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Bill Nuti
Bill Nuti is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of NCR Corporation. Before joining NCR in August 2005 he served as President and CEO of Symbol Technologies, a leading supplier in the emerging radio frequency identification (RFID) industry. Prior to joining Symbol he had a 10-year career with Cisco Systems, advancing to the role of Senior Vice President, leading field operations, systems engineering, professional services, marketing and U.S. sales divisions.
Earlier in his career Bill held sales and management positions at IBM, Netrix Corporation and Network Equipment Technologies. |
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Larry Downes – Keynote Speaker
Larry Downes was recently featured in Fast Company as one of the "business world's smartest thinkers." He has been a leading voice in the development of business strategies that exploit disruptive technologies, and his clients include leaders in the manufacturing, services, and high technology industries.
He is the Chairman of the Larry Downes Consulting Group, which works with large organizations to develop business strategies for volatile markets. He has previously held leadership positions at McKinsey & Co., Computer Sciences Corporation and Accenture, where he was the founding director of the Center for Strategic Technology Research.
Larry Downes is a professor at the School of Information Management and Systems and the Haas School of Business at the University of California at Berkeley.
He is the author of the BusinessWeek and New York Times business best-seller, Unleashing the Killer App: Digital Strategies for Market Dominance, which has now sold over 200,000 copies and been translated into a dozen languages, making it one of the best selling books on business strategy of all-time. His recent book, The Strategy Machine: Building Your Business One Idea at a Time describes how the next generation of disruptive technology will drive transformations across industries and provides tools and techniques for developing and sustaining winning strategies in a volatile economy. |
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Vince Poscente - Business Strategist, Author, and Olympian
Vince Poscente knows a little something about focus, commitment, and defying the odds. At age 26, he decided to take up speed skiing and pursue it competitively. Only four short years later, he was vying for gold in the Winter Olympics.
Combining lessons from his remarkable Olympic experience with leadership insights from his highly successful business career, Vince Poscente has developed a series of proven strategies for attaining and sustaining peak performance, on both an individual and corporate level.
To round out his remarkable insights on peak performance and corporate alignment, Poscente’s latest book, The Ant and the Elephant - Leadership for the Self, is well on its way to being a business classic. This quick and fun parable contains a 5-step action plan to transform workplace performance.
Now an internationally sought-after speaker and consultant, Poscente is the founder of Be Invinceable Group. He works closely with companies worldwide to help them achieve peak performance and top-to-bottom alignment. With his infectious energy, warmth, and humor, Poscente’s presentations provide time-tested techniques to ignite the vision, execute strategies, and eclipse the competition. Be Invincible uses a proven three-part solution set of keynote speeches, consulting services, and multimedia educational tools is designed to get your organization moving in the right direction - and, more importantly, in the same direction. Poscente offers long-term effects and measurable results by effecting conscious and subconscious shifts in beliefs, attitudes, and truths.
Be Invinceable Group has helped several top corporations change their thinking, identify their vision, and align to reach their goals. FedEx, Wal-Mart, Nestle, and Intel are just a few of the many companies that have drawn upon their expertise to reach a new level of excellence.
Poscente holds a masters degree in Organizational Management, is a Certified Speaking Professional, and has received a Council of Peers Award for Excellence. With his infectious energy, warmth, and humor, Poscente’s presentations provide time-tested techniques to ignite the vision, execute strategies, and eclipse the competition. |
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Brian Stanfill - SVP of Operations at The Delaware County Bank & Trust Company
In his role with The Bank, Brian leads The Bank's strategic technology initiatives and oversees Facilities, Security, Human Resources, Operations and Technology. The Bank was an early adaptor of total electronic processing through all channels including branch, commercial and no envelope ATM’s.
Brian was recently recognized as one of the Most Innovative CIOs in Banking by Bank Systems & Technologymagazine.
