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Digital leaders McGettigan, Nucci, and Conway honored at 23rd Annual Information Technology Awards

Temple University’s Institute for Business and Information Technology (IBIT) honored three accomplished digital leaders at its 23rd Annual Information Technology Awards on Thursday, May 1st, 2025, in Philadelphia.

The event brought together top technology leaders, innovators, and disruptors for an evening of celebration. The dinner featured remarks by Dean Chip Hunter and award presentation by IBIT board chair Sondra Barbour, followed by a conversation on leadership, innovation, careers, and AI moderated by Munir Mandviwalla. Members of the IBIT community of industry partners, alumni, faculty and students from colleges across Temple University were in attendance.

The evening spotlighted IBIT’s three honorees for 2025.

David McGettigan, Senior Vice President, Pfizer Inc., received the 2025 Information Technology Leader Award. McGettigan is leading Enterprise Platforms and Solutions encompassing three major areas: Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Enterprise Platforms (Cloud Computing, Infrastructure and Operations) as well as Acquisitions, Collaborations, and Divestitures (ACD). This includes our systems that manage ~$60B – $100B in financial and supply transactions annually. David has extensive experience across marketing, finance, manufacturing, and digital platforms for multinational companies, and has successfully led many large-scale transformational, innovative, and business acquisition initiatives.

Rick Nucci, Co-Founder and CEO, Guru, received the 2025 Information Technology Innovator Award. Guru is the enterprise AI search and knowledge platform that delivers trusted information from your company’s scattered docs, apps, and chats the moment you need it – directly in your workflow. Industry leaders like DHL, Shopify, and Spotify are a few of the thousands of companies that use Guru to break down information silos, reduce app overload, and improve efficiency org-wide. Before Guru, Rick was the founder of Boomi, which defined and led a new segment as the industry’s first cloud integration platform-as-a-service. Boomi was acquired by Dell in 2010, where Rick went on to run the Boomi business for Dell, helping grow the organization into the industry leader it is today.

Craig Conway, Chief Technology Officer, Togetherwork, received the 2025 Information Technology Award for Distinguished Alumni. Prior to his role at Togetherwork, he was responsible for operations and customer experience for the Modern Banking platform at FIS. The Modern Banking platform is a 3rd generation cloud-based core banking platform for both retail and commercial banks. FIS is the global leader in financial technologies focusing on banking, capital markets, and payments products and services.

A sub-committee of the IBIT advisory board including Jeff Hamilton (committee chair), Bruce Fadem, Niraj Patel and Sondra Barbour (board chair) identified nominees for the 2025 awards from a list of 69 candidates. These nominations were submitted to and approved by the entire board.

For more about the IT awards and honorees, visit https://ibit.temple.edu/itawards/.
To see the event pictures, click here.

Contact ibit at ibit@temple.edu.

CRAIG E. CONWAY

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AWARD FOR DISTINGUISHED ALUMNI

Craig joined Togetherwork, an integrated financial software and payments platform for member-based organizations as Chief Technology Officer (CTO) on March 31, 2025. Previously, he was responsible for operations and customer experience for the Modern Banking platform at FIS. The Modern Banking platform is a 3rd generation cloud-based core banking platform for both retail and commercial banks. FIS is the global leader in financial technologies focusing on banking, capital markets, and payments products and services.

Craig has also been responsible for global enterprise architecture, emerging technologies, and enterprise technology transformation at FIS. He focused on applying existing, new and emerging technologies to transform and optimize business and operating models across all products and services.

Craig’s previous role was chief technology officer at Livingston International, which is a global trade management and logistics company. He was responsible for technology, enterprise portfolio management, and was general management of Livingston’s SaaS software businesses. Craig modernized Livingston’s infrastructure and application capabilities by leveraging API, mobile, cloud, AI, machine learning, data analytics, and blockchain technologies.

Craig has a unique portfolio of experiences and has achieved exceptional results in driving global product offerings, enterprise architecture and product innovation. The majority of Craig’s career has been focused on payments technology, including executive vice president and global chief technology officer at Transaction Network Services, as well as chief technology officer of financial services and general manager of prepaid at First Data Corporation and senior vice president, technology and operations at ConcordEFS, which included responsibility for the Star and MAC debit networks. Prior to ConcordEFS Craig held leadership roles at Electronic Payment Services and CoreStates Financial (now Wells Fargo).

Craig holds a B.B.A. in finance and legal studies and an M.B.A. in technology management, both from Temple University, Fox School of Business in Philadelphia. He also attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management Executive Education Program.

Craig has served on the Advisory Committee for Ben Franklin Technology Partners and currently serves on the Mid-Atlantic Customer Experience Advisory Board. Craig also mentors CEOs, advises portfolio companies, and mentors Temple students.

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RICK NUCCI

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY INNOVATOR AWARD

Rick Nucci is the co-founder and CEO of Guru – the enterprise AI search and knowledge platform that delivers trusted information from your company’s scattered docs, apps, and chats the moment you need it – directly in your workflow. Industry leaders like DHL, Shopify, and Spotify are a few of the thousands of companies that use Guru to break down information silos, reduce app overload, and improve efficiency org-wide. Before Guru, Rick was the founder of Boomi, which defined and led a new segment as the industry’s first cloud integration platform-as-a-service. Boomi was acquired by Dell in 2010, where Rick went on to run the Boomi business for Dell, helping grow the organization into the industry leader it is today.

