Richard K. Anderson

Richard K. Anderson is a senior partner of the CIO Group. Before joining the CIO Group, Mr. Anderson spent many years at AT&T in critical technology functions such as Vice President of AT&T Labs, Chief Technology Officer of AT&T Solutions and Managing Partner of AT&T Solutions Professional Services.

Prior to joining AT&T, Mr. Anderson was a Principal with McKinsey & Company, Inc. in New York, where he helped to establish the Worldwide Information Management and Technology Practice and managed a group of advanced computer scientists from MIT in McKinsey's Cambridge Technology Center.

Before McKinsey, Mr. Anderson was a Partner with Andersen Consulting (now Accenture) in Washington D.C., where he led their Telecommunications Practice and Advanced Systems Resources Group.

Some of Mr. Anderson's other previous responsibilities include operations management, network engineering and systems development. He was the Chief Technology Officer for Kwasha Lipton, an employee benefits consulting and outsourcing firm, the Managing Director of the Information Consulting Group, an IT consulting Firm, a member of MIT Research’s technical staff and an associate professor at the University of Connecticut.

Originally from Connecticut, Mr. Anderson received a B.A. degree in Economics and Psychology from the University of Miami and an M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Connecticut.

Richard S. Cuccioli

Rich Cuccioli is a senior executive with almost 30 years of line and management responsibility both nationally and internationally. As a partner with Accenture since 1983 (now retired), he has unique experience in the areas of operations management (profit & loss), business development, service line management and solution delivery. He has demonstrated consistent and long-term success in applying his business acumen and technical skills in solving large scale business problems most recently with the Tier 1 clients of the firm in the Communications industry, including; AT&T, Qwest, BellSouth, Verizon, Sprint, Telecom Italia, Telefonica and British Telecom. Prior experiences included clients in the Products and Financial Services industries. His leadership roles include direct line management where he led both the Pittsburgh and Barcelona, Spain consulting practices and served as a member of both the Communications Market Unit Executive Committee for North America and the Country Management Committee for Spain. He is also noted for creating high performing teams and as such was the founding father of the firm's Global Network Line of Business, built and managed the Advanced Practices (Technology) Group in Spain and was asked to transform the Change Management Practice in North America to be business oriented and profitable. His career is characterized by successfully solving the most difficult client and firm business problems often containing a large technology component and by leading and motivating diverse groups of technology, process and human performance professionals to achieve their personal and business objectives.

Mr. Cuccioli holds a BS in Corporate Finance from New York University (Honors Graduate) and an MBA in Information Systems also from New York University.

Arthur G. Deacon, Ph.D.

Art Deacon has over 21 years of technical and executive experience in networking and information technology. Art was most recently Vice President of AT&T Network Operations, Security and Disaster Recovery, accountable for maintaining and monitoring domestic and international voice, packet and optical network elements in the U.S., web hosting centers, network infrastructure, and the Global Network Operations Center, which applies AT&T’s world-leading network management skills to the company’s networks.

Prior to his last position at AT&T, Art was Business Services Operations Vice President, leading the move to a customer experience focused model by employing statistical process and quality control tools to measure, track, and improve the total business customer experience.

Art’s earlier work included developing an aggressive vendor management program focused on cost, cycle time, and defect rates, that reduced IP network defects by a factor of 10. He also led the development of Y2K contingency plans and testing for all AT&T data networks and services and had lead the development of AT&T’s Disaster Recovery activities for both the network and the IT capabilities. Art is also skilled in statistical quality and process control, defense and intelligence work, and has managed business continuity efforts.

Art began his AT&T career at Bell Labs and was a Professor of Mathematics at Syracuse University. Art earned his Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics and Statistics from SUNY at Stony Brook.

Ernest DeNigris

Ernie DeNigris has over 30 years experience as a business executive. He has held positions as CEO and CIO/CTO since leaving AT&T after a 31-year career. Mr. DeNigris is skilled in the application of technology to solve customer and business problems. He possesses a rare blend of business and technological experience. His CEO experience comes from a venture chartered to bring telecommunications services to rural Africa via satellite technology. As CEO, Mr. DeNigris was involved in significant international negotiations at the highest levels of Government and was responsible for the raising of capital on Wall Street. As the CIO/CTO of Expanets, a communications solutions company of 3200 employees, he designed and implemented a large and complex Siebel/Oracle enterprise systems in only 12 months. At AT&T, Mr. DeNigris was responsible for such businesses as Skynetâ Satellite Services and AT&T's Teleconferencing Service, was a key member of the leadership team that reengineered AT&T's PBX business, and built the operating systems used to launch American Bell during the 1983 divestiture.

