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2016 Palo Alto CIO Executive Leadership Summit

Four Seasons Silicon Valley, East Palo Alto, CA

Event Highlights

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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


  • Aileen Alexander
    Managing Partner/Senior Client Partner
    Korn Ferry

  • Yasir Anwar
    SVP & Head of Digital Technology
    Macy's

  • Ashwin Ballal, Ph.D.
    EVP & CIO
    Medallia

    Ashwin Ballal joined Medallia, a market leader in customer experience management in 2016 as its first ever CIO. He is responsible for building best in class IT infrastructure, collaboration services, workplace services, and business systems that globally scale and provide a spectacular employee and digital systems experience. During his tenure at Medallia, Ashwin has been responsible for Customer Experience Management, including several transformational business programs and projects that drive the top line growth and go-to-market strategies. He also envisioned and developed a very unique product solution for CxO’s.

     

    Prior to joining Medallia, Ashwin was Chief Information, Intelligence & Data Officer at KLA-Tencor, a market leading semiconductor capital equipment company globally responsible for driving business value, managing and supporting IT Infrastructure, Business Applications, Productivity and Collaboration tools, Advanced Data Analytics and Enterprise Risk Management. Ashwin was instrumental in several enterprise business transformations at KLA-Tencor, which included business process optimization, outsourcing, cloud migration, mobile solutions, big data analytics, NLP, ML & AI. Prior to serving as CIO, Ashwin was President and Managing Director for KLA-Tencor India. He was responsible for all offshore software development for KLA-Tencor products and all back-office managed and shared services, including Supply Chain, Finance, HR & IT operations. Ashwin’s tenure at KLA-Tencor also included being General Manager for the Macro Inspection product division for KLA-Tencor with full P&L responsibilities. Additionally, Ashwin held various executive and senior level positions at KLA-Tencor in Sales, Marketing, Engineering, and Program and Business Operations Management. He has also held various senior management positions at Electroglas Inc., Keithley Instruments, and Noran Instruments.

    Ashwin earned his doctorate and post doctorate degrees in Material Science and Engineering from the University of Maryland at College Park and his bachelor's degree in Metallurgy from the National Institute of Technology in India.

    Ashwin has been the recipient of many leadership awards including the HMG strategy

    most Innovative CIO award and CIO 100 Innovation awards. He continues to be a strong

    advocate for women and an active mentor, including Womens unlimited. Additionally, Ashwin was a board member of the Children’s Discovery Museum. Ashwin continues to be an investor, business mentor for early startups, and very active in the CIO and VC communities. He is also a charter member of TIE.

  • Todd Barnum
    CISO
    GoPro Inc.

    Todd Barnum is the Chief Information Security Officer for GoPro in San Mateo California.  In this role, he leads the information security team, and helps GoPro secure its critical information assets.

    Prior to GoPro, Todd spent time at two consulting firms, KPMG LLP, and Forrester Research.  In both positions Todd led Information Security Consulting Practices.   

    Prior to these consultant gigs, Todd was the Vice President and Chief Information Security Officer at Warner Bros Entertainment in Burbank California.  At the same time Todd also had the pleasure of serving Warner Bros as the Vice President of Enterprise Architecture, and was responsible for architecting and securing the transition from and entirely insourced IT model to one that was entirely outsourced and off-shored. 

    Prior to Warner Bros, Todd spent 8 years at AMGEN, headquartered in Los Angeles where he served as Corporate Director and Chief Information Security Officer. 

    Early in his career, Todd learned the details of information security as a Naval Officer managing some of the Navy’s largest telecommunication systems.  Todd got his Masters in Telecommunications from the United States Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey California, and his Bachelors from the University of Hawaii. 

    Todd is also an Adjunct Professor at California Luther University where he’s taught computer science courses since 2001.  Todd also served as a Board member of the Ventura County YMCA, and was a part Orange County’s Big Brother Big Sister Program.

  • Sandeep Bhadra
    Principal
    Menlo Ventures

    Sandeep Bhadra joined Menlo in 2015 and focuses on enterprise investments. Companies in the Menlo portfolio he is involved with include AppDome, Platform9, Signifyd, and Unravel Data. Sandeep was most recently with Cisco's Corporate Business Development team working on acquisitions and investments in cloud, enterprise infrastructure software, and big data/analytics. Sandeep was actively involved with Cisco's acquisitions of tail-f (SDN orchestration), Metacloud (Openstack private cloud) and Memoir Systems (next-gen network memory), and investments in Map-R, Platfora and Moogsoft (big data / analytics).

    Earlier, Sandeep was an engineer at Texas Instruments' R&D unit - where he led projects to build an Openflow switch chip, an ultra low-power IoT wireless mote and 4G/LTE small-cell networks. 

    Sandeep received a PhD from the University of Texas at Austin and a Bachelors degree from IIT Madras, both in Electrical Engineering, and an MBA from INSEAD. In his spare time, Sandeep likes to travel up and down the pacific coast with his dog, read fiction, and drink burgundies.

  • Jeff Brzycki
    CIO
    Autodesk

    As Autodesk’s Chief Information Officer, Jeff Brzycki leads the Enterprise Information Services (EIS) organization and his team plans, builds, runs and secures the applications, infrastructure and data that run Autodesk.  With Autodesk’s transition to a subscription-based business model, the EIS team has partnered broadly across the company to deliver new business systems and big-data capabilities to accelerate Autodesk’s evolution.

    Prior to joining Autodesk in 2009, Jeff served as the CIO for VeriSign and led a large global IT organization. During his 25+ years in the IT industry, Jeff has held leadership positions at high-profile Silicon Valley companies including Symantec, Veritas, Silicon Graphics and Hewlett-Packard.  During the dot-com era, Jeff also served as CIO for a start-up company in the Enterprise Applications ASP space.

    Jeff holds a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from the University of Wisconsin with a double major in Accounting and Information Systems Design.

  • Paul Chapman
    CIO
    Box

    Paul Chapman is the Global Chief Information Officer at Box, where he is responsible for leading the company’s global information technology strategy, cyber risk and compliance practices and customer advocacy. His mandate includes the development and delivery of key technology initiatives to support the company’s growing workforce and customer
    base, cyber risk programs for business and product security operations, product security assurance, physical security and compliance.
     
    Prior to Box, Paul was the CIO of HP Software for HP, where he led the IT organization and supported the development and delivery of IT solutions. Chapman also served as Vice President of Global Infrastructure and Cloud Operations and Vice President of Enterprise
    Applications at VMware.
    He holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Filton Tech in the United Kingdom.

  • Bob Concannon
    Independent Consultant
    Northtower Technologies

    Bob Concannon was formerly a Senior Client Partner within the San Francisco office of Korn Ferry and was a member of the Firm’s Global Technology Market. Mr. Concannon has over 30 years of technology executive search experience, leading numerous CIO and CTO searches across industries. He also served on Korn/Ferry's Information Technology Officers Center of Expertise. Furthermore, Mr. Concannon led searches in the software and IT communities on assignments for clients in the areas of cloud, mobility and enterprise software. Venture capitalists and private equity firms looked to his expertise around helping Internet startups migrate to the next executive level as they receive their post Series B and C funding rounds.

    Mr. Concannon served as the managing director of another global executive search firm, leading the technology practice, U.S. Additionally, he led the firm’s global technology vertical for seven years, coordinating worldwide search activity in the technology sector with Fortune 100 top accounts. Previously, Mr. Concannon served in sales and marketing roles for both Pioneer Electronics and Sony Corporation. Mr. Concannon served the Internet industry from its early inception in the 90s by working with then unknown startups Netscape and Yahoo! His portfolio clients have included well-established companies like Microsoft, Oracle, 3Com, Cisco and Nokia, and a host of start-up companies funded by tier-1 venture capital. He has completed over 500 search projects in his career with many of those projects reaching successful IPOs. Published and quoted often in The Wall Street Journal, San Jose Mercury News, CFO and CIO Magazines, as well as being featured twice on ABC’s World News Tonight with Peter Jennings in their Silicon Valley report, Mr. Concannon has served as an expert on Silicon Valley trends for over 15 years. He has been a guest lecturer at The University of California Berkeley and Stanford University. He has a bachelor’s degree from the University of the Pacific.

  • Tim Crawford
    CIO Strategic Advisor
    AVOA

    Tim Crawford is ranked as one of the Top 100 Most Influential Chief Information Technology Officers (#4), Top 100 Most Social CIOs (#7), Top 20 People Most Retweeted by IT Leaders (#5) and Top 100 Cloud Experts and Influencers. Tim is a strategic CIO & advisor that works with large global enterprise organizations across a number of industries including financial services, healthcare, major airlines and high-tech. Tim’s work differentiates and catapults organizations in transformative ways through the use of technology as a strategic lever. Tim takes a provocative, but pragmatic approach to the intersection of business and technology. Tim is an internationally renowned CIO thought leader including Digital Transformation, Cloud Computing, Data Analytics and Internet of Things (IoT). Tim has served as CIO and other senior IT roles with global organizations such as Konica Minolta/ All Covered, Stanford University, Knight-Ridder, Philips Electronics and National Semiconductor. Tim is also the host of the CIO In The Know (CIOitk) podcast. CIOitk is a weekly podcast that interviews CIOs on the top issues facing CIOs today. Tim holds an MBA in International Business with Honors from Golden Gate University Ageno School of Business and a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Information Systems from Golden Gate University.

  • Julie Cullivan
    Chief Technology & People Officer
    Forescout Technologies, Inc.

    With more than two decades of experience driving global operational capabilities across some of the world’s largest cybersecurity and IT brands, Julie leads the People, Business, and Technology Operations at Forescout. Julie has extensive operational and technical leadership experience, having held prior roles at FireEye, Autodesk, McAfee and Oracle. Julie also serves on the Board for Axon and earned a bachelor’s degree in Finance from Santa Clara University

  • Jessica Denecour
    Independent Director
    Pacific Gas and Electric Company

    Jessica Denecour provides leadership for Varian's global Information Technology organization. Prior to joining Varian in January 2006, she served in a variety of management positions over a 20+ year career at Agilent Technologies and Hewlett Packard. Denecour received her BS in Business Administration and Management Information Systems from California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo. She is currently serving on the boards of the Children’s Discovery Museum of San Jose and CapOneSource.

  • Anil Earla
    Chief Information and Digital/Data Officer
    CyberNetix.ai

    Anil Earla was formerly the Head of Information and Data Analytics for Global IS at Visa Inc., where he lead diverse teams of business and technology. As an intrapreneur, he is passionate about bringing Silicon Valley innovation mindset to larger organizations. His dual roles span innovation and strategic partnerships, shaping vision/strategy and technology alignment, various technology verticals across product life cycle for cyber security such as product management and business/system analysis, Big Data and visualization engineering, advanced analytics (data science), business intelligence and data warehousing, infrastructure and solution architecture, infrastructure and operations, program/portfolio management, and governance. Before joining Visa, he was part of industry leading organizations in the financial services, telecommunications, insurance, gaming, and airline industries. His stint across different industries and technology functions provides him the unique opportunity to apply and leverage the power of data and analytics. Under his leadership, his team was Data Impact awards finalist at Strata + Hadoop World 2014 for innovation in data ecosystem. Earla is part of the entrepreneurship and innovation program from Stanford Graduate School of Business. He completed Program in strategy from Harvard Graduate School of Business. He holds a master’s degree in computer science from JSU and a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Bangalore University.

  • Mark Egan
    Partner
    StrataFusion

    Mark Egan is a partner at StrataFusion Group, Inc. and has more than 25 years of information technology experience, with expertise in IT transformation, information security, and mergers & acquisitions. His extensive experience includes managing global IT organizations with over 1,200 employees, budgets in excess of $350 million, and IT integration for over 60 mergers and acquisitions. Mark has been repeatedly recognized for his leadership and success in scaling IT organizations to support rapid growth companies.

    Prior to joining StrataFusion, Mark was a CIO at VMware where he led the company from a server virtualization vendor with $2 billion in revenue to a $5 billion market leader of cloud solutions. During his 6 years as CIO at Symantec, Mark’s leadership in IT was instrumental in supporting the company’s transformation from $600 million consumer software publisher to a $5 billion market leader of enterprise security solutions. He held senior level positions with companies in a variety of industries, including Sun Microsystems, Price Waterhouse, and Wells Fargo Bank.

