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Session 18: CEO Roundtable
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Gene Huang
Chief Economist
FedEx Corporation
Gene Huang is Chief Economist of FedEx Corporation, a position he has held since 1999. He and his team track and monitor all the countries and industries that FedEx serves. Dr. Huang is a panel member of leading forecasting surveys including those of the Blue Chip, the Wall Street Journal, and BusinessWeek. He was awarded “Most Accurate Forecaster” by the BusinessWeek in 2002 and ranked as a top forecaster by the Wall Street Journal in 2006. He credits his forecasting success to the “front row seat” that FedEx provides him in global supply chain management. Dr. Huang is widely quoted by leading news journals in the U.S. and abroad. He has appeared on CNBC, Bloomberg TV, BBC TV, and CCTV as an economic commentator. He began his corporate career in 1987 with a Wall Street money management firm. Since then he has worked for some large industrial corporations and prestigious research institutions, including Eaton Corporation, General Motors Corporation, ICSEAD in Japan, and Wharton School’s Economic Research Unit. Dr. Huang received his M.A. from Yale and Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania. He also holds a law degree from Fudan University in Shanghai. He is the author of two books in business economics and many articles published in the U.S., Japanese, and European economic and policy journals.
Emily Nagle Green
President and CEO
The Yankee Group
Emily Green is the President and Chief Executive Officer, and a Member of the Board, of Yankee Group Research, Inc.
Before joining Yankee Group, Ms. Green was the CEO of Cambridge Energy Research Associates, Inc. (CERA), the preeminent research and consulting firm in the energy sector. Previously, she served for nine years with IT advisory firm Forrester Research, Inc., leading by turns both its European and North American divisions.
Ms. Green serves on the Board of Directors of technology advisory firm AMR Research, the advisory board of broadband software startup Maven Networks, and the Executive Committee of the Board of Directors of MITX, the Massachusetts Innovation & Technology Exchange. She holds a B.S.L. cum laude in linguistics from Georgetown University and an M.S.E. in artificial intelligence and computer graphics from the University of Pennsylvania.
Mark Fusco
President and CEO
Aspen Technology
Mark E. Fusco joined AspenTech as President and Chief Executive Officer in January 2005, having served on the AspenTech Board of Directors during the company’s fiscal year 2004. He brings to this role more than 14 years of executive management experience in global IT consulting and software development.
Prior to joining AspenTech, Fusco was President and Chief Operating Officer of Ajilon Consulting USA, a $400 million provider of IT consulting services with 40 offices nationwide and 4,000 employees. Fusco was a member of the Ajilon Consulting executive team for three years and was Executive Vice President immediately prior to his becoming President and COO, responsible for the growth of Ajilon Consulting’s professional services division in North America. He joined Ajilon Consulting in 1999 with its acquisition of Software Quality Partners (SQP), an IT consulting firm specializing in software quality assurance and testing. Fusco founded SQP in 1990 and served as its President until its sale.
Fusco also has 16 years of experience in the military and defense industry, with six years of experience as President of Analysis and Computer Systems Inc (ACSI), a producer of simulation and test equipment for digital communications in the defense industry.
Before entering the business world, Fusco was a professional ice hockey player with the Hartford Whalers team in the National Hockey League; and was a member of the 1984 U.S. Olympics ice hockey team which competed in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia. In 1983, he was the recipient of the Hobey Baker Memorial Award, presented annually to the best college hockey player in the United States. Fusco is also a member of both the U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame and the Massachusetts Hockey Hall of Fame.
Fusco is a graduate of the Harvard Business School and Harvard College.
Tony Pagliarulo
Vice President,
Enterprise Programs
EMC
Tony Pagliarulo has been in an IT leadership role at EMC since 2001. As the Vice President of IT Portfolio and Global Operations, he successfully led the transformation of the EMC Information Technology group from a "vertical silo organization" into a business/customer facing cross functional organization. Under Tony’s leadership, EMC has consolidated its global IT function, implemented a portfolio management process to align IT and business processes, and implemented numerous business and system projects resulting in millions of dollars benefit and cost savings.
Tony also plays a key role in implementing EMC’s internal Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) strategy. EMC’s effort to manage, protect and share information more efficiently and cost effectively across the enterprise while achieving competitive advantage through the use of information.
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