Jeanne W. Ross, Director & Principal Research Scientist, MIT Sloan Center for Information Systems Research
Jeanne W. Ross directs academic research that serves senior level executives for the Center’s 75 global sponsors. Her own research examines organizational and performance implications of enterprise architecture initiatives, IT governance, and new IT management practices. Her work has appeared in the 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 is also the 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 through Harvard Business School Press; and IT Savvy: What Top Executives Must Know to Go from Pain to Gain. She has served on the faculty of customized courses for PepsiCo, McKinsey, General Electric, TRW, Pfizer, News Corporation, Commonwealth Bank of Australia, IBM, and Credit Suisse
Sergey Chernov, Manager, Enterprise Architecture, NiSource
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In his current role -- Manager, Enterprise Architecture at NiSource, Sergey is part of company transformation team tasked to take NiSource to a new level of Business and IT operations. Previously, he held a position of Assistant Director of IT Strategic Planning at Northeastern Illinois University in Chicago where he was leading strategic planning, architecture and project management oversight for a central IT group. Prior to joining NEIU, he led several large-scale internal IT projects for Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu. Sergey started his career at Emerson Electric where he was responsible for project management and implementation of B2B e-commerce systems. Sergey is a certified project manager (PMP) and has earned a Masters of Science in Information Systems Management degree from Loyola University Chicago and Bachelor of Science in Accounting from Indiana University.
John W. Kreul, VP, Information Technology,Pepsi Beverages Company
John has 18 years of experience leading IT organizations specializing in applications and PMO. He has led multiple major change initiatives in the areas of ERP, supply chain and eCommerce. John received his undergraduate from University of Wisconsin–LaCrosse with an EMBA from Northwestern Kellogg School of Management.
John has 18 years of experience leading IT organizations specializing in applications and PMO. He has led multiple major change initiatives in the areas of ERP, supply chain and eCommerce. John received his undergraduate from University of Wisconsin–LaCrosse with an EMBA from Northwestern Kellogg School of Management.
James Lutz, Vice President of Enterprise & Infrastructure Systems, USAA
With a BBA in Computer Information Systems from Southwest Texas State University, James joined the Mainframe Application Infrastructure team in 1986. Four years later, he moved over to the Operations area where he was an integral part of the IMS production support team. In the mid 90's, James moved into the CTO office and became the mainframe architect. In 1999, USAA created the Technical Fellow career track, and James became one of the first three employees to become a Technical Fellow. In September 2005, James was promoted to Vice President Technical Fellow in the Chief Technology Office. In February 2007, James transition out of the Technical Fellow career path. He took over the management of the Enterprise Infrastructure Organization and became a direct report to the CIO.
Dan Simpson, SVP & CIO, Physicians Mutual
Dan Simpson, Physicians Mutual senior vice president and chief information officer, is a 25-year veteran of the IT industry. He is a proven leader with extensive experience in business and technology alignment, information systems management, software development and consulting, and operations. He joined Physicians Mutual in 2001 and leads the Enterprise Technology Group. Dan was the driving force behind the company’s business transformation strategy and the enabling Greenfield Program. The Greenfield program has implemented new customer-centric business processes, a services-oriented architecture (SOA), a new enterprise data warehouse, and several new SOA applications. Dan was recently recognized as Technology Chief of the Year by the Applied Information Management Institute.
Paul Burnet, Vice President of WebShere and BPM, IBM
Paul Brunet is Vice President of WebSphere and BPM Product Marketing. He leads a team of experts driving the marketing activities for the complete WebSphere Portfolio as well as the cross-IBM Business Process Management (BPM) efforts. Previously at IBM, he served as leader of Director of SOA Product Marketing focused on creating and driving a unified view of IBM’s capabilities and market leadership around Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). Before joining IBM, Paul was Director of Product Management at Intelisys Electronic Commerce. He has also held various positions within Dun and Bradstreet's venture capital group and for the US Department of Commerce in the area of global business development. He holds his MBA from Binghamton University.
Jon Richter, Executive Consultant, SOA Strategy and Porfolio Management, IBM
Jon Richter is a Portfolio Manager on the Strategy and Market Management team within IBM's Business Performance and Service Optimization organization. In this role, Jon is defining the vision for IBM's next generation of solutions focusing on the integration of key business capabilities such as events, rules, and analytics into a more consumable stack. Given his organization’s emphasis on business performance, one of Jon’s current focuses is working with customers to understand how they can quantify the value of their technical initiatives and track that value. Prior to this role, Jon focused on service oriented architecture where he drove various key strategic initiatives in IBM around SOA governance. For 9 years, Jon worked with numerous clients around their SOA initiatives focusing specifically on the successful implementation of SOA governance. Jon holds an MBA and MS in Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin and a BS in Engineering from Michigan State University.
Charles Pelton, Contributing Editor, Computerworld
Charles Pelton has run dozens of business and IT roundtables, moderated IT and other business-focused panels, and hosted executive conferences for CIO, Computerworld and other groups. A former editor-in-chief of events and research at InformationWeek magazine, Charles founded Modern Media Partners, a conferences production company that focused primarily on the content of live events. Charles has been an IT and business journalist for more than 20 years.
