CDW Summit on Social Business
 












Tom Catalini
CIO
Museum of Fine Art

Tom Catalini is the CIO of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston. He has wrangled with IT leadership issues for over 25 years in consulting, technology startups, financial services, and nonprofits. A former President and current Trustee of SIM Boston, the largest chapter of a premiere national association of IT executives, Tom is well-versed in the challenges and successful strategies of today’s IT professionals. He teaches digital marketing at Bentley University and Northeastern University and was named a top 100 social CIO by the Huffington Post. He speaks regularly on the topics of social media and IT leadership in the digital era and sits on the advisory boards of several industry conferences. Tom is the author of “Talking Points: Communication Skills to Advance Your IT Career,” available on Amazon, blogs regularly at www.tomcatalini.com, and publishes a weekly email newsletter “The IT Leadership Think Tank” that focuses on communications skills and other challenging areas of IT leadership today.









 

 Lane Cooper
Contributing Editor
CIO magazine, Computerworld, Network World

Lane F. Cooper has 20 years of experience as a researcher, reporter and editor analyzing the business and technology industry. Lane has organized and moderated many live and online events and works with a variety of high-tech clients and CIO magazine to ensure that the information presented is interesting to an audience of sophisticated technology buyers and implementers. In addition to moderating, Lane has a message management and media coaching practice and has worked with organizations like BEA, Microsoft, Symantec, Trend Micro among others. Numerous news services and magazines that have carried his by-line include: TechWeb, Optimize, Information Week, Telephony, Tele.com, Communications Week, ComWeek International, Network World, Byte Magazine and Enterprise Systems Journal. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area, where he is the Editorial Director of BizTechReports.Com, an independent reporting agency that analyzes user trends in business technology.















Christopher C. Crummey
World Wide Executive Director of Sales – Social Business & Exceptional Digital Experience
IBM

Christopher is the World Wide Executive Director of Sales for IBM’s Social Business and Exceptional Digital Experience solutions with in IBM Software Group. Christopher leads a global team of thought leaders in the areas of Social Business & Exceptional Digital Experience. This business generates $450M in revenue to IBM annually, and represents some of the fastest growing and most profitable segments of IBM's software business. His extended team consists of more than 450 sales specialists who interface with existing and prospective IBM customers to grow IBM's revenue and share in the middleware market, while maintaining a high level of customer satisfaction. Previously, Christopher acted as the World Wide Business Unit Executive and the “Lead Evangelist" for Social Business, which covered the entire collaboration technology platform. With 21 years of collaboration experience, Christopher is one of the most sought after and popular speakers at IBM and he has worldwide responsibility for all of the products that make up our customer solutions. Christopher joined Lotus in 1991 as a customer support representative. During his 21 years at Lotus & IBM, he has held multiple positions which have focused on the technical and customer aspects of the products. Mr. Crummey holds a Bachelor’s degree in psychology from Hobart College.

 






Tod Famous
Director, Product Management
Cisco Customer Collaboration

Tod is a 20 year veteran of the contact center industry. He joined Cisco in 1999 as part of the WebLine Communications acquisition shortly after the formation of the Cisco Customer Contact Business Unit. Tod was part of the original product management team that introduced the industry's first IP Contact Center solution in 2001 and over his 15 year career at Cisco he has grown the business to a market leading position with over 25,000 customers. Tod also holds several patents for contact center technology. Tod currently leads the Cisco contact center product management team with global responsibility for the Cisco contact center product line. Tod is available on Twitter @tfamous

 













Nathan Smith
Channel Sales Manager
Jive

Nathan Smith is a 15-year technology sales professional based in Round Rock, TX. He has been fortunate to work at some tech giants, such as: Dell, Google, Oracle and most recently he was an enterprise account executive at a global VAR. Back in 2006, when he joined Google, he started to sense a change in the way people wanted to work together and he wanted to be part of that renaissance. When the opportunity came to join Jive, he jumped at the chance to join the leader in the rapidly expanding Social Enterprise space. For Nathan, the Social Enterprise renaissance is an opportunity to change the dynamic of how we work together, using collaborative technology. Thanks to Jive, and other leaders in the space, Social Enterprise is no longer a ‘wish list’ ‘nice-to-have’ of a leader’s vision for his or her organization. Social Enterprise is an ROI-backed, sustainable, and organizational development opportunity in which employees share, collaborate, communicate, and engage with each other to Work Better Together™. Back home, in Central Texas, Nathan is in the final semester of earning my Interdisciplinary Masters’ degree, specializing in Occupational, Workforce and Leadership Studies, from Texas State University. He is also excited to have his son heading off to college, at Texas State University, this fall.










 Ken Snyder
Emerging Technology Solutions Lead - Collaboration
CDW Corporation

Ken Snyder is Emerging Technology Solutions Lead for CDW, a leading provider of technology products and services for business, government and education. In this capacity, Ken leads solution development focused on new Unified Communication (UC ) & Collaboration products and solutions enhancing CDW’s ability to sell, design, implement and support enterprise UC & Collaboration solutions. Prior to his current role, Ken held the position of a senior network voice engineer where he designed and implemented numerous enterprise and global UC projects. Ken serves as the Converged Infrastructure Virtual Team lead for CDW, which plays a critical role in CDW’s cross practice go to market UC & Collaboration, Mobility, Security, and Networking positioning strategy. He is also credited with creating and driving best practices for CDW’s UC sales and delivery teams. Ken studied Electrical / Computer Engineering at Lawrence Technological University and has achieved over 100 certifications from vendors such as Cisco, Microsoft, IBM, HP, and Apple.