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Fox Information Technology Award Recipients

DOREEN A. WRIGHT

Doreen A. Wright

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY LEADER AWARD

Doreen A. Wright was appointed Campbell’s Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer in 2001. She leads the company’s global information technology organization and reports to the President and Chief Executive Officer. She is responsible for directing global systems strategy and planning, application development and support, infrastructure, and the telecommunications network.

Prior to joining Campbell, Doreen was Executive Vice President and Chief Information Officer at Nabisco. She began her career at Merrill Lynch, managing several retail client service and processing units. In 1984, she joined Bankers Trust Company as Vice President, Institutional Trust and Custody Marketing. For the next 10 years, she held leadership positions as a Managing Director and Senior Vice President of numerous large-scale institutional customer service and technology groups. From 1995 through 1998, Doreen was Senior Vice President, Operations and Systems for Prudential Insurance Company’s Prudential Investment Group.

Doreen earned her Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1979. She serves on the Board of Directors of The Yankee Candle Company and The Riverside Symphonia, and she is a Trustee of the Campbell Soup Foundation.

SEVENTH ANNUAL IT AWARDS

FRANK R. SANCHEZ

Frank R. Sanchez

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY INNOVATOR AWARD

Frank R. Sanchez is the President of the Enterprise Banking and Retail Solutions division of Fidelity National Information Services. His responsibilities include the strategy, architecture and development of the banking suite of products, including core banking, integration and channel solutions. He also has responsibility for the Auto Finance business and the Commercial Lending businesses within FIS. Sanchez also has revenue responsibility for Strategic accounts which consists of top-tier US and global institutions as well as specific product line revenues.

Prior to joining FIS in January 2003, Frank was the CEO of Sanchez Computer Associates, a public banking technology company that specialized in real-time banking systems for the global market, enterprise customer integration systems and complete internet banking outsourcing. Frank began his career at Sanchez in 1980 and fulfilled many organizational functions including product architecture and engineering, sales and marketing and executive management. He designed and built the industry’s first highly scalable real-time banking system which has successfully been installed in hundreds of financial institutions spanning 16 countries. In 2001, he deployed the industry’s first core banking system on a Linux platform. Throughout his career, Frank has continually provided technology innovations to the financial services and IT industry and has received numerous individual and corporate achievement awards.

Frank served on the technical advisory board for high performance system at Digital Equipment from 1986 – 1991. He was a director of Transaction Systems Architects from 2003 – 2005. He currently serves on the board of Covansys and the Penn State University remote campus curriculum advisory board. Frank attended the University of Connecticut where he studied astrophysics and finance.

SEVENTH ANNUAL IT AWARDS

DANIEL T. GARRETT

Daniel T. Garrett

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AWARD FOR DISTINGUISHED ALUMNI

Mr. Garrett is currently consulting to PWC and the industry and working with them on a national health data steward project that will measure quality and performance in the US healthcare industry. Mr. Garrett was previously vice president and managing partner of Computer Science Corporation’s (CSC) Global Health Solutions (GHS) practice, a division within the company’s United States Consulting Group. He is responsible for leading all healthcare activities across CSC worldwide.

GHS provides consulting and information technology (IT) services to leading life sciences, pharmaceutical, health provider and health plan organizations. GHS serves the industry with consulting and system and data integration services that increase patient safety and value for consumers and employers, get drugs and devices to market quicker, and reduce waste and non value added costs across the Healthcare vertical. The GHS group works with CSC’s Federal Sector business unit to support similar efforts on behalf of the company’s civil and Department of Defense healthcare clients. GHS also collaborates with CSC’s Technology Management Group and local operations in Asia, Europe and Australia to support national and global outsourcing and systems integration engagements with healthcare organizations.

Mr. Garrett has more than 27 years experience in consulting and IT services. He joined CSC in 1995 as director of one of the regional practices and grew the organization to one of the largest practices in both the company and country. Prior to his current position, he served as vice president, healthcare solutions for CSC’s Consulting Group. Previous management responsibilities include directing national professional services and systems integration organizations; managing large applications development groups; program and project management of multi-million dollar global initiatives; and leading corporate marketing organizations.

