 Nationwide Insurance CTO, Talks about Technology Investments to Enable a Better Experience
Srinivas Koushik is senior vice president and enterprise chief technology officer at Nationwide Insurance. Before this role, he was senior vice president and chief information officer for Nationwide Services Company. He previously held technology leadership positions with IBM Global Services, including CTO of business innovation services. Koushik has a bachelor’s degree in physics from the University of Madras, a master’s degree in computer science from the University of Bombay, and a master’s degree in business administration from Ohio State University.
Dow Chemical’s Global CIO Talks about Investments that Drive Adaptive Business Models
D. E. (Dave) Kepler is executive vice president of business services, chief sustainability officer (CSO), and chief information officer (CIO) for The Dow Chemical Company. He is a member of Dow's Executive Leadership Committee, which is responsible for corporate strategy and financial performance. He also has oversight responsibilities for Dow’s Canadian region. In his Business Services leadership capacity, Kepler has global responsibility for functions including Customer Service; Information Systems; Purchasing; Six Sigma; Supply Chain; Work Process Improvement; Public Affairs and Environment, Health and Safety (EH&S). He began his Dow career in 1975 after receiving a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from the University of California at Berkeley. He has had numerous career positions at Dow in technology and business, with geographic assignments in the U.S., Canada, and the Pacific. He was recently appointed to the U.S. National Infrastructure Advisory Council that advises the President on the protection of critical infrastructure and homeland security issues.
Sallie Mae CIO Talks About Making Key Technology Investments to Fuel New Business
Karen Kotowski is senior vice president and chief information officer at SLM Corporation (known as Sallie Mae). Before joining Sallie Mae in 2003, she was an executive vice president of US Bancorp. Her other experience includes director of the financial services industry practice of PricewaterhouseCoopers, network services director of Northern States Power, and vice president-mortgage systems of Home Savings of America. She received a Bachelor of Arts degree in management from Marion College. She previously studied at the University of Minnesota with an emphasis in management information services and finance. Kotowski is involved in United Way-Indiana and Indiana Youth Hockey Association.
DeVry Inc. CEO Talks about Making Technology Investments to Maintain Company’s Growth Rate
Daniel Hamburger is president and chief executive officer for DeVry Inc., a publicly-held, global provider of educational services. Prior to DeVry, Hamburger served as chairman and chief executive officer of Indeliq, now owned by Accenture Learning. He was division president of W.W. Grainger's Internet Commerce group, growing revenues from $10 million to over $100 million in one year. He started the Internet Services Group for RR Donnelley’s Metromail division. Hamburger graduated in 1986 from the University of Michigan with a bachelor's degree and a master's degree in industrial engineering. In 1990, he earned an MBA from Harvard Business School.
ITW CEO Talks About Leveraging Investments to Meet the Needs of a Global Market
David B. Speer, 55, has served as Chairman since 2006 and Chief Executive Officer since August 2005, previously serving as President from August 2004 to May 2006, and Executive Vice President from 1995 to August 2004. Mr. Speer has 27 years of service with ITW. He is a director of Rockwell Automation, Inc. and was elected as a director of ITW in August 2005.
Subaru of America's CIO Talks About the Technology that Drives Customers
Brian Simmermon is the Vice President and Chief Information Officer for Subaru of America, Inc. (SOA), headquartered in Cherry Hill, N.J. He is responsible for overseeing the operations of information technology for Subaru, its company-owned regional offices and independent distributors. Since joining SOA, he has taken a journey to simplify the technology environment, build a more flexible and agile IT organization which has enabled SOA to continue to increase its market share in the Automotive industry. Brian joined SOA in 2005. Prior to joining SOA, he was Senior Vice President Enterprise Applications Development at QVC, Inc. While at QVC, Brian orchestrated the development, refinement and deployment of a five-year strategic plan to transform legacy technologies to Enterprise applications for installation in UK, Germany, Japan and US. He also deployed a supply chain package to track end-to-end product flow and replenishment from vendors located in Asia to distribution centers located in the US, allowing real time visibility of product movement for the first time at QVC.
Carlson Chairman Talks About How Tech Investments Ensured the Future of a $40B Corporation
In 1998, Marilyn Carlson Nelson became CEO of Carlson following her father’s retirement as CEO. She became chairman of the board in 1999, a position she holds today. During her decade as CEO, she became the driving force in leveraging technology to grow the company. In fact, the company has invested more than one billion dollars in technology. Publications, such as InformationWeek, have recognized Nelson as a technology innovator. Media sources credit her with transforming and growing the country’s largest privately held company from revenues of $22 billion to $40 billion. Today, Carlson employs nearly 200,000 people and operates in 150 countries. Nelson is the author of How We Lead Matters: Reflections on a Life of Leadership.
Discover Financial Services EVP Talks About Making Investments in Technology for the Business
Diane E. Offereins is Discover Financial Services’s Executive Vice President of Payment Services, responsible for Discover Network, the PULSE Network, and Diners Club International. Up until recently, she served as Discover’s Chief Technology Officer from 1998 to 2008. In addition, she was appointed to oversee the PULSE Network in 2006. Before joing Discover, Offereins was a Senior Vice President at MBNA America Bank. She holds a B.A. in Accounting from Loyola University. In 2008, CFO magazine named her one of the Top 25 Women in Finance.
