Chapter Information
The economic environment is forcing CIOs to reprioritize and reevaluate their initiatives. Join Atlanta’s CIO’s and IT executives in a strategic thinking forum, with attendance by invitation only, where leading executives will discuss key issues related to the role of IT leadership in today’s economy, describe the challenges they are facing and share their best practices with the audience in a lively, interactive environment. TechExecs is an open organization and a true network of Senior IT Executives across all regions of the United States. Our open environment encourages awareness, peer recognition, relationship building, strategic thinking and idea contributions to help shape the success of our peers in the community.
Atlanta Chapter Honorary Chair(s) – Bio
Chapter Chair Sandra Hofmann is an innovative and inspiring executive who understands and drives the value of alignment across the enterprise and has successfully provided leadership to technology and manufacturing professionals for over 25 years. Sandy’s broad management experience, including 14 years with IBM, has enabled her to effectively guide teams to realize goals and deliver desired results. Particularly adept at addressing issues associated with acquired and merged businesses, Sandy has frequently been recruited to address the most difficult and challenging environments.Sandy has repeatedly demonstrated her exceptional strength of character and leadership, as well as her ability to serve as a change agent. She led the transition activities for one of the first application spin-offs from IBM. She faced the unique challenge of breaking the gender barrier at Simplex, while concurrently transforming the way service was delivered. She joined MAPICS, their first woman to be a member of the executive team, as the Vice President and General Manager for a newly acquired business unit and was then a lead participant in the company’s re-engineering as a functional organization. She then stepped into the unique dual role of CIO and Chief People Officer and established the company’s organizational model for the “virtual office” which provided extraordinary results in enterprise efficiency and expense benefits. Her introduction of information liberation, a project management office and portfolio management allowed the company to rapidly assimilate acquisitions (doubling in size) and then obtain full integration in less than six months. Sandy’s management philosophy, leadership characteristics and business results have been acknowledged by numerous industry recognitions: Georgia CIO Leadership Association (GCLA) selected Sandy as the Georgia CIO of the Year in the 2003 regional category. The award honors individuals who have demonstrated outstanding technology leadership in Georgia and excellence in managing their organization’s enterprise wide information systems. In 2003 she was selected as one of five finalists for Woman of the Year in Technology by Georgia Technology Association and again in 2004 she was one of seven finalists. Articles highlighting Sandy’s results have been published in CIO and CFO Magazine, CIO Insight, CIO Quarterly, Workforce Management, Human Resource Executive, and PINK Magazine. Able to present and discuss information and strategies in a way that establishes rapport, persuades others, and gains commitment, Sandy is an often requested speaker and panelist for technology and community events. Sandy’s influence reaches beyond her professional undertakings and she is very engaged in her community with the promotion of technology and ethical leadership. She currently serves on the Board of Directors for AAA Auto Club South, TechBridge, Women in Technology, and is the past chairman for the Board of Directors for Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM-Atlanta chapter). A member of GCLA and the Board of Directors Network, Sandy participates on numerous advisory boards including Turknett Leadership Group. Sandy graduated from Georgia State University with a bachelor of science in education, has completed an intensive program for executive management at Stanford University and received Corporate Directors certification from University of Georgia Terry College of Business. A self-proclaimed “biblioholic”, Sandy has an extensive personal library, enjoys herb gardening, weaving, entertaining, and target pistol shooting. Currently Sandy is serving as “CIO-in-Residence” with the Advanced Technology Development Center. Headquartered at Georgia Tech, ATDC is a nationally recognized science and technology incubator that helps Georgia entrepreneurs launch and build successful companies. Most recently she was Chief Operating Officer at Closets and More, the Southeast’s largest custom closet design, installation, and manufacturer. Prior to that, Sandy served as Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer for Turknett Leadership Group. Turknett Leadership Group is a character-based management and consulting firm that focuses on aligning strategy, leadership and culture by providing services in the areas of Executive Development, Selection & Integration; Succession Planning; Team Assessment and Development; Ethics, Retention and Culture Consulting.