Under Dan’s leadership CSC’s Healthcare team has successfully delivered some of the largest and most complex Healthcare IT initiatives for Governments (NHS/UK, HHS,NIH,CDC) and leading commercial Provider, Payer, and Pharma enterprises. Mr. Garrett is known for his healthcare industry leadership in health information exchange programs, Regional, State and Country Healthcare transformation initiatives, and functional process, technology and organization deployment programs in R&D, sales and marketing, manufacturing, healthcare delivery, membership management, and financial/supply chain management. Mr. Garrett is a frequent featured speaker at leading business, industry, and government forums and has recently spoken at the Council for Logistics Management Forum, HIMSS’s national event, Health and Human Services Secretarial NHII summit, Connecting Communities for Better Health Conference, MIT’s HIT Symposium, FCW’s Government Health IT event, and the National Health Information conference.

He was a founding member of the Interoperability Consortium, an alliance between Accenture, Cisco, CSC, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Intel, Microsoft and Oracle. He is currently serving as executive vice chairman of the Markle Foundation/Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s “Connecting for Health” initiative. Mr. Garrett is also on the board of directors of eHealthInitiative and is a founding board member of NAHIT (National Alliance for Healthcare Information Technology), as well as a member of the executive committee of NAHIT’s board of directors. Mr. Garrett is a member of the Council for Logistics Management and is on the board of trustees of the Malcolm Baldridge Foundation. Mr. Garret holds a bachelor’s degree in computer and information science from Temple University’s Fox School of Business and is certified as a CPIM (Certified in Production and Inventory Management) by APICS, the association for operations management.

SEVENTH ANNUAL IT AWARDS

SUSAN J. UNGER

Susan J. Unger

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY LEADER AWARD

Susan J. Unger was named Senior Vice President & Chief Information Officer for DaimlerChrysler AG effective November 1, 1998. Previously, she was Executive Director – Information Services Department for Chrysler Corporation. In her current position, she 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 includes: Senior Vice President & Chief Information Officer, DaimlerChrysler AG, November, 1998, Executive Director – Information Services, Chrysler Corporation, November, 1993, Finance Director – Product Development and Jeep®/Truck Operations, 1993, Director – Corporate Financial Analysis, 1991, Various other 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 CyberMichigan, the Eli Broad Board in the College of Business at Michigan State University (past President) and the Detroit Science Center. She is also a member of the Research Board; the Kleiner Perkins CIO Strategy Exchange Forum; the Automotive Women’s Alliance; the University of Michigan College of Engineering National Advisory Committee; the Wayne State University Foundation Board; the President’s Campaign Cabinet at Michigan State University; and the Interstate University Investment Committee. She also served on Michigan’s Judicial Information Systems Advisory Commission.

Recent awards include the 2005 Automotive News 100 Leading Women in the North American Auto Industry and the 2004 Phoenix Mill Women’s Museum Pioneer Award. In 2003, she received the Michigan State University Alumni Service Award and the Association of Women in Computing Top American Women award. In 2002, she was named CIO of the Year by Salomon Smith Barney, Distinguished Alumnus of the Year by Wayne State University School of Business Administration and one of Detroit’s Most Influential Women by Crain’s Detroit Business. She received the 2002 Broad College Outstanding Alumni Award from Michigan State University and the Automation Alley 2002 CIO of the Year award. Ms. Unger was named one of BtoB Magazine’s Top 25 eChampions in 2001.

SIXTH ANNUAL IT AWARDS

JEFFREY CITRON

Jeffrey Citron

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY INNOVATOR AWARD

Co-founder, Chairman, & Chief Strategist, Jeffrey Citron is a technology pioneer and visionary who transformed the financial services industry and is now aiming to redefine the telecommunications industry. Vonage Holdings Corporation has quickly become the leading supplier and name brand associated with Voice over IP (VOIP).

Mr. Citron spearheaded some of the more revolutionary financial services developments over the past decade. In 1995, Mr. Citron founded The Island ECN, a computerized trading system designed to eliminate the problems associated with order execution. Instinet Group recently acquired The Island ECN for $503 million. Today, the newly merged company is one of the largest global financial exchanges and is responsible for more than one in four NASDAQ trades.

Following on the success of The Island ECN, Mr. Citron founded and became the Chairman and CEO of Datek Online Holdings Corporation as Datek transitioned into the online brokerage industry. Under his leadership, Datek had grown to become the fourth largest online brokerage in the US and was recently acquired by Ameritrade Holdings for $1.3 billion. Mr. Citron departed Datek in 1999 and, recognizing a similar opportunity, founded Vonage.

Apart from his entrepreneurial activities, Mr. Citron is continually pursuing philanthropic initiatives. He currently serves on the board of the Montclair Art Museum and through his family foundation, routinely funds medical research, supports the Arts and dedicates his time and resources to children’s charities.

SIXTH ANNUAL IT AWARDS

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