InformationWeek CIO Summit

Combining a unique blend of client-facing operational experience and strong technical knowledge, Mike Capone guides both product development and information technology as Corporate Vice President of Product Development & Chief Information Officer for ADP (Nasdaq: ADP), a leading provider of human capital management services and one of the world's largest providers of business process outsourcing solutions.

Leveraging more than 60 years of experience, ADP offers a wide range of human resource, payroll, tax and benefits administration solutions from a single source. Today, the company serves approximately 600,000 clients worldwide and generates more than $10 billion in annual revenues.

As one of the world’s largest business-to-business software providers, ADP is also one of the most innovative companies when it comes to developing and deploying technology. The company helped pioneer the cloud computing industry and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) business model, and currently serves more than 200,000 SaaS clients and over 14 million users on its SaaS platforms.

Under Mr. Capone’s leadership as CVP & CIO, ADP has earned accolades for its technology leadership and innovations. For example, ADP was named to Forbes magazine’s list of “The World’s Most Innovative Companies” for 2012 and Computerworld's list of the “100 Best Places To Work In IT for 2012, and was among the top 100 companies on the InformationWeek 500 for 2012 – an annual list of the top business technology innovators in the United States.

Mr. Capone is a 24-year veteran of ADP and has held positions in product development, information technology, and operations. Prior to becoming CVP & CIO, he served as Senior Vice President and General Manager of ADP GlobalView, an award-winning multilingual, multicurrency human resources outsourcing solution. In this role, he led ADP’s efforts to develop a global HR BPO business for large multi-national corporations in partnership with SAP. In addition to his day-to-day responsibilities, Mr. Capone is a trustee for ADP’s charitable foundation and serves on the boards of several non-profit organizations.

Mr. Capone earned a Bachelor of Science Degree in Computer Science from Dickinson College and an MBA in Finance from Pace University.

On April 11, 2011 Suren Gupta joined Allstate as Executive Vice President for Allstate Technology & Operations.

Suren brings a blend of leadership, and information technology, operations and sales experience to Allstate. He joins us from Wells Fargo, where he was EVP and Group Chief Information Officer for consumer lending. Previously at Wells Fargo, he held a similar role for the home and consumer finance group. Under his leadership, real estate lending was re-engineered with new delivery capabilities that enabled the field sales force to serve customers more effectively with just-in-time information.

Earlier in his career, Suren provided key leadership and vision as a founding member of the corporate executive team of Airclic Inc., a startup wireless Internet venture, and was Senior Vice President, informational technology and operations for GMAC Residential, a division of General Motors. Gupta also has held senior operations, sales, marketing and strategic development roles at INTELSAT, a telecommunications company, and at Thomson Corp., an information company.

Suren is a graduate of the Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School. He also received a master’s degree in computer engineering from West Virginia University and an MBA from George Mason University.
Suren and his wife Madvi have two sons, Vidur and Varon.

Lynden was named senior VP and CIO of Union Pacific Corp. in February 2005. In his position, he is responsible for organizing and managing the development, implementation and operation of Union Pacific Railroad’s information and telecommunications technologies.

Before his promotion, Lynden was VP of information technologies and chief technology officer for Union Pacific Railroad. Lynden was named to that position in 2001 and had responsibility for the application systems and architectures for the entire company. From 1998 through 2001, Lynden was president and CEO of Nexterna, a technology subsidiary of Union Pacific. Nexterna develops applications and hardware solutions for the mobile asset marketplace.

Prior to joining Union Pacific in 1992, Lynden spent five years with American Airlines’ SABRE division, where he was responsible for the Knowledge Systems organization. From 1979 through 1987, Lynden worked in various management and technical capacities for AT&T and Southwestern Bell Telephone.

Lynden has a bachelor’s degree from the University of Texas at Arlington. He sits on the boards of several companies and is involved in both church and community activities.

Todd Dunn is the director of innovation for Intermountain Healthcare, where he is responsible for implementing a broad-based program focusing on employee engagement in innovation. For many years, including positions at Cisco, where he worked on the industry-leading eHub, Siemens and GE, Todd has pursued innovative approaches to solving complex problems.

