The Business Value of Emerging Technology

The Business Value of New Technology: an Executive-suite Discussion

Scheduled Panelists:

Mark Dronzek, Interim CIO

Mark has had global roles across a combination of business and IT operations in multiple industries (agribusiness, healthcare, pharmaceuticals, retail and services). In his career he has been responsible for P&L, strategy, infrastructure, software development, PMOs, legal & regulatory compliance and organizational transformation. He is currently an interim CIO at a healthcare organization.

Anthony Edwards, Principal, HanoverSoft

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Lee Clark-Sellers, Innovation Officer, Ply Gem Industries

In the role of Innovation Officer, Ms. Clark-Sellers will be leading the effort to to help take innovation from merely a concept or catch phrase to a resourceful approach to how Ply Gem does business overall and transitions to a culture that’s rooted in innovation. This role will be heavily externally focused as Ply Gem strengthens its strategic partnerships.

Prior to Ply Gem, Ms. Clark-Sellers was Program Executive for Executive Education, based in North Carolina State's Poole College of Management. Ms. Clark-Sellers established and facilitated the Innovation Management Executive Series: Managing Disruptive Innovation. She also consulted with companies in Pharma and Advanced Chemicals to establish innovation programs. During this timeframe, she also lead a start-up VOIP startup which resulted in a successful exit.

Ms Clark-Sellers also spent over 20 years with Nortel Networks, involved in all aspects of research and development, from product development to IP commercialization. As an innovative engineering leader, Ms. Clark-Sellers led the CTO’s 2010 Vancouver/London Olympic Innovation program, established software labs and partnerships in Asia and Eastern Europe while based in Mumbai India, and developed a software development platform implemented throughout Nortel.

Scott Arnold, Principal, Arnold CxO Services, LLC

Scott describes his business approach as “Understanding how the pieces fit”. Scott started his career in public accounting, serving as an audit partner with a national accounting and consulting firm. He’s held C Level positions with CFO and COO responsibilities for private companies in manufacturing, distribution, professional services areas as well as non-profit organizations. In each assignment, he’s applied an internal client service philosophy for integrating the functional areas between the sales, production, HR and IT functions.

Scott works with organizations in the RTP area and Chicago as the part time CFO and is currently leading an IT system evaluation and selection process as the project manager.