Syniti Podcast Series

(USA and Canada) Ray Deiotte, Chief Data Officer - Global Healthcare and Life Sciences at NetApp, along with Chris Knerr, Chief Digital Officer at Syniti, discuss the challenges of generating and consuming real-time data and acting on it. Streaming data underscores the need for agile governance model to be able to adapt rapidly to the changes in the market.

(USA and Canada) Ken Dunn, Managing Director and Chief Data Officer Consultant at DataVital.us along with Chris Knerr, Chief Digital Officer at Syniti, discuss how data must be utilized in the strategic planning process and its connection to the KPI and business outcomes.

This week’s guest is Larry Kihlstadius, Vistage Chair, and coach to many CEOs. Vistage is the world-leading peer-to-peer CEO advisory organization with over 24,000 senior executive members. Vistage provides guidance to CEO and Executive peer boards to help senior executives make better decisions, ask better questions, and grow both themselves and their companies. Prior to joining Vistage, Larry was an accomplished human resources and recruiting executive at several prominent companies including Accenture, Impellam, and Kinetix.

This week Kevin sits down with Andy Zimmerman, president of frog design, one of the world’s leading design and innovation firms. Prior to joining frog, he was the managing director of Accenture New Businesses, where he launched the Accenture Interactive and Mobility businesses that make up the majority of what is now Accenture Digital. Previously, he was a managing director at idealab, one of the first and most successful incubators, and the global managing partner for ebusiness at PwC.

(USA and Canada) Wendy Batchelder, Chief Data Officer at VMWare together with Chris Knerr, Chief Digital Officer at Syniti, talk about Wendy's journey of becoming the first Chief Data Officer of VMWare, and her vision of driving business efficiency and cost-saving strategies.

(Asia) Asha Poulose Johnson, VP and Global CIO Data Analytics at GE Healthcare together with Chris Knerr, Chief Digital Officer at Syniti discuss career growth and leading global technology teams.

On this week's podcast, Kevin sits down with Cindy Salas Murphy, a 20-year healthcare executive and entrepreneur. Today Cindy is CEO and founder of WithHealth, a San Diego-based telemedicine company that is making primary and specialty care accessible and affordable. Using proprietary AI and telemedicine, patients can access precision health across various medical specialties. Cindy's lead in transformational change in healthcare yielded outcomes that include growth of a start-up to more than $1B under management and improved patient safety, quality and service, while reducing cost and optimizing productivity levels.

On this week’s episode of the CFO to CFO podcast David Axson is joined by guest Bill Teuber, Senior Principal of Bridge Growth Partners. Prior to joining BGP, Bill held numerous senior leadership positions at EMC, including Vice Chairman, Global Head of Sales, Chief Financial Officer, among others.

(Asia) Asha Poulose Johnson, VP and Global CIO Data Analytics at GE Healthcare together with Chris Knerr, Chief Digital Officer at Syniti talks about the Data and Analytics strategy for the enterprise at GE Healthcare. GE Healthcare is a leading global medical technology and digital solutions innovator, enabling clinicians to make faster, more informed decisions through intelligent devices, data analytics, applications and services. Helping patients has been the company's primary focus, where for every second, there are 3 scans performed somewhere in the world through the use of their equipment.

This week's guest, Sue Serna is the founder and CEO of Serna Social, a social media consulting agency focused on social media strategy, governance, risk and security. Sue’s one of the nation’s top experts on social media safety and spent nearly nine years leading the global social media program for Cargill, the largest private company in the United States.

