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Vivek Kundra
U.S. Chief Information Officer
Vivek Kundra was appointed as the first CIO of the United States by President Obama in March 2009. In this capacity, he directs the policy and strategic planning of federal information technology investments and is responsible for oversight of federal technology spending. The U.S. CIO establishes and oversees enterprise architecture to ensure system interoperability and information sharing and ensure information security and privacy across the federal government.
Kundra has been recognized among the top 25 CTO's in the country and as the 2008 IT Executive of the Year for his pioneering work to drive transparency, engage citizens, and lower the cost of government operations. Prior to joining the Obama administration, Kundra served in Mayor Fenty's cabinet as the CTO for the District of Columbia and Governor Kaine’s cabinet as Assistant Secretary of Commerce and Technology for the Commonwealth of Virginia. His diverse record also includes technology and public policy experience in private industry and academia.
Following his appointment, President Barack Obama said, "Vivek Kundra will bring a depth of experience in the technology arena and a commitment to lowering the cost of government operations to this position. I have directed him to work to ensure that we are using the spirit of American innovation and the power of technology to improve performance and lower the cost of government operations. As Chief Information Officer, he will play a key role in making sure our government is running in the most secure, open, and efficient way possible."
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Jean-Michel R. Arès
CIO, SVP, The Coca-Cola Company
Jean-Michel R. Arès joined the Company in February 2002 from GE Power Systems, where he served as vice president and chief information officer. Mr. Arès is responsible for creating and executing worldwide information technology strategy and infrastructure across The Coca-Cola Company.
Mr. Arès began his General Electric career in June 1996, when he joined the Corporate Business Development Group. He assumed the position of chief information officer of GE Power Systems in December 1996.
Prior to joining GE, Mr. Arès served clients in telecommunications and banking with McKinsey & Company.
Mr. Arès received a Bachelors and Masters Degree in Electrical Engineering, as well as an MBA, from McGill University in Montreal, Canada.
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Aneel Bhusri
Workday’s co-founder and President
Aneel Bhusri is Workday’s co-founder and President, responsible for the company’s overall strategy and day-to-day operations.
From 1999 to 2004, he served as Vice Chairman of the Board at PeopleSoft. From 1993 to 1999, Aneel held a number of senior leadership positions at PeopleSoft, including senior vice president in charge of product strategy, business development, and marketing.
Mr. Bhusri holds an MBA from Stanford University and a Bachelor of Science and Arts in Electrical Engineering and Economics from Brown University.
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Peter Breunig
General Manager, Technology Management and Architecture, Chevron Information Technology Company
Peter joined Chevron in 1980 after obtaining his Masters degree in Geophysics from Boston College. Peter started his career at Chevron as a Geophysicist in Houston, and has held a variety of positions of increasing responsibility in the Upstream and the technology businesses in Bakersfield, Houston and San Ramon. Peter’s most recent positions have been General Manager, Technical Computing and Chief Information Officer, Energy Technology Company, and General Manager, Technology and Strategy.
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Eva Chen
Chief Executive Officer and Co-founder
Since its inception in 1988, Eva Chen has spearheaded Trend Micro’s emergence as one of the world’s most innovative Internet content security companies.
Before becoming CEO, Eva served as executive vice president from 1988-1996 and CTO from 1996-2004. Under her direction, Trend Micro has produced a chronology of industry firsts, from unique products to security management approaches. As a result of her innovative leadership, she was appointed CEO in late 2004.
Of her many accolades and accomplishments, a few of the most prominent:
- Named one of the 50 most powerful people in networking, Network World, 2004
- Named one of the top five "Women of Vision", Information Security, 2003
- Received the Lifetime Achievement Award, Secure Computing, 2001
Eva holds a master's degree in business administration as well as a master's degree in management information systems from the University of Texas. She earned a degree in philosophy from Chen Chi University in Taipei.
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Mike Cuddy
Vice President and Chief Information Officer, Toromont Industries Ltd.
