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Speakers at the CIO Agenda
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Tom Bishop
 Tom Bishop
is the Chief Technology Officer of BMC Software, Inc., a leading
provider of enterprise management solutions that empower companies to manage IT
from a business perspective. Bishop
joined BMC in 2005 from VIEO, Inc., in Austin, Texas, where he served as Chief
Technology Officer and was named one of the top 25 CTOs by InfoWorld magazine in
2004. While at VIEO, Bishop pioneered the architecture and design of an
applications-focused, quality of service-oriented enterprise systems management
solution. For more
than 20 years, he has served in senior technology and strategy roles at leading
organizations including UNIX International, Tandem Computers and CompuCare
Management Systems. Bishop was an early employee of Tivoli Systems and rose
quickly through the organization, serving first in key development roles before
being named Chief Technology Officer and General Manager for IBM Tivoli’s
Embedded Solutions business unit. A
well-known technology innovator, Bishop holds nine patents in fault tolerant
computing and in leading the development of industry standards such as the
Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF) and POSIX. He is a
member of the Board of Directors for Symbiot, an Austin-based software startup,
and Witness Systems, an Atlanta-based software company. Also, he serves on the
technical advisory board for AlterPoint, based in Austin, Texas, and Qlusters,
based in Palo Alto, Calif. Bishop
received Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees, both in Computer
Science, from Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y.
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Mason
Rotelli is the CIO of Communications Supply Corporation
Roscoe Rush is Director Technical Services of Communications
Supply Corporation |
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Frank
Mallinder
 Frank
has a broad background that includes executive leadership, management
consulting, meeting facilitation, sales, writing and seminar leader. He has
both domestic and international work experiences.
As a skilled coach, he has
assisted executives to achieve high levels of success on a professional and
personal level. Frank has coached at multiple levels in organizations
including, CEO, CIO, VP, as well as managers at many different levels. He
obtained a Bachelor of Arts Degree from Washington & Jefferson College. He has
received extensive training in the behavioral sciences and industrial psychology
including graduate courses at Illinois Benedictine College.
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Mark Hattas
Mark Hattas co-founded Geneca in 1998 as a young, 26-year old
entrepreneur. Today, as Geneca’s CEO, he is at the helm of
one of the fastest growing IT services firms in the Chicago
region. Geneca is a trusted technology partner to many
Fortune 1000 companies and a destination workplace for
Chicago’s brightest IT professionals.
Mark is a charismatic leader widely respected for his
commitment to his clients, employees, community, and
family. With a career largely devoted to raising the bar on
the delivery standards of IT services firms, Mark and his
team work passionately to help IT organizations
predictability deliver business value.
Mark is an active member of the Board of Directors for the
Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce, i.c.stars, and the Charles
Tillman Cornerstone Foundation. He is the recipient of a
Young Executives Award and an Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of
the Year Finalist. He has led Geneca to its receipt of
numerous awards including the Inc. 5000, Chicagoland Chamber
of Commerce’s Workplace Excellence Award, and Crains Best
Workplaces. Mark is an invited speaker on topics such as
Generational Theory, business and innovation strategy, and
the role of IT in delivering business value.
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Dave Matthews
is the
Sr VP and CIO Federal Home Loan Bank of Chicago and is a
well-known
mortgage technology expert. Dave manages a staff of 150 IT professionals that
supports the bank’s commercial banking, trading and mortgage
purchase programs. He has almost 20 years of experience in
the mortgage industry. His previous experience
includes:
President & COO of RBC Mortgage Company, one of the nation’s
leading residential mortgage companies. He also spent
13 yrs. as Sr. VP & CIO at Chase Manhattan Mortgage
Susan Malisch
is VP
and CIO Loyola University and is an active member of Chicago
technology community. She drives
development/implementation of Loyola’s IT strategic
direction. Her group
supports student learning, research and teaching,
administrative processes, and public service. She has
18 years of implementation and operations experience in IT.
