The CIO Executive Leadership Summit delivers world class thought leadership in a club-like setting where attendees will receive unique insights into best practices and will hear success stories involving leadership, management, technology and career development.
Highly interactive sessions will provide many opportunities for attendees, speakers and panelists to be engaged in both learning and discussion. The objective for the day is to deliver high quality useful information that attendees can develop into an action plan.
Key Areas of Focus Include:
• Strategy, Process Improvement and Alignment
• Innovation and Technology
• Career Management and Leadership Development
Thomas Anderson
Senior Director
Accenture
Ted Colbert
President & CEO, Boeing Global Services
President & CEO
The Boeing Company
Mark Griesbaum
Managing Partner
RLF Leadership Program Marketing and Sales
Daphne Jones
Board of Directors AMN Healthcare, Barnes Group, Inc. and Masonite International
Founder
Destiny Transformations Group
Susan Malisch
VP & CIO
Loyola University Chicago
Paul Martin
Former SVP & CIO (Retired)
and Board of Directors, Unisys Corporation, Owens Corning and Ping Identity
Baxter International
Hunter Muller
Founder & CEO
HMG Strategy
Preston Simons
Chief Information Officer
Verily Life Sciences, An Alphabet Company
Mary Acuna
Customer Operations
University of Wisconsin-Whitewater
Waqas Akkawi
Global Chief Information Security Officer
SIRVA Worldwide
Patricia Anderson
CIO
Golden Clover, Inc.
Snehal Antani
Co-Founder & CEO
Horizon3.ai
Renee Arrington
President, COO & Director
Pearson Partners International, Inc.
Christine Atkins
Principal
Atkins & Cameron Consulting LLC
Ellen Barry
Principal
The EBarry Group
David Baruch
CIO
Spencer Stuart
Dave Bent
Sr. VP, EM Global, Global Information Solutions
Avnet, Inc.
Scot Berkey
CTL/CTO, Business Development
Kyndryl
Jason Birnbaum
SVP Digital Technology
United Airlines, Inc.
Bill Blount
Chief Information Officer
VelocityEHS
Mark Booth
Chief Information Officer
Perdue Farms
Bill Bradford
Principal
Ft. Sheridan Group, LLC
Alwin Brunner
SVP & CIO, Knowledge Management
Heidrick & Struggles
Monica Caldas
EVP, Global Deputy Chief Information Officer
Liberty Mutual Insurance
Tom Coleman
CIO & Process Officer
Sloan Global Holdings
Jeffrey Davies
Chief Information Officer Advisor, Consultant
Jason DeHaan
CIO
Gildan
Nick DiGioia
Senior Director, IT
Tampico Beverages
Paul Douglas
EVP Corporate Technology Services
Alight Solutions
Ed Earl
VP & Chief Information Officer
Federal Signal Corporation
Vince Fattore
CIO/Director of IT
Temperature Equipment Corporation
Dale Forbes
Enterprise Leader Applications Partner
Kevin Glynn
Managing Principal
The Laminar Group LLC
Laszlo Gonc
Co-Founder & Managing Partner, CIO, CISO
Next Era Transformation Group
Randy Gross
CISO
CompTIA
Dean Haacker
Chief Technology Officer
Metropolitan Capital
Robin Hamerlinck
VP & CIO
Shure, Inc.
Bill Haser
Executive IT Consultant
Haser Consulting
Rosalee Hermens
Operating Partners
Northleaf Capital Partners
Cynthia Herrera Lindstrom
Assistant Vice Chancellor and Chief Information Officer
University of Illinois at Chicago
Clay Johnson
Chief Digital & Technology Officer
Yum! Brands
Andy Jurczyk
CIO
Seyfarth Shaw LLP
Neal Kaderabek
SVP of IT
CMCU
Jeffrey Kane
Former Director, Operations Delivery Services
SDI Solutions
Paul Karras
CIO
Hu-Friedy Mfg. Co., LLC
Alison Kassel
CIO, Workforce Management Group
TrueBlue, Inc.
Michael Kennaugh
SVP & CIO Reyes Coca-Cola Division
Reyes Holdings
Rick Klotz
CIO
Altra Industrial Motion Corp.
Bob Kress
Managing Director, Accenture Security
Accenture
Jack Leifel
Principal
Leifel Consulting, LLC
Ron Lejcar
Global CIO
Ingredion Incorporated
Tony Leng
Managing Director, Practice Lead and OMP
Diversified Search
Shari Levandowski
VP IT Services
Reedy Industries
Jean Luber
VP IT
MYR Group
Pamela Masello
Senior Consultant
CTS Impact
Gary Matula
CIO
Koch Industries
Rob McGillen
Director, Office of the CIO Services
CBIZ CMF, LLC
Bernadette McMahon
Senior Enterprise Project Manager
Jenzabar
Bud McQuade
Vice President of Information Technology
Duracell
John Moon
VP & CIO
Johnson Outdoors Inc.
Peter Nagle
Director of IT
Draper and Kramer
David Otte
COO
Bond, Schoeneck & King PLLC
Mark Otten
Director of Information Technology
Truck Accessories Group, LLC
Mike Ouska
Former CIO
Lutheran Social Services of Illinois
Bruce Peterson
CIO
Uline Shipping Supplies
John Phillips
President & CIO
Briggs Healthcare
Mark Polansky
Senior Partner, Technology & Digital Officers Practice
Korn Ferry
Jeffrey Robinson
Director BTS, Enterprise Data & Integration Services
AbbVie
Armin Roeseler
CIO & Managing Partner
Fortacs Group
Simona Rollinson
CEO
ISACA
Robert Sarkis
Consultant/CIO
Transformation Xperts Corp
Bruce Schinelli
VP IT & CIO
TTX Company
Yvonne Scott
CIO
Crowe Horwath LLP
Eric Sigurdson
CIO Practice Leader
Russell Reynolds Associates
Curtis Spall
Vice President and Chief Information Technology Officer
BrightStar Care
Lachlan Tidmarsh
Chief Information Officer
Blue Cross Blue Shield
Gustav Toppenberg, Ph.D.
Chief Architect
Boston Consulting Group
Jason Van Den Eeden
CTO
Oak Street Health
Tim Walter
CIO & SVP
Randa Accessories
Chris Walter
CIO
Central Garden & Pet
Creighton Warren
VP and Chief Information Officer
TreeHouse Foods
Leslie Weber
CIO
AMA
Jim Wisnionski
SVP of Operations and CIO
Kingsbridge Holdings
Wendy Woodward
CIO
Wheaton College
Eric Yablonka
CIO & Associate Dean, School of Medicine
Stanford University
Frank Yanan
SVP, GIS Business Information Security Officer (BISO)
Bank of America
Mike Zanillo
Community Outreach Coordinator
Citizens' Climate Lobby
Waqas Akkawi
Global Chief Information Security Officer
SIRVA Worldwide
Waqas is responsible for delivering global information security and privacy protection values to clients globally by partnering with business executives focusing on global brand value, data protection and enterprise risk management. Akkawi has been instrumental in positioning SIRVA as an industry leader in information security and privacy protection through his vision for continuous innovation in risk-based enterprise management. His principle-centered security leadership is based on the ability to execute and deliver strong business value through cybersecurity architecture, and advanced threat protection using big data analytics. He strongly believes that data privacy and cybersecurity are key business brand differentiators, especially in the era of a global interconnected economy.
Akkawi is a recognized thought leader in the industry of information security. Business executives and security partners alike seek his advice and opinion at roundtables and conferences for IT governance, privacy and cybersecurity strategy. He has been recognized by CSO Magazine and IDS Enterprise with the CSO50 prestigious award for security initiatives that demonstrated outstanding business value and thought leadership.. He has also received nominations for CISO of the Year Chicago 2014 by ISSA & AITP and 2014 Top 10 Breakaway Leaders in Security by Evanta. He co-authored “Protecting Critical Data in the Age of Global Mobility” for Mobility Magazine.
Akkawi earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Management from National Louis University in Chicago, Illinois and holds a Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications Certification from DePaul University in Chicago, Illinois. He holds certifications in Information Systems Audit and Control Association (ISACA) Certified Information Security Manger (CISM) and Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL). Waqas speaks fluent Arabic.
Patricia Anderson
CIO
Golden Clover, Inc.
Renee Arrington
President, COO & Director
Pearson Partners International, Inc.
Ellen Barry
Principal
The EBarry Group
Bob Bruns
Chief Information Officer & Chief Information Security Officer
Avanade
As Avanade Chief Information Officer and Chief Information Security Officer, Bob Bruns is responsible for driving Avanade IT to be the leading digital innovator in the Microsoft ecosystem and for delivering the technology capabilities that power the company’s people and operations worldwide. In his CISO capacity, he has responsibility for protecting Avanade internally and partnering with clients to ensure all information security obligations are met.
Ted Colbert
President & CEO, Boeing Global Services
President & CEO
The Boeing Company
Ted Colbert is executive vice president of The Boeing Company and president and chief executive officer of Boeing Global Services. He is a member of Boeing’s Executive Council.
Colbert was named president and chief executive officer of Global Services in October 2019. He is responsible for leading Boeing’s aerospace services development and delivery model for commercial and government customers worldwide, focused on four capability areas: Supply Chain; Engineering, Modifications and Maintenance; Digital Solutions and Analytics; and Training and Professional Services. Global Services offers customers lifecycle solutions regardless of platform manufacturer to accelerate delivery schedules, reduce operational costs and enhance operational efficiencies. Global Services has more than 300 locations in more than 70 countries.
Previously, Colbert was chief information officer and senior vice president of Information Technology & Data Analytics. In this role, he led all aspects of information technology, information security, data and analytics. He also supported the growth of Boeing's business through IT- and analytics-related revenue generating programs.
Prior to his role as CIO, he led Boeing’s Information Technology Infrastructure organization where he was responsible for developing and maintaining network, computing, server, storage, collaboration and infrastructure solutions across the enterprise. Before that, he led the IT Business Systems organization where he managed the computing application systems that support Boeing Finance, Human Resources, Corporate and Commercial Capital Business Units, as well as the company’s internal systems.
Prior to joining Boeing in 2009, Colbert was senior vice president of Enterprise Architecture at Citigroup. Before that, he spent 11 years in Ford Motor Company’s Information Technology organization where he held roles of increasing responsibility in the areas of program management, infrastructure engineering and operations, application development, portfolio management and process reengineering.
