WCarole Bienaimé, is a commissioner and board member of Conseil Supérieur de l'Audiovisuel, an independent agency of French government that regulates communications by radio, television, and internet platforms across France and all its territories. She was nominated by the president of the French Senate, Gérard Larcher, in 2017. Bienaimé-Besse used to be a television and cinema producer and a director. She used to be an executive at April Snow Films & Capital. Officier dans l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres promoted by French Minister of Culture Roselyne Bachelot and Chevalier de l'Ordre National du Mérite French order of merit by President Emmanuel Macron, Bienaimé Besse was a board member of the fund Compte de Soutien de l'Industrie de Programmes Audiovisuels at [[Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée. She was also vice-president of Producers Guild in France and a board member of French Producers Society.
WBenjamin "Benjie" Mendoza Bitanga is a Filipino investment banker. He is the present chairman, president, CEO, and CIO of MRC Allied Inc., a property development firm in the Philippines, now also engaged in the mining industry.
WAshish Kumar Chauhan is an Indian business executive, administrator and current Chancellor of University of Allahabad. He is the current managing director and chief executive officer of the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE). He also serves as the member of Governing council of one of the premier B school in India - IIM Raipur. Ashish is best known as the father of modern financial derivatives in India, and is considered one of the foremost experts in financial market policies, Information technology, organized retail, telecommunications and Indian social issues.
WVivien S. Crea was the 25th Vice Commandant of the United States Coast Guard under Admiral Thad W. Allen. Crea held the second highest position in the Coast Guard, and she is the first woman to do so. She is the former Commander of the Coast Guard Atlantic Area, and was confirmed by the Senate to her historic post in June 2006. Crea retired on August 7, 2009, and was replaced by VADM David Pekoske.
WDan Dascalescu is a Romanian-American entrepreneur based in Silicon Valley, who co-founded the ship-based seed accelerator project Blueseed in an attempt to allow entrepreneurs to start companies near Silicon Valley without US visa restrictions. He was also a software engineer at Google and Yahoo! and an ambassador for The Seasteading Institute, a think tank researching ocean communities.
WMae E. De Vincentis is a former United States Department of Defense official and the vice director for the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) since August 2010. DLA is a U.S. Department of Defense (DOD)’s combat logistics support agency, providing logistics to the military departments and the Unified Combatant Commands. De Vincentis was the agency's second in command until retiring from the DLA in 2012 and subsequently founding the DLA Foundation.
WStephen Elop is a Canadian businessman who most recently worked at Australian telecom company Telstra from April 2016. In the past he had worked for Nokia as the first non-Finnish CEO and later as Executive Vice President, Devices & Services, as well as the head of the Microsoft Business Division, as the COO of Juniper Networks, as the president of worldwide field operations at Adobe Systems, in several senior positions in Macromedia and as the CIO at Boston Chicken.
WChristopher Beauregard Emery is an American author and former government official. He was a White House Usher during the Reagan, George H. W. Bush, and Clinton administrations. Emery later served as the chief information officer of the United States Department of Justice National Security Division and the Architect of the Capitol. He was chief enterprise architect of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Emery is the author of the memoir White House Usher: Stories from the Inside (2017).
WHossein Eslambolchi is an Iranian-American innovator, theoretical and experimental physicists, engineer, and author, best known for his prominent role in AT&T, very popular blogs on Linkedin, besides being one of the top 10 most prolific and exceptional inventor with over 1000+ patents List of Prolific Inventors. He joined AT&T Bell Laboratories in 1986, and rose to become, in 2005, both global Chief Technology and Information Officer for AT&T. He became an Officer of the company in 2003, as well as a member of AT&T's governing Executive Committee and became AT&T Chief Technology Officer, AT&T Chief Information Officer, President, & CEO of AT&T Labs, President & CEO of AT&T Global Network Operations. Dr. Eslambolchi was assigned by AT&T as Chief Transformation Officer responsible for moving ATT from voice-based company to IP-Software based company in less than 3 years. He left AT&T soon after its takeover by SBC in 2006. And For his doctorate degree, Dr. Eslambolchi invented the concept of beam forming being used today in advanced 5G mobile systems along with ultrasound technology being used in medical applications worldwide. https://apps.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a157270.pdf
WKaren S. Evans is a former United States Senate confirmed, Presidential Appointed executive, who served as the first Assistant Secretary for Cybersecurity, Energy Security and Emergency Response at the U.S. Department of Energy. An executive who served in three Presidential Appointed positions in two Administrations.
