Organizations can never completely predict the future, but they can update their technology to ensure they have the agility and resilience to anticipate and respond. By modernizing their IT environment with a hybrid cloud approach, leaders are able to accelerate transformation to add critical capabilities — without sacrificing stability, security or flexibility. Through a series of discussions with industry experts, we will share how companies can successfully:
• Build business resilience for rapid recovery
• Increase business impact without impacting the environment
• Simplify and secure IT integration, distribution and management across digital ecosystems
Across the world and in a variety of sectors, digitization has become an increasingly significant
source of carbon emissions. Businesses are demanding ever more energy intensive data analytics, heightened digital security is driving ever more powerful computation, and internet traffic continues to soar along with energy use and global emissions. In this panel we'll explore how that environmental impact can be mitigated through thoughtful use of cloud and hybrid-cloud computing, ensuring leaders can make big picture decisions for their sustainability goals while also delivering near term energy and cost savings.
Ruohan Liu | Global Director, Digital Agriculture and Sustainability, PepsiCo
Tom Moerenhout | Professor, Center on Global Energy Policy, Columbia University
In conversation with:
Mae Cheng | SVP, Barron’s Group
Cybercrime continues to challenge business resilience and continuity plans, not only thanks to the immediate recovery and repair requirements, but also the opportunity and reputational costs caused by lengthy systems downtime. Beyond measures to secure multiple levels of their technology stacks, organizations are increasingly focused on how they can return as rapidly to the status quo ante, the moment before an attack, so they can get operations back up and running with minimal losses. We'll discuss some of the innovative approaches and technologies that are helping companies keep a record of pre-attack systems and data snapshots, and how safeguarded copies can form a key part of the recovery process and help businesses more effectively detect and respond to attacks as well.
Joseph Gimigliano | CTO, Mount Sinai Health System
Atefeh Riazi | SVP, CIO, Hearst
In conversation with:
James Veall | SVP, Global Technology Operations Officer, News Corp
As customers demand the convenience of ever more personalized tools, alongside frequent
cooperation with outside fintech firms and service providers, the pull of cloud to help accelerate innovation can be hard to ignore. But the flexibility cloud operations offers cannot mean any compromise in the security of applications and personal data. With a group of industry experts drawn from different sides of this conundrum, we'll talk through the complexities of balancing compliance requirements with competitiveness and workload transparency with privacy.
Tyler Derr | CTO, Broadridge Financial Solutions
David Foster | CIO, Colgate-Palmolive Company
Jacky Wright | Chief Technology & Platform Officer, McKinsey & Company
In conversation with:
James Veall | SVP, Global Technology Officer, News Corp
Phillipa Leighton-Jones is a prize-winning editor, anchor, writer and brand advisor who has worked across both newsroom and commercial teams to deliver world-class storytelling in all formats. Now Global Editor at Large & Anchor of The Trust, WSJ | Barron’s Group’s creative consultancy and studio, she works with the world's biggest companies on creative programs and live journalism to build trust and enhance brand identity and experience. As a stage and screen-trained journalist, she helms high quality conversations that help audiences understand the context and nuances behind game-changing developments across all sectors of business and culture.
Eben Louw is the European Lead for X-Force IR.
Eben has over 25 years in the IT industry and a specialist in cyber incident response and digital forensic services. He served 6 years as ad hoc member to South African law enforcement agencies providing DFIR support. He has led many incident response investigations throughout Western Europe and Africa covering identifying potential (personal) data at risk, containing and remediating measures along with investigating the initial attack vector by reconstructing chronological events. Eben has performed guest lectures at the University of Amsterdam and University of Kwazulu-Natal (South Africa) on Digital Evidence Recovery. He holds several IT certifications, EnCase Certified Examiner, AccessData Certified Examiner, GCFA and attended SANS (504) Hacker Tools, Techniques, Exploits, and Incident Handling training.
Mike Smart is a Product & Solutions Director, at Cybereason Inc.
In his role, Mike helps defenders at organisations in the private and public sector to develop
operation-centric security programs designed to reverse the adversary advantage and improve operational efficiency and effectiveness as they embark on their SOC modernisation programs.