He received his B.S. in Finance from The Ohio State University and an M.B.A. from the University of Dayton. Brian has been very active in his community serving on many community boards, including the Chamber of Commerce, Central Ohio Symphony, Recreation Unlimited, Simon Kenton Council BSA, and United Way. Brian is a Silver Beaver recipient and Rotary International Past District Governor. Brian and his wife Nancy have three children and are very active in the Grace Brethren Church
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Emmanuel Ari Chamarro -
Acquiring, Debit and Strategic Alliances Director
IXE Banco
Emmanuel Ari leads a recently created team at Ixe Financial Group, in Mexico City. Since November 2006, he has successfully launched two new divisions: “Ixe Comercio” (POS & VPOS) and “Ixe Colectivos” (Strategic Alliances). For the ATM division he has improved the Service Core Values of Ixe on different scenarios based on each target of Ixe’s Financial Group.
In the past, he led abroad his Country for three years, a Commercial Team, at a Live Entertainment Company “CIE” for the Latin American Region. Before that, we worked as a Vice Director for almost five years for VISA International, improving Usage and Retention Campaigns for Credit & Debit Cards on the Mexican Market. |
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Ron Kelley
Ron Kelley is currently the Senior Director of Revenue Assurance for Patient Financial Services (PFS) at Tenet. PFS is the corporate department responsible for Tenet’s overall revenue cycle.
Ron resides in Dallas, Texas and is part of the PFS Executive team based at Tenet Headquarters. He is responsible for the Revenue Assurance departments within PFS. Revenue Assurance oversees operations at the front of the revenue cycle – including national Patient Access, Revenue Cycle Clinicians, and Health Information Management.
Prior to joining Tenet in 2004, Ron was part of the CGE&Y (formerly Ernst & Young’s) Revenue Cycle practice leadership in the southern United States. He has previously served as a director of patient financial services and led strategic improvement projects in business office, patient access and denial management areas for numerous healthcare organizations such as Unity Health, Health Midwest and Baptist Health Systems. Ron received his MBA from Texas A&M University in 1996. |
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Shannon Dauchot
Shannon Dauchot is currently the Chief Operating Officer for the Shared Services Division of HCA, Inc. HCA’s Shared Services Division is responsible for all Revenue Cycle management for their 160+ owned hospitals and approximately 12 non-HCA hospitals. This Division manages the entire non-clinical Patient Account lifecycle from pre-registration and registration through final billing and collection. Prior to her current role, Shannon served as the CFO for HCA’s Tampa Bay Shared Service Center and CFO for Northside Hospital and Heart Institute in St. Petersburg, Florida. She has been with HCA for over 12 years in various financial roles, but has been functioning as an Executive in the Shared Services arena for HCA since its inception in 2000.
Shannon is a Certified Public Accountant, and earlier in her career, was an accounting professional in both the Banking Industry and Public Accounting. |
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Prashant Vazirani
Prashant Vazirani has been in the aviation industry for over 6 years - previous employment has been with Virgin Atlantic as Duty Manager at JFK Airport.
Since moving to Australia he completed an MBA in Aviation Management and has been working with Virgin Blue since 2003. As Manager, Operations Systems he is responsible for having a high emphasis on the growing needs of the business. This involves liaising with the business stakeholders on a regular basis to ensure the ongoing needs of the various departments in the Operations group are met. His role has been focused around account management for the Operations division being a primary client in this relationship. As part of the Operations management group he acts as the primary point of contact for senior management in the procurement and delivery of systems in accordance with the long term strategic plan.
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John Pizzi - mFoundry, COO
John has broad-based experience in management consulting, marketing and product development. Throughout his career, John has delivered results for some of the world's largest and most recognizable brands, including AFLAC, AT&T, Continental, General Mills, Philip Morris, Starwood and others. At mFoundry, John's focus is retaining talent, creating efficiency, and driving lasting value to the overall operations. He is responsible for leading the development of a world-class product and building strong client and partner relationships.
