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Panel: Top 5 Issues Facing a CTO Today
October 11, 2001 5pm, Penny & Edmonds, NYC
- Rich Caccappolo, CTO iVillage
- Carlos Cashman, Writer
- Inder Gopal, CEO Reefedge
- Erik Grimmelman, CTO RedTop Company
- Joel Plaut, CTO Avant Trust
Presentations, Notes: Inder Gopal, Joel Plaut
Dear CTOs,
A discussion on the "Top 5 issues facing a CTO Today" will be both timely and open the doors to greater sharing amonst us. To lead this discussion we will have a panel:
This team brings a wide spectrum of experience and insight to technology businesses in the NY area. The idea is to spur a discussion amongst ourselves.
Looking forward to meeting all of you. best regards,
Ram Chillarege
Chair, CTO Council, NYSIA
Date: Thursday, October 11, 2001
Time: 5:00 pm
Location: Pennie & Edmonds
1155 Ave of the Americas (44th and 45th) 18th fl.
Subway: 1,9,2,3 toTimes Square; N, R to 49th
Host: Garland Stephens, (212) 790-6203
Registration: info@nysia.org, or call (212) 475-4503
Admission: Free for NYSIA members, else $20
Agenda: 5:00 Coffee
5:30 Panel Talks 5 x 12 mins
6:30 Q+A, Discussion
7:00 Council Business - Ram
Chillarege
7:15 Networking - light
dinner provided
8:00 Close
BIOs:
Richard A. Caccappolo, CTO and Sr. VP Product Development, iVillage
As Chief Technology Officer and Senior Vice President of Product Development, Richard A. Caccappolo spearheads the technology strategy behind iVillage, aligning the business development initiatives of the company with cutting-edge technology applications and advancements. In this effort, Mr. Caccappolo is able to apply extensive experience in technology, as well as an understanding of design to the major business development objectives of the company. Accordingly, he is responsible for commercially integrating the latest industry innovations to provide efficient, user friendly, best-of-breed solutions for both iVillage's partners and members. Mr. Caccappolo joined iVillage as Chief Technology Officer in March of 1999. Prior to coming to iVillage, he was a senior manager at Andersen Consulting, Information Technology Director for Sun Chemical Europe, and Chief Information Officer of Kodak Polychrome Graphics.
Carlos Cashman, Founder and former CTO Opus360
Carlos Cashman is a freelance consultant and speaker in the area of high tech business and entrepreneurship. He was most recently co-founder and CTO of Opus360 Corporation. He served as President and on the Board of Directors until becoming the Chief Technology Officer in December 1999. As President and CTO he has led the company product and technology direction and vision since the beginning, helping to pioneer the Professional Services Automation and Human Capital Supply chain concepts throughout the industry. At Opus360, Mr. Cashman oversaw the building of a team of over 50 engineers and the construction of an enterprise class software product and high-quality development environment in parallel, accomplishing this task in just over 18 months.
From 1997 to 1998, Mr. Cashman served as CIO and Director of Applications of startup Gray Peak Technologies which was sold to USWeb/CKS Corporation in 1998 to form their Networks Practice. At Gray Peak, as part of senior management, Mr. Cashman participated in the hyper growth of a high-tech startup, going from 20 to 160 people in just over a year, building a strong basis for the experience of starting and running Opus360 Corporation.
From 1996 to 1997, Mr. Cashman was Chief Technology Officer of Frankfurt Balkind Partners, an agency dedicated to strategic branding, advertising, and web design. At Frankfurt Balkind, he helped to build and sell some of the earliest web site projects in the industry just as the Internet was being popularized. Mr. Cashman worked directly with such blue chip clients as EG&G, MasterCard, and Towers Perrin, supervising multi-million dollar multimedia projects for them ranging from web sites to on-site multimedia exhibitions. It was during this time and soon after that Mr. Cashman also got involved as an advisor in the formation of global software development firm One World Software Systems (OWSS), helping develop and employ practices and procedures for effective distributed software development. From 1994 to 1996, Mr. Cashman was Manager of UNIX Engineering for Conley Corporation, handling all aspects of software development, hardware engineering and OEM contracts for their Unix based storage products. Before that, Mr. Cashman attended MIT on full scholarship from AT&T Bell Labs, where he spent time as a software developer. He graduated from MIT with a custom degree in Information Systems Engineering in 1994, combining the best of MITs undergraduate computer science curriculum with the MIT Sloan School of Management’s high level IT and Management courses.
Mr. Cashman has been a featured speaker at numerous conferences such as Information Week CIO events, Talent2000, CMP’s Future of ASPs, and the Strategic IT Sourcing and Staffing conference, covering topics as diverse as strategic HR management to the future of technology and ASP Industry. He also serves on the advisory board of several high tech companies on both the East and West Coasts.
Mr. Cashman has many varied interests, and has actually spent time producing film projects in New York City and as a professional blackjack player and card-counter with a team of former MIT alumni.
Inder Gopal is Co-founder and CEO of ReefEdge
Inder is responsible for the overall strategic direction and operations of the company. He has led the creation and deployment of leading-edge networking technology for a variety of influential technology companies, having served as AT&T's Chief Internet Architect and Corporate Vice President of Internet Architecture and as CEO of Taconix. He also served as CTO of Prodigy and held a number of senior management positions at IBM. Inder has 15 patents and more than 70 technical publications to his credit, and is also known as the inventor of the pioneering PARIS high-speed network. He serves as an Adjunct Professor at Columbia University and is a Fellow of the IEEE. He holds a PhD from Columbia University, New York and a BA from Oxford University, England.
Erik K. Grimmelmann, CTO RedTop
Mr. Grimmelmann was Senior Vice President of Technology Infrastructure at Dun & Bradstreet where he was responsible for modernizing and globalizing D&B’s worldwide infrastructure. He spent ten years at Bell Labs and an additional ten years in other divisions of AT&T in a variety of senior positions including Network and Access Vice President, and Service Integration and Realization Vice President. While at AT&T he was responsible for the delivery of all of AT&T’s network services based on the Internet Protocol (IP), as well as for the development and delivery of AT&T WorldNet Internet Service.
Joel Plaut, CTO Avant Trust
Responsible for all technology, including operations, architecture, site design, program management, software development and QA. Also responsible for hosting strategy and managing hosting relationships, large scale outsourcing and B2B e-commerce integration with external partners.
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Dr. Ram Chillarege
+1 (914) 739 2826
ram@chillarege.com