HMG Strategy Live Webinar Panel: Leading Courageously Through a Crisis

Wendy Pfeiffer

CIO, Nutanix

Currently CIO at Nutanix, Wendy has led technical functions for GoPro, Yahoo! and Cisco, and proudly serves on the board of Girls in Tech. Dedicated to excellence in operations and delivery while maintaining a focus on innovation, Wendy has had a key role in envisioning and delivering digital technologies around the world. In 2018, Wendy was honored to be named one of the National Diversity Council’s 50 Most Powerful Women in Tech, one of the Silicon Valley Business Journal’s Women of Influence, and #1 on the list of Top 10 CIOs Who Inspire and Influence Us by Enterprise Management 360° (EM360°)!

Steve Phillpott

CIO, Western Digital Corporation

Steve was named Chief Information Officer for Western Digital Corporation in October 2015. Prior to this, he was CIO for HGST, a Western Digital brand. As the CIO of Western Digital, he oversees the worldwide IT department encompassing infrastructure and operations, global applications, enterprise data management and IT security. Steve works with leaders to provide strategic and tactical IT direction, which often includes utilizing Cloud, SaaS, Social, Web, Mobile and Big Data to drive business innovation and value. Based in the U.S. headquarters in Irvine, Calif., he manages WDC’s global, multi-disciplined IT team.

Bhavin Shah

CEO & Founder, Moveworks

Three-time entrepreneur with over 18 years of experience in building companies across different industries - consumer, mobile productivity, and enterprise AI. Combines a technical and creative mindset, leading teams from ideation to product delivery and from inception to outcome.

Prior to Moveworks, Bhavin was the CEO & Founder of Refresh.io, which was acquired by LinkedIn. He started his career in the toy and video game industry. Currently CEO and Founder of Moveworks, an AI company that uses a strong form of AI to resolve enterprise IT issues autonomously, with Fortune 500 and large enterprise customers such as Autodesk, Broadcom, Medallia, Nutanix, and Western Digital.

Angela Yochem

EVP, CDO, CTO, Novant Health

Angela Yochem is EVP & Chief Digital Officer for Novant Health, a super-regional healthcare system with one of the largest medical groups in the US. She and her teams deliver the world-class consumer capabilities, differentiating technologies, and advanced clinical solutions that allow the high-growth system to provide remarkable patient care.

Angela has served as EVP/CIO at Rent-A-Center, Global CIO at BDP International, Global CTO at AstraZeneca, and divisional CIO at Dell. She’s held tech exec roles at Bank of America and SunTrust, and held senior technology roles at UPS and IBM. In these roles, she built B2B digital product lines, grew digital retail channels (B2C), created technical services lines of business, and transformed global technology capabilities.

Moderator: Hunter Muller

President & CEO, HMG Strategy

Hunter Muller is a charismatic industry pioneer and a modern-day Renaissance Man. As a global C-suite advisor and coach for the past 30 years, Hunter’s insights and concepts have been successfully applied by Fortune 1000 organizations worldwide to accelerate executive performance, propel the career ascent of C-level executives, and to drive transformative innovation and create new waves of value.

HMG Strategy is the provider of thought leadership and networking events for CIOs, CISOs, and senior technology executives. HMG Strategy offers a unique, integrated model for enabling C-level executives and their companies to draw upon courageous leadership to reimagine, reinvent, and rebuild their business models to attain the genius-level thinking required in today’s dynamic business landscape to achieve competitive advantage in the digital frontier.

During periods of crisis, such as the current coronavirus outbreak and its impact on supply chains and business, CIOs and technology executives need to step up and demonstrate their leadership mettle. This includes clearly communicating to the executive team and the staff the nature of the predicament and how it can be successfully dealt with along with inspirational messaging that can reassure employees that their safety and interests are the top priority.

In this session, top technology executives will share their advice on how to lead effectively during a crisis, including the common characteristics of courageous leaders.

1:00 – 1:10 PM (ET): Hunter Muller, President and CEO, HMG Strategy & Harry Moseley, CIO, ZOOM

The New Norm for Global Communications: Hunter and Harry will begin with a discussion around adjusting to the new world through Zoom – best practices and emotional aspects of maintaining global communications for educational organizations, healthcare and all industries around the world.

1:10 – 1:20 PM (ET): Nicole Eagan, CEO, Darktrace

1:20 – 1:30 PM (ET): Bhavin Shah, CEO, Moveworks and Brian Hoyt, CIO, Unity Technologies

How Unity Supports its Remote Workforce with AI: Join Brian and Bhavin as they discuss how AI is providing essential support to Unity’s remote employees—wherever they’re working and whenever they need help.

1:30 – 2:20 PM (ET): EXECUTIVE PANEL: Leading Courageously Through a Crisis

2:20 – 2:30 PM (ET): Q&A

Harry Moseley

Global CIO, Zoom

Harry D. Moseley brings to Zoom a blend of transformational leadership, disruptive innovation, and corporate growth strategies. As the former CIO & Managing Director for KPMG, Harry was responsible for technology and innovation to support the firm's competitive growth. Over five years he identified and replaced legacy technology to dramatically improve productivity, security, and reliability. Before joining KPMG, Harry served as CIO & Senior Managing Director - Partner for Blackstone, where he led the company's transformation to the world's best digital alternative asset manager. Prior to Blackstone, Harry was a Managing Director for Credit Suisse, where he served as the CIO of Global Investment Banking, and Global Co-Head of Application Development / Co-CIO of the firm. Before Credit Suisse, Harry served as CTO & Managing Director for UBS Americas.

Harry has been inducted into CIO Magazine's Hall of Fame, recognized as one of the world's top 100 CIOs by Computerworld, and honored by Irish Magazine as one of its Annual Wall Street 50. Harry is an Advisory Board Member of the New York Center for Dental Restorative Services, a Board Member of Rewards Network, a member of the Advisory Board of the New York City Chapter of the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, and a sponsor of nPower. He is a former Board Member of Bi-Sam (since acquired by Factset), a former Advisor to Aquiline Capital Partners, and a former Board Member of iLevel Solutions (since acquired by Ipreo). He also led Blackstone's investment in Watchdox (since acquired by Blackberry).

Nicole Eagan

CEO, Darktrace

As Chief Executive Officer of Darktrace, Nicole Eagan has established the company as the global leader of AI cyber defense. Named “Top Technology Executive to Watch” in 2019 and 'AI Leader of the Year' in 2017, her extensive career spans 25 years working for Oracle and early to late-stage growth companies. Today, Darktrace has 2,500 customers and a valuation of $1.65 billion. The company’s innovative approach to cyber security has won more than 100 awards and the company has been named to WSJ's Tech Companies to Watch, Fast Company's Most Innovative Companies, and the CNBC Disruptor 50.

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