Jean is the Chief Technology Officer of First New York Securities, a global multi-strategy trading firm. In this role, Jean is responsible for developing and managing the firm’s IT infrastructure.
Jean joined First New York Securities from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York where she was Vice President and Deputy Chief Technology Officer. In previous roles, she was a Managing Director at Morgan Stanley and also Director of IT at Merrill Lynch.
Jean has BS in Business from Cornell University and a JD from Fordham University.
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Susan Cramm is an executive coach and president of Valuedance®, an executive coaching and leadership development firm. Over the past 14 years, Susan has coached executives from a number of Fortune 500 companies, including Toyota, Sony, and Whole Foods Markets. She is a frequent speaker, a blogger for the Harvard Business Review, and author of the Harvard Business Press book, 8 Things We Hate about I.T.: How to Move Beyond the Frustrations to form a New Partnership with I.T.
Susan is the former CFO and executive vice president at Chevy’s Mexican Restaurants, where she led the finance, business strategy, restaurant development, franchising, legal, and information technology functions. Prior to Chevy’s, Susan worked with the Taco Bell Corporation and held the positions of CIO and vice president of the Information Technology Group and Senior Director of Financial and Strategic Planning.
Susan received her master’s degree in management from Northwestern University, specializing in finance, marketing and quantitative methods and her BA from the University California, San Diego, summa cum laude, specializing in management and computer science.
Lyn is the Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer of Dominion Resources. She has held that position since January of 2001, making her an unusually long-tenured CIO.
She joined the energy industry with Virginia Power in 1982, rising to the position of CIO in 1998.
Lyn is the chair of the board of directors of the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, chair of the board of trustees of Mary Baldwin College and chair of the board of directors of RichTech, among other boards upon which she serves.
Lyn was named to Computerworld’s list of “Premier 100 IT Leaders for 2004,” won the 2008 Executive Women in Business Achievement Award, and received the 2010 Outstanding Woman Award in the Business category from the YWCA of Richmond.
Lyn received her bachelor’s degree in business from Mary Baldwin College and earned her master’s degree in business administration from the University of Richmond.
June is an executive coach with Treeline Consulting who has been the Global CIO of The Chubb Corporation, Aon Corporation, and Lincoln National Corporation.
June currently serves on the Advisory Board of Diversified Information Technologies, Inc. and is active in the Society for Information Management. She has earned several awards throughout her career for innovative business use of technology and leadership in information technology. In 2008, June was named to CIO Magazine’s CIO Hall of Fame.
June has a BA degree in Mathematics with a Business minor from Caldwell College for Women.
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, Abbie discusses the following issues with Metis Strategy
Abbie is a business technology analyst, advisor and professional speaker with 21 years experience reporting and commenting on the use of technology in business. Many of our listeners will no doubt know Abbie from her time leading the award-winning CIO Magazine as Editor in Chief from 1995 through 2008. Under her stewardship, CIO became the publication of record for chief information officers and all executives interested in the use of information technology for business value and competitive advantage.
As President of Lundberg Media, Abbie helps chief information officers (CIOs) and their senior teams translate complex issues into clear messages to speed organizational buy in and delivery of results.
In addition to her work with IT leaders, Abbie provides businesses and non-profits with media and communications services including writing, editing, presentations, research, public speaking, online strategy development and group facilitation.
Abbie is a member of the American Society of Magazine Editors, American Business Media and the American Society of Business Publication Editors. Prior to joining CIO, Abbie worked as an editor for CBS Magazines and King Features Syndicate in New York. She has a bachelor of arts degree in English Literature from Trinity College.
Among other topics, Becky discusses the following issues with Metis Strategy
Becky is the Director of the IT Vendor and Asset Management Offices at Express Scripts, Inc., a Fortune 100 pharmacy benefit management company headquartered in St. Louis, Mo. Becky is accountable for the vendor relationships and performance management of all IT related suppliers as well as collaborating with the corporate procurement function to ensure Express Scripts’ risk profile, as related to its IT suppliers, is managed and controlled.