Colbert completed the Dual Degree Engineering Program at the Georgia Institute of Technology and Morehouse College with degrees in Industrial and Systems Engineering and Interdisciplinary Science. He is a member of the Executive Leadership Council (ELC) and serves on the Board of Directors for the Thurgood Marshall College Fund, Georgia Tech Advisory Board and New Leaders.
Colbert’s recent accomplishments include becoming the first recipient of the Fisher Center prize for Excellence in Driving Transformation from the Fisher Center For Business Analytics at Berkeley; winning the 2018 Forbes CIO Innovation Award; recognition as one of the Most Powerful Executives in Corporate America by Black Enterprise magazine in 2017; 2017 Morehouse College Bennie Leadership Award for Excellence in Business; recognition as the 2016 National Society of Black Engineers Golden Torch Legacy Award winner; recognition as the HMG Strategy 2016 CIO of the Year; and, being named a 2015 Ebony Power 100 honoree.
Jane Gilligan Hamner
Co-Founder
ARA
Laszlo Gonc
Co-Founder & Managing Partner, CIO, CISO
Next Era Transformation Group
Mark Griesbaum
Managing Partner
RLF Leadership Program Marketing and Sales
Mark Griesbaum is the Managing Partner of affinITy4U, LLC since November, 2014. affinITy4U, LLC is focused in the following key areas: IT Strategy/Vision Development, Operational Integration, Top Line Revenue Growth, and Executive Leadership Development. Mark was the Senior Vice President of Business Operations at TCS Education System (TCS ES) from 2010-2015. Mark oversaw marketing, admissions operations, instructional design, student management, information technology, international services, and the learning management system for online-blended programs of TCS ES affiliates, which included The Chicago School of Professional Psychology, Pacific Oaks College, and The Santa Barbara and Ventura Colleges of Law. Mark joined TCS ES as President of TCS Online in 2010. Prior to joining TCS ES, Mark was Executive Vice President and Chief Information Officer for Cardean Learning Group. Prior to Cardean, Mark was Chief Information Officer at Career Education Corporation, where he engineered a world class IT that was leveraged to grow the organization from $200 million in revenue to over $2.0 Billion in a five (5) year period. Mr. Griesbaum’s award-winning leadership was acknowledged by Computerworld Magazine, where he was recognized as one of Computerworld’s “Premier 100 IT Leaders 2006.”
Ina Kamenz
Former SVP & CIO
Eli Lilly and Company
Ina Kamenz is the former senior vice president and chief information officer (CIO) for Eli Lilly and Company. She is responsible for leading the global Lilly IT function that drives innovation throughout the organization. She is establishing a long-term strategic IT plan for Lilly, ensuring information technology is being optimally leveraged across the organization’s five Global Business Units plus Manufacturing, and Research and Development to improve operational efficiency globally. Before joining Lilly in May 2014, Ina was vice president and CIO at Thermo Fisher Scientific. With responsibility for the company’s global information technology, including IT / business relationship management organizations for four groups and 14 divisions, Ina implemented a highly successful IT transformation strategy, replacing an inefficient decentralized organization with a shared services model, driving down costs 30 percent while increasing infrastructure performance for increased systems demand. Prior to joining Thermo Fisher, Ina served as vice president and CIO for Tyco International. In that position, she provided leadership to the company’s Chief Information Officer Council and led the IT organization through the separation of a $40 billion company into three publicly traded organizations while achieving adherence to new regulatory compliance mandates. Previously, Ina was a senior vice president and chief information officer at Marriott International. During her time at Marriott, she was the CIO for the Senior Living Services and Courtyard / Fairfield Inn divisions, where she had accountability for support of six brands in 800 hotel and senior living residential facilities. She led the development and execution of the IT strategy and plan to support business transformation and new product innovation to create Marriott Lodging. Ina holds a bachelor of science in mathematics and biology from Wake Forest University, and an MBA from Queens University. She has also participated in the Executive Development Program at the Colgate Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia. Recognized as a thought leader in systems development methodology and program management, Ina has published articles and delivered keynote presentations at industry events. She is currently an advisory board member with Globespan Venture Capital.
Bob Kress
Managing Director, Accenture Security
Accenture
Bob Kress is the Managing Director of Global IT Audit in Accenture’s Internal Audit organization that supports the $32 billion company and its 375,000 employees working in 120 countries. Bob has responsibility for identifying, evaluating, and reporting on the full range of client facing and internal technology, financial, and operational risk to Accenture senior leadership and the Audit Committee of the Board of Directors.
Prior to this Bob was the COO in Accenture’s high performance Internal IT organization responsible for leading the IT transformation and running IT like a business, including Strategy, Planning, Risk, and all IT operations.
He has published two books, Running IT like a Business, and IT Governance to Drive High Performance: Lessons from Accenture. He has most recently published an article on Transforming the IT Audit Function – Taking the Digital Journey.
Bob is a member of The Economic Club of Chicago, The Executives Club of Chicago and co-chair of the Technology Committee, Chairman of i.c.stars (non-profit) Board of Directors, and Chairman of the Advisory Board for the College of Engineering at The University of Iowa.
Bob holds a bachelor’s degree in physics from Loras College in Dubuque, Iowa, and a master of business administration degree from the University of Iowa.
Tony Leng
Managing Director, Practice Lead and OMP
Diversified Search
Tony Leng is a Managing Director of Diversified Search and leads the firm’s Digital Transformation and CIO practice from its San Francisco office. Previously, Tony was Managing Partner of Hodge Partners. Tony has conducted many “C” level searches for organizations where leaders are transforming/building organizations that are taking advantage of digital technologies. He has conducted “C” level searches conducted for organizations such as Aurora Healthcare, Axalta, Catholic Health Initiatives, Blue Shield of California, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan, Delta Dental, Dignity Health, Esurance, Kaiser Permanente, Novant Health, PG&E, Polycom, Sutter Health, Symmetricom, TE Connectivity, and Wellmark.
Prior to his executive search experience, Tony was a Board member of three public companies and CEO of a $600 million Public Company. Before that, Tony ran a $1 billion division of a telephone company focused on corporate users and had responsibility for all data services and networking products. While at the telephone company, he was founder and Chairman of its ISP and a board member of its 2 million-subscriber cell phone subsidiary.
Tony uses his operating experience from being a CEO, financial background as a CPA and CA, and technical knowledge from the work that he has done for Tech companies to drill down and understand at a nuanced level what his clients are seeking to achieve as they build their teams. He has written numerous papers on technology leadership and the challenges facing technology leaders today and authors a blog, ‘Resources for the Modern CIO” (www.tonyleng.com).
The core of Tony’s consulting has been with senior leaders who are seeking to transform their organizations as they face a future of rapid change, digitization, regulation, shifting markets, and increasingly connected and informed customers.
Tony has facilitated the Fisher CIO Forum for the past 12 years. The Forum is a monthly venue for CIO’s and CTO’s to discuss topics of relevance in their daily lives, and has afforded these leaders the opportunity to develop a close network to discuss current challenges in a peer group environment on a confidential basis. Participating companies have included: Blue Shield, Clorox, Cost Plus, Delta Dental, Dignity Health, Esurance, Facebook, FitBit, Franklin Templeton, Gap, Genentech, Kaiser Permanente, Levi Strauss, McKesson, Macys.com, Matson, Mulesoft, Okta, PG&E, Restoration Hardware, Ross Stores, Safeway, Salesforce.com, Schwab, Splunk, Uber, VMWare, and Williams-Sonoma among others.
Tony received a Bachelor of Commerce (with honors), University of Cape Town, South Africa and is a Chartered Accountant and CPA.
Matthew Mandich
Vice President
Info-Tech Research Group
Matthew Mandich is a Vice President with Info-Tech’s Strategy & Innovation Lab with extensive experience in assisting private and public sector organizations take new approaches to managing the IT organization with a focus on data driven IT performance management.
Matthew holds an Honors Distinction HBA from the Richard Ivey School of Business at the University of Western Ontario with a focus on financial modeling & economics.
Mr. Mandich brings value as a business solution architect where his unique blend of consulting and operating experience helps build pragmatic solutions to complex problems. Combined with his depth of experience in the IT application and technology space, Mr. Mandich provides companies the critical support needed to bridge the gaps between business strategy and technology enablement - projects that deliver on their promises.
Greg Meyers
Corporate VP & CIO
Motorola Solutions, Inc.
Greg Meyers is corporate vice president and chief information officer for Motorola Solutions. He is responsible for leading the company’s IT organization, including customer-facing digital systems, internal technology and information security.
Before joining Motorola Solutions in 2014, Meyers led Business IT for Biogen, and before that, he held a combination of sales, marketing and IT roles at companies such as Novartis, Johnson & Johnson and PricewaterhouseCoopers.
Meyers holds a bachelor’s degree in Marketing from Rutgers University and a master’s degree in business administration from Temple University.
Hunter Muller
Founder & 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 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.
Michael Phillips
EVP & CISO
Rosenthal Collins Group, LLC
Michael Phillips is the Executive Vice President and Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at Rosenthal Collins Group, LLC. In this capacity, he serves as Co-Executive of the Information Technology Group and senior advisor to the Chairman / CEO, providing insights on various aspects of Operational Risk Management, including Information Assurance and Privacy.
Owner of the consulting practice, Luminant Group, LLC he specializes as a virtual Chief Information Security Officer (vCISO) for small to medium-sized businesses that cannot afford to put someone full-time on staff to handle cyber security and regulatory compliance matters. In this capacity, advises executives to develop information security strategy, perform risk assessments, build cyber security programs, develop company-wide policies and work with on-site teams to implement remediation efforts.
Prior to joining RCG, Michael served in several Information Security Executive roles including the Assistant Vice President & Information Security Officer (ISO) of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago and the Director of IT Security for the Americas at UBS (formerly Swiss Bank Corp.).
Michael received his first Technology Degree from DeVry Institute of Technology, a Bachelor’s Degree in Communications & Computer Sciences from Northwestern University and a Master’s Degree in Business Administration from the Northwestern Kellogg Graduate School of Management.
An active member of InfraGard, High Tech Crime Consortium, Chicago Electronic Crimes Task Force, etc., Michael also holds the C|CISO, CISSP, CISA, NSA IAM Certifications and serves on the Board of Directors of the Arts & Business Council of Chicago.
Allison Radecki
CIO
Beam Suntory Inc.
Allison Radecki was appointed Chief Information Officer at Beam Suntory Inc., the world’s third largest premium spirits company, in November 2013. In this role, she is responsible for the IT function globally, including strategic planning, project delivery, operations, security, controls and compliance. She is charged with leading the IT team to be a competitive asset for the company by focusing resources and prioritizing initiatives that deliver the greatest opportunities for revenue growth and improved business performance. Allison joined Beam Suntory following a two decade-long career in IT strategy, business transformation and systems integration.
