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Francisco D’Souza
Francisco D’Souza is Cognizant’s President and Chief Executive Officer. Francisco joined Cognizant when the company was founded in 1994, and prior to becoming President and CEO, was Chief Operating Officer. He has held numerous positions within the company, including roles in marketing, strategic planning and new business development in Europe, the U.S. and India, and was included on Institutional Investor’s list of America’s Best CEOs in 2009, 2010 and 2011. Francisco serves on the Board of Trustees of Carnegie Mellon University and the Board of Trustees of The New York Hall of Science, which honored him with its Distinguished Leadership Award. He received his Bachelor’s degree from the University of East Asia and his M.B.A. from Carnegie Mellon University.
Charlie Feld
Charlie Feld is founder and CEO of The Feld Group, a consultancy dedicated to IT leadership and organizational transformation. His recent book, Blind Spot, describes a simple framework developed and nurtured at numerous organizations, including Frito-Lay, Burlington Northern Santa Fe, Delta Air Lines, Home Depot, and Southwest Airlines, which demystifies technology, serves as a foundation and confidence builder, and is durable throughout time and across industries. Charlie was named “One of the 12 Most Influential IT Executives of the Past Decade” by CIO magazine and Computerworld named him as one of “25 IT People to Watch in 1998.” His articles on IT leadership topics have appeared regularly in Computerworld Executive Suite, Harvard Business Review, and CIO magazine. He has received several industry awards, including the Smithsonian Award for Technology Excellence and the Carnegie Mellon Award for Innovative Technology. Charlie Feld earned his bachelor’s degree in economics from the City University of New York, Hunter College.
Malcolm Frank
Malcolm Frank is Cognizant’s Senior Vice President of Strategy and Marketing. Malcolm focuses on Cognizant’s brand, driving business through the company’s business units and oversees Cognizant’s corporate strategy, including its Future of Work initiative. He has authored articles in several leading industry publications, is the subject of a Harvard Business School case study on management and leadership and was named one of the 100 Most Influential People in Finance in 2005 by Treasury & Risk magazine. Malcolm earned a B.A. in Economics from Yale University.
David Hempleman-Adams
David Hempleman-Adams is a world record-setting British adventurer and the first person to reach the Geographic and Magnetic North and South Poles as well as climb the highest peaks in all seven continents: the Adventurers’ Grand Slam. He also staged the world’s highest formal dinner party, suspended from a balloon at 24,262 feet. To date, he has completed 31 major expeditions around the world and received the Gold Star Award in 1984, was named the RADAR Person of the Year in 1992, and was on the Queen’s “Honours List” for Services to Polar Exploration in 1994. In 1996, he was voted “Pertex Outdoor Person of the Year” and in 1998 was again named again to the Queen’s Honours List. Following Cognizant Community 2011, David leaves for his next expedition: an assault of Mount Everest.
Douglas Merrill
Douglas Merrill is the author of Getting Organized in the Google Era: How to Get Stuff Out of Your Head, Find It When You Need It, and Get It Done Right, and is the former Chief Information Officer and Vice President of Engineering of Google Inc. Merrill recently co-founded ZestCash.com, where he is CEO. Before ZestCash, he was Chief Operating Officer of New Music at EMI Group plc and President of Digital Business of EMI Music. Prior to Google, Merrill served as Senior Vice President and Chief Information Security Officer of Charles Schwab and was a Senior Manager at Price Waterhouse LLP, where he led the firm’s security implementation practices. Before entering the private sector, Merrill was an information scientist at the RAND Corp., where he studied computer simulation in education, team dynamics and organizational effectiveness. He was also a visiting scholar at Northwestern University’s Institute for the Learning Sciences. Merrill serves on the board of directors of The Filter, a content recommendation systems company. He holds an MA and Ph.D. in Psychology from Princeton University, and a BA from the University of Tulsa in Social and Political Organization.
Pranav Mistry
Pranav Mistry is the inventor of SixthSense, a wearable gestural interface that allows natural hand movements to control digital information. Popular Science honored SixthSense with its 2009 Invention Award. Pranav was recently named to the 2010 Creativity 50 list — a compendium of the most influential and inspiring creative personalities of the year. In addition to his work as a designer and engineer, Pranav is also a research assistant and a Ph.D. candidate at MIT Media Lab. In addition to Sixth Sense, Pranav has invented intelligent sticky notes that can be searched, located and sent as reminders and messages; a pen that can draw in 3D; a public map that can act as Google of the physical world; and an invisible computer mouse. Pranav holds a Masters in Media Arts and Sciences from MIT and Masters of Design from IIT Bombay, in addition to a Bachelors degree in Computer Engineering from Gujarat University.
Don Tapscott
Don Tapscott is among the world’s leading authorities on innovation, technology and society, and an acclaimed author of 14 best-selling business books. His latest book, Macrowikinomics: Rebooting Business and the World, co-authored by Anthony D. Williams (2010), is the follow up to Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything (2006), also co-authored by Williams. Don’s other books include: Paradigm Shift: The New Promise of Information Technology (1992); The Digital Economy: Promise and Peril in the Age of Networked Intelligence (1995); Growing Up Digital (1998); Digital Capital: Harnessing the Power of Business Webs (2000); The Naked Corporation: How the Age of Transparency Will Revolutionize Business (2003) and Grown Up Digital (2008). Don was founder and chairman of the international think tank New Paradigm before its acquisition by nGenera Insights (now Moxie Software) and is Adjunct Professor of Management, Joseph L. Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto. He holds a B.Sc. in Psychology and Statistics, an M.Ed. specializing in Research Methodology, and three Doctor of Laws (Hon) granted from the University of Alberta in 2001, Trent University in 2006 and McMaster University in 2010.
