Among other topics, Tom discusses the following issues with Metis Strategy:
Tom Nealon’s Biography
Tom is a member of the Board of Directors of Southwest Airlines Co., a role he has held since December 1, 2010. On April 16, 2012, he also began serving as a member on the Board of Directors of the Fossil Group Inc. Tom was also the Group Executive Vice President of J.C. Penney, a role he assumed after having spent time as EVP and CIO. During his tenure with the company, he oversaw all of information technology including the design and ongoing development of systems and infrastructure to support the long-range plan and strategic business objectives. He also led the development of innovative technological and process improvements across J. C. Penney to improve customer experience and increase efficiency.
Before his time at J. C. Penney, Tom served as the Senior Vice-President of Technology and Chief Information Officer of Southwest Airlines Co. At Southwest, he led the transformation of their technology organization and the improvement of all business processes surrounding customer interactions. His initiatives caused significant technology-driven improvements across most of the business from ground and flight operations to maintenance and engineering, schedule planning and even southwest.com.
Prior to his time at Southwest, Tom was a partner with the Feld Group, a position he undertook after spending time as the CIO of Frito-Lay, a division of PepsiCo.
Tom received the 2010 MIT Sloan CIO Symposium Award for Innovation Leadership and was recognized by Information Week as a “Premiere 100 CIO” in 2007. He has also served as a MIT Sloan CIO Symposium Award Judge since 2012.
Tom holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Villanova University and an MBA from the University of Dallas.
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Among other topics, Ken discusses the following issues with Metis Strategy:
Ken Venner’s Biography
Since January 2012, Ken has been the CIO of Space Exploration Technologies Corporation, better known as SpaceX, a company that designs, manufactures and launches advanced rockets and spacecraft.
Prior to his time at SpaceX, Ken was the Executive Vice President, Corporate Services and Chief Information Officer of Broadcom Corporation, a role he held for over a decade. In that role, his purview included Real Estate, Construction, Facilities, Security, Travel, Administrative Services, and all business systems, computing and telecommunications infrastructure.
Prior to his time at Broadcom, Ken served as Vice President of Product Management and Chief Information Officer of Rockwell Electronic Commerce. Prior to that, Ken held a number of information sciences and information technology management positions for over 11 years at Lucent Technologies and AT&T Bell Laboratories.
Ken received a B.E. from the Stevens Institute of Technology, an M.E. from Carnegie Mellon University and an M.B.A. from New Hampshire College.
Tomasz was until August 2012, the Executive Director and CIO of Cathay Pacific, the multi-billion dollar airline based in Hong Kong. He held that role for four years, and oversaw a significant transformation in the airline and its IT function. He also holds a non-Executive Directorship position with SITA, the world’s leading specialist in air transport communications and information technology, and is a member of Board’s Remuneration Committee.
Prior to his time at Cathay Pacific, Tomasz was the CIO of ANZ National Bank, the New Zealand division of the ANZ banking group. In all, Tomasz has performed IT executive roles for 15 years in transportation, banking, insurance, financial services, logistics, and retail.
In recognition of his achievements, Tomasz was awarded the 2011 China Best Business Value CIO and the 2012 Hong Kong CIO of the Year for Large Enterprises.
Tomasz holds an MBA and is a qualified Company Director with accreditation from the Australian Institute of Company Directors.
Adrian is a member of the Senior Executive Service and currently serves as the Director of the Information Technology and Communications Directorate and Chief Information Officer for the Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) at NASA. As such, he is responsible for providing the GSFC workforce with the information infrastructure and tools that adapt and evolve to effectively and securely support management, science, research, and technology programs while developing, implementing, and operating specialized IT systems to support NASA mission planning and operation, and providing systems that disseminate information to the public and that preserve NASA’s information assets.
Adrian is also Chair of POC Working Group for DATA.GOV; Co-Chair of the Federal CIO Council Information Sharing Subcommittee, and he formerly held the role of Chief Information Officer for the National Weather Service.
Among his many accolades, Adrian was awarded Temple University’s IT Manager of the Year award for 2012, recognizing him as one of Information Management’s Top 25, and he played an integral role in Goddard Space Flight Center’s most recent recognition as one of Information Week’s Top 500 Innovators.
Adrian is a Doctoral Candidate at the University of Southern California’s (USC) School of Public Policy. Additionally, he holds a Masters degree in Public Administration from USC, and a Master of Science degree in Environmental Studies from Hood College. Adrian also has a Bachelor of Science degree in Biological Science and Ecology from the Tuskegee Institute.
Among other topics, Mike discusses the following issues with Metis Strategy
Most recently Mike worked as the head of his own consulting firm, consulting to a major financial services corporation to investigate and analyze sourcing alternatives for the company.
Prior to that, Mike served as the interim CIO for Sabre Holdings where he was responsible for managing Sabre’s outsourced services agreement with EDS and other 3rd party suppliers.
Prior to his time as interim CIO, Mike was Senior Vice President and General Manager for Sabre. In this role, Mike managed the company’s outsourced Information Technology functions, including infrastructure services, internal applications and selected airline applications.
Prior to that, Mike led Sabre’s Global Infrastructure organization, where he was responsible for providing integrated service delivery to Sabre and all of it’s outsourced clients through the design, engineering, installation, operations and systems management of Sabre networks, distributed systems, desktops and data centers worldwide.
Mike began his career with Information Systems Development, and later held IT positions with TransWorld Airlines, Republic Airlines and Bank of America.
He has also served on the Board of Directors for Societe Internationale de Telecommunications Aeronautiques (SITA) and served on the advisory boards of a number of companies including The Executive Customer Advisory Council for AT&T, Software Board of Advisors for BMC, Board of Advisors for Storage Technology Corporation, and was a member of Forrester’s CIO Oval Program.
Mike has completed executive development programs at the Darden Graduate School of Business at the University of Virginia and the Advanced Management Institute at the University of Tulsa.