Mike joined Cybereason in July 2020 and has been in the information security market for over 25 years. During this time, he has worked across many disciplines from technical support, product management, product marketing and business development. This broad set of technical and business level experience enables Mike to address a wide range of topics and technologies.
Prior to Cybereason, Mike held roles at organisations including Forcepoint, Symantec, McAfee, Novell, SonicWALL.
Will Wilkinson is General Manager of WSJ Pro, a position he has held since Pro’s launch in June 2015. In this role, he is responsible for the development of a premium suite of industry specific content services, combining news, data and events in a single membership platform. Mr. Wilkinson started with Dow Jones in September 2013 as vice president of sales for The Wall Street Journal, overseeing multimedia sales for The Journal and its local language sites, as well as Barron’s and MarketWatch. Prior to joining Dow Jones, he spent 12 years with The Economist Group, where he was managing director, northern Europe, and held a range of sales and marketing roles, with posts in London, New York, Geneva and Frankfurt.
Daljit (Dal) has 25 years of industry experience and has held key leadership roles spanning across multiple sectors areas with experience in setting up, leading and scaling Cyber Security, Audit & Compliance, Business Continuity team and solutions ensuring the delivery of expected customer outcomes. Recognised for leading and directing Transformation Security programs aand maintaining trusted relationships, Dal comes with rich CXO experience from Hutchison (Three) prior to joining TCS and holds excellent industry experience and knowledge. Dal has been a truste collaborator and influencer across industry bodies, strategic partners, government agencies and regulatory bodies.
Brian Holliday is a member of the Executive Management Board of Siemens plc and Managing Director for Siemens Digital Industries, which serves the manufacturing and infrastructure sectors. He is also Chairman of Siemens Industry Software UK.
He is a supervisory board member for the High Value Manufacturing Catapult in addition to being a main board member for Make UK, the Manufacturers’ Organisation and in 2022 was appointed co-chair of Made Smarter, the national digitalisation movement to drive productivity, growth and sustainability in manufacturing.
A Chartered Engineer and Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology, Brian started his career with Texas Instruments and went on to read Computer Systems at Cardiff University before joining Siemens, the global leader in electrification, automation and digitalisation in 1993.
He attained his Executive MBA at Manchester Business School in 2000 and in 2014 became a graduate of the CBI’s Executive Leadership Programme.
Brian was made a Fellow of The Royal Academy of Engineering in September 2022
With a decade of experience in the information security industry, John leads strategy for X-Force: a global team of over 500 hackers, researchers, threat intelligence analysts, developers, and incident responders. The team provides clients - from Fortune 100 enterprise companies to small and mid-sized companies – offensive and defensive security services.
John is a former United States Naval officer, is OSCP-certified and has significant experience in offensive security and threat intelligence. His experience extends across several industries, including finance, manufacturing, pharmaceutical and life sciences, and healthcare.
Koos Lodewijkx is the Chief Information Security Officer for IBM, responsible for all aspects of IT security ranging from enterprise to product and offering security. Until February 2019, he served as the Chief Technology Officer for IBM Security. Previously, he led IBM’s security technical direction as a Chief Technical Officer to the IBM CISO. Koos joined IBM in 2007 with the acquisition of Consul Risk Management, a Netherlands based security software start-up.
Latha Maripuri is the Chief Information Security Officer for Uber. She oversees all aspects of cybersecurity and privacy engineering across Uber’s many business lines including mobility, delivery, freight and transit. She leads a global organization of engineers focused on risk management through automation, secure development and advanced analytics and monitoring. She has extensive experience in driving tech strategy, market research, product management, engineering, business development and M&A. She currently sits on the Board of Directors for JupiterOne.
Nick Bradley possesses more than 20 years of physical and cyber security experience. Nick currently manages IBM’s X-Force Incident Command which is a part of IBM Security's X-Force organization. The IBM X-Force Incident Command provides a rapid, unified incident command response structure for confirmed/potential crises that affects organizations globally and requires a response from IBM Security.
Nick has been with IBM for over 14 years functioning in many key roles within the Security division. These roles span from Senior Operations Manager, X-Force Threat Analysis Team Manager, and IT-ISAC Director of Operations. He is one of IBM’s public speakers on security matters and has spoken at multiple conferences, webcasts, and podcasts.
