IBM Connect features leading executive speakers from world class companies sharing their personal experience and success in becoming a social business.

Jeff Berg
Manager, eBusiness Architecture and Development, 3M

Jeff has enjoyed nearly 30 years working with large enterprises developing and deploying emerging IT technologies. Currently, Jeff leads the architecture and development teams for 3M's enterprise web, collaboration, social and mobile computing platforms. Prior to that, he led the 3M IT eBusiness Emerging Technology team focusing on evaluating and executing first-of-a-kind implementations of emerging IT software technology.

Ken Bisconti
VP, IBM ECM Product and Strategy

Ken Bisconti is Vice President, product marketing and strategy for IBM’s enterprise content management (ECM) software. In this role, Ken oversees business management, product direction, and strategy for IBM’s ECM products. He previously held the position of vice president, messaging and collaboration products for IBM Lotus Software. He was responsible for the business strategy, tactical execution, market management, and product management of these market leading software products.

Bob Brindza
Business Analyst, Newly Weds Foods

Bob Brindza is an SOA Business Analyst with Newly Weds Foods. He has 26 years of experience in the information technology profession, currently focusing in web-based strategies, back-end database connectivity, and Lotus Notes and WebSphere application development. He has over 15 years of experience in IT management and project management in application development and nine years of executive management experience focusing primarily in the manufacturing, insurance, and financial industries.
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Denis Brousseau
VP and Global Leader for Human Capital Management, IBM GBS

Denis Brousseau, Vice President and Global Leader, organization and people based in Atlanta, Georgia, is IBM's Global Leader for the human capital management community and organization and people consulting practice. This practice is focused on helping clients create enterprise innovation and performance through workforce optimization and talent management. Denis is responsible for a team of 2,000 HCM professionals worldwide, which provide services in workforce and talent management, enterprise leadership, and organization change management.

Olu Brown
Manager of Technology Innovation & Integration, MIT Lincoln Laboratory

Olu Brown is the Manager of the Technology Innovation & Integration group at MIT Lincoln Laboratory. In this role, he is responsible for developing the Laboratory's social collaboration and information management strategy for research enablement. Olu has overseen the implementation of IBM Connections and IBM WebSphere Portal as a platform to enhance knowledge sharing and expertise location amongst researchers. He has 14 years of experience in software architecture and development, web technologies, information management, business intelligence, and distributed systems. Prior to MIT, he worked for eight years as a Senior Software Consultant providing solutions in various industries.

Rebecca Buisan
Director, Product Management and Strategy, IBM Social Business Cloud

In this role, Rebecca and her team are responsible for the product and market strategy for the IBM social business cloud SaaS offerings. Rebecca joined the cloud team this year after several years leading product management for web experience solutions, including the IBM Customer Experience Suite and IBM WebSphere Portal. Prior to IBM, Rebecca held product management and technology leadership roles at companies including RSA Security, FTP Software, and Nike.

Dr. Jeffrey Burns
Chair, Division Chief of Critical Care at Children’s Hospital Boston

Dr. Jeffrey Burns is Chief of the Division of Critical Care Medicine and the Shapiro Chair of Critical Care Medicine at Children's Hospital Boston and Associate Professor of Anesthesia (Pediatrics) at Harvard Medical School as well as the Program Director for the Fellowship Pediatric Critical Care Medicine at both institutions. Dr. Burns established and is the Executive Director of the Children’s Hospital Simulator Program, one of the first hospital based pediatric simulator programs in the US and Co-Chair of the Children’s Hospital Ethics Committee. He is Chair of the Pediatric Section of the Society of Critical Care Medicine and head of the Pediatric Critical Care Section of IPOKRaTES International, an European-based organization that invites American and European medical school faculty recognized for their teaching ability to lecture globally.

Sandy Carter
VP, IBM Social Business Evangelism and Sales

Sandy Carter is a recognized leader in social business, a best selling author, and one of the most influential women in Web 2.0 technology. As IBM Vice President, Social Business Evangelism and Sales, she is responsible for setting the direction for IBM’s social business initiative, a $200B market opportunity. Her numerous industry awards include: "Brand Leader of the Year" from the World Brand Congress, "Top 10 Women in Social Media" from Altimeter Group, and Fast Company's "Most Influential Women in Technology." She is an avid social business evangelist, blogger, and twitterer. She holds an MBA from Harvard and a Bachelor of Science degree in math and computer science from Duke University. Visit Sandy on her blog Social Media to Social Business or follow her on Twitter.