Mr. Cuddy is Vice President and Chief Information Officer at Toromont Industries Ltd. Toromont Industries is a Canadian public company with operations in Canada and the United States. Toromont operates multiple business units involved in the design, construction and sale of specialized industrial equipment and is the authorized Caterpillar dealer in Ontario, Manitoba, Nunavut, Newfoundland and Eastern Labrador. Toromont employs approximately 4,500 people in more than 110 locations.
He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering, and an MBA, both from the University of Toronto. Mr. Cuddy’s opinions have been referenced in InformationWeek, CIO Canada, The Toronto Star, The Globe and Mail and Canadian Business Magazine. He has been with Toromont Industries for 14 years.
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Denis Edwards
Global Chief Information Officer, Manpower
Denis Edwards is Manpower’s Global Chief Information Officer and a member of Manpower’s Executive Management Team, following his promotion from Vice President - Global Solutions Delivery in January 2009. As CIO, Denis has overall responsibility for leading and coordinating information technology functions across Manpower’s operations in 82 countries and territories. Denis joined Manpower in 2007 and has played a significant role in developing key transformational technology solutions for Manpower’s global operations that benefit the company’s clients and associates.
Prior to joining Manpower, Denis was Vice President – Global Solutions and Architecture for Cadbury-Schweppes, the world’s biggest confectionery company. Denis has also held senior IT roles with PriceWaterhouseCoopers, where he served as Managing Director of Application Services; Marriott International, as Vice President of IS Strategy; and Marriott Vacation Club, as Chief Technology Officer. In addition to his Fortune 500 expertise, Denis has served as Chief Technology Officer for several successful start-up organizations.
Denis holds a Master of Science Certificate in Information Technology from the University of Maryland and a Bachelor of Science degree from Nova Southeastern University, where he graduated with honors. He is a member of Alpha Chi Honor Society.
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Jim Goodnight
CEO, SAS
By 2010 the amount of digital information in the world is expected to double every 11 hours. If you're Jim Goodnight, all that data spells opportunity. Goodnight is CEO of SAS, the world's leading business analytics software vendor. At the helm since the company's incorporation in 1976, Goodnight has overseen an unbroken chain of revenue growth – a feat almost unheard of in the software industry.
SAS software was originally created by Goodnight and North Carolina State University colleagues to analyze agricultural-research data. Three decades later, it's doing things Goodnight never imagined in his days as a doctoral student in statistics.
Today, SAS is best known for sifting massive mountains of data for FORTUNE 500 companies and other organizations most people have heard of. Insurance companies use SAS to flag fraudulent claims. Retailers use SAS to find profitable places to put stores and products within those stores. More and more financial institutions use SAS to detect money laundering, as mandated by the USA PATRIOT Act and Basel II. They also use it to sniff out fraud and to score credit applications.
With its unique business model (software licensed annually) and solid reputation for innovation (22 percent of 2008 revenues reinvested in R&D), SAS is among the world's largest privately owned software companies. SAS is also renowned for its corporate culture, which has made it a fixture on "Best Places to Work" lists (including FORTUNE's.)
The company's strategy to keep employees and realize peak performance from them was showcased in the July-August 2005 issue of Harvard Business Review. Goodnight co-wrote the piece, "Managing for Creativity," with author Richard Florida, asserting that companies prosper when they make best use of their "creative capital" – that is, creative thinkers whose ideas generate valuable products and services.
"Innovation is the key to success in this business, and creativity fuels innovation," Goodnight said. "Creativity is especially important to SAS because software is a product of the mind. As such, 95 percent of my assets drive out the gate every evening. It's my job to maintain a work environment that keeps those people coming back every morning. The creativity they bring to SAS is a competitive advantage for us."
Outspoken on education reform, Goodnight sees education as critical to the success of people, organizations and nations. Goodnight himself holds a doctorate in statistics from North Carolina State University, where he was a faculty member from 1972 to 1976. His passion for learning has since led him to endow several NCSU professorships and make education the focus of SAS' philanthropy. Together with his wife, Ann, he co-founded Cary Academy in 1996, an independent college preparatory day school for students in grades six through 12, with the goal of creating a model school for integrating technology into all facets of education.