Prior to IBM, Nick worked in many other positions as an analyst and manager. Additionally, he also served in the United States Army as a systems administrator, military policeman, and team lead of an SRT (Special Reaction Team).
As Global Leader for IBM’s Security Strategy Risk & Compliance practice, Randy is responsible for IBM’s Security Strategy portfolio of offerings that includes advising CISO’s and CIO’s on risk management, security strategy, risk quantification, GRC, and supply chain risk management. Randy has worked with clients worldwide as well provided briefings to US Congress and Australian Parliament on IT Risks, cyber security trends and commercial best practices.
In addition, Randy was an advisor to the 2000 Sydney Olympics for Crisis Management and is a member of the Ithaca College Cybersecurity Advisory Board.
Rishi Tripathi joined Mount Sinai in 2021 as the Chief Information Security Officer, Prior to Mont Sinai, Rishi was the first Chief Information Security Officer at the National Basketball Association (NBA). Over the course of 5+ years, he developed and implemented the NBA's first global information security strategy to secure sporting events, Replay Center, and digital technology as well as on-premise and cloud systems.
Over his career, Rishi has executed cybersecurity transformations for highly complex environments like SCADA (supervisory control and data acquisition), financial, manufacturing, R&D, cloud, broadcast, and arena systems, In addition to the NBA, Rishi has held cybersecurity roles at Citi, Tyco International, and Florida Power & Light.
Rishi holds an MBA in entrepreneurship from Florida International University, a BS in industrial electronics engineering from India, and multiple certifications.
Dr. Sridhar Muppidi is an IBM Fellow and CTO for IBM Security. He is responsible for driving the technical strategy, architecture & research for IBM Security's portfolio of products & services to help clients manage defenses against threats and protect digital assets.
He is a results-oriented technical thought leader with 25 yrs experience in building security products, delivering solution architecture for clients, driving open standards, and leading technical teams. He is one of the industry-recognized technical experts and thought leaders with a proven track record of blending technology vision with business acumen, resulting in innovative security solutions for enterprises' digital transformation journey. In the last ten years, he has been instrumental in building the IBM Security business unit into one of the largest security companies in the world.
He has an MS and a Ph.D. in computer science from Texas A&M University and now serves on TAMU's board of directors. He is an IBM Master inventor with 50+ issued patents.
Jason Keenaghan is the Leader for IBM Security's zero trust strategy. In this role, he is responsible for defining the vision and delivering IBM's support of zero trust through the combination of technology integrations and services. With more than 20 years of experience in the IT industry, ranging from product management to software architecture and development, Jason collaborates closely with clients and business partners to apply the tenets of zero trust to help enable organizations to achieve secure business outcomes. Jason holds an MBA from Marist College and a BA in Economics, with a minor in Computer Science, from Boston College.
In his leadership role, Julian helps clients develop their security strategy in the context of the cyber business risk that they face; he has a particular focus on advising boards on the potential business impact of cybersecurity by quantifying cybersecurity risk in financial terms.
Julian is IBM’s executive sponsor for the Charter of Trust, a unique initiative by leading global companies to secure the digital world and a member of the FAIR Institute Industry Advisory Group.
Julian has been assisting governments to raise awareness of the business risk posed by the cyber security threat since 2005 and has lectured both at Oxford University's Said Business School and Centre for Doctoral Training on Cybersecurity, and at Warwick University's MSc Course on Cybersecurity and Management.
Billy O'Brien is Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at News Corp.
Prior to joining News Corp, he was Senior Vice President and Business Information Security Officer at Wells Fargo & Co. In this role, he worked closely with the CTO while overseeing critical initiatives and comprehensive cyber risk mitigation for the global technology organization.
Prior to joining Wells Fargo, Billy held a number of cybersecurity positions, including Director and Chief of Staff in Sony’s Global Information Security & Privacy division as well as a management consultant and Director of Operations for the Center for Security & Privacy Solutions at Deloitte & Touche, LLP. He also served as President Bush’s Director of Cybersecurity & Telecom Policy and Vice President Cheney’s Special Assistant for Homeland Security Affairs at the White House, where he provided counsel to senior administration officials on homeland and national security policy issues.
