Fisher Center for the Management of Information Technology

Timothy Campos is the Chief Information Officer for KLA-Tencor where he is responsible for IT strategy and delivery for all of KLA-Tencor's Information Services. Mr. Campos's background includes 15 years of industry experience in both Information Technology and Software Engineering roles with an emphasis in global applications, multimedia, and distribution systems.  Prior to KLA-Tencor he held management positions at Portera Systems and Silicon Graphics, as well as software engineering roles at both Silicon Graphics and Sybase. Mr. Campos holds a degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of California at Berkeley.

 

 

Mark J. Grimse, Information Technology Director at Rambus, Inc., brings over 25 years of information systems management experience to the advisory board. Prior to Rambus, Grimse was the Director of IT at All Covered, the nation's largest provider of IT services to small businesses. At All Covered, he converted IT from an overhead department to a profit center and led the company's managed services delivery efforts. Previously, Grimse was the Vice President of Operations for an Internet medical imaging provider and a Director of Product Management at Kadiri Inc. He was at Apple Computer Inc. for 12 years in a variety of senior information systems management positions. Mark Grimse holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Applied Mathematics from Ferris State University.

 

 

Terry Hendershott, Fisher Center Faculty Director, is an Assistant Professor in the Operations and Information Technology group at the Haas School of Business. His recent research involves the impact of technological innovation on traditional financial markets and has extensively addressed how electronic trading systems compete with stock exchanges. Dr. Hendershott spent 2005-06 as Visiting Economist with the New York Stock Exchange. He was recently appointed a Schwabacher Fellow, the highest honor bestowed upon assistant professors by the school, for his outstanding research and exceptional scholarly growth. Dr. Hendershott holds a Ph.D. in Operations, Information, and Technology from the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University and a B.S. in Mathematics and Statistics from Miami University.  To learn more about Dr. Hendershott, see: http://www.haas.berkeley.edu/faculty/hendershott.html.

 

 

Billy Hinners’ career in the software industry spans 24 years.  Most recently, he was named Chief Information Officer at Autodesk Inc. to lead the transformation of the enterprise infrastructure to support “Autodesk 3.0,” the next generation of company growth.  With seven million users, Autodesk is the world's leading software and services company for the manufacturing, infrastructure, building, media and entertainment, and wireless data services fields.  Prior to joining IT, Hinners led the design, development, testing and publications teams that create and maintain Autodesk’s flagship AutoCAD line of products, used by architects and engineers worldwide to create designs and drawings on the PC.  Hinners' diverse career has included positions in the US, Switzerland, and Australia.  During the dot-com boom, he led engineering for Autodesk’s manufacturing supply-chain automation spin-off, RedSpark.  Prior to Autodesk, he helped create a solids modeling application at a start-up which led to the company's acquisition by Autodesk.  Hinners graduated from the Georgia Institute of Technology with a Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Science and Mechanics.  He is based in San Rafael, California.

 

Michael Katz is Director of the Institute for Business Innovation and Professor of Business, and holds the Sarin Chair in Strategy and Leadership at the Haas School of Business at U.C. Berkeley. He is an expert in network economics as well as antitrust and regulatory policy. His work focuses particularly on how such policy affects innovation and network industries such as telecommunications, credit card networks, and computer software. He has been on the Haas faculty since 1987, but has been on leave to teach at NYU's Stern School of Business for the past two years. Katz will be teaching competitive and corporate strategy at the Haas School. He has been appointed to serve in federal government in Washington, DC, two times, first as chief economist of the Federal Communications Commission from 1994 to 1996 and then as deputy assistant attorney general for economic analysis in the Department of Justice's Antitrust Division in 2001.

