CIO NYC Luncheon

Ken Spangler leads FedEx Global Opco Technologies: Express, Ground, Freight, and Logistics. He is responsible for the strategic direction through execution of global technology solutions across all FedEx transportation and logistics operating companies. Ken also has leadership responsibility for FedEx Enterprise Operations Technology Innovation. Throughout his tenure with FedEx, Ken has held the CIO role for each of the large transportation segments of FedEx Corporation. Prior to his current role, he served as the Executive Vice President and CIO of FedEx Express and FedEx Logistics, and before that was the Senior Vice President and CIO at FedEx Ground for more than 10 years. Ken also had CIO responsibilities leading the FedEx Freight IT Team and standardizing operation technologies across the FedEx enterprise via the FedEx Operations Planning and Technology Steering Committee. Ken’s work has been recognized with a number of industry awards, including Computerworld Premier 100 IT Leaders Award, CIO Magazine’s Ones to Watch Award, and he is also a four-time winner of the prestigious FedEx Five Star Award. Ken addressed advanced IT automation on CNBC-TV and is often invited to speak about strategic technology transformation, business agility, and leading-edge technology architecture and innovation in business. Ken serves on several advisory boards and is a member of the board of directors for the Pittsburgh Technology Council. In addition, he is an adjunct professor at Carnegie Mellon University where he teaches Strategy Lab, a program for the development and successful execution of business and technology strategy. Ken has been an Information Technology leader for more than 34 years and is a graduate of the University of Pittsburgh. Ken and his wife, Traci, live in Memphis, TN and have three adult children, two working in the IT field, and one graduating from law school the spring of 2022.

Finance Information Technology Enterprise Architect, specializing in Treasury, responsible for design and delivery of a high-performing and scalable architecture supporting Finance’s goals of enhancing controls and information quality, leading to greater capacity for analysis and advice of financial data. PMP certified, Senior Project Manager with technology management experience designing and implementing information technology systems. Strong leadership expertise in Business Intelligence solutions for Investment Banking and Financial Services. Specialties: Design and implement robust and scalable Business Intelligence solutions for various LOBs for Investment(Credit Risk) and Financial services.

Ibrahim works with technology, human resource, and other business leaders to develop, upskill, and retool teams of people for next practice leadership in a changing world of work. By providing workshops, coaching, and consulting, with a team of industry experienced professionals, to large-scale enterprises and government agencies, employees are prepared for future opportunities today. Our underpinning Digital Professional Framework governs our people transformation programs with a focus on four key areas: 1. Digital Depth 📱 2. Business Acumen 📊 3. Interpersonal Skills 🤝 4. Social Impact 🌎 Whether transformation, modernization, evolution, or restructuring, all of these changes have a basis for moving the organization forward. Leaders are trusted and relied upon to bring sustainable change to successful completion using competence, appropriate practices, skills, behaviors, and mental models to galvanize people and achieve sustainable change, continuous improvement, and make the most significant impact, so their organization realizes optimal value. TRAINING Our focus on digital and leadership attracts technology leaders and human resource executives working on developing people that need to be ready to lead in an era of emerging technology and where business models are expanding and evolving. We provide standard training, bespoke modules customized to the needs of the organization, modules tailored to the specific business objectives of the organization, and on-demand modules. Our learning journeys are immersive, experiential, and applicable to the particular business challenges our clients have. COACHING While many challenges and opportunities across organizations may be similar, their specific context, focus area, and goals are often unique. Having a coach or executive coach that can be an extension of your brain trust often leads to better decision making, improved results, and career elevation. We use a variety of coaching and group coaching models that help our clients excel at the aforementioned. CONSULTING By pairing our client's institutional knowledge with our broad range of expertise from across many industries, we help leaders tackle today's problems so that they achieve a competitive advantage on their journey towards making a material difference in their business. We perform simple to complex assessments, primary and secondary research, and strategy development where and when needed. When working with us, we own your problem, allowing you to capitalize on the solution's rewards.

Yelena is a Senior Technology Executive with over 20 years of senior level leadership experience in Digital transformations, software engineering, strategy creation and global information technology implementations at premier financial services, professional services, publishing and research firms. Has extensive experience in developing and launching successful revenue generating client facing innovative technology solutions. She has Proven ability to stabilize environments, set strategic and operational direction, align with enterprise wide strategy, build, execute and manage global teams and turn-around projects toward positive results. Specialties: - Enterprise Architecture including implementation of Service-Oriented Architectures. - In-depth knowledge of software development process and delivery of complex business systems and infrastructure technology projects. - Experience and knowledge of Structured Finance Credit Market including Asset Backed Securities (ABS), CDOs and Derivatives, Residential Mortgage Backed Securities (RMBS), Real Estate Finance (CMBS) and Servicer Evaluations.

Amazon best selling author of Driving Digital, The Leader's Guide to Business Transformation Through Technology. Successful CIO leading digital transformation, innovation, agile, and data science programs in multiple organizations. Delivered new revenue generating products and drove efficiencies through data programs. Transformed underperforming businesses by investing in strategic technologies, enabling agile practices, outsourcing commodity services and establishing performance metrics. Recognized as a top 100 social CIO, blogger, and industry speaker. • Spearhead change and establish entrepreneurial culture by leading vision, strategy and execution of product and application development practices on SaaS, analytics, and content products. • Deliver innovative solutions by leveraging experience in diverse industries: B2B financial information services, construction management information, B2C business/financial publications, digital advertising, media, SaaS technology providers, travel, genetics and health care; in early stage, entrepreneurial and mid-tier enterprises. • Accelerate product development, delivery and release processes by leading agile methodology and business culture; focus on business/IT collaboration yielding product improvements that engage customers. • Create enterprise data view by connecting CRM, financial, marketing and other data sources and enabling business data scientists to self-develop business intelligence dashboards. • Optimize IT organizational performance through training, mentoring, selective hiring; lead blended internal/outsourced/offshore teams and establish vendor management practices to ensure service level quality.

Iurii Garasym is a recognized professional in security governance, management and operations. In his role as Chief Information Officer at ELEKS, he drives the organization’s internal efficiency, quality and business resilience improvements, as well as its utilization of existing information to create the maximum positive impact on the company and its customers. Iurii has more than 10 years of experience in designing, implementing and managing both technical and non-technical solutions for vendors, big enterprises and niche system integrators with a heavy focus on governance, risk and compliance, security baselining, secure development lifecycles, and cloud security. He holds CCSP, CCSK and ISO 27001 LA certificates, and a Ph.D. in information security. He is also the Lviv Chapter President of the Cloud Security Alliance and the Kyiv Chapter Director of ISACA.