Enrique Arroyo Falcon
Director of Systems of Sustainability Social/Channel/Credit, INFONAVIT of Mexico

Enrique Arroyo Falcon is an executive overlooking the areas of Social Sustainability Systems at INFONAVIT, the largest mortgage company in Latin America servicing up to 25 million customers in Mexico. Mr. Arroyo was the sponsoring executive on the personalized self-service portal project that went live on WebSphere Portal and IBM Web Content Manager in August 2011. Mr. Arroyo joined INFONAVIT in 2001 as an IT Process Architect holding several positions including Technology Architect overlooking Infonavit's Enterprise Architecture and Executive Manager of Digital Channels. Mr. Arroyo holds a Bachelor's degree from Universidad La Salle, AC and post-graduate education from Instituto Politécnico Nacional and Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.

Bill Frandrich
Senior Vice President & Chief Information Officer, BCBS MA

Bill is SVP of Information Technology & Operations and CIO for Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts (BCBSMA), the largest private health plan in the state and one of the largest independent, not-for-profit BCBS plans in the country. Bill’s broad healthcare technology experience and entrepreneurial mindset have contributed to his success in transforming BCBSMA’s IT organization and model in recent years. As a result of Bill’s efforts, he was named CIO of the Year for all Massachusetts public and private companies in 2010. With the alignment of IT and Operations under his leadership in 2011, Bill and team are well positioned to drive the effective use of technology—a strategic enabler in support of the company's commitment to deliver affordable health care products and services to market.

Mihnea Galeteanu
BPM Product Manager, IBM

Mihnea Galeteanu is a Product Marketing Manager in the BPM area of IBM where he spends his time evangelizing our BPM offerings to our customer, analyst, and partner communities. Prior to joining the marketing organization, he spent over 10 years imagining, breaking, and building software of all sizes, most recently in the BPM portfolio of products at IBM. He's a regular blogger and provides mentorship on issues ranging from innovation and business design to social entrepreneurship and sustainable living.

Gilberto Garcia
Head of Innovations, CEMEX

Gilberto García has been a CEMEX Executive for more than 24 years and has performed in many different roles in worldwide operations. Among his experiences, he has performed in Strategic Planning and Concrete Operations in Panama, Processes Operations and Information Technology in Poland, Austria, Croatia, Latvia and Hungary, and in Technology Evolution and Development in the corporate offices in Mexico. For the last two years, he has been the head of Innovation and with his leadership CEMEX won a Forrester Groundswell award for the best employee management collaboration system, Shift. Shift is a Business social networking platform that empowers employees in all CEMEX operations worldwide to interact, share best practices and promote innovation through collaboration. Gilberto's Innovation efforts have been recognized by Computer World, MIT Technology Review, Forbes, and IBM.
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Rachel Happe
Co-Founder and Principal, The Community Roundtable

Rachel Happe (@rhappe) is a Co-Founder and Principal at The Community Roundtable, a company dedicated to advancing the business of community. The Community Roundtable provides education, training and advisory services to community and social business leaders. Rachel has over fifteen years of experience working with emerging technologies including enterprise social networking, eCommerce and enterprise software applications. Rachel has served as a product executive at Mzinga, Bitpass, & IDe and as IDC’s first analyst covering social technologies. She started her business career as an analyst at PRTM. Rachel serves on Social Media Today’s Blogger Board, the Enterprise 2.0 Conference Advisory Board, and as an Isis Parenting Fellow.

Keynote speaker: Martina Girkens
VP Corporate Functions IT, Continental AG

Martina Girkens was born in Hamburg, Germany. After her studies of information technology and business administration, she held various positions at IT software and services providers, including Borland, Unisys, and Siemens Business Services. Her main domains were IT services and outsourcing. From 1995 until 2007, she was part of the Siemens CIO organization and worked in Munich, Singapore, and Regensburg. Since 2008, she has been Vice President Corporate Functions IT in the IT organization of Continental AG.

