Making of a CIO

Through January 2006, Patrick Moroney has been the Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer of Health Care Service Corporation (HCSC) specifically responsible for enterprise-wide information technology strategy and operations which includes four Blue Cross Blue Shield plans (Illinois, Texas, Oklahoma and New Mexico). Previously, Patrick served as the Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer at The Service Master Company and Chief Information Officer of Nutrition and Consumer Products Sector of Monsanto. He helped his IT organization at HCSC achieve the #21 spot in ComputerWorld's top 100 best IT workplaces in 2005.and received ComputerWorld Magazine's “Top 100 CIOs in the country” award for 2006. Less   View all posts

Ergin Uskup served as the President of United Stationers Technology Services LLP and Senior Vice President of Information Technology and Chief Information Officer of United Stationers Inc. Before joining United Stationers, Ergin was Vice President of Corporate Information Services at Baxter Healthcare Corporation, Vice President of MIS and Chief Information Officer at Signode Corp. (now ITW Inc.) and at Clow Corporation. Ergin is on the board of I.C. Stars Charitable Organization and is a strategic advisor to Five9 Technologies. Ergin has been a member of the graduate faculty as adjunct professor at DePaul University, Northern Illinois University, and Lake Forest Graduate School of Management teaching a variety of IT and Management Science courses. He is an active member of the Society for Information Management (SIM) and served as its President for the calendar year of 2001 and Chairman for 2002. Less   View all posts

Before founding Blackbird Partners, David led the Global Information Officers Practice of Russell Reynolds Associates. David has helped a diverse group of companies build outstanding information technology leadership teams including the CIOs/CTOs for BellSouth, McKesson, Orbitz, Bank One, Whirlpool, Providian, PPG, Ecolab, SSA Global and Equity Office Properties. David has also helped CIOs build strong leadership teams at companies including Lucent, Sears, Cardinal Health and U.S. Cellular. Less   View all posts