Munir Mandviwalla

Joseph C. Spagnoletti appointed 2012 Executive-in-Residence

Joseph C. Spagnoletti, Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer, Campbell Soup Company has been appointed “Executive-in-Residence” at the Fox School’s Institute for Business and Information Technology for the 2012 year. Mr. Spagnoletti was selected for his dedication to students and higher education. As part of the appointment, Mr. Spagnoletti will be spending several days through the year interacting with Fox School students.

As part of his induction ceremony on September 26, 2012, he spent a full day at the school mentoring students and providing input on strategy to the Temple AIS student organization. He is also continuing to contribute significantly to the new BBA in MIS curriculum, which is partly modeled after Campbell Soup’s IT services group. The curriculum emphasizes business process, innovation, and partnerships.

Biography

Joseph Spagnoletti was appointed Campbell’s Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer in August 2008. He leads the company’s global information technology function, providing IT strategy to help Campbell meet its business goals.

Since he joined Campbell in 1997 as Director-IT, Food Service, Joe has held several positions of increasing responsibility in global sales and marketing, supply chain, and research and development. Most recently, he was Vice President-IT for Campbell North America, where he successfully led several key projects, including the implementation of a trade management system and oversight of North American SAP implementations.

Previously, Joe spent seven years as an Information Technology Director with medical technology company Becton Dickinson, responsible for the medical device and acute care businesses. He began his career developing and implementing financial systems for a New York City software development firm.

Joe earned his Bachelor of Science degree in computer science from Albright College in Reading, Pa. He serves on the Campbell Soup Foundation, the Cooper Health System’s Audit/Ethics Committee, Global Management Board of GS1, the Temple University Fox School of Business Advisory Board and the Board of Governors of the Academy of Food Marketing at St. Joseph’s University. In 2004, he was recognized with Campbell’s Influence with Honor leadership award.

Joe’s interests include vintage automobiles, motorcycles, snowboarding and surfing.

Other recent achievements:

2010 & 2012 Computerworld Top 100 Places to Work in IT
2010 SAP Education Best Practices Award
2011 Temple Fox School of Business IT Leader of the Year Award
2012 Top 50 Distinguished CIOs

Fox IT Career Fair on October 10, 2012

The FOX Information Technology Career Fair is scheduled for October 10, 2012 (11-3pm). Employers can conduct interviews and network with the high performing students and graduates of the nationally ranked FOX information technology programs.

The event will feature students affiliated with the Fox School’s Department of Management Information Systems, ranked top 20 in the U.S. by U.S. News and World Reports for its undergraduate programs and top 25 in the U.S. for graduate programs.

For more information visit:

http://ibit.temple.edu/careerfair

The event will feature more than 250 students interested in internships and full-time positions from the following programs:

Bachelor of Business Administration – Majors in Management Information Systems
Bachelor of Business Administration – Minors in MIS
Bachelor of Business Administration – Minors in Digital Marketing
Bachelor of Business Administration – Minors in Digital Entrepreneurship
Master of Science in IT Auditing and Cyber-Security
Master of Business Administration – Information Technology Management
Master of Science in Healthcare Informatics

Merck, Campbell Soup Company, Lockheed Martin, Electronic Ink, JP Morgan Chase, LiquidHub, Deloitte, GlaxoSmithKline, Urban Outfitters, Cigna, AstraZeneca, Vanguard, Dow Chemicals are already scheduled to participate.

George Llado and Matt Pammer join the Fox IT advisory board

George Llado, Vice President, Merck & Co., Inc. and Matt Pammer, Vice President, AstraZeneca join the Fox IT advisory board.

George Llado is Vice President, MMD IT with Merck & Co., Inc. In this role, he provides leadership for the planning and development of information technology solutions for the Merck Manufacturing Division. Most recently, George served as Vice President, Corporate IT, focusing on the integration and end-state vision for Merck’s critical Financial, Human Resource, Legal, Communications and Global Services platforms. Prior to that, George represented Global Services as Integration Lead for the IT/Shared Business Services Team. In this capacity, George was responsible for driving the overall success of the functional merger management program for Merck and Schering-Plough in throughout 2009.

In previous roles, George served as Executive Director, GHH IT delivering integrated Sales Force Automation platforms for Merck’s Commercial Division. As Executive Director for Worldwide Infrastructure Operations, George migrated all of Merck’s core computing assets to the Company’s new global data center in Charlotte, NC. As Director, Automation and IT – Americas, George led the efforts to establish the next generation automation platform for Merck’s Manufacturing Division. His experience while on assignment in MMD Puerto Rico Operations uniquely positioned him for the role.