Denise Hatzidakis
CTO, Premier health alliance

Denise Hatzidakis is currently the Chief Technology Officer for the Premier healthcare alliance. Premier serves more than 2,400 U.S. hospitals and 70,000-plus other healthcare sites. Premier healthcare alliance and its members are transforming healthcare together. Denise has over 20 years experience in the information technology field as a decisive leader of operational initiatives in organizations varying in size and scope and extensive hands on system development and experience across the IT field with a proven track record in leading, managing, and building IT systems from departmental systems to large enterprise systems. Denise has extensive experience leading operations for technology, business development, and application development across a wide range of industries specializing in the IBM technologies.

Mark Heid
Program Director, IBM, Social Analytics

Mark Heid is Program Director, social analytics at IBM with responsibility for strategy, business development, and solutions management. In particular, Mark focuses on the use of social analytics within social business, smarter commerce, and the information agenda initiatives. Prior to this role, Mark managed the IBM WebSphere Application Server business unit. Before joining IBM, Mark worked at Hewlett Packard and Apple Computer.

Raymond Huff
President, HJB Convenience Corp/Russell’s Convenience

Raymond Huff is President of HJB Convenience Corporation. He owns and operates HJB Convenience Corporation doing business as Russell's Convenience, headquartered in Lakewood, Colorado with stores in the central business districts of Denver, Los Angeles, San Francisco and a resort store in Waikiki Hawaii. Russell's Convenience opened its first store in Hawaii in 1978 and quickly expanded to cover the mainland. Russell's Convenience serves the higher end of convenience for office workers and their visitors.

Douglas Johnson
Director of Innovation, Presbyterian Westside Healthcare System

Doug Johnson is currently the Director of Innovation for the Presbyterian Westside Healthcare System. He has 19 years of experience in process improvement, information resource management, and data analysis in medical quality management, information quality, nursing care, software development, health insurance, decision support, data warehousing, and data modeling. A certified Lean Six Sigma Black Belt, he has led and improved processes in many healthcare business areas, such as the emergency department, operating department, nursing units, urgent care, billing processes, electronic medical records, and many patient throughput initiatives. Prior to joining Presbyterian Westside Healthcare System, Doug was a Systems Analyst and a member of the Enterprise Data Warehouse. Doug was responsible for information quality, the development of data warehouse software, and solutions to support business processes for provider profiling, benchmarking, case mix adjustment, analysis, data modeling, and data architecture.

Guy Kawasaki
Co-Founder Alltop.com, Author, Entrepreneur

Guy is the co-founder of Alltop.com, an “online magazine rack” of popular topics on the web, and a founding partner at Garage Technology Ventures. He is also a columnist for the Open Forum of American Express. Previously, he was the chief evangelist of Apple. He is the author of ten books, including Reality Check, The Art of the Start, Rules for Revolutionaries, How to Drive Your Competition Crazy, Selling the Dream, and The Macintosh Way. His newest book, Enchantment: The Art of Changing Hearts, Minds, and Actions, released in March, is a New York Times bestseller. The lessons in Enchantment are drawn from Guy's tenure at Apple as well as his decades of experience as an entrepreneur and venture capitalist. Guy has a BA from Stanford University and an MBA from UCLA as well as an honorary doctorate from Babson College.

Harish Lade
GM Systems and Information Technology, Asian Paints Ltd.

Harish is General Manager Systems and Information Technology at Asian Paints Ltd., a leading coatings company based out of India. In his 15 years at Asian Paints, he has lead a variety of IT initiatives ranging from implementation of advanced supply chain planning systems, SAP ERP, product lifecycle management systems, master data management systems, and B2B portals for supplier collaboration. He is currently responsible for leading the IT team into the next wave of IT lead digital transformation at Asian Paints, which involves charting out and implementing the information management agenda encompassing both internal and external data including social media, positioning IT as a strategic tool to drive customer centricity initiatives and laying the foundation for automation and control systems for next generation factories of Asian Paints. Harish believes that with the right positioning of information technology tools, enterprises can build sustainable competitive advantage.

Dr. CheeChin Liew
Enterprise Community Manager, BASF SE

Dr. CheeChin Liew is an Enterprise Community Manager at BASF SE, The Chemical Company, and is responsible for globally driving adoption of connect.BASF, an online business network and collaboration platform inside BASF. CheeChin studied material science and chemical engineering in Japan and worked as a researcher in the field of computational science in the National Institute of Advanced Science and Technology (AIST) of Japan for some years. In 2004, he moved to Germany and joined the research department of polymer physics in BASF SE, where over many years he actively promoted Web 2.0 platforms in the R&D workspace. In 2009, he joined the project team driving the implementation of connect.BASF and started working as content and community manager in the on-going team since July 2010. CheeChin is sharing his experience in several external conferences as invited speaker and participating in some Enterprise 2.0 communities in public social media. He has been a member of the Social Business Council (formally, the 2.0 Adoption Council) since 2009 and became an IBM Champion in 2011.