Billy received his MBA from Cornell University’s S.C. Johnson School of Management and BA from the Jepson School of Leadership Studies at the University of Richmond.
Stephanie directs editorial strategy and operations for The Trust, the creative consultancy for WSJ | Barron’s Group. Prior to coming to The Trust, Stephanie served as content strategy director for JWT, and worked on a variety of programs for brands including Qualcomm, KPMG and Amplify. During her days as an award-winning journalist, Stephanie was the editor of PC Magazine, driving editorial strategy and operations for the print and digital magazine. She also served as founding editor and SVP of Access Media, a 10-million circulation, weekly tech and lifestyle magazine. She began her career in daily newspapers, as a general assignment reporter, copy editor and deputy city editor in suburban New York.
Will Wilkinson is General Manager of WSJ Pro, a position he has held since Pro’s launch in June 2015. In this role, he is responsible for the development of a premium suite of industry specific content services, combining news, data and events in a single membership platform. Mr. Wilkinson started with Dow Jones in September 2013 as vice president of sales for The Wall Street Journal, overseeing multimedia sales for The Journal and its local language sites, as well as Barron’s and MarketWatch. Prior to joining Dow Jones, he spent 12 years with The Economist Group, where he was managing director, northern Europe, and held a range of sales and marketing roles, with posts in London, New York, Geneva and Frankfurt.
Chris Meenan the VP of Product Management and Strategy within the IBM Security division. He has over 15 years experience in product management and has been involved in developing, managing, releasing and selling software products for over 25 years. Chris has extensive market, domain and customer knowledge in IT Security, Customer Relationship Management and Telecom OSS solutions. Chris holds a 1st Honors degree in Physics and has a PhD in telecommunications.
Laurene Hummer is a Program Director of Product Management at IBM Security Services. In this role, she defines, designs and delivers Zero Trust Services that help solve our customers’ toughest security challenges. With a background in product marketing, Laurene is passionate for understanding users and connecting with clients. Before that, she learned to solve hard problems while working as a process design engineer in the petroleum and renewable energy industries. Laurene earned a BA in chemical engineering and an MBA from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
Charles Henderson is the Global Head of IBM's X-Force. Throughout his career, Charles and the teams he has managed have specialized in incident response, penetration testing, adversary simulation, vulnerability management, and vulnerability research. X-Force’s clients range from the largest on the Fortune lists to small and midsized companies interested in improving their security posture or in need of assistance handling a security incident.
Charles is also an enthusiastic member of the information security community and an advocate of vulnerability research. He has been a featured speaker at various conferences (including Black Hat, DEFCON, RSA, SOURCE, OWASP AppSec USA and Europe, and SXSW) around the world on various subjects relating to security testing and incident response. He has also appeared on or in CBS Evening News, NBC Nightly News, The Today Show, CNN, BBC, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Forbes, USA Today, The Register, SC Magazine, Engadget, eWeek, Reuters, Car & Driver, and various other media outlets.
Jeff Crume is a Distinguished Engineer, Master Inventor and CTO for IBM Security Americas with 39 years’ experience in the IT industry. He has a PhD in Cybersecurity and serves as an Adjunct Professor at N.C. State University. Jeff is the author of a book entitled "Inside Internet Security: What Hackers Don't Want You To Know” as well as a contributing author to the "Information Security Management Handbook.” He is a member of the inaugural class of the N.C. State University Computer Science Alumni Hall of Fame where he has served on the school’s Strategic Advisory Board. He also serves on the editorial board for the “Information and Computer Security” research journal and is a member of the IBM Academy of Technology. He holds CISSP and ISSAP professional IT Security certifications as well as Distinguished Chief IT Architect credentials from The Open Group. Jeff lived in Beijing on assignment in 2006 and has worked with clients in 50 countries.
Joshua Brown is vice president and global chief information security officer of H&R Block. In this role, he leads the teams responsible for identifying, tracking and mitigating security risk, ultimately ensuring the company can move quickly and safely to innovate and fulfill its ambitious Block Horizons growth strategy.
