Emil G. D'Angelo, CISA, CISM International President, ISACA Senior Vice President at the Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, Ltd. Emil G. D'Angelo is international president of ISACA and a security management professional with more than 25 years of experience in the financial services industry. He is the senior vice president overseeing the corporate data security department at the Bank of Tokyo Mitsubishi UFJ, with responsibility for information security, disaster recovery, audit liaison and IT compliance-related matters. D'Angelo initiated his career in security and audit by joining Deloitte & Touche, where he worked on the development of their audit software, IT audit approach and spent 10 years in their management services division. He also worked at Chase, where he coordinated the global security and business continuity program, and at Marsh, where he established a security and business continuity program. https://www.ciotalkradio.com/event/244.html Less   View all posts

Dr. Melodie Mayberry-Stewart, Ph.D. New York State Chief Information Officer, Director of the Office For Technology Dr. Melodie Mayberry-Stewart serves as New York State Chief Information Officer and Director of the Office for Technology. As the Governor's top information technology advisor and a member of the Governor's cabinet, Melodie develops, implements and oversees IT investments for the State of New York, a $130 billion enterprise with over 190,000 employees serving a statewide population of 19 million. The State has approximately 5,600 IT professionals, and spends approximately $2 billion in information technology annually. Melodie, a veteran of IT, started her career in Information Technology 30 years ago as a Systems Engineer for the IBM Corporation. Subsequently, she worked as an IT executive in two Fortune 20 companies, the largest healthcare hospital in the country, and in the public and private non-profit sectors. During her 13 years with IBM, she quickly rose through the ranks and served as an Instructor in Database and Data Communications at the IBM Advanced Technical Education Center in Los Angeles and authored several courses published by Science Research Associates. After leaving a successful career at IBM, Dr. Mayberry-Stewart became a Chief Information Officer in the health care industry as the first CIO at Community Health Corporation, (California), St. Thomas Hospital (Tennessee) and Beth Israel Medical Center (New York). After 14 years in healthcare IT, she turned her interest to the energy industry where she became a Vice President and General Manager of Shared IT Services and Global IT Delivery for the Amoco Corporation, with global headquarters in Chicago, and was acquired by BP Oil in the UK. Melodie has worked extensively with non-profit companies to help their organizations better serve their constituents. Her work brought her to the attention of the newly elected Mayor of Cleveland, Ohio. In 2002 he appointed her as the City's first Chief Technology Officer (CTO) and CIO. In May 2007, Dr. Mayberry-Stewart was appointed NYS CIO and Director of the NYS Office for Technology. Melodie has been nationally recognized in InformationWeek's 2009 Government CIO 50 list. In addition, she received numerous honors including, Computerworld's Premier 100 IT Leaders for 2009, Year Up 2009 Urban Empowerment Award, ITT Technical Institute 2009 Woman of Inspiration Award, 2009 Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Black MBA Association and the National Technical Association Lifetime Achievement Award, US Engineering and Technology Women of Color Technology Award for Managerial Leadership and the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. Melodie serves on the boards of the Harriman Research and Technology Development Corporation, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) Center for Computational Nanotechnology Innovation, and is a member of the Advisory Council of Center for CIO Leadership where she provides strategic advice and counsel to Center leadership and assures the Center's research, education and content are directly relevant to the professional growth and challenges facing CIOs. Less   View all posts

Hardik Bhatt serves as the Chief Executive Officer of SDI Presence LLC. In this role, Hardik leverages two decades of key partnerships with global corporate leaders, public sector leaders, startup leaders, investors, and academia to provide strategic direction that helps modernize SDI clients. Prior to joining SDI, Hardik led AWS’s public sector startup business, launching startup accelerators and incubators globally. He built and ran AWS’s Digital Government and Transportation verticals for State and Local Government businesses while leading strategic sales, partnerships, and customer solutions, using AWS’s cloud-based business models and supported by proven delivery and innovation methodologies. Prior to AWS, Hardik was the Chief Information Officer for the State of Illinois. There, he centralized the state’s $1.2 billion IT organization, the Department of Innovation & Technology. As Secretary of the new department, Hardik and his team built the state’s first data analytics practice, created the state’s first comprehensive cybersecurity strategy, drove customer-centric innovation, and championed its first successful ERP implementation. Under his leadership, Illinois leapfrogged from 4th from the bottom to 3rd in nationwide state technology rankings. Prior to the State of Illinois, Hardik was a Senior Director at Cisco, leading global business development for its Smart Cities and Internet of Everything (IoE) business. He worked with municipal, state, and national governments across 19 different countries in his five years at Cisco. Before Cisco, Hardik served as the City of Chicago’s CIO and Commissioner of Department of Innovation & Technology, where he leveraged technology to improve citizen services. There, Hardik pioneered the Smart Chicago initiative, deployed cutting-edge mobile apps, and initiated the City’s Open Data Platform. Hardik is an active industry speaker and is intricately engaged in Chicago’s civic fabric. He is a board director and chairperson of the Cybersecurity Committee for the Fermi National lab, the country’s leading Deep Physics research lab, driving the multi-billion dollar International Long-Baseline Neutrino Facility/Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment. Hardik also serves as a board member for the World Business Chicago and Chicago Innovation. He has been judging Chicago Innovation Awards for the past 15 years and is a member of the angel investment partnership Hyde Park Angels, the Economic Club of Chicago, and the Commercial Club of Chicago. Less   View all posts

Jeanne W. Ross Director and Principal Research Scientist, Center for Information Systems Research (CISR), MIT Jeanne W. Ross is Director and Principal Research Scientist at the MIT Sloan School's Center for Information Systems Research. As Director, Jeanne directs academic research that targets the challenges of senior level executives at the Center's seventy global sponsors. Her own research examines the organizational and performance implications of enterprise architecture initiatives, IT governance, and new IT management practices. Her work has appeared in major practitioner and academic journals, including Sloan Management Review, Harvard Business Review, the Wall Street Journal, MISQ Executive, MIS Quarterly, the Journal of Management Information Systems, IBM Systems Journal, and CIO Magazine. Jeanne has served on the faculty of customized courses for firms such as PepsiCo, McKinsey, Johnson & Johnson, General Electric, TRW, Pfizer, Nomura, Novartis, News Corporation, Commonwealth Bank of Australia, IBM, and Credit Suisse. She regularly appears as a speaker for Microsoft, the Society for Information Management, Gartner, and university research centers, where she addresses the question of how companies get value from information technology. She is coauthor of three books: IT Governance: How Top Performers Manage IT Decision Rights for Superior Results, Enterprise Architecture as Strategy: Creating a Foundation for Business Execution and IT Savvy: What Top Executives Must Know to Go from Pain to Gain. All three books were published Harvard Business School Press. She is a founding senior editor and former editor in chief of MIS Quarterly Executive. https://www.ciotalkradio.com/event/244.html Less   View all posts