BPI NETWORK - Key Persons
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- CEO
- Founder
- Member of the Corporate Board
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- Managing Director
- Member of the Corporate Board
- Managing Director for Project Management Critical Environments
Alan is the Managing Director for Project Management Critical Environments. He serves as a technical consultant and resource to project teams engaged in critical facilities projects, including data centers, call centers, network operations centers, and other mission critical sites. He also serves as executive oversight for large critical facilities work in local markets and on dedicated accounts.
Prior to joining CBRE, Alan was Executive Vice President for a data center developer and Managing Director for national Project Management accounts at a commercial real estate firm. He has also served as a Principal at a large design/build firm that specialized in data center projects.
Alan has a degree in Architecture, and is an experienced executive with leadership and management skills in design, construction, and real estate consulting, with a focus on complex mission critical projects. He, is also a sought-after writer and speaker. He has spoken at highly recognized professional organizations, and has appeared in Crain's Business Journal, The New York Times, The New York Post, The Real Deal, Metro News, and Fox news. He has written regular blogs for the Huffington Post and the Financial Times.
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- CIO, VP of Information Systems / Embraer
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- Academic Director / HPO Center
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- VP of Innovation / Johnsonville
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- Director of Information Technology / LHP Hospital Group
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- Member of the Corporate Board
- Director of R & D / Amadeus
Antoine previously served as the Chief Information Officer at Eurostar, the only high speed train that directly links the UK to France and Belgium via the Channel Tunnel. They have been taking travellers from city center to city center since 1994.Antoine joined Eurostar in December 2013, bringing with him a combination of IS expertise and travel industry experience. He came to Eurostar from Corsair International, the second largest French airline and part of the TUI Travel group, where he was CIO.
Prior to his role at Corsair, Antoine was director of quality and information systems for the Swiss airline, Baboo, and founder and CEO of Air Turquoise, a start-up, low-cost regional airline. Before that, he was head of e-commerce for Air France. Antoine has also founded several companies, served on the board of a web agency and as a mentor to entrepreneurs.
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- Member of the Corporate Board
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- Innovation Leader / Intuit
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- Co - Founder of the Open Innovation Vibrant Data Project
- Director of Business Innovation at Intel Corporation
- Director of Corporate Strategy / Intel
Brandon Barnett is the Director of Business Innovation at Intel Corporation, where he leads research programs in scientific methods of innovation for companies, markets, and ecosystems in the current climate of social, cultural, and technical change. In his work, he combines business theory, complexity science, ethnographic research, open innovation, and lean startup methods to identify and experiment with opportunities that arise from systems in transformation.
Brandon is a co-founder of the open innovation Vibrant Data Project (WeTheData.org), and his team sponsored the National Day of Civic Hacking (hackforchange.org)-- the nation's largest hackathon for social good. Brandon's team managed Intel's Data Services Accelerator, which brings together strategically aligned startups to extend Big Data market opportunities to individuals by democratizing technology and analytics. His work has been featured in Fast Company, The Wall Street Journal Live, The Washington Post, GigaOm, and InformationWeek. Brandon consults with companies in multiple industries, speaks about his research at leading innovation conferences, and lectures at executive seminars to advance the state of innovation science across industries.
Previously, Brandon held General Manager roles in Intel's new business incubator and scientist roles in Intel's next-generation microprocessor technology group. As General Manager of Intel's Biochip venture, he led a team to develop the world's first bio-silicon DNA synthesis and detection platform. Brandon is a member of the Oregon Nanoscience and Microtechnologies Institute Commercialization Advisory Council and is a co-founder of DNA sequencing company Northshore Biosciences.
Brandon holds an MBA from the Oregon Executive MBA program, a PhD in Applied Physics from the University of Michigan, and a Sc.B. in engineering from Brown University. He holds nineteen patents and has co-authored twelve publications. Brandon can be reached at brandon.c.barnett@gmail.com or www.linkedin.com/in/brandoncbarnett/.
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- Editor - in - Chief of the International Journal of Innovation Science
- Founder and CEO of the International Association
- President and CEO / International Association of Innovation Professionals
Brett Trusko is the Founder and CEO of the International Association of Innovation Professionals (IAOIP). The IAOIP is the first not-for-profit, transparent, independent certification body for innovation professionals. Based on the concept of "Innovation Science", the Association, through its multiple working groups has developed and continues to refine the IBok (Innovation Body of Knowledge). The Association consists of individual, corporate and academic members dedicated to the development of Innovation as a professionally recognized discipline/
In addition to the Association, Brett is the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Innovation Science, which has been published as an academic Journal since 2007 and is indexed by most major indexing organizations. He is the author of the PROSE Award winning (technical and engineering category) book, The Global Innovation Science Handbook (2014).
He is an assistant Professor at Texas A&M University. He is also the director of A&M's Healthcare CoLab, which is a space dedicated to the development of cross discipline collaboration in healthcare innovation.
