CIO Executive Leadership Summit in Boston: Great CIOs Deliver Leadership, Innovation and Transformation to Drive Business Growth

BOSTON, Feb. 21, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Is your IT team truly aligned with the business? Are you really getting what you need from your cloud provider? Do you have the critical skills required to provide leadership, innovation and transformation to the enterprise in a time of rapid change? Those crucial questions headlined the agenda at the CIO Executive Leadership Summit held last week at the Westin Waterfront in Boston. The event was produced by HMG Strategy, the leading producer of CIO Executive Leadership Summits in North America.

"In today's hyper-competitive economy, business growth depends on the CIO's ability to deliver world-class leadership, innovation and transformation across the enterprise," said Hunter Muller, President and CEO of HMG Strategy, LLC. "The modern CIO focuses on generating value and driving business growth."

The Boston summit featured keynote presentations and executive briefings from respected thought leaders and highly respected industry experts, including

• Puneet Bhasin, SVP & CIO, Waste Management & President, WM Logistics
• Mac Devine, Director and CTO for Cloud Portfolio within IBM Global Technical Services
• Whitney Tidmarsh Bouck, General Manager, Box Enterprise
• Mark Polansky, Sr. Client Partner & Managing Director, IT Officers Practice, Korn/Ferry International
• Bill Oates, CIO, City of Boston
• Stephanie Cuskley, CEO, NPower

Keynote sessions and panels covered critical challenges such as enterprise leadership, transformation and innovation strategy, customer-centric IT, protecting sensitive information, human capital development, and executive leadership challenges confronting modern CIOs in the 21st century enterprise.

Additional speakers and panelists included Rich Adduci, SVP & CIO, Boston Scientific; John Reichelt, SVP & CTO, The TJX Companies, Inc.; Madge Meyer, EVP, Chief Innovation Officer and Technology Fellow, State Street Corporation; Kevin O'Toole, SVP Product Management and Strategy, Comcast Business Services; Bill Brown, VP & CIO, Avid; Bill Pelzar, EVP & CIO, Health Dialog Services Corporation; Rebecca Rhoads, VP & CIO, Raytheon; Matt Aiello, Principal, Heidrick & Struggles; Shawn Banerji, Managing Director Technology Sector, Russell Reynolds Associates; and Jamie Satterthwaite, Managing Partner, Boston Office and Head of East Coast Technology Practice, Egon Zehnder International.

"Great IT leaders drive business growth by leveraging innovation and new technologies to stay ahead in rapidly changing markets," said Muller. "Modern CIOs must provide bold and pro-active leadership – that's their new role in this age of continuous innovation and transformation."

Sponsors and partners of the 2012 Boston CIO Executive Leadership Summit include IBM, Box, Information Builders, Comcast Business Class, Okta, NPower, Wiley, Egon Zehnder International, Heidrick & Struggles, Korn/Ferry International, Russell Reynolds Associates and Spencer Stuart.

"World-class events such as the CIO Executive Leadership Summit in Boston enable IT leaders to network with their peers, acquire extremely valuable knowledge to elevate their careers," said Muller, who is also the author of two books, The Transformational CIO (Wiley, 2011) and On Top of the Cloud (Wiley, 2012). He also blogs regularly on IT leadership strategy trends at thetransformationalcio.com. "These leadership summits provide exceptional opportunities to acquire and share knowledge, and reach the highest levels of success."

HMG Strategy, LLC, is a leading high-value resource for innovative IT leadership, management and technology support for an expanding global network of CIOs and senior IT executives. The firm's sponsor partners include Accenture, Avanade, Avaya, Box, CA Technologies, CDW, Chateaux Software, Citrix, Code 42 Software, Comcast Business Class, Dell, HP, IBM, Informatica, Information Builders, Kapow Software, Okta, Netsuite, Quest Software, salesforce.com, TCS, TSA, VMware, Wiley, Wipro and Workday.

"We have built the strongest CIO community in North America," said Muller. "We deliver world-class value for the IT industry through our thought-leadership, proprietary research, our National Advisory Board, and executive leadership events."

About HMG Strategy

HMG Strategy, LLC is the leading provider of innovative IT leadership, management and technology support to CIO/Senior IT executives by focusing on the 360-degree needs of the CIO/IT Leader. Our events and services raise thought leadership, knowledge sharing and networking to the highest level. HMG Strategy provides access to an international network of more than 28,000 CIO/Senior IT executives, industry experts and world-class thought leaders. For more information about HMG Strategy and its unique portfolio of IT leadership resources, visit www.hmgstrategy.com or contact Amanda Vlastas at 203-221-2702 or via e-mail at [email protected].

SOURCE HMG Strategy, LLC

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