    Mark holds a master’s degree in finance and international business from University of San Diego and a bachelor’s degree in computer sciences from University of Clarion. Mark developed and taught a graduate class, “Building Business Value through IT Innovation”, at the Haas School of Business at University of California at Berkeley.

  • Tom Frangione
    Fmr. COO

    As Greylock’s former COO, Tom led the operations team, including marketing, executive and core talent, and customer development efforts.

    Prior to Greylock, Tom co-founded and served as CEO of two venture backed start-ups. Most recently, he was CEO of Simply Continuous, a small-enterprise focused service provider in the large scale data back-up and virtual server recovery business, backed by Greylock Partners that was sold to NetEnrich in 2010. Before that, he was co-founder and CEO of Telephia. Telephia provided syndicated marketing and network quality information to the wireless industry. Telephia was sold to Nielsen in 2007 for $440 million.  Earlier, Tom was SVP and General Manager for Mindscape’s Entertainment division, before its sale to Learning Company, and a consultant with McKinsey & Co. in their Palo Alto, New York, and Milan offices.Tom was on the board of directors for Superscape before its sale to Glu Mobile in 2008.

    Tom holds an MBA from Stanford University and a BS in Electrical Engineering from Princeton University, where he also played soccer.

  • Clark Golestani
    Managing Director
    Advisor, Investor, Board Member
    C Sensei Group LLC

    Golestani is the Former President, Emerging Businesses and Global Chief Information Officer at Merck, where he is responsible for the company’s portfolio of health services and solutions companies inclusive of the company’s venture and equity funds, as well as the company’s global information technology organization, strategy and worldwide execution spanning all lines of business inclusive of Human Health and Animal Health BioPharma. Golestani serves as a director on the Board of Directors of Seal Software (www.seal-software.com), the leading provider of contract discovery, extraction, and analytics capabilities, and UMUC Ventures, a not-for-profit organization, established by the University of Maryland University College (umuc.edu), that develops innovative businesses and partnerships, supporting efforts to reduce the cost of higher education for adult learners while addressing the workforce needs of the 21st century.  Golestani also serves on the advisory councils for multiple venture funds and technology product and services companies. Previous Merck responsibilities included the global head of IT for Merck’s R&D division; Leadership of the Company’s global IT capability supporting corporate functions; Leadership and development of the Company’s IT strategy, portfolio, and enterprise architecture; Leadership of the company’s global computing services, eBusiness, and information security capabilities; as well as various leadership and management roles across the company.  Prior to joining Merck, Golestani was a principal with Oracle Corporation’s consulting practice. Previously, Golestani served on the Board of Directors for Liaison Technologies (www.liaison.com), and NPower (www.npower.org). Golestani has a degree in Management Science from Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sloan School of Management, and was a co-founder of Cambridge, Massachusetts based Cross Road Technologies, Inc..
     

  • Jason Hengels
    Founder
    Exposure Security

    Jason Hengels is a pragmatic veteran of the data security industry with a talent for building world class security teams. As the founder of Exposure Security, Jason has provided clients with CISO leadership & advisory services as well as hands-on technical services, including post-breach investigation & remediation, web application security testing, malware analysis, IPS & Splunk implementation and custom tool development. He is the former VP of Security at Box, Inc., which specializes in cloud-based storage and collaboration. Prior to his time at Box, he was a Senior Business Leader at Visa Inc. He has successfully managed numerous SAS 70, SSAE 16, PCI DSS and other security audits. Jason has spoken at RSA and other conferences and has a strong network of information security professionals. He currently holds CISSP, CISM and CRISC certifications and has over 16 years of experience as an information security professional. His specialties include security management, APT post-breach remediation and technical/architectural assessment of software and network security.

  • Sreelakshmi Kolli
    VP of Global IT & Head of Business Transformation
    Align Technology

    Sreelakshmi Kolli leads global IT for Align Technology, a medical device company with industry-leading innovative products such as Invisalign clear aligners, iTero Intraoral scanners, and OrthoCAD digital services that help dental professionals achieve the clinical results they expect and deliver effective, cutting-edge dental options to their patients. Her role includes defining the technology strategy and development of all global business applications and infrastructure including computing, networks and security. The business applications support customer experience, consumer, professional and product marketing, manufacturing, finance, HR, legal and regulatory. 
    Sree also leads the global program management office that manages the stage gate governance and execution of the company roadmap that includes research, product, go to market and enterprise programs. In addition, she is the leader of the global business transformation program aimed at delivering platforms and technology to support customer experience and simplified business processes across the organization to drive agility and operational excellence. Previously at Align, she held positions of increasing responsibility leading business operations, and engineering for customer facing applications. Prior to Align, Sree held technical lead positions with Sword CT Space and Accenture. Sree is a member of the Healthcare and Lifesciences board at SAP and Salesforce.com where the focus is on the strategic needs of the industry and the product capabilities needed to support them.

  • Tony Leng
    Managing Director, Digital Transformation and CIO Practice Lead
    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.

  • Hari Makkala
    CEO, Founder
    myElth Inc.

    Hari Makkala is the Former Group Vice President of Information Technology (IT) for Delta Dental of California and its affiliates. He joined Delta Dental in 2009, serving as Vice President of IT and Head of Applications Delivery and Enterprise Architecture, bringing with him more than 23 years of IT experience in the health care and finance industries.  Previously, Hari served as Chief Technology Officer and Senior Vice President for People’s United Financial, Inc., and held several IT leadership roles at CIGNA Corporation and positions at AETNA and GeoTrace Technologies. He holds a Master of Science degree in computer engineering from the University of Houston and a Bachelor of Engineering degree from Osmania University in India.

  • Todd Mazza
    Vice President, Enterprise Architecture, Strategy, Technical Operations, and EUX
    Rockwell Automation

  • Kathy McElligott
    EVP, CIO & CTO
    McKesson Corporation

    Kathy McElligott is Executive Vice President, Chief Information Officer and Chief Technology Officer of McKesson Corporation. As CIO, McElligott is responsible for all technology initiatives within the corporation. As CTO, McElligott guides the overall technology direction for the company’s healthcare technology products, and provides support and guidance for application development processes companywide.

    Prior to McKesson, McElligott served as the CIO of Emerson, a St. Louis-based global manufacturing and technology company, where she managed the company’s information technology strategy and information security for its global operations, including hardware, software, and services, as well as its telecommunications and data center infrastructure.

    McElligott sits on the board of directors at ArcBest, a publicly traded $2.6B freight transportation and logistics company.

  • Declan Morris
    CIO
    Splunk

    Declan Morris is Chief Information Officer at Splunk, responsible for the information technology (IT) infrastructure and applications used across the company globally. He is also responsible for operating Splunk products internally, and securing all corporate and Splunk Cloud solutions.

    Prior to joining Splunk, Mr. Morris was Vice President of Cloud Operations for Adobe Creative Cloud where he played a foundational role in transitioning Adobe’s Digital Media business to the Cloud. With more than 30 years in the high technology industry, he has also served in various IT leadership positions at eBay, PayPal, Goldman Sachs, and Charles Schwab & Co. Mr. Morris holds a BS Information Management Systems from the University of San Francisco. He serves on the Technical Advisory Boards for Ellie Mae and Benhamou Global Ventures.

  • Hunter Muller
    President & CEO
    HMG Strategy

    Hunter Muller is a charismatic industry pioneer and a modern-day Renaissance Man. As a global C-suite advisor and coach for the past 30 years, Hunter’s insights and concepts have been successfully applied by Fortune 1000 organizations worldwide to accelerate executive performance, propel the career ascent of C-level executives, and to drive transformative innovation and create new waves of value.

    Hunter is the President and CEO of HMG Strategy, LLC, the largest independent, objective, transparent and collaborative executive network in the world. HMG focuses on innovation and breakthrough strategies for core, parallel and new markets while studying the most successful organizations eco-systems and platforms such as Amazon and Microsoft.

    HMG Strategy is the provider of thought leadership and networking events for CIOs, CISOs, and senior technology executives. HMG Strategy offers a unique, integrated model for enabling C-level executives and their companies to draw upon courageous leadership to reimagine, reinvent, and rebuild their business models to attain the genius-level thinking required in today’s dynamic business landscape to achieve competitive advantage in the digital frontier.

    Hunter's passion for the role of the technology executive in transforming the business is reflected in the 7 Pillars of Trust which embody HMG Strategy's unique business model.

    Complementing HMG Strategy’s world-renowned events is HMGNextVentures, a venture capital accelerator aimed at helping connect CIOs with the most innovative technology companies and entrepreneurs from Silicon Valley to Tel Aviv. HMG Strategy also partners with the world’s leading venture capital firms, including Amplify Partners, Greylock Partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners, and Sequoia Capital. HMG Strategy connects CEOs, CIOs, and other C-level executives with startup technologies backed by the leading VCs to identify opportunities for innovation and business transformation.

    Meanwhile, HMG Strategy’s award-winning Research Team advises the world’s technology companies such as Adobe, Nutanix, and Workday on branding, messaging, and Voice of the Customer strategies.

    Hunter has published five that draw from his extensive business experience: The Transformational CIO (Wiley, March 2011), On Top of the Cloud (Wiley, January 2012), Leading the Epic Revolution (Wiley, September 2013) and The Big Shift in IT Leadership (Wiley, July 2015) and The CEO of Technology (Wiley, January 2018). Hunter is now working on his sixth book: 'Enterprise 2025', which is slated to be published in January 2020. As a result, Hunter’s unique position of knowing the thoughts, challenges, and opportunities of the IT Leader, he is asked to speak at a variety of venues such as IBM’s Cloud Expo and on TheStreet.com.

    Hunter and HMG Strategy support a variety of charitable causes, including the American Cancer Society, Save the Children, and Year Up, and Hunter personally gives back his time and ideas as a member of the Executive Committee of the Fairfield/Westchester Chapter of the Society for Information Management.

    An intrepid international athlete, Hunter is an ardent yacht racer, a world-class skier, and an extreme fitness guru. Hunter is passionate about ocean and mountain adventures and spending time with his sons, Chase and Brice.

    Hunter earned a Bachelor of Science in the Babson College School of Management.

  • Emily Schaffer
    Executive Director
    Year Up

    Emily Schaffer, Executive Director at Year Up Bay Area Emily started her career addressing poverty and its impact on educational opportunities as a part of the Teach for America teaching corps in urban Los Angeles. After teaching for three years, Emily moved to the business sector to learn first-hand about business strategy. She used this experience to guide her work in business development as the Director of Programs for SpringBoard Forward, bringing a cutting-edge career development program to thousands of entry-level workers in the Bay Area. At YUBA Emily oversaw the outreach, admissions, student services and corporate engagement teams, ensuring that each phase of the program students feel supported and well prepared for their next steps: internship, graduation and job placement. Emily currently serves as YUBA’s Interim Executive Director, managing all aspects of the site as Jay transitions into his new role. Emily received her Education M.A. from Loyola Marymount University.

  • Ed Solomon
    Senior Advisor - Corporate Development
    Genesys Works

    Ed Solomon has over 30 years of IT Services, Consulting and Staffing experience with the focus on building high performing fast growth businesses. Ed’s relationships with “C” level IT Executives helped him to transition to successfully grow Genesys Works and Year Up Bay Area Corporate Partnerships in Northern California, LA, Phoenix, DC, & NY.  Ed has helped to build and manage a series of CIO Roundtables in Northern & Southern California to help CIO’s network and share best practices.

    Prior to Non Profit Consulting, Ed was President & CEO & Co-Founder of an International Nurse Recruitment business. During most of his career Ed was the Senior U.S. Partner and SVP of a Technology Consulting and Staffing Business Division responsible for the six technology offices in the western U.S.

    Ed has his BS degree in Industrial Management from Fairleigh Dickinson University, and an MS in Management Science from Stevens Institute of Technology. He is a long standing volunteer at the Berkeley Haas School, Institute for Business Innovation, Fisher Center for Business Analytics and has co-managed many Executive IT Seminars and MBA Tech Competitions over the past years.

