Ken is the Executive Vice President, Corporate Services and Chief Information Officer of Broadcom Corporation, a designer and developer of semiconductors for wired and wireless communications. He has held the CIO title since August of 2000. Ken is responsible for providing a “Like Air” working environment for the employees of Broadcom, referring to IT being up and available like air. His purview includes Real Estate, Construction, Facilities, Security, Travel, Administrative Services, and all business systems, computing and telecommunications infrastructure.
Prior to his time at Broadcom, Ken served as Vice President of Product Management and Chief Information Officer of Rockwell Electronic Commerce. Prior to that, Ken held a number of information sciences and information technology management positions for over 11 years at Lucent Technologies and AT&T Bell Laboratories.
Ken received a B.E. from the Stevens Institute of Technology, an M.E. from Carnegie Mellon University and an M.B.A. from New Hampshire College.
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Norm is the Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer of Qualcomm Incorporated, a communication equipment company that engages in the development, design, manufacture, and marketing of digital wireless telecommunications products and services. In this role, Norm oversees all aspects of Qualcomm’s information technology for all of the Company’s diverse business units.
Under his stewardship, Qualcomm IT has received a variety of honors including being named to Computerworld Magazine’s 100 Best Places to Work in IT, the InformationWeek 500 list, and CIO Magazine’s CIO 100.
Prior to joining Qualcomm, Norm served as a systems analyst at Unisys Corporation and was a programmer analyst at M/A-COM Corporation.
Norm has served on CIO advisory panels for Oracle Corporation, SUN Microsystems, Symantec and Verizon Wireless, and he has delivered presentations at numerous industry conferences on challenges currently facing CIOs.
This is the second part of a two part series with Charlie Feld. Part one of the series was broadcast on September 26th, in which Charlie covered his career path as a CIO Hall of Famer and explored the evolution of the CIO role.
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As the founder and CEO of The Feld Group, Charlie built a team of IT executives that enabled dramatic results in Fortune 500 companies through the transformation of their own IT organizations. The Feld Group was acquired by EDS in 2004, which was subsequently purchased by HP in 2008. In September of that year, Charlie retired as a senior executive vice president and member of EDS’ Executive Committee. The Feld Group was re-launched in 2009 as a Leadership Development firm. Prior to founding the Feld Group, Charlie headed IT for Frito-Lay.
Across his 45 years in the IT field, Charlie has won numerous accolades, including being named to CIO magazine’s prestigious CIOHall of Fame in 1997, the Smithsonian Award for Technology Excellence, and the Carnegie Mellon Award for Innovative Technology.
Charlie has a bachelor’s degree in economics from the City University of New York, Hunter College.
This is the first part of a two part series with Charlie Feld. Part two of the series will be broadcast on October 10th, in which Charlie will cover his book, Blind Spot: A Leader’s Guide to IT-Enabled Business Transformation, and his firm’s framework for IT department change management.
Across his 45 years in the IT field, Charlie has won numerous accolades, including being named to CIO magazine’s prestigious CIO Hall of Fame in 1997, the Smithsonian Award for Technology Excellence, and the Carnegie Mellon Award for Innovative Technology.
Dennis is the CIO of Electronic Arts, where he runs all major facets of the organization’s IT operation. Prior to serving as CIO, Dennis spent time as EA’s IT lead in Europe as well in Asia.
Prior to joining EA, Dennis was a Senior Manager in the Strategy & Operations practice at Deloitte Consulting. He also was a Director at HP, a Manager within the Strategic Information Technology Practice at A.T. Kearney, and a Manager in the Information & Technology Strategy Practice at Andersen Consulting.
Dennis has a BS degree in MIS and an MS degree, also in MIS both from Old Dominion University, and an MBA from the University of Chicago.
Among other topics, Vic discusses the following issues with Metis Strategy:
Vic is Chief Information Officer (CIO) for GE’s Global Growth and Operations organization, where he is responsible for leading IT in delivering process excellence, simplification, collaboration, security and compliance in all non-U.S. markets, with particular emphasis on high-growth markets such as China, India, the Middle East and Brazil. Vic is currently based in Hong Kong.
Prior to his current role, Vic served as CIO for GE Corporate and GE’s Advanced Manufacturing and Software Technology Center. Vic has also served as CIO for GE in India and Southeast Asia, where he was responsible for driving the company’s regional strategy in sourcing, IT and the global development centers. He has also held a series of leadership roles in the areas of information management, e-business and corporate security across several GE businesses including GE Aviation, GE Consumer & Industrial and GE Plastics. Prior to joining GE, Vic held IT positions with Keane Inc., Humana Inc., and Colgate Palmolive.
