CIO Leadership: The Steps Needed to Land a Coveted Boardroom Position Will Drive the Discussion at the 2021 HMG Live! Minneapolis CIO Executive Leadership Summit on September 28
Top-tier executives will also explore recommended practices to guard against ransomware attacks
Westport, CT — September 9, 2021 — 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 2021 HMG Live! Minneapolis CIO Executive Leadership Summit on September 28. HMG Strategy’s highly interactive events bring together the world’s most distinguished and innovative security and business technology leaders to discuss the most pressing leadership, strategic, cultural, technology and career challenges and opportunities that they face today – and into the future.
The 2021 HMG Live! Minneapolis CIO Executive Leadership Summit will include insights on what’s needed for CIOs, CISOs and business technology executives to become boardroom-ready, along with the impacts that diversity, equity and inclusion criteria are having on board searches.
“Our research reveals that over the past two years, a growing number of company boards are actively seeking executives with enterprise technology experience to help their organizations successfully navigate the digital pivot and to effectively address cyber threats,” said Hunter Muller President and CEO at HMG Strategy. “Now more than ever, it’s vital for CIOs and business technology executives to be able to communicate effectively with the Board in terms that Board members can understand.”
Sarah Engstrom, CISO and VP IT Security, Productivity & Privacy, CHS Inc.
Tony Leng, Managing Director, Digital Transformation and CIO Practice Lead, Diversified Search
Brian Lillie, Chief Product & Technology Officer and (acting) CIO, Zayo
John McKennell, VP, CISO, ECMC Group
Anne Plese, Senior Director, Product Marketing, Rimini Street
Kacey Sensenich, CTO, Rockingham County Schools
Gary Sorrentino, Chairman of the Zoom CISO Council, Global Deputy CIO, Zoom
Muddu Sudhakar, CEO, Aisera
Kirsten Wolberg, Former CTO and COO, DocuSign
Valued Partners for the 2021 HMG Live! Minneapolis CIO Executive Leadership Summit include Aisera, Akamai, Darktrace, Forescout Technologies, Globant, Horizon3.ai, Illumio, Nutanix, Rimini Street, Inc., RingCentral, Rubrik, SafeGuard Cyber, SIM Minnesota, Skybox Security, Zoom and Zscaler.To learn more about the 2021 HMG Live! Minneapolis CIO Executive Leadership Summit and to register for the event, click here. HMG Strategy will also host its 2021 HMG Live! Detroit CIO Executive Leadership Summit which will be held on September 14. Timely topics to be discussed include the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), edge computing and other advanced technologies that can enable manufacturers to make the pivot to Industry 4.0 while applying these technologies securely; the benefits of embracing a low-code approach to application development and the challenges that must be overcome; along with mastering soft skills for leadership success.Top-tier CIOs and business technology executives speaking at the 2021 HMG Live! Detroit CIO Executive Leadership Summit on September 14 include:
Tamara Faber-Doty, Chief Digital Officer and VP IT, Consumers Energy
Maru Flores, Global Collaboration and Productivity Technology Services, Ford Motor Company
David Franco, Director of Exceptional Academy, Living and Learning Enrichment Center
Dennis Hodges, CIO, Inteva Products LLC
Mike Homant, Director, Enterprise Technology Operations, Department of Innovation and Technology, City of Detroit
David Jackson, Partner, Mercer
Tony Kaczmarek, VP, Product Management, Plex
Thomas Kelly, Executive Director and CEO, Automation Alley