WPeter A. Freeman is the founding dean of Georgia Tech's College of Computing, a position he held from 1990 to 2002. Freeman was assistant director of the National Science Foundation from 2002 to 2007.
WPriscilla Guthrie joined the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) as the Intelligence Community (IC) Chief Information Officer on May 26, 2009. She was previously Director of the Information Technology and Systems Division of the Institute for Defense Analyses, a non-profit corporation that administers three federally funded research and development centers to provide objective analyses of national security issues. From 2001 to 2006, she served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense at the Department of Defense, where she was responsible for information support to deployed forces. Prior to her position at the Pentagon, Ms. Guthrie was a Vice President of TRW Inc., where she established and led a small, global unit responsible for driving new IT technology into the company's business. She also served in several other positions at TRW, Inc. during her career. Ms. Guthrie holds a B.S. from Pennsylvania State University and an M.B.A. from Marymount College.
WBrett Anthony Hales is an Australian entrepreneur, mentor and investor. He is best known as the founder and chairman of Tappr, a mobile payments company based in Brisbane, Australia. Tappr is Hales's first start-up.
WHelmut Schindlwick is an experienced transformation manager, an enthusiastic lifelong learner and author. Currently, he is Chief Information Officer (CIO) at the BBU Gmbh in Austria, the Federal Agency for Reception and Support Services.
WThomas Segun Ilube is a British entrepreneur and educational philanthropist and chair of the Rugby Football Union. He was ranked first in the Powerlist 2017, an annual listing of the UK's 100 most powerful people with African or Afro-Caribbean heritage.
WWilliam Leslie "Bill" Johnson is an American businessman and politician who has been the U.S. Representative for Ohio's 6th congressional district since 2011. He is a member of the Republican Party.
WJohn F. "Jack" Jones Jr. is currently the vice president and chief technology officer at WiseDesign. He previously served as chief information officer (CIO) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), an agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The NIH CIO advises the NIH director on strategic directions and management of information technology programs and policy. Jones also served as the director (acting) of the Center for Information Technology (CIT), at the NIH.
WSuzette Kuhlow Kent is an American government official who served as Federal Chief Information Officer of the United States from January 29, 2018 until July 2020. She was the fourth person to formally hold the job of Federal CIO, which was created by the E-Government Act of 2002. The Federal CIO's office is a part of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB).
WGopal Khanna was sworn in as the 5th director of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality on May 9, 2017. He resigned on January 11, 2021. Previously, he was Minnesota's first Chief information officer (CIO) by Governor Tim Pawlenty on August 15, 2005, and reappointed January 2, 2007. Prior to his departure, Khanna served as the Lead Co-Chair of the 19 member Minnesota Commission on Service Innovation (CSI), created through a bi-partisan legislation authored by State Senator (D) Terri Bonoff and State Representative (R) Keith Downey, with the charter to submit to the Minnesota legislature recommendations on "a strategic plan to reengineer the delivery of state and local government services, including the realignment of service delivery by region and proximity, the use of new technologies, shared facilities, centralized information technologies, and other means of improving efficiency.". Additionally, Khanna served as a member of Health Information Technology Policy & Standards Committees' Enrollment Workgroup, chaired by President Obama's Chief Technology Officer at The White House, which was tasked to develop a set of standards to facilitate enrollment in federal and state health and human services programs.
WPaul Kim is currently a Korean-American Chief Technology Officer and Associate Dean at the Stanford Graduate School of Education and has held this position since 2001.