 

George Lin is Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer of Dolby Laboratories. He is responsible for Dolby's worldwide IT organization and leads global business process optimization, integration, and automation efforts for the company. Before joining Dolby, George was CIO of Advent Software, a financial services company. Prior to Advent, he managed the consolidated IT organization of EMC Software, a division of EMC Corporation, the world's leading developer and provider of information infrastructure technology and solutions. Before it was acquired by EMC, George was CIO of Documentum, a provider of enterprise content management solutions. Named a Premier 100 IT Leader by Computerworld magazine in 2003, George won CIO Decisions magazine's prestigious Mid-Market Leadership Award in 2006. He serves on the advisory boards of the Fisher IT Center at the University of California, Berkeley Haas School of Business and Tablus, a leading content security solutions provider. George graduated with a bachelor of arts degree from the University of California, Berkeley.

 

 

Rich Lyons is Bank of America Dean and Professor of Business and hold the Kruttschnitt Family Chair in Financial Institutions at the Haas School of Business at U.C. Berkeley. Prior to becoming Dean in July 2008, he served as the Chief Learning Officer at Goldman Sachs in New York, a position he had held since 2006. Before working at Goldman Sachs, Lyons served as Acting Dean of the Haas School from 2004 to 2005 and as Executive Associate Dean and Sylvan Coleman Professor of Finance from 2005 to 2006. Before coming to Haas, Lyons also spent six years on the faculty at Columbia Business School. His teaching expertise is in international finance. Lyons earned his BS in Business with highest honors from U.C. Berkeley in 1982. In 1987 he received his Ph.D. in Economics from MIT.

 

 

Dave McCandless, CISA, is Director, Information Technology for Navis LLC, responsible for strategic planning and worldwide delivery of all computing infrastructure resources. With 25 years of experience in IT, McCandless has held a variety of executive and advisory positions, most notably operations, security, systems programming, product development, governance, standards, architecture, strategy, and project management. Previously he led various IT initiatives for Bank of America, Chevron, Oracle, HedgeStreet, and AT&T Bell Labs.  He has written numerous software industry articles and has presented at international industry conferences addressing areas of systems management, collaboration technologies, and open source. McCandless holds an MS in computer science from University of Wisconsin, and a BS in computer science from Washington State University.

 

 

 

Elinor MacKinnon is Senior Vice President and CIO for Blue Shield of California, a 3.3 million member not-for-profit California health plan whose mission is to provide access to quality, affordable heath care to all Californians. As CIO, MacKinnon leads a diverse collection of employees and vendors responsible for Blue Shield’s extensive information technology (IT) environment. MacKinnon joined Blue Shield in 2004 as Vice President, Applications Services. She was promoted to CIO in 2005 and is responsible for developing a three-year IT strategy to transform the technology organization as well as the overall technology for Blue Shield. This encompasses the Benefit Administration System; multi-channel Self/Customer Service; Enterprise Architecture; and introducing Business Process Management as a differentiating technology. Prior to Blue Shield, MacKinnon served as interim CIO at Chiron Corporation. During her 25-year-plus technology career, MacKinnon worked with Charles Schwab & Co., the MacKinnon Consulting Group and Systemhouse in various executive and senior-level technology positions. MacKinnon holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Information Systems Management from the University of San Francisco.

 

David G. Messerschmitt is the Roger A. Strauch Professor Emeritus of EECS at UC Berkeley, a Visiting Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the Helsinki University of Technology, and a Visiting Scientist at the SETI Institute. He has served as the Acting Dean of School of Information Management and Systems and Chair of the EECS Department, and prior to 1977 he was with AT&T Bell Laboratories. Current research focuses on business and economics relevant to computing and communications technology. In Helsinki he is performing research and the foundations of software business in the Software Business Laboratory. He received a Ph.D. in Computer, Information, and Control Engineering from the University of Michigan and an undergraduate degree from the University of Colorado. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, a Member of the National Academy of Engineering, and a recipient of the IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal recognizing "exceptional contributions to the advancement of communication sciences and engineering".