He is frequently travelling around the world as a consultant and professional speaker on innovation and entrepreneurship.
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- Director of Programs & Partnerships
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- Professor of Operations Management and Sustainability
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- Member of the Corporate Board
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- Program Manager of Data Center Strategic Engineering
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- VP - General Manager / Nidec Corporation
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- CTO
- Member of the Corporate Board
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- TMT & Sourcing Partner / Pinsent Masons
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- Cullen Trust Endowed Professor / the University of Texas
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- Research Director of International Business / India, China and America Institute
- Research Director of International Business at the India
Dr Steinbock consults on issues of international business and international relations among the most advanced economies (U.S., Western Europe, Japan) and the large emerging economies (China, India, Russia, Brazil). He focuses on international relations, global competitiveness and innovation of nation, governments, cities and firms. He is also an expert on the global mobile communications industry and Finnish competitiveness and innovation.
He divides his time between New York City, Shanghai / Guangzhou and Helsinki, Finland.
Dr. Steinbock is Research Director of International Business at the India, China and America Institute (ICA). His contributions have been published by The National Interest and American Foreign Policy Interest, leading US foreign policy journals, as well as China & World Economy, China's leading economic journal and International Review by Shanghai's leading think-tank, Strategic Innovators, a leading Indian innovation journal by IIPM. A senior Fulbright scholar, he is an affiliate of the Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness (Prof M.E. Porter, Harvard Business School); Faculty Spokesman for the Forum to Advance Mobile Experience (FAME), an initiative by the CMO Council, representing 2,000 leading technology firms; and an affiliate of the Columbia Institute for Tele-Information (CITI).
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- CEO
- Member of the Corporate Board
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- Vice President of Engineering at Experian Consumer Direct
- VP of Engineering
David Muller is the Vice President of Engineering at Experian Consumer Direct, leading the technical team that oversees the delivery of web and mobile applications for the consumer marketplace. He is passionate about data and KPIs, recognizing that the quality, content and relationship of data truly drive value for an organization.
Muller has more than 20 years of global experience in leading corporations in the successful delivery of cost-effective, high-performance solutions. He has solid experience in developing and implementing business strategies with relevant policy, building business support and allowing organizations to respond quickly as conditions change. His multi-industry knowledge and out-of-the-box thinking help organizations deliver lasting value to their customers.
An accomplished speaker, Muller has regularly presented at executive and technology conferences in North America, Hong Kong and Australia. Previously, Muller has worked at CoreLogic, Ingram Micro, IBM and Software AG. Muller completed the management development program in business administration and management from the University of South Africa.
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- Chief Information Officer
David is the Chief Information Officer at Tourism Australia, the Australian Government agency responsible for attracting international visitors to Australia, both for leisure and business events.
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- Chief Information Officer
- Member of the Corporate Board
- SVP
Dr. Bettina von Stamm is an original and visionary thinker in the field of innovation, who has focused on enabling innovation with particular emphasis on large organisations since 1992. The passion was kindled during her MBA and deepened further when she returned to London Business School to do her PhD titled: "Understanding the effects of context and complexity in new product development" (1994-1998).
In 2004, after having worked independently for 12 years, she founded the Innovation Leadership Forum (ILF) through which she offers a variety of innovation MasterClasses and coaching to help senior managers and innovation leaders address barriers to innovation, and create sustainably innovative organizations.
With Innovators Anonymous, the ILF's Networking Group, she has created a forum for the exchange, exploration and development of innovation leading practice where leaders and decision makers can embrace the challenges of innovation in a non-competitive and non-selling environment.
Wanting to understand has always been a main driver for Bettina which is why she has engaged in 5 rounds of research into "Innovation Leading Practice & Future Challenges" (2001, 2003, 2006, 2010, 2015), and in order to help organisations understand both the ambition of and starting point for their specific innovation journey, she has created the Innovation Wave®, a facilitated assessment tool for innovation capability.
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- CMO
- Executive Vice President
For more than 20 years, Kai has been active in the field of digital transformation, both in large corporations like Sony and Fuji as well as in self-created companies located in Europe, the US and Japan. While running businesses spanning consumer electronics, printing, medical, e-publishing, and life science, Kai has kept the changing market in clear focus and prepared organizations for technological change that helps adapt them towards new business models and revenue streams.
Kai currently works with prescriptive analytics, prosodic voice recognition, e-commerce models, scientific online reading, and retail innovations. He is a strong believer, after having witnessed the surge of the internet for 20 years, that this is only a prelude to the much more drastic changes to come - 3D printing, virtuality, IoT, and M2M connectedness.
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- Vice President and Principal Analyst / Constellation Research, Inc.
Dr. Natalie's research is among the top in the world, respected for over 20 years because of her ability to tackle difficult subjects like connecting social media and traditional function department's initiatives to the bottom-line and creating the world's first social media return-on-investment calculator. She's combined her experiences into practical experience to guide CxO's, PR, Marketing, Customer Service and IT leaders, as integrated teams, to make sound business decisions by providing executable strategies that improve the bottom-line.