Kelly Knepley, CIO, DexKo Global
Sanjay Kumar, Senior Principal, Siemens Digital Industries
Anne Plese, Senior Director, Product Marketing, Rimini Street
Miroslav Samoylenko, Director of Integration Architecture, Trane Technologies
Brandon Smith, VP of Development, human-I-T
Matthew Thomas, Managing Director, Accenture
Valued Partners for the 2021 HMG Live! Detroit CIO Executive Leadership Summit include, Akamai, Apptio, Auth0, BetterCloud, Darktrace, Forescout Technologies, Globant, Horizon3.ai, Illumio, NPower, Nutanix, Rimini Street, RingCentral, SafeGuard Cyber, SentinelOne, SIM Detroit, Skybox Security, Zoom and Zscaler.To learn more about the 2021 HMG Live! Detroit CIO Executive Leadership Summit and to register for the event, click here.HMG Strategy’s 2021 HMG Live! Global CISO Executive Leadership Summit will be held on September 15. Timely topics to be discussed include the fresh skillsets that are needed to safeguard the enterprise now and into the future along with effective communication skills for educating the Board on the changing risk environment.World-class CISOs and industry executives speaking at the 2021 HMG Live! Global CISO Executive Leadership Summit on September 15 will include:
Abhishek Agarwal, CISO, Fresenius Medical Care North America
Michael Coden, Platinion Managing Director, Boston Consulting Group
Mike Coogan, Director of Information Security and CISO, Waste Management
Mignona Cote, Head of Security, AWS Global and Strategic Accounts, Amazon Web Services
Rocco Grillo, Managing Director – Global Cyber Risk Services & Incident Response Investigation, Alvarez & Marsal
Fred Harris, Head of Cybersecurity Risk, Data Risk and IT Risk, Societe Generale Corporate and Investment Banking
Wanda Jones-Heath, CISO/DAF Principal Cyber Advisor, U.S. Air Force
Steve Katz, Owner, Security Risk Solutions, LLC
Susan Koski, Head of Security & Enterprise Response, The PNC Financial Services Group
Tomas Maldonado, CISO, National Football League
Israel Martinez, Industry Advisor, U.S. Department of Homeland Security
Shamla Naidoo, Head of Cloud Strategy, Netskope; Board Director, QBE, SAC and Reference Point
Frank Price, SVP & Chief Information Risk Officer, Hudson’s Bay Company
Jim Routh, Board Member, Advisor, Investor; Former CSO, CISO
Larkin Ryder, Director of Product Security, Slack
James Shira, U.S. Chief Information & Technology Officer, PwC
Todd Thorsen, Director of Information Security, Risk Management and Compliance, Code42
Mike Towers, CISO, Takeda Pharmaceuticals International, Inc.
Melissa Vice, Chief Operations Officer, Vulnerability Disclosure Program, DoD Cyber Crime Center
Steve Winterfeld, Advisory CISO, Akamai
Valued Partners for the 2021 HMG Live! Global CISO Executive Leadership Summit include Akamai, Auth0, BetterCloud, Code42, Darktrace, Forescout Technologies, Globant, Horizon3.ai, Illumio, Nutanix, Qnext, RingCentral, SafeGuard Cyber, Skybox Security, Slack, Zoom and Zscaler.To learn more about the 2021 HMG Live! Global CISO Executive Leadership Summit and to register for the event, click here.HMG Strategy will also be hosting its 2021 HMG Live! Phoenix CIO Executive Leadership Summit on September 16. Timely topics to be discussed include recommendations to identify and execute on new opportunities for digital disruption, along with insights on how best to address ransomware attacks – and whether organizations should be paying cyber-criminals.Top-tier CIOs and business technology executives speaking at the 2021 HMG Live! Phoenix CIO Executive Leadership Summit on September 16 will include:
Grant Asplund, Growth Technologies Evangelist, Check Point Software Technologies, Inc.