Prior to joining Express Scripts, Becky spent 10 years with Wachovia Securities (formerly A.G. Edwards & Sons, Inc.) and served as the Associate Vice President and Senior Manager of the IT Vendor Management Office.
Becky holds a Masters in Business Administration from Webster University.
Among other topics, Joey discusses the following issues with Metis Strategy
Joey is Vice-President of Information Technology for Magna International. She has global responsibility for Magna IT and is also chair of the Magna IT Council, which is the governance board for all IT activity within Magna International. Prior to her current position, Joey was Director of IT for Magna Donnelly. She also served as Manager of Global Infrastructure and Manager of Global Support for Donnelly Corporation. Her area of expertise focused on building effective virtual teams to support the global enterprise. Joey has also served as Project Manager and Divisional Manager at Clark Equipment, where she designed and implemented systems for Clark’s international manufacturing facilities and dealer network. Joey’s other experiences include technology and business consultant to Western Michigan University and independent consulting for Fortune 500 corporations and a number of other organizations.
Joey has a B.A. degree in Anthropology from Albion College and a M.A. degree in Sociology Anthropology from Oberlin College.
Among other topics, Jane discusses the following issues with Metis Strategy
Since January of 2007, Jane has been Deputy Commissioner and CIO for the New York City Department of Finance. The Department of Finance is responsible for collecting city revenues. As CIO, Jane is responsible for all systems and technology supporting the Agency’s 20 Divisions.
Prior to joining the Department of Finance, Jane was the General Manager and CIO for Microsoft’s WW Public Sector, where she was responsible for process and technology supporting that business segment. Prior to that, she was the General Manager of .Net Market Development. She and her team were responsible for developing .Net’s market presence, in the Fortune 100 and Global 100 enterprise customer marketplace.
Prior to joining Microsoft, Jane worked for Prudential Financial, where she was the CIO for the company’s Institutional Division. In this role she was responsible for all systems and technology that supported the six businesses in the division. Prior to that position Jane ran all new application development for the Retail Insurance Division at Prudential. Jane has also held key technology positions at Bankers Trust Company and at Chase Manhattan Bank.
Jane has a bachelor of science degree in business administration from the State University of New York at Fredonia.
Among other topics, Sheleen discusses the following issues with Metis Strategy
Sheleen Quish is the Vice President and Chief Information Officer at Ameristar Casinos. In that capacity, she leads the organization’s information technology functions at the Las Vegas corporate office and at the Company’s properties.
Prior to her time at Ameristar, Sheleen was CIO-At-Large with her firm Box 9 Consulting, working with a number of companies on IT challenges including business process re-engineering, IT department transformation and project review and rescue.
Prior to her time at Box 9, Sheleen was Vice President and Global CIO for US Can Company, where she was responsible for the global infrastructure, three data centers and a wide array of applications to support the $750 million company in 24 locations in six countries.
Sheleen also served as Senior Vice President, Insurance Operations and Information Technology with Unitrin, Inc.’s Life & Health Division, where she consolidated the platforms, systems applications and business operations across three companies in the life and health division; EVP Corporate Planning and Information Services with The Signature Group, an affinity marketing company, where she led major business systems integrations and strategic initiatives; and Senior Vice President and Partner of Bricker & Associates consulting firm. In addition, she was Executive Vice President at Southeastern Mutual Insurance Company. Among other responsibilities, she managed the integration of operations of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield organizations of Kentucky and Indiana.
Quish holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from the College of New Rochelle (New York). She is an Emeritus member of the editorial board of CIO Magazine, and has been a prolific writer and speaker in a variety of industry forums. She has also been a Fellow of the Cutter Business Technology Council, and Senior Consultant with Cutter’s Sourcing & Vendor Relationships and Business-IT Strategies practices.