Prior to H&R Block, Brown worked for several different entities within the Omnicom Group of companies, where he established a global infrastructure team to drive technology and security throughout the organization. His love of teaching and lifelong learning led him to become a mentor for the SANS Institute, the leading authority for information security education. He has been a frequent author and speaker on myriad information security topics, including speaking at the InfoSec World conference, the ISC2 World Congress and being published in Security Current magazine and Enterprise Security magazine. Brown holds a bachelor’s degree from Duke University and a master’s degree from Georgetown University.
Ricardo Lafosse is CISO for Kraft Heinz. Lafosse is responsible for IT risk governance, OT security, incident management, technical disaster recovery, and determining enterprise-wide security policies and procedures. Lafosse regularly presents on security topics at global conferences, including MirCon, ISACA CACS and Secure World.
Prior to his current role, Lafosse was CISO for Morningstar, where he was responsible for providing strategic information security leadership, implementation and governance for the Information Security Program.
Lafosse has more than 18 years of experience in information security for the government, banking, legal, healthcare and education sectors. Lafosse began his career in information security consulting in finance.
Lafosse holds a master’s in information assurance from Iowa State University. He also holds the Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) and Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) designations.
As CISO, Shaun Marion leads McDonald’s global cybersecurity organization and is responsible for overseeing risk management, brand protection, and executing McDonald’s enterprise cybersecurity strategy. With over 20 years in the security industry, Shaun brings a wide breadth of technical leadership and operational expertise to McDonald’s.
Prior to joining McDonald's, Shaun was the CISO for Republic Services and was also the former CSO for Honeywell, where he was ultimately accountable for cyber, product, and physical security operations.
Shaun’s responsibilities have ranged from executive protection, guard-force management, corporate investigations, and business continuity, to classified security management, cybersecurity strategy and operations, and incident response. Shaun is active in the cybersecurity startup community where he has advised multiple budding cybersecurity companies, as well as several global venture capital firms. Shaun is a veteran of the United States Marine Corps where he served for four years.
Chris McCurdy has more than 25 years in the IT Consulting Services Industry, specializing in Information Security and Advisory Services. Chris has extensive experience working with large enterprise as well as government clients around the world. As a Managing Partner, Chris has helped large clients on the design, deployment, and ongoing management of their complex Information Technology programs. Chris has also served as a CIO helping transform a retail automotive group rapidly expand business operations through the use of technology and acquisition.
Mr. McCurdy currently serves as the General Manager and Vice President of Worldwide IBM Security Services. Chris has been with IBM Security since 2006 through the acquisition of Internet Security Systems. Chris has grown the IBM Security Business revenue to double digit growth over the past 5 years globally. Chris works with clients to help reduce cyber risk, support compliance, and drive overall security maturity based upon knowledge of business and threat landscape. Chris has worked to evolve the Go To Market across IBM in all markets for Security and supported synergy targets with other brands including Cloud and Red Hat. Chris has worked in a variety of security services roles within the IBM Security Services business unit and consistently demonstrated leadership evidenced by the continued rapid growth of the IBM Security business. Chris drives the worldwide Go-to-Market strategy for IBM Security and is responsible for managing sales globally. Chris has served in several positions as he has driven the security business at IBM. Positions include; Vice President IBM Security Services, Director of North America Security Services, West Region Security Sales Executive, Security Services Leader for Strategic Outsourcing, and Security Services Business Development Leader.
Prior to joining IBM Chris was a Managing Consultant at several consulting firms including Andersen, International Network Services, and Lucent Technologies. Chris was also a former CIO at a large retail automotive group located across the United States. Chris holds a BBA in Information Systems from Baylor University. Chris has held his certification as a Certified Information Systems Auditor.
Ric Lewis is SVP of Infrastructure for IBM and has global responsibility for the company’s servers, storage, associated software and infrastructure support and services. Mr. Lewis oversees IBM’s cloud business and also leads the IBM-wide mission for IBM Supply Chain.
Prior to joining IBM, Mr. Lewis worked for 32 years at Hewlett Packard and Hewlett Packard Enterprise where he held numerous leadership roles focused on business and product innovation. Most recently, he was SVP and GM of the Software Defined and Cloud Group, where his team incubated the software technology and strategy to enable as-a-service delivery of HPE’s entire portfolio. His groups created the industry-wide composable infrastructure product category and led it with an entirely new HW/SW design known as HPE Synergy that became the fastest new product/business in HP/HPE’s history to reach a billion dollars of revenue.