Dr. Kambiz Khadem Dr. Kambiz Khadem is the founding partner and Senior Executive Director of Strategic Sphere Corporation in Atlanta, Georgia. He has more than 16 years of experience in Enterprise Strategic Management, Strategic Alignment, Enterprise Software Development, Information Technology solutions, and Enterprise Portfolio and Program Management.During his corporate courier companies such as UPS, Société Internationale de Télécommunications Aéronautiques (SITA), and AT&T have benefited from his solutions, experience and expertise. As the direct result of his extensive research and real-world experience, Dr. Khadem created the performance Continuum Framework which is a comprehensive strategic management discovery, planning, implementation, execution and measurement system that drives sets of realistic and relevant performance equilibrium factors supporting the organization’s vision, mission and strategic objectives to a comprehensive range of organizational performance indicators, to provide an top-down end-to-end business and operational continuity.Additionally, Dr. Khadem has been teaching corporate and college courses as a professor, mostly in Strategic Management, Information Technology, Project and Program Management, e-commerce and computer science. Dr. Khadem is holding Bachelors of Science in Computer Science, a masters degree in Global Technology Management and a doctorate degree in Strategic Management. He currently continues his post-doctoral education at Harvard University. He has extensive research in the area of Strategic planning and Strategic Alignment in conjunction with his dissertation.
DeLois Babiker
TechExecs Network – National Bio
Anthony Huang A well known industry icon, Anthony Huang has been a successful entrepreneur with a solid track record of having started and sold four profitable business ventures along with serving as the CIO for two venture backed healthcare corporations. Presently, Anthony serves as the CEO of TechExecs Network overseeing national growth activities, maintaining national CIO relationships, serving as the Chief Strategist for TechExecs Social Applications Team, an Angel Investor and Venture Strategist. Anthony Huang founded Techxans and TechExecs Network back in 2000. Techxans and TechExecs Network received its worldwide recognition for helping to launch EnronX.org which was the largest Ex-Enron social networking site. The entity was mentioned on the front page of The Wall Street Journal, CIO Magazine along with over 33 global TV, Radio and News Agencies. Prior to TechExecs Network, Anthony Huang was the CEO of Rexton InterActive, a Premium IBM Business Partner, that led the market in providing strategic web advisory for over 100 major clients across 23 different industries. Anthony began his career with Apple Computers and Ernst & Young and was a recipient of the Entrepreneur of the Year Award in 1998 by The Greater Houston Partnership. He has been a speaker at numerous conferences including InformationWeek, Gartner Midsize Enterprise Summit, TiE Venture Forums and Red Herring Venture Forums. Anthony graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a BBA in Management Information Systems, Pursued Innovations Management Training with MIT, and lives in Houston with his wife and two children.
Rick Kinnard Prior to working full time at TechExecs National, Rick served as the Dallas TechExecs Chapter Vice Chair for two years. He is presently responsible for managing all national forum and social events along with cultivating relationships with TechExecs Coprorate Sponsors. Rick begin his technology career at the young age of 16 when he created dithering in 1980 to create millions of colors on an Apple II which was “limited” to only 8 colors 5 years before it came to regular use in software. His early telecom career allowed him the pleasure of working with American Airlines, ATT, Sprint, US Postal Service, several Republican Party campaigns, various religious organizations and Non-Profits such as Special Olympics. At one point he was managing the accounts for 9 different companies including several insurance companies, US Postal Service and the Nielson Rating surveys. In 1990 Rick bought out his employer and re-launched the business as Trans-Tech Services Inc. He quit college to dedicate more time to the business, and applied his knowledge of systems analysis and design to transform the internal processes; from sales to shipping. He mirrored a Xenix system to Windows and created a CRM program from scratch. He developed “Collision Vision”; a computerized automotive estimating system. Within 3 years Trans-Tech had tripled in size to over 17,000 business customers nationwide selling software and systems, and other specialty items. In 1995 finished 8 years with the United States Navy Reserves In 1998 he started a web design consultancy RKDIA providing dynamic web design for various web based retailers and web based auction sites. Since 2000 he has provided his telecommunications expertise through Time Warner, Cypress, Birch Telecom, Centric Voice, and XO Communications. He has helped hundreds of businesses position their telecommunications resources for efficient and profitable results. He is proud to have helped Dallas Food Bank and Make-a-Wish Foundation as part of his many successful strategies to increase productivity and profitability. Rick has built a personal network of several hundred business contacts. Rick has three boys, two are well on their way to becoming Eagle Scouts and one is a Bear Cub scout. They enjoy weekend adventures throughout Texas. |
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