KEYNOTES AND HONOREES

Dr. Barbara (Bobbi) Kurshan, the 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.

As the President of ECC, she provides strategic consulting in the areas of investment, digital transformation, entrepreneurship, and innovation. As the past Executive Director of Curriki, Bobbi helped to build one of the most innovative global open-source education communities. Dr. Kurshan has previously served as the Co-CEO of Core Learning, an education investment fund, and the Chief Academic Officer of bigchalk, one of the first online digital libraries with K-12 educational content.

As an investor she has invested in numerous edtech startups including Fablevision, Mindprint Learning, SoWork, Mindstone, BoxMedia and The Qgroup, a language learning company that she took from startup to IPO. She currently serves on the corporate board of American Public Education Inc.; and advises several edtech companies including Thinkster, Educonnective, RobotLabs, and TeachMe TV. She is the author of several books, articles and regularly blogs for Forbes.com. Her new book InnovateHERs is now available on Amazon.

Greg Meyers is on the Executive Committee of Bristol Myers Squibb, one of the world’s largest pharmaceutical companies. He is responsible for the company’s digital transformation, the IT function, Cybersecurity, and 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.

Before joining BMS, Greg was the Chief Technology Officer for Syngenta Group, the world’s largest AgroSciences company. There, as an American living in Switzerland, and working for the world’s largest Chinese-owned foreign company preparing for an IPO, Greg developed a unique perspective on business, geopolitics and Cybersecurity. In addition to sitting on Syngenta’s Venture Board, he also led four acquisitions of startups which became Syngenta’s Digital Farming business, now contributing nearly $500M in incremental revenue. As CTO, Greg oversaw the rapid growth of Syngenta’s Cropwise Digital Platform which is now the second largest farming platform in the world.

Prior to Syngenta, Greg was Group CIO for Motorola Solutions where he was pivotal in helping the company reinvent itself into a software and services company. Earlier in his career, Greg held a number of roles both in IT and with P&L responsibility for companies such as Biogen, Novartis, Johnson & Johnson and PricewaterhouseCoopers.

Having spent half his career in commercial and general management roles and the other half leading technology and digital transformations, Greg brings substantial experience at the intersection of technology-driven innovation and delivering top and bottom-line growth. Greg holds a bachelor’s degree in Marketing from Rutgers University and a master’s degree in business administration from Temple University.

Karthik Sridharan is Executive Vice President and Chief Information Officer at OceanFirst Bank, which he joined in 2019. Previously, 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.

In the above roles, he has enabled strategy of “Build the Digital Bank” from the dotcom era to contemporary roles with realized transformation of direct-to-customer web, social media, mobile first, and multi-channel solutions for banking business lines. He has also modernized application time to market through new development and architecture evolutions of Technology Blueprints and patterns. He has improved from years to months to days, wealth management, retail banking, commercial banking, trading, and money movement business solution delivery by realizing strategies for private, public, and hybrid “cloud-first, mobile-first” applications for customer communications and engagement. Karthik has also worked on merger, acquisition, and divestiture technology integration and separation for community and global banking customers seeking to grow or divest retail and commercial footprints.

Karthik volunteers with community and industry organizations such as the Go Africa Network Inc. and Wall Street Technology Association. Karthik has a bachelor’s degree in business administration and information systems management from Temple University Fox School of Business.

Join us for the 21st Annual Information Technology Awards honoring technology leaders, innovators and disruptors

Thursday, May 4, 2023
5:00-6:00 pm Cocktail Hour
6:00-8:00 pm Dinner and Awards
The Bellevue Hotel

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