammanath, Executive Director, Global AI Institute, Deloitte

Don Anderson, CIO, Tiger Global Management

Marianne Bachynski, CIO – Investments & Enterprise Systems, Corebridge Financial

Robin Brown, CIO – Protein North America, Cargill

Andrew Campbell, CIO, Terex Corporation

Cindy Finkelman, Managing Director, Alvarez & Marsal

Michael Frankel, Managing Partner, Trajectory Capital Partners

Tsvi Gal, CTO, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center; Board Member, Israel Discount Bank

Kostas Georgakopoulos, Global CTO & CISO, Mondelez International

Ken Grady, CVP & CIO, IDEXX Laboratories

Rocco Grillo, Managing Director – Global Cyber Risk Services & Incident Response Investigation, Alvarez & Marsal

Jamie Head, Chief Digital & Technology Officer, Ocean Spray

Tony Leng, Managing Director, Practice Lead and OMP, Diversified Search

Lesley Ma, VP, CIO and Chief Data Officer, NSF International

Vipul Nagrath, SVP Product Development, ADP

Manik Patil, VP, Modernization, AIG Life & Retirement

Mark Polansky, Executive-in-Residence, HMG Strategy; Former Senior Partner, Korn Ferry

Ramesh Razdan, Global CIO, Bain & Company

John Repko, EVP & CIO, AIG

Asha Saxena, Founder and CEO, Women Leaders in Data & AI

Ken Spangler, EVP IT – CIO Global OpCo Technologies: Express, Ground, Freight, Logistics, FedEx

Cindy Taibi, SVP & CIO, The New York Times Co.

Mark Troller, CIO, Tangoe

Patricia Walsh, SVP and Global Head Data, Digital and IT for Innovative Medicines, Novartis

Cindy Warner, Strategic Board Member, Michigan Economic Development Corporation; CEO/Founder, 360ofme

Angela Yochem, EVP, Chief Transformation and Digital Officer, Novant Health

Gregory Zelo, CIO, Veeco Instruments

Valued Partners for the 2023 New York CIO Summit of America with the Global Women in Technology Summit include 8×8, Aisera, Akamai, Amazon Web Services, BetterCloud, Box, Darktrace, Delphix, Fortinet, Intuitive.Cloud, LastPass, Moveworks, Netskope, Nutanix, Palo Alto Networks, Ping Identity, Prelude Solutions, RingCentral, SafeGuard Cyber, SAP, SIM New York Metro, Tangoe, Tanium, Tonkean, Upwork, Zoom, and Zscaler.

Recipients of HMG Strategy’s 2023 Global Leadership Institute Awards at the 2023 New York CIO Summit of America with the Global Women in Technology Summit will include:

Jamie Head, Chief Digital & Technology Officer, Ocean Spray

David Mahon, Global CISO, Deloitte Global

John Repko, EVP & CIO, AIG

Ken Spangler, EVP IT – CIO Global OpCo Technologies: Express, Ground, Freight, Logistics, FedEx

Angela Yochem, EVP, Chief Transformation and Digital Officer, Novant Health

To learn more about the 2023 New York CIO Summit of America with the Global Women in Technology Summit and to register for the events, click here.

To learn more about HMG Strategy’s upcoming schedule of CIO & CISO summits, click here.

About HMG Strategy 

HMG Strategy is the world’s leading digital platform for technology executives to reimagine the enterprise and reshape the business world. The HMG Strategy global network consists of more than 400,000 CIOs, CTOs, CISOs, CDOs, senior business technology executives, search industry executives, venture capitalists, industry experts and world-class thought leaders.

HMG Strategy’s global media model generates more than one million impressions per week, providing vast opportunities for business technology leaders and sponsor partners to promote themselves and their brands. 

HMG Strategy was founded in 2008 by Hunter Muller, a leadership expert who has worked side-by-side with Fortune 2000 executives with strategic planning and career ascent for the past 30+ years.

HMG Strategy’s regional CIO and CISO Executive Leadership Series, authored books and Digital Resource Center deliver unique, peer-driven guidance from CIOs, CISOs, CTOs, CDOs and technology executives on leadership, innovation, transformation and career ascent.

HMG Strategy offers a range of peer-led advisory services such as its Global CIO & CISO Executive Leadership Alliance (CELA) service which bring together the world’s top CIOs, CISOs and technology executives to brainstorm on the top opportunities and challenges facing them in their roles.

HMG Strategy’s Global Advisory Services are a unique set of peer-driven research services that are designed to keep business technology executives up to speed on the latest leadership, business, technology and global macro-economic trends that are impacting businesses and industries.

To learn more about the 7 Pillars of Trust for HMG Strategy’s unique business model, click here.

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