Nader Mherabi, executive vice president and vice dean, chief digital and information officer, is responsible for all information technology (IT) activities for NYU Langone Health and for information technology’s development as a strategic organizational asset. He previously was vice president for IT product solutions and chief technology officer for NYU Langone, responsible for technology strategy, infrastructure engineering, networks, data centers, application architecture, systems deployment, and support across the institution. Mr. Mherabi currently leads NYU Langone Health’s digital transformation initiative, driving the integration of the institution’s workflows, revolutionizing the digital patient experience and clinical environment, and empowering the institution with big data and advanced analytics to improve care delivery and efficiency.
During his more than 30 years in the information technology field, Mr. Mherabi has implemented large-scale systems for top Fortune 500 companies worldwide, such as Credit Suisse and CitiGroup, and held several prominent IT management positions including senior director at Mount Sinai–NYU Health, vice president at Credit Suisse First Boston, vice president at Citibank, and senior application developer at AT&T and Aurora Consulting.
Mae Cheng is the Senior Vice President of Barron's Group at Dow Jones. She oversees the award-winning financial publications Barron's, MarketWatch, Financial News and Mansion Global. She was previously the publisher and editor at Mansion Global, the premiere news site for luxury residential properties around the world, and Barron's Penta, a wealth management and luxury publication. Mae has been at the forefront of digital-strategy efforts in newsrooms and has led a number of start-up initiatives. In a prior role as Special Projects Editor for Dow Jones and The Wall Street Journal, Mae worked on the launch of a suite of professional-services content verticals and was key to the development of the editorially-driven events portion of The Wall Street Journal’s subscriber-benefits program. Prior to her time at Dow Jones, Mae led newsrooms at Cablevision, Newsday and amNewYork. She is a graduate of Boston University.
James joined News Corp's technology team in January 2020 as SVP, Global Technology Operations Officer. James brings extensive experience in business operations transformation within media and technology.
In this role, James oversees NTS, and enterprise-wide project governance and delivery, relationships with commercial partners, resource optimization, overall strategy and communications.
Prior to joining News Corp, James transformed Viacom’s global technology operating model; enhancing governance, engagement, and service delivery programs. James is passionate about building diverse, talented, and creative teams.
Raakhee Mirchandani is anchor and contributing editor at Dow Jones. She also serves as VP of Community. Previously, she was the founding editor for Moneyish and the Editorial Director for Diversity and Inclusion at the Barron's Group. A longtime writer, editor and columnist, Raakhee is also the award-winning author of two children's books. She serves on various non-profit boards including the Hoboken Public Library, Steven's Cooperative School, the Children's Book Council and the Tomorrows Children's Fund, where she is the board President.
Jacky Wright is McKinsey’s first chief technology and platform officer (CTPO) and leads McKinsey’s overall technology portfolio and strategy. She brings more than 20 years of experience helping some of the world’s leading institutions leverage technology to drive innovation, adopt sustainable and accessible business models, and digitally transform. Most recently, she served as chief digital officer and corporate vice president for Microsoft US. Before that, Ms. Wright held senior technology leadership roles spanning multiple industries, including chief information officer roles at BP and General Electric. She also held a leadership role within the UK government as HM Revenue and Customs’ chief digital and information officer.
She is focused on strengthening McKinsey’s use of technology as a firm. This includes working to accelerate the use of technology in client work and innovating new platforms to help client organizations transform and grow. She also leads McKinsey’s internal technology team, which serves more than 40,000 colleagues across 66 countries.
Ms. Wright holds honorary doctorates from Aston University and the University of Bath, and was recently named as the UK’s most powerful Black Briton in the Powerlist 2022. She is a Women in Science and Engineering Ambassador, a member of the World Economic Forum Chief Digital Officer Community, and sits on the advisory board for the Paul H. Chook Department of Information Systems and Statistics at Baruch College, City University of New York.