Dr. Natalie has developed frameworks, assessments, maturity models and ROI models for the past 15 years, including social media ROI calculators, social media brand index scoring systems, HR and Human Capital ROI models, Customer Service, Brand Equity/Reputation ROI models, PR/Word of Mouth and Marketing Conversion Rate Models as well as Social Media Production Innovation Calculators. By comparing a brand or company's "current state" to best practices, she has created tools that provide short and long-term roadmaps via recommendation engines that help standardize planning for social media and digital communications programs.
Dr. Natalie's experience in social media ranges from being a Forrester Analyst, the Chief Strategist for an Agency and a consultant at PWC and BenchmarkPortal. Her focus is to help clients understand how to use social media to drive revenue and profits. She wrote the world's first social media ROI model. Dr. Natalie is Adjunct Professor at USC and former President of SocialMediaClubLA. With a world-wide practice role spanning client work, practice development and thought leadership. she's lead the development of consulting practices in management consulting as well as organizational change management at PricewaterhouseCoopers, Benchmarkportal and Hitachi Consulting. Dr. Natalie's focus is to consult with clients on their strategy for social media, marketing, PR, customer service and integrating them using organizational change management, new technology deployment and social media analytics, measurement and ROI. Dr. Natalie is credited with writing the world's first social media ROI model for PR, Marketing, Product Innovation and Customer Service.
Dr. Natalie is often quoted in NYTimes, USAToday, Bloomberg-BusinessWeek, CRM Magazine and Peppers and Rogers 1-to-1 Magazine and is also a featured commentator on TV and radio. As an accomplished public speaker, Dr. Natalie is an invited and keynote speaker at conferences like... Social Media Advertising Consortium (SMAC), WOMMA, Web 2.0, Radian6 Conference, Enterprise 2.0, Gartner CRM Summit, Forrester IT, Business Technology and Consumer Forums, Hispanicize, CRM Evolution, SugarCon, C3, UCLA Anderson Business School MBA Program, USC, Pepperdine Business Forum, Vendor Users Conferences, ICMI, GSA and SOCAP.
To follow Dr. Natalie, check out her musing on Twitter.com/drnatalie; her website where she blogs about all thing social and digital, www.drnatalienews.com and can be reached at doctornatalie@gmail.com
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- Senior Lecturer / Haas School of Business
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- Associate Professor
- Associate Professor of Business Administration
- Member of the Editorial Board for the Journal of Consumer Psychology
- Professor
Tiffany Barnett White is Associate Professor of business administration (marketing group) at the University of Illinois, College of Business. She joined the faculty at Illinois in 1999 and received a Ph.D. in marketing from Duke University in 2000.
Professor White was a recipient of the General Electric Faculty for the Future research grant while a doctoral student at Duke and as a faculty member at Illinois. She holds M.S. and B.S. degrees in advertising from the University of Illinois.
Prior to pursuing a Ph.D., Professor White held positions as an assistant buyer for Venture Stores, Inc. and as a market analyst and freelance marketing research consultant for RR Donnelley & Sons Company.
Professor White's teaching and research interests are in the area of consumer behavior and customer relationship management. Her research addresses affective cognitive and behavioral aspects of consumer-level brand and service relationships, including exchange behavior and the development and deterioration of consumer trust within these relationships. Her recent publications include "Consumer Trust and Advice Acceptance: The Moderating Roles of Benevolence, Expertise and Negative Emotions," Journal of Consumer Psychology, April 2005, and "Consumer Disclosure and Disclosure Avoidance: A Motivational Framework," Journal of Consumer Psychology, January 2004. Her paper, "Converting Website Visitors into Buyers: How Website Investment Increases Consumer Trusting Beliefs and Online Purchase Intentions," with Ann Schlosser and Susan Lloyd, is forthcoming in the Journal of Marketing, April 2006. Her paper, "Dynamic Customer Relationship Management: Incorporating Future Considerations into the Service Retention Decision" (Journal of Marketing, 2002 with Katherine Lemon and Russ Winer) was awarded the 2003 Donald R. Lehmann Award for an outstanding dissertation-based article in marketing research. A secondary stream of Professor White's research investigates consumers' responses to product assortment. Her paper, "The Effects of Assortment Size, Product Description and Innovativeness on Intentions to try New Products," was the 2004 Winner of the MSI-JCP Research Competition on Product Assortment and Variety-Seeking in Consumer Choice.
Professor White is a member of the editorial board for the Journal of Consumer Psychology and an ad hoc reviewer for the Journal of Consumer Research, Marketing Science, and Decision Sciences.
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- Chief Innovation Officer
- Member of the Corporate Board
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- Founder / Edward J. Pospesil & Company, LLC
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- Advisor for Centercore Data Center
- Senior Vice President of Technology Compliance at Fidelity Investments
- SVP of Technology Compliance
Eric Wells is the Senior Vice President of Technology Compliance at Fidelity Investments, the largest mutual fund company in the United States, the No. 1 provider of workplace retirement savings plans and a leading online brokerage firm.
