Vivek Ranadivé, Chairman and CEO
Mr. Ranadivé founded TIBCO in 1985 with the vision of bringing real-time technology into the mainstream. His acclaimed New York Times bestseller The Power of Now (1999), about how companies sense and respond to change, has been widely used in academia and has been the subject of numerous interviews on CNBC and in publications such as The Economist and Fast Company. His subsequent book, The Power to Predict (2006), shows the impact of predictive business on mainstream companies.
Mr. Ranadivé has consistently been recognized as a visionary, securing him a place in InfoWorld's 2002 Top Ten Technology Innovators. He was recognized by Ernst & Young as a 2002 Software Entrepreneur of the Year. In 2008, Mr. Ranadivé was named the South Asian CEO of the Year by SAMBAA. He was also featured in "How David Beats Goliath," an essay in The New Yorker by Tipping Point and Blink author Malcolm Gladwell, as an example of innovators who win by "breaking the rules."
Mr. Ranadivé earned an MBA from Harvard Business School, where he was a Baker Scholar. He received both a Master's and Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Randy G. Burdick, EVP and CIO, OfficeMax
Randy G. Burdick joined OfficeMax in March, 2005 as Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer. He was promoted to Executive Vice President and Chief Information Officer later that year. At OfficeMax, Mr. Burdick is responsible for the enterprise's overall information technology strategy and the development, implementation, and support of programs to uphold it. Prior to joining OfficeMax, he served as Group Information Officer for Hewlett-Packard. Joining Compaq in the fall of 1999, Mr. Burdick held several influential management positions during the largest technology merger (HP and Compaq) in history. Previous experience includes seven years with Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) where he worked in Quality and Global Manufacturing Systems; in his last 3 years at AMD, Randy Burdick served as the CIO.
Rob Calloway, Partner, Global SOA Practice, Accenture
Rob Calloway has more than 20 years of experience working at Accenture in the area of Systems Integration. He is part of Accenture's Global Technology Architecture senior leadership team and has responsibility for Accenture's Global SOA Practice across all industries, managing 3500 SOA professionals. Mr. Calloway's experience covers integration and technical architecture with emphasis on service oriented architectures, business process management, and enterprise application integration. He has responsibility for planning, directing and providing oversight for Accenture's leading SOA engagements. Mr. Calloway earned a B.S. in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Notre Dame.
Dr. Sumit Chowdhury, CIO, Reliance Communications
As CIO of Reliance Communications, one of the fastest growing telecom firms in India, Dr. Sumit Chowdhury is responsible for the planning, architecture, development, operation and security of the systems and IT networks across their global operations. He is also the operating head of Reliance Tech Services, the IT Services arm of the group. Prior to Reliance Communications, he served with BearingPoint (previously KPMG Consulting) as Managing Director. Dr. Chowdhury is on the Board of TeleManagement Forum and is the founder of Digital Bridge Foundation, a non-profit helping to bridge the Digital Divide in India.
Wolfgang Gaertner, CIO, and Member of the Executive Committee PBC,
Deutsche Bank
Wolfgang Gaertner joined DB in 1998 and serves as CIO Core Banking where he is globally responsible for IT and Operations in the areas of Private and Business Clients and Private Wealth Management. Recognized as CIO of the Year by Computerwoche (2007), he also leads the development of global uniform core banking systems and the IT integration of Deutsche Bank's new acquisitions. Prior to this role, he held various positions in Deutsche Bank including Business Head for Institutional Cash management, Head of Global Cash Operations and CIO Global Transaction Bank. Mr. Gaertner joined Deutsche Bank from Commerzbank, where he led the IT department for foreign entities and the International Finance Division.
Guillermo Güémez, CIO, Banco Wal-Mart Mexico
Guillermo Güémez joined Banco Wal-Mart Mexico as CIO from its original inception where he led the implementation of the entire bank's IT infrastructure. Mr. Güémez is responsible for the bank's technological innovation process, implementation and operations management and continuous improvement programs. Prior to joining Wal-Mart, he served as CEO of Triara, Telmex's hosting company in Mexico where he also led the design and implementation of the infrastructure and processes. Mr. Güémez holds an MBA from Stanford University and an MS in Computer Science.
Mark Hurd, Chairman, CEO and President, Hewlett-Packard Company
Mark Hurd joined HP in early 2005 as CEO and president and was named chairman of the board of directors in September 2006. With the goal of establishing HP as the world's leading technology company, Mr. Hurd has sharpened HP's strategic focus and concentrated its investments on three long-term growth opportunities: next-generation enterprise data center architecture and services; technologies for always connected, always personal mobile experiences; and a broad transition from analog to digital imaging and printing across the consumer, commercial and industrial markets. At the same time, Mr. Hurd has improved HP's operating efficiency and execution as well as its financial performance and customer focus. The result has been increasing growth and profitability, greater value for shareholders and customers, and a stronger competitive position in global IT markets. Between the company's 2004 and 2009 fiscal years, HP grew revenue from $80 billion to $114.6 billion and more than doubled its earnings per share.
Randy Huston, Program Delivery Executive, SmartGridCity™, Xcel Energy
Randy Huston has been responsible for delivering Xcel Energy's SmartGridCity™ project in Boulder, Colorado for the last two years. In that role, he has overseen all aspects of the delivery process from the conceptual design, to the deployment of the physical infrastructure in the field and through the building of the backend systems. He is now focusing on deploying the customer facing portions of the program, collecting and analyzing the information gained and working with various internal and external groups to drive internal process and external regulatory and industry change. Mr. Huston has over 30 years of experience in virtually all aspects of the utility industry except nuclear.
