 Sergey Chernov,
PMP
In
his current role -- Manager, Enterprise Architecture at NiSource, Sergey is part
of company transformation team tasked to take NiSource to a new level of
Business and IT operations. Previously, he held a position of Assistant
Director of IT Strategic Planning at Northeastern Illinois University in Chicago
where he was leading strategic planning, architecture and project management
oversight for a central IT group. Prior to joining NEIU, he led several
large-scale internal IT projects for Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu. Sergey started
his career at Emerson Electric where he was responsible for project management
and implementation of B2B e-commerce systems. Sergey is a certified project
manager (PMP) and has earned a Masters of Science in Information Systems
Management degree from Loyola University Chicago and Bachelor of Science in
Accounting from Indiana University.
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Andrew
London is the
DMS Architect of Firmwide Technology
Solutions at Kirkland & Ellis, LLP.
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 Praveen
Moturu
Praveen Moturu is currently working as Chief
Enterprise Architect at Navistar. He has more than 16 years’
experience providing strategic planning, enterprise leadership,
driving business and IT alignment, guiding top-tier
organizations in areas pertaining to business transformation,
enterprise architecture and business performance improvement.
Mr. Moturu has extensive expertise in leading and
implementing enterprise-wide business/technology strategies and
innovative solutions with background in senior management
positions as a Consulting Partner, Principal-Strategy
Consulting, Director of e-Business Practice, Solutions Architect
and Senior Enterprise Architect. Experienced in turnaround and
change leadership, mentoring and managing high skilled
architects, and management of subject matter experts in the
accomplishment of enterprise IT programs.
His focus areas
have been planning, definition, and execution of strategy and
management of complex implementation projects, establishing
strategic relationships, new technology adoption, future state
business and technology architecture definition, and the
alignment of IT investments with business strategy by
collaborating with key departments/stakeholders of the
enterprise.
Mr. Moturu has a master’s degree in IT. Prior to
joining Navistar, he held positions at HCSC, CNA Insurance and
Cambridge Technology Partners.
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 Soumit
Nandi
Soumit Nandi is a technology strategy and architecture executive with
experience in strategic enterprise architecture and complex systems
integration. In his most recent role, Mr Nandi led the Enterprise
Architecture program for United Airlines – with a focus on business
architecture, IT strategic planning, business technology roadmaps, IT
asset optimization and governance. Prior to that, Mr Nandi has held both
strategic and execution focused roles in applications development,
program delivery and systems integration. Mr Nandi lives in Chicago and
enjoys photography, tennis and sailing.
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 Ajay
J. Patel
Before joining Agilysys, Ajay worked at Acxiom Corporation,
an Outsourcing Services Provider, managing large and
enterprise data center class initiatives around long term IT
cost savings through strategically managed services,
utilizing next generation methodologies to drive out cost
while improving SLAs. He has previously worked in strategic
roles at CNA Insurance, Amoco Oil Co, and IBM Corporation.
Ajay drives strategies that align to customers’ goals of
driving out cost of their IT infrastructure. Ajay is a
thought leader in his field of expertise with focus on
Strategy Designed for Growth instead of just a strategy of
growth. He is regarded as a top Enterprise / Data Center
Architect with competencies in establishing an accurate cost
basis for large enterprise IT operations and design future
solutions with significant ROI savings through smart designs
leveraging the latest technologies. Ajay’s IT Assessment
methodologies provide a holistic view of a customer’s data
center infrastructure as it exists today, with a Gap
Analysis to bridge and provide roadmap of strategies and
continuity to achieve long term goals. With experience in
buying and selling all major enterprise hardware, software,
and storage solutions, Ajay takes an objective view in
solving problems to ensure best of class solutions are
derived. While also cognizant of customers’ competencies and
capabilities, Ajay ensures reasonable solutions are
prescribed. Ajay has provided leadership role in designing
and creating Agilysys branded solutions around true
virtualization of an entire data center, beyond Vmware,
beyond Storage consolidation; essentially putting Private
Cloud computing methodologies in the hands of the customers.
Ajay has been instrumental in bringing IT-as-a-Service
solutions to reality using POD like design to provide
building blocks of IT infrastructure delivered to customers’
data center floor utilizing financial instruments that
Agilysys offers.
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 John Phillips
John Phillips now with Laurus Technologies was the former VP and CIO of
Allscripts-Misys, a Healthcare Information company. At Allscripts-Misys,
he was responsible for driving the technology strategy to create
efficient business processes across the organization and transform the
company's internal systems by modernizing its software platforms,
enterprise hardware, and network infrastructure. He was responsible for
the ongoing development and management of the point-of-care medication
management and medical supply solutions to physicians as well as
provisioning and supporting new doctor EMR systems using the hosted ASP
service offering. He brings with him over twenty years of technology
experience in business alignment and operations. Prior to joining
Allscripts-Misys, John has held IT leadership positions at Accenture, RR
Donnelley, Quebecor World, Thomson Reuters Corporation, as well as
several large healthcare institutions.
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Ganapathy Subbarayalu
Ganapathy Subbarayalu is part of the team that brought in and eliminated a
multitude of technology to few strategic platforms and consistency in technology
and process adoption across Allstate. His overall responsibilities include:
defining Technology Strategy & Roadmap; supporting Application Development
/triage; working on Infrastructure Planning & Execution; Capacity Management &
Forecasting both onshore and offshore; implementation of new technology and
upgrading existing application and infrastructure; and project/Vendor/Offshore &
Resource management.
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 Iain
Tilbrook
Iain
Tilbrook is Chief Business Analyst and
I.T. Architecture manager at Argonne
National Laboratory. He has over 20
years experience designing and
supporting information systems.
Starting in the Physics division, he
transferred to Argonne's MIS group in
1997 to assume support for one the
Laboratory's two procurement systems.
After co-leading a lab-wide cyber
security self-assessment in 2000, he
transitioned into a role to develop the
Lab's first enterprise architecture,
leading to his present position. A
sub-arachnoid hemorrhage in 2002 and
subsequent rehabilitation took Iain away
from his duties for an extended period.
Returning to the Lab full-time in late
2003 he was brought into a project to
map some of Argonne's key business
processes. That work has continued and
expanded as the Lab's attention to
process has grown and is now the largest
part of his architecture work.
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 Jim Vaselopulos
Jim Vaselopulos is a seasoned business executive with domain expertise
in Financial Services, Marketing, Manufacturing and Service Industries.
Jim works closely with many firms to help align business needs and
technology for competitive advantage. His many roles include Partner at
PSC Group, LLC, interim CIO at several organizations and strategic
business consultant to many others. His speaking engagements include
regional executive events, various podcasts, industry organizations and
technology-centric educational institutions such as the University of
Illinois. Jim holds an Engineering degree from the University of
Illinois and an MBA from Marquette University.
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