With over 20 years of experience in global IT strategy & service delivery, Eric also serves as an advisor for Centercore data center solutions. In addition to launching several innovation efforts at Fidelity, Eric helped launch the OpenCompute Foundation Certification & Interoperability project. He is also on the Board of Advisors for SMU's Data Center Systems Engineering graduate program. Eric received his Bachelor of Science degree in Management & Information Systems from Babson College in 1991.
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- Chairman of the Board
- Founder
Francis Cronjé has more than 15 years of industry and consulting experience across a broad range of engagements and industries. Prior to forming franciscronje.com, his corporate governance advisory service, he served as a Specialist Legal Consultant on Data Protection and IT Advisory at KPMG South Africa, where he headed up Data Protection as a service line to clients.
He was instrumental during the drafting and refinement of the Protection of Personal Information Act (POPI) and acted in an advisory capacity to Parliament's Technical Working Committee on POPI. He later provided further insight to the Portfolio Committee of Justice and Constitutional Development during the finalisation of POPI and also served on the National Council of Provinces (NCOP) assisting with POPI.
He also served as a Data Assessor for the Direct Marketing Association of South Africa and is admitted as an Advocate to the High Court of South Africa. Francis is an Adjudicator for the Wireless Application Service Provider's and Internet Service Provider's Associations of South Africa and also serves on their Appeal Panels.
Francis is the co-author and co-editor of the textbook cyberlaw@SA second edition, and also co-authored the book, as well as 101 Questions and Answers about the Protection of Personal Information Act. He has also presented at numerous seminars locally and internationally on matters ranging from ICT Law, Data Governance to Data Protection and IT Asset Management.
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- Founder / RTE Group
- Founder of RTE Group
Gabe Cole, Founder of RTE Group, is an accomplished Technology Executive with over 20 years' experience across data center, network, and cloud.
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- Founder / Analytics - Based Performance Management, LLC
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- Professor of Marketing and Co - Director of the Mack Institute for Innovation Management / University of Pennsylvania
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- Member of the Corporate Board
- Director of Innovation
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- Tech Industry and Strategic Sales Leader
- Vice President & Partner / IBM
Bodley is a high tech industry and strategic sales leader with 25+ years of sales, consulting and business management experience with many of the world's most exciting companies, from high-growth start-ups to global industry leaders like IBM and SAP. Through his experience, he has demonstrated his ability to build, inspire and lead high performance teams to achieve dramatic results. He is an accomplished public speaker with exceptional interpersonal and communication skills.
Currently Bodley serves as Vice President and Partner at IBM. His role is as the leader of the Electronics and High Tech Industry Sector in North America at IBM Global Business Services. In this role, he works with electronics and high tech industry leaders to leverage digital technologies to improve enterprise performance in game-changing new ways. He is responsible for strategy, sales, P&L, delivery, and overall client success.
His previous experience includes over a decade of work at SAP, where he ultimately served as the Vice President of Strategic Customer Accounts. In this role, he led SAP's Strategic Customer Program in the West Region of North America, which included responsibility for SAP's most strategic customer relationships and the success of all lines of business, including software revenue growth, consulting and premium support services.
Bodley graduated with his Master's Degree in Computer Science from the University of Port Elizabeth.
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- Professor of Business Information Systems / University of Applied Sciences
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- CIO
- Member of the Corporate Board
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- COO / Lutheran Federal Credit Union
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- Senior Director of Global Connected Strategy / Whirlpool
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- Member Board of Trustees / University of South Florida
In his previous experience, Jim has led a team of business and technology experts, who identify, evaluate and assess the business value of technologies for the company and customers in the context of his team's research into economic, market, industry, social and governmental trends and resulting foresight and future business scenarios. His team also helped customers develop tools and techniques to create cultures of innovation and become serial innovators. His team participated in standards bodies, regularly speak at conferences internationally and have multiple book and industry-article contributions to their credit. Jim guest lectures internationally and holds multiple patents.
Jim has designed, developed and implemented award-winning information and communications technologies. He started and has grown multiple companies including one reaching number 7 on the Inc. 500. He has successfully led technology start-ups and turnarounds as well as technology organizations within large global enterprises. He is author, contributor and subject of numerous books. He speaks and consults internationally on digital infrastructures, evaluation of emerging technologies, innovation and strategic guidance on information technology application to achieve business outcomes. He is a regular blogger for multiple sites and publications with hundreds of articles worldwide including Harvard Business Review, Computerworld, and CIO while participating in international technology standards bodies, as well as advising a number of technology incubators. Jim's current focus is deriving insights from complex adaptive systems theory, cognitive psychology, behavioral finance and economics combined with researching changes in capital formation, economic friction and social information flow to discover new business, organization, risk and management models needed in the future. Jim has severed in various capacities over the years from scientific and statistical programmer, operating system designer and developer, enterprise architect, CIO and CTO as well as business positions in marketing, consulting and management including President and CEO.