  • Brad Strock
    Independent Director, Elevate Credit
    CIO, PayPal (Retired)

    Most recently, Brad Strock served as the CIO of PayPal, a Fortune 250 company that is  transforming the world of global payments, commerce, and how individuals access financial  services.  Brad has over 30 years of experience in helping companies grow through disruptive  technologies and digital transformation.  Throughout his career, he has led numerous business  turnarounds, acquisitions, divestitures, and strategic growth initiatives.  Brad has a unique mix of  expertise spanning business strategy, finance, risk management, and operations, coupled with a  deep passion for technology and how it can transform businesses to drive growth through digital  transformation.  He has demonstrated experience in influencing and driving change spanning the  boardroom to the individual contributor level.

    Brad led a broad scope of responsibilities contributing to PayPal’s ten‐year revenue growth rate  of over 20% annually. He led a team of over 1,400 providing both IT functions and software  development for operations platforms supporting a global enterprise operating in 200 markets,  24 languages and 65 locations. Brad served at PayPal for over seven years, and in the CIO role  he led the transformation of PayPal's operations platforms to support dramatic user growth  while holding costs flat and creating incremental revenue opportunities. He also transformed  how technology can enable a large global workforce to operate with the speed and flexibility of  a startup.  Brad also led the IT separation from eBay in 2015.

    Prior to PayPal, Brad held several senior executive roles at Bank of America, including leading  the Next Generation Payments and Commerce team that created what is now the Zelle  payments platform. Prior to Bank of America, Brad led the creation of a new rewards platform  at JP Morgan Chase that has delivered innovative new credit card products propelling  growth.  Brad's early career spanned a wide range of strategy and financial roles including M&A  work, turnarounds, and strategic planning roles.   

    Brad currently serves as an Independent Director of Elevate Credit (NYSE: ELVT), as well as  Hiinga, a nonprofit providing micro loans in Africa.  He is a frequent speaker at both business  and technology forums and has authored numerous articles on innovation as well as being a coinventor on several U.S. Patents.  He is a passionate supporter of building diverse, high  performing teams.  He received his MSM (MBA) in Finance from the Krannert School of  Management at Purdue University, along with a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Purdue.  He  and his wife, Vicky, have been married for 30 years and have three children. 

  • Chris Van Tuin
    Chief Technologist
    Red Hat

    Chris Van Tuin, Chief Technologist at Red Hat, has over 20 years of experience in IT and Software.   Since joining Red Hat in 2005, Chris has been architecting solutions for strategic customers and partners with a focus on emerging technologies including IaaS, PaaS, and DevOps.  He started his career at Intel in IT and Managed Hosting followed by leadership roles in services and sales engineering at Loudcloud and Linux startups.

    He is sought after by numerous CIO Organizations, publications, and business analysts for his extensive experience and forward thinking insights.

    Chris holds a Bachelors of Electrical Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology.

  • Yvonne Wassenaar
    CIO
    New Relic

    Yvonne is recognized as a thought leader in how to maintain business relevance in a rapidly changing world.  She is a frequent presenter and panel member on this topic and is a respected advisor to C-level executives on the issues of change, technology driven innovation, and advancement of women in leadership/STEM.

    As New Relic’s Chief Information Officer Yvonne divides her focus between the company’s growth strategy and delivering the technology capability required to succeed in a cloud first world.  In her role she is writing the new CIO playbook enabling innovation and distributed empowerment without sacrificing security, compliance, or customer experience.  Yvonne is also New Relic’s executive sponsor for their non-profit program and a member of New Relic’s Diversity Council.

    Yvonne’s talent for communication, collaboration, and innovation has earned her executive titles and recognition as a respected leader in Tech.  Prior to her corporate executive experience, Yvonne advised global organizations on business diversification, process/capability scaling, and go to market transformation.  Her focus today is the discovery of the root causes that drive business challenge and how to bring an innovative, collaborative, and agile approach to solving them.  Yvonne thrives in complex and ambiguous situations and loves working with other talented individuals who share her commitment to making a difference. 

    Yvonne currently serves on the Board of Directors for Bitium, the Board of Trustees for Harvey Mudd College and on the Board of Directors for the Athena Alliance.  She is part of the WSJ CIO Network, WSJ Women of Note, and was recently recognized as a Women of Influence 2016.

    Yvonne received her undergraduate degree and MBA from UCLA where she graduated with top honors. Her personal passions are the advancement of women in leadership/STEM along with driving forward the concept of  “shared –value” with corporations. She is an avid traveler and finds her inspiration in the many wonders of the world ranging from the Taj Mahal (India) to the Archipelago (Sweden) and Kilimanjaro (Africa).

  • Anthony Watson
    President and CEO
    Uphold, Inc.

    Anthony Watson, a leading British business and technology executive, serves as Uphold’s President & Chief Executive Officer.

    Prior to joining Uphold, Anthony was the Chief Information Officer of Nike, Inc. where, as a member of Nike’s executive committee he had company-wide strategic and operational responsibility for leading and delivering technology for the world's largest sportswear and sports apparel brand, globally. Previously Watson was the Managing Director & Chief Information Officer of Europe Middle East Retail & Business Banking (EMERBB) and of Global Operations at Barclays Bank PLC. In addition Anthony was Chair of the EMERBB Operating Committee. Before Barclays Anthony was the Senior Vice President & Global Head of Technology Services at Wells Fargo & Co, where he led the technology division of the bank across 44 countries and was a member of the Wells Fargo Bank International Executive Committee.

    Anthony is an Independent Non-Executive Director, Member of the Board and Chair of the Audit Committee of Digital Global Services, a public company listed on the London Stock Exchange. Anthony also serves as a member of the National Board of Directors, Treasurer and Chair of the Finance Committee of GLAAD. GLAAD, which is based in the United States (US), is the largest LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender) media rights advocacy organization in the world. He is also a Patron of Diversity Role Models, the LGBT education and anti-homophobic bullying charity, an Ambassador for the Amy Winehouse Foundation, a charity to prevent drug and alcohol misuse and to inspire vulnerable and disadvantaged young people to reach their full potential, as well as the Chair & Head Judge of theEuropean Diversity Awards, Europe’s largest awards ceremony recognizing individuals, organizations and companies that make a difference in the field of diversity and inclusion. Anthony has won multiple accolades for his social advocacy work, including:

    • February 2016: Appointed Chair for Labour party's Business and Enterprise Advisory Council.
    • February 2016: The Daily Telegraph & Out at Work named Anthony #1 out of 50 most powerful LGBT business leaders in the UK.
    • October 2015: Financial Times named Anthony the 9th (out of 100) most influential LGBT business leader in the world.
    • January 2015: The Daily Telegraph & Out at Work named Anthony the 4th (out of 50) most powerful LGBT business leader in the UK.
    • November 2014: Independent Newspaper placed Anthony 44th (out of 101) in a reader’s poll of LGBT people who make ‘Great Britain a better place to live’. In a list dominated by celebrities, Anthony was only one of two business leaders on the list.
    • October 2014: Fortune Magazine placed Anthony 19th in Fortune’s “40 under 40”, which lists the world’s 40 most powerful C-Suite executives under 40.

    Anthony is based in London, UK but spends the majority of his time on the West Coast of the USA when not traveling extensively on business. He tweets at: @AnthonyWatson

  • Tony Young
    CIO
    Sophos

    Tony joined Sophos as Chief Information Officer (CIO) in 2016. In this role he is responsible for the strategy, security and management of the global IT organization, and the security of data for Sophos’ 53,000 partners and 4000,000 customers worldwide.

    Prior to joining Sophos, Tony was chief information officer at GoPro, the camera maker and content enabler. Prior to GoPro, Tony served as senior vice president for Informatica Cloud and Subscription Sales where he was responsible for growing Informatica’s global Cloud business. During his career at Informatica Tony also served as chief information officer, and as executive director of North Asia based in China.

    Prior to joining Informatica in 2002, Tony worked at Converge as the Director of Exchange Applications and Mindcrossing as vice president product development. Tony began his career at Hewlett Packard (HP) as a software developer and served for 11 years in a number of information technology and marketing roles. Tony holds a bachelor's degree in Information Systems and a master's degree in Business Administration from Santa Clara University, CA.

  • Elaine Zelby
    Enterprise Product Marketing
    Slack

     

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7:00 AM - 8:00 AM  

Registration, Continental Breakfast,and Networking

8:00 AM - 8:20 AM  

Welcome and Introduction

Hunter Muller, President and CEO, HMG Strategy, LLC

8:20 AM - 8:40 AM  

EXECUTIVE INTERVIEW: Leading in the Modern Day Enterprise

Ramón Baez, SVP & Customer Evangelist, Hewlett Packard Enterprise

In today's digital economy technology demands across the enterprise are unprecedented. In this candid interview, Hunter Muller will interview Ramón Baez on what the CEO, board and LOB wants from the CIO/technology executive to lead in the modern day enterprise.

8:40 AM - 9:00 AM  

Coffee Break, Networking and Meet Our Partners

9:00 AM - 9:30 AM  

EXECUTIVE KEYNOTE: Transforming Business Applications into Systems of Engagement

Elaine Zelby, Director Executive Programs, Capriza

Companies have invested millions of dollars and decades of work into automating and customizing their business applications only to find that complex user experiences have hindered their ability to achieve any real productivity or enhanced customer experience. Harnessing the power of existing business applications in the mobile era requires putting the user in the center and abstracting the base application to create one-minute workflows that enable users to do something quickly on a mobile device.

In this session, Capriza will discuss:How you can transform your business applications from systems of record into systems of engagement, enabling employees across the organization to maximize the one-minute mobile moment;examples of companies extending the reach of existing business applications to employees in ways never before available; andhow you can deliver mobile solutions that empower lines of business in weeks not months.

9:30 AM - 10:00 AM  

Coffee Break, Networking and Meet Our Partners

10:00 AM - 10:40 AM  

EXECUTIVE PANEL: Changing the Mindset and Language of IT

Julie Cullivan, CIO and SVP of Business Operations, FireEye

Paul Chapman,CIO, Box

Sreelakshmi Kolli, VP of Global IT & Head of Business Transformation, Align Technology

Chris Van Tuin, Chief Technologist, Red Hat

Moderator: Tim Crawford, CIO Strategic Advisor, AVOA

IT is in the midst of an evolutionary transformation to the digital enterprise. As the CIO leads the charge to enable stronger relationships with fellow c-suite executives, a change in mindset & language is needed. In this session, we discuss one of the fundamental changes needed to support the new digital enterprise: Changing the mindset & language of IT.

10:40 AM - 11:10 AM  

Coffee Break, Networking and Meet Our Partners

11:10 AM - 11:50 AM  

EXECUTIVE PANEL: Strategically Mapping the Road Ahead

Ashwin Ballal, Ph.D., CIO, Medallia

Anil Earla, Head of Information and Data Analytics, Global IS, Visa Inc.

Clark Golestani, EVP & CIO, Merck

Hari Makkala, Group Vice President, Head of Information Technology, Delta Dental

Vaughn Stewart, VP, Enterprise Architect, Pure Storage

Moderator: Hunter Muller, President and CEO, HMG Strategy, LLC

Innovation in enterprise IT is accelerating, driven by massive platform and technology shifts. This panel of senior executives will share discussion around the strategic direction technology leaders need to take to map the road ahead.

11:50 AM - 12:10 PM  

Networking Appetizer Break

12:10 PM - 1:10 PM  

Luncheon

Executive Interview and Presentation of the HMG Strategy Transformational CIO Award to Kathy McElligott, EVP, CIO & CTO, McKesson Corporation

In this candid interview, Kathy will share insights into her first year in the valley, her leadership style, building world class global teams and the role of the technology executive in the future.

Introduction to Year Up: EmilySchaffer, Interim Executive Director, Year Up

1:10 PM - 1:20 PM

Express Break

1:20 PM - 2:00 PM  

EXECUTIVE PANEL: The Challenge of Enterprise Security Today and Into the Future

Aileen Alexander, Senior Client Partner - Co-Leader Global Cybersecurity Practice, Korn Ferry

Todd Barnum, CISO, GoPro Inc.

