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• Peter Walsh
• Head of Technology for the Dallas Cowboys Football Club
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  During the past 15 years, Peter Walsh has been a senior level manager for three Fortune 100 companies including: Head of Technology for the Dallas Cowboys Football Club; Vice President of Information Technology at EXE Technologies; Head of Information Technology for the Americas at Nokia; Director for Enterprise Information Systems Strategy & Integration at Lockheed Martin Corporation; and Financial, Accounting and Commercial Programs Manager for Rockwell International / United Space Alliance. Mr. Walsh’s expertise includes leading organizations that are experiencing rapid growth or are having internal process problems, understanding the key underlying issues, implementing and communicating corrective actions, resulting in a successful and self-sufficient organization. Mr. Walsh has been a key member of decision and policy-making teams, and developed and implemented organizational strategic plans, mission and vision statements with responsibilities extended to the architecture and implementation of a global infrastructures connecting operations in the US, Canada, Europe, China, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Singapore and Australia.
  
  Currently Mr. Walsh is developing the strategy and heading up the technology implementation for the new Dallas Cowboys Stadium in Arlington Texas.
  
  Mr. Walsh holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Business Administration – Finance concentration from California State University, Fullerton. He also participated in Executive level training including: Proformex Executive Training, UCLA Executive Training, IBM e-Business Solutions Executive Training, Covey Leadership Training, Rockwell Executive Training, Nokia MAP Management Training, and Nokia Certified Project Manager Training. He held the position of Vice President and President – National Management Association and is a committee member for the Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation and the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society.
  
  

• Stephen Prentice
• Gartner Vice President Distinguished Analyst
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  Stephen Prentice is a distinguished analyst and chief of research for cross-research projects and special research themes at Gartner. He takes a specific interest in the long-term future of technology - looking at the intersection of technology, business and society. Current research interests include the consumerization of IT and the growth of virtual worlds and social networking and their impact on businesses.
  
  We invite you to see Mr. Prentice in the session, “Industry Disruptions, Digital Natives and Global Future”.  This session will discuss how Information technology is essential to business. It drives industries. It brings governments closer to people. It has major impacts on society. But it’s too easy to get lost in technical complexities and forget the importance of business outcomes. Consider the future of your role. What parts of the business will you take care of? Is technology your job or is the job really business innovation? How is your industry responding to technology? How is your industry exploiting social networks and preparing for the arrival of digital natives in your workforce and customer base? What are you doing about IT developments in emerging economies as they shape global IT markets and as combined “Chindia” emerges to compete globally? The future is filled with opportunity, challenge and, most of all, with big questions and big uncertainties. Fear drives knowledge, knowledge drives action, action drives success. So be afraid, be very afraid! - because there's much to know, much to do and much success to create.
  
  

• Sherry A. Aaholm
• Executive Vice President
• Information Technology
• FedEx Services
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  Sherry A. Aaholm is EVP of Information Technology for FedEx Services responsible for providing strategic direction for the IT operations infrastructure and the core operating company (OpCo) applications across the corporation, which includes FedEx Express, FedEx Ground, FedEx Freight and FedEx Kinko’s.
  
  Sherry has also has been responsible for IT development of solutions to support customs clearance, less-than-truckload (LTL), supply chain, and freight forwarding for FedEx Services, FedEx Freight and FedEx Express.
  
  With more than 22 years of experience in the logistics and transportation fields, Sherry has also worked at GeoLogistics Americas Inc., as VP of IT and at Schneider National/Schneider Logistics, Inc. in various IT and transportation positions.
  
  Aaholm was recognized in 2005 as Computerworld’s Top 100 IT Leaders.
  
  

• John Mahoney
• VP Distinguished Analyst
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  Most of Mr. Mahoney's 29 years of experience have been in senior management executive board positions in high-profile, world-class companies, which makes him very familiar with top leaders' perspectives. At Gartner, he has written about strategy, leadership and organization, has spoken at many high-profile events in over 30 countries and has led in-house, board-level workshops. Prior to joining Gartner, Mr. Mahoney was director of IS at the British Library, leading development of award-winning systems and a major program to embed digital technologies into the organization's culture, championing IT/business fusion, restructuring IS and the wider enterprise, and using outsourced service partners. He has experience with in commercial and public sectors.
  
  As a professional executive leader, the chief focus of this job is creating insight and practical advice by connecting our experience in Gartner with our clients’ business problems and opportunities. The primary reward is that clients clearly trust and appreciate our advice very much. The chief excitement comes from the continual transformation of the business technology world and from working with world-class clients and colleagues from many industries and locations worldwide.
  
  

• Patrick Meehan
• VP, Executive Programs
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  Prior to joining Gartner, Mr. Meehan was CIO for Phillips, dePury & Luxembourg, the fine arts, jewelry and watch division of French luxury goods holding company LVMH. In that capacity, he was actively involved in the transformation of a 320-year-old British brand (Phillips) from a literal pen-and-paper organization into a global market player, functioning seamlessly via completely revamped international finance systems, a global VPN and custom applications supporting all business processes, including trading environments.
  
  I love playing chess in three dimensions...and that's what it takes to be a CIO today! Most of all, I love to help my clients win.
  
  

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CIO Panel: Aligning IT with the Business
Peter Whatnell, CIO of Sunoco, Inc.; Ed Anderson, CIO of the Peace Corps; and others

Business leaders' expectations of IT have changed. IT is no longer viewed as simply enabling the enterprise. Now CEOs want IT to contribute to strategic differentiation and growth. This means CIOs must be focused on having the right IT, making the right IT investments and effectively connecting IT's capabilities with the particular needs and requirements of the business model. Find out how several of the world's leading CIOs are ensuring that their IT organizations, processes and priorities are appropriately aligned with their businesses to meet these ever-changing demands and strategies.