Vic earned his bachelor’s degree in information management and marketing from the University of Louisville and a degree in physics and mathematics from St. John’s University in India. He serves on several Advisory Boards including AT&T Utilities & Field Services, Fairfield University – School of Software Engineering, and works closely with University of Connecticut’s School of Business.
Among other topics, Ben discusses the following issues with Metis Strategy:
Ben Fried is the Chief Information Officer of Google. At Google, Ben oversees global technology systems for one of the premier technology companies in the world and provides technology services for all “Googlers”.
Prior to joining Google, Ben spent more than 13 years in Morgan Stanley’s technology department, where he rose to the level of Managing Director of Application Infrastructure. During his time there, he led teams responsible for software development technology, web and electronic commerce technologies and operations, and technologies for knowledge workers.
Prior to his time at Morgan Stanley, Ben helped design and develop the Decision-Theoretic Scheduler for Heuristicrats Research, under contract to NASA. It was used by NASA scientists to schedule missions for their orbital observatories.
Ben has a bachelor’s degree in computer science from Columbia University.
Among other topics, Jo-ann discusses the following issues with Metis Strategy:
Jo-ann is the vice president and chief information officer at BNSF Railways, a class-one railroad that is part Berkshire Hathaway. In her role, she is responsible for delivery of BNSF’s telecommunications services, data center infrastructure, application development, Web presence and all other information technology services.
Prior to joining BNSF Railway in 2006, Jo-ann was director, enterprise network services and technology support services, at Verizon Communications and pre-merger at GTE. In these positions she was responsible for planning, engineering, security and support of their extensive LAN/WAN environment with more than 50,000 infrastructure devices and 200,000 customers at more than 2,000 locations, including both internal and commercial contract customers.
Prior to her time at GTE, Jo-ann spent 13 years at AT&T where she led technology planning, engineering and operations teams.
Jo-ann serves several organizations and chairs various committees, including Railinc Board of Directors, AT&T and IBM’s Customer Advisory Councils, Fort Worth Hispanic Chamber Board of Directors, and TCU’s Neeley School of Business Advisory Council.
Jo-ann has a BA in Business Management and an MBA from Nova Southeastern University, and an MA in Project Management from George Washington University.
Among other topics, Bill discusses the following issues with Metis Strategy:
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Bill is Executive Vice President of the Business Group at SingTel, Singapore’s largest public-listed company by market capitalization. The Business Group serves SingTel’s domestic and global corporate customers with a full range of Information-Communication Technology (ICT) services.
Bill sits on numerous boards including that of the Workforce Development Agency, he is on the advisory committees of multiple uniiversities, including the Singapore Management University School of Information Systems, and he also has served on a wide array of government committees, including the Economic Review Committee.
Bill was a member of the ICT sub-committee which was part of the Government’s Economic Review Committee (2003), SiTF Councillor (2002/2004), Chairman of SiTF-AAC Internet Data Centre Committee (2001), and executive committee member for Think Tank (1999/2000). Bill received the National Day Public Service Medal Award for his contributions to Singapore’s workforce development in 2007.
Before joining SingTel, Bill was the Managing Director of Cisco Systems’ Advanced Services Group in Asia Pacific. He was responsible for the company’s operations in 13 regional countries.
Bill graduated with a Bachelor of Engineering (Honours) degree in Electrical and Computer Systems Engineering from Monash University.
Among other topics, Piyush discusses the following issues with Metis Strategy:
Piyush is currently senior vice-president and chief information officer of Great American Insurance Company and vice-president of its parent company, American Financial Group. He is responsible for creating the vision and direction of Great American’s IT strategy in partnership with leaders within Great American’s business operations who, together, consider current and emerging business trends and the potential of the constantly evolving technology that is becoming an integrated part of the business environment.
Prior to his time at Great American, Piyush was CIO of RLI Insurance. Prior to that, Piyush spent time as a consultant at Price Waterhouse in Jamaica, as a banker at ANZ Banking Group in India, and he started his career in IT as a consultant with Citicorp Overseas Software Limited (COSL) also in India.
Singh holds a master’s degree in computer applications from University of Delhi as well as an M.B.A. from Bradley University. He has also attained the Chartered Property and Casualty Underwriter (CPCU) designation and attended the Advanced Executive Education program conducted by AICPCU at the Wharton Business School.
