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Howard Bruck, Chief Information Officer, HUDSON VALLEY BANK

Howard Bruck

Chief Information Officer, HUDSON VALLEY BANK

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Howard Bruck is Chief Information Officer at Hudson Valley Bank, a commercial bank. He has over 25 years of experience in the information technology sector. He specializes in financial services technology, outsourcing, hosting, databases, ERP, CRM, BI and enterprise systems. He has been associated with Oracle, EDS, ATT, HP, SUN and SAP. He has published articles on information technology management and financial services systems. Previously, Mr. Bruck was the Vice President of Equitable; Managing Director of Technology at the New York Stock Exchange; and the Director of International IT at PepsiCo. Mr. Bruck is a Director of FW chapter of Society of Information Management and a member of IBM Mid-Market Advisory Council. He is also an Adjunct Professor of Management at the Fordham Graduate Business School. (This is me - Update Profile)


Employment History

2006 - present
Chief Information Officer, HUDSON VALLEY BANK
2003 - 2006
Chief Information Officer, Trafin Corporation
2001 - 2002
Vice President- Enterprise Systems, Equitable Life Assurance Society
1997 - 2001
Manging Director, NYSE GROUP, INC
1989 - 1997
Director International IT, PEPSICO, INC.

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Bank Tech Companies - who will be left standing?

September 29, 2009

Howard Bruck, Chief Information Officer, HUDSON VALLEY BANK

Mergers: Conflicts Becoming A Core Reality | www.banktechnews.com

7,000 US banks and credit unions represents a lot of customers for the banking technology companies. While banks may be hurting, their technology needs only increases. With so many recent mergers are there too few providers left? Who has the advantage banks or the providers?

Dell/Perot, HP/EDS what's the difference?

September 21, 2009

Howard Bruck, Chief Information Officer, HUDSON VALLEY BANK

Dell to buy Perot Systems for $3.9 billion | money.cnn.com

Dell, buying into the notion that hardware is now a commodity and they have already optimized that business, believes they need to diversify. So they buy a large business/technology consulting firm. Do they now bring any more value to the Perot business?

Interesting niche software solutions find ways to sell even in this environment

September 16, 2009

Howard Bruck, Chief Information Officer, HUDSON VALLEY BANK

SuccessFactors: Small cap, big plans | money.cnn.com

While core infrastructure, telecom, and enterprise system maintenance revenues have been relatively stable even in this market, discretionary tech spending is challenged.However, tech buying is strong with a few interesting technology solutions that can provide tangible short term benefits.

Missing the boat - deduplication is only one piece of the puzzle

July 27, 2009

Howard Bruck, Chief Information Officer, HUDSON VALLEY BANK

EMC outlines where Data Domain will fit | blogs.zdnet.com

The hype around Data Domain that brought it $2.1 Billion, over-emphasized the role of deduplication. The technology is nice, but it is neither unique nor complete.

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