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- CIO & Head of Business Excellence / Nagarjuna Group
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- IT Director / Watchfinder & Co
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- Research Fellow / Stanford University
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- Associate Professor of Technology Management, Economics, and Policy Program
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- Group Chief Enterprise Architect / Transnet Limited
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- Group General Manager
- Member of the Corporate Board
- Group General Manager, Data
Kevin Leahy is Group General Manager, Data Centre Solutions for Dimension Data Holdings. The $6 billion company is a specialist IT services and solution provider that helps clients plan, build, support & manage their IT infrastructures.
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- IT Consultant / Sirius Computer Solutions
- Technology Executive
Kevin Rota is a leading technology executive with vast experience at transforming and leading organizations. Rota utilizes innovative technical solutions to enable business success, and has demonstrated his skill as a global leader in enterprise strategy across a number of industries.
Rota has deep technical knowledge of information technology; specifically in systems, infrastructure, and software development. He has transformed a multitude of IT and operations teams to align on new strategies and visions while establishing standard planning, budgeting and project execution practices.
Throughout the years, Rota has a developed strong leadership skills in both corporate and consulting organizations. In his previous position as a Senior Executive within the Dassault Systèmes Global Information Technology organization, he redefined and executed technology programs with a global, regional, and local scope in order to achieve business goals.
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- Director of Communications
Lee joined the Collabworks leadership team in April 2011, overseeing CollabWorks Information Technology strategy, as well as having overall responsibility for the day to day IT operations and customer support for Collabworks.
Prior to joining CollabWorks, Lee held the position of Vice President and Chief Information Officer for Photon Dynamics, Inc., where he had responsibility for the corporate business systems and network infrastructure worldwide. Previously, as CIO of Spectrian, he led the organization toward a virtual company vision that allowed employees to perform their job functions from anywhere in the world.
Lee has also held senior level information technology positions at FCS/New Millennium Technologies, Inc. a Y2K software conversion services company and Nextron Communications, Inc., a web site creation and hosting company. Earlier in his career, Lee worked for Deere & Company holding several positions within its Information Technology organization at both unit and corporate levels.
Lee received an MBA from the University of Iowa and holds a bachelor's degree in business administration from Upper Iowa University.
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- Chairman
- Chairman / Informed Opinion Leadership Action Group
Les C. Meyer is a results-driven serial entrepreneur, global executive leader and MBA with extensive experience in mindful innovation and self-actualization. He has demonstrated creativity in transforming health and performance improvement through innovation leadership. He has worked with many organizations to help them achieve an optimal healthy workplace and workforce and achieve functional wellbeing outcomes via science-based mindfulness, resilience, vitality and sustainability next practices. He has also implemented game changer approaches to the creation of health care delivery, innovative health policies, advanced primary care systems, planned care coordination and proactive community health assurance initiatives. He has integrated meaningful enabling technologies and consumer-centric, integrative health services for a wide variety of worldwide stakeholders.
Les is a health industry serial mindful innovator and informed opinion leader known for his key leadership in driving next level business models and the emerging integrative health and performance improvement leadership movement. He is a visionary long-term strategist and architect, adept at bolstering measurable, bottom line corporate returns. Through innovative, next generation approaches to integrative health, mindfulness, and population health improvement, he ensures success by enabling technologies that work, ensuring employee engagement and accountability, creating value-centric plan designs, assessing health risk management, and achieving total well being improvement and sustainable work-life balance.
Les is a relationship builder, skilled in all aspects of provider integration and leveraging the trusted-clinician relationship through marketing, branding, sales and business development techniques. He has particular expertise in forming collaborative community/industry groups to address big picture strategic issues and innovative solutions.
Les C. Meyer, MBA is Chairman, Informed Opinion Leadership Action Group (IOLAG) and President of HPI Advisors, LLC. He is a Leadership Board Member at the Business Performance Innovation (BPI) Network and a member of its sister organization, the Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) Council. He is Principal at HealthNEXT and a member of the Institute of Medicine Roundtable on Population Health. He serves on the Health Enhancement Research Organization (HERO) Employer-Community Collaboration Committee and is an active participant at The Clinton Foundation Health Matters Initiative. He is a Global Leader at the World Wide Wellbeing Challenge (WWW), a Senior Fellow Emeritus at the Jefferson School of Population Health, Thomas Jefferson University, a member of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) Leadership Network. He is an Advisory at multiple organizations, including the Center for Healthcare Leadership, Concordia College, the Corporate Health & Wellness Association, the Medical Tourism Association, Corporate Wellness Magazine. Finally, he is a Board Member at the Professional Patient Advocacy Institute (PPAI) and Founder of the Taos Brain Injury (TBI) Institute.
