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Fox Information Technology Award Recipients

MARC E. SNYDER

Marc E. Snyder - FOX IT AWARD FOR DISTINGUISHED ALUMNI - 2012

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AWARD FOR DISTINGUISHED ALUMNI

Marc Snyder is a Managing Director in KPMG’s U.S. IT Strategy and Performance advisory practice, where he leads the Northeast practice. Marc helps client executives drive improved business performance through the strategic and effective use of technology.

Marc brings over 30 years of domestic and international hands-on experience in a wide-range of industries using state-of-the-art IT to establish and build new business capabilities, improve ROI on IT investments, navigate change such as post-merger integration, and transform IT capabilities. Marc has worked on numerous domestic and cross-border, cross-business unit projects, including a four year overseas assignment in European (based in Switzerland) where he worked with several multi-national European clients. Marc is recognized as an innovative and pragmatic thought leader on IT strategy and value, especially global and cross-business unit governance issues. He has received patents for his work and regularly speaks and publishes on contemporary IT topics.

Prior to joining KPMG, he was a partner in with Accenture’s Strategic IT Effectiveness practice, and prior to that, a member of IBM’s consulting practice. He holds a Bachelor of Business Administration in information systems and an MBA from the Fox School of Business, Temple University.

TWELFTH ANNUAL IT AWARDS

K. VENKATESH PRASAD

K. Venkatesh Prasad - FOX IT INNOVATOR AWARD - 2012

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY INNOVATOR AWARD

Venkatesh Prasad is a technical leader with a strong internal and external reputation for addressing large, complex, cross-national, multidisciplinary science and technology projects relating to automotive electrical and electronic systems. He is one of the masterminds behind the successful Ford SYNC® in-car connectivity system and was part of the extended team that launched Ford’s first telematics application (Lincoln RESCU). In 2012, he will help shape Ford’s new Silicon Valley Research Lab which will focus on developing mobility solutions to harness the power of seamless connectivity, cloud computing and clean technology.

Prasad is recognized for having created the formal technical specification for a built-in, brought-in and beamed-in connectivity system and led the prove-out of a number of enabling technologies and supported the core engineering teams to deliver what has become Ford’s industry leading family of connectivity technologies. Prasad also created a novel open-innovation approach by leading the design of the software system technologies and tools needed for trusted partners & third-party developers, including university students, to rapidly innovate with Ford in the creation of software applications.

Prasad has more than 20 years’ experience on the design of embedded electronics, software and associated communications systems. Previously Prasad has worked in Silicon Valley (Ricoh California Research Center) and prior to that was at Caltech and was affiliated with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

TWELFTH ANNUAL IT AWARDS

ADRIAN R. GARDNER

Adrian R. Gardner - Fox IT Leader Award - 2012

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY LEADER AWARD

Adrian R. Gardner’s career includes more than 20 years of federal service enabling mission capability and readiness. Gardner was the recipient of 2005 Federal 100 award and was named to InformationWeek’s 2011 Government CIO 50 list.

Gardner currently serves as the Director of the IT and Communications Directorate and Chief Information Officer for the Goddard Space Flight Center. As part of this role, he manages IT as a strategic asset and all mission and satellite launch communications. Gardner also serves as the Chair of the federal sub-committee responsible for setting standards for sharing and reporting governmental data and was one of the key architects for the federal data.gov initiative.

He was previously CIO for the National Weather Service, Deputy Associate CIO, Department of Energy, and Deputy Associate CIO for Cyber Security, Department of Energy. Gardner is a Doctoral Candidate at the University of Southern California where he holds a Master’s degree in Public Administration. He also holds an MSc degree in Environmental Studies from Hood College and is the recipient of an honorary doctorate degree, also from Hood College. Gardner holds a BSc in Biological Science and Ecology from the Tuskegee Institute. Gardner serves on the Board of the District of Columbia Urban League and is a volunteer and mentor to several academic and youth programs.

An Air Force veteran, Gardner was commissioned as a Launch Control Officer and served with distinction until he was honorably discharged. He received the Air Force Achievement Medal in 1987.

TWELFTH ANNUAL IT AWARDS

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.

ELEVENTH ANNUAL IT AWARDS

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.

ELEVENTH ANNUAL IT AWARDS