The InspireCIO Podcast

Should your I.T. department be centralized? Today’s conversation features ChicagoCIO member Manuel Dietz, Bosch VP of Corporate I.T. & Head of Business Teams of Americas. Frank Bell, Founder of InspireCIO, had the pleasure of sitting down with Manuel to discuss how Bosch's A.I. & predictive technology make IoT truly innovative and weigh the pros & cons of a centralized I.T. department.

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Are you on the path from CIO to CEO? Today's conversation features Brian Stevens, CEO of Neural Magic and former CTO of Redhat and Google Cloud. Bob Solis, BostonCIO Vice Chair & CIO of MIT Lincoln Laboratory, had the pleasure of sitting down with Brian to talk about the path from CIO to CEO, evolving your recruitment strategies and how empathy should steer your decisions.

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Are you building your team with diversity in mind? Today's conversation features TwinCitiesCIO Member, Mike McNamara, EVP & CIO of Target, sharing his hands-off leadership style that has resulted in a diverse engineering team, fueling Target’s omni-channel strategy along with the sophisticated and effective retail systems architecture.

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Do you have a winning strategy for gaining & retaining great I.T. talent? GeorgiaCIO member Juan Perez, Chief Information and Engineering Officer of UPS, sits down with us to share his insights on establishing great I.T. talent, while taking us through his 32 year leadership journey with UPS… which began as an intern & delivery driver and concludes in April with his transition to Salesforce. 

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Today's Leadership Conversation features ChicagoCIO Member, Dan Simpson, Global CIO of Grant Thornton International Ltd and Frank Bell, Founder of InspireCIO. 

Dan has held roles as CIO for 20 years in various organizations including Physicians Mutual, Trustmark Companies, and DeLeo Group.  

In his current role as Global CIO for Grant Thornton International, Dan is leading the technology strategy to help enable collaboration across the network’s 140 member firms in over 130 countries. As Chairman of the Global Innovation Council, Dan is focused on cultivating and deploying innovative technologies into client solutions across the network.

Our Leadership Conversation features AustinCIO member and ORBIE winner, Steve Mills, Global CIO at iHeartMedia and Frank Bell, Founder of InspireCIO. 

Steve has been leading technology for over 30 years in positions at BearingPoint, T-Mobile, Rackspace, and Motorola Mobility. 

Steve joined iHeartMedia in 2015 as Global CIO, and is responsible for all aspects of information technology for iHeartMedia's businesses, working to optimize the company’s overall technology systems with the business priorities. iHeartMedia supports 175+ global markets and 850 broadcast stations reaching more than a quarter of a billion listeners a month with broadcast alone, as well as a massive digital footprint. Steve believes that big wins come from continuous collaboration and communication between IT and business teams.

Our Leadership Conversation features ChicagoCIO member and ORBIE Winner Edward Wagoner, CIO for Digital at JLL Technologies and Frank Bell, Founder of InspireCIO. 

Edward has been leading  business and technology transformation at JLL for over 25 years. He has held roles as CIO for the Americas region and Global CIO before recently moving into his current role as CIO for Digital of JLL Technologies. 

JLL Technologies launched a first-of-its-kind real estate digital platform to deliver a best-in-class portfolio of technology solutions and services to over 600 clients around the world and managing over 6 billion square feet. In his current role, Edward would consider himself a “Techvangelist” – operating at the intersection of the digital and physical workplace. He is utilizing his unique and industry leading expertise to help clients creat, implement and manage their Digital Strategies.

Our Leadership Conversation features ChicagoCIO member Maryann Byrdak, CIO at Feeding America and Lisa LaRoque of InspireCIO. 

Maryann has been leading technology transformation for over 25 years with extensive experience in retail as part of Sears, OfficeMax, and PotBelly Sandwich Works. 

In 2019, Maryann joined Feeding America as their CIO right before a year when the need to rely on technology systems to help those around the country access healthy, nourishing food became critical. Through Maryann’s work at Feeding America, she is leading the expansion of the organizations “Meal Connect” platform to maximize available food sources which will connect 200 food banks with 60,000 agencies. Feeding America is utilizing this platform to aid in the elimination of food waste so that they can continue to make food more accessible for the over 38 million people in America who are currently facing hunger. 

Today’s Leadership Conversation features ChicagoCIO member Dani Brown, SVP & CIO at Whirlpool.

Dani has been in the information technology industry for over 20 years and has recently made the move to Whirlpool as their CIO. Dani is both a leader in business and technology and prior to her move to Whirlpool, Dani held leadership positions at DuPont and Brunswick Corporation where she was strategic in leading technology on a global scale. 

In her new role as CIO of Whirlpool Corporation’s Global Information Systems, Dani is creating value through the use of technology to improve connections with customers and how to utilize analytics further innovation in one of the world’s leading appliance companies. 

Today’s Leadership Conversation features ORBIE Winner Matt Kull, CIO of Cleveland Clinic and Lisa LaRoque of InspireCIO. 

Throughout his career, Matt has worked with some of the largest healthcare, pharmaceutical and utility systems in the country leading the development of innovative and transformational technology strategies. He has held senior leadership positions at Parkland Hospital, AmerisourceBergen, McKesson, Oncology Therapeutics Network, Oracle, and Nippon Telephone and Telegraph. He has also spent a number of years as a management consultant providing strategic guidance across multiple industries to companies such as Accenture, Walgreens Specialty Health, Thompson Reuters, McKesson, Citi Group, and Nokia.

In his current role as CIO at Cleveland Clinic, Matt is leading the charge for how technology is being used to shape the future of healthcare, especially in a year where the adoption of virtual technologies has become vitally important.