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
- Louis Gutierrez, CIO Emeritus - Commonwealth of Massachusetts; CIO Emeritus Harvard-Pilgrim Healthcare
- Mark S. Greenlaw, Vice President & Chief Information Officer, Cognizant
- Bette Walker, CIO Emeritus, Delphi
- Dr. Robert Rennie, VP, Technology & CIO, Florida State College at Jacksonville
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.
Louis Gutierrez
CIO Emeritus – Commonwealth of Massachusetts;
CIO Emeritus Harvard-Pilgrim Healthcare
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.
Mark S. Greenlaw
Vice President & Chief Information Officer
Cognizant
As Chief Information Officer, Mark Greenlaw is responsible for setting and executing an Information Technology strategy for Cognizant, a leading provider of information technology, consulting and business process outsourcing services having more than 68,000 employees globally and $3B in revenues. He oversees a team of over 950 IT professionals who manage Cognizant's global enterprise applications and infrastructure. In addition to his IT responsibilities, he is extremely passionate about the issues of global warming and sustainability and is on the advisory board of Cognizant's "Go Green" sustainability program.
Prior to Joining Cognizant in 2004, Mark held technology executive and consulting positions with Adams Harkness (now Canaccord Adams), Oracle Consulting, Keane, Nervewire (acquired by Wipro), and Computer Sciences Corporation. Mark graduated from Pennsylvania State University, with a B.S. in Operations Management from the College of Business Administration.
Bette Walker
CIO Emeritus, Delphi
Bette Walker most recently served as vice president and chief information officer for Delphi Corporation, a leading global automotive supplier. In this position, Walker was responsible for global strategic and operational information technology. Walker served as a member of the Delphi Strategy Board, the company.s top policy-making group, and as a key member of the Global Transformation and the Transition Services restructuring boards.
Walker joined Delphi in 1997 as chief information officer for the company.s then largest division, Delphi Engine Management Systems before becoming chief information officer for Delphi.s global entity.
Walker previously served as the vice president of Information Technology with AlliedSignal, Inc. in the Automotive and Aerospace sectors. Prior to AlliedSignal, she held several positions with Digital Equipment Corporation including director of Information Technology for Latin America.
Walker earned a bachelor.s degree in Business Management from the University of New Hampshire and attended the Executive MBA Program at Boston University. In 2000, she completed the Global Leadership Executive Development Program at Harvard University.
Walker served on the Research Board and Oakland University Board of Visitors for the School of Business Administration from 2004 through 2009.
She has been recognized by ComputerWorld as one of the Premiere 100 Information Technology leaders and by Automotive News as one of the 100 Leading Women in the North American Automotive Industry. Walker.s leadership received five consecutive CIO 100 designations and the InformationWeek 500 ranking of innovative information technology organizations for five consecutive years. Walker is recognized as an expert in the areas of restructuring and vendor management and is a frequent speaker in Information Technology and leadership forums.
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.