Shortly before Cary Academy opened, Goodnight launched SAS inSchool, which develops educational software that helps schools meet the challenges of the new millennium. The software contains the framework for a new generation of teaching courseware that will further extend the use of technology as a learning tool. Year after year, SAS inSchool (now known as SAS Curriculum Pathways®) earns awards for educational technologies and, more importantly, the support of students, teachers and parents.
Even SAS' corporate headquarters has a distinctly academic feel, nestled on 300 wooded acres that employees call the "campus." SAS' 11,000 employees are among the industry's most loyal. In the software business, yearly turnover of 20 percent is the norm. At SAS, it's about 4 percent.
Goodnight has also been an active speaker and participant at the World Economic Forum, where business and world leaders discuss cross-boundary issues such as international standards, regulations and the global economic issues.
In 2004, Harvard Business School named Jim Goodnight one of the "20th Century's Great American Business Leaders" for his three decades of leading a business that has changed the way Americans have lived, worked and interacted in the 20th century. That same year, he was named one of America's 25 Most Fascinating Entrepreneurs by Inc. magazine, in honor of the publication's 25th anniversary.
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Renee Guttmann
Vice President, Information Security and Privacy Officer, Time Warner Inc.
Renee Guttmann is Vice President, Information Security and Privacy Officer, for Time Warner Inc., whose businesses include filmed entertainment, interactive services, television networks, cable systems, and publishing. She is responsible for establishing an information risk-management program that advances the company's business strategies for data protection.
Renee has been an information security practitioner since 1996. Before moving to Time Warner in 2007, she served as Vice President, Information Security and Privacy, at its Time Inc. division. Renee joined Time Inc. in 2000.
Previously, Renee worked as a security analyst for the Gartner Group. She was responsible for information security strategy at Capital One Financial in Richmond, VA. and information security policy at Glaxo Wellcome in RTP, NC.
Renee has been recognized several times for her professional accomplishments. Most recently, she received the 2008 Compass Award from CSO Magazine. In 2007, Renee was named a “Woman of Influence” by the Executive Women’s Forum and CSO Magazine. She received the Woman of Vision Award from Information Security Magazine in 2003.
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Brett Helm
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Coradiant Inc.
Brett Helm serves as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Coradiant Inc. Mr. Helm served as General Manager of the Commerce Equipment Operations group at Intel Corporation, which was formed as a result of the acquisition of IPivot, a designer and manufacturer of Internet commerce equipment, by Intel since October 1999. Mr. Helm served as Chief Executive Officer and President of AirFiber Inc. Mr. Helm served as Chief Executive Officer and President of IPivot., from November 1996 to October 1999. Mr. Helm also served as General Manager of the Network Equipment Division of Intel Corporation. From August 1995 to November 1996, Mr. Helm served as Vice President and General Manager of @Work, a business unit of @Home Corporation. He has been a Director of Skydesk, Inc., since March 2000. He served as Chairman of AirFiber Inc. He served as Director of WireCache, Inc. He serves as Director of Coradiant and NextGig. He served as a Director of IPivot from November 1996 to October 1999. He served as Director of Tarari, Inc. Mr. Helm earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering at the University of Utah.
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Jerry Johnson
CIO at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Jerry Johnson is CIO at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. PNNL, operated by Battelle Memorial Institute for the U.S. Department of Energy, is a multi-program laboratory conducting basic and applied research to deliver energy, environmental, and national security for our Nation. With over 4600 employees, PNNL has an annual research business volume exceeding $1 billion. As CIO, Jerry is accountable to the Laboratory Director to continuously improve the deployment, use, management and protection of information resources to support the information intensive business of scientific research and technology development. This includes a high performance network supporting some of the world’s most powerful supercomputers, unique information discovery and retrieval tools, and trusted capabilities for collaborating with researchers world-wide. Jerry’s responsibilities also include implementing and maintaining information systems that support management and operation of the Laboratory, advising the Laboratory Director and other executive managers on IT strategies and issues, and representing PNNL interests concerning information technology to the Department of Energy and other federal and state agencies. Jerry is a past Chair of the DOE National Laboratories CIO Council, and is a member of the Northwest Academic Computing Consortium board of Directors. In 2009, Jerry was appointed by Governor Gregoire to the Washington State Information Services Board. Jerry joined PNNL in 1978 after graduating from the University of Washington with an MBA and B.S. Electrical Engineering.
