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Fox Information Technology Award Recipients

JOHN H. SHAIN

John H. Shain

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AWARD FOR DISTINGUISHED ALUMNI

John Shain is president and chief operating officer of Automated Financial Systems, Inc. (AFS), the market leader in the provision of commercial lending solutions and industry benchmarking in risk, operational performance, and pricing to top tier U.S. banks. Under his direction, the Company has leveraged its dominant domestic market position to expand its presence to Europe, opening a subsidiary company in Vienna, Austria, in 2003, and introducing the industry’s only straight-through lending process to manage complex cross-border lending products and relationships, AFSVision™.

In addition, Shain has been responsible for the development of the Company’s ongoing relationship with the Risk Management Association for the delivery of the Risk Analysis Service, now the industry’s standard for the measurement, reporting, benchmarking, and analysis of portfolio credit risk in the U.S. and Europe. Under his management, AFS has experienced consistent double-digit compound annual growth rates in revenue and significant expansion of its product and service business lines, including the introduction in 2000 of its Application Service Provider business model, AFSCommerce™, which has placed AFS among the largest financial services data processors in North America.

Having been named president of AFS in 1991, Shain has over 35 years’ experience in the financial services industry. He is a contributing author of articles to various banking and management publications and is a frequent speaker on the subjects of credit and operational risk at industry conferences globally.

Shain is a graduate of the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, where he earned an MBA, and from Temple University where he earned a BBA. He is also an alumnus of the Stonier Graduate School of Banking, sponsored by the American Bankers Association.

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KURT HOLSTEIN

Kurt Holstein

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY INNOVATOR AWARD

Kurt Holstein is Vice Chairman and Co-founder, Rosetta. Kurt received his BS in Operations Research and Industrial Engineering in 1982 graduate from Cornell University. He then joined Procter & Gamble where he helped developed some of the industry’s first marketing analysis and optimization tools that utilized IRI’s new store-level scanner data. These solutions included tools now considered essential including in-store promotion and shelf optimization systems, ERP and marketing MIS systems. After, 4 years in their Management Systems Division, he moved into P&G’s world-class brand management organization where he spent 12 years at increasing levels of responsibility, building many of P&G’s major consumer healthcare brands including Crest, Scope and Pepto-Bismol. During that time, Kurt also spent 3 years in upstate NY as the Marketing Director of Procter & Gamble Pharmaceuticals. Kurt left P&G in 1998 to start Rosetta with another CPG veteran from J&J. The two entrepreneurs rented space in the back of another agency’s office and started with 2 employees.

Over the past 12 years, as Rosetta’s first COO, then President and now as Vice Chairman, Kurt has helped grow Rosetta into one of the top 5 digital agencies in the US with over $200 Million in annual revenue, 1,200 employees and offices throughout the US and Canada. Rosetta has emerged as the market leader in driving profitable share growth by understanding a brand’s customers and in turn translating these insights into interactive, digitally-enabled marketing programs that create and optimize customer connections. Rosetta serves clients in the Healthcare, Consumer Technology, Retail and Financial Services industries including market leaders like Bristol Meyer Squibb, Apple, RIM, Microsoft, OfficeMax and Nationwide. Kurt also heads Rosetta’s ongoing M&A activities.

Kurt is a frequent industry speaker at events like the DMA National Conference and a guest lecturer in digital and database marketing at both Cornell’s Johnson School of Business and the College of Engineering.

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JOSEPH C. SPAGNOLETTI

Joseph C. Spagnoletti

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY LEADER AWARD

Joseph Spagnoletti was appointed Campbell’s Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer in August 2008. He leads the company’s global information technology function, providing IT strategy to help Campbell meet its business goals. Joe reports to Craig Owens, Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Chief Administrative Officer.

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 in Reading, Pa. He serves on the Cooper Health System’s Audit/Ethics Committee, Global Management Board of GS1, New Jersey State Board for Junior Achievement and the Temple University Fox School of Business Advisory Board. In 2004, he was recognized with Campbell’s Influence with Honor leadership award.

Joe is an AAU basketball coach and his interests include vintage automobiles, motorcycles, snowboarding, hiking and camping.

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J. CHRIS SCALET

J. Chris Scalet

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY LEADER AWARD

J. Christopher (Chris) Scalet is executive vice president, global services, and chief information officer (CIO) at Merck & Co., Inc., responsible for the company’s information technology and global services functions, which include real estate; facilities services; Lean Six Sigma; shared business services; security; energy; travel and aviation.  He is a member of Merck’s executive committee and reports to Merck Chairman, president and chief executive officer Richard T. Clark.

Scalet was formerly with International Paper (IP), where he served as senior vice president and chief information officer, managing information technology and telecommunications strategy, planning, and operations for the world’s largest paper and forest products company.  He was a member of IP’s senior leadership team and the company’s eBusiness Steering Committee. Prior to IP, Scalet was vice president and chief information officer at MAPCO, Inc. (now The Williams Co.), a Fortune 250 diversified energy company.

Scalet is on the Board of Directors of the Netezza Corporation, and was past Honorary Conference Chair for the National Black Data Processing Associates (BDPA).  He received his bachelor’s degree in management science and computer systems from Oklahoma State University and completed the executive development program at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University.

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ANNE MULLINS

Anne Mullins

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY INNOVATOR AWARD

Anne Mullins serves as the Lockheed Martin Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) and Vice President of Corporate Information Security. In this role, she is responsible for Lockheed Martin’s information security strategy to assess business risks and deploy mitigating solutions across the enterprise. Her team is responsible for information policy, governance, security engineering, test, operations, vulnerability management, and cyber threat detection and response.

Anne has more than 23-years of extensive management and technology experience. She previously served as Lockheed Martin’s Corporate Vice President of Global Supply Chain Management with responsibility for enterprise supply chain strategy and policy, a supplier diversity program and more than 1,000 corporate sourcing agreements valued at $6B. She has also served as the Director of Systems Engineering and Technology at Lockheed Martin’s Information Systems and Global Services business where she led a matrix organization of engineers and technologists specializing in modeling and analysis of network, ground, space, remote sensing, and communications systems as well as enterprise cost, risk, and schedule assessment. Anne also held the position of Director of Information Access in Lockheed Martin’s Enterprise Information Systems, and was responsible for the cohesive strategy and rapid deployment of the Lockheed Martin enterprise portal.

Additional roles have included Transformation Manager with Lockheed Martin’s Management and Data Systems Company, Director of Branding and User Experience at Breakaway Solutions, and various positions with then General Electric/Martin Marietta including Program Manager, New Business Capture Manager and System Analysis Manager.

Anne holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from George Washington University and a master’s degree in electrical engineering from Villanova University. She is a graduate of General Electric’s Edison Engineering Program and the Lockheed Martin Program Manager Development Program. Anne, her husband Bob, and their two children, Christian and Kathleen, reside near Valley Forge, Pennsylvania.

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