Jessica Denecour, SVP & CIO, Varian Medical Systems

Jason Hengels, Founder, Exposure Security

Sheila Jordan, SVP & CIO, Symantec

Moderator: Mark Egan, Partner, StrataFusion

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. 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.

Today's complex threat landscape requires CISO’s to carefully balance putting security controls in place while enabling their organizations to move quickly. They also need toupdate their Board of Directors on how they willprotect critical assets of the organization.However, CISOsfacea hugeshortage of security staff and thereforerequirecreative strategies to put effective teams in place.

2:00 PM - 2:20 PM  

Coffee Break, Networking and Meet Our Partners

2:20 PM - 3:00 PM  

EXECUTIVE PANEL: Silicon Valley VCs on Latest Trends and Opportunities

Sandeep Bhadra, Principal, Menlo Ventures

Mike Dauber, General Partner, Amplify Partners

Tom Frangione, COO, Greylock Partners

Arif Janmohamed, Venture Capitalist, Lightspeed Venture Partners

Moderator: Hunter Muller, President and CEO, HMG Strategy, LLC

Leading VCs consider that we are in the early innings of an extended innovation cycle that will affect and impact the enterprise for decades to come, re-defining leaders and winners in every vertical market. Sorting through the latest trends and opportunities is a competitive and daunting task. Listen to prominent Silicon Valley executives present where they are placing their bets and their investments.

3:00 PM - 3:20 PM  

Coffee Break, Networking and Meet Our Partners

3:20 PM - 4:00 PM  

EXECUTIVE PANEL: Digital Transformation and The Four Types of CIOs

Jeff Brzycki, CIO, Autodesk

Brad Strock, CIO, PayPal

Yvonne Wassenaar, CIO, New Relic

Moderator: Bob Concannon, Senior Client Partner, CIO/IT Officers Practice, Korn Ferry

The challenge of digital transformation applies to all technology executives, however depending on what type of leader you are (Advocate, Smooth Operator, Fast Responder, or Transformer) can determine how you respond to the challenge.

During this session the results from the national average of responses will be shared, and what the key motivators are for each type of leader.

4:00 PM - 4:20 PM

Coffee Break, Networking and Meet Our Partners

4:20 PM - 5:00 PM  

EXECUTIVE PANEL: Re-imagining the IT Function for the Next Era of the Digital Age

Yasir Anwar, SVP & Head of Digital Technology, Macy's

Vic Bhagat, CIO, Verizon Enterprise Solutions

Todd Mazza, Corporate VP & CIO, DCS Americas, AECOM

Declan Morris, CIO, Splunk

Moderator:Tony Leng, Managing Director and CIO Practice Leader, Diversified Search

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 the IT function for the next era of the digital age.

5:00 PM - 6:00 PM

Raffle Prize Drawings and Executive Networking Reception


Presenting Partners

  • Hewlett Packard Enterprise

    Hewlett Packard Enterprise is an industry leading technology company that enables customers to go further, faster. With the industry’s most comprehensive portfolio, spanning the cloud to the data center to workplace applications, our technology and services help customers around the world make IT more efficient, more productive and more secure.

    https://www.hpe.com/us/en/home.html
  • Capriza

    Capriza modernizes your business by simplifying and mobilizing your critical workflows. Capriza's end-to-end simplification platform enables IT and lines of business to mobile-enable critical business workflows in a matter of days without any coding, APIs, or integration. The solution is applicable for packaged applications such as SAP, Oracle, Salesforce as well as custom built solutions. Capriza disrupts the speed and economics of the journey by extending the capability of legacy applications, in a simple and useable way, onto any smartphone, tablet or desktop. Founded in 2011 by former executives of Mercury Interactive, Capriza is headquartered in Palo Alto, California, and is funded by Andreessen Horowitz, CRV, Tenaya Capital, Harmony Partners and Allen & Company.

    http://www.capriza.com

Platinum Partners

  • Symantec

    Symantec Corporation (NASDAQ: SYMC) is the global leader in cybersecurity. Operating one of the world’s largest cyber intelligence networks, we see more threats, and protect more customers from the next generation of attacks. We help companies, governments and individuals secure their most important data wherever it lives

    http://www.symantec.com
  • Splunk

    Splunk Inc. (NASDAQ: SPLK) provides the leading software platform for real-time Operational Intelligence. Splunk® software and cloud services enable organizations to search, monitor, analyze and visualize machine-generated big data coming from websites, applications, servers, networks, sensors and mobile devices. More than 9,000 enterprises, government agencies, universities and service providers in over 100 countries use Splunk software to deepen business and customer understanding, mitigate cybersecurity risk, prevent fraud, improve service performance and reduce costs. Splunk products include Splunk® Enterprise, Splunk Cloud™, Splunk Storm®, Hunk®, Splunk Analytics for Hadoop and premium Splunk Apps.

    http://splunk.com
  • Red Hat

    Red Hat is the world’s leading provider of enterprise open source software solutions, using a community-powered approach to deliver reliable and high-performing Linux, hybrid cloud, container, and Kubernetes technologies. Red Hat helps customers develop cloud-native applications, integrate existing and new IT applications, and automate and manage complex environments. A trusted adviser to the Fortune 500, Red Hat provides award-winning support, training, and consulting services that bring the benefits of open innovation to any industry. Red Hat is a connective hub in a global network of enterprises, partners, and communities, helping organizations grow, transform, and prepare for the digital future.

    https://www.redhat.com/en
  • Pure Storage

    Pure 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.com

Gold Partners

  • ServiceNow

    ServiceNow makes work, work better for people. Our cloud-based platform and products streamline and simplify how work gets done.

    https://www.servicenow.com/
  • Apptio

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

    http://www.apptio.com

Supporting Partners

  • Workday, Inc.

    Workday is a leading provider of enterprise cloud applications for finance and human resources. Founded in 2005, Workday delivers financial management, human capital management, planning, and analytics applications designed for the world’s largest companies, educational institutions, and government agencies. Organizations ranging from medium-sized businesses to Fortune 50 enterprises have selected Workday.

    https://www.workday.com
  • TelePacific Communications

    TelePacific Communications is a premier integrated managed services provider delivering guaranteed comprehensive business communications solutions to 75,000 locations nationwide for customers ranging from small businesses to enterprises with hundreds of sites. TelePacific’s broad portfolio enables companies to focus on growing their bottom lines instead of overseeing their infrastructure. Headquartered in Los Angeles, the 1,600 person, $664 million enterprise’s award-winning managed services, networks, continuity solutions and focus on customer service have powered 57 consecutive quarters of growth.

    www.telepacific.com

Research Partners

  • Hewlett Packard Enterprise

    Hewlett Packard Enterprise is an industry leading technology company that enables customers to go further, faster. With the industry’s most comprehensive portfolio, spanning the cloud to the data center to workplace applications, our technology and services help customers around the world make IT more efficient, more productive and more secure.

    https://www.hpe.com/us/en/home.html

Strategic Partners

  • Spencer Stuart

    Founded in 1956 and privately owned, Spencer Stuart is one of the world's leading executive search consulting firms. We are the advisor of choice among top companies seeking guidance and counsel on senior leadership needs. We have unrivalled access to leading executives around the world. Our clients range across industries, from the world's largest companies to medium-sized businesses and entrepreneurial start-ups. We operate out of 51 offices in 27 countries. Last year we conducted more than 4,000 assignments around the world. Our team of more than 300 consultants possesses a unique blend of professional search experience and industry expertise. Consultants are organized in practices and work in teams, often across international boundaries that maximize sector specialization and knowledge-sharing. These client service teams are supported by first-rate associates and researchers, and backed by state-of-the-art technology. We place quality at the center of everything we do and solicit candid feedback at every opportunity in order to continually improve our service to clients. We channel our knowledge and expertise into a wide range of publications for the benefit of existing and prospective clients.

    https://www.spencerstuart.com
  • Russell Reynolds Associates

    Russell 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.com
  • Korn Ferry

    At Korn Ferry, we design, build, attract and ignite talent. Since our inception, clients have trusted us to help recruit world-class leadership. Today, we are a single source for leadership and talent consulting services to empower businesses and leaders to reach their goals. Through our vision, research and tools across 80 offices and 3,700 employees, we convert potential into greatness. Our solutions range from executive recruitment and leadership development programs, to enterprise learning, succession planning, and recruitment process outsourcing (RPO). Organizations around the world trust Korn Ferry to manage their talent – a responsibility we meet every day with passion, expertise, integrity and results.

    https://www.kornferry.com
  • Heidrick & Struggles

    Heidrick & Struggles actively solves business problems for our clients every day. Through our Leadership Advisory framework, we help companies attract, develop and retain the world’s most talented individuals. For almost 60 years, we have focused on quality service and built strong leadership teams through our relationships with clients and individuals worldwide. Today, Heidrick & Struggles leadership experts operate from principal business centers in North America, Latin America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia Pacific.

    http://www.heidrick.com
  • Egon Zehnder

    Egon Zehnder was founded in 1964 with a distinctive vision and structure aimed at achieving two basic goals - to place our clients' interests first and to lead our profession in creating value for our clients through the assessment and recruitment of top-level management resources. The most fundamental expression of our client-first vision resides in our structure, which is unique to our profession. Our 390 consultants, operating from 63 wholly owned offices in 37 countries, are organized around a single-profit center partnership. This is designed to eliminate competitive barriers between our offices. It allows us to operate seamlessly when engagements call for us to mobilize across many offices in a country or a region. Large or small, local or global, our clients benefit from our structure by having access to our most relevant resources and relationships wherever they may reside. Underpinning this unique structure is our private ownership. We have chosen to operate our firm independent of any outside interests and are motivated solely by a desire to exceed our clients' expectations.

    http://www.egonzehnder.com

Alliance Partners

  • Lightspeed Venture Partners

    Lightspeed Ventures is a global VC firm headquartered in Silicon Valley, with offices in India, Israel, and China. With over $7 billion under management, Lightspeed invests in both enterprise and consumer tech startups from early-stage to late-stage. With over 300 active startups in the portfolio, Lightspeed has invested in companies like Brocade, Informatica, Nutanix, AppDynamics, Mulesoft, zScaler, etc. Lightspeed has also created a CIO Innovation Advisory Network to connect forward-thinking IT leaders with Silicon Valley.

    http://lsvp.com
  • Greylock Partners

    Greylock Partners backs entrepreneurs who are building disruptive, market-transforming consumer and enterprise software companies. We invest in companies that define new markets, including Airbnb, AppDynamics, Cloudera, Docker, Dropbox, Facebook (Nasdaq: FB), LinkedIn (NYSE: LNKD), Medium, Nextdoor, Palo Alto Networks (NYSE: PANW) and Workday (NYSE: WDAY).

    http://www.greylock.com
  • Amplify Partners

    Amplify Partners, an early-stage venture capital firm committed to redefining IT infrastructure, invests in technical entrepreneurs pursuing the multi-hundred-billion dollar Infrastructure 2.0 disruption. Amplify helps talented founders build valuable businesses by investing the right amount of early-stage capital and providing active company-building assistance. Amplify offers the unique combination of deep domain expertise, early-stage focus and a network of Venture AmplifiersTM to improve outcomes for infrastructure entrepreneurs.

    http://www.amplifypartners.com

Association Partners

  • Year Up

    Year Up is an award-winning national 501(c)3 organization whose mission is to close the Opportunity Divide by providing urban young adults with the skills, experience, and support that will empower them to reach their potential through professional careers and higher education. Year Up achieves this mission through a high support, high expectation model that combines marketable job skills, stipends, internships and college-level coursework. Its holistic approach focuses on students' professional and personal development to place these young adults on a viable path to economic self-sufficiency. Year Up currently serves more than 3,600 students annually across 24 campuses in Arizona, Baltimore, Bay Area, Chicago, Dallas/Fort Worth, Greater Atlanta, Greater Boston, Greater Philadelphia, Jacksonville, Los Angeles, National Capital Region, New York City, Providence, Puget Sound, South Florida and Wilmington. Year Up success stats include: 100% placement of qualified students into internships 90% of interns meet or exceed partner expectations 85% of graduates employed or in college full time within four months of graduation $18/hr average starting wage for graduates of the program

    http://www.yearup.org

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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


  • Aileen Alexander
    Managing Partner/Senior Client Partner
    Korn Ferry

  • Yasir Anwar
    SVP & Head of Digital Technology
    Macy's

  • Ashwin Ballal, Ph.D.
    EVP & CIO
    Medallia

    Ashwin Ballal joined Medallia, a market leader in customer experience management in 2016 as its first ever CIO. He is responsible for building best in class IT infrastructure, collaboration services, workplace services, and business systems that globally scale and provide a spectacular employee and digital systems experience. During his tenure at Medallia, Ashwin has been responsible for Customer Experience Management, including several transformational business programs and projects that drive the top line growth and go-to-market strategies. He also envisioned and developed a very unique product solution for CxO’s.

