CIO Boot Camp Speakers

Learn from successful CIOs at billion dollar organizations—industry leaders with insight and experience to help you land and excel in IT's job.

Chairperson:

  • Thornton May, Futurist, Executive Director and Dean, IT Leadership Academy

Posse Members:

Speakers:

Hear Interop's CIO Bootcamp leadership talk about the changing role of the CIO & the skills required to succeed:

Photo of Thornton MayChairperson: Thornton May
Futurist, Executive Director and Dean
IT Leadership Academy

Thornton May is America's leading CIO career doctor, tirelessly researching the environmental and psychological diseases that destroy IT leadership careers. On the road over 250 days a year making 'house calls' with leading CIOs, Thornton has assembled one of the world's most respected medicine chests of empirically tested job-saving, business-growing remedies in the IT business today.

In addition to career doctoring, Thornton teaches Executive Education at four major universities, writes columns on technology for two leading publications, advises major organizations and government agencies on how to think differently about the future, all the while conducting seminal anthropological field research into technology use behaviors of the various tribes comprising modern society.

Thornton brings a scholar's patience for empirical research, a second-to-none gift for storytelling and a scathingly honest sense of humor to his audiences. His exuberance is infectious. After prolonged exposure you go home and wring the personality out of your clothes. Most importantly you will be refreshed, revitalized and re-armed to win the career wars in front of you.

Photo of Bruce BarnesBruce Barnes
President & CEO
Bold Vision, LLC

Bruce Barnes has over thirty-five years of experience as a senior level officer in the technology arena, including very influential roles in Fortune 100 companies. He has received numerous industry accolades, including having been recognized by the industry press as one of this country's most noted CIOs. He is a recognized voice at national industry events and in major industry publications. He is an ongoing advisor and retained coach for a number of successful senior level corporate leaders.

Currently, Mr. Barnes is the founder and CEO of Bold Vision, a senior management consulting consortium comprised of "C Level" executives, which operates as a trusted advisor and consultant to a number of noted CIOs and other IT leaders, as well as to several large IT product providers.

As a part of that mission, Bold Vision is also committed to helping build an active and creative network of IT leaders devoted to sharing best practices, leveraging their strengths and perspectives, renewing their skills on an ongoing basis, and raising the level of technical "literacy" within their organizations.

Photo of Bob DowdBob Dowd
Chief Information Officer
Sonora Quest Laboratories/ Laboratory Sciences of Arizona

Bob Dowd is the Chief Information Officer for Sonora Quest Laboratories in Tempe, Arizona. Mr. Dowd has extensive experience in the healthcare field, with 22 years in the clinical laboratory field and an additional 10 years in large medical/dental facilities. This experience includes leadership roles in Accounts Receivable and Revenue Services for Quest Diagnostics Incorporated, and for the past 6 years, in Information Technology as the Chief Information Officer for Sonora Quest Laboratories, the largest clinical laboratory in Arizona.

Mr. Dowd has considerable experience with business and system integrations through multiple acquisitions, mergers, and business consolidations. The success of these endeavors was validated by excellent customer retention and internal customer feedback.

As a member of the Governor of Arizona’s electronic healthcare task force, Mr. Dowd is tasked with the mission to have all healthcare providers in Arizona using electronic medical records within the next 5 years.

In March of 2007, Mr. Dowd was honored as one of Computerworld's 2007 Premier 100 IT Leader.

Photo of Louis Gutierrez Louis Gutierrez
Principal
Exeter Group

Louis Gutierrez was Chief Information Officer of the Information Technology Division (ITD), the department that oversees information technology operations and planning for executive branch agencies of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Before becoming CIO of the Commonwealth, Gutierrez was Chief Technology Strategist at the Commonwealth Medicine Division of UMass Medical. While at UMass Medical, Gutierrez directed a team that provided technology support during Operation Helping Hand, the state assistance effort for Hurricane Katrina evacuees who came to Massachusetts.

Prior to working at UMass Medical, Gutierrez was Chief Information Officer for the Massachusetts Executive Office of Health and Human Services (HHS), the largest state secretariat with 23,000 staff and more than $12 billion in annual spending. While at HHS, Gutierrez led the development and implementation of the state's Virtual Gateway, an online portal that integrated the web presence of 16 agencies into a user-friendly format that improved service delivery and reduced costs.

Photo of Ashwin Rangan Ashwin Rangan
Former GM and CIO
Wal-Mart global.com

Until recently, Ashwin Rangan served as the General Manager and Chief Information Officer of Wal-Mart global.com. Ashwin Rangan joined the walmart.com team as Chief Information Officer in April 2005. Prior to this assignment, he served as senior vice president and chief information officer of Conexant in Newport Beach, CA. Ashwin was a member of the founding team that spun-out Rockwell Semiconductor Systems (in January 1999) and created Conexant. Prior to joining Rockwell Semiconductor Systems in 1995, Rangan served in various senior management positions at AST Computer in Irvine, CA, until AST was acquired by Samsung Electronics.

