Honorary Chapter CIO Chair(s)

Jerry Schuman began his 25-year career as a senior information consultant to Hughes Aircraft. In 1993 he founded Flashpoint Systems – a leader in Internet and intranet application development-and served as chief technology officer. At VERSIFI as chief technology officer, Schuman directed product research and development of VERSIFI’s award winning content management system. Gartner Group called VERSIFI, ‘the most visionary CMS product in the world’. VERSIFI was sold in late 2000 for 48M. Jerry has been a leading authority for the past two decades in the development of Internet-based enterprise business applications. He’s held CIO/CTO or executive consulting positions for companies like Canon Computer Systems, Inc., Time-Warner/HBO/E! Entertainment, Silicon Graphics, Sun Microsystems, Apple Computer. In 2008, Jerry co-founded Perssonas, Inc. to bring social media and social network products to brands, enterprise customers and content producers in the form of lifestreams.

Sathish Gajaraju
CTO, Bartronics America

Sathish Gajaraju is chief technical officer of Bartronics America Inc. He brings to this role a unique blend of program management, technology, and business leadership experience. Mr. Gajaraju is an accomplished, results-driven executive with more than seventeen years of information technology experience, including five years in program management and ten years in consulting, design, development, and implementation of SAP R/3 and field worker information solutions on Windows Mobile platforms. Mr. Gajaraju has more than five years of program and project management experience, assisting in contract negotiation, creating statements of work (SOWs), and delivering on all contractual obligations. He recently rolled out a 325-car automated field-reporting solution with real-time integration to court and record management systems for the Manatee County Sheriff’s Office and the Volusia County Sheriff’s Office in Florida, and a two-year offshore-onsite TIBCO and Microsoft portal initiative for Quiksilver in Huntington Beach, California. Mr. Gajaraju joined Bartronics America in 2008 to oversee development of RFID solutions for Leisure and Entertainment vertical. Before joining Bartronics, Mr. Gajaraju served as CTO and vice president at Infokall Inc. from 2000 to 2008. While there, he built an EAI Center of Excellence to deliver Seebeyond and TIBCO architectures for clients in the United States, India, and Malaysia. He managed strategic partnerships with Motorola, TIBCO, Sun, Compudyne, IBM, Microsoft, Avnet, and Dell for enterprise application integration (EAI) and mobile solutions. Mr. Gajaraju is an active member of the Orange County Chapter of the Information Systems Audit and Control Association (ISACA).

Alex Godelman
SVP of Technology
Gorilla Nation

Alex provides nearly 20 years of senior management experience in ecommerce, commercial software development, and online media and entertainment. He has a proven track record in formulating and executing technology and service delivery plans for rapidly growing internet brands and other high tech companies. Most recently, he was a part of the senior management team at Shopzilla, the world leader in comparison shopping search; CIO at Diskeeper Corporation, a leading software manufacturer; Executive Director of Technology for the B3 division of Time Warner responsible for numerous TW and WEA music labels; Senior Director of IS&T for the Maxis division of Electronic Arts, makers of Sims Online. Prior to these, he also served as CIO of Otis College and Director of Technology for WoltersKluwers, responsible for delivery of their two largest online brands, GlobalFx and CompleTax. Alex is very active in ITIL, Agile and web communities and serves on the board of advisors of several technology companies. He is a Certified Scrum Master and holds a graduate degree in Computer Science and Applied Mathematics from Universitatea de Stat din Moldova.

Honorary Chapter Co-Vice Chairs(s)

Matt Jones
Director
iLand

National Chairs