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Fox Information Technology Award Recipients

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.

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MATTHEW S. PITTINSKY

Matthew Serbin Pittinsky

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY INNOVATOR AWARD

Matthew Pittinsky has been an active leader in the field of e-learning. He has been instumental in growing Blackboard into a company with 1,900 client institutions, 415 employees, and over $100 million in investments. Industry analysts recognize Blackboard as the leading provider of e-education software infrastructure in the world.

He has served on numerous panels and presented at industry conferences for organizations such as EDUCAUSE, Harvard Business School, and the Software Publishers Association.

Most recently, he was awarded “Visionary of the Year” by the Northern Virginia Technology Council (2001). Other awards include: “Top Under-30 Technology Executives” by Washington Techway magazine (2000); “Entrepreneurs of the Year for Emerging Companies in Washington, D.C.” (with co-founder Michael Chasen) by Ernst & Young (2000); and “Young Innovators” by the Kilby Awards Foundation, a distinction shared with other Kilby laureates, such as Vint Cerf, Marc Andreesen and Linus Torvalds.

He is the editor of the forthcoming book The Wired Tower to be published by Prentice-Hall Financial Times. He serves on the advisory boards of SMARTHINKING and Syllabus2000, and serves on the board of American Universiy and Northern Virginia Technology Council.

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.

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JOSHUA KOPELMAN

Joshua Kopelman

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY INNOVATOR AWARD

Josh Kopelman is founder and President of Half.com. Josh is a serial entrepreneur and investor who has been an active leader in the Internet industry since its commercialization. He currently serves as Managing Director of First Round Capital, a seed-stage venture fund.

In 1992, while he was a student at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, Josh co-founded Infonautics Corporation – an Internet information company. In 1996, Infonautics went public on the NASDAQ stock exchange.

Josh left Infonautics to found Half.com in July of 1999, and led it to become one of the largest sellers of used books, movies and music in the world. Half.com was acquired by eBay in July 2000 — and Josh remained with eBay for three years, running the Half.com business unit and growing eBay’s Media marketplace to almost half a billion dollars in annual gross merchandise sales.

In early 2004 Josh helped to found TurnTide, an anti-spam company that created the world’s first anti-spam router. TurnTide was acquired by Symantec just six months later.

Prior to forming First Round Capital, Josh served as an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Comcast Interactive Capital – a $350 million venture capital fund affiliated with Comcast Corporation. Josh is an inventor on five U.S. Patents for his work in Internet technology. In June 2000, he was awarded Ernst and Young’s prestigious “Entrepreneur of the Year” award for the Greater Philadelphia region. Josh has also been recognized as one of the “10 Most Influential People in Philadelphia Technology” by the Philadelphia Inquirer, one of the “76 Smartest Philadelphians” by Philadelphia Magazine and as one of forty individuals under the age of forty who have made the biggest impact on the Philadelphia region by the Philadelphia Business Journal.

Josh is often quoted in industry trade journals and national newspapers, has appeared on numerous national television shows, and is a frequent speaker at industry-wide conferences on entrepreneurship, Internet marketing and the future of Internet services.

In 2001 Josh and his wife created the Kopelman Foundation, a non-profit organization focused on angel philanthropy to provide “start-up” grants to social entrepreneurs. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of Innovation Philadelphia, a public/private partnership focused on enhancing the global innovation economy of Philadelphia through technological leadership. He also serves on the advisory boards of the University of Pennsylvania’s Center for Community Partnerships and the Weiss Tech House at the University of Pennsylvania.

Josh earned a Bachelor of Science degree cum laude in Entrepreneurial Management and Marketing from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

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