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Fox IT Awards Reception

Digital leaders McGettigan, Nucci, and Conway honored at 23rd Annual Information Technology Awards

Temple University’s Institute for Business and Information Technology (IBIT) honored three accomplished digital leaders at its 23rd Annual Information Technology Awards on Thursday, May 1st, 2025, in Philadelphia.

The event brought together top technology leaders, innovators, and disruptors for an evening of celebration. The dinner featured remarks by Dean Chip Hunter and award presentation by IBIT board chair Sondra Barbour, followed by a conversation on leadership, innovation, careers, and AI moderated by Munir Mandviwalla. Members of the IBIT community of industry partners, alumni, faculty and students from colleges across Temple University were in attendance.

The evening spotlighted IBIT’s three honorees for 2025.

David McGettigan, Senior Vice President, Pfizer Inc., received the 2025 Information Technology Leader Award. McGettigan is leading Enterprise Platforms and Solutions encompassing three major areas: Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Enterprise Platforms (Cloud Computing, Infrastructure and Operations) as well as Acquisitions, Collaborations, and Divestitures (ACD). This includes our systems that manage ~$60B – $100B in financial and supply transactions annually. David has extensive experience across marketing, finance, manufacturing, and digital platforms for multinational companies, and has successfully led many large-scale transformational, innovative, and business acquisition initiatives.

Rick Nucci, Co-Founder and CEO, Guru, received the 2025 Information Technology Innovator Award. Guru is the enterprise AI search and knowledge platform that delivers trusted information from your company’s scattered docs, apps, and chats the moment you need it – directly in your workflow. Industry leaders like DHL, Shopify, and Spotify are a few of the thousands of companies that use Guru to break down information silos, reduce app overload, and improve efficiency org-wide. Before Guru, Rick was the founder of Boomi, which defined and led a new segment as the industry’s first cloud integration platform-as-a-service. Boomi was acquired by Dell in 2010, where Rick went on to run the Boomi business for Dell, helping grow the organization into the industry leader it is today.

Craig Conway, Chief Technology Officer, Togetherwork, received the 2025 Information Technology Award for Distinguished Alumni. Prior to his role at Togetherwork, he was responsible for operations and customer experience for the Modern Banking platform at FIS. The Modern Banking platform is a 3rd generation cloud-based core banking platform for both retail and commercial banks. FIS is the global leader in financial technologies focusing on banking, capital markets, and payments products and services.

A sub-committee of the IBIT advisory board including Jeff Hamilton (committee chair), Bruce Fadem, Niraj Patel and Sondra Barbour (board chair) identified nominees for the 2025 awards from a list of 69 candidates. These nominations were submitted to and approved by the entire board.

For more about the IT awards and honorees, visit https://ibit.temple.edu/itawards/.
To see the event pictures, click here.

Contact ibit at ibit@temple.edu.

Digital leaders Hamilton, Wink, and Geatens honored at 22nd Annual IT Awards

Temple University’s Institute for Business and Information Technology (IBIT) honored three accomplished digital leaders at its 22nd Annual Information Technology Awards.

The awards event, held Wednesday, May 1, 2024, in Philadelphia, brought together an elite group of tech leaders, innovators and disruptors for an engaging evening of celebration amongst the IBIT community. Dean Chip Hunter started the program by welcoming the participants. The rest of the evening spotlighted the honorees who shared their expertise and vision.

Jeff Hamilton, Chief Information Officer, Teva Pharmaceuticals received the 2024 Information Technology Leader Award. Hamilton is responsible for technology systems and infrastructure in 60 countries and 50 plants at Teva. Previously, Hamilton was Senior Vice President, Pfizer Digital with responsibility for manufacturing, supply chain and finance systems. He directed Pfizer’s digital efforts to rapidly scale COVID-19 vaccine production and distribution of billions of doses to more than 170 countries.

Chris Wink, cofounder and CEO of Technical.ly, received the 2024 Information Technology Innovator Award. Wink, a journalist and entrepreneur, co-founded Technical.ly, a news and community resource for technologists and entrepreneurs. Wink is the lead organizer of Philly Tech Week and in 2022, he was named one of Pennsylvania’s most influential impact leaders, and in 2017 Folio magazine named him one of the 100 most innovative media leaders in the country.

Fran Geatens, Vice President, Technology Infrastructure, Operations, and Experience, Merck received the 2024 Information Technology Award for Distinguished Alumni. Geatens is responsible for managing Merck’s worldwide technology infrastructure and business applications. He led Merck’s accelerated cloud transformation that is enabling new ways of working. Geatens is a graduate of Temple University’s Fox School of Business.

This year’s group of honorees are truly exceptional and we are proud to recognize them as digital innovation leaders.

Munir Mandviwalla, Executive Director

A sub-committee of the IBIT advisory board including George Llado (committee chair), Sondra Barbour, Michael Bradshaw, Andrea Stewart, and Bruce Fadem (board chair) identified nominees for the 2024 awards from a list of 62 candidates. These nominations were submitted to and approved by the entire board. Fadem, Barbour, and Llado also introduced each award recipient at the event.

