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John PirontiPresident
IP Architects LLC ![]()
John Pironti is the President of IP Architects, a management consultancy. He is formerly the Chief Information Risk Strategist for CompuCom (Dec 08). He has designed and implemented enterprise wide electronic business solutions, information security programs, and threat and vulnerability management...
Howard BruckChief Information Officer
HUDSON VALLEY BANK ![]()
Howard Bruck is Chief Information Officer at Hudson Valley Bank, a commercial bank. He is also an Adjunct Professor of Management at the Fordham Graduate Business School. He has over 25 years of experience in the information technology sector. He specializes in financial services technology, outsourcing,...
David ZiolkowskiCOO/CIO
Doctor's Medical Center-San Pablo ![]()
David Ziolkowski is COO/CIO of Doctors Medical Center in San Pablo, CA. He is responsible for all hospital operations, as well as all Hospital IT functions. Prior to that, Mr. Ziolkowski was Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer at the Sampson Regional Medical Center in Clinton, NC. He...
Vice President- Information and Product Security
SALESFORCE.COM, INC. ![]()
Izak Mutlu, CISM, is the Vice President of Information and Product Security at Salesforce.com, a company specializing in customer relationship management software. He is responsible for managing IT security, architecture, design, implementation, and operations. Previously, he was the Chief Information...
Senior Director IT
OSI SYSTEMS, INC. ![]()
Ralph Behar is the Sr. Director IT of OSI Systems, Inc, a vertically integrated, worldwide provider of security and inspection systems, medical monitoring and anesthesia systems, and optoelectronic devices and value-added subsystems. He is an acknowledged authority on mini-computers, security, data...
Tushar HazraChief Technology Officer
EPITOMIONE ![]()
Tushar Hazra is the President, Founder and the Chief Technology Officer of EpitomiOne, a strategic consulting company specializing in enterprise architecture (EA), service-oriented architecture (SOA) deployment, portals, and Web services development, model-driven solution delivery, IT governance and...
Dipankar GhoshConsultant
Independent Consultant - Dipankar Ghosh ![]()
Dipankar Ghosh is an independent Consultant specializing in computer aided engineering (CAE), global product development and, outsourcing and offshoring strategies in engineering and management. During 2004-2008, he was the Chief Engineer - CAE at Navistar, Inc. (formerly International Truck and Engine...
Yongmao Frank ChangPrincipal Engineer
VITESSE SEMICONDUCTOR CORPORATION ![]()
Yongmao Frank Chang, Ph.D., is a senior principal engineer and project leader at Vitesse Semiconductor Corporation, a company manufacturing analog and mixed signal semiconductor ICs. He specializes in optical system engineering and product specifications definition for analog and digital ASIC products....
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Xerox Names Burns Chief as Mulcahy Retires Early
May 25, 2009
Xerox Names Burns Chief as Mulcahy Retires Early | hakanakbas.blogspot.com
Today Xerox stock sits at about the same level as back in August 2001. Revenues have not changed either. The company relentlessly cut its way to survival considering it had 79,000 employees back then vs about 57,000 now, which in turn boosted profitability and cash flows. It is ironic that after eight...
Open Text to Acquire Vignette: Is Open Text Itself Next?
May 8, 2009
Open Text to Acquire Vignette: Is Open Text Itself Next? | hakanakbas.blogspot.com
Open Text, the only pure independent Enterprise Content Management vendor has taken out a fellow competitor Vignette at a good price. The question is who will buy Open Text and how you can benefit as an investor?
April 30, 2009
Sycamore Cuts 30% | www.lightreading.com
Sycamore was my customer at EMCORE Corp and the need for optical switches of Sycamore has been dying lately. I got the news that Cisco also disqualified Sycamore Networks in one of their latest quals of optical switches used in routers. That is a big blow and no doubt their $ revenues will be impacted,...
April 20, 2009
Oracle Acquisition 'Transforms Market' | www.crn.com
The acquisition of Sun MicroSystems will allow Oracle to expand their Software portfolio in many different areas and create a tremendous challenge for other software vendors. On the software side, it makes sense. Especially in business mobility and applications for smart phones, where...
Security Technology Vendors, Too Little Too Late?
March 30, 2009
John Pironti, President, IP Architects LLC
Cyber crime profits running into trillions of dollars | www.itnews.com.au
Information security technology vendors have been trying to catch up with the hacker community with little success in the last couple years. Most of their tools are out of date the day that they are released for sophisticated attacks. The hacker community has become more organized and focused...