Michael Lynch
Manager, IT Advance Personal and Workgroup Solutions, 3M

Mike Lynch is currently responsible for driving IT innovation strategy and implementation as well as service engineering – driving IT operational excellence. Recent projects include product information management for 3M’s e-channels. In addition, Mike directs the strategy and development of IT collaboration technologies, enabling functions such as R&D, supply chain, sales and marketing, and HR to work together electronically around the globe. Over the last 30+ years at 3M, Mike has held positions in IT as an Enterprise Software Architect, manager of IT's eBusiness practice, and researcher in IT's Advanced Technologies group. Before joining IT, he worked in 3M's manufacturing process control and in one of 3M's business units as the Software Architect of the Docutron® Electronic Document Management System. Prior to his stint at 3M, he held a position at Westinghouse Defense, performing test equipment electronics design for the Air Force AWACS Radar and F-16 Radar programs.

David J. McCluskey Sr.
Senior Cloud Consultant for Energy Drink Company

David started DES in 2001 with the idea that the directory could solve many of the issues companies faced with identity management, security, provisioning (and DE-provisioning), single sign on, and LDAP related web services. Through the early years, the focus was on identity management and SSO. He has implemented such robust and disparate integrations for clients in the following sectors: beverage, government, insurance, and financial. In the past few years, that focused has also included cloud identity management, assisting companies move services to the cloud via private cloud or SaaS vendors. DES also offers a fully integrated, cloud-based, LDAP model, including provisioning and SSO integration. David recently migrated a global beverage company to LotusLive; that project is still ongoing. Previously, David had five years as a Senior Consultant for various firms. He's been in IT since 1994.

Michel Min
Head of Strategic Communication & eMarketing, Omron Europe

As Head of Strategic Communication and eMarketing of Omron Europe, the main goals of Michel Min are to strengthen the Omron brand and to enable Omron to pioneer the internal and external use of eMarketing technologies, such as social media. His aim is to accelerate innovation within the organisation, not for the sake of it, but to help us reach business targets. Michel Min’s career so far has been in two distinct parts. He spent nine years as sales manager for a Dutch trading company that sold industrial PCs, flat-panel displays, and touch-screens, which was a pioneering venture at the time. Part of his job was to help clients use the latest technology in developing innovative machines. The second half of his career has been about marketing, business development, channel management, and – in particular – communications within Omron Europe as a member of the corporate planning team. Subsequently, he was given responsibility for developing the marketing communications and internet presence. “I get a real buzz from networking with inspirational people and by using my own energies to inspire others. My experience in technology, business management, and marketing/communications are key ingredients in what I do, and they impact on every decision that I make.“

Greg Neveau
Director of Technical Architecture, Brunswick IT

Greg Neveau is the director of technology architecture at Brunswick Corporation with 20 years of experience in enterprise IT systems. In his four years at Brunswick, Greg has been responsible for the architecture of enterprise information systems, including Oracle ERP, Advanced Supply Chain, and B2B portals. His current focus is collaboration, desktop services, and identity management with the goal of standardizing the diverse services currently in use at the Brunswick business units to reduce IT support while updating the services provided to support a more global workforce and changing business needs.

Clint Oram
Chief Technology Officer and Co-Founder, SugarCRM

Clint helped launch SugarCRM in 2004 with the goal of helping companies around the world turn customers into loyal fans. Today, he leads product strategy and the product management and community teams. Clint was one of the original architects and developers of the Sugar application and has focused on helping build out the product, company, partners, and community in a variety of executive roles. Prior to co-founding SugarCRM, Clint held senior roles in the development, professional services, and product management organizations at Epiphany, Octane Software, and Hewlett Packard. He has 15 years experience in the enterprise software industry and over 10 years designing and building award-winning CRM software solutions. Clint holds a BS in computer science from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo and is a co-author of a CRM software patent. Clint enjoys traveling and speaking at conferences on a variety of technical topics and has visited SugarCRM customers and partners in over 25 countries.

