April 11, 2007
The Millenium Hilton Hotel
New York, New York

At Computerworld’s upcoming IT Executive Summit & Roundtable, a small, select group of senior IT executives will explore and discuss the issues, and will get an up-to-date education on where virtualization in financial services is headed. Through a concise, morning-long program of analyst and end-user presentations concluding with a rich, interactive roundtable discussion, participants will gain fresh perspective from presenters and each other.

Why You Should Attend
You’ll learn from formal presentations and moderated discussion that will surround how today’s client infrastructure environments are pushing the envelope.

From the morning's program, you'll rapidly gather answers to the following questions:

• What are the imminent challenges for today's IT decision-makers?
• What are the pitfalls to avoid?
• How can virtualization be maximized for bottom-line results?
• How have some workplaces accomplished this?

Agenda

8:00-8:30 a.m.	Registration and Networking Breakfast
8:30-8:45 a.m.	Introduction and Overview Ron Milton, Executive Vice President, Computerworld
8:45-9:15 a.m.	Virtualization in Today's Enterprise Ken Male, Chief Executive Officer, The Info Pro
9:15-9:45 a.m.	The Virtual Objective Joe Kennedy, Vice President, Information Technology, State Street Corporation
9:45-10:00 a.m.	Refreshment and Networking Break
10:00-10:30 a.m.	How Financial Services Companies Are Finding Value with Consolidated Client Infrastructure Environments Jeff Groudan, Vice President, Business PCs Personal Systems Group Hewlett-Packard
10:30 a.m.-Noon	Moderated Roundtable Discussion Moderator: Ron Milton, Executive Vice President, Computerworld
Noon	Program concludes

Presenters

Jeff Groudan Vice President, Business PCs Personal Systems Group Hewlett-Packard
Jeff Groudan is Vice President for HP’s Business Desktop PC global business unit which provides a broad range of innovative desktop PCs, services and solutions that simplify business computing. The product family includes a flexible array of client-computing solutions. From thin clients and blade PC’s to high-performance desktop solutions. The PSG commercial portfolio is designed to simplify IT deployment and management and to reduce costs, offering business customers excellent value over the life of the product.

In this role, Jeff’s team will research worldwide customer requirements and manage the worldwide desktop, blade PC, thin client and SW and options product roadmap. He and his team will also be responsible for new product launches, core marketing content and documentation content and development.

Jeff has been with Compaq and HP for 13 years. Prior to his current position, Jeff has held Marketing Director positions for Compaq Commercial Portable Marketing and HP Commercial Desktop Marketing, where he held similar global marketing and product roadmap responsibilities.

His career also includes his work at Sperry Marine, where he served as an electrical engineer.

Jeff received his bachelor's of science degree in electrical engineering from the University of Virginia, and a masters in business administration from Fuqua School of Business, Duke University.

For fun, Jeff enjoys road cycling, mountain biking, running and golf as well as being a voracious reader and lover of music.

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Ron Milton, Executive Vice President, Computerworld
Ron manages the events business and strategic business programs for IT executive titles in storage networking, mobile and wireless, data center and business intelligence market sectors. Milton leads the team responsible for creating content, sponsor sales, operations, marketing and audience development for all of Computerworld's events, such as brands like Premier 100 IT Leaders, Storage Networking World, Mobile & Wireless World, Business Intelligence Perspectives and IT Executive Summit Series. He has 20+ years of experience in information technology, serving in both vendor and information services management positions. Before his current role at IDG, Ron was Senior Vice President of CXO Media and General Manager of CIO Magazine's Executive Program Divisions.

Prior to joining Computerworld in 1999, he was President and CEO of IDG's Internet Commerce (ICE) business unit, which he founded in 1996 as a start-up business, and was a pioneer in using e-commerce systems and web marketing. He was a 1996 recipient of the coveted IDG Chairman's Award for the most successful start-up business globally. Before joining IDG, Milton spent five years as Vice President/Partner of GLA computer Systems, a software developer and channel integrator with market share leadership in wholesale travel solutions. Prior to GLA, he also held a variety of management positions in channel management, field sales and marketing at Honeywell Information Systems and Bull HN. He holds degrees from Concordia University and Sir George Williams University.

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Joe Kennedy, Vice President, Information Technology, State Street Corporation
Joseph L. Kennedy, Vice President of Technology Architecture for State Street, is responsible for establishing the technology vision and architectural principals for my.statestreet.com; his organization selects and integrates new technologies, builds custom solutions and establishes new strategic frameworks and processes for enterprise implementation and systems integration.

Prior to working on My State Street Joe was Vice President of Architecture for the State Street’s Enterprise Client Integration group where he is credited with establishing ETL, Open-source, Environment Configuration Management, Content Management, Session Management solutions as well as the Information Delivery Architecture for his line of business. Joe was also responsible for Wealth Manager Services’ Intranet, Extranet, Messaging Infrastructure, UK trading systems and technology lead for M&A activities.

Before working for the ECI division, Joe was Principle in charge of the Internet Competency Center for State Street Global Advisors [SSgA] where he designed and established the core components for application development including: Application and Web Servers, Persistent Session Management, Content Management, Directory Technologies, XML Persistence and Portal Technologies. Joe was also responsible for SSgA’s Intranet.

Prior to working at State Street Joe was the Head of Internet Technology at Parexel International. He was responsible for establishing a worldwide corporate Intranet and the tools/architecture to develop web applications. Joe built the development and support organization that maintained the web infrastructure. In addition, his team established the corporate DMZ, Firewall and VPN solutions and internalized all externally hosted internet sites. Joe also assisted in migrating the corporate email solution.

Joe has served on the Board of Directors of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, NICSA’s technology board and currently resides on mValent’s technology board. He speaks internationally on the following topics: Enterprise Architecture, Availability Architecture, Open Source Technology, Configuration Management, Content Management, Session Management, XML Messaging and Taxonomy.

Joe holds a BA in Computer Science from Clark University.

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Ken Male, Founder and CEO, TheInfoPro
As founder and CEO of TheInfoPro, Ken Male recognized the importance of market intelligence in making sound decisions and understanding the reality of conditions of an IT sector's competitive landscape. In 2001, he developed TIP's "voice of the customer" approach to research and today, thousands of IT professionals, institutional investors and technology companies rely on TIP's grass roots research, delivered transparently without spin or bias.

Prior to launching TheInfoPro, Male held distinguished positions with IT providers and market research firms including Gartner, Giga, Jupiter, DEC and EMC. Male is a frequent speaker at industry conferences and events, including Storage Networking World US and Europe, Storage Decisions, and Forbes Emerging Technology Conferences. He has also provided industry briefings and commentary to such major news organizations as Forbes, CNBC, Dow Jones, Storage Magazine, InformationWeek, The Financial Times, and InfoStor. Ken earned his Bachelor of Science in Marketing from Boston College’s Carroll School of Management.

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