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The CFO/CIO Breakfast Series
Improving Performance and Long-Term Growth Through Collaboration
October 18, 2005 - New York City
November 1, 2005 - Chicago
December 8, 2005 - San Jose
Confirmed Speakers
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Keith Collins
Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer
SAS
(Chicago only)
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Keith Collins, senior vice president and chief technology officer at SAS, promotes corporate technology strategy and supports the efforts of the 1,800-person global research and development, customer support and corporate information systems divisions to achieve that vision. With a primary focus on customer- and partner-facing activities, Mr. Collins fosters close working relationships with marketing and other customer-facing divisions to ensure that SAS technologies are aligned with customer needs and market demand. He joined SAS in 1984 as a R&D liaison for the Technical Support division then became manager of a host development group for several years. Soon after, he managed the Research and Development Data Warehousing initiatives, a position he held until being named vice president of research and development in 1997.
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Geoff Colvin
Senior Editor at Large
FORTUNE
(New York only)
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FORTUNE Senior Editor-at-Large Geoffrey Colvin is a leading thinker, writer, broadcaster, and speaker on today's most significant trends in business. As a longtime editor and columnist for FORTUNE, he has become one of America's sharpest and most respected commentators on leadership and management, the shareholder value imperative, corporate governance, the infotech revolution, and related issues. The global debate on corporate governance and shareholder value, which has become particularly intense in recent months, has been a central interest of Geoff's for the past decade. In addition to directing Fortune's coverage of the issue for several years, he has served on the National Association of Corporate Directors' Blue Ribbon Commission on CEO Pay, whose influential report has helped shape compensation policy at hundreds of companies. He has spoken on governance and shareholder value at the Directors' Institute at the Wharton School, at the Kellogg School, and at corporate gatherings in the U.S. and the U.K. He has also advised Japan's Ministry of Finance on the issue.
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Mark Griesbaum
Chief Information Officer
Career Education Corp.
(Chicago only)
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Mark Griesbaum is CIO of Career Education Corp. He was appointed as CEC's first CIO in April 2000 and currently leads an IT staff of 85. When Mr. Griesbaum assumed his role, each of CEC’s campuses had separate IT systems with no centralized management systems or efficient means of tracking key performance metrics. His role initially was to establish a centralized IT system for CEC, and he achieved this goal within 18 months—on time, within budget and in line with management expectations. Mr. Griesbaum has established a high-performance IT department that interacts throughout the CEC system—with top management, senior officers, campus management, faculty, and students—to provide technical solutions that support the company’s business strategies and growth priorities.
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Steve Hassell
Chief Information Officer
Emerson Electric
(New York only)
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Steve Hassell joined Emerson in February 2004 as vice president and chief information officer. He is responsible for all information technology hardware, software, services and telecommunications across Emerson. Mr. Hassell came to Emerson from Invensys, where he served as chief information officer. Prior to Invensys, he was at Northrop Grumman-Newport News where he rose through several positions in Strategic Planning and Operations, ultimately becoming both vice president and chief information officer, and president and CEO of Naptheon, a wholly owned information technology subsidiary of Newport News. Additionally, he spent seven years as a surface line officer in the United States Navy.
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Adam Lashinsky
Senior Writer
FORTUNE
(Chicago only)
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Adam Lashinsky is a senior writer at FORTUNE, where he started as a columnist in 1999. He covers finance and Silicon Valley for the magazine. He also is a featured commentator for "Marketplace," the nationally broadcast radio business-news magazine, and a regulator contributor to business-news programming on the Fox News Channel. His work has appeared in The New York Times, Wired, San Francisco Magazine, The Industry Standard, Upside and Business 2.0. Recent cover stories include "Meg and the Machine," a profile of eBay CEO Meg Whitman, and "Shootout in Gadget Land," about the battle between the consumer-electronics and information-technology industries.