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- President 's Leadership Advisory Council / World Bank Group
Mark Thompson is coauthor of the international bestseller, Success Built to Last. He brings to every engagement two decades of experience as a senior executive, board member, management coach, producer and investor in growing businesses. Mark helps your team embrace rapid change, ignite growth as leaders and engage with influential people who are driving the future of your brand.
Our thought leader programs inspire deeper relationships with your communities of interest around the world. As an executive coach and producer of leadership programs, Mark is passionate about unlocking the unique insights and skills of remarkable people around the world - from executives, entrepreneurs, nonprofit leaders and billionaires, to the presidents of nations and the leaders of small and large organizations.
Mark's ability to draw out the relevant personal and business stories from hundreds of thought leader interviews formed the foundation for our book, Success Built to Last, and also resulted in many audio and video programs, including, the Charles Schwab CEO series, Women on Leadership, Seven Sacred Secrets with Maya Angelou, and the DVD program, Creating a Life that Matters.
Forbes Magazine included Mark on its list of America's leading venture investors with the "Midas" touch in 2004. He has been an investor and chairman of many startups, including Rioport, which popularized the mp3 audio player; VMAX, which held the exclusive distribution license for Micron PCs in China, and Integration Associates, a communications semiconductor company funded by Mark Thompson, Charles Schwab, Jr. and Sequoia. He sold the company to Silicon Labs in 2008 for $80 million.
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- CIO at Large / Center for Systems Innovation
Michael Hugos, at Center for Systems Innovation [c4si], is a speaker, mentor and practitioner in business and IT agility and supply chain management. He previously spent six years as chief information officer (CIO) of a national distribution organization where he developed the suite of supply chain and e-business systems that transformed the company's business and revenue model. He is a recognized expert in business agility, IT agility and supply chain management. He won the CIO 100 Award in 2003 and 2005, the InformationWeek 500 Award in 2005, and in 2006 was selected for the Computerworld Premier 100 Award for career achievement.
Michael earned his MBA from Northwestern University 's Kellogg School of Management and his bachelor's degree in Urban Planning and Design from University of Cincinnati. He writes a blog for CIO Magazine titled "Doing Business in Real Time" and has authored several books including best selling Essentials of Supply Chain Management 2nd Ed., and his newest book Business Agility: Sustainable Prosperity in a Relentlessly Competitive World.
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- CFO
- Executive Vice President
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- Professor of Business Performance / Cranfield University
Mike is Professor of Business Performance in the Centre for Business Performance at Cranfield University's School of Management in the UK. Before his academic career, Mike spent 15 years in business, spanning the valve, paper & board, building materials, machine tool and airline catering industries. He held a number of positions, with roles in production management, strategy and acquisitions, IT, HR, commercial and general management, including directorship positions in subsidiary companies. He gained his PhD from the University of Cambridge in 2001, researching the design and implementation of balanced performance measurement systems. He has spent the last ten years working with companies supporting senior management teams through the process of designing, implementing and using their balanced scorecards and related performance management techniques. He has worked with, and consulted to, a number of organisations including Accenture, Amadeus, BAe Systems, European Central Bank, Lloyds TSB, McCormick Europe, NHBC, Oki Europe, PWC, Schering, Thales, Tube Lines, Unilever and Wolseley. His current research activities are in the arena of corporate performance measurement and management, including the interface with the planning and budgeting process and performance related pay. He has authored over 100 publications, and is co-author of several books including Balanced Scorecard - Instant Manager, Getting the Measure of your Business and Change Management in a Week. Mike is the editor of the Handbook of Performance Measurement and Director of the MSc in Managing Organisational Performance.
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- Member of the Corporate Board
- Partner
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- Global Head of R & D / the Coca - Cola Company
- Global Research & Development Officer for the Coca - Cola Company
Nancy Quan is the Global Research & Development Officer for The Coca-Cola Company, based in Atlanta, Georgia. Nancy is responsible for setting the Coca-Cola Company's Global R&D vision, strategy and priorities. As the head of Global R&D, Nancy drives the agenda of all Regional R&D centers, leads the Corporate Research and Engineering functions and oversees the External Technology Assessment / Acquisition (ETA) function, through which Coca-Cola structures strategic partnerships with universities, key suppliers, research centers, technology start-ups, and others to source technologies and science for sustained competitive advantage.
Nancy started with The Coca-Cola Company in 2007 as R&D General Manager for Europe and Eurasia Group, based in Brussels, Belgium. Following this, she moved to the Corporate Headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia where she took on the role of Vice President Innovation. Nancy then moved to Shanghai, China to take on the role of Vice President, R&D, Pacific Group. Her areas of responsibility included leading the R&D centers for the Pacific Region: the Global Innovation Technology Center located in Shanghai, the Japan R&D center, and the Development center in Delhi, India.
