PLENARY SESSION
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| Judy Arteche-Carr Recently honored as one of the “100 Most Influential Filipino Women in the US”, Ms. Arteche-Carr is a strategic advisor to global companies and has worked with management teams in the transformation of organizations and business alignment to IT and Salomon Brothers (Citigroup), JP Morgan, EDS, and Unisys. She currently serves on the Boards of the Society for Information Management (SIM) International and New York, CIO Without Borders, and the Philippine BPO Council. She also teaches global IT at Fordham University Business School in New York. |
| Jorg Menno Harms Mr. Harms is the Chairman of the Board of Directors at Hewlett-Packard GmbH, Boblingen, where he started working in 1968 with assignments in R&D, Manufacturing, Marketing, and Sales. He is a founding member and VP of BITKOM e.V., the German Association for IT, Telecommunications and New Media in Berlin that represents 90 percent of the German ICT market. A Member of the BITKOM e.V. General Management Council, he is likewise a Member of the Board of Trustees LEG Baden Wurttemberg in Stuttgart. Mr. Harms is also a Teaching Professor at the Institute of Business Administration of the University of Stuttgart since 2001. |
| | John Howley John Howley is President and CEO of Davies Energy Systems, Inc., a global sustainable energy company with operations in the US and Asia. His company provides remote energy management services and real-time energy dashboards to some of the most sophisticated companies in the world. Mr. Howley also writes and speaks frequently on sustainability issues at major corporations, colleges and universities, and on his sustainable energy blog www.HowleyGreenEnergy.com. He is a member of the New York Academy of Sciences and the Association of Energy Engineers. |
| Harvey Koeppel Currently the Executive Director of the Center for CIO Leadership, Mr. Koeppel has served as the Chief Information Officer and Senior Vice President of Citigroup’s Global Consumer Group (GCG), whose role was to actively support the development and growth of the operations and technology community across all GCG lines of business globally. To date, he has a distinguished record of IT innovation in the financial services industry that includes having designed the first graphical user interface for the NASDAQ trader workstation, and the revolutionary FxNet program designed to help large financial institutions manage settlement risks; as well as being a primary contributor to the development of the Maestro platform at CitiFinancial, which acts as the online interface between the customers, the sales force, and the back office. He graduated from the University of Pittsburgh and holds Bachelor degrees in Psychology and Computer Science. |
Jim Onalfo Mr. Onalfo is the New York Police District (NYPD) Commissioner and CIO, and reports directly to the Police Commissioner responsible for all IT activities. Computerworld named him as one of the Top 10 Global IT Executives for 2007 for his work at NYPD, an organization with a size equivalent to a Fortune company. Prior to NYPD, he served as Director and CIO of Kraft Foods International in New York (1988-1996). After which, he was hired as VP and CIO by the Chairman and CEO of Stanley Works in New Britain, where he was responsible for Global Information Management. In this capacity, he led the Y2K effort with over 1,000 projects completed as well as rebuilt the IT infrastructure and its systems portfolio. Mr. Onalfo earned his B.S. in Industrial Management from the University of Connecticut. | |
| Arno Ijmker Mr. Ijmker has a strong background in banking and insurance and is responsible for the global sourcing advisory practice of Quint Wellington Redwood, an IT consulting firm. He joined Quint in 1999 and developed its sourcing practice into what is now recognized as the #1 worldwide niche player advisory by the International Association of Outsourcing Professionals (IAOP). Mr. Ijmker is co-founder and member of the Board of Advisors of the Platform Outsourcing Netherlands, as well as a member of the European Board of the IAOP. |
| Doug Keeley One of North America’s leading communicators, Doug Keeley is a pioneer in the marketing and communications industry. In 2004, he started the revolutionary The Mark of a Leader program, which has inspired leaders and workforces to improved performance with his approach called Five Level Leadership. This unique, story-based program uses incredible multimedia to share insights into the success of many of the world’s greatest leaders and brands and show how they can be applied to business today. His leadership program has been used with great success by companies like ADP, Bank of America, Capital One, Coca Cola, Disney, Frito-Lay, General Mills, Hewlett-Packard (HP), Lego, Microsoft, Pepsi-QTG, Scotiabank, Starbucks, Universal Studios, Xerox, and many other leading corporations, associations, and schools. |
