Susan Cramm is an executive coach and president of Valuedance®, an executive coaching and leadership development firm. She is a recognized expert in her field due to her passions and gifts for developing others, as well as her keen, practical insights derived from extensive research and years of coaching and serving in executive level positions. Over the past 14 years, Susan has coached executives from a number of Fortune 500 clients, including Toyota, Sony, and Whole Foods Markets, and her clients describe her as "insightful", "motivational", "practical", "tough", "committed", and "invaluable". She is a frequent speaker, a blogger for the Harvard Business Review, and author of the Harvard Business Press book, “8 Things We Hate about I.T.: How to Move Beyond the Frustrations to form a New Partnership with I.T.” Cramm is the former CFO and executive vice president at Chevy's Mexican Restaurants, where she led the finance, business strategy, restaurant development, franchising, legal, and information technology functions. Prior to Chevy's, Cramm worked with the Taco Bell Corporation and held the positions of CIO and vice president of the Information Technology Group and Senior Director of Financial and Strategic Planning. Less   View all posts

From June 2005 George has held the position of Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer at Sara Lee Corporation, and is responsible for global information systems. As part of the company's public transformation program he is responsible for large scale global re-platform activities. In addition to his I/S responsibilities he leads the companies Continuous Improvement program with LEAN / Six Sigma methodology. Prior to Sara Lee, George was Vice President & Chief Information Officer of H. J. Heinz, in charge of the global information systems organization and all aspects of application systems and technology infrastructure in the company. He also held the position of Vice President of Business Transformation where he focused on growth and waste elimination in all business areas. George has held positions including Group Senior Vice President, Global Infrastructure & Services based at Asea Brown Boveri (ABB), Inc. in Zurich, Switzerland and several IS positions during his 12 year stint at the Gillette Company, in both the US and Europe. In his last position at Gillette, George was European Supply Chain Manager responsible for inventory control and production planning based in London supporting approximately $2b in sales. Less   View all posts