Richard (Rich) Gius is Vice President and Chief Information Officer for Atmos Energy Corporation. Rich joined Atmos in October of 2007 as a CIO and corporate officer. Prior to joining Atmos, Rich spent more than two decades at Cardinal Health, rising through various positions of increasing responsibility. In 2003, he was named by Computerworld Magazine as a Premier 100 IT Leader, recognizing IT leaders who have applied information technology in effective, creative and innovative ways to advance their organization's strategy. Under Rich's leadership, Cardinal Health's ValueLink business application was recognized in 1997 by CIO Magazine's Application Hall of Fame as one of the 12 most influential business applications of the past decade, and its SAP ERP and CRM implementations were honored as a 1999 national finalist for the Computerworld Smithsonian Business Technology Award. Before joining Cardinal Health, he held positions in both marketing and technology at Boise Cascade Corporation from 1979 to 1982. Rich serves on the University of North Texas' Information Technology & Decision Sciences Advisory Board, Oklahoma University's Center for Management Information Systems Studies Executive Committee, Vice-Chair for the American Gas Association Technology Advisory Council, and AT&T Mobility Customer Guidance Council. Rich is also a former member of the board of directors of the Health Industry Business Communications Council (an ANSI-accredited standards development organization for information technology standards in the healthcare industry), and MediClick, Inc. (financial ASP-based solutions). Less   View all posts

Stanley Crane has over30 years of healthcare and consumer-related software experience during which his teams have produced electronic medical record software, electronic prescribing, web-based medication sales, online physician education, resource scheduling, financial systems, materials management, medical translation software and voice recognition dictation systems. Prior to a decade plus in healthcare IT, Stanley was involved in Silicon Valley where he held positions with many well-known software companies. As the General Manager of Lotus cc:Mail, he brought in $110,000,000 in annual revenue and introduced the first remote mail products. He was also the Vice President of Engineering at WordStar International, and Director of Applications at Ashton-Tate. Stanley was one of the founders of 2 Internet startups: MaxMiles, an automated frequent flier mileage aggregator, and Shopping@Home, which was acquired by Allscripts in 1999. Less   View all posts