Prior to joining Beam Suntory, she served as Senior Director Information Systems, Global Integrated Supply Chain, for Mondelez International, the $35 billion global snacks company, which until 2012, was previously known as Kraft Foods. Prior to joining Kraft in 2011, Allison spent ten years at GS1 US as Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer. She was responsible for building the technology strategy to align to and achieve the organization’s goals.
Allison began her career in management consulting at PricewaterhouseCoopers where she spent ten years specializing in supply chain management process re-engineering and information systems implementation for the consumer products industry.
Allison received her Bachelor of Science degree in Industrial Engineering from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. She lives in Chicago and enjoys running, cooking, spending time with her husband, Steve, and their three daughters, Madeline (13), Claire (11) and Isabelle (8).
Kurt Roemer
Chief Security Strategist
Citrix Systems, Inc.
As Chief Security Strategist for Citrix, Kurt Roemer leads the security, compliance, risk and privacy strategies for Citrix products. As a member of the Citrix CTO Council, Roemer drives ideation, innovation and technical direction for products and solutions that advance business productivity while ensuring information governance.
An information services veteran with more than 25 years experience, his credentials include the Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) designation. He also served as Commissioner for the US public-sector CLOUD2 initiative and led efforts to develop the PCI Security Standards Council Virtualization Guidance Information Supplement for the payment card industry while serving on the Board of Advisors. Roemer is an active member of the ETSI Network Function Virtualization (NFV) specification team, and is the Rapporteur for developing NFV Security and Trust Guidance.
Simona Rollinson
CEO
ISACA
Laura Sanchez
CEO
SWATware, LLC
Laura Sanchez is the founder and CEO of SWATware LLC, a fullservice Information Technology (IT) firm that delivers comprehensive IT and Web solutions, with a focus in Cyber Security. With over ten years of experience as a consultant, Laura has assisted numerous businesses in improving their online presence, while at the same time improving the security and reliability of their IT infrastructure. She is one of the few existing Latina entrepreneurs in Chicago’s Technology field, combining her quality services and passion for IT by sharing her experience with small business owners in various capacities. Laura has utilized her proficiency in both English and Spanish to perform work internationally and is well recognized for her expertise in the IT field. She has spoken for the City of Chicago (BACP), the IHCC (Illinois Hispanic Chamber of Commerce), WBDC, UNAM Chicago, HACIA, HispanicPro, Verizon and other organizations dedicated to educational and economic development that encourage the proper use of technology both professionally and personally.
Laura received her Master’s degree in Innovation and Business Development from the Tec de Monterrey, one of the top universities in Mexico. She graduated Summa Cum Laude when receiving her undergraduate degree in International Business and Marketing. In 2013, Laura was awarded the Nueva Latina Estrella in the Technology category by Verizon, and was an honorable mention recipient for the 2013 Enterprising Women of the Year Awards by Enterprising Women Magazine that same year. These awards are meant to honor women business owners who have demonstrated high potential‐growth and stand out as leaders in their communities. In addition to this Laura has been feature on TV by Univision, Telemundo and ABC7, as well as in local radio stations and newspapers such as Hoy and Negocios Now and the national publication Latino Leaders Magazine.
Irwin Teodoro
National Practice Director - Data Center Transformation
Insight
As the national director of Datalink’s data center transformation practice, Irwin is responsible for defining the services offering and delivery practices for data center moves, consolidations, and migrations. Under his leadership, consulting teams plan, design, and manage related efforts for mid- and large-size organizations.
Irwin joined Datalink in 2011 and has a career’s worth of IT consulting and professional services experience. Prior to Datalink, Irwin has held executive and mid-level leadership positions at Glasshouse Technologies, Laurus Technologies, EMC, and Comdisco.
Howard Tullman
Executive Director
Ed Kaplan Family Institute for Innovation and Tech Entrepreneurship
Howard A. Tullman was the CEO of 1871 in Chicago – where digital startups get their start – and the General Managing Partner for the Chicago High Tech Investment Partners, LLC and for G2T3V, LLC – both Chicago-based venture capital funds, and the executive chairman of Music Dealers. He most recently was the Chairman/CEO of Tribeca Flashpoint Media Arts Academy which he co-founded in 2007. He is the former President of Kendall College in Chicago and the former Chairman/CEO of Experiencia, Inc. He is also the Chairman of the Endowment Committee of Anshe Emet Synagogue, a member of Mayor Emanuel's ChicagoNEXT and Cultural Affairs Councils, a member of Governor Quinn's Illinois Innovation and Arts Councils, a member of President Preckwinkle’s New Media Council, an Advisory Board member of HighTower Associates, Built in Chicago, The Starter School, Imerman Angels, and uBID.COM and an Adjunct Professor at Northwestern's Kellogg School as well as a regular guest lecturer at the Northwestern University School of Law. Mr. Tullman also serves as a Director of Vehcon, SnapSheet, Music Dealers, BCV Evolve, MarkITx and PackBack Books and served as a long-time Director and Board Chairman of The Cobalt Group, a Trustee of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago and of the New York Academy of Art and the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University, and as the lead Director (and briefly Chairman) of The Princeton Review. Over the last 45 years, he has successfully founded more than a dozen high-tech companies.
Wendy White Eagle
Founder & CEO
Native Capital Investment, Inc.
Wendy K. White Eagle, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Native Capital Investment, Inc., currently leads business development and fund management activities. As member of the Ho-Chunk Nation, she has first-hand knowledge of Tribal operations from strategic planning to business development. With more than 20 years of business building experience in the utility, financial, and manufacturing sectors specialization is in helping companies build high performing processes to actualize business impact.
Ms. White Eagle is skilled at integrating various strategic approaches – from Six Sigma to Customer Relationship Management – into organizational culture. She has been intimately involved in the creation of organizational approaches that augment capital infusion and has served to bring core competencies into alignment with these strategy directions. In addition to large corporate experience, she has been involved in circles of worldwide thought leadership in SustainAble Business and mindful development.
Ms. White Eagle graduated from Edgewood College with a BS in Communications and has completed graduate work at the Center for Quality and Productivity, School of Business, University of Wisconsin-Madison. She has also served in many Boards of Directors with most recent volunteer activity in the area of metric impact reporting in the non-profit sector.
Frank Yanan
SVP, GIS Business Information Security Officer (BISO)
Bank of America
Frank is an SVP / Business Information Security Officer for Bank of America where he manages risk for key client facing applications and lines of business.
Prior to the Bank, Frank was Global Head of Security Operations for Zurich Insurance. At Zurich, he set the vision & strategy for Zurich’s global security toolkit and oversaw its daily operation. He also led Zurich’s Identity Administration Management team.
Throughout his career, Frank has held several impactful IT Leadership positions, including CIO for Barrington Capital, Head of Global Applications for Hewitt, Chief Delivery Officer for Sears and SVP / Practice Lead at The Revere Group, an IT consulting firm. He holds a Bachelor's Degree in Economics from Northwestern University and is active in a number of professional organizations, including the Association for Information Technology Professionals and the Society for Information Management.
Nicole Yeary
Founder & CEO
Ms. Tech CO.
7:00 AM - 8:00 AM |
Registration, Continental Breakfast and Networking |
8:00 AM - 8:10 AM |
Welcome and Introduction Hunter Muller, President & CEO, HMG Strategy, LLC |
8:10 AM - 9:10 AM |
EXECUTIVE KEYNOTE: Rethinking the IT Function for the Next Era of the Digital Age Don Tapscott, Digital Strategist and CEO, The Tapscott Group, and bestselling author - most recently Blockchain Revolution: How the Technology Behind Bitcoin is Changing Money, Business, and the World The technology likely to have the greatest impact on the enterprise and the global economy has arrived, and it’s notable data, artificial intelligence, self-driving cars or solar energy. It’sthe Blockchain. The first generation of the digital revolution brought us the Internet of information. The second generation—powered by blockchain technology—is bringing us the Internet of value: a new, distributed platform that can help us reshape the world of business and transform the old order of human affairs for the better. Don Tapscott, arguably the world’s leading authority on the digital age, argues that blockchain technology will transform financial services, but also the deep architecture of the corporation, animate the internet of things, recast the role of government, and fix the music industry, among others.He argues that the second era of the internet has profound implications for IT strategy and architecture, and leadership.A new kind of courageous CIO is needed and new kinds of collaborations between leaders in IT and the rest of the business. This executive keynote will be followed by Hunter Muller interviewing Don Tapscott to uncover the key take aways from this discussion. |
9:10 AM - 9:30 AM |
Coffee Break, Networking and Meet Our Partners |
9:30 AM - 10:10 AM |
EXECUTIVE KEYNOTE: Accelerating Transformation… with Data Matthew Mandich, Director, Innovation & Strategy, Info-Tech Research Group Despite a global IT spend of over $4 Trillion, 67% of CEOs & CIOs are misaligned on how IT should be enabling the business*.. With the dramatic increase in digital technology & the business’s appetite to understand and enable their own innovations through technology, CIOs are challenged with the need to rapidly understand business inputs, stakeholder satisfaction, and assess their own teams internal capabilities. Info-Tech has found too often this is done through ad-hoc and informal processes, making improvement hard to measure, and success impossible to define. A new model is needed to enable the CIO to rapidly make decisions, prove success & analyze challenges with DATA. In this session Info-Tech will present how CIOs can overcome these challenges, and forge a new data driven approach to rapidly accelerate decision making, as well as measure the benefits of IT with DATA. Info-Tech will share insights from Info-Tech’s 3 year Stakeholder Satisfaction Study & how IT can enable transformation at unparalleled rates. By the Numbers:
* Info-Tech CEO/CIO Alignment study |
10:10 AM - 10:30 AM |
Coffee Break, Networking and Meet Our Partners |
10:30 AM - 11:10 AM |
EXECUTIVE PANEL: Identifying Future Trends That Will Impact the Enterprise Introduction: Mallory Zemelis, Comcast Business Bob Bruns, CIO, Avanade Daniel Fallon, COO, GFMI Metalcrafters, Inc. Simona Rollinson, CIO, Cook County David Stafford, Head of Enterprise Solutions, Dropbox Irwin Teodoro, National Practice Director - Data Center Transformation, Datalink Moderator: Mark Griesbaum, Managing Partner, Affinity4U, LLC Innovation in enterprise IT is accelerating, driven by massive platform and technology shifts. This panel of senior executives will share discussion around emerging technology companies and the technology areas of current interest for investment. |
11:10 AM - 11:30 AM |
Coffee Break, Networking and Meet Our Partners |
11:30 AM - 12:00 PM |