George has more than 26 years of leadership and experience in the IT field. He’s passionate about using technology and innovation to drive business outcomes. Also a firm believer in developing people, George supports his staffs’ career growth by challenging, empowering, and motivating employees to seek opportunities which expand their IT experience as well as their understanding of the business. Having spent several years in Merck’s business areas himself, George values the development of a broad range of experiences. His emphasis on understanding and partnering with the business has been instrumental in successfully meeting the Company’s strategic initiatives during his 23 years at Merck. George joined Merck in 1989 after receiving a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from New York Institute of Technology. Prior to Merck, George worked for Citibank, N.A. in New York City.

Matt Pammer is Vice President, Information Systems, AstraZeneca, and is responsible for creating and executing the IS vision, strategy, and operating plan in support of the business strategy for North America and Latin American. His priorities include: Investing in People, Delivering Business Value, and Fixing Basic Services. Matt started his career at Accenture in the Advanced Systems Group where he consulted across several industries including banking, insurance, healthcare, and pharmaceuticals.

Since joining AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals in 1993, Matt has been responsible for all aspects of Marketing and Sales IS capabilities including sales force automation, sales training, data warehousing, reporting and analytics, master data management, call center, e-marketing, business planning, forecasting, and contracts management. Matt introduced several significant capabilities to AstraZeneca including Consumer Database Marketing, Interactive Detailing, Closed Loop Promotion, and Customer Relationship Management. He also established an Architecture capability at AstraZeneca and led the team for two years.

Matt has a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science from Albright College, and an MBA with a concentration in eBusiness from Temple University.

The Business Value of Big Data: Potential, Reality, and Success Stories – September 27, 2012

Temple University is organizing a conference in fall 2012 titled “The Business Value of Big Data: Potential, Reality, and Success Stories.” The conference will engage industry and academic experts to discuss (a) the potential of big data and the controversies related to its definition and value, and (b) best practices and exemplars for applying big data to transform how we view the world around us. For example:

Fraud detection: Analyzing structured and textual data to detect patterns of fraud
Customer trends: Integrating enterprise and social data to identify customer behavior patterns and new sales opportunities
Safety and compliance: Analyzing archived product use data to identify threats to safety and ways to encourage compliance
Media impact: Modeling the effects of new and traditional media on tangible outcomes

The conference is being organized by Temple’s Institute for Business and Information Technology (IBIT) and its partners including LiquidHub and Merck. The conference committee includes faculty from the Fox School of Business and senior corporate executives from LiquidHub, Merck, Pfizer, Accenture, and Transaction Network Services.

Temple “Big Data” Symposium – May 21, 2012, 12-6pm, Shusterman Hall

On Monday May 21, 2012, the Institute for Business & Information Technology (IBIT) hosted a University-wide symposium on “Big Data” in cooperation with the Office of Research. The purpose of this symposium was to bring together Temple researchers across disciplines to explore inter-disciplinary synergies and collaborations on big data research. Big data refer to extremely large datasets that do not conform to traditional principles of data collection, storage, management, sharing, processing, and statistical analysis, and they impose challenges on data storing, computer processing, existing statistical data analysis approaches, and existing ways to interpret, visualize, and derive knowledge from huge quantities of data. Over 70 faculty and PhD students attended the symposium that included several presentations and panel discussions from faculty in statistics, computer science, MIS, marketing, and the school of medicine.

The purpose of this internal Temple symposium is to identify capabilities on how to deal with big data across campus, identify synergies across researchers, Centers, departments, and schools, and hopefully spawn inter-disciplinary collaborative research on big data that will pursue external funding. Notably, the U.S. government has recently unveiled a $200M effort titled “Big Data Research and Development Initiative” that aims to support new R&D initiatives associated with big data. Moreover, the symposium will explore inter-disciplinary collaborations for potentially developing graduate programs in data analytics.

12:00pm	Lunch
12:45pm	Opening Remarks
1:00pm	Session 1: Practical Applications and Best Practices with Big Data Youngjin Yoo, Robert Kulathinal, Sunil Wattal: “Designing 21st Century Organizations” Munir Mandviwalla, David Schuff, Sunil Wattal: “The Campaign Media Ecosystem” Yili Hong, Paul A. Pavlou: “Big Data in Online Markets for Outsourcing of IT Services”
2:00pm	Session 2: Statistical Solutions for Big Data Sanat Sarkar and Nicolle Clements: “High-dimensional Multiple Testing” Neeraj Bharadwaj and Yuexiao Dong: “In Search of What Counts in Big Datasets”
2:45pm	Coffee Break
3:15pm	Session 3: Technical Solutions for Big Data Jie Wu and Chiu C. Tan: “CIS Big Data Research” Alexander Yates: “Data Mining and Information Retrieval with Web Data”
4:00pm	Panel: “Emerging Opportunities and Challenges of Big Data” Pallavi Chitturi (Center of Statistical Analysis, Statistics Department) Jennifer Gordon (Department of Neuroscience, School of Medicine) Keith Latham and Carmen Sapienza (Fels Institute for Cancer Research)
5:00pm	Networking Reception

For more information, contact: Paul A. Pavlou