Nancy has extensive experience leading R&D and Innovation organizations around the world. Prior to joining The Coca-Cola Company, Nancy worked with Mars Incorporated and held leadership roles spanning across R&D, Business Development, and Manufacturing. Nancy's career has been truly Global and Multicultural in nature; as she has built strong teams across a range of countries and cultures, including the US, the UK, The Netherlands, Belgium, China, Japan, India and Australia. Nancy is a graduate of Purdue University, with a dual major in the areas of Food Science and Nutrition.
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- CTO / TechnoChange Solutions Pty Ltd
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- Senior Director, Emerging Technologies & Communications / University of Chicago
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- Member of Board of Directors at DSAG, GM Global SAP Business Architect and Head of SAP CCoE
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- Associate CIO / University of Arkansas
Paige Francis joined Fairfield University in Fairfield, CT as their first Chief Information Officer in January of 2013. Prior to joining Fairfield, Paige served in her first higher education role as CIO for Northwest Arkansas Community College in Bentonville, AR after exiting the corporate world with experience from Thomson-Reuters and Dave & Buster's in the Dallas, TX area. Her technology experience is cross-industry with a proven track record of leadership and project execution. With specialties including communication, collaboration, technical expertise in layman's terms, and project conception/management/completion, Paige is a 2015 Top 100 Most Social CIOs, a 2014 Computerworld Premier 100 IT Leaders Award honoree as well as one of 2013's Top 50 Most Social CIOs in Higher Education.
Having led a highly successful digital strategy and implementation at Fairfield University, Paige believes that the role of IT must align fully with business---from strategy to marketing to the ability to communicate well with others. With this philosophy, Paige rallies consensus across diverse functional, service and campus wide interests, and fosters teamwork and collaboration in order to maintain and implement new technology.
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- Director of Global Marketing
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- Member of the Corporate Board
- Director of Design and Building Information Modeling ( BIM )
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- SVP of Innovation and Solutions
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- Member of the Corporate Board
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- Cullen Trust Endowed Professor / the University of Texas
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- Head of Commercial Strategy and Global Market Insights / Grünenthal
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- Co - Creator & Chief Strategist / Lufthansa
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- Member of the Corporate Board
- Head of Innovation Excellence / BASF
Stephan leads the Innovation Excellence initiative at BASF's Nutrition & Health division. He is striving to create excellence in BASF with respect to the development of strategic innovation plans and their robust link to operational business unit targets to ensure sustainable implementation. Towards this end, he is applying a strong focus on enabling short to long-term profitable growth from innovation by steering company innovation using quantitative portfolio management.
In his current role at BASF, Stephan is drawing on a broad range of experience gained at BASF in R&D and New Business Development, as well Strategic Planning and Controlling and Business Management leadership roles. In these roles he has developed, planned and implemented almost everything, including products, business models, and strategies for various markets served by BASF, including packaging, construction, aroma, pharmaceuticals, and food.
Stephan is a physicist and economist (M.Sc., University of Heidelberg in both cases) by education and holds a Ph.D. in Biophysics from EMBL, Heidelberg and University of Ulm, Germany. He has also been teaching Innovation Management in the Advanced Materials program at the University of Ulm, Germany since 2003 and was appointed honorary Professor in 2011.
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- Member of the Corporate Board
- CTO / Catalina
In his role as executive vice president and chief technology officer, Rubinow is responsible for continuously strengthening Catalina's global enterprise architecture through technology development, implementation and operation.Steve Rubinow brings 25+ years of technology leadership to his role as EVP and Chief Technology Officer. He is responsible for leading Catalina's global technology function, driving improvements to Catalina's global enterprise architecture through technology development, implementation, and operation to deliver personalized digital media. Widely recognized as an innovative and transformational technology leader, Rubinow served as CIO for Thomson Reuters' Marketplaces Division prior to joining Catalina. He previously served as Chief Information Officer for the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) Euronext for over a decade.
Steve has authored several books on CIO/CTO leadership, and has been the recipient of numerous accolades. He was named one of the top 30 socially-savvy US CIOs in 2013 by Aternity for his use of social media, inducted into the CIO Hall of Fame in 2012, was named one of Computerworld magazine's Premier 100 IT Leaders for 2012, was recognized as one of the top 10 CIOs on Wall Street in 2010 by Securities Technology Monitor magazine, and named one of the top CIOs on Wall Street in 2004, 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009 by Wall Street & Technology magazine. For many years, Rubinow served as an adjunct faculty member at DePaul University, where he earned an M.S. in Computer Science. His academic accomplishments also include four degrees from the University of Illinois, including a Ph.D. in Chemistry; an MBA in Marketing & Finance; an M.S. in Chemistry, and; a B.S. in Biological Sciences and Chemistry.
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- Regional Transformation Representative
Steven Tan has proven replicated success over 15+ years in achieving outstanding results, ambitious growth, market share and pipeline goals across prestigious fortune 500 and global mid-sized organizations (IBM, HP, Informix, Aspect Software). He is highly energetic and passionate professional with deep expertise in achieving consistent measurable results, building and mentoring team players, partnering with leadership on organizational transformation to influence and achieve company's goals.
