IDCA Podcast (To Infinity Paradigm and Beyond)

Sri Sukhi is the founder and CEO of Solecular, Inc. Sri Sukhi is a seasoned leader and visionary in the technology industry, having led innovative teams at companies such as Data Domain, Oracle, Exablox, and EMC. He has deep architectural expertise in data science, workload orchestration, resource management, system software, servers and storage. He holds patents in AI/ML, Quality-of-Service, and high-performance software architectures.

Jothi Dugar is a multidimensional executive, business owner, author, international public speaker, and entrepreneur, whose diverse career has included senior leadership roles in Cybersecurity, IT, Project management, Training, and Engineering. A pioneer in her field, and one of the few leading women across the globe in the Healthcare Cyber Industry, she is the Chief Information Security Officer for Information Technology, at the National Institutes of Health, Office of the Director, located in Bethesda, MD.

Kevin L. Jackson is an American business executive and writer. He served in the US Navy for fifteen years, before becoming a senior business executive in the computer industry. Jackson is currently the CEO & Founder, GovCloud Network, a consultancy formed to assist agencies and businesses leverage the parallel and global nature of cloud computing. Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/idcaorg Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/idcaorg/ Follow us on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/international-data-center-authority-idca-/ Follow us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/idcaorg/

Evan Kirstel is a B2B thought leader and top technology ”influencer” with a direct social media following of more than 400,000 (258K Twitter, 55K LinkedIn and 95K Instagram followers) With an organic reach in the tens of millions, Evan is helping B2B tech brands like AT&T Business achieve massive visibility and scale across the social media landscape in areas like mobile, blockchain, cloud, 5G, HealthTech, IoT, AI, Digital Health, crypto, AR, VR, Big Data, Analytics and CyberSecurity.

Yves Boudreau is a 20 year veteran of the Digital, Telecom and Cable TV industries. From modest beginnings of one of the first cable broadband ISPs in Canada to the fast paced technology hub of Silicon Valley, Yves joined Ericsson in 2011 as Vice President of Technical Sales Support. He is currently the CMO & VP of Partnerships and Ecosystem Strategy for Edge Gravity by Ericsson who operators the global UDN Network.

Ben Haines is the Chief Information Officer of Verizon Media. Previously he was the Enterprise CIO of Yahoo where he led a team of over 400 people, ensuring all Yahoo workers are productive, from all corporate applications to the help desk. Before that Ben was the CIO at Pabst Brewing Co. as well as the former CIO at Box. He is an enterprise IT and business professional with over 18 years IT leadership experience. This visionary strategic executive has a focus on short-term execution for immediate results while developing a wide-ranging point-of-view the challenges and opportunities of today's IT fast-moving IT environments. Ben understands how to embrace new technologies responsibly while managing large budgets, executive expectations, and shifting end-user needs.

Jonathan is a well-known civic IT executive who creates positive change in challenging business and IT environments through better business processes, better workplace environment, and technology innovation. He is currently the CIO of the City of Asheville, North Carolina, where he has maintained a record of consistent excellence in customer service, employee engagement, financial management, and service availability.

Ralph Loura is the Chief Technology Officer of Lumentum with a record of driving business outcomes in large and mid-sized enterprises. He is a business leader with significant business transformation and technology enablement experience in driving growth and productivity improvements in both large and mid-sized enterprises. He has broad experience across Tech, e-Commerce and CPG business models. Ralph has a strong record of success in creating robust Technology organizations and has proven ability in adapting/maturing technology organizations to solve business issues while managing costs and risks.

Founder and CEO of Sussna Associates, Jeff Sussna has a unique ability to help clients integrate Agile, DevOps and Design Thinking into continuous learning loops. He teaches organizations how to continuously improve efficiency and quality by building user-centered experimentation into the service delivery life cycle.

Transformational executive leader with nearly 25 years of proven success delivering strategies that achieve enterprise goals, Jay Ferro has extensive experience in nearly all aspects of technology strategy and operations. He is currently the is the CIO at Quikrete, the largest manufacturer of packaged concrete and cement mixes in the United States and Canada. Jay is a frequent guest speaker worldwide. He’s been featured in multiple publications, including Forbes, Wall Street Journal, Harvard Business Review and CIO Magazine.

