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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.

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


PREVIOUS IT AWARDS

2001 IT AWARDS
2002 IT AWARDS
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2007 IT AWARDS
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2025 IT AWARDS

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