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Emmet B. Keeffe III
CEO and Co-Founder, iRise
Over the last 15 years, Emmet has applied his philosophy of "the network is the business" to become one of the most well-connected CEOs in the software industry. As CEO of iRise, Emmet has leveraged his network to close over $50M in investment funding and is also intimately involved with sales, marketing and business development at iRise. Prior to co-founding iRise, he built a top-selling region at NetDynamics, a pioneer of the Web application server market that was later acquired by Sun Microsystems. Earlier in his sales career, Emmet earned over 15 national sales awards, including being named "National Top Performer" by NetDynamics, Auspex Systems, Diasonics and Minolta. Outside of his role at iRise, Emmet is passionate about automobile racing, leadership and education and is an Advisory Board member at KV Racing Technology, an IndyCar Series race team; a member of the Young President’s Organization (YPO) and a member of the Board of Trustees at The Partnership Scholars, a foundation focused on improving education for disadvantaged students. Emmet earned a B.A. in political economics from the University of California at Berkeley.
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Kumar Kolin
Principal of Deloitte US Firms, National Managing Principal of the Enterprise Applications Group, ITS
Kumar Kolin is Principal of Deloitte US Firms and functions as its National Managing Principal of the Enterprise Applications Group, ITS. Prior to assuming this position in September 2009 Mr. Kolin was Deloitte’s India Managing Director with operational responsibility of HR, Finance, Legal, Tax, Operations, Communications and Corporate social responsibility where he helped grow Region 10 from 1000 to 6000 professionals. Mr. Kolin was also Vice President Enterprise Applications and CRM Service Area for Deloitte Consulting’s operations in Mumbai, India. In this position he served as head of the Enterprise Applications and CRM and Oracle service areas with overall responsibility for Practice Development, Service Area operations and delivery including budgeting, profitability, recruiting and capability building.
Prior to joining Deloitte Mr. Kolin was principal consultant and regional CTI architect at Siebel Systems in California responsible for ensuring overall project success and customer satisfaction. He assisted the PMO with project management in accordance with best practices around managing Siebel implementations and advised the IT strategy team on CRM roadmap and long term Siebel deployment strategy. In addition, Mr. Kolin acted as liaison between the integration partner, Siebel and the customer, and advised project teams on optimal design, use of Siebel products and performed risk analysis of alternate design options.
Mr. Kolin is a Chartered Accountant, India (ranked 1st in the country from1993- 1996) and earned a Bachelor in Business Administration degree from Madras University (BCom, ranked 3rd in the University, 1993).
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Mischel Kwon
Vice President of Public Sector Security Solutions
Mischel Kwon is Vice President of Public Sector Security Solutions for the Worldwide Professional Services unit at RSA, The Security Division of EMC. In this role, Ms. Kwon is responsible for leading RSA's Security Consulting Services practice. While focusing on the public sector, she also will provide private sector customers and global organizations strategic, technical and policy assistance in building, defending, identifying, and remediating their critical infrastructures against cyber threats, attacks and vulnerabilities.
Ms. Kwon has more than 27 years of experience, with expertise and leadership in the design, implementation and management of critical IT infrastructure and security operations programs. Prior to joining RSA, Ms. Kwon was the Director for the United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT), where she spearheaded the organization responsible for analyzing and reducing cyber threats and vulnerabilities in federal networks, disseminating cyber threat warning information and coordinating national incident response activities. In addition, she previously served as the Deputy Director for IT Security Staff at the United States Department of Justice (DOJ), where she built and deployed the Justice Security Operations Center (JSOC) to monitor and defend the DOJ network against cyber threats.
Since 2006, Ms. Kwon has served as Adjunct Professor of Cyber Defense and leads the Cyber Defense Lab at George Washington University. She holds a Master of Science in Computer Science from Marymount University and a graduate certificate in Computer Security and Information Assurance from George Washington University.