Jan Marshall, VP of Technology and CIO, Southwest Airlines
As VP of Technology and CIO at Southwest Airlines, Jan Marshall has led her organization through many implementations including the new Early Bird product, a new boarding process, enhancements to southwest.com, the Airport Customer Service Suite, Gift Cards, Gate Readers, Kiosks, Business Scorecards, and major foundational improvements to core business applications. Previously, Ms. Marshall was a VP for EDS/The Feld Group. Her Feld Group consulting engagements included large clients in Transportation, Consumer Goods, Financial Services and Manufacturing in the areas of building IT strategy, applications development, program management, methodology, system level architecture, and organizational and governance processes.
Suhas Mhaskar, General Manager, Corporate IT at Mahindra Group
Suhas Mhaskar has over 26 years of global experience in IT, management consulting, and supply chain management. He currently works as General Manager of Corporate IT at Mahindra Group and manages the Business Consulting and Internal Customer interactions. He is also assisting the Group CIO to establish the newly created Group role. Prior to this, Mr. Mhaskar has managed various responsibilities in the corporate IT function such as IT strategy formulation, IT budgets and program management, Knowledge Management, evaluation of Business Solutions / Technologies, and IT Projects Management. He has managed various SAP implementations in the area of ERP, SRM, SCM, WMS, as well as leading solutions from Microsoft, TIBCO, EDI, and more.
Vineet Nayar, CEO, HCL Technologies
Vineet Nayar is Chief Executive Officer and whole time Board Director of HCL Technologies Ltd. (HCLT), one of the world's fastest-growing information technology services company, world-renowned for its radical management practices. With the goal of establishing HCL as a thought leader in the IT Industry, Vineet has sharpened HCL's strategic focus around three key areas: creating next-generation business aligned IT services and solutions, ensuring customer engagement around the cornerstones of trust, transparency & transformation and empowering HCLites through the 'Employee First Customer Second' (EFCS) philosophy. Mr. Nayar joined HCL in 1985 after earning his MBA from XLRI, one of the leading business management schools in Asia. In 1993 he started his own company, Comnet, where he pioneered many of the innovative management practices like EFCS which is now taught as a case study at Harvard Business School.
Ronald K. Noble, Secretary General, INTERPOL
Ronald Noble was first elected Secretary General of INTERPOL in 2000 and was unanimously reelected to a second five-year term in 2005. He is also a tenured Professor of Law at New York University School of Law, on leave while serving at INTERPOL. Mr. Noble previously served as the U.S. Department of Treasury's first Undersecretary for Enforcement (1993-1996), where he was in charge of some of the country's then-largest law enforcement agencies, including the Secret Service, Customs Service, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, Federal Law Enforcement Training Center, Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, and Office of Foreign Assets Control.
Guy Peri, Global Head of Business Analysis Solutions, Procter & Gamble
Matthew Quinn, SVP, Engineering and Technology Strategy
Matt Quinn has been with TIBCO for 14 years. During this time he has had several worldwide roles. Mr. Quinn is currently responsible for the Composite Application Group (CAG). This group encompasses TIBCO's SOA, BPM, Infrastructure, Monitoring and Management, Governance and User Experience technologies. This group is responsible end-to-end for the engineering, quality, delivery of product, product vision, and customer enablement. Earlier in his TIBCO career, Mr. Quinn was a global architect, responsible for the delivery of some of TIBCO's largest implementations in diverse areas such as transportation and logistics, energy and finance. This was a hands-on role, building real systems architecture for production customers.
Dr. Hendrik Rosenboom, SVP, Process and Information Management,
Paul Hartmann AG
Dr. Hendrik Rosenboom joined Paul Hartmann in 2005 as Vice President of Supply Process Management. From 2005 to 2008 he served as Head of Operational Excellence/OpEx, a Board Initiative focusing on cost reduction and competitiveness. Previously, Mr. Rosenboom was VP of Business Development Europe at Flowfinity Wireless. Prior to this he was COO at Vamedis and formerly, CEO at dock11 AG. Mr. Rosenboom began his career as Junior Engagement Manager at McKinsey&Company. He was educated at the Free University of Berlin and Yale Med School.
José Luís Prola Salinas, SVP of Technology and Logistics and
Member of the Board, Banco do Brasil
José Luís Prola Salinas is Senior Vice President of Technology and Logistics and Member of the Board of Banco do Brasil. He is also a Member of the Board of PREVI – Caixa de Previdência dos Funcionários do Banco do Brasil. He has been recognized as CIO of the Year (Revista Executivos Financeiros, 2009), IT Professional of the Year (Informática Hoje and Plano Editorial, 2009), Finance Personality (Revista Relatório Bancário, 2009) and as an IT most Innovative Personality (Instituto sem Fronteiras, 2008). Mr. Salinas earned a graduate degree in Accounting Sciences and post-graduate degree in Auditing and Costs and Management Development. He earned a master's degree in Business Administration (UFRGS University – Brazil) and Ph.D. in Business Administration (UFRGS University and the École des Hautes Etudes Commerciales of Montréal – Canada).
Robert Williams, Senior Director, Business Development,
Microsoft Premium Mobile Experience, Microsoft Corp
Robert Williams is the Senior Director of Business Development and Strategy for Microsoft Premium Mobile Experiences (PMX). He is responsible for a range of activities and strategic partnerships that define the capabilities and user experiences for the recently announced KIN phones. During his 11+ years at Microsoft, Mr. Williams has held numerous business and product development positions spanning several releases of the Windows operating system, Tablet PC, Origami UltraMobile PCs, and Smart Personal Objects (SPOT watches). Before Microsoft, he worked at General Electric. He joined GE as a research scientist at Corporate R&D in New York and migrated through a series of increasingly responsible product development and business leadership roles including GM of the Lexan Polycarbonate business in Europe and President of GE Toshiba Silicones in Asia.
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