Distinguished Speaker Series

Martin Schroeter, Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, IBM, recently presented a Distinguished Speaker talk as part of spending a day at the Fox School of Business.

Schroeter, an alumnus of the Fox School, was appointed SVP and CFO at IBM on January 1, 2014. Previously, he was General Manager of IBM Global Financing, a position he held since April 2011, where he led the world’s largest captive IT financier with a total asset base in excess of $37 billion and 125,000 customers in 50 countries.

During the day, he spoke to Temple’s Financial Management Association (FMA) and also held a small group meeting with students in MIS and Finance.

Schroeter also met with Dean M. Moshe Porat and faculty from the Fox School’s Department of Management Information Systems and Finance.

The Fox School’s Institute for Business and Information Technology presents the Distinguished Speaker Series, featuring talks by leading professionals on essential business technology topics.

The Changing Nature of Work

Jack Hughes
Founder and Chairman
TopCoder, Inc.

February 10, 2011

 

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About the event

The world of work is rapidly changing. The internet will have profound effects on how companies manage a highly diverse, mobile and gloabl workforce. Management models will undergo shifts to meet these new challenges and opportunities. Managers will need to develop new skill sets, measurement and motivation systems to engage these new models of work. Mr. Hughes will discuss these changes and their effects in the context of TopCoder–the world’s largest competitive software development community.

Biography

In November 2000, Jack Hughes founded TopCoder on the premise that talent and skill are the determinant factors in the quality and utility of software and software has become central to the global economy.

In both his own programming experience and as co-founder and chairman of Tallán Inc., a provider of web-enabled business solutions, Hughes recognized that while successful projects were driven by superior programming skills, the talent was unqualified and largely unrecognzied. TopCoder’s mission is to create objective ratings that place high value on the programming industry’s best and brightest, and build opportunity and community for programmers through ongoing programming tournaments and employer connections. Under Hughes’ tenure as chairman at Tallán Inc., the company was recognized as one of the fastest growing companies in North America four years in a row by consultancy firm Deloitte & Touche and by Inc. Magazine for its outstanding performance. In 2000, CMGI, Inc. acquired a majority ownership of the company.

Hughes holds a B.S. degree in computer science from Boston College. He is director and vice chair of the executive committee and chair of the strategy committee for the Christopher Reeve Paralysis Foundation.

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Attendance is free on a space available basis for qualified industry and academic professionals. For more information, please contact ibit@temple.edu.

The Fox School’s Institute for Business and Information Technology presents the Distinguished Speaker Series, featuring talks by leading professionals on essential business technology topics.

Campbell’s IT Vision and Organizational Impacts

Joseph C. Spagnoletti
Senior Vice President
Chief Information Officer
Campbell Soup Company

October 13, 2010

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About the event

The IT function in organizations is rapidly changing. IT roles are changing from technology to process – blurring lines with other functions. IT leader roles are shifting from traditional technology support to business process, portfolio management and change management. Campbell Soup and Joe Spagnoletti are leading the charge into this new much more enhanced and different role for IT in the organization. Learn best practices and change strategies from one of the most forward thinking IT leaders in industry.

Biography

Joseph Spagnoletti leads Campbell’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. He serves on the Cooper Health System’s Audit/Ethics Committee. In 2004, he was recognized with Campbell’s Influence with Honor leadership award.

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Attendance is free on a space available basis for qualified industry and academic professionals. For more information, please contact ibit@temple.edu.

The Fox School’s Institute for Business and Information Technology presents the Distinguished Speaker Series, featuring talks by leading professionals on essential business technology topics.

Finding the Market’s Sweet-Spot

Lee D. Green
Worldwide Vice President-Brand and Values Experience
IBM

October 24, 2007

 

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About the event

Innovation is not about new technology. It is about relevance. It is about understanding markets, your customers, opportunities in disguise, and creating compelling experiences. Design methods applied properly can help you excel in all of the above. It can help identify unarticualted needs that can lead to differentiation and business success.

Lee Green, Worldwide Vice President, Brand and Values Experience at IBM will share insights from his 25 years of experience leading efforts to develop innovative products that achieve marketplace success. Learn about IBM’s design methodology, a process that relies heavily on observation and then market and user validation and iteration, and apply this framework to your business to achieve real usiness results.