EXECUTIVE PANEL: Strategic Leadership in a World of Accelerated Change Renee Arrington, Senior Vice President, Pearson Partners International, Inc. Tony Leng, Managing Director and CIO Practice Leader, Diversified Search Mark Polansky, Senior Partner, CIO/IT Officers Practice, Korn Ferry Moderator: Hunter Muller, President and CEO, HMG Strategy, LLC Accelerated change in today’s markets requires a new range of performance from today’s CIO – including taking a starring role in the C-suite, becoming more customer-focused, adapting to new environments and leading innovation to create value by leveraging technologies in the new IT ecosystem model of this decade.In addition, recruiting, development and retention in the war for talent can be a huge challenge in today’s economic environment, particularly for global organizations. |
12:00 PM - 1:10 PM |
Luncheon SIM Chicago News EXECUTIVE BRIEFING: Ted Colbert, CIO & SVP, Information & Analytics, The Boeing Company Presentation of the HMG Strategy 2016 Transformational CIO Award to Ted Colbert, CIO & SVP, Information & Analytics,The Boeing Company |
1:10 PM - 1:30 PM |
Coffee Break, Networking and Meet Our Partners |
1:30 PM - 2:00 PM |
EXECUTIVE INTERVIEW: Innovation at 1871 Hunter Muller will interview Howard Tullman, CEO, 1871, who will discuss leading 1871 at a time of enormous change. The tech hub is working to attract big companies to connect with startups and it's making plans for tech incubators in new fields, including retail. |
2:00 PM - 2:30 PM |
EXECUTIVE PANEL: The Emerging Entrepreneurial Opportunities and the Impact It Can Have on YOUR Career! With support from organizations like 1871, Matter, and the Chicago Innovation Awards, the entrepreneurial community on the third coast is thriving!Understand how Chicago is driving this new gig economy with an infusion of new capital, the formation of strategic partnerships, and the development of a diverse workforce. Learn how to apply this spirt to your own situation to rapidly create new business value. Patricia Anderson, Founder & CEO, Golden Clover, Inc. Jane Gilligan Hamner, Co-Founder, ARA Laura Sanchez, CEO, SWATware, LLC Wendy White Eagle,Founder & CEO, Native Capital Investment, Inc. Nicole Yeary, Founder & CEO, Ms. Tech Co. Moderator: Ellen Barry, Principal, EBarry Group |
2:30 PM - 3:00 PM |
Coffee Break, Networking and Meet Our Partners |
3:00 PM - 3:40 PM |
EXECUTIVE PANEL: The Challenge of Enterprise Security Today and Into the Future Waqas Akkawi, Global Chief Information Security Officer, SIRVA Worldwide Robert Kress, Managing Director, Global IT, Financial & Operational Audit, Accenture Michael Phillips, EVP, CISO, Rosenthal Collins Group Kurt Roemer, Chief Security Strategist, Citrix Frank Yanan, Global Head of Security Operations, Zurich Insurance Group Moderator: Laszlo Gonc, CISO Partner, MVP Advisory Group, LLC Emerging and significant security concerns threaten the enterprise daily and are becoming more complex as you broaden the scope from internal, to supply chain, and out to the customer. Today's CISOs are expected not only to drive efficiency, transparency and strengthen information and network security, but also to implement the best technologies and practices to establish and maintain relationships with their customers. How can CISOs balance the demand for immediate, transparent access to information while maintaining security and privacy? |
3:40 PM - 3:50 PM |
Transition Break |
3:50 PM - 4:30 PM |
EXECUTIVE PANEL: The Future Role of the Technology Executive - Going Digital Ina Kamenz, Former SVP & CIO, Eli Lilly and Company Greg Meyers, Corporate VP and CIO, Motorola Solutions Allison Radecki, CIO, Beam Suntory Inc. Moderator: Mark Polansky, Senior Partner, CIO/IT Officers Practice, Korn Ferry Truly successful IT leaders are advancing the traditional CIO role by stepping up with bold, game-changing strategies for growing the business, creating value, dominating markets, and delivering innovation to a new generation of empowered and demanding customers. They are taking broader and more proactive roles in enterprise-level operational functions and shared services, forming business strategy and leading execution, and winning an increasing number of Board of Director seats. This panel of IT executives will share their leadership, innovation and transformation strategies that have earned them recognition among the most successful IT leaders of today – and take a look ahead at what the future holds for the role of the technology executive. |
4:30 PM - 5:30 PM |
Raffle Prize Drawings and Executive Networking Reception |
Info-Tech Research Group was established in 1997 and is currently the world’s fastest growing and most innovative information technology research and advisory company, proudly serving over 35,000 IT professionals. We produce unbiased and highly relevant IT research to help CIOs and IT leaders make strategic, timely, and well informed decisions. Focused on providing practical research solutions to help IT professionals implement key projects and build core processes we partner closely with IT teams to provide everything they need from actionable tools to analyst guidance. Info Tech helps CIOs and their teams drive measurable results and enhanced decision making through our data driven approach evolving the value of IT to their organization.
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.netPure Storage helps customers build a better world with data. The Pure Storage Data Platform, powered by all-flash storage, offers a simpler, more effective, and more flexible solution for cloud infrastructure and data-rich applications like artificial intelligence, machine learning and big data analytics. With Satmetrix-certified NPS performance in the top 1% of B2B companies, Pure has an ever-expanding range of customers who are some of the happiest in the world.
https://www.purestorage.comNeudesic is the trusted technology partner in business innovation, delivering impactful business results to clients through digital modernization and evolution. Our consultants bring business and technology expertise together, offering a wide range of cloud and data-driven solutions, including: custom application development, comprehensive managed services, and business software products. Founded in 2002, Neudesic is a privately held company headquartered in Irvine, California, and is celebrating its 15th Anniversary in 2017.
https://www.neudesic.comMuleSoft provides the most widely used integration platform for connecting any application, data source or API, whether in the cloud or on-premises. With Anypoint Platform™ , MuleSoft delivers a complete integration experience built on proven open source technology, eliminating the pain and cost of point-to-point integration. Anypoint Platform includes CloudHub™ iPaaS, Mule ESB™, and a unified solution for API management, design and publishing.
https://www.mulesoft.com/MetTel is a leading provider of customized, integrated and managed communications solutions for enterprise customers. By converging all communications over a proprietary network, MetTel enables enterprise companies to easily deploy and manage technology-driven voice, data, wireless and cloud solutions nationwide. With one of the most comprehensive offerings, the highest quality customer care and project management and the ability to help manage, maintain and secure your communications needs, our portfolio of customer-centric solutions boosts enterprise productivity, reduces costs and simplifies operations.
CenturyLink (NYSE: CTL) is a global communications, hosting, cloud and IT services company enabling millions of customers to transform their businesses and their lives through innovative technology solutions. CenturyLink offers network and data systems management, Big Data analytics and IT consulting, and operates more than 55 data centers in North America, Europe and Asia. The company provides broadband, voice, video, data and managed services over a robust 250,000-route-mile U.S. fiber network and a 300,000-route-mile international transport network.
http://www.centurylink.comDropbox keeps more than 500 million registered users on the same page with easy-to-use collaboration tools and the fastest, most-reliable file sync platform. From the smallest business to the largest enterprise, we make teamwork better.
https://www.dropbox.com/newsInsight Cloud + Data Center Transformation is a complete IT services and solution provider that helps organizations transform technology, operations, and service delivery to meet challenges and future-proof the business. As an independent integrator, we’re free to recommend the most appropriate solutions — across cloud, IT transformation, next-generation technology, and security.
https://www.insight.com/en_US/home.htmlComcast Business provides a variety of enterprise solutions for network connectivity and managed services that enable large businesses to simplify the complexity of their network in the face of dynamic innovation. Comcast Business can design, build, implement and manage the custom network solutions required for today's large, distributed enterprises. With simple, secure and reliable managed solutions available nationwide, customers receive the cost competitive voice, data and support services they need in order to meet their strategic business objectives and gain the competitive edge. Our innovative and cost saving technologies will change the way you improve, adopt and support new technology today and into the future.
https://business.comcast.com/Citrix helps organizations deliver a consistent and secure work experience no matter where work needs to get done—in the office, at home, or in the field. Our digital workspace solutions give each employee the resources and space they need to do their very best work. And our platform brings user experience, IT flexibility and security together to foster innovation, resilience and business continuity — all while removing the limits of geography, devices, networks and even clouds to deliver a better employee experience.
www.citrix.comAvanade is the leading provider of innovative digital and cloud services, business solutions and design-led experiences delivered through the power of people and the Microsoft ecosystem. Our professionals bring bold, fresh thinking combined with technology, business and industry expertise to help fuel transformation and growth for our clients and their customers. Avanade has 30,000 digitally connected people across 24 countries, bringing clients the best thinking through a collaborative culture that honors diversity and reflects the communities in which we operate. Majority owned by Accenture, Avanade was founded in 2000 by Accenture LLP and Microsoft Corporation.
www.avanade.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.comRussell Reynolds Associates is a premier provider of senior-level executive search and assessment, serving clients globally for 40 years. We advise our clients on recruiting and retaining outstanding and impactful leaders, and help them mitigate the risks associated with senior level appointments. We are a private firm with 39 offices across North and South America, Europe and Asia/Pacific, covering all major business regions including Africa, Eastern Europe and Russia, the Middle East and the South Pacific. We leverage our collective expertise to identify and assess leaders who can support the growth and success of our client organizations. Our 300 experienced consultants are supported by a global research network We complete more than 2,000 assignments annually, across a broad range of industries and functional roles.
http://www.russellreynolds.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.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.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.comEgon Zehnder was founded in 1964 with a distinctive vision and structure aimed at achieving two basic goals - to place our clients' interests first and to lead our profession in creating value for our clients through the assessment and recruitment of top-level management resources. The most fundamental expression of our client-first vision resides in our structure, which is unique to our profession. Our 390 consultants, operating from 63 wholly owned offices in 37 countries, are organized around a single-profit center partnership. This is designed to eliminate competitive barriers between our offices. It allows us to operate seamlessly when engagements call for us to mobilize across many offices in a country or a region. Large or small, local or global, our clients benefit from our structure by having access to our most relevant resources and relationships wherever they may reside. Underpinning this unique structure is our private ownership. We have chosen to operate our firm independent of any outside interests and are motivated solely by a desire to exceed our clients' expectations.
http://www.egonzehnder.comThe Palmer House Hilton
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The CIO Executive Leadership Summit delivers world class thought leadership in a club-like setting where attendees will receive unique insights into best practices and will hear success stories involving leadership, management, technology and career development.
