TechExecs St. Louis CIO Technology Forum & Showcase

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8:00am - 8:30am Check-in, Continental Breakfast and Executives Networking
                                 Breakfast Sponsored by ______

8:30am - 8:40am    Welcome & Introduction of Founder
                                 Pam Terry, Executive Director of TechExecs

8:40am - 8:45am    Founder's Welcome & Inspire Me Program
                                 Anthony Huang, Founder of TechExecs

8:45am - 9:00am    Sponsors Recognition & Program Introduction
                                 Pam Terry, Executive Director of TechExecs
                             
9:00am - 9:30am     FEATURED SPEAKER 
                                        Name, Title
                                 "Topic & Subject"


9:30am - 10:00am   FEATURED SPEAKER 
                                        Name, Title
                                 "Topic & Subject"

10:00am - 10:30am   BREAK - TABLE TOP SHOWCASE EXHIBITS & NETWORKING
                                SPECIAL RECOGNITION & CIO VIDEO SOUNDBITES

10:30am - 11:30am CIO & Thought-Leadership Panel:
                              Topic: "Trends in Enterprise IT: Challenges & Best Practices"

                                      Mike Pattison, Former CIO, Sterling Chemicals

                                      Brad Harslem, Former CIO, Coach America

11:45am -  Closing, Recognition & Thanking Our Speakers
                           Post-Event Technology Executives Networking

NOTE: This Event is Free to Industry Professionals and current TechExecs Sponsors and Paid Members.  Attendance is limited for Sales, Marketing and Recruiting Professionals who are current members or sponsors.  Please contact Pam Terry (pam@techexecs.net) to qualify for attendance to the CIO Panel Forum. * Attendees List will be provided at the event.
 

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 PANEL & SPEAKER BACKGROUND:

Michael Pattison
CIO Fellow, CIO Innovations Institute
Former CIO
Sterling Chemicals

Mr. Michael Pattison’s career spans 35 years in the process manufacturing and technology industries. As the CIO Technology Leadership at Sterling Chemicals, he successfully managed multiple information technology and engineering organizations and created numerous industry best practices. Sterling Chemicals, a privately held corporation, manufactures acetic acid and plasticizers at their Texas City facility. Sterling Chemicals generally sells petrochemicals products to customers for use in the manufacture of other chemicals and products, which in turn are used in the production of a wide array of consumer goods and industrial products. In addition to Sterling Chemicals, Michael also held a key process industry operations role within Dow Chemical, and regularly found new ways to apply proven technologies to improve plant performance. Michael's past experiences included working with IBM in consulting & Aspen Technology in product management recommending technology solutions to improve manufacturing operations performance in the process industries. Michael graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering from the University of Oklahoma and have been a recognized speaker at AspenTech's Amsterdam Enterprise Conference, MIT Enterprise Forum and a Founding Board Member of Techxans & TechExecs. Michael has also been the subject matter expert within articles in magazines such as Managing Automation.

Brad Harslem
CIO Fellow, CIO Innovations Institute
Former CIO
Coach America

Brad has been the CIO for three DFW based companies:  Coach America, Concentra and Greyhound Lines.  He most recently held the CIO position at Coach America which is a leading provider of ground transportation services.  Coach was a private equity startup company when Brad joined in 2003 and grew to $400 million in revenue before it was sold last year.  Brad had the unique opportunity to create an entire IT infrastructure from data center to network to application portfolio all of which had to be highly scalable to support the acquisition driven growth model.  He spent the first 17 years of his career at American Airlines in Marketing and in the Sabre division where he was VP of Operations and Applications Development. Brad holds a BS from Cornell’s Engineering College and an MBA from New York University’s Stern Business School.  He was the Keynote Speaker at the 1996 Information Week 500 Conference and served on the Information Week Magazine, Editorial Advisory Board from 1996-1998. 

Featured Speaker
TOPIC:  TBA
Name, Title, Company Name

Company & Professional Bio.  

Featured Speaker
TOPIC:  TBA
Name, Title, Company Name

Company & Professional Bio. 

Company & Professional Bio. 

Pam Terry
Executive Director & Co-Founder
TechExecs :: Technology Executives Network (TechExecs & Techxans)
pam@techexecs.net
866.497.4070
Pam Terry has considerable experience in the technology industry beginning her foray into technology in 1994.  She has a proven track record in sales and marketing in data, voice, collocation, IT consulting, application development, ecommerce, and technology training.  She was most recently an Account Executive with Time Warner Telecom, a Major Accounts Consultant in the Business Division of Time Warner Cable and VP of Marketing for ERGOS Technology.  During her tenure in the industry, Pam had the pleasure of co-founding Techxans with Tony and even created the “Techxans” name.   Prior to Pam’s technology industry experience, Pam was Executive Director of the Galleria Chamber of Commerce and previously provided marketing consulting in the accounting firm industry.  Throughout her career, Pam has been involved in community and trade organizations, having obtained Accreditation in Public Relations from the Public Relations Society of America, and serving on the boards of several charitable and membership groups such as the American Organ Transplant Association and the Association of IT Professionals.  Pam is currently serving as Regional Director of Powerful Women International, a women’s empowerment membership group.  Pam brings a wealth of knowledge and expertise in association management and technology to her role as Executive Director of Techxans and Tech Execs.  Originally from Brownsville, Texas, Pam has been in Houston since 1971. 
    
FORUM WELCOME:

Anthony Huang
Founder & CEO
TechExecs :: Technology Executives Network (TechExecs | Techxans)
arh@techexecs.net
866.661.0258
As a well known industry icon, Anthony Huang has been a successful entrepreneur with a solid track record of having started and sold four profitable business ventures. Along with two other individuals, Pamela Terry and Laura Ramey, Anthony Huang launched the Techxans organization back in 2000.  Techxans.org has sustained the ups and downs of the Information Technology industry for the past 7 years and continues to strive and grow in size and capabilities.  In 2001, Techxans reached national and international attention for helping to launch EnronX.org which was the largest Ex-Enron contact site and was mentioned on the front page of The Wall Street Journal and CIO Magazine.  In January 2007, Techxans formed Techxans InterActive Broadcast providing Internet TV broadcasting, strategic online advisory services for Techxans Corporate Members & Sponsoring companies.  Prior to Techxans, Anthony Huang was the CEO of Rexton InterActive Consulting that led the market in providing strategic web consulting for over 100 major clients across 23 different industries. Anthony also served as the CIO for 2 healthcare ventures.  Anthony began his career with Apple Computers and Ernst & Young and was a recipient of the Entrepreneur of the Year Award in 1998 with The Greater Houston Partnership.  He has been a speaker at numerous conferences including InformationWeek, Gartner Group Midsize Enterprise Summit, and Red Herring Venture Forums. Anthony graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a BBA in Management Information Systems and lives in Sugar Land with his wife and two children.

About Techxans: Technology Executives Network
Founded in 2000, Techxans (www.Techxans.org) is the single largest Technology Executives Network in Texas with over 13,000 member contacts, and over 48,000 newsletter recipients, throughout the State of Texas. The purpose of Techxans is to focus on promoting the Texas Technology Community, featuring "Best of Breed" Resources available to key decision makers, Promote Networking and partnership amongst technology and industry executives, and ultimately serving as the dominate Connections for industry buyers and suppliers. TechExecs (www.TechExecs.net) is the national chapter of Techxans Association with over 370,000 IT Executive contacts throughout US.

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