Kevin O'Shaughnessy
Group Digital Director, Standard Life

Kevin joined Standard Life in June 2009 as Group Digital Director, heading up the Group Digital Centre of Excellence. This forms part of the Group Marketing function with strong links to the various technology teams around the company. This reflects the hybrid nature of the digital discipline, which includes a mix of strategy, marketing, technology , and operations. In his role, Kevin is responsible for driving forward the strategic development of digital capabilities, which enable the company to compete effectively in its chosen markets and segments. As part of this, Kevin acts as a change agent within the business to drive the adoption of the web, social, mobile, and digital techniques to deliver improved business results. Kevin has sponsored and delivered a number of major digital programmes within Standard Life, which have already changed the way SL operates and interacts with its customers.

Jamie Page
Director of Information Services, Slumberland

Jamie is Director of Information Services for Slumberland Furniture, a privately held furniture retailer with $390 USD million in annual sales and 120 stores in eleven Midwestern US states. A technical visionary, Mr. Page has spearheaded key initiatives, including the firm’s successful implementation of IBM WebSphere Portal, IBM Connections, IBM Web Content Manager, a major ERP upgrade, a VOIP system, and construction of a new data center. He oversaw the firm’s deployment and integration of IBM social ECM and collaboration software, which serves as the backbone for the company’s communication, business process automation, and social business initiatives supporting over 2,300 geographically-dispersed employees.

Sameer Patel
Partner, Sovos Group

Sameer Patel is a partner at the Sovos Group, a management consulting and execution planning firm that helps leading organizations accelerate employee, customer, and partner performance through the strategic use of social and collaborative approaches and technology. Sameer has spent over a decade leading teams and managing engagements for large customers, helping them define and execute sustainable programs that drive employee process performance, business partner network optimization, sales and marketing operational effectiveness, and customer acquisition. His clients include BitTorrent, Ingres, Sun Microsystems, KPMG, McKessonHBOC, WR Wrigley Jr. Co., CA, Nike, Oracle, The Sabre Group, Grupo Televisa (Mx), Intel, and Varian. He's appeared in news publications, including The New York Times, Forbes, CNBC, CIO.com, ZDNet, Social Media Today, GigaOM, ReadWriteWeb, and other news outlets, to speak about accelerating business performance through social and collaborative concepts and about enterprise social software trends.

Tim Perry
CTO, Genworth Financial

Tim Perry is the CTO of Genworth Financial responsible for all technology directions. Genworth is a Global Financial Services Company that focuses on Life Insurance, Long Term Care, Mortgage Insurance. Tim has led the implementation of IBM Social Content Management for use in Project and Support Teams, which is tied seamlessly to current IBM ECM/FileNet P8 System (multiple production BPM Underwriting Processes) that supports Genworth Financial Globally as the single source of trusted content. The Project and Support Teams required a secure, collaborative environment that includes all forms of documents, content, and discussions with access to multiple systems, and processes that cross the boundaries from initial project discussions/business requirements with LOB stakeholders and IT.

Alistair Rennie
General Manager, IBM Collaboration Solutions, IBM Software Group

Alistair has oversight for an extensive portfolio of collaboration tools designed to empower people to be more effective, responsive and innovative within the context of the work they do. This portfolio includes Lotus Software, software that enables businesses to communicate, collaborate and increase productivity; WebSphere Portal, software that enables organizations to design their Web experience with personalized applications. Alistair is a member of the IBM Integration and Values team, a select group of executives who provide leadership across IBM on various business and strategic issues.

Michael Rhodin
Senior Vice President, IBM Software Solutions Group

IBM Software Solutions Group focuses on delivering integrated offerings that target high-growth opportunities, such as business analytics, collaboration and industry solutions. As SVP, Mike is responsible for a $5 billion business portfolio which represents one of the fastest growing and most acquisitive segments in IBM. Over the course of his 25 year career with IBM, Mike Rhodin has demonstrated a passion for helping IBM clients maximize their return on IT investment by simplifying the way people work and improving organizational performance.

