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Among other topics, Patty discusses the following issues with Metis Strategy:

Patty’s role as EVP, Customer Care Shared Services and CIO at Cardinal Health and the uniqueness this diversity in roles.
The ways Patty’s experiences as a CIO have lent themselves to taking on additional roles in a customer facing business.
The importance of having reliable and effective teams from direct reports down to below management levels to be an effective and successful “CIO plus.”
The learnings from participating as a member of a Board of Directors and the value added to the Board from having a CIO’s perspective.
The importance of analytics and the ways in which an IT department can include analytics as a core competency to further drive growth and success of a company through the IT team’s work.
Eye on the trends: The growing importance of and focus on speed – the various software and methodologies being developed with the aim of increasing speed of delivery and support as a driver of strategic growth.

Patty Morrison’s Biography

Patty is the Executive Vice President, Customer Care Shared Services and Chief Information Officer of Cardinal Health, a Fortune 21 health care products and services company. Patty has been in this role since 2009 and has been responsible for Cardinal Health’s enterprise-wide IT, Customer Contact Centers, and Contracts & Pricing.

Prior to her current role, Patty was EVP and CIO for Motorola where she oversaw all strategic, operational and financial aspects of their IT architecture, systems, tools, processes and infrastructure.

Prior to joining Motorola, Patty was the EVP & CIO at Office Depot Inc., CIO of Quaker Oats, CIO Industrial Systems at General Electric and held various positions at Procter & Gamble Co. Patty was named 2007 CIO of the Year by the Executive’s Club of Chicago and the Association of Information Technology Professionals. She was also inducted to the CIO Magazine Hall of Fame in 2008.

Patty served on the Board of Directors for JoAnn Fabrics and Crafts prior to the company going public in 2010. She is currently on the Board of Directors of Splunk, a tech startup founded to make machine data accessible, usable and valuable.

Patty holds a Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics and Statistics and a Bachelor of Science in secondary education from Miami University in Ohio graduating Summa Cum Laude.

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Among other topics, Brian discusses the following issues with Metis Strategy:

The unique paths that bring CIOs to the Information Officer position
Transition of IT from simply a “support role” to an integral aspect of organization’s innovative processes
The role of information technology in a business’s strategic planning
Information technology as a business function
The benefits to the CIO position for members to hold advisory positions in other organizations
Eye on trends: The growing importance of big data, cloud computing, analytics, and the importance of not innovating for innovations sake

Brian Bonner’s Biography

Brian is the Vice-President and Chief Information Officer at Texas Instruments, a $13B semiconductor company with more than 30,000 employees worldwide. Brian also sits on the company’s Strategic Leadership Team.

Prior to his current role, Brian roles included a number of non-IT positions such as Vice-President, Worldwide Mass Marketing and Acquisition Integration at Texas Instruments. He has also held general management, sales, and product development roles and was responsible for product strategy & development as well as revenue generation after joining the company in 1995 as a technical sales engineer.

Prior to joining Texas Instruments, Brian began his career at Chrysler Corporation as an engineer as well.

Brian is an advisory board member for Gemini Israel Funds and Copper Mobile. He has also served as the former board member of the Dallas Museum of Nature and Science and the Midland Chamber of Commerce.

Brian holds a Bachelor of Engineering in Electrical Engineering as well as an MSE in Electrical Engineering from the University of Michigan and an MBA in Marketing and Finance from Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business.

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Among other topics, Helen discusses the following issues with Metis Strategy:

Helen’s unorthodox path to CIO and how it contributed to her understanding of IT as part of a business.
The value of the broader perspective due to a business background in Helen’s success as a CIO.
The challenges and strategies in mending the relationship between IT and business to garner support and trust.
The importance of appropriately marketing accomplishments in IT both internally as well as across the organization.
Helen’s rise to becoming a Board level CIO and the impact of an IT executive’s perspective to the rest of the board.
Eye on the trends: The growing importance of cloud and mobile technology and the need to understand how to analyze and leverage risks to gain support for related projects.

Helen Cousins’ Biography

Helen is the Executive Vice President and Chief Information Officer of Lincoln Trust Company, a role she has had since 2006. As part of the ownership team, she has led the transformation of the company into an analytical organization by implementing a business process management program encompassing business intelligence and workflow management for the entire organization.

Prior to her current role, Helen was SVP and CIO for Dex Media, Inc where she led the enterprise implementation of a new technology platform. As part of the executive team she participated in what was, at the time, the 2nd largest leverage buyout in US history, an IPO and subsequent sale of the company.

Prior to joining Dex , Helen was SVP and Corporate CIO at Cendant where she was responsible for orchestrating one of the largest outsourcing deals with a major technology firm as well as leading the IT due diligence and integration for several major acquisitions which increased revenue by $15B. She has held several other executive positions managing global organizations, spending her first 25 years on Wall Street with top Fortune 100 / 500 firms. She has won various awards and recognitions for her accomplishments including being named to CIO Magazine’s prestigious CIO Hall of Fame in 2012.

Helen graduated summa cum laude with a B.S. in accounting and economics from Fordham University and an MBA from Pace University.

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Among other topics, Rob discusses the following issues with Metis Strategy:

The future of technology, and what certain trends Rob is keen to leverage in the next 3-4 years
The manner in which the population and skills of the IT department are evolving to meet the new demands of the modern company
The evolution of Rob’s responsibilities as a CIO within FedEx, and the benefits of having a position dedicated solely to the pursuits of IT advancement and development
The significance of board level access for CIOs within organizations and the skill sets that such individuals bring to the boards of these upper-level institutions
Rob’s personal ideology of engagement over complacency in a leadership position within IT
Eye on the trends: The increasing importance of the connection between physical and digital networks, and the resulting innovations derived from the intersection of these two networks

Rob was named to Fortune magazine’s Executive Dream Team, Rob was also ranked 18th on Fast Company magazine’s “100 Most Creative People in Business” 2010 list. He received Information Week magazine’s Chief of the Year Award in 2000, 2001 and 2005. He is also a seven-time recipient of CIO magazine’s CIO 100 Award and was a charter inductee into the publication’s CIO Hall of Fame.

Rob is a member of the Saks Incorporated and First Horizon National Corporation Boards of Directors.

He earned his bachelor’s degree in computer and information science from the University of Florida and his master’s degree from the University of South Florida.

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