For Paul Holmen, director of Information Technology with Revolution Lighting Technologies, learning about technology was a lifetime process that started while watching his father work in IT. “Learning about that space at a very young age helped me gain a phenomenal amount of enterprise infrastructure experience” he says. Now director of IT for Revolution Lighting […]
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Joe Fousek – Bond, Schoeneck & King
Chief Information Officer Joe Fousek is a pretty popular guy around the office these days. Such as when there’s no such thing as technical “downtime” anymore. Since coming to the national law firm of Bond, Schoeneck & King in 2018, Fousek has been spearheading a three-year master plan to implement $10 million in technological upgrades: […]
Philip Raker – Best Line Equipment
It’s not the type of theft that evokes images of a high-speed chase with screeching sirens and flashing lights. But picture, if you will, someone attempting to steal something like a 6,000-pound skidsteer, typically used for excavation. It’s hard to imagine these large pieces of construction machinery being pilfered off the job site under the […]
Tammy Klotz – Versum Materials, a subsidiary of Merck KGaA
When Air Products & Chemicals Inc. spun off its electronic materials business in October 2016, the spinoff’s CIO asked Tammy Klotz to lead the information security program for the new company, Versum Materials. She was flattered, but apprehensive. After all, the world of electronics moves at rapid speed, with instant access to sensitive information providing […]
E. Steven Emanuel – Newark, N.J.
In retrospect, it could have been worse for Newark, New Jersey, in the spring of 2017. Sure, the municipal computers were hacked and the Garden State’s most populous city held up for $30,000 in bitcoin by a couple of high-tech miscreants in the Middle East. But that same duo likely extorted even more in untraceable […]
Mark Murray – Pennsylvania Leadership Charter School
Early morning ice time and hours of rigorous practice made for some pretty long days for Gabriel Malek, a high school student who also happened to be playing in a premier junior ice hockey team. Studies were obviously important, but so was his potential pathway to the National Hockey League. The question became: how to […]
Andrew Buss – City of Philadelphia
For some, the term “innovation management” may seem like a sign on a Disney Studios office door. But Andrew Buss, Philadelphia’s Deputy Chief Information Officer for Innovation Management, sees his role as trying to change the way municipal government works. “There are a lot of ways to define innovation,” Buss says. “For us, innovation is […]
Brian Boyce – Porter and Chester Institute
Today Brian Boyce’s playbook is filled with references to the cloud, Canvas and Microsoft Power BI. But 30 years ago, he was pondering Plato and Archimedes, wondering what to do with his degree. “All the philosophy factories were closed,” Boyce recalls of the months after his 1990 graduation from the University of Connecticut. He needed […]
Amit Basu – International Seaways
The petroleum shipping industry can be cyclical in nature, ebbing and flowing with global oil’s supply and demand. Adding to that challenge are the shifting tides of the world economy—and those tides are certainly moving—with unpredictable weather conditions, geopolitical events, acts of God and regulatory changes. To survive this volatility—even thrive—a shipping company needs a business strategy for managing uncertainties and […]
David Hayes – Englert Inc.
Upon commencing with the duties of the office of CIO for his new employer in June 2018, David Hayes didn’t know that family-owned Englert Inc. was being positioned for sale. Its credentials as a national roofing and gutter heavyweight based in Perth Amboy, New Jersey, were well established, but as Hayes soon realized, something stood […]
