Gerry was most recently the Chief Technological Officer and Executive Vice President of Engineering at Evident Software in Bloomfield, N.J. Prior to that, he was the Chief Information Technology Officer at Xcel Energy in Denver. Coady led Xcel to the top spot in the energy and utilities industry in the 2004 InformationWeek 500 Top IT organizations list, and the 20th spot overall that year. He has also held leadership positions at IBM, J.D. Edwards and Company, and spent many years with Digital Equipment Corporation both in the United States as well as in Ireland and France. Coady lectures in Enterprise Systems at the University of Denver, School of Management. Less   View all posts

Santiago Ontañón, is Executive Vice President and Chief Information Officer for Mexicana de Aviación (MX) since 2005. Previous to joining Mexicana, he was General Manager of Computer Associates in Mexico and before that, Deputy Postmaster General of Mexico. He started his professional career as a consultant with McKinsey & Co. in the areas of Telecommunications, Transport and Government. In 1995 he was part of the group that made Direct To Home Television a reality in Mexico, working for Grupo Televisa as Director of New Technologies and as an active participant in the operation of Sky Latin America. His experience in DTH took him to become part of a group of global pioneers, with Tachyon Inc., that revolutionized Satellite Data Communications and made IP-over-satellite a reality. Less   View all posts