WTaavi Kotka is an IT visionary and previously the chief information officer of the Estonian Government known for leading e-residency program. Between years 2005-2012, Kotka was the CEO of Nortal, one of the largest software development companies in the Baltic states. Taavi Kotka proposed "10 million e-residents by 2025" on idea contest by Estonian Development Foundation in 2014.
WVivek Kundra is a former American administrator who served as the first chief information officer of the United States from March, 2009 to August, 2011 under President Barack Obama. He is currently the Chief Operating Officer at Sprinklr, a provider of enterprise customer experience management software based in NYC. He was previously a visiting Fellow at Harvard University.
WDavid J. Malan is an American computer scientist and professor. Malan is the Gordon McKay Professor of the practice of Computer Science at Harvard University and is best known for teaching Computer Science 50 which is the largest course at Harvard and the largest Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) at edX, with lectures being viewed by over a million people on the edX platform up to 2017.
WMatthias Müller is a German businessman who was the chief executive officer (CEO) of Volkswagen AG from 25 September 2015 to 12 April 2018. He had been the CEO of its subsidiary, Porsche, since 2010 and has been Member of the executive board of Porsche Automobil Holding SE since 2010.
WMichael Edward Novogratz is an ex-hedge fund manager, formerly of the investment firm Fortress Investment Group. He is current CEO of Galaxy Investment Partners which focuses on cryptocurrency investments such as Bitcoin and Ethereum. He was ranked a billionaire by Forbes in 2007 prior to the financial crisis of 2007–2008 and then regained his fortune after investing in cryptocurrencies.
WAlex Pettit is an American public administration official who is currently Chief Technology Officer for the State of Colorado Governor's Office of Information Technology. Pettit was formerly the chief information officer for the State of Oregon. As State CIO, Pettit worked in the Department of Administrative Services and was responsible for all information and telecommunication systems for all state agencies. In March 2014, Pettit was appointed interim CIO for Cover Oregon, the agency responsible for the implementation of the Health Care Exchange in compliance of the Affordable Care Act. Previously, Pettit was the first CIO for the State of Oklahoma, serving from April 2010 until January 2014.
WNitin Pradhan was the Departmental Chief Information Officer (CIO) for the US Department of Transportation (DOT) as part of the Obama Administration from July 6, 2009 to August 31, 2012. After leaving US DOT, Pradhan established and led the nation's first Federal Technology Accelerator and Partner Consortium called Public Private Innovations and later cofounded GOVonomy, an emerging products technology marketplace for the public sector as well as ScaleUP USA, a Digital Business Growth Accelerator.
WPeter J. Quinn, an information technology (IT) worker, was chief information officer (CIO) of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts from September 2002 through January 2006. He is noted for his controversial support for OpenDocument, a standard format for office documents.
WRoxann L. Robinson is an American politician. A Republican, she was elected to the Virginia House of Delegates in 2010. She currently represents the 27th district, in Chesterfield County, in the southern suburbs of Richmond.
WSarah (Sally) Jean Rockey is the inaugural Executive Director of the Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research, where she funds innovative agricultural research efforts through private/public partnerships. Prior to this position, Rockey was Deputy Director for Extramural Research at the United States National Institutes of Health (NIH), overseeing research administration for the largest research program in the world.
WPerry Francis Rotella is an American businessman. He is currently a financial services expert at Amazon Web Services. He previously served as the senior vice president, supply chain group executive and chief information officer of Verisk Analytics, a Jersey City, New Jersey-based corporation. Rotella has held multiple information technology executive positions with different large American companies. He also serves as the elected president of the New York Metro chapter of the Society for Information Management, as a member of the governing body of InfoWorld's Tri-State CIO Forum, and as a mentor in Columbia University's Executive Master of Science in Technology Management program. According to a Verisk press release, he was responsible for overseeing the development and implementation of information technology initiatives such as systems for managing risk and fraud for mortgage, healthcare, insurance, and human resources companies as well as governments.