| Dr. Wanda R. Lopuch Dr. Wanda Lopuch is a successful IT entrepreneur and currently serves as President of MDA Associates, Inc., a New York-based consultancy that concentrates on forecasting and business planning, as well as greening global IT operations and supply chains. She founded Medical Data Management Inc. and led the company to multi-million dollar growth for 12 years. She then successfully sold the company to Dendrite International, which provides leading-edge solutions to the global pharmaceutical industry. She has thereafter served as the Vice President and General Manager of Dendrite’s Central and Eastern European operations. In her non- profit executive role, Dr. Lopuch is the President of the Global Sourcing Council, an association of businesses, government institutions and academia, dedicated to promoting sustainable global development and socially responsible sourcing. She received her Ph.D. in Administration and Supervision from Marquette University in Milwaukee. |
| Frank Sirianni Currently Vice President and CIO for Fordham University in New York, Frank Sirianni has provided leadership for more than 20 years in higher education, while pioneering and enhancing business and academic programs to strengthen organizations’ competitive positions. He led a successful 3-year Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) project as the director of New Jersey’s Ramapo College’s first information resource organization, which involved migrating basic Management Information System (MIS) functionality from a fully outsourced operation to a strong internal core business operation. From 1994 to 2001, he held the position of Vice President for Planning and New Business Initiatives, and Chief information Officer for St. John’s University in New York. Again Frank pioneered the university’s first IT organization, turning it into a major enabler of new initiatives, resulting to St. John’s being named by Information Week as one of the Top 100 Intranets, and ranked #35 in Yahoo! Internet Life for the “Most Wired Campus” in America. Frank was recently named a Premier 100 IT Leader for 2009 by Computerworld. |
| Winston Damarillo Winston Damarillo is the CEO of Global Gateway Innovation Exchange (G2iX), a global leader in software development, development automation, and cloud platform operations. G2iX provides the integrated business presence of start-ups including: Exist, winner of the Red Herring 100 Asia (2006); label Top 10 TechnoVisionary by ZDNet Asia (2006); and Most Progressive Homegrown Company at the e-Services Awards (2009); and Morph Labs, a leading provider of infrastructure and Cloud-based applications. In the past, he has founded multiple disruptive open source companies that had successfully resulted in venture caliber returns to investors, including the Gluecode Software acquired by IBM in 2005 and Logicblaze, which was acquired by Iona Technologies in 2007. He opened the Global Gateway Innovation Center, the first in-office technology center in the Philippines, to provide a venue for Filipino ingenuity to flow freely through interactive sessions. |
| Dr. Philip Hadcroft Dr. Hadcroft is the General Manager of Strategy for Salmat, one of Australia’s leading BPO companies, where he has worked for over 19 years. He is a pioneer of Business Process Outsourcing in the Southern Hemisphere, and his work has helped transform the Australian service-bureau industry into a modern, sophisticated BPO industry. As a hands-on BPO practitioner, his work has taken him to 27 countries throughout the world, including companies in India, Thailand, China, Taiwan and the Philippines. He holds a Master’s degree in Strategic Marketing and was awarded the world’s first PhD in BPO in 2002. |
| Dr. Howard A. Rubin Internationally recognized for his pioneering work in technology economics, Dr. Rubin is the founder of Rubin Worldwide, a global leader in helping companies and nations use technology to continuously enhance performance. Dr. Rubin is an advisor to most of the world’s largest financial institutions and global corporations in the area of IT and operations benchmarking. In addition, he has also worked directly with governments around the world in the development of national competitive technology strategies. He is Professor Emeritus of Computer Science at Hunter College of the City University of New York; a Research Affiliate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Center for Information Systems Research (MIT CISR); Senior Advisor to Gartner, and contributing editor to Wall Street & Technology, and a former Nolan Norton Research Fellow. |
SECTORAL TRACKS
Julius Romero As an authority in Health Information Management, Julius Romero is an educator in the field, a medical education administrator, a health care policy developer, and a medical coding professional. He is also a consultant for practice management and billing, coding, and medical education. Currently, he is the Assistant Vice President for Medical Education in Wyckoff Heights Medical Center in Brooklyn, New York where he is the administrator of the undergraduate medical education program managing the largest international clinical clerkship program in the US. His prior professional experiences include being a coding consultant/auditor for the New York Presbyterian Hospital; and being a Data Manager for the Long Island College Hospital in New York, where he coordinated Phase 2 and 3 clinical trials for the hospital-based clinical oncology program. Mr. Romero took up his Graduate Studies in Health Care Policy and Planning at the Robert F. Wagner School of Public Service, New York University | |