Tyler Derr is the Chief Technology Officer at Broadridge Financial Solutions. He leads the enterprise technology and development organizations. Mr. Derr serves as the senior-most technology officer for Broadridge, which includes overseeing Broadridge’s global technology teams including: enterprise-wide software engineering, product delivery, architecture, infrastructure, cybersecurity, and technology operations. He joined Broadridge in 2012 as the CTO for our Global Technology and Operations business, and also as its Chief Administrative Officer. Prior to joining Broadridge, Mr. Derr worked at OppenheimerFunds, was the CTO for the global tax business of H&R Block and in private equity.
David Foster is the Chief Information Officer at Colgate-Palmolive Company. In this role, he is responsible for leading Colgate's Global IT organization, including applications, infrastructure, and information security.
Throughout Mr. Foster’s career at Colgate, he has led application development and business engagement across all functions, delivering business transformation through technology. He has led wide-scale change through ERP consolidation, activation of digital consumer engagement solutions, and implementation of many company-wide advanced planning solutions.
He has been a member of the Consumer Goods Forum, the Research Board, and various other industry user groups.
Mr. Foster holds a Bachelor of Arts from Dartmouth College and an MBA from New York University.
A senior executive and philanthropist, Atefeh (Atti) Riazi has served in both the public and private sectors as a CIO, managing large‐scale technology projects and initiatives. She is presently the SVP and Chief Information Officer at Hearst Corporation. Ms. Riazi served as the SVP and Chief Information Officer as well as the Interim Chief Digital Officer of Memorial Sloan Kettering. For over 7 years she held the post of Assistant Secretary‐General and Chief Information Technology Officer of the United Nations, transforming the technology function into a strategic partner. She is also the Executive Director of the nonprofit CIOs Without Borders. Earlier, Ms. Riazi was the EVP and Chief Information Officer of the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA)—also acting as its General Manager, responsible for a $3B organization staffed by over 12K employees. She also served as the global CIO of communications giant Ogilvy & Mather for over nine years, overseeing all technology across 400 offices in 100 countries. In her role as VP and Chief Information Officer of MTA New York City Transit, she implemented the successful $2B automated fare collection system (MetroCard).
Joseph Gimigliano joined the Mount Sinai Health System IT department in 2021 as Chief Technology Officer. In this role, he leads the technology strategy for all seven hospitals and the medical school. He most recently served as SVP for Infrastructure and Operations at Hudson’sBay Company. He led enterprise architecture, infrastructure and operations, digital and cloud platforms, application support, and service management processes across the associated brands; Saks Fifth Avenue, Saks Off5th and Hudson’s Bay. During his tenure there, Mr. Gimigliano led the creation and execution of their Cloud-First strategy as well as the migration and implementation of a new ecommerce platform. Prior to joining HBC, he held leadership positions in infrastructure,information security, internal audit, IT risk, strategy and architecture within various sectors, including financial services at Moody’s, pharmaceuticals at Purdue Pharma and commerce at Pitney Bowes. Joe holds a Bachelors in Accounting and Information Systems from Queens College – City University of New York.
Tom Moerenhout is a research scholar at the Center on Global Energy Policy and an adjunct associate professor at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs. Mr. Moerenhout’s research expertise and practical engagements focus on international affairs, political economy and international economic law.
He has published extensively on sustainable development and energy policy reforms in developing and emerging economies. In recent years, he has provided practical, in- country support to energy and development policy reforms in Lebanon, India, Morocco and elsewhere. Mr. Moerenhout holds two M.A. degrees and a Ph.D. from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva. Prior to joining Columbia University, he was a visiting fellow in the department of government at The London School of Economics and an Aramco-OIES fellow at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies. In 2015–2016 he was a Fulbright fellow at Columbia University.
Ruohan Liu is currently the Global Director at PepsiCo, leading the digital solutions for Agriculture and Sustainability. As a seasoned professional with over ten years of experience in board sustainability topics, she is passionate about driving the growth and development of various sustainable practices and reducing environmental impact. Ms. Liu recently served as Global Director in Corporate strategy for Bayer, where she led the digital strategies in Agriculture and Sustainability at global scale. Before that, she acted in various roles in the supply chain, field operation, and R&D.
Ms. Liu holds a Master’s degree in business administration from Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, a Master's degree in Entomology and Nematology from the University of Florida, and a Bachelor’s degree in agronomy from China Agriculture University.
