CITE Forum 2013 Speakers (updated regularly):
Scott Blandford
CTO, Retirement and Individual Technology
TIAA-CREF
A financial services and technology veteran, Scott has an extensive track record of successful large program delivery, user experience design, product launches and transformation efforts. As a CTO at TIAA-CREF, a 95-year-old national financial services organization with $520 billion in assets under management, Scott is responsible for all tiers of the retirement, brokerage, banking and wealth management platforms. During his first three years at TIAA-CREF, he has successfully launched new, secure participant and plan sponsor websites – providing his users with simple, modern, and intuitive online experiences and a full 360-degree view of their financial lives. Prior to joining TIAA-CREF, Scott served as the Managing Director, Head of Online and Retirement Technology, at Bank of America Merrill Lynch for four years. He was also the CTO for Merrill’s Institutional Retirement business. Previously, he spent 11 years at Fidelity Investments, where he served as Senior Vice President, Fidelity eBusiness. He holds a B.E.E and M.S.E.E from the University of Dayton.
Jon Herstein
SVP, Customer Success
Box
Jon is SVP, Customer Success at Box, guiding the client services, technical support and implementation teams. Box has a fast-growing customer community, and Jon works to ensure that all of Box's Enterprise and Business customers are phenomenally successful. Jon brings more than 20 years of experience in technology-related services to Box, and has worked with some of the biggest names in the tech world, including Accenture, Informatica and most recently NetSuite, where he served as VP of Professional Services for North America and EMEA. Jon received his BS in Computer Science from University of Maryland, College Park, where he graduated with honors.
Kevin Jones
Consulting Social & Organizational Strategist
Kevin D. Jones is a social & organizational strategist, helping organizations and teams upgrade the way they work, often using social technologies. He also gives keynotes and sessions at conferences several times a year. Kevin earned his bachelor's from the University of Oregon in Business Management and his masters in Instructional and Performance Technologies from Boise State University. He is a member of the Social Business Council. Kevin's blog and more information can be found at vinJones.com.
Scott Kirsner
Columnist
The Innovation Economy Column, The Boston Globe
Scott Kirsner is a journalist who writes about innovation and entrepreneurship. His Innovation Economy column appears Sundays in the Boston Globe, and he also writes a companion blog at boston.com/innovation. Scott has been a regular contributor to Fast Company, CIO, BusinessWeek, Variety, and Wired. ScottÕs writing has also appeared in the New York Times, The Hollywood Reporter, Salon, the San Jose Mercury News, and Newsweek, among other publications. Scott serves as the program chair for three annual events on innovation: the Nantucket Conference, held each May since 2000; Future Forward, held each fall since 2001; and the Convergence Forum, launched in 2004. He is the author, most recently, of the book Fans, Friends & Followers: Building an Audience and a Creative Career in the Digital Age. His earlier books include Inventing the Movies, a technological history of Hollywood that was published in 2008, and The Future of Web Video, published in 2007.
Joshua Konvisser
Partner
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP
Mr. Konvisser represents clients in sophisticated commercial transactions, focusing on information technology and business process outsourcing; computer software and systems transactions; technology transfers and distribution agreements; software licensing, marketing and development agreements; and other complex agreements. In connection with these transactions, he works with clients to evaluate and mitigate privacy and data security issues with a focus on balancing risk and commercial interests. He also works closely with the corporate practice in negotiating supply and transition services agreements as well as supporting due diligence for technology and sourcing agreements.
Stephen Orban
CIO
Dow Jones & Co.
Stephen Orban assumed the role of chief information officer and global head of technology in February 2013. He is charged with developing and delivering best-in-class digital products to all Dow Jones customers. Stephen's team supports and enhances existing products such as WSJ.com, Barrons.com, MarketWatch, Factiva and Dow Jones Newswires while creating a breeding ground for innovative solutions that will poise Dow Jones for the future and attract the brightest technical talent in the industry. In June 2012, Stephen joined Dow Jones as part of the Research and Development group. In that role, he helped push the strategy for public cloud adoption to create an environment where the company could experiment with a minimal investment. He also laid the groundwork for the Dow Jones chat platform. Prior to joining Dow Jones, Stephen spent 12 years at Bloomberg LP in various roles: he managed several development and product teams; was the co-founder and CTO for Bloomberg Sports; and he created the vision and strategy for gaining efficiencies across the company’s growing number of web businesses. Stephen holds a B.S. in computer science from SUNY Fredonia, where he graduated at the top of his class in 2001.
John Oyhagaray
Applications Executive
John Oyhagaray is a 20-year IT veteran with an MBA and MS with a focus on numerous application deployments including mobile enablement and integration with back-end systems. Most recently he was IT Manager for Application Development & System Production Management Support at Quest Diagnostics, where he was responsible for managing processes, application development, and mission critical production support for mobile smartphone devices in a front end, stand-alone technology stack used as part of the supply chain laboratory information systems. Previously he worked at Western Union Financial Services and PSEG, the publicly traded diversified energy company. He also served as a Vice President of 7x24exchange, a nonprofit knowledge exchange forum for managing mission critical data center infrastructures, for 15 years.
Matt Rosoff
Editorial Director
CITEworld
Matt Rosoff is the editorial director of CITEworld. He comes from Business Insider, where he established the company's West Coast bureau, initiated enterprise technology coverage with the launch of SAI Enterprise, and helped direct the new BI Intelligence research service. Prior to joining Business Insider in 2010, Matt was an analyst at Directions on Microsoft for 10 years and blogged about digital music for News.com. He got his start in 1995 as a writer and editor at CNET.com. He's also a musician (electric bass) and the father of two children who (luckily) take after his beautiful wife.
Sarmad Salim
Director, Application Design & Mobility, Enabling Applications
Sanofi North America
Sarmad Salim is the Director of Application Design and Mobility at Sanofi in North America. Throughout his career, Sarmad assumed various positions in graphic design, software development, solution and platform architecture, and as a service owner leading teams building and managing application solutions and services. Sarmad holds a bachelor degree in computer engineering and a master degree in business administration majoring in Finance and Management and Global Strategy. He currently resides in New Jersey with his wife, son, and daughter. In his free time, Sarmad enjoys interior design.
