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LDPA May Newsletter
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The New Accountability
Jim and Keri now coauthor a column in CIO magazine designed to discuss the changing relationship between Boards and the CIO and the IT organization. In their first column, they lay out the landscape of these relationships and discuss the issue of accounta

Size Still Matters
World’s Business Leaders Agree Size Will Still Matter in 2010: EIU Report Business Findings

Embracing the challenge of change
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Marty Schoenthaler
Marty Schoenthaler, of ConocoPhillips has taken on a newly created role as General Manager of Information Services. He is responsible now for the Information Services functions and has four business IT leads reporting into him. The four leads fall under the following areas; Upstream , Downstream , Commercial, and Corporate Staffs. Marty is responsible for the strategy and overall functional excellence for the Information Services function. This include strategic staffing, strategy development, enterprise architecture, relationship management and other items necessary to have run an excellent function.

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Laura Bouvier
Exciting transformations are taking place at Marriott with their announcement of the creation of a Property Systems Services Organization. Leading this initiative is our very own Laura Bouvier who will focus on strengthening Marriott’s ability to deliver effective technology products and services to properties globally, Information Resources. Laura’s new title is Senior Vice President, Property Systems Services and Business Consultancy, while still remaining at her previous role as Marriott’s IR Business Consultancy. Under Laura’s leadership, the organization will manage the governance and planning process for property technology and deliver clear, timely communications to Marriott’s business stakeholders. The new ...Read More

Charlie White
LDP 2004 participant Charlie White is doing well and selling real estate in the desert areas of California. We recently caught up with Charlie and learned that he’s having a fantastic time. He sent us the link to his website, www.ilovethedesert.com and his phone number (760) 218-5270, and says that he would love to hear from any of our LDP alumni. If you are in the area, or are looking for real estate near Palm Springs, please contact Charlie! ...Read More

Bennie Peek
Bennie PeekMr. Bennie Peek
Bell Helicopter

Bennie Peek is the Vice President of Information Technology and CIO at Bell Helicopter, a position he has held for just over a year. Bennie has had a successful career at Textron. Prior to Bell Helicopter, Bennie was with Textron InformationServices as VP of Enterprise Systems, and before that with Textron Industrial Products Segment, where he was CIO. Textron is a multi-industry corporation with businesses serving the general aviation, aerospace and defense, industrial and commercial finance markets.

Bell Helicopter is growing ...Read More

Mary Finlay
Mary FinlayMs. Mary Finlay
Partners Healthcare

Mary Finlay, the Deputy CIO at Partners Healthcare, leads the daily management of the 1,200 person IT department for Partners Healthcare. Some major areas of focus include rolling out an electronic medical record to the entire physician community, building the infrastructure to support the area of genetics and genomics, and planning for a full replacement of all front end systems for their 10 hospital organization.

In addition to Mary’s tremendous responsibility within the workplace, she is also an active member of the community. Mary ...Read More

Hima Patel
Hima PatelMs. Hima Patel
Merck & Co., Inc.

Hima Patel, one of the fi rst graduates of the Leadership Development Program, is going through an exciting time as she transitions from her role as the director responsible for the IT portfolio of Managed Care and Customer Service into her new role as Senior Director of Marketing, Sales, and Customer Strategy, Process and Programs at Merck. In this role, Hima is a major contributor to critical operational change. Part of her responsibility is to manage Merck’s market access strategy, which is ...Read More

David Zanca
David Zanca
FedEx

What more could a 2005 LDP alumni ask for? David is currently in a newly created position as the Senior Vice President of Information Technology at FedEx Freight, a rapidly growing $3.3 billion subsidiary of FedEx. If you were to ask David what was his most important responsibility is in his new position, he would tell you it is one that most of his peers are also facing: to continue to push the IT organization and business associates to innovate and differentiate using technology. David has done this in his role by ensuring that business and ...Read More


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