Biography

Lee Green is the Vice President, Worldwide IBM Brand and Values Experience. He has responsibility for IBM’s worldwide brand and values experience initiatives, brand strategy and identity, design strategy and IBM’s recently launched Design Consulting Services offering for IBM clients. Mr. Green has played a pivotal role in IBM’s re-branding efforts over the last 13 years. His team also leads the corporation’s efforts in the area of “advanced concept design” working closely with IBM Research.

In his career with IBM Lee has held numerous design, communications and management positions. Recently, he has launched IBM Design Consulting Services offering, working in conjunction with IBM’s Engineering and Technology Group and with IBM Global Business Services. This capability provides Design Services Consulting as a collaborative innovation offering to IBM clients. In addition to industrial design and human factors, it provides Design Consulting Services to help IBM clients consider how they can extend new experiences to their customers, utilize design to differentiate their offerings from their competition, and leverage innovative IBM technology to enable new solutions.

Mr. Green has an undergraduate degree in design from Temple University and a master’s degree in communications design from Rochester Institute of Technology. He has published numerous articles and case studies on a variety of design and identity topics. He has also taught design and branding courses at Stanford University, Harvard, MIT, and RIT. In 2004 he was named Rochester Institute of Technology Distinguished Alumni of the Year. He currently serves on the Board of Directors and Advisory Board for the Design Management Institute, and on the Board of Advisors, Suffolk University Business School.

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Attendance is free on a space available basis for qualified industry and academic professionals. For more information, please contact ibit@temple.edu.

The Fox School’s Institute for Business and Information Technology presents the Distinguished Speaker Series, featuring talks by leading professionals on essential business technology topics.

IT-Creating Powerful Choices for Business and for Individuals

Susan J. Unger
Senior Vice President & Chief Information Officer
DaimlerChrysler AG

March 13, 2007

 

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About the event

The role of information technology both in business and in our personal lives is expanding, growing more strategic, and creating choices that were not imaginable even a decade ago. We have moved into an age of instant access, global reach, and the virtualization of pretty much everything. All of this is supported both by our core efficiencies and an accelerating rate of innovation. IT is all about performance and passion. Join Sue Unger, Senior Vice President and CIO of DaimlerChrysler AG as she shares her passion for the power of IT and the value it brings to companies and people around the world.

Biography

Susan J. Unger was named Senior Vice President & Chief Information Officer for DaimlerChrysler AG in November 1998 and is responsible for directing systems and computer hardware strategy and planning, systems applications development, data center operations and telecommunications network operations for DaimlerChrysler AG.

Unger joined Chrysler Corporation in September 1972 as a financial analyst in Sales and Marketing.

Her work and academic background include:
• Senior Vice President & Chief Information Officer – DaimlerChrysler AG, 1998
• Executive Director – Information Services, Chrysler Corporation, 1993
• Finance Director – Product Development and Jeep/Truck Operations, 1993
• Director – Corporate Financial Analysis, 1991
• Various managerial positions in Finance – 1973-1990
• Financial Analyst – Sales & Marketing, 1972
• M.B.A. Finance, Wayne State University, 1979
• B.A. Economics, Michigan State University, 1972

Sue Unger is a board member of the Detroit Science Center and the Center for Leadership of the Digital Enterprise at Michigan State Eli Broad College of Business. She’s also a member of the Kleiner Perkins CIO Strategy Exchange Forum, the Research Board, the Automotive Women’s Alliance, the University of Michigan College of Engineering National Advisory Committee, the Wayne State University Foundation Board, and the President’s Campaign Cabinet at Michigan State University. She’s past board member of CyberMichigan and past president and board member of the Eli Broad Board in the College of Business at Michigan State University.

Awards include Temple University’s Fox School of Business and Management “2006 Fox Information Technology Leader Award,” Automotive Hall of Fame “2006 Distinguished Service Citation,” 2005 Automotive News “100 Leading Women in the North American Auto Industry” and 2004 Phoenix Mill Women’s Museum “Pioneer Award.” She’s also received an “Alumni Service Award” from Michigan State University, Association of Women in Computing “Top American Women” award, “CIO of the Year” by Salomon Smith Barney, “Distinguished Alumnus of the Year” from Wayne State University School of Business Administration, “Detroit’s Most Influential Women” by Crain’s Detroit Business, “Outstanding Alumni” from Michigan State University Broad College and the Automation Alley “CIO of the Year” award.

Ms. Unger was born in Detroit, Michigan.

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Attendance is free on a space available basis for qualified industry and academic professionals. For more information, please contact ibit@temple.edu.