Mr. DeNigris has a BS Cum Laude in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Notre Dame, an MS in Mechanical Engineering from MIT, and is a graduate of the Bell Telephone Laboratories Graduate Study Program. He is a member of the Tau Beta Pi, Pi Tau Sigma, and Sigma Si Honor Societies and is a member of the TeleCon Hall of Fame.

Douglas C. Caffrey Fields

Douglas Fields, former Vice President of UPS, is an Information Technology professional with thirty-eight years of successful management in a variety of information technology disciplines. The experiences coupled with his strong drive to achieve enabled him to develop the skills to: build teams, work with others, lead change, integrate business needs with technology, and develop the global vision needed to achieve business goals for major corporations including KeyCorp, Corning Glass Works and Levi-Strauss & Company. Mr. Fields held many advisory roles including Senior Research Fellow at the University of Maryland, Advisory Board at the State University of NY, International Telecommunications Users Group (INTUG), U.S. Department of Commerce, and the US State Department.

Mr. Fields direct management responsibilities have included: strategic planning, Telecommunications, centralized and distributed data processing systems, Inter & Intra Net systems, wireless communications systems, and founding a Common Carrier Company. His Applications Development experience included the managing of the development of systems for: Call Centers, Sales Force Automation & Compensation, Bid & Incentive Systems, Air Applications, Data Collection Systems, and Package Delivery Systems.

Mr. Fields attended Los Angeles City College for Business Administration.

Elena Malunis

Elena brings to client engagements over 30 years of information technology industry experience serving customers in the communications, media, distribution, financial services, health/pharmaceutical, and travel/transportation industries. She has held senior management positions at the IBM Corporation in sales, marketing services, solutions development and delivery, product management, strategy and planning, business transformation and business process re-engineering. Her particular expertise is in the development and implementation of business, solutions, marketing and services strategies, and the use of technology to achieve business transformation.

Elena holds a BA summa cum laude from the City University of New York, and an MS in Mathematics from New York University/Courant Institute. She has also completed courses on global management, managing change, customer service and support, and business strategy in executive programs at Harvard, the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, the Sloan School at MIT, and Columbia University.

Roland A. Ochsenbein

Roland Ochsenbein brings to client engagements over 25 years of experience as a senior publishing executive. Mr. Ochsenbein is president of Bolton Strategic Associates, a consultancy formed in 1998 that provides strategy, business planning, and business development services to the publishing and related graphic arts industries, with a focus on technology. He is a frequent speaker at professional industry conferences on technology and publishing.

From 1995 to 1997, Mr. Ochsenbein was V.P. Editorial Operations and Technology for the secondary publishing division of Houghton Mifflin Company, with responsibility for all publishing services from production and manufacturing to instructional technology and website development. He was also a member of the Corporate Web Committee, the Corporate E-Commerce Committee, and the Executive Technology Group. Prior to that, Mr. Ochsenbein was V.P. Technology and V.P. Editorial Operations at D.C. Heath and Company (a Raytheon Company), where he oversaw the production, manufacturing, design, editorial services, and business planning functions of the Heath School Division, as well as divisional IT functions, from 1984-1995. During this time he also launched and managed a successful start-up division of D.C. Heath, Heath Media, which produced instructional technology products. These multimedia and web-based products won many awards, including the Invision New Media Gold Award, the Curriculum Administrator’s 100 Districts Choice Award, and the National Education Media Network Award (Silver and Bronze).

Mr. Ochsenbein holds a B.A. with honors in English from Bucknell University. He has also completed advanced financial and management courses at Brigham Young University and the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Dr. Charles Popper

Dr. Popper brings more than thirty years of experience in all aspects of information technology and its application in the creation of business value. He is currently CEO of the TechPar Group (TPG), a consultancy providing technology advisory services to technology investors, vendors, service providers, and end users. From 1999 to 2001, Dr. Popper was Vice Chairman and Chief Technologist for Orama Partners, a boutique investment bank servicing and investing in high-tech start-ups, with a strong focus upon Israeli companies. Dr. Popper is a member of the Board of Advisors of ProSight and Atomica. ProSight is a startup company whose products and services provide advanced portfolio management tools to help align IT investments with business strategy, via a proactive governance framework that measures performance and improves communication. Atomica develops and sells knowledge management tools.