Susan has provided technology leadership for a variety of
strategic projects – M&A’s, IT governance and program
management, business strategy transformations. Her
prior experience included: Regional CIO for the Americas at
Novell, Inc. Held technology leadership positions at
Cambridge Technology Partners, UCLA, NSC Systems Group, Inc.
and Southwestern Bell Communications
Mark H. Griesbaum
Mark
H. Griesbaum joined CEC in Mrch 2000 as CIO. He was
recently recognized as one of Computerworld's "Premier 100
IT Leaders 2006". He leads a staff of over 100
professionals. His group strategically put in place a
common worldwide infrastructure, including a common set of
business applications, and a focused competency on how to
integrate new acquisitions, and start up schools. Mr.
Griesbaum joined Career Education Corporation from Acxiom
Corporation, where he managed its two largest outsourcing
account relationships. Prior to Acxiom, he spent eight
years with Heller Financial, most recently as vice president
responsible for all infrastructure. At Heller, Mr.
Griesbaum re-energized the company’s entire financial
function, conceiving and implementing a major financial
system and process that dramatically reduced the close of
monthly financial reporting from 14 days to 2 days. Before
joining Heller, Mr. Griesbaum spent 12 years at Continental
Bank, where he was responsible for all technology support
for the bank’s cash management products. Extremely critical
banking systems were managed by Mr. Griesbaum, including
those used for transmitting $40 billion in wire transfers
each day and managing $40 billion in trust assets. Mr.
Griesbaum received his Master of Business Administration in
Finance from DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois, and his
Bachelor of Science degree in Finance and Management from
the University of Dayton, Dayton Ohio.
Hyo Rhee
is
IT Strategist & Sr. Mgr for Pepsico’s Quaker
Oats/Tropicana/Gatorade brands. Current
focus is implementation of an extraordinary worldwide SAP
initiative. It is a 1.2B project spanning 8 years with
over 700 FTE dedicated to the project. Risks are
typical of most projects but due to the scale and long
timeline, those risks are magnified. Hyo is an ccomplished
executive whose success is due to business sensibility as
well as technical acumen/ Executive duties have
included considerable international responsibilities in
Europe, Central America, South America and China. No
stranger to risk, during Desert Storm/Desert Shield,
was Hyo as Communications & Operations Officer on two naval
vessels in the Mediterranean Sea. Prior experience
included:
Global
Information Manager (of a $590MM business unit) of a $19B
European Chemical firm, Akzo Nobel Polymer Chemicals. In
2001 was SAP specialist and project manager at Whittman-Hart
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Gint Dargis
 Gint
has served as CIO for a number of enterprises. Most recently he was Senior
Vice President and Chief Information Officer for Richardson Electronics, a
publicly held international distributor and manufacturer. Gint has held
similar positions at Hub Group Distribution Services (a distribution service
e-business) and Publicis – Frankel (a leading promotion and marketing
agency). In his CIO roles and in management roles at larger enterprises
such as Ameritech (now AT&T) and Zurich Insurance, he has gained practical
experience on how different companies approach business and IT planning.
Gint earned his Masters in Business Administration from the University of
Chicago and Bachelor of Science in Economics and Chemistry from the
University of Wisconsin.
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Steve O'Connor
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 Steve
O’Connor is a founder of ITM Software and serves
as Senior Vice President responsible for product
management, product development, and marketing.
Prior to ITM Software, Steve spent several years
at Silicon Graphics, Inc. where he served as
Chief Information Officer and Vice President of
Information Services. In this capacity he was
responsible for the architecture, planning, and
operations for all Information Services provided
to the corporation. He managed a staff of 700 IT
professionals who were deployed in 23 countries
around the world. While at SGI, Steve was also
Vice President of Professional Services.In this
capacity, he managed an organization with 450
employees in 15 countries. Prior to joining SGI,
Steve held various IT leadership and management
positions within Sun Microsystems and Cullinet
Software. Over the span of his IT career, he has
managed all major IT disciplines including
Applications Development, Applications Support,
Desktop Computing, Data Centers, Networks, and
Telecommunications. Steve earned a BS from
Boston College, School of Management, where he
majored in Computer Science. He also holds a JD
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Frank
Matagrano
Born in New York, Frank
Matagrano currently serves as Director of Vendor Management
for Solucient, a Thomson Company, in Evanston, Illinois.
