Dave Bowen is the Federal Aviation Administration's (FAA) Assistant Administrator for Information Services and Chief Information Officer (CIO). Prior to joining the FAA in February 2006, David spent more than 25 years in healthcare IT management in the provider, payer, consultant, and vendor areas. He most recently served as the Senior Vice President for IT and CIO at Blue Shield of California, a $6.2 billion health plan with more than 2.5 million members. Blue Shield is the second largest not-for-profit healthcare organization in California. While there, David directed Blue Shield’s IT, telecommunication, business recovery, and Web implementation resources with an operating budget in excess of $100 million. He sat on Blue Shield's Operations Committee and its Senior Staff. Prior to Blue Shield, David was Senior Vice President for Information Management and CIO of Catholic Healthcare West (CHW), the fifth largest healthcare delivery system in the United States. His responsibilities included oversight of CHW's Information Management and Telecommunications resources located throughout Arizona, California, and Nevada. He also managed CHW’s Year 2000 initiative. David has also served as the Senior Vice President for Information Systems and CIO at Baptist Health System, Inc., of Birmingham, Ala., a 13-hospital system and the largest integrated healthcare delivery system in Alabama. In addition, he was CIO of its wholly-owned Health Maintenance Organization, Health Partners of Alabama. He is the former Board Chairman of the Coastside Family Medical Center, former Chairman of the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association IT Roundtable, and member of the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association Interplan Technology Advisory Council. Less   View all posts

David Orellana has held the position of IT Director at the Federal Institute for Access to Public Information (IFAI). In addition to his teaching experience, David is experienced in added-value satellite solutions. David joined Mexicana Airlines in 2006 as Chief Technology Officer responsible for the company's operating systems, technological architecture and information security. Among his many achievements is the implementation of an administration and support model tailored to meet the company's business needs, which utilizes best practices and has resulted in a significant improvement in the airline's operating and financial efficiency. Less   View all posts

As the vice president of IT Business Partners, Federico Genoese-Zerbi is responsible for coordinating IT support to all major Boeing businesses including Boeing Commercial Airplanes, Integrated Defense Systems and Boeing Capital Corporation. He was named to this position in April 2008 and reports to John Hinshaw, Boeing’s Chief Information Officer. Federico was previously the Chief Information Security Officer and Business Information Officer for Capital One Bank Europe Plc where he was responsible for delivering IT strategy and operations in support of the company’s credit card business. He also served as Capital One’s CIO for Latin America, and was the Vice President of enterprise data management. Prior to working for Capital One, Federico worked for Verizon where he was the area CIO for the West Area of Verizon Wireless, responsible for all operations, development, and IT support for an area including 13 Western US states, CIO for Verizon’s Greek subsidiary, and a director in one of Verizon’s offshore software development companies in Italy. Federico is a is an active commercial pilot and flight instructor who participates in the U.S. Navy’s Initial Flight Screening program. Less   View all posts