The impact of the 2024 awards was rated highly on IBIT’s new Impact Model with an average score of 5.94 on a scale from 1 to 7 with 7 being the highest rating. The highest rating of 6.43 was for the value of participating in the activity, while the lowest rating of 4.92 was for contributing to the success of the activity. The following is a sample of comments included in the above responses.

It was even better than the last year. I loved it.

Student Participant

Great to see the strides the program has made and industry connections to strengthen IBIT’s place in the market.

Industry Participant

The event was the best so far. Excellent choice of venue, everything was very professionally run.

Industry Participant

For more about the IT awards and honorees, visit https://ibit.temple.edu/itawards/. To see the event pictures, click here.
For more details about the impact assessment, visit: https://ibit.temple.edu/impact

Contact us at ibit@temple.edu.

Tech leaders Kurshan, Meyers, and Sridharan honored at 21st Annual IT Awards

Temple University’s Institute for Business and Information Technology (IBIT) honored three exceptional technology leaders at its 21st Annual Information Technology Awards.

This premier exclusive event, held Thursday, May 4, 2023, in Philadelphia, brought together an elite group of technology leaders, innovators and disruptors for an engaging evening of discussion about the rapidly changing digital landscape and how we prepare for the road ahead.

The evening spotlighted IBIT’s three honorees for 2023 who shared their expertise and vision with the attendees through keynote presentations.

Dr. Barbara “Bobbi” Kurshan, Board Member of American Public Education, Inc., received the 2023 Information Technology Innovator Award. Dr. Kurshan, co-author of “InnovateHERs – Why Purpose-Driven Entrepreneurial Women Rise to the Top,” has honed her vision of “what can be” using technology while supporting education companies and developing innovative products. She currently serves as a Senior Innovation Advisor at the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania where she builds and advises education innovation ecosystems and co-directs the global certificate in Innovation and Entrepreneurship.

Bobbi’s keynote focused on “Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Synergistic But Not Synonymous.”

Gregory S. Meyers, Chief Technology and Digital Officer at Bristol Myers Squibb, received the 2023 Information Technology Leader Award. As a key leader at one of the world’s largest pharmaceutical companies, Meyers is responsible for the company’s digital transformation, the IT function and cybersecurity. He leads the company’s digital health initiative which performs cutting edge R&D using Artificial Intelligence to transform the way patients who suffer from serious diseases are diagnosed, treated and monitored.

Greg’s keynote focused on “You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet, Tech in the Next 20 Years.”

Karthik K. Sridharan, Executive Vice President and Chief Information Officer, OceanFirst Bank N.A. received the 2023 Information Technology Award for Distinguished Alumni. Prior to his role at OceanFirst Bank, Karthik was the Chief Technology Officer at Citigroup and held leadership roles in global technology management with JP Morgan Chase and Bank of America Merrill Lynch. He was also Industry Manager at Microsoft before entering the financial services industry. Karthik is a graduate of Temple University’s Fox School of Business.

Karthik’s keynote focused on “Let’s Apply Digital Disruption to Impact Our Communities.”

“This year’s group of honorees are truly exceptional in their contributions to the IT community, and we are proud to recognize them as digital transformation leaders,” says Dr. Munir Mandviwalla, IBIT’s Executive Director and Professor of MIS at Temple University’s Fox School of Business.

For more information about the IT awards and to learn more about the honorees, please visit https://ibit.temple.edu/itawards/. To see the event pictures, click here.

Contact ibit at ibit@temple.edu.

Twentieth Annual IT Awards

The 20th annual IT awards celebrated 20 years of excellence and successes of the Management Information Systems Department (MIS) and the Institute for Business and Information Technology (IBIT) on April 14, 2022. A photobook commemorated the anniversary featuring pictures of the last 20 years.

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The event featured the IBIT Lifetime Achievement Award for Bruce Fadem, founding Chair, IT advisory board, Retired VP and CIO, Wyeth. Bruce was recognized for founding the IT advisory board, playing a major role in keeping the MIS curriculum up-to-date, student scholarships, and for working with IBIT to develop a worldwide reputation in industry-academic engagement. A committee of IBIT and MIS personnel selected Bruce for the award.

Michael Luckenbill, Technology Manager, Capgemini, Fox MIS alum ’08 was recognized with the MIS 20th Anniversary Alumni Award. Michael founded the MIS student organization, which became the template for Association for Information Systems (AIS) student chapters worldwide, speaks regularly in classes, mentors’ students, reviews curriculum, and provides advice on current industry trends. A committee of IBIT and MIS personnel selected Michael for the award.

Laurel Miller, Assistant Professor and IBIT Director, received the IBIT Lifetime Achievement Award for playing a major role in creating the National Cyber Analyst Challenge, Temple and National Analytics Challenges, mentoring program, career fair, sustaining and growing the IBIT relationship with industry, and the IT awards. The entire IBIT IT advisory board selected Laurel for the award.