Recently, Steven was Seagate's Director of Marketing for Asia Pacific and Japan, responsible for all aspects of field marketing, marketing operations and public relations in the region. Steven oversaw strategic marketing activities to develop and maintain customer and partner programs in the region. He was responsible for building new and accelerating new logo revenue contribution to sales every quarter via demand generation, business development managers and inside sales. He led and managed regional marketing strategy, driving market awareness of the brand, and growing the company's revenue and market share through demand generation programs. Additionally, his portfolio also included forging and maintaining media and analyst relations, including social media marketing.
As an Executive Advisory Board member of the CMO Council, Steven provides advisory from branding (online, social media and traditional) to demand generation to fellow CMOs and enterprises across Asia Pacific and United States. As the Regional Transformation Representative of the BPI Network, Steven acts as a regional advisor and representative for ongoing Thought Leadership campaigns and events. He draws on his 20+ years of experience in overseeing marketing and communications across-the-board, from channels marketing management to product marketing and media relations. Prior to joining Seagate, Steven has held senior marketing positions at IBM Software Group, Lucent Technologies, HP Software, Informix Software and the most recent 4 years at Aspect Software.
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- Director / Altman Vilandrie & Company
Tim has worked in the technology industry for more than 27 years. He was a managing director (partner) for 13 of his 22-plus year tenure in Accenture's management consulting practice. At Accenture, Tim worked with some of the world's largest tech companies, advising clients on growth and operational strategies and leading Accenture's software industry sector. Towards the end of his tenure, he focused on Silicon Valley clients and developed go-to-market strategies with major enterprise technology partners. He also led Accenture's development programs for strategy consulting partners/managing directors, personally training more than ninety senior colleagues.
As global software industry lead, Tim grew market awareness of the software practice and helped expand the client footprint. He created new Accenture offerings and assets and directed training for personnel serving software clients. Tim was the go-to subject matter expert in strategic sales initiatives and investigated new alliance opportunities with software vendors.
Tim has written several points of view on cloud business models, operating models and operational capabilities relevant in the shift toward "anything-as-a-service." With this focus, he most recently led sales and client services for a big data consulting and engineering services startup.
Tim is a Stanford MBA graduate and holds BS (Highest Honors) and MS degrees in Mechanical Engineering from UC Davis. Tim tweets @timjellison. He lives in San Francisco.
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- General Manager
- Member of the Corporate Board
Umesh Patel is the General Manager, Eaton Power Quality Division - Canada and responsible for driving revenue in power quality products and service. Prior to joining Eaton, Patel was with Honeywell for 15 years in various positions of increasing responsibility in general management, sales, and business development. He has lived in five countries and earned global citizenship through his direct business involvement in over 20 countries spanning all continents. Patel holds a Bachelor's Degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Waterloo, and a Master's Degree in Engineering from the University of Toronto.
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- CIO Remote Sites Asia & Australia
With a 33 year tenure in the pharmaceutical, food service, and specialty retail industries, Vijay's experience has been with Pfizer, ARAMARK, Sodexo, and GNC. He started with Sodexo USA 28 years ago and has served in various roles such a VP, Information Systems and Technology for Sodexo USA's Education Markets and then as the Senior Vice President & Chief Marketing Officer for the Education Markets of Sodexo USA. In that role, he also chaired the Sodexo USA Culinary Council. In 2009 he was appointed to the role of CIO for Sodexo UK & Ireland and the Board for Sodexo UK Limited. He currently serves as the CIO-Remote Sires, Asia and Australia or Sodexo Global Information Systems & Technology, based in Singapore.
Vijay served as the Executive Advisor and founding chairperson of Sodexo's Pan Asian Network Group. In addition, he served on the Ally Advisory Board of Sodexo's GLBT Employee Business Resource Group and as a member of the Board of Directors and then the Advisory Board of Asian Pacific Islander American Scholarship Fund. He was also instrumental in starting Women Work- Sodexo UK & Ireland's Women's Network Group as an Executive Advisor.
Vijay is sought as a speaker at Fortune 500 company events; industry and non-profit conferences and at university campuses; in the areas of entrepreneurship, aligning IT with business strategy, student insights, customer segmentation, mentoring, diversity and inclusion. In the past, Vijay also owned and operated several GNC (General Nutrition Centre) franchises in the Chicago-land area- an endeavor that he was involved in for over 15 years. During that time, he was elected by the franchise community to serve a two year term on GNC's National Franchisee Advisory Board in 2005.
Vijay has a B.Sc. in Agricultural Sciences from India, M.S. in Human Nutrition & Food Services Management from University of Nebraska-Lincoln and an M.B.A. from the Keller Graduate School of Management of Chicago.
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- Member of the Corporate Board
- Senior Director of IP Protection and Enforcement / Dolby Laboratories, Inc.
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- Vice President, Strategy and New Business Innovative Pharma / Pfizer