Previously, he worked for the McDonald's Corporation as U.S.
Manager in their Global Technology Procurement Group and as
a Senior Contracts Analyst.
Barry Robinson
 Since
joining Trizec Properties in August 2000 Barry Robinson has
implemented a strategic vision for real estate
property-based technology and application support. Barry
integrated disparate building networks and information
systems into the Trizec corporate network and more recently
introduced Metro-Area Networks to connect systems across
multiple properties. Barry also established a Trizec
corporate Intranet to enable consistent access to
applications and best practice information in support of the
Trizec national programs at the property-level; the Trizec
Intranet was a critical factor in the successful integration
of fifteen new west coast properties totaling 6,000,000
square feet of real estate into Trizec during a single
weekend earlier this year. In April 2005 Barry was named one
of the top 25 CTO’s of 2005 by InfoWorld; in June 2006
Trizec was awarded the Realcomm 2006 Digie Award for Best
Use of Automation in Property Management. In addition to his
responsibilities as Trizec Vice President, Information
Technology Barry has been an active participant in
Chicago-area industry associations including the Society for
Information Management (SIM) and the Association of
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Sheleen Quish
 Sheleen
Quish is
the former VP & CIO for US Can Corporation. There, she was responsible for the
global infrastructure, three data centers and a wide variety of applications to
support the $750 million company in 24 locations in six countries. Ms. Quish's
background is unique in the CIO world. She has 20 years of Marketing and
Operations experience in healthcare and insurance. In 1993, Ms. Quish assumed
her first position in an IT role as a CIO. Over the last 13 years she has
developed a set of IT management principles and techniques that support both the
business objectives and create a viable environment in which IT professional can
thrive. Some of the business systems solutions she has managed and led include:
the development of a paperless claims filing solution in the health insurance
industry that developed into a profit center offering services, hardware, and
software; and major business systems integration in a national affinity
marketing company delivered on time and on budget, avoiding a $1 million a month
penalty. Sheleen is currently speaking, writing and consulting as well as
working with a number of IT managers as a coach.
Patrick E. Moroney
Mr. Moroney is President of The Barnier Group LLC, a
business and information technology consulting, services and
staffing firm. Mr. Moroney has been a business leader and
I.T. professional for 26 years with ten years experience in
large-cap Chief Information Officer roles at Health Care
Service Corporation, The ServiceMaster Company and the Food
and Nutrition Sector of Monsanto. Mr. Moroney has global
experience on six continents having lead major
organizations, programs and projects in large scale system
implementations, business transformations, outsourcing and
merger, acquisition and divestiture work and organizational
governance and effectiveness efforts. Mr. Moroney has lead
enterprise business process design, reengineering &
implementation programs enabled by technology (ERP software
– SAP, PeopleSoft, Oracle, J.D. Edwards). Mr. Moroney
is a member of the Chicago Chapter of SIM and serves on its
Board of Directors. He is a member of the Association of
Information Technology Professionals (AITP). He is also
President of Technology Leaders Association (TLA) a
collegial networking organization for senior technology
executives. Mr. Moroney serves as a board member for
i.c.stars, a NFP focused on building technology and business
leaders from the inner city. He also serves on the
Technology Advisory Committee for the CTI School of DePaul
University. He is a member of the Executives’ Club of
Chicago and received the Club’s “CIO of the Year” award for
2004, ComputerWorld Magazine’s “Top 100 CIOs in the country”
award for 2006 and helped his IT organization at HCSC
achieve the #21 spot in ComputerWorld’s top 100 best IT
workplaces in 2005. Mr. Moroney received a Bachelors in
Business Administration degree from Loyola University of
Chicago in 1977.
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