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Carolyn Lawson
Chief Information Officer, California Public Utilities Commission
Carolyn represents both the CPUC and the State of California in the national discussion of IT issues and policies, specifically related to eService delivery in government. In her role as Deputy Director of the eServices Office for the State of California, she examined policy issues related to web-based services, including the integration of Web 2.0 and cloud computing into the state’s environment. Carolyn is the co-chair of the eC3 Web 2.0 workgroup. For both eC3 and the State of California she is leading an effort to draft a white paper discussing how governmental organizations can intelligently address the complex policy issues related to these service delivery options. Carolyn speaks and teaches nationally on these and other topics.
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Manjit Singh
VP and CIO of Chiquita Brands International
Manjit Singh joined Chiquita in April 2006 as vice president, corporate information technology, and was promoted to chief information officer in October 2006. In this role, Singh serves on the company's management committee and is responsible for all facets of Chiquita's global commercial and innovations systems, infrastructure and applications services, master planning and architecture, web applications and information delivery.
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Randy Mott
CIO, Hewlett-Packard
Randy Mott is executive vice president and chief information officer of HP, responsible for the global information technology (IT) strategy and all of the company's IT assets. This includes company-wide application development, data management, technology infrastructure, data center operations and telecommunication networks worldwide.
Mott's vision and leadership approach has garnered him global recognition in leading transformational initiatives focused on optimizing IT as a business. In June 2007, he received the "Roger Milliken Career Achievement Award" from the Voluntary Interindustry Commerce Solutions Association for his dedication and contributions to enabling the retail and consumer-focused industries through the creation and implementation of supply chain standards and best practices.
Previously, Mott was senior vice president and chief information officer for Dell, Inc., which he joined in 2000. He 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 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..
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Barry Briggs
Chief Architect and CTO for Microsoft's IT organization
Barry Briggs is serving one of the world's largest and most influential technology companies. Among other key initiatives, he drives building and adoption of Master Data Management (MDM) and Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) solutions for the company, as well as its Enterprise Architecture program. Previously at Microsoft he served as senior architect in the Business Process and Integration Division at Microsoft, where he helped set the technology strategy for Microsoft’s enterprise integration and business process product line. Barry’s twenty-seven-year career in the software industry includes eleven years at Lotus/IBM where he led the development of the company’s best-selling spreadsheet program and was named the company’s first Lotus Fellow.
After Lotus/IBM, Barry held a number of senior executive positions serving as CTO for a number of successful software vendors. Well known in the industry (called "one of the better known CTO’s in the world" by InfoWorld in 2001), Barry speaks frequently at industry events. He is the author of numerous technical articles, two novels, and the popular "Barry Talks!" weblog (http://www.edithere.com/barry).
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Toby Eduardo Redshaw
Aviva Group CIO
Toby joined Aviva in January 2008 as the Chief Information Officer. Before joining Aviva Toby spent six years as a corporate vice president at Motorola, where he was responsible for strategy, architecture, e-business, intranet/collaboration solutions, common platforms and enterprise data warehousing/analytics, among other things. In addition to these responsibilities he also ran global procurement for several years. Prior to that he helped build a global dotcom based in Silicon Valley, Europe and China where he ran the International BU among other things.
Toby initially spent 17 years at FedEx, where he had several high impact leadership positions both on the business and IT sides including CIO of a major (53-nation) business unit, international lead for product development for customer solutions and several operational responsibilities. He has had significant international assignments including Asia Pacific, Middle East and Latin America.
Toby was founding chairman of the Kellogg Innovation Network (at Kellogg Graduate School of Business), and chairman of the RosettaNet Council. During his time at Motorola he was executive chairman of MediaRiver, a media focused start-up company. He has extensive board and advisory board experience in the tech sector. He also served on the board for the World Cataract Foundation, a charity which works to cure blindness in developing countries.
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Rob Enderle
Principal Analyst
Rob is President and Principal Analyst of the Enderle Group, a forward looking emerging technology advisory firm. Recognized as one of the best general Inquiry Analysts in the world, Rob specializes in providing rapid perspectives and suggested tactics and strategies to a large number of clients dealing with rapidly changing global events. Rob lives emerging technology and has a passion for personal technology and market strategy.
In addition Rob writes for TechNewsWorld, DarkReading, Digital Trends, TG Daily, ITBusiness Edge and Datamation. Rob appears regularly on WSJ Radio, CNBC, NPR, and Bloomberg Radio/TV.