Highly interactive sessions will provide many opportunities for attendees, speakers and panelists to be engaged in both learning and discussion. The objective for the day is to deliver high quality useful information that attendees can develop into an action plan.
Key Areas of Focus Include:
• Strategy, Process Improvement and Alignment
• Innovation and Technology
• Career Management and Leadership Development
Thomas Anderson
Senior Director
Accenture
Ted Colbert
President & CEO, Boeing Global Services
President & CEO
The Boeing Company
Mark Griesbaum
Managing Partner
RLF Leadership Program Marketing and Sales
Daphne Jones
Board of Directors AMN Healthcare, Barnes Group, Inc. and Masonite International
Founder
Destiny Transformations Group
Susan Malisch
VP & CIO
Loyola University Chicago
Paul Martin
Former SVP & CIO (Retired)
and Board of Directors, Unisys Corporation, Owens Corning and Ping Identity
Baxter International
Hunter Muller
Founder & CEO
HMG Strategy
Preston Simons
Chief Information Officer
Verily Life Sciences, An Alphabet Company
Mary Acuna
Customer Operations
University of Wisconsin-Whitewater
Waqas Akkawi
Global Chief Information Security Officer
SIRVA Worldwide
Patricia Anderson
CIO
Golden Clover, Inc.
Snehal Antani
Co-Founder & CEO
Horizon3.ai
Renee Arrington
President, COO & Director
Pearson Partners International, Inc.
Christine Atkins
Principal
Atkins & Cameron Consulting LLC
Ellen Barry
Principal
The EBarry Group
David Baruch
CIO
Spencer Stuart
Dave Bent
Sr. VP, EM Global, Global Information Solutions
Avnet, Inc.
Scot Berkey
CTL/CTO, Business Development
Kyndryl
Jason Birnbaum
SVP Digital Technology
United Airlines, Inc.
Bill Blount
Chief Information Officer
VelocityEHS
Mark Booth
Chief Information Officer
Perdue Farms
Bill Bradford
Principal
Ft. Sheridan Group, LLC
Alwin Brunner
SVP & CIO, Knowledge Management
Heidrick & Struggles
Monica Caldas
EVP, Global Deputy Chief Information Officer
Liberty Mutual Insurance
Tom Coleman
CIO & Process Officer
Sloan Global Holdings
Jeffrey Davies
Chief Information Officer Advisor, Consultant
Jason DeHaan
CIO
Gildan
Nick DiGioia
Senior Director, IT
Tampico Beverages
Paul Douglas
EVP Corporate Technology Services
Alight Solutions
Ed Earl
VP & Chief Information Officer
Federal Signal Corporation
Vince Fattore
CIO/Director of IT
Temperature Equipment Corporation
Dale Forbes
Enterprise Leader Applications Partner
Kevin Glynn
Managing Principal
The Laminar Group LLC
Laszlo Gonc
Co-Founder & Managing Partner, CIO, CISO
Next Era Transformation Group
Randy Gross
CISO
CompTIA
Dean Haacker
Chief Technology Officer
Metropolitan Capital
Robin Hamerlinck
VP & CIO
Shure, Inc.
Bill Haser
Executive IT Consultant
Haser Consulting
Rosalee Hermens
Operating Partners
Northleaf Capital Partners
Cynthia Herrera Lindstrom
Assistant Vice Chancellor and Chief Information Officer
University of Illinois at Chicago
Clay Johnson
Chief Digital & Technology Officer
Yum! Brands
Andy Jurczyk
CIO
Seyfarth Shaw LLP
Neal Kaderabek
SVP of IT
CMCU
Jeffrey Kane
Former Director, Operations Delivery Services
SDI Solutions
Paul Karras
CIO
Hu-Friedy Mfg. Co., LLC
Alison Kassel
CIO, Workforce Management Group
TrueBlue, Inc.
Michael Kennaugh
SVP & CIO Reyes Coca-Cola Division
Reyes Holdings
Rick Klotz
CIO
Altra Industrial Motion Corp.
Bob Kress
Managing Director, Accenture Security
Accenture
Jack Leifel
Principal
Leifel Consulting, LLC
Ron Lejcar
Global CIO
Ingredion Incorporated
Tony Leng
Managing Director, Practice Lead and OMP
Diversified Search
Shari Levandowski
VP IT Services
Reedy Industries
Jean Luber
VP IT
MYR Group
Pamela Masello
Senior Consultant
CTS Impact
Gary Matula
CIO
Koch Industries
Rob McGillen
Director, Office of the CIO Services
CBIZ CMF, LLC
Bernadette McMahon
Senior Enterprise Project Manager
Jenzabar
Bud McQuade
Vice President of Information Technology
Duracell
John Moon
VP & CIO
Johnson Outdoors Inc.
Peter Nagle
Director of IT
Draper and Kramer
David Otte
COO
Bond, Schoeneck & King PLLC
Mark Otten
Director of Information Technology
Truck Accessories Group, LLC
Mike Ouska
Former CIO
Lutheran Social Services of Illinois
Bruce Peterson
CIO
Uline Shipping Supplies
John Phillips
President & CIO
Briggs Healthcare
Mark Polansky
Senior Partner, Technology & Digital Officers Practice
Korn Ferry
Jeffrey Robinson
Director BTS, Enterprise Data & Integration Services
AbbVie
Armin Roeseler
CIO & Managing Partner
Fortacs Group
Simona Rollinson
CEO
ISACA
Robert Sarkis
Consultant/CIO
Transformation Xperts Corp
Bruce Schinelli
VP IT & CIO
TTX Company
Yvonne Scott
CIO
Crowe Horwath LLP
Eric Sigurdson
CIO Practice Leader
Russell Reynolds Associates
Curtis Spall
Vice President and Chief Information Technology Officer
BrightStar Care
Lachlan Tidmarsh
Chief Information Officer
Blue Cross Blue Shield
Gustav Toppenberg, Ph.D.
Chief Architect
Boston Consulting Group
Jason Van Den Eeden
CTO
Oak Street Health
Tim Walter
CIO & SVP
Randa Accessories
Chris Walter
CIO
Central Garden & Pet
Creighton Warren
VP and Chief Information Officer
TreeHouse Foods
Leslie Weber
CIO
AMA
Jim Wisnionski
SVP of Operations and CIO
Kingsbridge Holdings
Wendy Woodward
CIO
Wheaton College
Eric Yablonka
CIO & Associate Dean, School of Medicine
Stanford University
Frank Yanan
SVP, GIS Business Information Security Officer (BISO)
Bank of America
Mike Zanillo
Community Outreach Coordinator
Citizens' Climate Lobby
Waqas Akkawi
Global Chief Information Security Officer
SIRVA Worldwide
Waqas is responsible for delivering global information security and privacy protection values to clients globally by partnering with business executives focusing on global brand value, data protection and enterprise risk management. Akkawi has been instrumental in positioning SIRVA as an industry leader in information security and privacy protection through his vision for continuous innovation in risk-based enterprise management. His principle-centered security leadership is based on the ability to execute and deliver strong business value through cybersecurity architecture, and advanced threat protection using big data analytics. He strongly believes that data privacy and cybersecurity are key business brand differentiators, especially in the era of a global interconnected economy.
Akkawi is a recognized thought leader in the industry of information security. Business executives and security partners alike seek his advice and opinion at roundtables and conferences for IT governance, privacy and cybersecurity strategy. He has been recognized by CSO Magazine and IDS Enterprise with the CSO50 prestigious award for security initiatives that demonstrated outstanding business value and thought leadership.. He has also received nominations for CISO of the Year Chicago 2014 by ISSA & AITP and 2014 Top 10 Breakaway Leaders in Security by Evanta. He co-authored “Protecting Critical Data in the Age of Global Mobility” for Mobility Magazine.
Akkawi earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Management from National Louis University in Chicago, Illinois and holds a Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications Certification from DePaul University in Chicago, Illinois. He holds certifications in Information Systems Audit and Control Association (ISACA) Certified Information Security Manger (CISM) and Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL). Waqas speaks fluent Arabic.
Patricia Anderson
CIO
Golden Clover, Inc.
Renee Arrington
President, COO & Director
Pearson Partners International, Inc.
Ellen Barry
Principal
The EBarry Group
Bob Bruns
Chief Information Officer & Chief Information Security Officer
Avanade
As Avanade Chief Information Officer and Chief Information Security Officer, Bob Bruns is responsible for driving Avanade IT to be the leading digital innovator in the Microsoft ecosystem and for delivering the technology capabilities that power the company’s people and operations worldwide. In his CISO capacity, he has responsibility for protecting Avanade internally and partnering with clients to ensure all information security obligations are met.
Ted Colbert
President & CEO, Boeing Global Services
President & CEO
The Boeing Company
Ted Colbert is executive vice president of The Boeing Company and president and chief executive officer of Boeing Global Services. He is a member of Boeing’s Executive Council.
Colbert was named president and chief executive officer of Global Services in October 2019. He is responsible for leading Boeing’s aerospace services development and delivery model for commercial and government customers worldwide, focused on four capability areas: Supply Chain; Engineering, Modifications and Maintenance; Digital Solutions and Analytics; and Training and Professional Services. Global Services offers customers lifecycle solutions regardless of platform manufacturer to accelerate delivery schedules, reduce operational costs and enhance operational efficiencies. Global Services has more than 300 locations in more than 70 countries.
Previously, Colbert was chief information officer and senior vice president of Information Technology & Data Analytics. In this role, he led all aspects of information technology, information security, data and analytics. He also supported the growth of Boeing's business through IT- and analytics-related revenue generating programs.
Prior to his role as CIO, he led Boeing’s Information Technology Infrastructure organization where he was responsible for developing and maintaining network, computing, server, storage, collaboration and infrastructure solutions across the enterprise. Before that, he led the IT Business Systems organization where he managed the computing application systems that support Boeing Finance, Human Resources, Corporate and Commercial Capital Business Units, as well as the company’s internal systems.
Prior to joining Boeing in 2009, Colbert was senior vice president of Enterprise Architecture at Citigroup. Before that, he spent 11 years in Ford Motor Company’s Information Technology organization where he held roles of increasing responsibility in the areas of program management, infrastructure engineering and operations, application development, portfolio management and process reengineering.