| Janette Toral She is a trainer and consultant on e-Commerce, social network marketing, and software process improvement. In 2008, she was a recipient of the DTI/CITEM e-Services Philippines E-Champion Award for Policy Development. She co-founded the Philippine Internet Commerce Society, and in 2000 published her e-Commerce book that gave birth to DigitalFilipino.com – an online e-commerce resource – and which later paved the way for the DigitalFilipino Club that serves as an e-Commerce advocacy, research, consulting, advertising, and training platform with close to 100 members. Ms. Toral’s future advocacies include focusing on social media and search engine marketing awareness; blogging and social networking as tools for livelihood and political transparency, and developing DigitalFilipino Club into a TED-like (Technology, Entertainment, Design) community that functions as a platform for generating ideas. | |
| Bob Harvey Mr. Harvey has been involved with the dictation and transcription industry since 1982, when he worked for Lanier Worldwide, one of the world’s largest global providers of document management solutions. As a Lanier district manager, he led its Greensboro, North Carolina office to the coveted Quality Award, which recognizes the top five operations in the world. Currently, he is the President and CEO of Transcription Relief Services (TRS) Institute, LLC, and is an Executive Board Member of the Medical Transcription Industry Association (MTIA). As an outspoken supporter of integrity in billing practices, he has published numerous works in international business magazines, and was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award by the Association for Healthcare Documentation Integrity (AHDI) Integrity Awards in 2009. |
| Charlie P. Villaseñor Mr. Villaseñor is the Chairman of the Procurement and Sourcing Institute of Asia (PASIA), the official affiliate of the Institute of Supply Management (ISM) in the Asian Region – ISM being the oldest and largest supply management institute in the world. He founded and became COO of the Philippines’ largest procurement portal that was a consortium of the country’s six largest multi-industry conglomerates, and became the ASEAN Managing Director of Ariba, a spend management software company. He has held various senior supply management positions in 3M and Coca-Cola companies. Regarded as Asia’s Procurement icon, he is currently the President and CEO of TransProcure (www.transprocure.com), a leading global procurement solutions and services company. Under his leadership, TransProcure has received several industry awards, including the “Rising Star” on BPO-Procurement Services in 2004 by the Philippine Department of Trade and Industry (DTI), the “Most Innovative Business Process Outsourcing Company of the Year” during the Annual International ICT Awards in 2007, and the “Most Progressive Homegrown BPO Company” at the e-Services Awards for 2008. Most recently, he was given a Special Citation during the e-Services Awards 2009 as an outstanding advocate of the Philippines as a preferred BPO hub in the global market. |
 | Jojo Flores Jojo Flores is co-founder and VP for Operations at Plug and Play Tech Center, a Silicon Valley based tech startup accelerator. He started Plug and Play in January 2006, where he was able to build a community of 300+ tech startups, 70+ angel and Venture Capital (VC) investors, 20+ large tech corporations, 30+ domestic and international universities, and numerous experts in various fields. Since inception, Plug and Play startups have been able to raise over $500 million in venture funding. Jojo finished his BS in Business Administration at the University of the Philippines in Diliman in 1989. |
 | Graeme Warring Graeme Warring has built a number of businesses since graduating from Australia’s University of Melbourne in 1987, including the Experience group of tour companies, which operated 100 tour coaches in Australia, New Zealand, Fiji and Europe; and Backpackers World, which had been the largest youth travel center group in Australia and New Zealand before being sold in 2005. At the end of 2005, Graeme moved to the USA and acquired a small business repositioned as an online mass market merchant with a new toy line under the “Action” franchise. He opened his own game development studio in Makati, Philippines in 2007 called FunGuy Studios, which since then has gone on to engineering and designing Massively Multiplayer Online Games (MMOG) for its own line and in partnership with other enterprises. Graeme’s holding company, Warring Tribes LLC, also developed a resourcing business based in Makati, which provides directly employed staff to tech firms based in the United States and Australia. |
| Norman Lee Norman Lee is the Program Coordinator for the Department of Information Technology and Management at the De La Salle - College of St. Benilde (DLSU-CSB). He is currently spearheading the introduction of a B.S. in Information Technology with Specialization in Game Design and Development (BS IT-GDD), which was launched in 2009. | |
| Marla D. Rausch Marla D. Rausch is the owner and CEO of Animation Vertigo, Inc. based in San Diego, California and its subsidiary Animation Vertigo Asia (AVA) in Manila. Her company provides Motion Capture animation and editing for some of North America and Europe’s biggest Video Game Developers (Activision, Midway Games, Sony, etc.) and entertainment studios. Ms. Rausch started her career in Video Games with Sony Computer Entertainment America in 2001 before eventually starting Animation Vertigo in 2004. In over five years of operation, Animation Vertigo and Animation Vertigo Asia have worked on big name projects such as Lair, SOCOM: US Navy Seals, some Call of Duty, Major League Baseball, and NBA titles. |