COO of Valero Energy Talks About Maintaining Leadership by Making the Right Investments
In October 2007, Valero Energy Corporation announced that the company’s Board of Directors had promoted Rich Marcogliese, formerly Executive Vice President-Operations, to Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer. In addition to refining operations, Mr. Marcogliese is responsible for the company’s commercial operations, including marketing, supply and transportation. Valero is also one of the nation's largest retail operators with approximately 5,800 retail and branded wholesale outlets in the United States, Canada and the Caribbean under various brand names including Valero, Diamond Shamrock, Shamrock, Ultramar, and Beacon.
Cessna CEO Talks About Making Technology Investments
Jack J. Pelton is chairman, president and chief executive officer of Cessna Aircraft Company, a Textron Inc. company that is the leading worldwide manufacturer of general aviation aircraft. Pelton, a native of California, has more than three decades of aviation experience. He joined Cessna in November 2000 as senior vice president of product engineering and oversaw Cessna’s engineering and product development activities, including new aircraft development, design, experimental and production test flight, certifications and product improvements for all Cessna models. He was named President and CEO in 2003 and Chairman in 2005. Previously he held related executive positions of increasing responsibility during his 20 years at Boeing, formerly Douglas Aircraft.
Author and Professor Talks About the Execution and Measurement of Technology Investments
Rajiv Kohli is an Associate Professor of Management Information Systems at The College of William & Mary. For over 15 years, Dr. Kohli has worked or consulted with IBM Global Services, SAS Corporation, United Parcel Service, AM General, MCI Telecommunications, Westinghouse Electronics, Wipro Corporation and Godrej Industries (India), in addition to several healthcare organizations. Prior to joining full-time academia in 2001, he was a Project Leader in Decision Support Services at Trinity Health.
Lally School of Business Professor Talks About How CIOs Make Technology Investments
In addition to extensive academic work, Professor T. Ravichandran has helped several large U.S. firms with technology management and supply chain management. He has advised several large corporations in India on IT strategy. He also has six years of entrepreneurial experience building and running an IT services.
Former UC Berkeley CIO Talks About the Challenges of Governance in Academia
Governance. It's one of the strategic issues on the minds of CIOs who oversee technology for major universities, and research institutions. In fact, each year the IT survey done by the EDUCAUSE Center for Applied Research, a not-for-profit research organization for technology in higher education, ranks governance either five or seven on the list of the top 10 issues confronting the more than 300 academic CIOs surveyed. The recent EDUCAUSE survey showed that funding technology is the number one time-consuming issue for all academic CIOs because it directly relates to governance and institutional priority setting.
Chevron CIO Talks About Getting the Right Investment Mix
Gary Masada, the CIO and president of Chevron Information Technology Co., presides over a staff of 3,500 professionals who manage more than 10,000 servers, and support more than 70,000 employees. The Chevron Information Technology Co., the in-house IT organization that supports the corporation, also ranks as one of the largest IT shops in the world. With annual revenues of more than $200 billion, Chevron Corp., a Fortune 10 company, ranks as the second largest energy company in the world.
VC Talks About How CIOs Influence Investment Portfolio Decisions
Based in Globespan’s Boston office, Dave focuses on investments in infrastructure software and other technology solutions for IT organizations within larger enterprises. He also is actively involved with Globespan’s CIO Advisory Board, a distinctive relationship with some of the nation’s leading technology experts, which he helped to establish. Dave brings deep operating expertise in fast-growth environments, a strategic market view, and an intense commitment to help the firm’s entrepreneurs achieve success.
Logicalis CFO Talks About Technology Investment Decision Techniques
Greg Baker joined Logicalis in 2006 bringing nearly two decades of financial and executive management experience. As CFO, Mr. Baker oversees finance, accounting, treasury and strategic planning. Prior to joining Logicalis, he was VP and Controller for Thomson Gale, a unit of Thomson Corporation, where he led worldwide finance operations with a staff of 2,000.
MIT Sloan Research Scientist Talks About Getting IT Governance Right
Jeanne W. Ross is a principal research scientist at the Center for Information Systems Research at the MIT Sloan School of Management. Ross is also the co-author of Enterprise Architecture as Strategy: Building a Foundation for Business Execution and IT Governance: How Top Performers Manage IT Decisions Right for Superior Results. She has serves as editor-in-chief of MIS Quarterly Executive.
Global CIO of Aviva Talks About a Bottom-Line Approach for IT
In 2007, when Andrew Moss become the chief executive officer of Aviva Plc, the world's fifth largest insurance group, he devised a strategy to drive 20 percent growth across Aviva's three lines of business. Since becoming global CIO of the Aviva Group in January 2008, Toby Redshaw has had no problem incorporating Moss's strategy into how IT operates. He takes a bottom line approach to IT by challenging his front-line IT managers to ask their financial counterparts how specific IT projects relate back to the profit & loss statement.
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