Chapter Information
The economic environment is forcing CIOs to reprioritize and reevaluate their initiatives. Join Dallas’ 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.
Honorary Chapter Chair(s) |
 Chapter Chair Daniel W. Hayes Vice President, Business Solution Delivery 7-Eleven, Inc.Dan is a seasoned executive with strong technology, operations, and organizational change experience. He has international experience as well as experience managing diverse, multi-culture teams. Dan is a highly principled leader that values the organization and others over self, considers being a leader a privilege not a right, believes team members look to how one acts more than what one says. Prior to 7-Eleven, Dan was an executive at Accenture specializing in the Retail and Telecom industry sectors and was the CIO of Versatel Telecom in Holland. Dan has a BA in Organizational and Behavioral Psychology at the University of California, Irvine and a MSBA specializing in Organizational Diagnosis, Assessment and Design from Texas Tech University.
Brad has been the CIO for three DFW based companies: Coach America, Concentra and Greyhound Lines. He most recently held the CIO position at Coach America which is a leading provider of ground transportation services. Coach was a private equity startup company when Brad joined in 2003 and grew to $400 million in revenue before it was sold last year. Brad had the unique opportunity to create an entire IT infrastructure from data center to network to application portfolio all of which had to be highly scalable to support the acquisition driven growth model. He spent the first 17 years of his career at American Airlines in Marketing and in the Sabre division where he was VP of Operations and Applications Development. Brad holds a BS from Cornell’s Engineering College and an MBA from New York University’s Stern Business School. He was the Keynote Speaker at the 1996 Information Week 500 Conference and served on the Information Week Magazine, Editorial Advisory Board from 1996-1998.
Robert currently heads Telx’s South Western team including sales (direct and channel), marketing, and business development. He was instrumental in leading business development teams for some of Telx’s largest enterprise clients, including, 7-Eleven and Myspace. His teams have successfully managed and grown revenue for Telx’s largest clients throughout the Texas and Arizona Markets.Robert comes to Telx from RightNow Technologies, Robert was instrumental is starting RightNow (RNT) Interactive Voice Service Division as the Director of IVR Service, leading the sales and development effort for the Central U.S. Prior to RightNow, Robert spent 8 years working with AT&T’s largest Media and Internet Companies. His leadership and success has been recognized by AT&T, Gartner Group and Ziff Davis Media. Robert was a 2 time Gold Club winner with AT&T, given to AT&T’s Top 5% of Account Managers. Robert has been instrumental in building AT&T’s Managed Services Business; he has lead Sales Teams that have been awarded over $200m in Gross Revenue for AT&T. Some of these offerings include, AT&T Managed Hosting, AT&T Managed Cable IP Service and VoIP Contact Center MigrationsRobert specializes in the following areas and was recognized by AT&T as a SME in these fields, Enterprise Hosting (Managed and Collocation), Partnership Marketing and Alliances, MPLS Networking, VoIP Next Generation Contact Centers. Robert is a graduate of Long Island University, C.W. Post Campus, with a Bachelors Degree. He was recognized as the most outstanding Junior at C.W. Post during is tenure. Robert, a native of New York, now resides in Dallas, TX with his wife Kara and their daughters Angelina & Mia.
National Chapter – 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. |