Frederick Holston is the chief technology officer of Intermountain Healthcare, where he is responsible for the direction and oversight of the company’s information systems architecture. He provides strategic direction for effective data management beyond storage and systems, allowing for efficient flow of information among Intermountain’s 2,500 applications and two electronic medical records. In addition to managing structured data, Frederick is leading several efforts for storing unstructured data to be used for strategic analytical and marketing purposes.

Frederick also oversees Intermountain’s Healthcare Transformation Lab, a team that works with clinicians to find or create solutions that provide high-quality care at lower cost. Before he was named CTO in 2008, Frederick served as Intermountain’s chief technology architect. Prior to joining Intermountain in 1996, Frederick was a principal consultant with Oracle. With an education and background in electronics engineering, Frederick is a recognized expert in analysis and design of enterprise technical architectures.

Mr. Paul Rogers is the chief development officer for GE's Global Software Headquarters and is responsible for creating software and service applications working closely with GE's businesses. Before this position, Mr. Rogers was general manager of the software solutions group for GE Energy Services. In this capacity, he led 800+ employees across 9 countries and 14 locations to orchestrate a global product development strategy for the emerging smartgrid market. Prior to that Mr. Rogers held the role of general manager of quality for GE's Energy Engineering division and managed a $30M operation with broad-based authority to drive organizational changes and improvements in engineering quality. He also served as product line leader for the GE's GenGauge and Coalogic product lines. Prior to GE, Mr. Rogers was a software engineering leader and corporate stakeholder in Praxis Engineers, which was acquired by GE Energy in 2001. Mr. Rogers has been the recipient of numerous GE accolades, namely the Energy Engineering "Product Quality" award, GE Quality Leadership award, and Energy Cup award for productivity and risk Reduction initiatives. In addition, he was awarded a U.S. patent for the year-long development of the GenGauge enterprise software product serving as the product visionary. Mr. Rogers earned his MS in Chemical Engineering from San Jose State University and his BS in Chemical Engineering from San Jose State University.

Manjit Singh most recently served as Las Vegas Sands Corp (NYSE:LVS) Global Chief Information Officer. Mr. Singh was responsible for LVS’ global information systems in North America, Macau, and Singapore. Mr. Singh set the strategic direction and governance for all technology initiatives at LVS with an emphasis on setting consistent standards across all LVS properties encompassing casino, hospitality, retail, F&B, marketing, and back office systems.

Prior to joining LVS, Mr. Singh was with Chiquita Brands International (NYSE: CQB) as Chief Information Officer where he served on the company's management committee and was responsible for Chiquita’s global commercial and operational systems, setting the strategic direction and governance for all technology initiatives at Chiquita. Mr. Singh introduced the concept of Software as a Service (SaaS) to the company allowing for hosted solutions to be implemented rapidly, and cost effectively, resulting in a strong ROI commensurate with the pace of the business. As a result of Mr. Singh’s approach, Chiquita Brands was the first Fortune 500 Company to deploy Workday Inc.’s cloud-based HR Management Suite and one of the early customers of Service-Now.

Mr. Singh also held senior positions at Gillette, Procter & Gamble, and Broadwing.

Mr. Singh has been honored as an InformationWeek Top 50 Global CIO, InformationWeek Top Innovator and Influencer, and ComputerWorld Premiere 100 Leader. Mr. Singh earned a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics and Computer Science at the State University of New York at Binghamton and a Master of Science in Computer Science from Indiana University.

Kevin Hooper is Senior Vice President of NEC Corporation of America (NEC), a leading provider and integrator of advanced IT, networking, communications and biometric solutions for the enterprise, government and carrier market. In his role, Mr. Hooper is responsible for NEC’s Enterprise Platform Solutions business, which includes the direct sale, delivery and support operations for the company’s extensive IT and network solutions to a broad base of enterprise customers and vertical industries.

Mr. Hooper is a proven leader with more than 20 years of business development and sales leadership experience, including previous executive positions with Hewlett Packard and IBM. At Hewlett Packard (HP) he served as VP of Networking Sales and prior to that as VP of HP Growth Accounts, Enterprise Servers, Storage and Networking. In this capacity he was responsible for a $3.2 billion revenue base and drove significant growth.

Mr. Hooper has a B.S. in Mathematics and Statistics from the University of Sussex, England, and an M.S. in Engineering and Operations Research from the University of Massachusetts.