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Katrina Lane
SVP and CTO, Harrah's Entertainment, Inc.
Harrah's Entertainment, Inc., which owns or manages more than 50 casinos in multiple countries and has been recognized for its outstanding IT and Marketing practices by the Wall St. Journal, Info Week and CIO Magazine.
Katrina is responsible for the company's efforts to create, enhance and utilize technology to drive Harrah's business objectives. Specific groups in her area include Innovation, Gaming, IT Development, and IT Project Management and Shared Services. She also has responsibility for key initiatives to develop new technical capabilities for Total Rewards as well as all company web sites.
Prior to this role, she was VP of Channel Marketing. In that role, she had responsibility for the company's multi-channel marketing and customer communication management initiatives, which are part of building future capabilities for the Total Rewards customer loyalty program and direct marketing efforts. In addition, she was responsible for Internet marketing and all company websites, mobile marketing, e-care, customer analytics, media planning and teleservices. She was business lead for multiple technology projects including the implementations of eCare, CCM, Offers Enhancements, and ongoing development of harrahs.com.
Katrina has over 14 years of experience in technology enabled marketing including CRM, online, and direct marketing, in a range of B-to-C businesses. Prior to joining Harrah's in March 2004, Katrina was Senior Vice President of Marketing at After Hours Formalwear, at that time a division of the May Department Stores Company. She also worked in the retail, consumer banking, and credit industries and in online marketing for 7 years at McKinsey & Company, where she was a co-leader in the Customer Relationship Marketing Practice. She has a B.S. in Physics from Stanford University, and an M.S. and Ph.D. in Experimental Physics from Cornell University.
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Reynold Lewke
Reynold Lewke is a core member of both the global High Technology and the Industrial practice groups working extensively on C-level assignments based in the Palo Alto office. Previously, he has worked in the New York, Frankfurt and San Francisco offices. As part of the Talent Management Appraisal practice, he has appraised over 700 senior executives in a variety of industries, including high tech-telecom, aerospace, consumer, industrial, life sciences, and logistics. As a leader of the firm's US CIO practice, he works extensively on CIO searches that have a cross-industry focus and a global nature. In the Aerospace and Defense sector, he has done work with a broad range of clients in manufacturing, airlines and services. Before joining EZI, Reynold worked at United Technologies Corporation, Sikorsky Aircraft Division, as the S-70 Program Manager, a part of the Blackhawk Program Office, responsible for negotiation and delivery of helicopter programs to international customers. He initially joined Sikorsky as a Senior Attorney where his work included negotiation of major international helicopter programs and subcontracts, establishment of new manufacturing facilities and related revenue bond financing, and complex U.S. government negotiations for both classified and unclassified programs. Reynold started his career as a software programmer with Charles S. Draper Laboratories in Cambridge, Massachusetts while attending MIT on a cooperative program in aeronautics and astronautics. After completion of his law degree at McGill University, he joined Haight, Gardner, Poor & Havens in New York in their aviation group and was active in both aerospace defense litigation and commercial matters that typically dealt with aerospace and international commerce.
Reynold serves on the Boards of the MIT Alumni Fund, The Tech Museum of Innovation of San Jose, and The Silver Bay Association-the YMCA Conference Center of the Adirondacks. He is also Class Secretary of the MIT Class of 1976. He flies a Cirrus SR22-GTS, is a Commercial, Multi-IFR pilot for over 30 years, and competes in Ironman triathlons.
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Christopher Lochhead
Senior Strategy Advisor, SuccessFactors
Christopher Lochhead is an advisor to the SuccessFactors executive team and board of directors. Lochhead has more than twenty years of executive experience. During his career, he has been the marketing chief for three public companies, a strategy advisor, marketing advisor to Hewlett-Packard, and opinion writer (recently for CBSnews.com and Fortune.com). Lochhead was Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) of Mercury Interactive, a Business Technology Optimization software company with over $1 billion in sales that was acquired by H-P in November 2006 for $4.5 billion. He was the founding CMO of Scient, an Internet consulting firm, and served as an executive vice president of Vantive, a CRM software company that was acquired by PeopleSoft.
