CIO Forum and Panel Discussion:  Emerging Trends in Project Management and the CIO Point of View of Project Management  - 2 PDUS

Following this presentation and dinner, there will be a CIO Forum, featuring seven CIO's of Fortune 500 companies.  The objective of this session is for the CIO's to provide insight into the boardroom and backroom discussions around strategic project investment decision making and how C-level executives align projects to corporate strategies.  Each CIO will be asked to speak on a specific topic for about 15 minutes.  The panel will be moderated by Amit Mukherjee, PhD, of Ashan Advisors, and there will be a 15-minute Q & A session to follow.

About the Presenters:

Presentation - Part 1:

Jaime M. Capellá is a Managing Director with the Corporate Executive Board's IT Practice in Washington, DC.  Mr. Capellá has spent the last decade studying the leadership principles, managerial practices, strategies, metrics and organizational innovations used by the world's most progressive companies to derive value from their investments in IT.  His current work focuses on understanding how the recession is accelerating major shifts in business demands for IT.  He is also helping organizations redefine the focus of their PMOs to more consistently to deliver business results.  

Mr. Capellá has extensive experience facilitating leadership conferences with CIOs, CISOs, PMO leaders, and other Fortune 500 executives in North America and Europe. He holds an A.B. cum laude from Harvard University, as well as M.B.A. and M.A. degrees from Yale University.   He resides in the Washington DC area with his wife and two young boys.  In his (somewhat limited) spare time, he enjoys spending time on his farm in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley.  

CIO Panel - Part 2:

Moderator:  

Dr. Amit S. Mukherjee co-founded Ishan Advisors, a strategy consulting and executive education company, in 2004. His book, The Spider's Strategy, addresses the key drivers of effective competition in today's business world; it was recently named "One of the 30 Best Business Books of 2009."   

Most recently, Amit was a Vice President and Strategy Advisor at Forrester Research, where he started and led a strategy consulting practice. Earlier, he was the Chief Technology & Strategy Officer of TurboChef Technologies, a NASDAQ-listed high-tech consumer durables company.  

Amit has developed corporate, new market entry, organizational and technology strategies for top executives - including CEOs and Board members - of numerous companies in industries ranging from services to steel wire; his clients include Dunkin' Brands, SAP, Johnson & Johnson, Bloomberg, Sun Microsystems, and Gallo Wineries. At Arthur D. Little and TurboChef, he led teams that created next-generation "can't be done" products, and/or radically improved moribund operations.  

Amit earned his Doctorate in Business Administration from the Harvard Business School, MBA from the Darden School of the University of Virginia, and Bachelor of Engineering (Honors) from BITS (India).

Bob Wittstein joined Sappi Fine Paper North America as Vice President and Chief Information Officer in September 2002. In addition to having responsibility for all aspects of Information Technology, Bob led the IT transformation project, including the roll-out of SAP and the implementation of the mill execution system at each of the mills in North America. Bob also led the execution of Sappi's ecommerce strategy both internally and externally for investors, customers and trading partners. In September 2005, Bob took on the additional responsibility of leading the Procurement functions at Sappi including a $1.2B spend for wood, chemicals, equipment and energy. As a member of Sappi's executive management team, Bob participated in the formulation of product and market strategy for increased revenue and customer satisfaction.  He holds an MBA from the University of New Haven and a B.S. in Engineering from the University of Connecticut.