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DAVID S. MCGETTIGAN

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY LEADER AWARD

David S. McGettigan is Senior Vice President, Pfizer Inc. leading Enterprise Platforms and Solutions encompassing three major areas: Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Enterprise Platforms (Cloud Computing, Infrastructure and Operations) as well as Acquisitions, Collaborations, and Divestitures (ACD). This includes our systems that manage ~$60B – $100B in financial and supply transactions annually. David has extensive experience across marketing, finance, manufacturing, and digital platforms for multinational companies, and has successfully led many large-scale transformational, innovative, and business acquisition initiatives.

Prior to his current role, David most recently was the SVP responsible for Pfizer Global Supply technology and digital solutions which included: manufacturing, quality, supply chain, finance, procurement, manufacturing network, and process automations. He was also responsible for a novel and patented predictive analytics application. Prior to that, David served as SVP for Enabling Functions Core Solutions. In that capacity, he successfully developed and deployed enterprise platforms globally, and implemented an industry-leading Digital transformation program.

At Wyeth Pharmaceuticals, he served as the Vice President responsible for establishing and executing the shared service strategy and outsourcing operations. Additionally, he had responsibilities in leading the Wyeth/Pfizer integration planning efforts. He joined Wyeth in October 2000 with the mission of developing electronic business capabilities across the organization while driving innovation and process improvements.

Prior to joining Pfizer, David had a significant career with ExxonMobil Corporation, where he was also responsible for developing their electronic commerce program during another one of the largest corporate mergers to date. Additionally, he was responsible for both the technical development and marketing launch of the highly successful Speedpass program, which was used by several million people and thousands of retail locations.

David holds an MBA from Virginia Tech and a BS in Business Administration from the University of Delaware. He has been an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Management Information Systems at Temple University for over twenty years, teaching graduate level courses and served as an IT Fellow.

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Digital leaders Hamilton, Wink, and Geatens honored at 22nd Annual IT Awards

Temple University’s Institute for Business and Information Technology (IBIT) honored three accomplished digital leaders at its 22nd Annual Information Technology Awards.

The awards event, held Wednesday, May 1, 2024, in Philadelphia, brought together an elite group of tech leaders, innovators and disruptors for an engaging evening of celebration amongst the IBIT community. Dean Chip Hunter started the program by welcoming the participants. The rest of the evening spotlighted the honorees who shared their expertise and vision.

Jeff Hamilton, Chief Information Officer, Teva Pharmaceuticals received the 2024 Information Technology Leader Award. Hamilton is responsible for technology systems and infrastructure in 60 countries and 50 plants at Teva. Previously, Hamilton was Senior Vice President, Pfizer Digital with responsibility for manufacturing, supply chain and finance systems. He directed Pfizer’s digital efforts to rapidly scale COVID-19 vaccine production and distribution of billions of doses to more than 170 countries.

Chris Wink, cofounder and CEO of Technical.ly, received the 2024 Information Technology Innovator Award. Wink, a journalist and entrepreneur, co-founded Technical.ly, a news and community resource for technologists and entrepreneurs. Wink is the lead organizer of Philly Tech Week and in 2022, he was named one of Pennsylvania’s most influential impact leaders, and in 2017 Folio magazine named him one of the 100 most innovative media leaders in the country.

Fran Geatens, Vice President, Technology Infrastructure, Operations, and Experience, Merck received the 2024 Information Technology Award for Distinguished Alumni. Geatens is responsible for managing Merck’s worldwide technology infrastructure and business applications. He led Merck’s accelerated cloud transformation that is enabling new ways of working. Geatens is a graduate of Temple University’s Fox School of Business.

This year’s group of honorees are truly exceptional and we are proud to recognize them as digital innovation leaders.
Munir Mandviwalla, Executive Director

A sub-committee of the IBIT advisory board including George Llado (committee chair), Sondra Barbour, Michael Bradshaw, Andrea Stewart, and Bruce Fadem (board chair) identified nominees for the 2024 awards from a list of 62 candidates. These nominations were submitted to and approved by the entire board. Fadem, Barbour, and Llado also introduced each award recipient at the event.

The impact of the 2024 awards was rated highly on IBIT’s new Impact Model with an average score of 5.94 on a scale from 1 to 7 with 7 being the highest rating. The highest rating of 6.43 was for the value of participating in the activity, while the lowest rating of 4.92 was for contributing to the success of the activity. The following is a sample of comments included in the above responses.

It was even better than the last year. I loved it.
Student Participant

Great to see the strides the program has made and industry connections to strengthen IBIT’s place in the market.
Industry Participant

The event was the best so far. Excellent choice of venue, everything was very professionally run.
Industry Participant

For more about the IT awards and honorees, visit https://ibit.temple.edu/itawards/. To see the event pictures, click here.
For more details about the impact assessment, visit: https://ibit.temple.edu/impact