Ina joined Thermo Fisher Scientific in November 2007 as the Chief Information Officer. Prior to joining Thermo Fisher, she served as Vice President and Chief Information Officer for Tyco International in Princeton NJ and Boca Raton FL. In that position, she provided leadership to the company’s Chief Information Officer Council and led the IT organization through the separation of a $40 billion company into three publicly traded organizations. While at Tyco Fire & Security, Ina worked closely with executive leadership in all the businesses. Prior to joining Tyco, Ina was a Senior Vice President, Chief Information Officer at Marriott International. During her time at Marriott, she was the CIO for the Senior Living Services and Courtyard/Fairfield Inn divisions, where she had the accountability for the strategic direction and technical delivery of systems and technology products and services in support of six brands in 800 hotel and senior living residential facilities. She led the development and execution of the IT Strategy and Plan during the business transformation to create Marriott Lodging. Less   View all posts

Vasant Dhar is Paduano Fellow, Professor, Head of the Information Systems Group, and Director for the Center for Digital Economy Research at the Stern School of Business at NYU. He has been on the NYU-Stern faculty since 1983. His longstanding research has been on building robust automated decision making systems from large databases based on principles and methods from Artificial Intelligence and related disciplines. The emphasis is on predictive modeling, across areas that span financial markets and other domains including economic networks, news, sponsored search markets, and blogs and other user generated content. Dhars more recent research has been on issues related to the corporate governance of data and information technologies that balances their simultaneous benefits and risks, and on the transformational aspects of these technologies in business and society. This research also has direct pedagogical implications for how information technologies are taught and discussed from a business perspective. He has written over 70 research articles, funded by grants from industry and the National Science Foundation. He pioneered the use of machine learning for predictive modeling on Wall Street across proprietary systematic trading, risk management, and customer and salesforce management. Dhar teaches courses at Stern on Trading Strategies, and IT and Corporate Strategy. He is a frequent speaker in academic as well as industrial forums. Less   View all posts