SuccessFactors is one of the fastest growing public software companies and the leading provider of on-demand employee performance and talent management solutions. The company enables organizations of every size, and across every industry and geography, to achieve high-performing workforces through goal alignment and execution, talent development and planning, and pay-for-performance initiatives. From 92 customers and approximately 282,000 end users in 2003 to more than 2,850 customers and more than 5.4 million end users today, SuccessFactors' solutions are widely deployed across 60 industries in over 185 countries in 31 languages. Founded in 2001 with offices around the world, the company employs passionate people focused on revolutionizing the future of work. For more information, visit: www.successfactors.com.
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Eric Openshaw
Vice Chairman and U.S. Technology Leader, Deloitte LLP
Eric Openshaw is the vice chairman and U.S. Technology leader for Deloitte LLP's Technology, Media & Entertainment, and Telecommunications (TMT) industry practice in the Americas. Eric has more than 30 years of experience in assisting clients with enterprise transformation, business process re-engineering, manufacturing/distribution strategy, technology strategy, merger and acquisition analysis and post-acquisition consolidation, order fulfillment, supply chain, information systems strategic planning, technology (hardware and software) evaluation, and design-development and implementation of software primarily for discrete and process manufacturing distribution retail and retail distribution. A frequent public speaker, he also writes articles on technology and operational improvement for periodicals.
Eric received his bachelor's degree from California State University at Fullerton. He has completed postgraduate work at California Polytechnic University. He is based on the West Coast.
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Mykolas Rambus
Chief Informaiton Officer, Forbes Media
Mykolas Rambus is the CIO at Forbes Media in New York City. A recent addition to the Forbes team, the majority of his time is devoted to strategic initiatives critical to business growth, and in addition, oversight of the company’s technical strategy and operations.
Before joining Forbes, Mykolas was a Partner with KAHLEPartners, the Washington, DC-based CIO advisory firm, where he directed sales and business development activities. In addition, he has held positions as Chief Information Officer of W. P. Carey, a public Real Estate Investment Trust, Chief Executive Officer of LOBBY7, a venture capital-backed telecommunications software company, and in 2006 earned a CIO Decisions Midmarket Leadership Award.
Mykolas is a frequent commentator on executive issues, and has been quoted in The New York Times, CIO Magazine, and InformationWeek. He is a regular keynote speaker and guest lecturer, having been fortunate to receive invitations from institutions such as the Harvard Business School, the New York Department of Education, CXO Media Conferences, and Charles River Ventures. Mykolas is also a contributor to Greg Smith’s 2006 book, ‘Straight to the Top, becoming a World-Class CIO’.
Mykolas studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he concentrated in Operations Research and Information Technology, is an active member of the venture capital and start-up communities, serves on Logicworks’ Advisory Board (www.logicworks.com), and is a member of The Roeper School Board of Trustees (www.roeper.org). He currently resides in the New York City area, and is an avid fencer.
Forbes Media:
Forbes Media, LLC was formed in August 2006 as a result of an investment in Forbes by Elevation Partners, in which the private equity firm became a minority shareholder in a newly formed company, encompassing Forbes magazine, Forbes.com and other media properties. Forbes is the publisher of Forbes, the nation’s leading business magazine, and its international edition, Forbes Asia, which together reach a worldwide audience of nearly five million readers. Forbes.com is the company’s Internet business, which is the homepage for the world’s business leaders and the #1 business site on the Web. The company also publishes ForbesLife, the magazine’s lifestyle publication.
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Toby Eduardo Redshaw
Aviva Group CIO
Toby joined Aviva in January 2008 as the Global 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 Business Unit, a subsidiary and a joint venture.
