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 […]
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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 […]
Francisco Moya – Buyers Edge Platform
Twenty years ago, independent restaurants that sourced their goods from large distributors (think Sysco and US Foods) didn’t have much clout when it came to cost savings. As prices for products fluctuated, restaurants had two choices: find savings elsewhere, or use a different vendor altogether. John Davie had a better idea. Bringing together several restaurants […]
Greg Limperis – Hampton School District
It sounded like a battlefield promotion for Greg Limperis when the role of interim principal at the Hampton, N.H., middle school was added to his primary responsibility as the district’s director of educational technology. How long that interim would be, Limperis couldn’t say, but when speaking to Toggle in late August, he was hoping his […]
Kyle Wesley – Bleakley Financial
When Kyle Wesley joined New Jersey-based Bleakley Financial Group as a digital platform manager in 2016, the firm’s primary trading tool wasn’t quite what he was hoping for—both in terms of speed and overall efficiency. The biggest thing the platform lacked, however, was flexibility. For instance, if clients wanted to sacrifice short-term capital gains to […]
Yoav Guttmann – Almod Diamonds
It’s no secret: Traditional retail companies have a reputation for being behind the technology curve. But this has to change, says Yoav Guttmann—at least at Almod Diamonds. A 25-year veteran of the tech space, he serves as senior vice president and global CIO for the company where he is ushering in incremental, manageable technology and […]
Patricia Ciuffo –Touro College
It can be as simple as clicking on the wrong email to spark a cyberattack, Patricia Ciuffo of Touro College warns. That’s all it took in a recent hack in Lake City, Florida, that shut the local government down for days and resulted in a $460,000 paid ransom. Yet forewarned is forearmed to Ciuffo, Touro’s […]
