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:
- Bruce Barnes, CIO Emeritus, Nationwide Financial Services
- Patrick Burton, Director,
Enterprise IT
Washington Post Media - Allan Frank,
CTO Emeritus, City of Philadelphia
CTO Emeritus, KPMG Peat Marwick
Co-Founder, Hackett Group
Founder, AKA Group - Dr. Robert Rennie, VP, Technology & CIO, Florida State College at Jacksonville
- Cheryl Smith, CIO WestJet
CIO Emeritus, McKesson
CIO Emeritus, Keyspan
Principal, Smith & Associates
Chairperson
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.
Posse Members
Bruce Barnes
CIO Emeritus
Nationwide Financial Services
Mr. Bruce Barnes has over thirty-six 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 I/T leaders, as well as to several large I/T product providers.
Prior to this current role, Mr. Barnes served as the Vice President of I/T Strategy and Planning for the Nationwide Enterprise, a $200B international insurance and financial services company. There, he was responsible for the overall technology strategy, I/T architecture, information security, and I/T governance processes for the global enterprise.
Prior to that, Mr. Barnes served as VP and Chief Information Officer for Nationwide Financial Services, a $100B international financial services company, where he oversaw all facets of technology services and operations within that publicly-held organization.
Prior to that, he served as Chief Information Officer for Ohio's largest privately owned HMO, and he also held various management positions with an international library/information services company, the Washington (DC) office of a major technology vendor, and as an officer in the United States Army.
He is a co-founder for the nationally acclaimed "CIO Solutions Gallery" at The Ohio State University's Fisher College of Business.
He is a graduate in five sciences from The Ohio State University.
Patrick Burton
Director
Enterprise IT
Washington Post Media
Patrick joined The Washington Post in 1996, and currently is Director of Enterprise IT reporting to the CIO. Previously, Patrick held positions within The Post as Program Manager, Manager of Advertising Systems, and Project Manager. Patrick spent the first 10 years of his career in the U.S. Army, beginning as a Linguist in the Military Intelligence, and ultimately rising to the rank of Captain in the Field Artillery at Ft. Bragg, North Carolina in the 18th Airborne Corps.
Patrick's expertise is in Systems Engineering and IT Operations combined with Program Management. In his career Patrick has been responsible for leading enterprise-level teams to implement dozens of systems in virtually every area of The Post's business including advertising, finance & accounting, production, marketing, editorial, and circulation.
Most recently, Patrick graduated as co-valedictorian of his EMBA class at The Ohio State University. He also has a Masters of Engineering degree from the University of Maryland, and he was an Honor Graduate at the United States Military Academy at West Point with a BS in Systems Engineering.
Allan Frank
CTO Emeritus, City of Philadelphia
CTO Emeritus, KPMG Peat Marwick
Co-Founder, Hackett Group
Founder, AKA Group
Allan Frank most recently brought 35 years of knowledge in technology and business leadership to his position as Chief Technology Officer for the City of Philadelphia, which he held until Feb 1, 2011. His background includes co-founder of a publicly-traded Consulting and Research company, Senior Partner in a Global Professional Services Firm, and extensive experience in setting strategy, implementing and operating core business processes, product development, marketing, internal IT management, software development and all facets of building a world-class technology/services organization. He is also a recognized as an expert in the areas of information delivery, decision support and knowledge management. Mr. Frank holds a Bachelor of Science in Accounting, Master of Science in Computer Science and Master of Business Administration in Finance from Lehigh University and he is also a non-practicing Certified Public Accountant.
Mr. Frank began his career with Arthur Young & Co. in the 1970s first as an auditor and later as a manager, where he provided strategic and operational consulting services in the financial systems and process areas across a variety of industries. He later worked for KPMG Peat Marwick, a major international accounting and consulting firm.In 1997, Mr. Frank co-founded Answerthink, Inc., a publicly-traded, global strategic advisory firm, and served as a member of the Board of Directors, as well as the President and Chief Technology. Mr. Frank also was the Senior IT Research Fellow for the Hackett Group, a division of Answerthink and the world’s leading benchmarking and best-practicing advisory firm. Most recently, he founded and served as President of the AKA Group, a strategic consulting firm providing strategic IT transformation services in areas such as IT Business Governance, IT Competency and Resource Management and Technology Architecture.
Allan Frank has been recognized for his contributions to the IT Industry by several technology publications including Philadelphia Tech, where he was selected as one of the top 10 Technology Leaders in the region and InformationWeek, where he was selected as one of the top 10 Technology Innovators in the United States. He received the 2001 Computerworld Premier 100 Award which identified him as one of the top 100 people in the U.S. having an exceptional ability to lead their organizations through the effective use of technology.
Dr. Robert Rennie
VP, Technology & CIO
Florida State College at Jacksonville
Dr. Rob Rennie has been the Chief Information Officer (CIO) and Vice President, Technology for Florida State College at Jacksonville, Florida since 1997.
Prior to taking his current position, he was the CIO for Mt. San Antonio College in Los Angeles, is a former principal of the technology strategy practice of Xentrek Systems, Inc. and held a visiting scholar faculty appointment in Information Systems at the John E. Anderson Graduate School of Management at UCLA. Rob has been a CIO for over twenty years and is known for building the reputations of organizations on a foundation of innovation, value creation, excellence and technology leadership. Dr. Rennie serves on Software AG's International Executive Committee, is a member of Apple's University Executive Forum and is a board member of Curriki.
Florida State College has won numerous awards for its highly innovative and successful technology environment having been ranked first in the Nation three of four years by the Center for Digital Education, rated 'Most Wired' by Yahoo, and having been featured by several major technology firms for best practices and successful innovations. In 2004, Dr. Rennie was honored as one of Computerworld's Premier 100 IT leaders.
Rob received his Bachelors degree from Rollins College, Masters from The University of Oklahoma, and Ph.D. from the University of Florida.
Cheryl Smith
CIO WestJet
CIO Emeritus, McKesson
CIO Emeritus, Keyspan
Principal, Smith & Associates
Cheryl Smith is a principal at an expert IT consulting firm that offers services in IT Crisis Management. The firm specializes in providing support to companies facing an IT crisis or major "one-time" IT-related event (www.smithandassociates.us.com). She has been responsible for the successful turnaround and completion of critical IT projects and ventures throughout the world.
Prior to her work in IT crisis management, Ms. Smith was the CEO of a technology startup company, utility.net. utility.net offered Broadband over Power Line (BPL) networks to the major US electric companies for commercial sale of broadband to customers in their rural territories, and SmartGrid applications for utility use. She was the global CIO for McKesson Corp—a Fortune 15 health care company; the CIO for KeySpan (now National Grid)—one of the largest energy companies in the US; the VP for Strategic Systems at Verizon; and the MIS Director for Honeywell Federal Systems. She was a Principal at Ernst & Young, one of the "Big 6" consulting firms, for 7 years, successfully managing major IT efforts for a number of Fortune 100 companies in the US and around the world. Her initial years in the industry were spent building 3 core systems that remain in use on Capitol Hill (the electronic voting system on the House floor, the House publication system, the cable communication system used by both the House and the Senate) at the U.S. House of Representatives.
She is the co-founder of the CIO Institute, a certificate program for IT leaders at UC Berkeley, Haas School of Business. In addition to teaching and international speaking engagements, her articles on IT problems, issues and challenges—with 'insider information' on how to resolve—have been published worldwide. Smith holds both Bachelor and Master degrees from Penn State.