Prior to mFoundry, John held management positions with a number of Publicis Groupe companies, most recently, directing the New York operations of Arc Worldwide. Before Publicis, John held management positions with Capital One, where he led in the development of Capital One's online sales and customer servicing platform, ultimately helping to create one of the most trafficked sites in the Financial Services industry. |
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Bill Tyler
Bill Tyler is the Director of Patient Access and HIM Applications for Adventist Health Systems located in Lake Mary, FL. Prior to joining Adventist Health System he served at Wellmont Health System, the premier healthcare provider in Northeast Tennessee and Southwest Virginia. Bill has 16 years of experience in healthcare information technology.
Bill earned a bachelor’s degree in Microbiology and minors in Accounting and Information Systems from Middle Tennessee State University. |
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Mohammad Khan
Mohammad Khan is the President and Founder of ViVOtech Inc. Mr. Khan held several engineering, marketing, and business development management positions during the 15 years he worked with VeriFone. Joining VeriFone in its early stage in 1983, Mr. Khan helped the company develop its payment automation systems and later helped successfully market these products in more than 96 countries. Included were the smart card and security payment products he conceived for VeriFone and launched to its worldwide markets in the early '90s. Mr. Khan was also a co-founder of the Internet Commerce Division within VeriFone and was responsible for expansion of its Internet payment systems business into more than 25 countries. Khan is a co-founder of Sparkice, Inc., China's e-Hub for global commerce, where he worked as its senior vice president. Mr. Khan holds a master's degree in electrical engineering from the University of Hawaii at Manoa. In 2006 Mohammad Khan was recognized as a leader of the Electronic Payments Industry by the Transaction Trends Magazine and in 2005 as a “Mover and Shaker” of the Electronic Payments Industry by the Transaction World magazine.
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Dr. Ndili - CEO of MShift, Inc.
Dr. Ndili is the founder and CEO of MShift, Inc., the global leader in mobile banking and wireless technologies, with a wide array of clients in US and Japan. MShift's Mobile Banking Solutions enable financial institutions to extend the convenience and reach of Online Banking to cell phones, PDAs, RIM, Pocket PCs, and pagers.
Prior to MShift, Dr. Ndili also was a member of the founding team for ImproveNet Inc., a Redwood City-based public company, and was responsible for the design of its core Internet technology. ImproveNet, a highly scalable database-intensive home improvement site, has facilitated over $1 Billion of contracts since inception. He designed and built the architecture and implemented the core backend engine to keep track of more than 600,000 service providers. Dr. Ndili was also the lead Project Manager for the Global Positioning System on board Stanford University's Gravity Probe B space satellite, launched by NASA on April 20, 2004 from Vanderberg Air Force Base. Awele received an M.S. and Ph.D. in Engineering from Stanford University. |
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Joe Beery -
Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer
Joe Beery is US Airways’ senior vice president and chief information officer and held this position at the former America West Airlines. In his role he has primary responsibilities that include overseeing all Information Technology (IT)-related acquisitions and services and facilities management. Beery served as vice president in July 2000 and was promoted to chief information officer in 2001. In the first half of 2004, his responsibilities were expanded to include overseeing corporate real estate, properties and facilities, as well as the company’s reservations centers located in Phoenix and Reno, Nev.
Beery joined America West in 1999 as senior director of business technology delivery. In this capacity, he was responsible for all new software development and the Year 2000 Program.
Prior to joining America West, Beery worked for Motorola Semi-Conductor in Phoenix, Ariz. During his 10-year tenure, he held various positions in the computer integrated manufacturing group. Beery led the development and installation of a state-of-the-art manufacturing system in Motorola’s largest wafer manufacturing facility in 1994. Before leaving, he was responsible for all factory computer operations in Phoenix and Austin, Texas. Previously, he served as a manufacturing and software engineer at NV Philips in Albuquerque, N.M.
Beery holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration and business computer systems from the University of New Mexico. |
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