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Fox IT Leader Award

ANDREA ANANIA

Andrea Anania

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY LEADER AWARD

Andrea Anania was named executive vice president and chief information officer of CIGNA Corporation in March 2001. She reports directly to chairman and CEO H. Edward Hanway. In her role as chief information officer, she is responsible for all systems development, data processing and telecommunications functions worldwide for CIGNA, a Fortune 500 company. Her staff consists of 3,000 individuals primarily in four locations across the country. Anania joined CIGNA in 1995 as senior vice president and division systems information officer for CIGNA Retirement and Investment Services. During her tenure she assumed responsibility for the customer support function in addition to her systems responsibility. Previously, she served with UNISYS Corporation for 20 years with assignments in technical support, sales and product management. Prior to leaving UNISYS, Anania was a managing principal with profit and loss responsibility for all service lines for one of four regional areas. She is a member of the Information Technology Board of the United Way and chairperson of the Philadelphia CIGNA March of Dimes Campaign 2001. She serves on the CIO Advisory Board of the Business School of Villanova University. She received a bachelor’s degree from Queens College and an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

THIRD ANNUAL IT AWARDS

BRUCE FADEM

Bruce Fadem

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY LEADER AWARD

Bruce Fadem is Vice President and CIO, American Home Products/Wyeth. Mr. Fadem is responsible for providing information technology strategic direction to the Corporation (formerly American Home Products) and its operating divisions. He also manages the Corporation’s information technology shared services operations and technology organization and the business application solution units. Mr. Fadem joined the Corporation in

September 1995 as head of Wyeth-Ayerst domestic information technology and was promoted to his current position in November 1997.

Prior to joining Wyeth-Ayerst Laboratories, Mr. Fadem spent twelve years with BankAmerica Corporation in a variety of information technology positions including: responsible for the development, maintenance, and operation of the Retail Bank’s information technology systems; responsible for all business application development worldwide: and responsible for selection, development, and deployment of all hardware and system software. From 1971 to 1983 Mr. Fadem was employed by First Pennsylvania Bank N.A. where he served as Chief Information Officer from 1978 to 1983.

SECOND ANNUAL IT AWARDS

KENT SEINFELD

Kent Seinfeld

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY LEADER AWARD

Kent Seinfeld has been the Chief Information Officer of Commerce Bank for two years. Commerce is a very successful and rapidly growing bank, based in Cherry Hill, New Jersey with offices in New York, Pennsylvania, Delaware and New Jersey. Kent was a consultant for the five years prior to joining Commerce. As a consultant, he specialized in enterprise architecture development. In this capacity, he led efforts to define and establish enterprise architectures and the supporting planning processes at a pharmaceutical firm, an insurance company, a Russian bank, and a Canadian cable and telecommunications company.

Prior to his role as a consultant, Kent was an IT senior vice president and served in three different positions with CoreStates (Wachovia/First Union) Bank. First, he was the CIO of First Pennsylvania Bank prior to its acquisition by CoreStates. After the merger, Kent became the manager of systems development for the MAC ATM and POS network. Subsequent to the spin-off of MAC, Kent founded and managed the Strategic Technology Planning group. This group was responsible for the development of the bankwide client/server systems architecture, computing standards, systems development methodologies and a workflow and document imaging infrastructure.

Kent was the founder and manager of the Technology Planning and Research group at CIGNA, a global insurance and financial services company where he was responsible for computing standards, security policy, development methodologies, and the research and development program. Kent was the CIO for Girard Bank (now Mellon Bank/Philadelphia). Earlier in his tenure, he was the principal architect in the design and implementation of a large-scale highly integrated banking system. This system evolved into the foundation of the George Network, one of the first large ATM and Bank-by-Phone networks. Kent has a bachelors degree in mathematics from NYU and a masters degree in computer science from the University of Pennsylvania.

FIRST ANNUAL IT AWARDS

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INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY LEADER AWARD RECIPIENTS

CHRIS KEARNS
DAVID S. MCGETTIGAN
JEFFREY M. HAMILTON
GREGORY S. MEYERS
ANGELA HEISE
JOHN TURNER
MICHAEL BRADSHAW
LINDA DILLMAN

GEORGE LLADO
JOHN T. MARCANTE
SUJA CHANDRASEKARAN
ADRIAN R. GARDNER
JOSEPH C. SPAGNOLETTI
J. CHRIS SCALET
BILL McDERMOTT
CRISTOBAL I. CONDE

DOREEN A. WRIGHT
SUSAN J. UNGER
FORD CALHOUN
GEORGE C. NOLEN
ANDREA ANANIA
BRUCE FADEM
KENT SEINFELD


INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY INNOVATOR AWARD RECIPIENTS

PATRICK COZZI
RICK NUCCI
CHRIS WINK
DR. BARBARA “BOBBI” KURSHAN
JOHN K. COLLIER
JAMES RHEE
NED MOORE
ROBERT MOORE

JEFF MANGO
MATTHEW GILLIN
ALEEM WALJI
K. VENKATESH PRASAD
KURT HOLSTEIN
ANNE MULLINS
JONATHAN A. BRASSINGTON
MATTHEW C. MULLENWEG

FRANK R. SANCHEZ
JEFFREY CITRON
NIRAJ PATEL
PAUL H. RUSSELL
JAMES SHEWARD
MATTHEW S. PITTINSKY
JOSHUA KOPELMAN


INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AWARD FOR DISTINGUISHED ALUMNI RECIPIENTS

YASMINE MUSTAFA
CRAIG E. CONWAY
FRAN GEATENS
KARTHIK K. SRIDHARAN
HIMESH BHISE
DAVE KOTCH
SATBIR BEDI

RICH BRENNEN
DINESH R. DESAI
LINDA DESCANO
ATISH BANERJEA
MARC E. SNYDER
JOHN H. SHAIN

RICHARD I. COHEN
PHILIP P. JAURIGUE
JOE WEISS
DANIEL T. GARRETT
BEN-SABA HASAN
SONDRA L. BARBOUR


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