     

    Prior to joining Medallia, Ashwin was Chief Information, Intelligence & Data Officer at KLA-Tencor, a market leading semiconductor capital equipment company globally responsible for driving business value, managing and supporting IT Infrastructure, Business Applications, Productivity and Collaboration tools, Advanced Data Analytics and Enterprise Risk Management. Ashwin was instrumental in several enterprise business transformations at KLA-Tencor, which included business process optimization, outsourcing, cloud migration, mobile solutions, big data analytics, NLP, ML & AI. Prior to serving as CIO, Ashwin was President and Managing Director for KLA-Tencor India. He was responsible for all offshore software development for KLA-Tencor products and all back-office managed and shared services, including Supply Chain, Finance, HR & IT operations. Ashwin’s tenure at KLA-Tencor also included being General Manager for the Macro Inspection product division for KLA-Tencor with full P&L responsibilities. Additionally, Ashwin held various executive and senior level positions at KLA-Tencor in Sales, Marketing, Engineering, and Program and Business Operations Management. He has also held various senior management positions at Electroglas Inc., Keithley Instruments, and Noran Instruments.

    Ashwin earned his doctorate and post doctorate degrees in Material Science and Engineering from the University of Maryland at College Park and his bachelor's degree in Metallurgy from the National Institute of Technology in India.

    Ashwin has been the recipient of many leadership awards including the HMG strategy

    most Innovative CIO award and CIO 100 Innovation awards. He continues to be a strong

    advocate for women and an active mentor, including Womens unlimited. Additionally, Ashwin was a board member of the Children’s Discovery Museum. Ashwin continues to be an investor, business mentor for early startups, and very active in the CIO and VC communities. He is also a charter member of TIE.

  • Todd Barnum
    CISO
    GoPro Inc.

    Todd Barnum is the Chief Information Security Officer for GoPro in San Mateo California.  In this role, he leads the information security team, and helps GoPro secure its critical information assets.

    Prior to GoPro, Todd spent time at two consulting firms, KPMG LLP, and Forrester Research.  In both positions Todd led Information Security Consulting Practices.   

    Prior to these consultant gigs, Todd was the Vice President and Chief Information Security Officer at Warner Bros Entertainment in Burbank California.  At the same time Todd also had the pleasure of serving Warner Bros as the Vice President of Enterprise Architecture, and was responsible for architecting and securing the transition from and entirely insourced IT model to one that was entirely outsourced and off-shored. 

    Prior to Warner Bros, Todd spent 8 years at AMGEN, headquartered in Los Angeles where he served as Corporate Director and Chief Information Security Officer. 

    Early in his career, Todd learned the details of information security as a Naval Officer managing some of the Navy’s largest telecommunication systems.  Todd got his Masters in Telecommunications from the United States Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey California, and his Bachelors from the University of Hawaii. 

    Todd is also an Adjunct Professor at California Luther University where he’s taught computer science courses since 2001.  Todd also served as a Board member of the Ventura County YMCA, and was a part Orange County’s Big Brother Big Sister Program.

  • Sandeep Bhadra
    Principal
    Menlo Ventures

    Sandeep Bhadra joined Menlo in 2015 and focuses on enterprise investments. Companies in the Menlo portfolio he is involved with include AppDome, Platform9, Signifyd, and Unravel Data. Sandeep was most recently with Cisco's Corporate Business Development team working on acquisitions and investments in cloud, enterprise infrastructure software, and big data/analytics. Sandeep was actively involved with Cisco's acquisitions of tail-f (SDN orchestration), Metacloud (Openstack private cloud) and Memoir Systems (next-gen network memory), and investments in Map-R, Platfora and Moogsoft (big data / analytics).

    Earlier, Sandeep was an engineer at Texas Instruments' R&D unit - where he led projects to build an Openflow switch chip, an ultra low-power IoT wireless mote and 4G/LTE small-cell networks. 

    Sandeep received a PhD from the University of Texas at Austin and a Bachelors degree from IIT Madras, both in Electrical Engineering, and an MBA from INSEAD. In his spare time, Sandeep likes to travel up and down the pacific coast with his dog, read fiction, and drink burgundies.

  • Jeff Brzycki
    CIO
    Autodesk

    As Autodesk’s Chief Information Officer, Jeff Brzycki leads the Enterprise Information Services (EIS) organization and his team plans, builds, runs and secures the applications, infrastructure and data that run Autodesk.  With Autodesk’s transition to a subscription-based business model, the EIS team has partnered broadly across the company to deliver new business systems and big-data capabilities to accelerate Autodesk’s evolution.

    Prior to joining Autodesk in 2009, Jeff served as the CIO for VeriSign and led a large global IT organization. During his 25+ years in the IT industry, Jeff has held leadership positions at high-profile Silicon Valley companies including Symantec, Veritas, Silicon Graphics and Hewlett-Packard.  During the dot-com era, Jeff also served as CIO for a start-up company in the Enterprise Applications ASP space.

    Jeff holds a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from the University of Wisconsin with a double major in Accounting and Information Systems Design.

  • Paul Chapman
    CIO
    Box

    Paul Chapman is the Global Chief Information Officer at Box, where he is responsible for leading the company’s global information technology strategy, cyber risk and compliance practices and customer advocacy. His mandate includes the development and delivery of key technology initiatives to support the company’s growing workforce and customer
    base, cyber risk programs for business and product security operations, product security assurance, physical security and compliance.
     
    Prior to Box, Paul was the CIO of HP Software for HP, where he led the IT organization and supported the development and delivery of IT solutions. Chapman also served as Vice President of Global Infrastructure and Cloud Operations and Vice President of Enterprise
    Applications at VMware.
    He holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Filton Tech in the United Kingdom.

  • Bob Concannon
    Independent Consultant
    Northtower Technologies

    Bob Concannon was formerly a Senior Client Partner within the San Francisco office of Korn Ferry and was a member of the Firm’s Global Technology Market. Mr. Concannon has over 30 years of technology executive search experience, leading numerous CIO and CTO searches across industries. He also served on Korn/Ferry's Information Technology Officers Center of Expertise. Furthermore, Mr. Concannon led searches in the software and IT communities on assignments for clients in the areas of cloud, mobility and enterprise software. Venture capitalists and private equity firms looked to his expertise around helping Internet startups migrate to the next executive level as they receive their post Series B and C funding rounds.

    Mr. Concannon served as the managing director of another global executive search firm, leading the technology practice, U.S. Additionally, he led the firm’s global technology vertical for seven years, coordinating worldwide search activity in the technology sector with Fortune 100 top accounts. Previously, Mr. Concannon served in sales and marketing roles for both Pioneer Electronics and Sony Corporation. Mr. Concannon served the Internet industry from its early inception in the 90s by working with then unknown startups Netscape and Yahoo! His portfolio clients have included well-established companies like Microsoft, Oracle, 3Com, Cisco and Nokia, and a host of start-up companies funded by tier-1 venture capital. He has completed over 500 search projects in his career with many of those projects reaching successful IPOs. Published and quoted often in The Wall Street Journal, San Jose Mercury News, CFO and CIO Magazines, as well as being featured twice on ABC’s World News Tonight with Peter Jennings in their Silicon Valley report, Mr. Concannon has served as an expert on Silicon Valley trends for over 15 years. He has been a guest lecturer at The University of California Berkeley and Stanford University. He has a bachelor’s degree from the University of the Pacific.

  • Tim Crawford
    CIO Strategic Advisor
    AVOA

    Tim Crawford is ranked as one of the Top 100 Most Influential Chief Information Technology Officers (#4), Top 100 Most Social CIOs (#7), Top 20 People Most Retweeted by IT Leaders (#5) and Top 100 Cloud Experts and Influencers. Tim is a strategic CIO & advisor that works with large global enterprise organizations across a number of industries including financial services, healthcare, major airlines and high-tech. Tim’s work differentiates and catapults organizations in transformative ways through the use of technology as a strategic lever. Tim takes a provocative, but pragmatic approach to the intersection of business and technology. Tim is an internationally renowned CIO thought leader including Digital Transformation, Cloud Computing, Data Analytics and Internet of Things (IoT). Tim has served as CIO and other senior IT roles with global organizations such as Konica Minolta/ All Covered, Stanford University, Knight-Ridder, Philips Electronics and National Semiconductor. Tim is also the host of the CIO In The Know (CIOitk) podcast. CIOitk is a weekly podcast that interviews CIOs on the top issues facing CIOs today. Tim holds an MBA in International Business with Honors from Golden Gate University Ageno School of Business and a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Information Systems from Golden Gate University.

  • Julie Cullivan
    Chief Technology & People Officer
    Forescout Technologies, Inc.

    With more than two decades of experience driving global operational capabilities across some of the world’s largest cybersecurity and IT brands, Julie leads the People, Business, and Technology Operations at Forescout. Julie has extensive operational and technical leadership experience, having held prior roles at FireEye, Autodesk, McAfee and Oracle. Julie also serves on the Board for Axon and earned a bachelor’s degree in Finance from Santa Clara University

  • Jessica Denecour
    Independent Director
    Pacific Gas and Electric Company

    Jessica Denecour provides leadership for Varian's global Information Technology organization. Prior to joining Varian in January 2006, she served in a variety of management positions over a 20+ year career at Agilent Technologies and Hewlett Packard. Denecour received her BS in Business Administration and Management Information Systems from California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo. She is currently serving on the boards of the Children’s Discovery Museum of San Jose and CapOneSource.

  • Anil Earla
    Chief Information and Digital/Data Officer
    CyberNetix.ai

    Anil Earla was formerly the Head of Information and Data Analytics for Global IS at Visa Inc., where he lead diverse teams of business and technology. As an intrapreneur, he is passionate about bringing Silicon Valley innovation mindset to larger organizations. His dual roles span innovation and strategic partnerships, shaping vision/strategy and technology alignment, various technology verticals across product life cycle for cyber security such as product management and business/system analysis, Big Data and visualization engineering, advanced analytics (data science), business intelligence and data warehousing, infrastructure and solution architecture, infrastructure and operations, program/portfolio management, and governance. Before joining Visa, he was part of industry leading organizations in the financial services, telecommunications, insurance, gaming, and airline industries. His stint across different industries and technology functions provides him the unique opportunity to apply and leverage the power of data and analytics. Under his leadership, his team was Data Impact awards finalist at Strata + Hadoop World 2014 for innovation in data ecosystem. Earla is part of the entrepreneurship and innovation program from Stanford Graduate School of Business. He completed Program in strategy from Harvard Graduate School of Business. He holds a master’s degree in computer science from JSU and a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Bangalore University.

  • Mark Egan
    Partner
    StrataFusion

    Mark Egan is a partner at StrataFusion Group, Inc. and has more than 25 years of information technology experience, with expertise in IT transformation, information security, and mergers & acquisitions. His extensive experience includes managing global IT organizations with over 1,200 employees, budgets in excess of $350 million, and IT integration for over 60 mergers and acquisitions. Mark has been repeatedly recognized for his leadership and success in scaling IT organizations to support rapid growth companies.

    Prior to joining StrataFusion, Mark was a CIO at VMware where he led the company from a server virtualization vendor with $2 billion in revenue to a $5 billion market leader of cloud solutions. During his 6 years as CIO at Symantec, Mark’s leadership in IT was instrumental in supporting the company’s transformation from $600 million consumer software publisher to a $5 billion market leader of enterprise security solutions. He held senior level positions with companies in a variety of industries, including Sun Microsystems, Price Waterhouse, and Wells Fargo Bank.