Colbert completed the Dual Degree Engineering Program at the Georgia Institute of Technology and Morehouse College with degrees in Industrial and Systems Engineering and Interdisciplinary Science. He is a member of the Executive Leadership Council (ELC) and serves on the Board of Directors for the Thurgood Marshall College Fund, Georgia Tech Advisory Board and New Leaders.
Colbert’s recent accomplishments include becoming the first recipient of the Fisher Center prize for Excellence in Driving Transformation from the Fisher Center For Business Analytics at Berkeley; winning the 2018 Forbes CIO Innovation Award; recognition as one of the Most Powerful Executives in Corporate America by Black Enterprise magazine in 2017; 2017 Morehouse College Bennie Leadership Award for Excellence in Business; recognition as the 2016 National Society of Black Engineers Golden Torch Legacy Award winner; recognition as the HMG Strategy 2016 CIO of the Year; and, being named a 2015 Ebony Power 100 honoree.
Jane Gilligan Hamner
Co-Founder
ARA
Laszlo Gonc
Co-Founder & Managing Partner, CIO, CISO
Next Era Transformation Group
Mark Griesbaum
Managing Partner
RLF Leadership Program Marketing and Sales
Mark Griesbaum is the Managing Partner of affinITy4U, LLC since November, 2014. affinITy4U, LLC is focused in the following key areas: IT Strategy/Vision Development, Operational Integration, Top Line Revenue Growth, and Executive Leadership Development. Mark was the Senior Vice President of Business Operations at TCS Education System (TCS ES) from 2010-2015. Mark oversaw marketing, admissions operations, instructional design, student management, information technology, international services, and the learning management system for online-blended programs of TCS ES affiliates, which included The Chicago School of Professional Psychology, Pacific Oaks College, and The Santa Barbara and Ventura Colleges of Law. Mark joined TCS ES as President of TCS Online in 2010. Prior to joining TCS ES, Mark was Executive Vice President and Chief Information Officer for Cardean Learning Group. Prior to Cardean, Mark was Chief Information Officer at Career Education Corporation, where he engineered a world class IT that was leveraged to grow the organization from $200 million in revenue to over $2.0 Billion in a five (5) year period. Mr. Griesbaum’s award-winning leadership was acknowledged by Computerworld Magazine, where he was recognized as one of Computerworld’s “Premier 100 IT Leaders 2006.”
Ina Kamenz
Former SVP & CIO
Eli Lilly and Company
Ina Kamenz is the former senior vice president and chief information officer (CIO) for Eli Lilly and Company. She is responsible for leading the global Lilly IT function that drives innovation throughout the organization. She is establishing a long-term strategic IT plan for Lilly, ensuring information technology is being optimally leveraged across the organization’s five Global Business Units plus Manufacturing, and Research and Development to improve operational efficiency globally. Before joining Lilly in May 2014, Ina was vice president and CIO at Thermo Fisher Scientific. With responsibility for the company’s global information technology, including IT / business relationship management organizations for four groups and 14 divisions, Ina implemented a highly successful IT transformation strategy, replacing an inefficient decentralized organization with a shared services model, driving down costs 30 percent while increasing infrastructure performance for increased systems demand. Prior to joining Thermo Fisher, Ina served as vice president and CIO for Tyco International. In that position, she provided leadership to the company’s Chief Information Officer Council and led the IT organization through the separation of a $40 billion company into three publicly traded organizations while achieving adherence to new regulatory compliance mandates. Previously, Ina was a senior vice president and chief information officer at Marriott International. During her time at Marriott, she was the CIO for the Senior Living Services and Courtyard / Fairfield Inn divisions, where she had accountability for support of six brands in 800 hotel and senior living residential facilities. She led the development and execution of the IT strategy and plan to support business transformation and new product innovation to create Marriott Lodging. Ina holds a bachelor of science in mathematics and biology from Wake Forest University, and an MBA from Queens University. She has also participated in the Executive Development Program at the Colgate Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia. Recognized as a thought leader in systems development methodology and program management, Ina has published articles and delivered keynote presentations at industry events. She is currently an advisory board member with Globespan Venture Capital.
Bob Kress
Managing Director, Accenture Security
Accenture
Bob Kress is the Managing Director of Global IT Audit in Accenture’s Internal Audit organization that supports the $32 billion company and its 375,000 employees working in 120 countries. Bob has responsibility for identifying, evaluating, and reporting on the full range of client facing and internal technology, financial, and operational risk to Accenture senior leadership and the Audit Committee of the Board of Directors.
Prior to this Bob was the COO in Accenture’s high performance Internal IT organization responsible for leading the IT transformation and running IT like a business, including Strategy, Planning, Risk, and all IT operations.
He has published two books, Running IT like a Business, and IT Governance to Drive High Performance: Lessons from Accenture. He has most recently published an article on Transforming the IT Audit Function – Taking the Digital Journey.
Bob is a member of The Economic Club of Chicago, The Executives Club of Chicago and co-chair of the Technology Committee, Chairman of i.c.stars (non-profit) Board of Directors, and Chairman of the Advisory Board for the College of Engineering at The University of Iowa.
Bob holds a bachelor’s degree in physics from Loras College in Dubuque, Iowa, and a master of business administration degree from the University of Iowa.
Tony Leng
Managing Director, Practice Lead and OMP
Diversified Search
Tony Leng is a Managing Director of Diversified Search and leads the firm’s Digital Transformation and CIO practice from its San Francisco office. Previously, Tony was Managing Partner of Hodge Partners. Tony has conducted many “C” level searches for organizations where leaders are transforming/building organizations that are taking advantage of digital technologies. He has conducted “C” level searches conducted for organizations such as Aurora Healthcare, Axalta, Catholic Health Initiatives, Blue Shield of California, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan, Delta Dental, Dignity Health, Esurance, Kaiser Permanente, Novant Health, PG&E, Polycom, Sutter Health, Symmetricom, TE Connectivity, and Wellmark.
Prior to his executive search experience, Tony was a Board member of three public companies and CEO of a $600 million Public Company. Before that, Tony ran a $1 billion division of a telephone company focused on corporate users and had responsibility for all data services and networking products. While at the telephone company, he was founder and Chairman of its ISP and a board member of its 2 million-subscriber cell phone subsidiary.
Tony uses his operating experience from being a CEO, financial background as a CPA and CA, and technical knowledge from the work that he has done for Tech companies to drill down and understand at a nuanced level what his clients are seeking to achieve as they build their teams. He has written numerous papers on technology leadership and the challenges facing technology leaders today and authors a blog, ‘Resources for the Modern CIO” (www.tonyleng.com).
The core of Tony’s consulting has been with senior leaders who are seeking to transform their organizations as they face a future of rapid change, digitization, regulation, shifting markets, and increasingly connected and informed customers.
Tony has facilitated the Fisher CIO Forum for the past 12 years. The Forum is a monthly venue for CIO’s and CTO’s to discuss topics of relevance in their daily lives, and has afforded these leaders the opportunity to develop a close network to discuss current challenges in a peer group environment on a confidential basis. Participating companies have included: Blue Shield, Clorox, Cost Plus, Delta Dental, Dignity Health, Esurance, Facebook, FitBit, Franklin Templeton, Gap, Genentech, Kaiser Permanente, Levi Strauss, McKesson, Macys.com, Matson, Mulesoft, Okta, PG&E, Restoration Hardware, Ross Stores, Safeway, Salesforce.com, Schwab, Splunk, Uber, VMWare, and Williams-Sonoma among others.
Tony received a Bachelor of Commerce (with honors), University of Cape Town, South Africa and is a Chartered Accountant and CPA.
Matthew Mandich
Vice President
Info-Tech Research Group
Matthew Mandich is a Vice President with Info-Tech’s Strategy & Innovation Lab with extensive experience in assisting private and public sector organizations take new approaches to managing the IT organization with a focus on data driven IT performance management.
Matthew holds an Honors Distinction HBA from the Richard Ivey School of Business at the University of Western Ontario with a focus on financial modeling & economics.
Mr. Mandich brings value as a business solution architect where his unique blend of consulting and operating experience helps build pragmatic solutions to complex problems. Combined with his depth of experience in the IT application and technology space, Mr. Mandich provides companies the critical support needed to bridge the gaps between business strategy and technology enablement - projects that deliver on their promises.
Greg Meyers
Corporate VP & CIO
Motorola Solutions, Inc.
Greg Meyers is corporate vice president and chief information officer for Motorola Solutions. He is responsible for leading the company’s IT organization, including customer-facing digital systems, internal technology and information security.
Before joining Motorola Solutions in 2014, Meyers led Business IT for Biogen, and before that, he held a combination of sales, marketing and IT roles at companies such as Novartis, Johnson & Johnson and PricewaterhouseCoopers.
Meyers holds a bachelor’s degree in Marketing from Rutgers University and a master’s degree in business administration from Temple University.
Hunter Muller
Founder & 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 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.
Michael Phillips
EVP & CISO
Rosenthal Collins Group, LLC
Michael Phillips is the Executive Vice President and Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at Rosenthal Collins Group, LLC. In this capacity, he serves as Co-Executive of the Information Technology Group and senior advisor to the Chairman / CEO, providing insights on various aspects of Operational Risk Management, including Information Assurance and Privacy.
Owner of the consulting practice, Luminant Group, LLC he specializes as a virtual Chief Information Security Officer (vCISO) for small to medium-sized businesses that cannot afford to put someone full-time on staff to handle cyber security and regulatory compliance matters. In this capacity, advises executives to develop information security strategy, perform risk assessments, build cyber security programs, develop company-wide policies and work with on-site teams to implement remediation efforts.
Prior to joining RCG, Michael served in several Information Security Executive roles including the Assistant Vice President & Information Security Officer (ISO) of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago and the Director of IT Security for the Americas at UBS (formerly Swiss Bank Corp.).
Michael received his first Technology Degree from DeVry Institute of Technology, a Bachelor’s Degree in Communications & Computer Sciences from Northwestern University and a Master’s Degree in Business Administration from the Northwestern Kellogg Graduate School of Management.
An active member of InfraGard, High Tech Crime Consortium, Chicago Electronic Crimes Task Force, etc., Michael also holds the C|CISO, CISSP, CISA, NSA IAM Certifications and serves on the Board of Directors of the Arts & Business Council of Chicago.
Allison Radecki
CIO
Beam Suntory Inc.
Allison Radecki was appointed Chief Information Officer at Beam Suntory Inc., the world’s third largest premium spirits company, in November 2013. In this role, she is responsible for the IT function globally, including strategic planning, project delivery, operations, security, controls and compliance. She is charged with leading the IT team to be a competitive asset for the company by focusing resources and prioritizing initiatives that deliver the greatest opportunities for revenue growth and improved business performance. Allison joined Beam Suntory following a two decade-long career in IT strategy, business transformation and systems integration.