WMichael Serbinis is a Canadian entrepreneur, engineer and angel investor based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
WBrigadier Michael John Stone is a retired British Army officer, former Director of Information of the British Army and former chief information officer of the Ministry of Defence. He is currently the Global Head of Government Technology Transformation at KPMG. In 2015, Stone made the UKtech50, where he was ranked the 12th most influential person in the UK IT Sector.
WMarthinus Johannes Strydom is a South African venture capitalist and private equity investor. He is the CEO and Chairman of the MJS Capital Group, a seed stage venture capital company headquartered in Pretoria. Strydom is the lead investor for MJS Capital in companies such as Extremely Gifted Geeks, Coffee Today, Concierge Group, Klippz, Exotic Vacations, and Ribrack. Prior to creating the MJS Capital Group, Strydom was the chief information officer and Marketing Director of automotive group, McCarthy Limited.
WJeroen Tas is a Dutch entrepreneur and senior executive in the healthcare, information technology and financial services industries. In February 2017, he assumed the role as Chief Innovation & Strategy Officer at Philips Healthcare. Tas is also a member of the Executive Committee at Royal Philips.
WScott Thompson is an American businessman, and currently CEO of Tuition.io. Previously, he was chief executive officer of ShopRunner.
WB. Kevin Turner is an American businessman and investor who is currently the chairman of Zayo Group and the vice chairman of Albertsons/Safeway Inc. Turner was most recently President & CEO of Core Scientific, a technology company specializing in Blockchain and Artificial Intelligence from 2018 to 2021. He previously served as the COO of Microsoft from 2005 to 2016. Prior to joining Microsoft, Turner was the CEO of Sam's Club and the CIO of Walmart. He is also the former Vice Chairman of Citadel LLC and CEO of Citadel Securities.
WSteven VanRoekel was named the Office of Management and Budget's Acting Deputy Director for Management on May 21, 2013. He was also the second Federal Chief Information Officer of the United States and previously worked for the Federal Communications Commission, the United States Agency for International Development, and at Microsoft.
WWilliam (Bill) John Vass is the Vice President of Engineering at Amazon Web Services since 2014.
WAnthony G. Watson is a British business and technology executive, and human and LGBT rights activist. Since 2013 he has sat on the board of GLAAD. In April 2015, he joined the Bitcoin trading start-up Uphold.com as its president and Chief Executive Officer.
WLinton Wells II is an American public servant and educator who served a total of 51 years in government service. He served 26 years in the United States Navy as an officer, and then was appointed by the President of the United States as the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense, serving through two administrations of both parties, both the Democrat Bill Clinton and the Republican George W. Bush. He wrote many books, articles, and white papers on matters of national security, including important texts related to the use of American military capabilities in global humanitarian operations. His expertise focused on the strategic impacts of technological change and on building resilience to natural and man-made disasters as issues of US national security. He shaped, over five decades of public service, current US Department of Defense directives that link policy and technology with public-private cooperation. His writings significantly altered U.S. and international approaches to civil-military engagement, US policy in global humanitarian assistance, and global public-private partnerships in disaster relief. He has also made fundamental contributions to technical areas that have defined network-enabled military capabilities and cyberspace operations. After retiring from public service, he continued to contribute to the international STAR-TIDES network that he had founded in 2007, a consortium of several thousand global nodes comprising agencies, organizations, institutions and individuals in 40+ countries that promote the free exchange of research results on global issues of human security. As of 2019 he is Executive Advisor to the Center for Resilient and Sustainable Communities (C-RASC) at George Mason University and chairs the Advisory Group of the C4I and Cyber Center there. C-RASC has been working with the People-Centered Internet (PCI) on ways to “put humanity at the center of the Internet” and support a variety of revitalization initiatives. He is also the President and CEO of Global Resilience Strategies and Senior Advisor to Resilient Japan. He was listed by Fortune magazine in 2009 as one of the top 16 "Players of Tech".