    Mark holds a master’s degree in finance and international business from University of San Diego and a bachelor’s degree in computer sciences from University of Clarion. Mark developed and taught a graduate class, “Building Business Value through IT Innovation”, at the Haas School of Business at University of California at Berkeley.

  • Tom Frangione
    Fmr. COO

    As Greylock’s former COO, Tom led the operations team, including marketing, executive and core talent, and customer development efforts.

    Prior to Greylock, Tom co-founded and served as CEO of two venture backed start-ups. Most recently, he was CEO of Simply Continuous, a small-enterprise focused service provider in the large scale data back-up and virtual server recovery business, backed by Greylock Partners that was sold to NetEnrich in 2010. Before that, he was co-founder and CEO of Telephia. Telephia provided syndicated marketing and network quality information to the wireless industry. Telephia was sold to Nielsen in 2007 for $440 million.  Earlier, Tom was SVP and General Manager for Mindscape’s Entertainment division, before its sale to Learning Company, and a consultant with McKinsey & Co. in their Palo Alto, New York, and Milan offices.Tom was on the board of directors for Superscape before its sale to Glu Mobile in 2008.

    Tom holds an MBA from Stanford University and a BS in Electrical Engineering from Princeton University, where he also played soccer.

  • Clark Golestani
    Managing Director
    Advisor, Investor, Board Member
    C Sensei Group LLC

    Golestani is the Former President, Emerging Businesses and Global Chief Information Officer at Merck, where he is responsible for the company’s portfolio of health services and solutions companies inclusive of the company’s venture and equity funds, as well as the company’s global information technology organization, strategy and worldwide execution spanning all lines of business inclusive of Human Health and Animal Health BioPharma. Golestani serves as a director on the Board of Directors of Seal Software (www.seal-software.com), the leading provider of contract discovery, extraction, and analytics capabilities, and UMUC Ventures, a not-for-profit organization, established by the University of Maryland University College (umuc.edu), that develops innovative businesses and partnerships, supporting efforts to reduce the cost of higher education for adult learners while addressing the workforce needs of the 21st century.  Golestani also serves on the advisory councils for multiple venture funds and technology product and services companies. Previous Merck responsibilities included the global head of IT for Merck’s R&D division; Leadership of the Company’s global IT capability supporting corporate functions; Leadership and development of the Company’s IT strategy, portfolio, and enterprise architecture; Leadership of the company’s global computing services, eBusiness, and information security capabilities; as well as various leadership and management roles across the company.  Prior to joining Merck, Golestani was a principal with Oracle Corporation’s consulting practice. Previously, Golestani served on the Board of Directors for Liaison Technologies (www.liaison.com), and NPower (www.npower.org). Golestani has a degree in Management Science from Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sloan School of Management, and was a co-founder of Cambridge, Massachusetts based Cross Road Technologies, Inc..
     

  • Jason Hengels
    Founder
    Exposure Security

    Jason Hengels is a pragmatic veteran of the data security industry with a talent for building world class security teams. As the founder of Exposure Security, Jason has provided clients with CISO leadership & advisory services as well as hands-on technical services, including post-breach investigation & remediation, web application security testing, malware analysis, IPS & Splunk implementation and custom tool development. He is the former VP of Security at Box, Inc., which specializes in cloud-based storage and collaboration. Prior to his time at Box, he was a Senior Business Leader at Visa Inc. He has successfully managed numerous SAS 70, SSAE 16, PCI DSS and other security audits. Jason has spoken at RSA and other conferences and has a strong network of information security professionals. He currently holds CISSP, CISM and CRISC certifications and has over 16 years of experience as an information security professional. His specialties include security management, APT post-breach remediation and technical/architectural assessment of software and network security.

  • Sreelakshmi Kolli
    VP of Global IT & Head of Business Transformation
    Align Technology

    Sreelakshmi Kolli leads global IT for Align Technology, a medical device company with industry-leading innovative products such as Invisalign clear aligners, iTero Intraoral scanners, and OrthoCAD digital services that help dental professionals achieve the clinical results they expect and deliver effective, cutting-edge dental options to their patients. Her role includes defining the technology strategy and development of all global business applications and infrastructure including computing, networks and security. The business applications support customer experience, consumer, professional and product marketing, manufacturing, finance, HR, legal and regulatory. 
    Sree also leads the global program management office that manages the stage gate governance and execution of the company roadmap that includes research, product, go to market and enterprise programs. In addition, she is the leader of the global business transformation program aimed at delivering platforms and technology to support customer experience and simplified business processes across the organization to drive agility and operational excellence. Previously at Align, she held positions of increasing responsibility leading business operations, and engineering for customer facing applications. Prior to Align, Sree held technical lead positions with Sword CT Space and Accenture. Sree is a member of the Healthcare and Lifesciences board at SAP and Salesforce.com where the focus is on the strategic needs of the industry and the product capabilities needed to support them.

  • Tony Leng
    Managing Director, Digital Transformation and CIO Practice Lead
    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.

  • Hari Makkala
    CEO, Founder
    myElth Inc.

    Hari Makkala is the Former Group Vice President of Information Technology (IT) for Delta Dental of California and its affiliates. He joined Delta Dental in 2009, serving as Vice President of IT and Head of Applications Delivery and Enterprise Architecture, bringing with him more than 23 years of IT experience in the health care and finance industries.  Previously, Hari served as Chief Technology Officer and Senior Vice President for People’s United Financial, Inc., and held several IT leadership roles at CIGNA Corporation and positions at AETNA and GeoTrace Technologies. He holds a Master of Science degree in computer engineering from the University of Houston and a Bachelor of Engineering degree from Osmania University in India.

  • Todd Mazza
    Vice President, Enterprise Architecture, Strategy, Technical Operations, and EUX
    Rockwell Automation

  • Kathy McElligott
    EVP, CIO & CTO
    McKesson Corporation

    Kathy McElligott is Executive Vice President, Chief Information Officer and Chief Technology Officer of McKesson Corporation. As CIO, McElligott is responsible for all technology initiatives within the corporation. As CTO, McElligott guides the overall technology direction for the company’s healthcare technology products, and provides support and guidance for application development processes companywide.

    Prior to McKesson, McElligott served as the CIO of Emerson, a St. Louis-based global manufacturing and technology company, where she managed the company’s information technology strategy and information security for its global operations, including hardware, software, and services, as well as its telecommunications and data center infrastructure.

    McElligott sits on the board of directors at ArcBest, a publicly traded $2.6B freight transportation and logistics company.

  • Declan Morris
    CIO
    Splunk

    Declan Morris is Chief Information Officer at Splunk, responsible for the information technology (IT) infrastructure and applications used across the company globally. He is also responsible for operating Splunk products internally, and securing all corporate and Splunk Cloud solutions.

    Prior to joining Splunk, Mr. Morris was Vice President of Cloud Operations for Adobe Creative Cloud where he played a foundational role in transitioning Adobe’s Digital Media business to the Cloud. With more than 30 years in the high technology industry, he has also served in various IT leadership positions at eBay, PayPal, Goldman Sachs, and Charles Schwab & Co. Mr. Morris holds a BS Information Management Systems from the University of San Francisco. He serves on the Technical Advisory Boards for Ellie Mae and Benhamou Global Ventures.

  • Hunter Muller
    President & CEO
    HMG Strategy

    Hunter Muller is a charismatic industry pioneer and a modern-day Renaissance Man. As a global C-suite advisor and coach for the past 30 years, Hunter’s insights and concepts have been successfully applied by Fortune 1000 organizations worldwide to accelerate executive performance, propel the career ascent of C-level executives, and to drive transformative innovation and create new waves of value.

    Hunter is the President and CEO of HMG Strategy, LLC, the largest independent, objective, transparent and collaborative executive network in the world. HMG focuses on innovation and breakthrough strategies for core, parallel and new markets while studying the most successful organizations eco-systems and platforms such as Amazon and Microsoft.

    HMG Strategy is the provider of thought leadership and networking events for CIOs, CISOs, and senior technology executives. HMG Strategy offers a unique, integrated model for enabling C-level executives and their companies to draw upon courageous leadership to reimagine, reinvent, and rebuild their business models to attain the genius-level thinking required in today’s dynamic business landscape to achieve competitive advantage in the digital frontier.

    Hunter's passion for the role of the technology executive in transforming the business is reflected in the 7 Pillars of Trust which embody HMG Strategy's unique business model.

    Complementing HMG Strategy’s world-renowned events is HMGNextVentures, a venture capital accelerator aimed at helping connect CIOs with the most innovative technology companies and entrepreneurs from Silicon Valley to Tel Aviv. HMG Strategy also partners with the world’s leading venture capital firms, including Amplify Partners, Greylock Partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners, and Sequoia Capital. HMG Strategy connects CEOs, CIOs, and other C-level executives with startup technologies backed by the leading VCs to identify opportunities for innovation and business transformation.

    Meanwhile, HMG Strategy’s award-winning Research Team advises the world’s technology companies such as Adobe, Nutanix, and Workday on branding, messaging, and Voice of the Customer strategies.

    Hunter has published five that draw from his extensive business experience: The Transformational CIO (Wiley, March 2011), On Top of the Cloud (Wiley, January 2012), Leading the Epic Revolution (Wiley, September 2013) and The Big Shift in IT Leadership (Wiley, July 2015) and The CEO of Technology (Wiley, January 2018). Hunter is now working on his sixth book: 'Enterprise 2025', which is slated to be published in January 2020. As a result, Hunter’s unique position of knowing the thoughts, challenges, and opportunities of the IT Leader, he is asked to speak at a variety of venues such as IBM’s Cloud Expo and on TheStreet.com.

    Hunter and HMG Strategy support a variety of charitable causes, including the American Cancer Society, Save the Children, and Year Up, and Hunter personally gives back his time and ideas as a member of the Executive Committee of the Fairfield/Westchester Chapter of the Society for Information Management.

    An intrepid international athlete, Hunter is an ardent yacht racer, a world-class skier, and an extreme fitness guru. Hunter is passionate about ocean and mountain adventures and spending time with his sons, Chase and Brice.

    Hunter earned a Bachelor of Science in the Babson College School of Management.

  • Emily Schaffer
    Executive Director
    Year Up

    Emily Schaffer, Executive Director at Year Up Bay Area Emily started her career addressing poverty and its impact on educational opportunities as a part of the Teach for America teaching corps in urban Los Angeles. After teaching for three years, Emily moved to the business sector to learn first-hand about business strategy. She used this experience to guide her work in business development as the Director of Programs for SpringBoard Forward, bringing a cutting-edge career development program to thousands of entry-level workers in the Bay Area. At YUBA Emily oversaw the outreach, admissions, student services and corporate engagement teams, ensuring that each phase of the program students feel supported and well prepared for their next steps: internship, graduation and job placement. Emily currently serves as YUBA’s Interim Executive Director, managing all aspects of the site as Jay transitions into his new role. Emily received her Education M.A. from Loyola Marymount University.

  • Ed Solomon
    Senior Advisor - Corporate Development
    Genesys Works

    Ed Solomon has over 30 years of IT Services, Consulting and Staffing experience with the focus on building high performing fast growth businesses. Ed’s relationships with “C” level IT Executives helped him to transition to successfully grow Genesys Works and Year Up Bay Area Corporate Partnerships in Northern California, LA, Phoenix, DC, & NY.  Ed has helped to build and manage a series of CIO Roundtables in Northern & Southern California to help CIO’s network and share best practices.

    Prior to Non Profit Consulting, Ed was President & CEO & Co-Founder of an International Nurse Recruitment business. During most of his career Ed was the Senior U.S. Partner and SVP of a Technology Consulting and Staffing Business Division responsible for the six technology offices in the western U.S.

    Ed has his BS degree in Industrial Management from Fairleigh Dickinson University, and an MS in Management Science from Stevens Institute of Technology. He is a long standing volunteer at the Berkeley Haas School, Institute for Business Innovation, Fisher Center for Business Analytics and has co-managed many Executive IT Seminars and MBA Tech Competitions over the past years.

