The InspireCIO Podcast

Today’s Leadership Conversation features ORBIE Winners – Tom Nealon, President of Southwest Airlines and Charlie Feld, Founder and CEO of the Feld Group Institute. 

Over the course of his 50 year career Charlie Feld has been committed to helping organizations and executives achieve IT-driven transformation. His career began at IBM in the 1960’s and Charlie became one of the first CIOs in corporate America in the 1980’s, and went on to serve Frito Lay, BNSF Railway, Delta Airlines, First Data Corporation as Interim or mentor to CIO. Charlie’s has frequently been featured in the media and has received numerous awards in recognition of his profound influence in the IT industry.

The Feld Group Institute is a leadership development firm focused on developing the next generation of Business and IT Leaders from Fortune 50 companies like FedEx, Bank of Montreal, Cummins, Intel and others.

Charlie has been a friend and mentor to Tom Nealon throughout his career. Tom has served as a CIO and technology executive at – Frito-Lay, The Feld Group, Southwest Airlines, Fossil, and JC Penneybefore returning to Southwest in 2017. As President, Tom is responsible for Commercial, Finance, Technology, Marketing, and Internal Audit leading over 57,000 employees. 

Today’s Leadership Conversation features InspireCIO member Jim Fowler, CTO of Nationwide. 

 Over 18 years with General Electric, Jim served as CIO for GE Aviation, GE Power and GE Capital before becoming Global CIO in 2015. During his tenure, Jim was named an ORBIE Finalist by GeorgiaCIO and was a member of both GeorgiaCIO and BostonCIO chapters. 

In 2018, Jim joined Nationwide, the Fortune 100 Insurance & Financial Services company that’s “on your side”...  As CTO, Jim is responsible for the digital transformation at Nationwide - driving the company’s technology strategy, IT capabilities and digital business initiatives for over 34,000 employees. 

Please enjoy today’s leadership conversation featuring Jim Fowler with Lisa LaRoque of InspireCIO. 

Today’s Leadership Conversation features SeattleCIO member and ORBIE winner, Paul Moulton. 

 Paul Moulton has been Costco’s CIO since 2010 where he has overseen growth to 800 stores, over 156,000 employees and $165 billion in worldwide revenue. Paul has held a variety of roles over 36 years at Costco, which prepared him in unexpected ways to become an effective CIO

Please enjoy today’s conversation between Paul Moulton and InspireCIO Founder, Frank Bell.

Today’s Leadership Conversation features CapitalCIO member and ORBIE winner, Dave Duvall. 

Dave has held many roles within Discovery Networks before taking on the CIO role in 2020. Dave oversees Discovery’s global technology platform - design, configuration and management for over 9,000 employees. In 2020, Dave’s department was recognized with a Technology Emmy Award for contributions to “pioneering and advancing cloud-based media supply chain technology.” The Discovery network reaches an audience of over 3 billion viewers worldwide and recently launched a new subscription service, Discovery+ which will further grow Discovery’s reach with one of the world’s best television libraries.

Please enjoy today’s conversation between Dave Duvall and InspireCIO VP Evan McLaughlin.

Today’s Leadership Unscripted Conversation features two-time ORBIE Winner Thaddeus Arroyo, CEO of AT&T Consumer and InspireCIO founder, Frank Bell.

As CIO of Cingular Wireless, Thaddeus was a founding member of GeorgiaCIO and later became CIO of AT&T Wireless.   

In recent years Thaddeus was CEO of AT&T Mexico and AT&T Business, and now is CEO of AT&T Consumer including television, wireless, and home internet, with over 170 million combined subscribers.

Let’s hear how Thaddeus’ CIO skills led to CEO roles within America’s first major technology company, AT&T.

Today’s Leadership Unscripted Conversation features two Fortune 50 CIOs – and – both are members of InspireCIO.

Fletcher Previn joined NewYorkCIO last year and was recently recognized as a Global ORBIE Finalist as the CIO for IBM. Fletcher leads over 12,000 IT staff, providing secure, global IT at scale for 350,000 IBM employees worldwide.

Juan Perez is an ORBIE winner and joined GeorgiaCIO in 2016 when he was named CIO for United Parcel Service. Juan began his career at UPS in 1990 as an intern - and now leads technology and engineering teams for a worldwide workforce of over 444,000 employees.

Let’s join Fletcher and Juan to learn about leading IT with global scale and discover how IT can become a strategic driver of culture change. 

There's been much talk about Diversity & Inclusion, but talk is easy... leaders take action. Today’s Leadership Unscripted Conversation features Gerald Chertavian, founder and CEO of Year Up and InspireCIO founder, Frank Bell. 

In 2020, Year Up celebrated its 20th year helping young adults gain the skills, experiences, and support needed to empower them to reach their potential through careers and higher education.  What started with a ride on a bus has become a reliable source for loyal, motivated, skilled talent… serving over 250 companies, including 41 of the Fortune 100.

Discover how your organization can benefit from hiring diverse, ambitious, and talented young adults at inspirecio.com/yearup.