Prior to joining Beam Suntory, she served as Senior Director Information Systems, Global Integrated Supply Chain, for Mondelez International, the $35 billion global snacks company, which until 2012, was previously known as Kraft Foods. Prior to joining Kraft in 2011, Allison spent ten years at GS1 US as Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer. She was responsible for building the technology strategy to align to and achieve the organization’s goals.
Allison began her career in management consulting at PricewaterhouseCoopers where she spent ten years specializing in supply chain management process re-engineering and information systems implementation for the consumer products industry.
Allison received her Bachelor of Science degree in Industrial Engineering from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. She lives in Chicago and enjoys running, cooking, spending time with her husband, Steve, and their three daughters, Madeline (13), Claire (11) and Isabelle (8).
Kurt Roemer
Chief Security Strategist
Citrix Systems, Inc.
As Chief Security Strategist for Citrix, Kurt Roemer leads the security, compliance, risk and privacy strategies for Citrix products. As a member of the Citrix CTO Council, Roemer drives ideation, innovation and technical direction for products and solutions that advance business productivity while ensuring information governance.
An information services veteran with more than 25 years experience, his credentials include the Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) designation. He also served as Commissioner for the US public-sector CLOUD2 initiative and led efforts to develop the PCI Security Standards Council Virtualization Guidance Information Supplement for the payment card industry while serving on the Board of Advisors. Roemer is an active member of the ETSI Network Function Virtualization (NFV) specification team, and is the Rapporteur for developing NFV Security and Trust Guidance.
Simona Rollinson
CEO
ISACA
Laura Sanchez
CEO
SWATware, LLC
Laura Sanchez is the founder and CEO of SWATware LLC, a fullservice Information Technology (IT) firm that delivers comprehensive IT and Web solutions, with a focus in Cyber Security. With over ten years of experience as a consultant, Laura has assisted numerous businesses in improving their online presence, while at the same time improving the security and reliability of their IT infrastructure. She is one of the few existing Latina entrepreneurs in Chicago’s Technology field, combining her quality services and passion for IT by sharing her experience with small business owners in various capacities. Laura has utilized her proficiency in both English and Spanish to perform work internationally and is well recognized for her expertise in the IT field. She has spoken for the City of Chicago (BACP), the IHCC (Illinois Hispanic Chamber of Commerce), WBDC, UNAM Chicago, HACIA, HispanicPro, Verizon and other organizations dedicated to educational and economic development that encourage the proper use of technology both professionally and personally.
Laura received her Master’s degree in Innovation and Business Development from the Tec de Monterrey, one of the top universities in Mexico. She graduated Summa Cum Laude when receiving her undergraduate degree in International Business and Marketing. In 2013, Laura was awarded the Nueva Latina Estrella in the Technology category by Verizon, and was an honorable mention recipient for the 2013 Enterprising Women of the Year Awards by Enterprising Women Magazine that same year. These awards are meant to honor women business owners who have demonstrated high potential‐growth and stand out as leaders in their communities. In addition to this Laura has been feature on TV by Univision, Telemundo and ABC7, as well as in local radio stations and newspapers such as Hoy and Negocios Now and the national publication Latino Leaders Magazine.
Irwin Teodoro
National Practice Director - Data Center Transformation
Insight
As the national director of Datalink’s data center transformation practice, Irwin is responsible for defining the services offering and delivery practices for data center moves, consolidations, and migrations. Under his leadership, consulting teams plan, design, and manage related efforts for mid- and large-size organizations.
Irwin joined Datalink in 2011 and has a career’s worth of IT consulting and professional services experience. Prior to Datalink, Irwin has held executive and mid-level leadership positions at Glasshouse Technologies, Laurus Technologies, EMC, and Comdisco.
Howard Tullman
Executive Director
Ed Kaplan Family Institute for Innovation and Tech Entrepreneurship
Howard A. Tullman was the CEO of 1871 in Chicago – where digital startups get their start – and the General Managing Partner for the Chicago High Tech Investment Partners, LLC and for G2T3V, LLC – both Chicago-based venture capital funds, and the executive chairman of Music Dealers. He most recently was the Chairman/CEO of Tribeca Flashpoint Media Arts Academy which he co-founded in 2007. He is the former President of Kendall College in Chicago and the former Chairman/CEO of Experiencia, Inc. He is also the Chairman of the Endowment Committee of Anshe Emet Synagogue, a member of Mayor Emanuel's ChicagoNEXT and Cultural Affairs Councils, a member of Governor Quinn's Illinois Innovation and Arts Councils, a member of President Preckwinkle’s New Media Council, an Advisory Board member of HighTower Associates, Built in Chicago, The Starter School, Imerman Angels, and uBID.COM and an Adjunct Professor at Northwestern's Kellogg School as well as a regular guest lecturer at the Northwestern University School of Law. Mr. Tullman also serves as a Director of Vehcon, SnapSheet, Music Dealers, BCV Evolve, MarkITx and PackBack Books and served as a long-time Director and Board Chairman of The Cobalt Group, a Trustee of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago and of the New York Academy of Art and the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University, and as the lead Director (and briefly Chairman) of The Princeton Review. Over the last 45 years, he has successfully founded more than a dozen high-tech companies.
Wendy White Eagle
Founder & CEO
Native Capital Investment, Inc.
Wendy K. White Eagle, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Native Capital Investment, Inc., currently leads business development and fund management activities. As member of the Ho-Chunk Nation, she has first-hand knowledge of Tribal operations from strategic planning to business development. With more than 20 years of business building experience in the utility, financial, and manufacturing sectors specialization is in helping companies build high performing processes to actualize business impact.
Ms. White Eagle is skilled at integrating various strategic approaches – from Six Sigma to Customer Relationship Management – into organizational culture. She has been intimately involved in the creation of organizational approaches that augment capital infusion and has served to bring core competencies into alignment with these strategy directions. In addition to large corporate experience, she has been involved in circles of worldwide thought leadership in SustainAble Business and mindful development.
Ms. White Eagle graduated from Edgewood College with a BS in Communications and has completed graduate work at the Center for Quality and Productivity, School of Business, University of Wisconsin-Madison. She has also served in many Boards of Directors with most recent volunteer activity in the area of metric impact reporting in the non-profit sector.
Frank Yanan
SVP, GIS Business Information Security Officer (BISO)
Bank of America
Frank is an SVP / Business Information Security Officer for Bank of America where he manages risk for key client facing applications and lines of business.
Prior to the Bank, Frank was Global Head of Security Operations for Zurich Insurance. At Zurich, he set the vision & strategy for Zurich’s global security toolkit and oversaw its daily operation. He also led Zurich’s Identity Administration Management team.
Throughout his career, Frank has held several impactful IT Leadership positions, including CIO for Barrington Capital, Head of Global Applications for Hewitt, Chief Delivery Officer for Sears and SVP / Practice Lead at The Revere Group, an IT consulting firm. He holds a Bachelor's Degree in Economics from Northwestern University and is active in a number of professional organizations, including the Association for Information Technology Professionals and the Society for Information Management.
Nicole Yeary
Founder & CEO
Ms. Tech CO.
7:00 AM - 8:00 AM |
Registration, Continental Breakfast and Networking |
8:00 AM - 8:10 AM |
Welcome and Introduction Hunter Muller, President & CEO, HMG Strategy, LLC |
8:10 AM - 9:10 AM |
EXECUTIVE KEYNOTE: Rethinking the IT Function for the Next Era of the Digital Age Don Tapscott, Digital Strategist and CEO, The Tapscott Group, and bestselling author - most recently Blockchain Revolution: How the Technology Behind Bitcoin is Changing Money, Business, and the World The technology likely to have the greatest impact on the enterprise and the global economy has arrived, and it’s notable data, artificial intelligence, self-driving cars or solar energy. It’sthe Blockchain. The first generation of the digital revolution brought us the Internet of information. The second generation—powered by blockchain technology—is bringing us the Internet of value: a new, distributed platform that can help us reshape the world of business and transform the old order of human affairs for the better. Don Tapscott, arguably the world’s leading authority on the digital age, argues that blockchain technology will transform financial services, but also the deep architecture of the corporation, animate the internet of things, recast the role of government, and fix the music industry, among others.He argues that the second era of the internet has profound implications for IT strategy and architecture, and leadership.A new kind of courageous CIO is needed and new kinds of collaborations between leaders in IT and the rest of the business. This executive keynote will be followed by Hunter Muller interviewing Don Tapscott to uncover the key take aways from this discussion. |
9:10 AM - 9:30 AM |
Coffee Break, Networking and Meet Our Partners |
9:30 AM - 10:10 AM |
EXECUTIVE KEYNOTE: Accelerating Transformation… with Data Matthew Mandich, Director, Innovation & Strategy, Info-Tech Research Group Despite a global IT spend of over $4 Trillion, 67% of CEOs & CIOs are misaligned on how IT should be enabling the business*.. With the dramatic increase in digital technology & the business’s appetite to understand and enable their own innovations through technology, CIOs are challenged with the need to rapidly understand business inputs, stakeholder satisfaction, and assess their own teams internal capabilities. Info-Tech has found too often this is done through ad-hoc and informal processes, making improvement hard to measure, and success impossible to define. A new model is needed to enable the CIO to rapidly make decisions, prove success & analyze challenges with DATA. In this session Info-Tech will present how CIOs can overcome these challenges, and forge a new data driven approach to rapidly accelerate decision making, as well as measure the benefits of IT with DATA. Info-Tech will share insights from Info-Tech’s 3 year Stakeholder Satisfaction Study & how IT can enable transformation at unparalleled rates. By the Numbers:
* Info-Tech CEO/CIO Alignment study |
10:10 AM - 10:30 AM |
Coffee Break, Networking and Meet Our Partners |
10:30 AM - 11:10 AM |
EXECUTIVE PANEL: Identifying Future Trends That Will Impact the Enterprise Introduction: Mallory Zemelis, Comcast Business Bob Bruns, CIO, Avanade Daniel Fallon, COO, GFMI Metalcrafters, Inc. Simona Rollinson, CIO, Cook County David Stafford, Head of Enterprise Solutions, Dropbox Irwin Teodoro, National Practice Director - Data Center Transformation, Datalink Moderator: Mark Griesbaum, Managing Partner, Affinity4U, LLC Innovation in enterprise IT is accelerating, driven by massive platform and technology shifts. This panel of senior executives will share discussion around emerging technology companies and the technology areas of current interest for investment. |
11:10 AM - 11:30 AM |
Coffee Break, Networking and Meet Our Partners |
11:30 AM - 12:00 PM |