Ashwin is associated with several start-ups and early-stage companies, serving variously as mentor, advisor and director. He currently serves on the Boards of Monarch Information and Technology Services, Inc. (www.mitsinc.com), Suggestica (www.suggestica.com) and QL2 (www.ql2.com).

Ashwin is very active in CIO circles. He is a member of the governing body of both the NorCal and the SoCal CIO Executive Summit. These by-invitation Summits are offered by CIOs for CIOs. At these summits, Ashwin has addressed distinguished groups of over 300 CIOs and their direct reports on the topic of strategic alignment of IT with the business. Ashwin is a faculty member of the CIO Institutes at the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley, and at the Anderson School of Business at UCLA. CIO Institutes are 3-day intensive “boot-camps” for upto 75 CIOs-in-training, wherein distinguished IT leaders from the F1000 space share of their experience and wisdom with practical approaches to every-day problem solving.

Ashwin is also passionate about IT awareness in Corporate Boardrooms in America.

Photo of Michael and Richard Hyatt Michael Hyatt
CEO and Co-Founder
BlueCat Networks, Inc.

Michael Hyatt is a business builder with a proven track record of entrepreneurial, marketing and sales success. In 1994, Michael co-founded Dyadem with his brother and business partner, Richard Hyatt. Since then, the organization has been recognized as a market leader in engineering software, receiving significant recognition for product innovation including such accolades as Network WorldÕs IPAM Clear Choice Award, Red Herring Top 100 Finalist, Security InfoÕs Hot Companies Finalist and the CompTIA Enterprise Software Award.

The brothers also co-founded BlueCat Networks in 2001; now a Deloitte ÒFast 50Ó Company with five year compounded annual revenue growth of 1219%. As President and CEO of BlueCat, Michael has established a strong client base that includes a large number of Fortune 500 firms, Government and classified networks.

His high tech firms, Headquartered in Toronto, employ over 250 people with offices worldwide. Michael was a finalist in Ernst and Young's Entrepreneur of the Year Awards. He is also a proud recipient of CanadaÕs Top 40 under 40 award, recognizing his leadership, innovation and community involvement.

Michael holds an honors Science degree from the University of Western Ontario.

Richard Hyatt
CTO and Co-Founder
BlueCat Networks, Inc.

As co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of BlueCat Networks, Richard Hyatt has applied his visionary approach to leading product development efforts for the company. With a focus on creating affordable, scalable and easy to use technology solutions to address complex business challenges, Richard set an industry benchmark with the introduction of BlueCat Network’s flagship product, the Adonis DNS/DHCP server. Under his direction, the company has continued to expand its portfolio of world-class network management and security appliances, including the most recent addition to its product portfolio, the Proteus IP Address Management appliance. A testament to Richard’s innovative designs and technological expertise, today BlueCat Network’s appliances are used by Fortune 100 organizations and classified government agencies around the world.

Prior to founding BlueCat Networks with his brother and business partner, Michael Hyatt, the duo co-founded Dyadem International in 1994. Dyadem has grown to become a world leader in advanced risk assessment and reliability software for the engineering industry. Both Richard and Michael were finalists in the 2006 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Awards.

Before embarking on a career in software development, Richard trained in Materials Engineering at the University of Toronto. Since that time he has remained a business entrepreneur and has instigated numerous innovative development projects. Richard is a frequent speaker at industry events on topics related to network management and security, and his byline has appeared in numerous technology trade and industry publications.

Photo of Alan Saldich Alan Saldich
VP, Product Marketing and Alliances
Riverbed Technology

Alan Saldich joined Riverbed Technology in 2002 and serves as its VP of Product Marketing and Alliances. Prior to joining Riverbed, he was director of enterprise solutions for Inktomi Corporation, where he began working following its acquisition of FastForward Networks in the fall of 2000. Prior to the acquisition, Mr. Saldich served as FastForward Networks’ director of business development. In addition, since 1988 Mr. Saldich has held senior positions in sales, marketing, business development and corporate finance at several high technology companies, including RasterOps (IPO, 1990) and Metricom. Mr. Saldich holds a B.S. in mechanical engineering from U.C. Berkeley, and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.

Photo of Kathy Walker Kathy Walker
Chief Network Officer
Sprint/Nextel Corp.

Kathy Walker serves as the chief network officer for Sprint Nextel Corporation. Walker leads the overall planning, designing, and operations of Sprint Nextel's wireless (CDMA and iDEN) and wireline networks. She previously served as Sprint Corporation's executive vice president, network services, a position she was appointed to in October 2003.

Prior to that, Walker served in leadership roles in human resources, product management and customer support services. Walker actually began her telecommunications career in the management rotation program for Wisconsin Bell and later developed fiber optic network specifications for U.S. Telecom, leading to her 20-year career at Sprint. Her industry experience includes a broad array of engineering and operations roles within the technology and services organizations.

Walker holds a bachelor's degree in civil engineering from South Dakota State University, and Master of Science and Professional Engineering degrees from the University of Missouri-Rolla. She serves on the dean's advisory councils for both schools and is an active member of the Sprint Foundation.