  • Brad Strock
    Independent Director, Elevate Credit
    CIO, PayPal (Retired)

    Most recently, Brad Strock served as the CIO of PayPal, a Fortune 250 company that is  transforming the world of global payments, commerce, and how individuals access financial  services.  Brad has over 30 years of experience in helping companies grow through disruptive  technologies and digital transformation.  Throughout his career, he has led numerous business  turnarounds, acquisitions, divestitures, and strategic growth initiatives.  Brad has a unique mix of  expertise spanning business strategy, finance, risk management, and operations, coupled with a  deep passion for technology and how it can transform businesses to drive growth through digital  transformation.  He has demonstrated experience in influencing and driving change spanning the  boardroom to the individual contributor level.

    Brad led a broad scope of responsibilities contributing to PayPal’s ten‐year revenue growth rate  of over 20% annually. He led a team of over 1,400 providing both IT functions and software  development for operations platforms supporting a global enterprise operating in 200 markets,  24 languages and 65 locations. Brad served at PayPal for over seven years, and in the CIO role  he led the transformation of PayPal's operations platforms to support dramatic user growth  while holding costs flat and creating incremental revenue opportunities. He also transformed  how technology can enable a large global workforce to operate with the speed and flexibility of  a startup.  Brad also led the IT separation from eBay in 2015.

    Prior to PayPal, Brad held several senior executive roles at Bank of America, including leading  the Next Generation Payments and Commerce team that created what is now the Zelle  payments platform. Prior to Bank of America, Brad led the creation of a new rewards platform  at JP Morgan Chase that has delivered innovative new credit card products propelling  growth.  Brad's early career spanned a wide range of strategy and financial roles including M&A  work, turnarounds, and strategic planning roles.   

    Brad currently serves as an Independent Director of Elevate Credit (NYSE: ELVT), as well as  Hiinga, a nonprofit providing micro loans in Africa.  He is a frequent speaker at both business  and technology forums and has authored numerous articles on innovation as well as being a coinventor on several U.S. Patents.  He is a passionate supporter of building diverse, high  performing teams.  He received his MSM (MBA) in Finance from the Krannert School of  Management at Purdue University, along with a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Purdue.  He  and his wife, Vicky, have been married for 30 years and have three children. 

  • Chris Van Tuin
    Chief Technologist
    Red Hat

    Chris Van Tuin, Chief Technologist at Red Hat, has over 20 years of experience in IT and Software.   Since joining Red Hat in 2005, Chris has been architecting solutions for strategic customers and partners with a focus on emerging technologies including IaaS, PaaS, and DevOps.  He started his career at Intel in IT and Managed Hosting followed by leadership roles in services and sales engineering at Loudcloud and Linux startups.

    He is sought after by numerous CIO Organizations, publications, and business analysts for his extensive experience and forward thinking insights.

    Chris holds a Bachelors of Electrical Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology.

  • Yvonne Wassenaar
    CIO
    New Relic

    Yvonne is recognized as a thought leader in how to maintain business relevance in a rapidly changing world.  She is a frequent presenter and panel member on this topic and is a respected advisor to C-level executives on the issues of change, technology driven innovation, and advancement of women in leadership/STEM.

    As New Relic’s Chief Information Officer Yvonne divides her focus between the company’s growth strategy and delivering the technology capability required to succeed in a cloud first world.  In her role she is writing the new CIO playbook enabling innovation and distributed empowerment without sacrificing security, compliance, or customer experience.  Yvonne is also New Relic’s executive sponsor for their non-profit program and a member of New Relic’s Diversity Council.

    Yvonne’s talent for communication, collaboration, and innovation has earned her executive titles and recognition as a respected leader in Tech.  Prior to her corporate executive experience, Yvonne advised global organizations on business diversification, process/capability scaling, and go to market transformation.  Her focus today is the discovery of the root causes that drive business challenge and how to bring an innovative, collaborative, and agile approach to solving them.  Yvonne thrives in complex and ambiguous situations and loves working with other talented individuals who share her commitment to making a difference. 

    Yvonne currently serves on the Board of Directors for Bitium, the Board of Trustees for Harvey Mudd College and on the Board of Directors for the Athena Alliance.  She is part of the WSJ CIO Network, WSJ Women of Note, and was recently recognized as a Women of Influence 2016.

    Yvonne received her undergraduate degree and MBA from UCLA where she graduated with top honors. Her personal passions are the advancement of women in leadership/STEM along with driving forward the concept of  “shared –value” with corporations. She is an avid traveler and finds her inspiration in the many wonders of the world ranging from the Taj Mahal (India) to the Archipelago (Sweden) and Kilimanjaro (Africa).

  • Anthony Watson
    President and CEO
    Uphold, Inc.

    Anthony Watson, a leading British business and technology executive, serves as Uphold’s President & Chief Executive Officer.

    Prior to joining Uphold, Anthony was the Chief Information Officer of Nike, Inc. where, as a member of Nike’s executive committee he had company-wide strategic and operational responsibility for leading and delivering technology for the world's largest sportswear and sports apparel brand, globally. Previously Watson was the Managing Director & Chief Information Officer of Europe Middle East Retail & Business Banking (EMERBB) and of Global Operations at Barclays Bank PLC. In addition Anthony was Chair of the EMERBB Operating Committee. Before Barclays Anthony was the Senior Vice President & Global Head of Technology Services at Wells Fargo & Co, where he led the technology division of the bank across 44 countries and was a member of the Wells Fargo Bank International Executive Committee.

    Anthony is an Independent Non-Executive Director, Member of the Board and Chair of the Audit Committee of Digital Global Services, a public company listed on the London Stock Exchange. Anthony also serves as a member of the National Board of Directors, Treasurer and Chair of the Finance Committee of GLAAD. GLAAD, which is based in the United States (US), is the largest LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender) media rights advocacy organization in the world. He is also a Patron of Diversity Role Models, the LGBT education and anti-homophobic bullying charity, an Ambassador for the Amy Winehouse Foundation, a charity to prevent drug and alcohol misuse and to inspire vulnerable and disadvantaged young people to reach their full potential, as well as the Chair & Head Judge of theEuropean Diversity Awards, Europe’s largest awards ceremony recognizing individuals, organizations and companies that make a difference in the field of diversity and inclusion. Anthony has won multiple accolades for his social advocacy work, including:

    • February 2016: Appointed Chair for Labour party's Business and Enterprise Advisory Council.
    • February 2016: The Daily Telegraph & Out at Work named Anthony #1 out of 50 most powerful LGBT business leaders in the UK.
    • October 2015: Financial Times named Anthony the 9th (out of 100) most influential LGBT business leader in the world.
    • January 2015: The Daily Telegraph & Out at Work named Anthony the 4th (out of 50) most powerful LGBT business leader in the UK.
    • November 2014: Independent Newspaper placed Anthony 44th (out of 101) in a reader’s poll of LGBT people who make ‘Great Britain a better place to live’. In a list dominated by celebrities, Anthony was only one of two business leaders on the list.
    • October 2014: Fortune Magazine placed Anthony 19th in Fortune’s “40 under 40”, which lists the world’s 40 most powerful C-Suite executives under 40.

    Anthony is based in London, UK but spends the majority of his time on the West Coast of the USA when not traveling extensively on business. He tweets at: @AnthonyWatson

  • Tony Young
    CIO
    Sophos

    Tony joined Sophos as Chief Information Officer (CIO) in 2016. In this role he is responsible for the strategy, security and management of the global IT organization, and the security of data for Sophos’ 53,000 partners and 4000,000 customers worldwide.

    Prior to joining Sophos, Tony was chief information officer at GoPro, the camera maker and content enabler. Prior to GoPro, Tony served as senior vice president for Informatica Cloud and Subscription Sales where he was responsible for growing Informatica’s global Cloud business. During his career at Informatica Tony also served as chief information officer, and as executive director of North Asia based in China.

    Prior to joining Informatica in 2002, Tony worked at Converge as the Director of Exchange Applications and Mindcrossing as vice president product development. Tony began his career at Hewlett Packard (HP) as a software developer and served for 11 years in a number of information technology and marketing roles. Tony holds a bachelor's degree in Information Systems and a master's degree in Business Administration from Santa Clara University, CA.

  • Elaine Zelby
    Enterprise Product Marketing
    Slack

     

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7:00 AM - 8:00 AM  

Registration, Continental Breakfast,and Networking

8:00 AM - 8:20 AM  

Welcome and Introduction

Hunter Muller, President and CEO, HMG Strategy, LLC

8:20 AM - 8:40 AM  

EXECUTIVE INTERVIEW: Leading in the Modern Day Enterprise

Ramón Baez, SVP & Customer Evangelist, Hewlett Packard Enterprise

In today's digital economy technology demands across the enterprise are unprecedented. In this candid interview, Hunter Muller will interview Ramón Baez on what the CEO, board and LOB wants from the CIO/technology executive to lead in the modern day enterprise.

8:40 AM - 9:00 AM  

Coffee Break, Networking and Meet Our Partners

9:00 AM - 9:30 AM  

EXECUTIVE KEYNOTE: Transforming Business Applications into Systems of Engagement

Elaine Zelby, Director Executive Programs, Capriza

Companies have invested millions of dollars and decades of work into automating and customizing their business applications only to find that complex user experiences have hindered their ability to achieve any real productivity or enhanced customer experience. Harnessing the power of existing business applications in the mobile era requires putting the user in the center and abstracting the base application to create one-minute workflows that enable users to do something quickly on a mobile device.

In this session, Capriza will discuss:How you can transform your business applications from systems of record into systems of engagement, enabling employees across the organization to maximize the one-minute mobile moment;examples of companies extending the reach of existing business applications to employees in ways never before available; andhow you can deliver mobile solutions that empower lines of business in weeks not months.

9:30 AM - 10:00 AM  

Coffee Break, Networking and Meet Our Partners

10:00 AM - 10:40 AM  

EXECUTIVE PANEL: Changing the Mindset and Language of IT

Julie Cullivan, CIO and SVP of Business Operations, FireEye

Paul Chapman,CIO, Box

Sreelakshmi Kolli, VP of Global IT & Head of Business Transformation, Align Technology

Chris Van Tuin, Chief Technologist, Red Hat

Moderator: Tim Crawford, CIO Strategic Advisor, AVOA

IT is in the midst of an evolutionary transformation to the digital enterprise. As the CIO leads the charge to enable stronger relationships with fellow c-suite executives, a change in mindset & language is needed. In this session, we discuss one of the fundamental changes needed to support the new digital enterprise: Changing the mindset & language of IT.

10:40 AM - 11:10 AM  

Coffee Break, Networking and Meet Our Partners

11:10 AM - 11:50 AM  

EXECUTIVE PANEL: Strategically Mapping the Road Ahead

Ashwin Ballal, Ph.D., CIO, Medallia

Anil Earla, Head of Information and Data Analytics, Global IS, Visa Inc.

Clark Golestani, EVP & CIO, Merck

Hari Makkala, Group Vice President, Head of Information Technology, Delta Dental

Vaughn Stewart, VP, Enterprise Architect, Pure Storage

Moderator: Hunter Muller, President and CEO, HMG Strategy, LLC

Innovation in enterprise IT is accelerating, driven by massive platform and technology shifts. This panel of senior executives will share discussion around the strategic direction technology leaders need to take to map the road ahead.

11:50 AM - 12:10 PM  

Networking Appetizer Break

12:10 PM - 1:10 PM  

Luncheon

Executive Interview and Presentation of the HMG Strategy Transformational CIO Award to Kathy McElligott, EVP, CIO & CTO, McKesson Corporation

In this candid interview, Kathy will share insights into her first year in the valley, her leadership style, building world class global teams and the role of the technology executive in the future.

Introduction to Year Up: EmilySchaffer, Interim Executive Director, Year Up

1:10 PM - 1:20 PM

Express Break

1:20 PM - 2:00 PM  

EXECUTIVE PANEL: The Challenge of Enterprise Security Today and Into the Future

Aileen Alexander, Senior Client Partner - Co-Leader Global Cybersecurity Practice, Korn Ferry

Todd Barnum, CISO, GoPro Inc.