Before founding the Enderle Group Rob was the Senior Research Fellow for Forrester Research and the Giga Information Group. While there he ran the eCommerce, Security, and Mobile research practices.
Before Giga, Rob was with Dataquest covering client/server software where he became one of the most widely publicized technology analysts in the world. Before Dataquest Rob worked for IBM as was in IBM's executive resource program. As part of that program he managed projects and people in Finance, Internal Audit, Competitive Analysis, Marketing, Security, and Planning. Prior to IBM he was a Marketing Director and sat on the board of the Southern California Marketing Director's Association.
Rob holds an AA in Merchandising, a BS in Business, and an MBA.
Rob sits on the advisory councils for Lenovo, Toshiba, AMD, HP, Dell, Philips, Trusted Computing Group, and the Lifeboat Foundation.
Rob's hobbies include Sporting Clays, PC Modding, Science Fiction, Home Automation, and Computer Gaming.
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Tim Stanley
CIO & SVP Innovation, Gaming & Technology
Tim Stanley is Chief Information Officer and Senior Vice President of Innovation, Gaming, & Technology of Harrah’s Entertainment, the world's largest provider of branded casino entertainment. He is responsible for the strategy, architecture, program management, development, support and operations of the entire portfolio of Harrah’s IT-enabled business systems, capabilities and infrastructure in the US and abroad. He also leads multi-disciplinary teams focused on the creation and execution of new business and next-generation gaming and technology innovations throughout the company. Additionally, he is responsible for the strategy, product development, marketing & merchandising, revenue management, and financial performance of the company’s slots, tables and other gaming operations across the enterprise.
Before joining Harrah’s in 2001, Stanley was a partner with consulting firms USWeb and marchFIRST, where he developed and led the travel practice for the firms, working with several leading airline, hospitality, travel and gaming clients. Prior to that role, he was the CIO of National Airlines, where he launched the company on an innovative platform of Internet-based IT applications, infrastructure and operations. He has also held various leadership positions in the U.S. and overseas in the areas of IT, marketing, operations, R&D and consulting with Intel Corporation, Optima/KPMG, InnovaTech and Kimberly-Clark Corporation. Stanley began his career as a U.S. Air Force officer, responsible for advanced missile guidance system technology projects and some of the original Global Positioning System (GPS) integration efforts.
Stanley was named Information Week’s “Chief of the Year” for 2007/08 for his unique IT, Innovation and Business roles and achievements. He was recently named as one of InfoWorld’s “Top 25 CTOs,” and has also been honored with CIO Insight’s “Partners in Alignment” award for successful linkage of business strategy and technology at Harrah’s. He has led Harrah’s IT to a number of awards ranging from the CIO 100 award; to Computerworld’s Best Places to Work in IT for nine consecutive years; to the American Business Awards Best MIS & IT Organization. He holds graduate degrees in International Business and Technology Management from Thunderbird (AGSIM) and Arizona State University, as well as a bachelor’s degree in engineering from the University of Washington.
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Gary Loveman
Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and President
Gary Loveman is Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and President of Harrah's Entertainment, Inc.
A former associate professor at the Harvard University Graduate School of Business Administration, Loveman joined the Fortune 500 company as Chief Operating Officer in 1998 and drew on his extensive background in retail marketing and service-management to develop and implement the gaming industry's most successful loyalty program, Total Rewards. Today, Total Rewards boasts more than 40 million customers and is largely responsible for the company's consistent same-store sales gains.
Since being named CEO in January 2003, Loveman has presided over a period of growth and profitability that culminated in Harrah's June 2005 acquisition of Caesars Entertainment, Inc. -- at $9.4 billion, the largest single transaction in the industry's history. In December 2006, Harrah's agreed to go private in a $29 billion transaction led by private equity firms Texas Pacific Group and Apollo. Harrah's performance has led to its inclusion in the Dow Jones Sustainability Index, a group of international companies noted for creating long-term shareholder value, for six consecutive years. It also earned Loveman the distinction of being recognized as the gaming and lodging industry's best CEO by Institutional Investor magazine for four consecutive years.
Loveman is the chairman of the American Gaming Association and an outside director of Coach, Inc. He also sits on the Board of Trustees at Joslin Diabetes Center in Boston and on the Trust Board at Children's Hospital Boston. He holds a Ph.D. in economics from M.I.T., where he was an Alfred Sloan Doctoral Dissertation Fellow, and a B.A. in economics from Wesleyan University.
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