Meet the Mavens
SPRING 2024 FEATURED MAVENS
Alison Fenton-Willock
STREET CRED:
20+ year sustainability and legal executive and attorney, leading global ESG and compliance initiatives across organizations and teams. Member, EDGE Certification Global Advisory Council and Bank of Montserrat Ltd. Board of Directors. Formerly The Blackstone Group, Barclays, Goldman Sachs.
Jonathan Bumba
STREET CRED:
30 years leading technology organization go-to-market including sales, marketing and strategy. First worldwide sales lead for Azure, at Microsoft; first global sales director for Rackspace Private Cloud.
Alyson Freeman, Ph.D.
STREET CRED:
20+ years in engineering and sustainability leadership roles, driving growth and innovation across products, processes and operations. Global lead, Dell Technologies’ Women in Action ERG. Award-winning STEM and ESG advocate. Formerly Intel, Samsung, Los Alamos National Laboratory.
Oliver Presland
STREET CRED:
20+ years envisioning, architecting and delivering high-value, client-centric business transformation strategy, services and capabilities as a global technology consultant, organizational leader and CTO. Formerly IBM, Microsoft, Capgemini.
Jim Weaver
STREET CRED:
35+ years leading technology teams, initiatives and innovations in management and executive roles across state government agencies. 2024 NASCIO President. Active member, U.S. Armed Forces. Former CTO, State of Pennsylvania and CIO, State of Washington.
Steve Veitch
STREET CRED:
25+ years leading and supporting architecture teams to help clients drive better business outcomes through digital transformation and optimized IT. IBM Mainframe and iSeries, Azure, AWS and GCP expert. ITIL v3 intermediate, Prince2 practitioner, certified Scrum Master. Formerly Royal Bank of Scotland.
Valérie Mitan
STREET CRED:
18+ years in environmental science and sustainability, applying technical expertise, passion and a solutions-oriented mindset to drive impactful and sustainable responses to the challenges businesses and our planet face. Formerly Intel, ASM.
Tim Beerman
STREET CRED:
30+ years leading product and engineering teams, shaping strategy and development to ensure products and service delivery meet the changing needs of clients. Former Officer, United States Air Force. Formerly CitiMortgage, Savvis (now CenturyLink.)
Robin Monical
STREET CRED:
10+ years in talent acquisition and L&D management in high growth digital consulting and managed IT services industries, shaping culture and strategy to develop robust, diverse, highly skilled teams and dynamic workplaces that allow them to thrive. Formerly Kin+Carta.
The report
CURRENT ISSUE: SPRING 2024
The Green Awakening
Harvesting the business value of environmental sustainabilityPLUS: Alison Fenton-Willock on seeing the gold in going green. Alyson Freeman on building a more sustainable data center. Tim Beerman on turning technical debt into sustainable success. Valérie Mitan on the advantages of data-driven decarbonization. Oliver Presland on calculating your AI readiness. Jim Weaver on delivering digital equity in state government. Robin Monical on attracting young talent with strong ESG. And Steve Veitch on the ESG benefits of cloud adoption.
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