Jessica Denecour, SVP & CIO, Varian Medical Systems

Jason Hengels, Founder, Exposure Security

Sheila Jordan, SVP & CIO, Symantec

Moderator: Mark Egan, Partner, StrataFusion

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. 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.

Today's complex threat landscape requires CISO’s to carefully balance putting security controls in place while enabling their organizations to move quickly. They also need toupdate their Board of Directors on how they willprotect critical assets of the organization.However, CISOsfacea hugeshortage of security staff and thereforerequirecreative strategies to put effective teams in place.

2:00 PM - 2:20 PM  

Coffee Break, Networking and Meet Our Partners

2:20 PM - 3:00 PM  

EXECUTIVE PANEL: Silicon Valley VCs on Latest Trends and Opportunities

Sandeep Bhadra, Principal, Menlo Ventures

Mike Dauber, General Partner, Amplify Partners

Tom Frangione, COO, Greylock Partners

Arif Janmohamed, Venture Capitalist, Lightspeed Venture Partners

Moderator: Hunter Muller, President and CEO, HMG Strategy, LLC

Leading VCs consider that we are in the early innings of an extended innovation cycle that will affect and impact the enterprise for decades to come, re-defining leaders and winners in every vertical market. Sorting through the latest trends and opportunities is a competitive and daunting task. Listen to prominent Silicon Valley executives present where they are placing their bets and their investments.

3:00 PM - 3:20 PM  

Coffee Break, Networking and Meet Our Partners

3:20 PM - 4:00 PM  

EXECUTIVE PANEL: Digital Transformation and The Four Types of CIOs

Jeff Brzycki, CIO, Autodesk

Brad Strock, CIO, PayPal

Yvonne Wassenaar, CIO, New Relic

Moderator: Bob Concannon, Senior Client Partner, CIO/IT Officers Practice, Korn Ferry

The challenge of digital transformation applies to all technology executives, however depending on what type of leader you are (Advocate, Smooth Operator, Fast Responder, or Transformer) can determine how you respond to the challenge.

During this session the results from the national average of responses will be shared, and what the key motivators are for each type of leader.

4:00 PM - 4:20 PM

Coffee Break, Networking and Meet Our Partners

4:20 PM - 5:00 PM  

EXECUTIVE PANEL: Re-imagining the IT Function for the Next Era of the Digital Age

Yasir Anwar, SVP & Head of Digital Technology, Macy's

Vic Bhagat, CIO, Verizon Enterprise Solutions

Todd Mazza, Corporate VP & CIO, DCS Americas, AECOM

Declan Morris, CIO, Splunk

Moderator:Tony Leng, Managing Director and CIO Practice Leader, Diversified Search

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 the IT function for the next era of the digital age.

5:00 PM - 6:00 PM

Raffle Prize Drawings and Executive Networking Reception


Presenting Partners

  • Hewlett Packard Enterprise

    Hewlett Packard Enterprise is an industry leading technology company that enables customers to go further, faster. With the industry’s most comprehensive portfolio, spanning the cloud to the data center to workplace applications, our technology and services help customers around the world make IT more efficient, more productive and more secure.

    https://www.hpe.com/us/en/home.html
  • Capriza

    Capriza modernizes your business by simplifying and mobilizing your critical workflows. Capriza's end-to-end simplification platform enables IT and lines of business to mobile-enable critical business workflows in a matter of days without any coding, APIs, or integration. The solution is applicable for packaged applications such as SAP, Oracle, Salesforce as well as custom built solutions. Capriza disrupts the speed and economics of the journey by extending the capability of legacy applications, in a simple and useable way, onto any smartphone, tablet or desktop. Founded in 2011 by former executives of Mercury Interactive, Capriza is headquartered in Palo Alto, California, and is funded by Andreessen Horowitz, CRV, Tenaya Capital, Harmony Partners and Allen & Company.

    http://www.capriza.com

Platinum Partners

  • Symantec

    Symantec Corporation (NASDAQ: SYMC) is the global leader in cybersecurity. Operating one of the world’s largest cyber intelligence networks, we see more threats, and protect more customers from the next generation of attacks. We help companies, governments and individuals secure their most important data wherever it lives

    http://www.symantec.com
  • Splunk

    Splunk Inc. (NASDAQ: SPLK) provides the leading software platform for real-time Operational Intelligence. Splunk® software and cloud services enable organizations to search, monitor, analyze and visualize machine-generated big data coming from websites, applications, servers, networks, sensors and mobile devices. More than 9,000 enterprises, government agencies, universities and service providers in over 100 countries use Splunk software to deepen business and customer understanding, mitigate cybersecurity risk, prevent fraud, improve service performance and reduce costs. Splunk products include Splunk® Enterprise, Splunk Cloud™, Splunk Storm®, Hunk®, Splunk Analytics for Hadoop and premium Splunk Apps.

    http://splunk.com
  • Red Hat

    Red Hat is the world’s leading provider of enterprise open source software solutions, using a community-powered approach to deliver reliable and high-performing Linux, hybrid cloud, container, and Kubernetes technologies. Red Hat helps customers develop cloud-native applications, integrate existing and new IT applications, and automate and manage complex environments. A trusted adviser to the Fortune 500, Red Hat provides award-winning support, training, and consulting services that bring the benefits of open innovation to any industry. Red Hat is a connective hub in a global network of enterprises, partners, and communities, helping organizations grow, transform, and prepare for the digital future.

    https://www.redhat.com/en
  • Pure Storage

    Pure 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.com

Gold Partners

  • ServiceNow

    ServiceNow makes work, work better for people. Our cloud-based platform and products streamline and simplify how work gets done.

    https://www.servicenow.com/
  • Apptio

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

    http://www.apptio.com

Supporting Partners

  • Workday, Inc.

    Workday is a leading provider of enterprise cloud applications for finance and human resources. Founded in 2005, Workday delivers financial management, human capital management, planning, and analytics applications designed for the world’s largest companies, educational institutions, and government agencies. Organizations ranging from medium-sized businesses to Fortune 50 enterprises have selected Workday.

    https://www.workday.com
  • TelePacific Communications

    TelePacific Communications is a premier integrated managed services provider delivering guaranteed comprehensive business communications solutions to 75,000 locations nationwide for customers ranging from small businesses to enterprises with hundreds of sites. TelePacific’s broad portfolio enables companies to focus on growing their bottom lines instead of overseeing their infrastructure. Headquartered in Los Angeles, the 1,600 person, $664 million enterprise’s award-winning managed services, networks, continuity solutions and focus on customer service have powered 57 consecutive quarters of growth.

    www.telepacific.com

Research Partners

  • Hewlett Packard Enterprise

    Hewlett Packard Enterprise is an industry leading technology company that enables customers to go further, faster. With the industry’s most comprehensive portfolio, spanning the cloud to the data center to workplace applications, our technology and services help customers around the world make IT more efficient, more productive and more secure.

    https://www.hpe.com/us/en/home.html

Strategic Partners

  • Spencer Stuart

    Founded in 1956 and privately owned, Spencer Stuart is one of the world's leading executive search consulting firms. We are the advisor of choice among top companies seeking guidance and counsel on senior leadership needs. We have unrivalled access to leading executives around the world. Our clients range across industries, from the world's largest companies to medium-sized businesses and entrepreneurial start-ups. We operate out of 51 offices in 27 countries. Last year we conducted more than 4,000 assignments around the world. Our team of more than 300 consultants possesses a unique blend of professional search experience and industry expertise. Consultants are organized in practices and work in teams, often across international boundaries that maximize sector specialization and knowledge-sharing. These client service teams are supported by first-rate associates and researchers, and backed by state-of-the-art technology. We place quality at the center of everything we do and solicit candid feedback at every opportunity in order to continually improve our service to clients. We channel our knowledge and expertise into a wide range of publications for the benefit of existing and prospective clients.

    https://www.spencerstuart.com
  • Russell Reynolds Associates

    Russell 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.com
  • Korn Ferry

    At Korn Ferry, we design, build, attract and ignite talent. Since our inception, clients have trusted us to help recruit world-class leadership. Today, we are a single source for leadership and talent consulting services to empower businesses and leaders to reach their goals. Through our vision, research and tools across 80 offices and 3,700 employees, we convert potential into greatness. Our solutions range from executive recruitment and leadership development programs, to enterprise learning, succession planning, and recruitment process outsourcing (RPO). Organizations around the world trust Korn Ferry to manage their talent – a responsibility we meet every day with passion, expertise, integrity and results.

    https://www.kornferry.com
  • Heidrick & Struggles

    Heidrick & Struggles actively solves business problems for our clients every day. Through our Leadership Advisory framework, we help companies attract, develop and retain the world’s most talented individuals. For almost 60 years, we have focused on quality service and built strong leadership teams through our relationships with clients and individuals worldwide. Today, Heidrick & Struggles leadership experts operate from principal business centers in North America, Latin America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia Pacific.

    http://www.heidrick.com
  • Egon Zehnder

    Egon Zehnder was founded in 1964 with a distinctive vision and structure aimed at achieving two basic goals - to place our clients' interests first and to lead our profession in creating value for our clients through the assessment and recruitment of top-level management resources. The most fundamental expression of our client-first vision resides in our structure, which is unique to our profession. Our 390 consultants, operating from 63 wholly owned offices in 37 countries, are organized around a single-profit center partnership. This is designed to eliminate competitive barriers between our offices. It allows us to operate seamlessly when engagements call for us to mobilize across many offices in a country or a region. Large or small, local or global, our clients benefit from our structure by having access to our most relevant resources and relationships wherever they may reside. Underpinning this unique structure is our private ownership. We have chosen to operate our firm independent of any outside interests and are motivated solely by a desire to exceed our clients' expectations.

    http://www.egonzehnder.com

Alliance Partners

  • Lightspeed Venture Partners

    Lightspeed Ventures is a global VC firm headquartered in Silicon Valley, with offices in India, Israel, and China. With over $7 billion under management, Lightspeed invests in both enterprise and consumer tech startups from early-stage to late-stage. With over 300 active startups in the portfolio, Lightspeed has invested in companies like Brocade, Informatica, Nutanix, AppDynamics, Mulesoft, zScaler, etc. Lightspeed has also created a CIO Innovation Advisory Network to connect forward-thinking IT leaders with Silicon Valley.

    http://lsvp.com
  • Greylock Partners

    Greylock Partners backs entrepreneurs who are building disruptive, market-transforming consumer and enterprise software companies. We invest in companies that define new markets, including Airbnb, AppDynamics, Cloudera, Docker, Dropbox, Facebook (Nasdaq: FB), LinkedIn (NYSE: LNKD), Medium, Nextdoor, Palo Alto Networks (NYSE: PANW) and Workday (NYSE: WDAY).

    http://www.greylock.com
  • Amplify Partners

    Amplify Partners, an early-stage venture capital firm committed to redefining IT infrastructure, invests in technical entrepreneurs pursuing the multi-hundred-billion dollar Infrastructure 2.0 disruption. Amplify helps talented founders build valuable businesses by investing the right amount of early-stage capital and providing active company-building assistance. Amplify offers the unique combination of deep domain expertise, early-stage focus and a network of Venture AmplifiersTM to improve outcomes for infrastructure entrepreneurs.

    http://www.amplifypartners.com

Association Partners

  • Year Up

    Year Up is an award-winning national 501(c)3 organization whose mission is to close the Opportunity Divide by providing urban young adults with the skills, experience, and support that will empower them to reach their potential through professional careers and higher education. Year Up achieves this mission through a high support, high expectation model that combines marketable job skills, stipends, internships and college-level coursework. Its holistic approach focuses on students' professional and personal development to place these young adults on a viable path to economic self-sufficiency. Year Up currently serves more than 3,600 students annually across 24 campuses in Arizona, Baltimore, Bay Area, Chicago, Dallas/Fort Worth, Greater Atlanta, Greater Boston, Greater Philadelphia, Jacksonville, Los Angeles, National Capital Region, New York City, Providence, Puget Sound, South Florida and Wilmington. Year Up success stats include: 100% placement of qualified students into internships 90% of interns meet or exceed partner expectations 85% of graduates employed or in college full time within four months of graduation $18/hr average starting wage for graduates of the program

    http://www.yearup.org

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