June Drewry was the Global Chief Information Officer for Chubb & Son until her retirement in 2009. She currently is a National Director of the Society for Information Management’s Leadership Development Institute, the Southeast facilitator for SIM’s Regional Leadership Forum (RLF), an Executive Coach with Treeline Consulting, and an Advisory Board member for Diversified Information Technologies, Inc. Ms. Drewry has extensive international experience in the insurance and financial services industry at the senior management level, as a corporate CIO, business unit CIO and as president of a third party administration subsidiary. June served two terms as president of SIM International and has earned several awards throughout her career for innovative business use of technology and leadership in information technology. In 2008, June was named to the CIO Hall of Fame. Less   View all posts

James P. Knight is currently the Global Chief Information Officer for Chubb & Son. Mr. Knight provides vision and leadership to maximize the usage of information technology to create and maintain leadership for Chubb worldwide. He has more than 29 years of experience in the delivery and management of information technology mostly in the property and casualty insurance industry. Mr. Knight is a Project Management Professional (PMP) and serves on the boards of the Society of Information Management (SIM)-International, the SIM New Jersey Chapter Foundation, and the Association for Cooperative Operations Research and Development (ACORD). Less   View all posts

In this capacity, he oversees how promising technologies are developed, evaluated and integrated into mainstream IT services at the Agency. He also has the responsibility for managing Enterprise Architecture, Open Government activities and the dissemination of Scientific and Technical Information for the Agency. Previously, he served as the Chief Information Officer at the NASA John H. Glenn Research Center for 15 years. In this regard, Dr. Pillay had a broad scope of responsibility including managing administrative telecommunications, networking, desktop computing, several key administrative applications, computer modeling and simulation, and high-end computing and visualization. Under his leadership, NASA Glenn served as the lead for NASA for the development of Agency-wide standards and architecture for end user devices and systems with a focus on security, interoperability, and collaboration. He was also responsible for NASA Glenn saving nearly $80 million in the last decade through standardization, consolidation and outsourcing of end user devices and services while improving customer satisfaction and other service metrics. He also implemented and promoted a collaboration environment resulting in improved productivity and reduced expenses across multiple disciplines comprising of over 200 workgroups. Dr. Pillay is the recipient of NASA’s Exceptional Service Medal and the Outstanding Leadership Medal. He is also the recipient of the Presidential Rank Award recognizing him as a Meritorious Executive in the U.S. federal government. He was recognized as the CIO of the Year by the North East Ohio Software Association in 2008. Less   View all posts