EXECUTIVE PANEL: Strategic Leadership in a World of Accelerated Change Renee Arrington, Senior Vice President, Pearson Partners International, Inc. Tony Leng, Managing Director and CIO Practice Leader, Diversified Search Mark Polansky, Senior Partner, CIO/IT Officers Practice, Korn Ferry Moderator: Hunter Muller, President and CEO, HMG Strategy, LLC Accelerated change in today’s markets requires a new range of performance from today’s CIO – including taking a starring role in the C-suite, becoming more customer-focused, adapting to new environments and leading innovation to create value by leveraging technologies in the new IT ecosystem model of this decade.In addition, recruiting, development and retention in the war for talent can be a huge challenge in today’s economic environment, particularly for global organizations. |
12:00 PM - 1:10 PM |
Luncheon SIM Chicago News EXECUTIVE BRIEFING: Ted Colbert, CIO & SVP, Information & Analytics, The Boeing Company Presentation of the HMG Strategy 2016 Transformational CIO Award to Ted Colbert, CIO & SVP, Information & Analytics,The Boeing Company |
1:10 PM - 1:30 PM |
Coffee Break, Networking and Meet Our Partners |
1:30 PM - 2:00 PM |
EXECUTIVE INTERVIEW: Innovation at 1871 Hunter Muller will interview Howard Tullman, CEO, 1871, who will discuss leading 1871 at a time of enormous change. The tech hub is working to attract big companies to connect with startups and it's making plans for tech incubators in new fields, including retail. |
2:00 PM - 2:30 PM |
EXECUTIVE PANEL: The Emerging Entrepreneurial Opportunities and the Impact It Can Have on YOUR Career! With support from organizations like 1871, Matter, and the Chicago Innovation Awards, the entrepreneurial community on the third coast is thriving!Understand how Chicago is driving this new gig economy with an infusion of new capital, the formation of strategic partnerships, and the development of a diverse workforce. Learn how to apply this spirt to your own situation to rapidly create new business value. Patricia Anderson, Founder & CEO, Golden Clover, Inc. Jane Gilligan Hamner, Co-Founder, ARA Laura Sanchez, CEO, SWATware, LLC Wendy White Eagle,Founder & CEO, Native Capital Investment, Inc. Nicole Yeary, Founder & CEO, Ms. Tech Co. Moderator: Ellen Barry, Principal, EBarry Group |
2:30 PM - 3:00 PM |
Coffee Break, Networking and Meet Our Partners |
3:00 PM - 3:40 PM |
EXECUTIVE PANEL: The Challenge of Enterprise Security Today and Into the Future Waqas Akkawi, Global Chief Information Security Officer, SIRVA Worldwide Robert Kress, Managing Director, Global IT, Financial & Operational Audit, Accenture Michael Phillips, EVP, CISO, Rosenthal Collins Group Kurt Roemer, Chief Security Strategist, Citrix Frank Yanan, Global Head of Security Operations, Zurich Insurance Group Moderator: Laszlo Gonc, CISO Partner, MVP Advisory Group, LLC Emerging and significant security concerns threaten the enterprise daily and are becoming more complex as you broaden the scope from internal, to supply chain, and out to the customer. Today's CISOs are expected not only to drive efficiency, transparency and strengthen information and network security, but also to implement the best technologies and practices to establish and maintain relationships with their customers. How can CISOs balance the demand for immediate, transparent access to information while maintaining security and privacy? |
3:40 PM - 3:50 PM |
Transition Break |
3:50 PM - 4:30 PM |
EXECUTIVE PANEL: The Future Role of the Technology Executive - Going Digital Ina Kamenz, Former SVP & CIO, Eli Lilly and Company Greg Meyers, Corporate VP and CIO, Motorola Solutions Allison Radecki, CIO, Beam Suntory Inc. Moderator: Mark Polansky, Senior Partner, CIO/IT Officers Practice, Korn Ferry Truly successful IT leaders are advancing the traditional CIO role by stepping up with bold, game-changing strategies for growing the business, creating value, dominating markets, and delivering innovation to a new generation of empowered and demanding customers. They are taking broader and more proactive roles in enterprise-level operational functions and shared services, forming business strategy and leading execution, and winning an increasing number of Board of Director seats. This panel of IT executives will share their leadership, innovation and transformation strategies that have earned them recognition among the most successful IT leaders of today – and take a look ahead at what the future holds for the role of the technology executive. |
4:30 PM - 5:30 PM |
Raffle Prize Drawings and Executive Networking Reception |
Info-Tech Research Group was established in 1997 and is currently the world’s fastest growing and most innovative information technology research and advisory company, proudly serving over 35,000 IT professionals. We produce unbiased and highly relevant IT research to help CIOs and IT leaders make strategic, timely, and well informed decisions. Focused on providing practical research solutions to help IT professionals implement key projects and build core processes we partner closely with IT teams to provide everything they need from actionable tools to analyst guidance. Info Tech helps CIOs and their teams drive measurable results and enhanced decision making through our data driven approach evolving the value of IT to their organization.
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.netPure Storage helps customers build a better world with data. The Pure Storage Data Platform, powered by all-flash storage, offers a simpler, more effective, and more flexible solution for cloud infrastructure and data-rich applications like artificial intelligence, machine learning and big data analytics. With Satmetrix-certified NPS performance in the top 1% of B2B companies, Pure has an ever-expanding range of customers who are some of the happiest in the world.
https://www.purestorage.comNeudesic is the trusted technology partner in business innovation, delivering impactful business results to clients through digital modernization and evolution. Our consultants bring business and technology expertise together, offering a wide range of cloud and data-driven solutions, including: custom application development, comprehensive managed services, and business software products. Founded in 2002, Neudesic is a privately held company headquartered in Irvine, California, and is celebrating its 15th Anniversary in 2017.
https://www.neudesic.comMuleSoft provides the most widely used integration platform for connecting any application, data source or API, whether in the cloud or on-premises. With Anypoint Platform™ , MuleSoft delivers a complete integration experience built on proven open source technology, eliminating the pain and cost of point-to-point integration. Anypoint Platform includes CloudHub™ iPaaS, Mule ESB™, and a unified solution for API management, design and publishing.
https://www.mulesoft.com/MetTel is a leading provider of customized, integrated and managed communications solutions for enterprise customers. By converging all communications over a proprietary network, MetTel enables enterprise companies to easily deploy and manage technology-driven voice, data, wireless and cloud solutions nationwide. With one of the most comprehensive offerings, the highest quality customer care and project management and the ability to help manage, maintain and secure your communications needs, our portfolio of customer-centric solutions boosts enterprise productivity, reduces costs and simplifies operations.
CenturyLink (NYSE: CTL) is a global communications, hosting, cloud and IT services company enabling millions of customers to transform their businesses and their lives through innovative technology solutions. CenturyLink offers network and data systems management, Big Data analytics and IT consulting, and operates more than 55 data centers in North America, Europe and Asia. The company provides broadband, voice, video, data and managed services over a robust 250,000-route-mile U.S. fiber network and a 300,000-route-mile international transport network.
http://www.centurylink.comDropbox keeps more than 500 million registered users on the same page with easy-to-use collaboration tools and the fastest, most-reliable file sync platform. From the smallest business to the largest enterprise, we make teamwork better.
https://www.dropbox.com/newsInsight Cloud + Data Center Transformation is a complete IT services and solution provider that helps organizations transform technology, operations, and service delivery to meet challenges and future-proof the business. As an independent integrator, we’re free to recommend the most appropriate solutions — across cloud, IT transformation, next-generation technology, and security.
https://www.insight.com/en_US/home.htmlComcast Business provides a variety of enterprise solutions for network connectivity and managed services that enable large businesses to simplify the complexity of their network in the face of dynamic innovation. Comcast Business can design, build, implement and manage the custom network solutions required for today's large, distributed enterprises. With simple, secure and reliable managed solutions available nationwide, customers receive the cost competitive voice, data and support services they need in order to meet their strategic business objectives and gain the competitive edge. Our innovative and cost saving technologies will change the way you improve, adopt and support new technology today and into the future.
https://business.comcast.com/Citrix helps organizations deliver a consistent and secure work experience no matter where work needs to get done—in the office, at home, or in the field. Our digital workspace solutions give each employee the resources and space they need to do their very best work. And our platform brings user experience, IT flexibility and security together to foster innovation, resilience and business continuity — all while removing the limits of geography, devices, networks and even clouds to deliver a better employee experience.
www.citrix.comAvanade is the leading provider of innovative digital and cloud services, business solutions and design-led experiences delivered through the power of people and the Microsoft ecosystem. Our professionals bring bold, fresh thinking combined with technology, business and industry expertise to help fuel transformation and growth for our clients and their customers. Avanade has 30,000 digitally connected people across 24 countries, bringing clients the best thinking through a collaborative culture that honors diversity and reflects the communities in which we operate. Majority owned by Accenture, Avanade was founded in 2000 by Accenture LLP and Microsoft Corporation.
www.avanade.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.comRussell Reynolds Associates is a premier provider of senior-level executive search and assessment, serving clients globally for 40 years. We advise our clients on recruiting and retaining outstanding and impactful leaders, and help them mitigate the risks associated with senior level appointments. We are a private firm with 39 offices across North and South America, Europe and Asia/Pacific, covering all major business regions including Africa, Eastern Europe and Russia, the Middle East and the South Pacific. We leverage our collective expertise to identify and assess leaders who can support the growth and success of our client organizations. Our 300 experienced consultants are supported by a global research network We complete more than 2,000 assignments annually, across a broad range of industries and functional roles.
http://www.russellreynolds.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.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.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.comEgon Zehnder was founded in 1964 with a distinctive vision and structure aimed at achieving two basic goals - to place our clients' interests first and to lead our profession in creating value for our clients through the assessment and recruitment of top-level management resources. The most fundamental expression of our client-first vision resides in our structure, which is unique to our profession. Our 390 consultants, operating from 63 wholly owned offices in 37 countries, are organized around a single-profit center partnership. This is designed to eliminate competitive barriers between our offices. It allows us to operate seamlessly when engagements call for us to mobilize across many offices in a country or a region. Large or small, local or global, our clients benefit from our structure by having access to our most relevant resources and relationships wherever they may reside. Underpinning this unique structure is our private ownership. We have chosen to operate our firm independent of any outside interests and are motivated solely by a desire to exceed our clients' expectations.
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