Benjamin Bingham, Senior Cybersecurity Executive for a Major Las Vegas Gaming/Entertainment Establishment
Stefanie Causey, Associate Partner, Salesforce Consulting Services – Financial Services Sector IBM Global Business Services
Max Chan, CIO, Avnet
James Costello, CISO, Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold
Ricoh Danielson, Cyber Security Incident Response, Digital Forensic, and Insider Risk
Gary Desai, CIO, Discount Tire
Frank Grimmelmann, President & CEO/Intelligence Liaison Officer, Arizona Cyber Threat Response Alliance
Firasat Hussain, CTO, arrivia
Nilesh Joshi, Vice President and Head of IT, Global Nephrology Solutions
Rob Lloyd, CIO, City of San Jose
Bianca Lochner, CIO, City of Scottsdale
Jeff McKibben, CIO, Ultra Clean Technologies
Craig Moringiello, Assistant Special Agent in Charge, FBI Phoenix Cyber/Counter Intelligence/Technology
Pat Phelan, VP Market Research, Rimini Street
Rich Phillips, Senior Principal Security Architect, ON Semiconductor
Peter Robinson, VP of Global Applications and Digital, Avnet
Atul Sahai, SVP, Strategy and Operations, Ally.io
Kacey Sensenich, CTO, Rockingham County Schools
Muddu Sudhakar, CEO, Aisera
Melissa Vice, Interim Director, Vulnerability Disclosure Program, DoD Cyber Crime Center
Mark Wittenburg, CIO, City of Tempe
Valued Partners for the 2021 HMG Live! Phoenix CIO Executive Leadership Summit include Aisera, Akamai, Ally.io, Arizona Technology Council, BetterCloud, Check Point Software, Darktrace, Forescout Technologies, Globant, Horizon3.ai, Illumio, Nutanix, Rimini Street, Inc., RingCentral, SafeGuard Cyber, SIM Arizona, Skybox Security, Zoom and Zscaler.
To learn more about the 2021 HMG Live! Phoenix CIO Executive Leadership Summit and to register for the event, click here.
To learn about all of HMG Strategy’s Upcoming CIO & CISO Summits, click here.
HMG STRATEGY’S UPCOMING WEBINARS AND DIGITAL ROUNDTABLES
On September 13, HMG Strategy will be hosting a webinar powered by Google Cloud on `Reimagining the Business Through Application Innovation.’In this event, which will feature Emmanuel Salazar Dominguez, IT Director at Banco Azteca; Chris Hood, Head of Business Platform Strategy at Google Cloud; Ramesh Razdan, Global CIO at Bain & Company; and Ken Russell, Chief Innovation Officer at Curran Biotech, the speakers will explore how application innovation can help fuel collaboration, deliver personalized and insight-driven experiences and provide companies with a competitive edge.
To learn more about this event and to register, click here.
To learn more about HMG Strategy’s archived and upcoming webinars, click here.
HMG STRATEGY’S 2021 GLOBAL LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE AWARDS
The HMG Strategy 2021 Global Leadership Institute Awards honor exemplary technology leaders and leadership teams who are delivering exceptional value to their organizations. This award recognizes those who have reimagined and reinvented themselves to place their organizations on the fast track to groundbreaking transformation in dynamic times. Technology executives and their teams who receive these awards are being recognized for accomplishments in the following areas: Diversity, Equity and Inclusion; Leading into the C-suite; Creating New Go-to-Market Business Models; Modernizing Enterprise Architecture; and Building a Culture of Trust.
To learn more about HMG Strategy’s 2021 Global Leadership Institute Awards and to nominate a deserving executive, click here.
About HMG Strategy
HMG Strategy is the world’s leading digital platform for connecting 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 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 and virtual 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 research services such as its CIO & CISO Executive Leadership Alliance (CELA) program 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 Research Stack is a unique set of research services that are designed to keep business technology executives up to speed on the latest and global geo-economic trends that are impacting businesses and industries.
HMG Ventures is a venture capital unit that’s designed to connect CIOs, CTOs, CISOs and other technology executives with innovative early-stage technology companies from Silicon Valley to Tel Aviv. HMG Ventures provides technology executives with a window into hot emerging technology companies that can help move the needle for their businesses while also offering these executives unparalleled personal investment opportunities. One early-stage investment in an enterprise-level AI-powered service management provider has generated a 100X return.
HMG Strategy also produces the HMG Security Innovation Accelerator Panel, a new webinar series that’s designed to connect enterprise technology and security leaders with the most innovative technology and cybersecurity companies from across the world.
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