Speakers


Brian Gillooly
Editor-in-Chief, Events, Smart Enterprise Exchange and InformationWeek

Brian Gillooly has spent the past 20 years establishing a trusted and significant presence in the business technology community. One of the most recognized personalities in IT media, Brian has built valuable relationships with the most influential practitioners in the technology industry and counts among his closest contacts CIOs from Fortune 50 companies to small businesses.

As the editor-in-chief of Optimize and editor-in-chief of InformationWeek’s events business, Brian had the opportunity to not only engage the people who help shape the direction of business technology – notables like Jack Welch, C.K. Prahalad, Ralph Szygenda, and Michael Dell – but also to share trusted opinions and ideas through his CIO Nation blog, presentations at numerous live events, sage words from his weekly columns, and one-on-one meetings.

In his career in event content-generation, moderating, and presenting, Brian has developed a unique rapport with his audiences by eschewing the staid, lecture-style presentation and establishing a comfortable, often fun (but always informative) approach. As VP of member services New Paradigm, the Toronto-based think tank founded by renowned strategist Don Tapscott, Brian has helped Fortune 500 companies navigate the challenges of the Enterprise 2.0 era.

As president of Force 5 Market Intelligence, Brian continues the same dialogue with the industry by participating in live events, researching market trends, and chronicling important developments for clients in the business technology community.

Bruce Rogow
President, Odyssey Consulting & Former Gartner Fellow

Since 1992, Bruce has been a private counselor for CIOs and CEOs related to the management of information technology. His practice is based on over 120 face-to-face Odyssey visits he makes annually with senior executives involved in the management of IT. The visits are designed to determine what is happening in the industry, what is working, and how executives are increasing IT yield. He combines these up to date findings with his nearly forty years of IT management observation to create a unique perspective on what it takes for IT to continually enhance its business contribution. His columns, research papers, presentations and counselor work are focused on how IT executives can improve their contribution.

Bruce’s career has allowed him to build a pre-eminent understanding of the issues, mindsets and agendas of senior IT executives. He serves as an ICEX Principal facilitating private exchanges on Enterprise Architecture and also Data Center Excellence for practitioner executives from large-scale, global enterprises. He has produced major pieces on The IT Organization of the Future, Enabling Wikinomics and Marketing2.0 for Don Tapscott’s nGenera Insight research programs. He contributes proprietary columns and podcasts for several organizations such as Gartner Executive Programs and Cognizant’s thought leadership quarterly. He participates in the CIO Consortium on Innovation and IT at Babson College. His quarterly feature, A View from the Odyssey, appeared in Optimize magazine. In the 90’s, he served as an Executive Fellow of Gartner.

Previously, he was Executive Vice President, Global Head of Research for Gartner. During his leadership, Gartner’s Total Cost of Ownership, Magic Quadrants, Hype Cycles, Symposiums and Gartner’s position as the premier IT user research firm became industry standards. From 1977 through 1987, as a Senior Managing Principal of Nolan, Norton & Co, he was a major contributor to much of the NNC methodology. He led major management assessments in over twenty Fortune 200 firms based on Dr. Nolan’s Harvard Business School frameworks. He led the NNC Executive Education efforts and was among their most sought after and effective communicators.

He started his career at IBM in Gainesville, FL in sales. Bruce then spent five years in IBM’s Poughkeepsie Advanced Technical Training group pioneering what became known as systems management. He was also the originator, curriculum developer and lead instructor of their IT Complex Systems Management course that introduced systems management principles to both customer executives and IBM field personnel.

He holds a Bachelor of Civil Engineering from the University of Florida and lives in Marblehead, MA. His wife, Winnie, a retired Partner of Nolan, Norton & Co/KPMG, was the program manager for the work that became the Balanced Scorecard by Norton & Kaplan. His son Mark is the Minor League Training Coordinator/Rehabilitation Coordinator for the New York Mets in Port St. Lucie. His daughter Michelle is a Registered Professional Engineer serving as an Emergency Response On-Site Coordinator with the EPA in San Francisco. His other son, Geoff is a market reporter with Dow Jones NewsWires and has a widely read daily column in the Wall Street Journal.

Mark Schlesinger
CIO, Broadridge Financial Solutions

Graduated Summa Cum Laude from Queens College, New York in 1986 with a BA in Computer Science and a minor in Mathematics.

Over twenty years of brokerage experience in data processing. Joined Automatic Data Processing in 1989 as an operational analyst in the Journal Square Systems Assurance department. Became the Director of Systems Assurance in 1991 with responsibility for batch and on-line change management. Some of the major accomplishments during this period was developing and implementing the change management philosophy as well as architecting and implementing the conversion to a state-of-the-art scheduling system.

From 1993 to 1996 was the Vice President of the Journal Square Production Operations group with the responsibility of all 24x7 data center activities. A major accomplishment during this tenure was the creation of the Automated Operations group.

From 1996 through June 2002 was the Senior Vice President of the Technical Services organization (and the division Chief Technology Officer) responsible for z/OS, VM, and OS/400 systems programming, on-line systems development, network systems development, capacity and performance, data base services, as well as all software contracts and associated budget.

From June 2002 through July 2005 was the Senior Vice President of the ICD Technology units (still maintaining the title of division Chief Technology Officer) responsible for the proxy services application suite as well as the fulfillment services technology.

From July 2005 through November 2006 was Senior Vice President of Systems Engineering in the ADP Corporate Engineering and Data Processing organization with responsibility for all engineering aspects associated with mainframe, open systems, mid-range, middleware, and voice engineering.

Currently CIO for Broadridge (April 2007 - ADP Brokerage spun-off from ADP and is now Broadridge Financial Solutions); responsible for managing all IT shared services. This includes infrastructure (data networks, voice networks, desktops, server environments, data center operations, and application support), enterprise information security, governance, outsource service provider management, corporate systems development, and enterprise application architecture.

In 1990 co-founded a software users organization. Automated Systems and Planning (i.e., ASAP) was created to coordinate and formalize software enhancements to IBM for the Operations Planning and Control (i.e., OPC) scheduling and automation product. From 1990 through 1995 served on the board of directors to coordinate the requirement process for all US firms that licensed this product. This organization also held annual group meetings with member firms to exchange ideas and present automation solutions.

Personally, married with three children and live on Long Island. Most ‘free time’ is spent with family and on the golf course whenever possible.

Trevor Bunker
Vice President, IT Transformation Group, CA, Inc.

Trevor Bunker leads the IT Transformation team, focused on CA’s largest customers within North America. Prior to his current role, he was VP, Solution Sales for CA IT Infrastructure Management solutions and oversaw the Center of Excellence for this space, delivering demonstrations, proofs of concept, business analysis and escalation capabilities in support of CA’s sales specialists and technical consultants.

Trevor joined CA in 2005 with the acquisition of Concord Communications, Inc., where he spent almost 5 years in various roles, including PreSales Engineer for the SPECTRUM product line, QA Software Engineer and sales positions in both San Francisco and Sydney, Australia. While in Sydney, Trevor was also Technical Services Manager, responsible for presales and post-sales activities in Australia and New Zealand. Prior to Concord, Trevor spent 5 years in Operations at PepsiCo.

Trevor attended the University of Southern New Hampshire, where he earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Information Systems.

Trevor strives to ensure that the customer’s business issues and strategies are well understood and that the technology implemented successfully addresses the customer’s pain points and helps them achieve their short and long term goals. He believes that true partnership between CA and the customer is achieved through close collaboration toward mutual goals.