Instructors

Stuart Appley, CIO, Shorenstein

Stuart Appley is the CIO for Shorenstein, a national real estate investment firm headquartered in San Francisco. He brings more than 25 years of experience to his role as CIO, where he has responsibility for the long term strategy, planning, design and management of the firm's information systems, applications, and computing infrastructure. Stuart is a frequent speaker, focusing his attention on the use of Cloud in the Enterprise, along with sharing best practices on IT Leadership. Prior to Shorenstein, Stuart was the CIO at Walden International, a global venture capital firm. Stuart is an alumnus of the SF State MBA program.

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Thomas Bakewell, VP & CIO, Riverbed Technology, Inc.

Thomas Bakewell has been chief information officer and vice president of information technology for Riverbed Technology, Inc. since joining the company in January 2008. In his role, Thomas is responsible for shaping the company's worldwide IT strategy to support the continued growth and the need for real-time collaboration and data access for Riverbed's globally distributed workforce and corporation. Under his leadership, the IT team has achieved new levels of business agility, productivity, and customer service through innovative, adaptive technology solutions that accommodate business priorities. Prior to joining Riverbed, Thomas held a number of executive IT leadership roles at Coherent, Inc., Brocade Systems and Sun Microsystems.

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Nancy Burghart-Hall, CIO, MedAmerica

Nancy Burghart-Hall is the CIO for MedAmerica, a subsidiary of CEP America, one of the largest Emergency Physician groups in the country. She is responsible for strategic planning, leadership, and delivery of all production information systems, web services, business intelligence, and technology innovation for an organization that provides care to four million patients per year. Nancy brings over 20 years of leadership in healthcare information technology, where her background spans government, not-for-profit, and private sectors for hospitals, payers, and providers. Nancy is passionate about transforming healthcare through the use of technology and has spent time in Washington DC and Sacramento advocating for Health IT at both the state and federal level.

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Matt Butcher, CIO, KARL STORZ Endoskope

Matt Butcher is currently the CIO for KARL STORZ Endoskope, a global leader in minimally invasive surgical devices. He has worked for the company since 1999 and has held the CIO role since 2003. During his tenure as CIO, Matt transformed the IT environment from a decentralized service model to a centralized, shared service. By initiating his “standardize, simplify, automate” campaign, Matt eliminated disparate IT systems and standardized the IT infrastructure and applications portfolio for the KARL STORZ North America operations. He continues to use the same concept to drive greater efficiency and effectiveness throughout the organization. Matt has over 30 years of IT leadership experience, predominantly in the medical device/pharmaceutical industry.

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Paul R. Chapman, VP of Information Technology, VMware

Paul R. Chapman is currently the head of Enterprise Business Applications for VMware. All applications services and development report to Paul with over $90m in budget and 300 people in the organization. Paul has more than 20+ years of IT experience with special expertise in rapid-growth companies having worked previously for such companies as Affymetrix, Sun Microsystems, AT&T and NCR. Paul holds a BS in computer science and is CPIM certified.

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Shamyo Chatterjee, CIO, Callidus Software Inc.

Shamyo Chatterjee brings 20+ years of hands-on IT experience to Callidus Software Inc., the global market and technology leader in cloud computing and Sales effectiveness. An IT Executive with a penchant for creating high performance, global IT organizations from the ground up, Shamyo's career has consistently showcased improving organizational effectiveness and efficiency that aligns business processes and IT infrastructure to realize cost savings, accelerate performance and sustain strategic flexibility. An early adopter of cloud technology, he realized huge consolidation and DR benefits, $8M+ savings in internal operational costs (significant for mid-sized businesses), 300% improvement in the Product Development Life-cycle, and 30% reduction in customer issue resolution time.

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Mark Egan, CIO, VMware

Mark Egan leads VMware’s global information technology group. Under Mark’s leadership, VMware’s IT department is focused on the effective use of IT to bring improved agility and cost savings to the business. Mark brings more than 30 years of experience in information technology to VMware, most recently serving as partner of the StrataFusion Group, an executive level consultancy. Mark served as CIO at Symantec Corporation for six years during the company’s rapid growth from a consumer publisher with $600 million revenue to the market leader of security with $5 billion revenue.

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Doug Harr, CIO, Splunk, Inc.

Doug Harr is CIO at Splunk, Inc. Doug and his team fulfill information technology needs using a combination of on premise, private and public cloud solutions with a heavy emphasis on software and infrastructure “as a service”. Doug is passionate about deploying IT solutions in this way, delivering advanced capabilities to his business customers, all highly extensible, and metered on a variable cost basis. Doug has been leading IT organizations for half of his career, at companies such as Ingres Corporation, Portal Software, and Hewlett Packard. The rest of the time, he has been in the IT consulting field focused on delivering enterprise business applications to clients such as Symantec, VMware, Activision, and other technology companies. Doug has a B.S. degree in Business from Cal Poly, SLO. He is engaged in the CISE CIO consortium, lectures at several local universities, and is treasurer for the CIO Scholarship Fund.

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Craig Haught, Chief Information and Environmental Strategy Officer, Hitachi GST

Craig Haught joined Hitachi GST with two decades of IT and CIO experience working for a range of Fortune 1000 high-tech companies. Most recently, he was vice president and CIO at Cymer, Inc., a San Diego-based semiconductor equipment manufacturer. He also served in IT leadership roles at Applied Materials, Terastor, Sun Microsystems, and Siemens. Craig has also led the IT direction and infrastructure development for large-scale global companies like Applied Materials and Sun Microsystems. At Applied, he served as the company’s managing director, Global Information Solutions and Technology, where he managed over 900 direct and indirect reports. Craig earned his MBA in marketing and finance from the University of Cincinnati.