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John Loomis
Chief Information Officer
Corbis
(San Jose only)
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As chief information officer, John Loomis leads the development of technology and systems strategies that will carry Corbis into the future. With over thirty years of professional experience, he brings a well-tooled approach to his role, focusing primarily on business requirements and using technology to meet those needs. Prior to joining Corbis Mr. Loomis was the managing principal of his own business, the CTO Group, located in the San Francisco area. There he provided consulting services to large organizations in the areas of organizational transformation and mentoring, operations strategy and planning, service delivery, and program management. Previously, Mr. Loomis served as the president and COO of SpatialLight, Inc, a miniature liquid crystal display development company.
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Sue McDonald
Chief Administrative Officer and CFO
Corbis
(San Jose only)
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Sue McDonald, chief administrative officer and CFO, is responsible for all aspects of the corporate financial function as well as much of the operational and infrastructural activities at Corbis including, Finance, Accounting, Treasury, Human Resources, Business Information Technology and Media Services. She serves as a key member of the senior management team, advising on a wide array of business decisions ranging from domestic and international operations to business development opportunities. Ms. McDonald has more than twenty years of financial leadership, primarily in the publishing industry. Prior to joining Corbis, McDonald served for seven years as CFO of The San Jose Mercury News, one of the leading newspapers in the country.
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Patrick Pesch
Chief Financial Officer
Career Education Corp.
(Chicago only)
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Patrick K. Pesch has served as executive vice president since May 2001, senior vice president and CFO since October 1999, and as a director of the Career Education Corp. since 1995. From 1992 until joining CEC, Mr. Pesch served as a senior vice president of Heller Financial, Inc. (HFI), and also as an officer of Heller Equity Capital Corp., managing a portfolio of loan and equity investments. Mr. Pesch joined HFI in 1985 as head of the internal audit function and served in a number of positions, including senior credit officer for Heller Corporate Finance.
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Charles Peters
Senior Executive Vice President
Emerson Electric (New York only)
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Charles A. Peters was named senior executive vice president at Emerson in October 2000. He is responsible for the company's e-business and integrated marketing activities, two of Emerson's most significant growth initiatives. Mr. Peters joined Emerson in 1975 as an engineering cooperative student at its Browning division in Maysville, KY. He moved to corporate planning in 1978 and later served in management positions at several divisions, including as advanced planning manager and director of strategic planning for Skil power tools and president of the Harris Calorific welding equipment division. In 1998, he assumed responsibility for the company's industrial components and electronics business, and was later promoted to executive vice president.
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Richard Roth
Chief Research Officer
The Hackett Group
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Richard Roth is responsible for The Hackett Group's overall research methodology and is a member of its executive team. With extensive experience in benchmarking and best practices, he is responsible for the quality of the firm's analysis and published research, and for architecting its benchmarking methodology. Mr. Roth has over 20 years of experience working with executives to achieve world-class performance in all areas of SG&A, including finance, information technology, human resources and procurement. He has employed his expertise to guide executives at a wide range of companies in a variety of industry sectors. These include General Electric, Hewlett-Packard, Cisco Systems and Citigroup.
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Earl Shanks
Senior Vice President and CFO
Convergys
(Chicago only)
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Earl Shanks is chief financial officer of Convergys Corp. He manages the treasury, accounting, planning and analysis, investor relations, mergers and acquisitions, purchasing, tax and internal audit functions of the company and is responsible for the development and the execution of the financial strategy in support of the company's business plans. Prior to joining Convergys, Mr. Shanks was senior vice president and chief financial officer of NCR Corporation, and earlier served as NCR's vice president of corporate finance. Previously, Shanks was vice president and treasurer of Fruit of the Loom.
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Phil Strand
Senior Director, Financial Intelligence Practice
SAS
(NY & SJ only)
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Phil Strand is the senior director for the SAS Financial Intelligence Practice. He manages a team of professional sales, sales support, implementation/delivery and partner relationship personnel that focuses on the finance departments of corporations, specifically the CFO persona. He is also responsible for financial solutions that manage and automate financial information and processes. Before joining SAS in 2002, Mr. Strand was vice president at Hyperion Solutions, based in Sunnyvale, Calif., where he led the North American Sales Support team. Earlier, he served as director of customer support and communications at Global Software.
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Confirmed speakers not pictured above:
Fred Vogelstein, Writer, FORTUNE (San Jose only)
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