David Schuff, Professor and Chair of MIS, received the IBIT Lifetime Achievement Award for creating the Temple and National Analytics Challenges, serving as editor-in-chief of the IBIT Report and as Research Director for industry projects, and leading programs that generate industry relevant talent. The entire IBIT IT advisory board selected David for the award.

The carnival themed event was attended by students, alums, faculty, staff, deans, and the IBIT advisory board.

See more pictures here.

The event also featured awards for students, faculty, and staff:

STUDENT LEADERSHIP AWARD
Connor McShane
IBIT ALEXION SCHOLARSHIP
Lucas Winslow
RESEARCHER OF THE YEAR AWARD
Jason Thatcher
IBIT EMTEC SCHOLARSHIP
Austin Yun
FACULTY LEADERSHIP AWARD
Jason Thatcher
IBIT PFIZER SCHOLARSHIP
Beth Whitehead
TEACHER OF THE YEAR AWARD
Amy Lavin
IBIT SCHOLASTIC SCHOLARSHIP
Sevgi Sivri
ADJUNCT OF THE YEAR AWARD
Brian Green
ASSOCIATION FOR INFORMATION SYSTEMS
Outstanding Officer: Abbey Helterbran
Outstanding Member: Nicholas Bortz
ADMINISTRATIVE LEADERSHIP AWARD
Lori Roseman
IT ADVISORY BOARD SCHOLARSHIP
Luke Swiatek
JAMES AND ANDREA STEWART SCHOLARSHIP
Omar Elamin
Jingwen Lin
Kelly Liu
RON AND RONDA RIDDELL SCHOLARSHIP
Kumar Varathakumar
Josia Phillip
YUSUF G. MANDVIWALLA SCHOLARSHIP
Connor D’Arcy
Dylan Lloyd
BILL AND JEAN DEVANEY SCHOLARSHIP
Jacob Guo
RICHARD AND MAUREEN BRENNEN SCHOLARSHIP
Hunter Shoenfelt
IT LEADERS SCHOLARSHIP
Mia Myers
Kayla Barone
Nosa Iyamu
IT LEADERS SCHOLARSHIP
Alexander McShane
Allyson Yu
Rahman Mohammed
  

MIS Professional and Academic Achievement Awards:

SENIOR
Jany Huang, Tanner Valentine

JUNIOR
Lauren Quinn, Vattey Meas

SOPHOMORE
Rhea Kumar, Alexander McShane

FRESHMAN
Angel Cherian, Jerimiah Arbertha

Nineteenth Annual IT Awards

The Nineteenth Annual IT Awards were held on Thursday, April 4, 2019 and featured the IT leader Award for Angela Heise, President of the Civil Group, Leidos, Inc, the IT Innovator Award for John Collier, Vice President and Chief Information Officer, Wawa, Inc, and the IT Award for Distinguished Alumni for Himesh Bhise, Chief Executive Officer of Synacor.

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The event also featured awards for students, faculty, and staff:

STUDENT LEADERSHIP AWARD
Cara Evans
IBIT ALEXION SCHOLARSHIP
Andrew Smuszkiewicz
RESEARCHER OF THE YEAR AWARD
Paul Pavlou
IBIT AMERISOURCEBERGEN SCHOLARSHIP
David Saddic
FACULTY LEADERSHIP AWARD
Jeremy Shafer
IBIT EMTEC SCHOLARSHIP
Craig Bach
TEACHER OF THE YEAR AWARD
JaeHwuen Jung
IBIT NBCUNIVERSAL SCHOLARSHIP
Tyler Pobirsky
ADJUNCT OF THE YEAR AWARD
Patrick J. Wasson
IBIT PFIZER SCHOLARSHIP
Vittoria Fani Ciotti
ADMINISTRATIVE LEADERSHIP AWARD
Amanda Barber
IBIT QVC SCHOLARSHIP
Rana Ismaeil
JAMES AND ANDREA STEWART SCHOLARSHIP
Carly Krzywicki
IBIT SCHOLASTIC SCHOLARSHIP
Colleen McFall
RON AND RONDA RIDDELL SCHOLARSHIP
Shannon Horgan
IT ADVISORY BOARD SCHOLARSHIP
Luke Swiatek
YUSUF G. MANDVIWALLA SCHOLARSHIP
Patrick Jurgelewicz
ASSOCIATION FOR INFORMATION SYSTEMS
Outstanding Officer: Justin Kish
Outstanding Member: Sean Boyer
IT LEADERS SCHOLARSHIP
Ashlin Cheriyan
Mitchell Chudnovsky
Tigue Devine
Jacob Granieri
Ji Sung (Ashley) Han
Aiden Hartey
IT LEADERS SCHOLARSHIP
Nikithar Kumari
Michael Manieri
Jason Mays
Emily Mellon
Quynh Nguyen
Natalie Rojas
  

MIS Professional and Academic Achievement Awards:

SENIOR
Andrea Behler, Cara Evans

JUNIOR
Michelle Purnama, Pham Xuan Bach Hoang

SOPHOMORE
Sophia Alvarez, Madison Collins

FRESHMAN
Kevin Dang, Sean Boyer


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INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY LEADER AWARD RECIPIENTS

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

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

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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