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Bask Iyer, Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer, Juniper Networks

Bask Iyer is senior VP and CIO of Juniper Networks responsible for the company’s global IT strategies, data management, technology infrastructure, data center operations and telecommunication networks. Bask brings over 25 years of experience in developing and implementing company-wide IT programs that will support Juniper’s future growth and maximize the return of its IT investments. Before joining Juniper, Bask spent 11 years at Honeywell. He served most recently as company-wide CIO and a member of the executive leadership team, driving the IT vision, strategy and operating plan. Previous to Honeywell, Bask was at GlaxoSmithKline Beecham where he was CIO for Consumer Healthcare R&D and the corporation’s eCommerce leader.

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Terry Jones, Founder, Travelocity.com

Terry Jones founded Travelocity.com and led the company as president and chief executive officer from its founding until May 2002. Jones currently serves as chairman of the board of Kayak.com, and is on the boards of LuxuryLink, Smart Destinations. and Rearden Commerce. He is a venture capitalist with General Catalyst Partners and the Sierra Angels. Terry is also chairman of the Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival and serves on the National Information Technology committee of the Boy Scouts of America. Previously, Jones served as chief information officer at Sabre Inc. In his 24 years at Sabre, Terry held various executive positions including president of computer services, vice president of applications development and vice president of product development.

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Vasu Kadambi, Senior VP & CIO, California Casualty Management Co.

Vasu Kadambi is the CIO of California Casualty Management Company. He has been with the company since 1988 and in the role of the CIO since 2001. Vasu brings 30 years of Information Technology experience acquired in academia, finance, consulting and government organizations. As the CIO at California Casualty Management Company, Vasu has been strategically involved in managing diverse technical teams within the company to provide cost-effective business solutions through technology in the areas of customer service, sales, marketing, claims, underwriting, policy administration, billing, and finance. Vasu holds an M.S. in engineering and an M.B.A. from the University of Texas at Arlington.

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Vakil Kuner, CIO, Human Services Agency, City & County of San Francisco

Vakil Kuner is the CIO of the Human Services Agency, a department of the City and County of San Francisco. He is focused on developing organizational strategic goals and achieving them by the practical development and use of technology. His department supports 18 lines of business with infrastructure, in-house developed application systems, outsourced systems, and telecommunications. HSA is an organization where budgets are cut when business volume increases and his teams are currently implementing systems to improve productivity and efficiency. Prior to HSA, Vakil was a vice president at several long distance phone companies and the COO of a call center company.

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Gerri Martin-Flickinger

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Robert Oyung, CIO, Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara

Robert Oyung is CIO for the Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara. He provides strategic and operational leadership for the Court’s IT and Records Divisions and has led innovative technical programs for courtroom data capture, business process re-engineering, and public access to justice. He was previously director of IT and R&D manager at Hewlett-Packard. He has established off-shore engineering teams in China and helped drive consolidation of HP’s 85 global data centers to three central facilities. Robert is co-author of the book, “Working Virtually: Challenges of Virtual Teams.” He has over 20 years of experience in the IT industry, a B.S. in computer science from U.C. Berkeley, and an executive MBA from Stanford University.

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Cornelia Pool, SVP & CIO, MegaPath Corporation

Cornelia Pool is the SVP & CIO at MegaPath Corporation, the leading provider of secure IP communications and managed services. She is responsible for the information technology strategy, ensuring optimization of investment in IT and enables the scalability of the business through high levels of automation. Responsibility includes OSS\BSS and corporate services department including telephony, corporate network, service desk and data center infrastructure. Cornelia has more than two decades of experience in IT and has gained a wide variety of expertise in all elements of the systems lifecycle from strategy, implementation, operations and M&A. Cornelia attended Central University of Technology, Free State in South Africa.

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Scott Seese, CIO eBay Inc., VP of Global Corporate Technology

Scott Seese is a technology veteran with 20 years of experience who has held numerous senior technology executive positions at Bank Of America for their Credit Card, Deposits, Customer Service Centers, Merger & Acquisition Integration, Technology Shared Services, Global Delivery and Operations Technology Organizations. Prior to Bank of America he held various senior leadership positions at General Electric including the chief information officer for Aircraft Engine Services, Sales, Marketing and Business Development. Scott brings a global perspective to eBay, having lived and worked in 16 different countries. He also brings an entrepreneurial spirit to eBay as he helped GE start up three different businesses that currently run today. Scott is an avid car racing enthusiast and enjoys spending time with his family.

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Mark Settle, CIO, BMC Software

Mark Settle joined BMC Software in June 2008. He has served as the CIO of four Fortune 300 companies: Corporate Express, Arrow Electronics, Visa International and Occidental Petroleum. Mark has worked in a variety of industries including consumer products, high tech distribution, financial services and oil & gas. Previously, he has held P&L responsibilities as the director of a systems integration business unit within Hughes Aircraft Company. Mark's formal training is in the geological sciences. He received his bachelor's and master's degrees from MIT and a Ph.D. from Brown University.

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Jon Walton, Acting Chief Information Officer, Director of the Department of Technology, City & County of San Francisco

Jon Walton Jon Walton has the honor of serving as the Chief Information Officer (CIO) for the City & County of San Francisco, a role that carries the additional title of Chairman of the Committee on Information Technology (COIT). As CIO, Mr. Walton oversees the delivery of technology services to the citizens of San Francisco and internal support to 23,000 City employees. Under Mr. Walton's leadership the Department of Technology provides enterprise email, network, security, public safety radio, data center, virtualization, telecommunications, web, government television, customer support, and social media. As Chairman of COIT, Mr. Walton is responsible for citywide Information and Communications Technology strategy plan, multi-year fiscal planning, enterprise wide performance oversight, and citywide technology enterprise architecture.

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