Scott Schrader
Director, Information Systems, SXC Health Solutions

As Director of Information Systems, Scott is responsible for the implementation, roll out, and support of enterprise information systems, including Siebel CRM, B2B gateway, and integration platforms (Sterling Integrator) as well as the collaboration and web systems, including instant messaging, the client extranet such as the Client Info Center, the corporate intranet, and the publicly available www.sxc.com and www.informedrx.com websites. Scott is responsible for all of the back-end technology that drives each of these solutions, including IBM Connections, IBM Sametime, IBM Lotus Quickr, and IBM Websphere Portal. Scott joined the SXC team in 2003 and has held roles in professional services and product management.
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Aya Soffer
Director, Information Management Analytics, Haifa Research Lab, Haifa Israel

Director of Information Management for Analytic Research, IBM Aya Soffer is Director of Information Management for Analytics Research in IBM. In this role, Aya drives the worldwide software research strategy in information management for analytics, ensuring IBM's position as a premier software research organization in this area and delivering research technologies to IBM software products and customers. In the Haifa Research Lab, Aya is the Department Group Manager of the Information and Interaction Technologies department that focuses on inventing and developing cutting edge technology that connects people and systems to information. Aya additionally leads the LiveInsight strategic initiative, an effort to develop new technologies to facilitate making smart decisions from information.

Carol Sormilic
VP, IBM Global Workforce & Web Processes Transformation Executive

Carol A. Sormilic is Vice President and Transformation Executive for IBM’s Global Workforce and Web Process Enablement. In this role, she is responsible for enabling greater productivity by driving process improvements to human resource processes and to the way employees work. She does this through the enablement of the collaboration process framework, which includes social business and mobility methods and tools. She drives a global IT employee advocacy program that focuses on improved user experience and satisfaction with IT tools. She is responsible for the design and delivery of both the IBM intranet and the company's presence on the Internet. Carol’s scope also includes the transformation of corporate and enterprise functions.

Robert van den Breemen
Lead IT Architect, The Dutch Tax and Customs Administration

Robert has 15 years of experience in IT, ranging from security, networking, platforms, hosting and end user computing services. Robert is currently heading the Digital Workspace initiative to modernize the workspace of the 30.000+ civil servants of the Dutch Tax and Customs Administration. The Digital Workspace puts the end-user and their need for functionality first, with a clear focus on getting work done. One part of the initiative is the modernization of the collaboration platform and has put in place the umbrella collaboration strategy. The strategy aims to deliver simple and well integrated collaboration technology to end-users in the business. By focusing on adoption of the collaboration platform the business can start improving the business efficiency.

Keynote speaker - Bridget van Kralingen
General Manager, IBM North America

Bridget van Kralingen is the General Manager of IBM North America. She is responsible for strategy, execution, business results, and client satisfaction for the full range of IBM's business in the United States and Canada. Bridget is accountable for IBM’s portfolios in consulting, technology services, software, hardware, and financing for clients, which together generate over $40 billion in annual revenues. Bridget has sponsored and chaired IBM’s Innovation initiatives in Microfinance and Mobile Banking for the past five years. Bridget is a member of the Board of Directors of the Royal Bank of Canada where she serves on the Human Resources and Risk committees. She also serves on the advisory board of Catalyst, a non-profit organization which expands opportunities for women in business. In 2005, Bridget was named by Euromoney as one of the one hundred most influential people in Finance. She was named one of Consulting Magazine’s Top 25 Consultants for 2006. Bridget joined IBM from Deloitte Consulting, where she was Managing Partner for the Financial Services Sector in the United States.

Erik Vos
Founder and Co-owner, RealConnections

Founder and Co-owner of RealConnections, Erik Vos has spent over 20 years in the technology industry. His background includes over nine years with IBM in the Netherlands. Erik then went on to become Commercial Director at e-office, a Lotus Business Partner in the Dutch market. In 2008, Erik founded RealConnections to focus his expertise on delivering a combination of several SaaS solutions to customers and their business networks. Today, RealConnections is a cloud-aggregator company that provides SaaS offerings to the Dutch SMB market.

Ray Wang
Principal Analyst and CEO, Constellation Research Inc.

R “Ray” Wang currently is a Principal Analyst and CEO at Constellation Research, Inc. and the author of the popular enterprise software blog “A Software Insider’s Point of View.“ With viewership in the millions of page views a year, his blog provides insight into how disruptive technologies and new business models impact the enterprise. A background in emerging business and technology trends, enterprise apps strategy, technology selection, and contract negotiations enables Ray to provide clients and readers with the bridge between business leadership and technology adoption.