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David Carr
Chief Information Officer
Northwestern University (Qatar)

David Carr is an expert on voice, data and video infrastructures. David is currently the CIO for Northwestern University's campus in Qatar, where he leads Northwestern University Information Technology's (NUIT) efforts to deploy and support a technology infrastructure which supports faculty, staff, and students at Northwestern University-Qatar and cohesively link to the Northwestern University campuses.  Previously, David was the Director, Telecommunications and Network Services at Northwestern University where he managed a  staff of 50 Network Services group, Network Analysts, Network Security Officer as well as having Field Operations management, Switching Center Management, and Call Center Management report directly to his position. Previously, David was a Network Consultant at UB Networks and was the Manager, Communications System Engineering at the University of Buffalo, Computing Center.

David Fike
SVP & Chief Technology Officer
Marsh & McLennan Companies

David Fike has over 25 years of technology leadership experience. Presently, Dave is Senior Vice President and CTO of the MMC Global Technology Infrastructure (MGTI) group. He is responsible for managing 1400 FTE and consulting staff globally as well as a $650MM technology infrastructure budget. Dave joined MMC from Putnam Investments, where as Managing Director of Enterprise Computing and Communications, his responsibilities spanned all aspects of voice and data networking, data center engineering and operations, information security, disaster recovery and business continuity, desktop engineering and support, call center technologies, help desk, and the network operations center. Prior to joining Putnam, David was Director of Consulting at Gartner Group in Stamford, Connecticut. Previously, David was with the United States Senate in Washington, DC for 13 years where he was responsible for all of the Senate’s nation-wide voice and data networking systems. David holds a B.S. in Finance from the University of Maryland, and an M.S. in Telecommunications Management also from the University of Maryland.

Carol Rizzo
Former Chief Technology Officer
Kaiser Permanente

Carol Rizzo is a seasoned Operations and Technology executive with over 25 years experience including as the former CTO of Kaiser Permanente, Citigroup and AIG. Her career includes business operations management as well as line technology management and consulting assignments with extensive international experience. Carol’s forte has been in helping her business partners amplify expertise, create operational efficiencies and improve customer experience through the application of technologies at firms including Kaiser Permanente, AIG, Citibank, Fidelity Investments, Viacom and Digital Equipment. As CTO at Citigroup, she led the innovative design and development of a web based platform that enables Citibank’s retail businesses to present and transact information to customers online, over the phone or on the ATM. This platform integrates information from Citibank’s legacy systems and is the basis of Citibank Online and operates in over 40 countries. In 2001, Carol established the offshore Business Processing Operations for back office processing and call centers in India which saves the bank approximately $40M annually. Most recently, Carol was the CTO for Kaiser Permanente, where she was charged with the task of revitalizing a massive infrastructure, incapable of meeting the near term needs of the healthcare and insurance business. Over the past year, she has been instrumental in improving systems availability by 100 hours, saving over $45m in reduced physician and nursing time. Under her leadership, the infrastructure team has cut operations costs by over $75M. She led the development of the innovation agenda; promoting technology innovation in support of affordable healthcare and was responsible for contact center technology strategy.

Paul Sforza
Chief Technology Officer
U.S. Treasury Department

Paul is a seasoned technology executive with greater than 22 years of retail banking and IT experience. In his current role, Paul is responsible for leading technology innovation within the US Treasury Department including key technology strategies (i.e., Identity Management, Hardware Virtualization, Application Hosting, Business Analytics, Application Integration and SOA). Comprised of twelve bureaus, Paul is responsible for overarching IT Strategy across the US Treasury Department infrastructure that manages a debt portfolio of over $8 trillion dollars and processes daily cash transactions in excess of $58 billion dollars. Previously, he was a Vice President with JP Morgan Chase and Company responsible for defining key strategies, architectures and resulting implementation plans for extremely large IT portfolios (between $250 million to $1 billion dollars in annual IT spend). While at JPMorgan his areas of focus included everything from IT Portfolio Management, Platform Consolidation, Channel Integration, and Emerging Technology to Architecture Process Re-engineering and IT Solution development.

Gerald Shanholt, Ph.D.
Independent Telecommunications Professional
Gerry Shanholt has a diverse 30 year telecom & networking background successfully contributed to research and development, marketing, sales and P&L management. Gerry began his career at Bell Laboratories, where he designed software for switching systems and operational support systems. Gerry was recruited to work for ITT Corporation (a multi-national $5B telecom equipment provider), where he focused and refined ITT's digital loop carrier and digital switching systems. Gerry was then hired by Fujitsu America, a subsidiary of Fujitsu, Ltd., to start their US network switching business. Within three years under his leadership, the business unit grew to over 120 people and introduced the world's first working ATM switch. Gerry also held senior executive positions at NEC America, a $900 million supplier of communication products for both public and enterprise networks, where he introduced leading edge data switching systems and software for rapid feature introduction and network management. Gerry has also acted as President and Chief Executive Officer at a number of venture-backed firms, brought in by Board of Directors to generate business growth and drive shareholder value. Gerry studied at the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn where he received his BS, Applied Mathematics with a minor in Electrical Engineering and Ph.D., Mathematics.

Doug Tracy
Chief Information Officer
Dana Corporation

Doug is currently the CIO of Dana Holding Corporation, a Tier 1 supplier to the Automotive and Heavy Vehicle industries with 2008 revenues of $8B. He is responsible for all aspects of a global IT organization with staff on six continents and 24/7 operations. Previously, he was the Executive Vice President of IT for Rolls-Royce North America. In this role, he was the senior IT executive for a $4B and 8,000 employee subsidiary of Rolls-Royce plc. He also served as the Global CTO of Rolls-Royce plc, where he was responsible for global IT strategy and architecture. Among his accomplishments at Rolls-Royce are the establishment of a world class IT Governance mechanism, a new IT Strategy and a new Enterprise Architecture. In addition, Doug led the executive committee to define and manage a major infrastructure refurbishment that provided the global platform for new RR IT initiatives. He is also a well-known speaker and IT advisory board member, delivering keynote addresses at several IT conferences and serving as a Board member for IT start-ups. Previously, Doug served in IT executive roles at Pfizer, the Federal Reserve Bank, The Boston Consulting Group and Accenture. Prior to Doug's IT management career, he was an officer in the US Air Force, serving 14 years as a fighter pilot and operational manager. He holds an MBA from the Fuqua School of Business, Duke University, a Master's in Software Development and Management from Rochester Institute of Technology and a Bachelor's in Electrical Engineering from the U.S. Naval Academy.

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