 Mark Hurd is chief executive officer and president of HP and also a member of the company's board of directors.
Hurd previously spent 25 years at NCR Corp., culminating in his two-year tenure as chief executive officer and president. His leadership was marked by successful efforts to improve operating efficiency, bolster the position of NCR's product line and build a strong leadership team. In fiscal 2004, NCR generated revenue of $6.0 billion, up 7 percent from a year earlier, and net income rose nearly fivefold to $290 million.
Hurd was named president of NCR in 2001 and was given additional responsibilities as chief operating officer in 2002. Prior to that, he spent three years as head of the company's Teradata data-warehousing division. Earlier, he held a variety of general management, operations, and sales and marketing roles. Hurd began his career at NCR as a field salesman in 1980.
Hurd is a member of the Technology CEO Council, a coalition of chairmen and chief executive officers of IT companies, which develops and advocates public policy positions on technology and trade issues.
He earned a bachelor's degree in business administration in 1979 from Baylor University.
 Randy Mott is executive vice president and chief information officer of HP, responsible for IT strategy and all of the company's IT assets. This includes all application development, data management, technology infrastructure, data center operations and telecommunication networks worldwide.
Previously, Mott was senior vice president and chief information officer for Dell, Inc., which he joined in 2000. Mott was responsible for managing that company's global IT infrastructure, which included the backbone of its extensive Internet and web-based capabilities. Mott significantly enhanced the company's IT executive talent and focused the organization on global, scalable, and common systems.
Prior to joining Dell, Mott spent 22 years at Wal-Mart Stores Inc., where he held a variety of technical and management positions and pioneered retail and supply chain systems automation. In 1994, Mott was named senior vice president and chief information officer and for the next six years Wal-Mart almost tripled in revenue and its IT group earned a "best of class" reputation as it cost-effectively leveraged global and common IT systems. In 1996, Mott was promoted to Wal-Mart's executive committee and in 1997 InformationWeek named him "Chief of the Year."
Mott has a bachelor of science in mathematics from the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. In 2005, he was named in the Fulbright College Alumni Academy as a Distinguished Alumni.
 Tom Peters, twenty-four years after launching a management revolution with In Search of Excellence, he remains an irreverent force to be reckoned with - challenging audiences to change the face of business.
Fortune calls Tom Peters the Un-guru of management and compares him to Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau and H.L. Mencken. His unconventional views led BusinessWeek to describe him as "business' best friend and worst nightmare." Constantly railing against the status quo, Peters dares audiences to declare war on rules, organizational barriers and bureaucracies. He turns audiences into champions for change and reinvention.
Peters shows audiences how to transform their organizations by putting the passion back into the workplace, by replacing apathy and whining with enthusiasm and commitment, and most importantly, by reinvigorating employees. Recognizing that leadership is now tougher than ever, Peters' bolder-than-life presentation brings audiences the ideal that has made him world-renowned — living out loud is the key to success.
Knowing that the needs of effective leadership change as rapidly as the volatile marketplace it supports, Peters offers audiences the inspiration to take risks and provides them with an innovator's survival guide. His principles include keeping a limber mind and becoming a leader of change, not a follower of the same old, tired traditions.
Peters has a passion for making a difference to those he addresses. After his talk, and at no additional cost, he offers your executives and top-level managers the chance to meet in a special face-to-face leadership chat. Providing them an interactive, informal "no-need-to-prepare" forum in which to pose their questions and give voice to their challenges, Peters helps them discover new strategies towards leadership success.
 Ralph J. Szygenda was named GM group vice-president and chief information officer effective January 7, 2000. He is a member of GM's Automotive Strategy Board and is responsible for the Information Systems & Services organization. Accountable for the management of all information technology efforts within General Motors, he is directly responsible for developing and implementing GM's global digital business strategy. Szygenda is a member of the board of directors of the Handleman Company. He joined GM in 1996 as vice president and chief information officer.
Before joining GM, he was vice president and chief information officer at Bell Atlantic Corporation, in Arlington, Virginia, a position he held since June 1993. His main initiatives involved reengineering Bell Atlantic's business processes and delivering information systems to meet the new electronic generation. Szygenda also served as a member of the board of directors of Sodalia Corporation, a joint software business venture of Bell Atlantic and Telecom Italia.
Prior to Bell Atlantic, Szygenda spent 21 years with Texas Instruments Incorporated. In 1989, he was appointed vice president, information systems and services, and chief information officer. In 1991, he also added the responsibility of vice president and general manager of Texas Instruments Enterprise Systems Business Unit, an external software systems integration business supplying information products and services to the Fortune 500.
Szygenda received a bachelor of science degree in computer science from the University of Missouri-Rolla in 1970 and a master's degree in electrical engineering from the University of Texas in 1975. He is also the recipient of an honorary professional degree and honorary doctorate degree in engineering from the University of Missouri-Rolla. Szygenda was born on September 6, 1948, in McKeesport, Pennsylvania.
 Brian Gillooly is Editor-in-Chief, Events, InformationWeek, and Editor-in-Chief, Optimize. If there's one thing that Gillooly has learned in more than a decade of following the industry, it's that the answers to business technology's critical questions never present themselves overtly. The task is to constantly dig for new ideas that lead to actions that deliver results. Gillooly brings that insight to Optimize as editor-in-chief, where he has been responsible for the strategic editorial direction and positioning of the publication since its founding in November 2001.
For more than eight of the 16 years that he has worked for CMP Media LLC, he's been involved with the InformationWeek brand. As a brand manager, he's also editor-in-chief of InformationWeek Events, where he is responsible for editorial development and strategic direction for live events. Gillooly served as the editor of InformationWeek magazine from January 1998 to August 1999.
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