AnnaLee Saxenian is Dean and Professor in the U.C. Berkeley School of Information and Professor in the Department of City and Regional Planning. She is an internationally recognized expert on the social and institutional foundations of economic development, and she has written extensively on Silicon Valley and other technology regions around the world.  Her most recent book The New Argonauts: Regional Advantage in a Global Economy (Harvard University Press, 2006) explores how immigrant engineers and scientists have transferred the institutions of technology entrepreneurship to emerging regions in China, India, Taiwan, and Israel. Prior publications include Regional Advantage: Culture and Competition in Silicon Valley and Route 128 (Harvard, 1994), Silicon Valley’s New Immigrant Entrepreneurs (Public Policy Institute of California, 1999), and Local and Global Networks of Immigrant Professionals in Silicon Valley (PPIC, 2002.) Dean Saxenian holds a Doctorate in Political Science from MIT, a Master's in Regional Planning from the University of California at Berkeley, and a BA in Economics from Williams College.  To learn more about Dean Saxenian, see: http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/~anno.

 

 

Jim Spitze is executive director of the Fisher Center, and is responsible for guiding the center toward global leadership regarding the role of IT management as an enabler of innovation and enduring competitive advantage. Mr. Spitze can be reached at jim_spitze@haas.berkeley.edu or 510-642-8154. Mr. Spitze has had a distinguished career as an Information Technology executive, having served as the Chief Information Officer for Xerox Data Systems, American President Lines, and (as a consultant) for QANTAS, Tencor Instruments, and several other prominent private sector firms. For the last twenty-two years, Jim has served as the CEO (now Chairman) of a regional IT management consulting firm with clients such as Clorox, Electronic Arts, The Gap, HP, Intel, Safeway Stores, Union Bank and many others.

 

 

 

Shelton Waggener.  Like many of today’s CIO’s, Shelton Waggener’s path to senior IT management wasn’t a direct one. After founding his own computer consulting practice in the early 80’s, Waggener spent several years abroad throughout Latin America and Asia before returning to Silicon Valley. Though out the last 15 years, he has served in many IT roles at both growth and large companies including Senior Director of Information Technology at Sybase, Director of IT Infrastructure at Octel Communications, and CIO of InterNetworking Systems, an $8B division of Lucent Technologies.  In 2003, Waggener joined the staff of the one of the world’s top ranked institutions, the University of California at Berkeley, where he currently serves as Associate Vice Chancellor and Chief Information Officer.  Waggener has served on numerous boards and advisory panels, including several not for profit concerns supporting the use of technology in public education. A past president of the IT Support Services Council, Waggener sits on the technical advisory boards of several Silicon Valley technology companies. A graduate of the University of California, Santa Cruz with double majors in American Studies and Latin American Studies, he is active in many industry groups that focus on solving business problems through technology.  To learn more about Waggener, see http://ist.berkeley.edu/archive/bio.shtml

 

 

Bob Worrall. Appointed Chief Information Officer of Sun Microsystems, Inc. in July 2006, Bob Worrall is responsible for all aspects of Sun's global IT infrastructure and line-of-business application development, support and maintenance, including information service delivery and security.  Previously, he served as Vice President of Information Technology, reporting directly to the CIO. In this role, he led Sun's IT Strategy, Architecture and Governance organization, and was responsible for defining the overall IT Architecture as well as managing all compliance and regulatory commitments for the IT organization. Worrall also served as Vice President of applications for Sun's Global Sales and E-Commerce organizations as well as Vice President of Worldwide IT Operations which included responsibility for Systems Administration as well as Data Center, HelpDesk, Voice and Network Services.  Prior to his appointment as Sun's CIO, Worrall was honored by CIO Magazine as one of its “Ones to Watch” for 2006. This prestigious award was given to 20 people nationwide who are considered future CIO's. Prior to Sun, Worrall was with Worlds of Wonder where he was the head of the company's IT organization. Worrall currently enjoys serving as an advisor to several Engineering and Business Colleges throughout the Bay Area. Worrall holds an MBA from California State University Hayward.

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