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 is one of Information Week’s Global 50 Top CIOs, and previously was awarded InfoWorld’s Top 25 CTO. He was the founding chairman of the Kellogg Innovation Network (at Kellogg Graduate School of Business), and chairman of the RosettaNet Council for the telecoms sector. During his time at Motorola he was executive chairman of MediaRiver, a media/search focused start-up company. He has extensive board and advisory board experience in the technology 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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Seth Ravin
President and CEO, Rimini Street
Seth Ravin is a 25-year enterprise software industry veteran who pioneered the third-party enterprise software support industry. In 2005, The Enterprise Software Observer named Mr. Ravin one of the 25 next-generation leaders of the enterprise software industry who "promise to have an impact on the industry as dramatic as an Ellison, a Gates, or a Premji."
In September 2005, Mr. Ravin launched Rimini Street, Inc., with a mission to redefine enterprise software support using innovative support services delivered at more than a 50 percent savings in fees compared to a software vendor's annual support program. Today, Rimini Street offers support services for Oracle's Siebel, PeopleSoft, and JD Edwards software and SAP software. Based upon the company's rapid business growth, JMP Securities named Rimini Street to its 2009 "Hot 100" list of best privately held software companies.
Prior to his success launching third-party maintenance and support programs, Mr. Ravin was an executive with PeopleSoft, Inc., where he served most recently as vice president of the customer sales division. Earlier in his PeopleSoft career, Mr. Ravin held several senior roles of increasing global responsibility, including corporate director of customer services and programs and corporate manager of upgrades and installations. Mr. Ravin's PeopleSoft responsibilities included worldwide release support policy; release retirement programs; account management; Y2K software update and readiness program management for thousands of licensees; and development and delivery of special support programs for customers with unique requirements. To meet the needs of customers who wanted to run a mature software release for many years beyond the official supported lifespan of a release without mandatory upgrades, Mr. Ravin successfully designed and launched the enterprise software industry's first specialized extended support programs for Fortune 500, public sector, and SMB organizations.
Mr. Ravin also served as vice president of customer sales for Saba Software, Inc., worked in Russia on defense conversion programs, and worked in Washington, D.C. assisting the Clinton Administration with Congressional passage of the GATT global trade agreement in 1994.
Mr. Ravin holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from the University of Southern California.
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Dr. Werner Vogels
CTO Amazon.com
Dr. Vogels is Vice President & Chief Technology Officer at Amazon.com where he is responsible for driving the company's technology vision, which is to continuously enhance the innovation on behalf of Amazon's customers at a global scale.
Prior to joining Amazon, he worked as a researcher at Cornell University where he was a principal investigator in several research projects that target the scalability and robustness of mission-critical enterprise computing systems. He has held positions of VP of Technology and CTO in companies that handled the transition of academic technology into industry.
Vogels holds a Ph.D. from the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam and has authored many articles for journals and conferences, most of them on distributed systems technologies for enterprise computing. He was named the 2008 CTO of the Year by Information Week for his contributions to making Cloud Computing a reality.
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R "Ray" Wang
Partner, Altimeter Group
R “Ray” Wang is a Partner with Altimeter Group and the author of the popular enterprise software blog "A Software Insider's Point of View". The blog focuses on enterprise apps strategy, vendor selection, software contract negotiations, and emerging business and technology trends. As an enterprise strategist, Ray focuses on bridging the gap between today's enterprise landscape with an emerging class of enterprise business solutions adopting the spirit of social technologies and Enterprise 2.0 concepts. Research topic areas often include ERP, CRM, Project Based Solutions, Order Management, Master Data Management, and SaaS.
For software vendors, he provides strategic guidance in go to market strategies; reviews and designs software licensing, pricing, support, and maintenance policies; delivers competitive assessments; evaluates software partner ecosystems, and researches business processes such as the perfect order and continuous customer management for the enterprise and SMB markets.
Ray is frequently quoted in publications such as The Wall Street Journal, Business Week, Fortune, Inc., The Associated Press, CIO Magazine, Information Week, ComputerWorld, Financial Times, eWeek, IDG News, ZDNet, and TechTarget. Ray's appeared on several video outlets including CNBC. In both 2008 and 2009, Ray was recognized by the prestigious Institute of Industry Analyst Relations (IIAR) as Analyst of the Year and in 2009 he was named as one of the most important analysts for Enteprise, SMB, and Software.
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