Named 2017 Cybersecurity Professional of the Year - Cybersecurity Excellence Awards, Chief Privacy Officer (CPO) SC Magazine, Global Privacy and Security by Design (GPSbyDesign) International Council Member, SC Magazine’s List of “Women in IT Security - Top Influencers for 2018, and finalist Women in Technology Business Role Model of the Year 2018 - Dr. Rebecca Wynn is lauded as a “game-changer who is ten steps ahead in developing and enforcing cybersecurity and privacy best practices and policies." She is a “big picture” thinker who brings nearly 20 years of experience in Information Security, Assurance & Technology.

Former CIO and CTO, and currently CTO of Everest.org. Mike Kail was Yahoo’s CIO and SVP of Infrastructure, where he led the IT and Data Center functions for the company. He has more than 25 years of IT Operations experience with a focus on highly- scalable architectures.

Formerly SVP, CTO of Wells Fargo, CIO/CTO of MGM, Global CTO of PepsiCo, SVP, CIO of Best Buy, EVP, CIO of Pacific Compensation Insurance, CIO of State Compensation Insurance Fund and current CEO & President of RSW1C has joined IDCA Advisory Council.

Jo Peterson is the VP of Cloud Services for Clarify360. As an engineer and leading industry expert, Jo sources net new technology footprints, and is an expert at optimizing and benchmarking existing environments. Jo is a 20-year veteran in the technology field with tenure at MCI, Intermedia/Digex Communications, Qwest Communications, now CenturyLink/Savvis in both pre-sales technical and selling roles. Charles Johnson is an 18 year IT veteran wholly focused on ensuring organizations large and small are enabled to protect their data and infrastructure from malicious activity. Charles began his career in InfoSec securing communications for the Joint Chiefs of Staff and Joint Communications in the United States Navy. Prior to joining Alert Logic, Charles spent 4 years working as a consulting engineer and solutions architect helping organizations measure and address risk and operationalize investments in information systems security resources.

Rob Hirschfeld is the Founder and CEO of RackN. Rob has a background in Scale Computing, Mechanical and Systems Engineering and specializes in large scale complex systems that are integrated with the physical environment. He is able to break long range technical vision into meaningful tactical steps. Rob has executive experience at both start-ups and big companies where he is a strong advocate for Lean/Agile processes.

David Linthicum is the Chief Cloud Strategy Officer at Deloitte Consulting, and was just named the #1 cloud influencer via a recent major report by Apollo Research. David is a cloud computing thought leader, executive, consultant, author, and speaker. David has been a CTO five times for both public and private companies, and a CEO two times in the last 25 years.

One of the top entrepreneurs in the IT business, Kelly Ireland is a role model for next-generation business leaders. She has built CB Technologies -- the recipient of HP’s Solution Partner of the Year Cloud award -- into one of the most innovative and respected solution providers in the country. CB Technologies is driving business transformation around cloud, infrastructure management, big data and high-performance computing for some of the largest and most admired companies in the world. Among CB Technologies’ breakthroughs: HPC as a service for top oil/gas companies and SaaS “connected vehicle” tracking/information management for utility companies.

Ryan is the Global CIO, currently leading ACI Specialty Benefits global business and technology strategy across 170 countries in over 180 languages via multidisciplinary technology teams radically disrupting the corporate benefits experience leveraging decentralized applications, blockchain, and smart contracts.

Mehdi is the Founder & Chairman of IDCA. He is the inventor of Application Ecosystem concepts and methodologies and the author of Infinity Paradigm AE360 Standards Framework. He actively promotes genuine specialization across industry verticals suited to the precise application needs. His initiatives and notions have formed strong pillars for the information technology industry and reshaped the way our industry foresees its future.

Derek is an industry veteran, entrepreneur and pioneer in large-scale distributed systems and cloud computing. He founded Synadia Communications and Apcera, and has held executive positions at Google, VMware, and TIBCO Software. He is also an active angel investor and a technology futurist around Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, IOT and Cloud Computing.

IDCA’s first podcast episode is with Jay Adelson. Jay is a serial entrepreneur, having built companies such as Equinix, Digg, Revision3, SimpleGeo and Opsmatic. Jay currently serves as co-founder and General Partner of Center Electric, LLC, a venture firm he started with Andy Smith in 2014.