Dr. Popper was Vice President -- Corporate Computer Resources and CIO at Merck & Co., Inc. from October, 1991 until January, 1999. He was responsible for all areas of computer and telecommunications technology at Merck worldwide, including application development, technical support, and operations. Prior to joining Merck, Dr. Popper was a Partner in the Management Consulting practice of Deloitte & Touche, where he specialized in Information Technology consulting to clients in a wide variety of industries, including banking, brokerage, insurance, retail, public sector, health care, transportation, and law. He has worked as a mathematician for the National Security Agency, a research scientist at Bell Laboratories, Director of Advanced Technology for American Express, and Vice President of Advanced Technology at Lehman Brothers Kuhn Loeb. Among his accomplishments are leadership in the application of microprocessors at Bell Labs, design of the first Bell Labs 8-bit microprocessor chip architecture, design of American Express' image-based card member billing system, and introduction of UNIX technology to Lehman Brothers. Dr. Popper received his BA and Ph.D. degrees from Harvard, in Applied Mathematics and Computer Science.

Dr. Popper is a member of the Advisory Board of the New York University MS in Information Systems program, a joint degree program offered by the Stern School of Business and the Courant Institute Computer Science Department; the Advisory Board of the MIS program of Yeshiva University’s Sy Syms School of Business; and the Editorial Advisory Board of Computerworld. He is a member of the ACM, IEEE, and IEEE Computer Society.

Dr. Gad Selig

Gad Selig brings over thirty years of diversified domestic/international executive, management and consulting experience with both Fortune 500 and smaller companies in the financial services, utility, telecommunications, manufacturing and health/pharmaceutical industries. His experience includes: marketing, sales, planning, operations, business development, mergers and acquisitions, general management (with full P & L responsibility), systems/network integration/outsourcing, MIS/CIO, telecommunications, the Internet, electronic commerce, product development and management development. Dr. Selig has worked for the following companies: Marketing Corporation of America, Advanced Networks and Services, Continental Group, Contel Information Systems, NYNEX (Verizon), Standard Kollsman Industries, CBS and AT&T.

Dr. Selig has designed and implemented a wide range of information systems and networks. He regularly conducts IT assessments (architecture, infrastructure, organization, project management, etc.) and gap analysis, develops plans in support of the business and coordinated the implementation of IT solutions. He conducts management development and training seminars on: Winning Project Management; Strategic Marketing and CRM; Electronic Commerce; Best practices in Achieving Cost Savings (TCO) while Transforming IT into a Strategic Competitive Weapon and Leadership, Innovation and the Management of Change.

Dr. Selig holds degrees from City, Columbia, and Pace Universities in Economics, Engineering, and Business. He has authored two books and over twenty-five articles. He is a frequent speaker at industry conferences in the US and abroad. He is a member of SIM, the Connecticut Technology Council and PMI. He teaches graduate courses at the University of Bridgeport and has taught at Sacred Heart University, Polytechnic University and the University of Connecticut in the Executive MBA and MS programs.

William A. Webster

Bill Webster is a senior Information Technology executive with over 30 years experience. Mr. Webster has spent the last sixteen years with Bristol-Myers Squibb in various IT leadership roles. For the past six years he served as the Vice President, Information Management for the BMS Consumer Businesses (Clairol, Consumer Medicines and Mead-Johnson). The major accomplishments in this position were the design and implementation of a SAP Order-to-Cash system to support the three businesses. This was followed by design, development and delivery of a Sales Force Automation application using system using a highly sophisticated Data Warehouse. Bill spent five years responsible for all corporate systems at BMS Headquarters as well as five years responsible for the international IT systems and operations of Bristol-Myers Squibb. Prior to joining Bristol-Myers Squibb Mr. Webster was responsible for the IT function of the Revlon Health Care Group. Mr. Webster has also worked for Technicon Corporation, Russell, Burdsall & Ward, Hughes Aircraft Company and the United States Air Force.

Mr. Webster serves on the IT advisory Council of the Norwalk Community College, is a director and founding member of the Fairfield/Westchester Society of Information Management (SIM), and is on the Advisory Board of The Advisory Council. Mr. Webster holds a Bachelors of Science Degree in Industrial Engineering from Ohio State University.