This week Kevin Campbell sits down with Bill Green, former CEO and Chairman of Accenture. During his tenure as CEO, Accenture grew revenue from approximately $14 billion to approximately $22 billion, doubled its workforce to 211,000 employees and expanded its global footprint. Today, Bill is a member of the Global Advisory Council of Bridge Growth Partners, and holds noteworthy board roles at major companies such as Dell EMC and S&P Global. ​January is National Mentoring Month and this episode of the CEO to CEO podcast will highlight the importance of mentoring relationships.If you’ve been thinking about becoming a #mentor, now is the perfect time. Join a local mentoring program today and help grow the #MentoringAmplifies movement! Learn more at: https://bit.ly/NMM-2021#MentoringMonth

This week, David Axson sits down with Chris Knerr, Syniti Chief Digital Officer. Chris serves as a powerhouse whose proven success, background and experience helps accelerate Syniti’s data strategy, analytics organization and offerings. Prior to Syniti Chris was CEO of Mareana, a high-growth enterprise software tech start-up and management consulting company. Chris also spent more than a decade at Johnson & Johnson leading global transformational strategic change across multiple operational and commercial functions, geographies, and business segments.

Welcome to the CFO to CFO podcast. The first podcast will feature Melanie Payne, Syniti Chief Financial Officer. Melanie has three decades of experience leading global services, financial, customer advocacy, and strategic operations at Dell, EMC, and Accenture. She brings a wealth of expertise to the role of the CFO and the expanding role of the CFO in translating data into valuable information across the enterprise.

Kevin Campbell sits down with Kevin Reid, co-founder, and partner of Blue Lagoon Capital. Kevin is also the former Co-Founder, CEO & CTO of Virtustream. The company was acquired by EMC for 1.2B just seven years after he and his partner co-founded it.

In this episode, we sit down with Kevin Jones, CEO of Rackspace Technology. Kevin Jones is an accomplished business leader with 30 years of technology services experience and has lead global mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures with an impeccable record for also leading business transformations.

This week, Syniti CEO Kevin Campbell sits down with Bob Pryor, CEO of NTT DATA Services. NTT Data Services is a trusted global innovator delivering technology-enabled services and innovative solutions to clients around the world. Bob previously served as chief operating officer as well as chief integration officer overseeing the 22-month integration of Dell Services into NTT DATA.

This week, Syniti’s CEO, Kevin Campbell sits down with Mark Foster, Senior Vice President of IBM Services - a combined $48 billion business and nearly 240,000 person workforce. While at IBM, Mark played an integral role in IBM’s acquisitions of Promontory Financial Group, Oniqua, and Red Hat. Prior to joining IBM, Mark served as Group Chief Executive of Products Industries and Group Chief Executive of Global Markets and Management Consulting at Accenture. During his time at Accenture, Mark drove marquee deals with George Group, Sainsburys, Best Buy, and Unilever.

What potential do the world’s top CDOs, CIOs, and Thought Leaders see in the power of Data? What does the future of Data hold? Join us at the CDO to CDO Podcast, presented by CDO Magazine in partnership with Syniti, a world leader in enterprise data to find out. You’ll hear exclusive Data insights, predictions, and best practices from leaders at American Express, GE Healthcare, the Federal CIO of the United States OMB, and more!In this second episode, Syniti’s Chief Data Officer, Chris Knerr sits down with Diego Vallarino, Chief Data Officer of Scotiabank, former D&A Director at Equifax, one of the Global Top 100 Data Visionaries 2020, MIT’s CDOIQ Consortium Ambassador and winner of the 2018 One Equifax Award.

This week, Syniti’s CEO, Kevin Campbell sits down with Candace Klein, an accomplished national business and civic leader. Candace Klein is President of Klein Contracting Corporation and Co-founder and CEO of Meta Team, LLC, a national women-owned commercial roofing company. With proven success as one of only a few certified woman-owned commercial roofing contracting companies in the U.S., she has developed and implemented strategic plans to ensure profitability in volatile markets.

What potential do the world’s top CDOs, CIOs, and Thought Leaders see in the power of Data? What does the future of Data hold? Join us at the CDO to CDO Podcast, presented by CDO Magazine in partnership with Syniti, a world leader in enterprise data to find out. You’ll hear exclusive Data insights, predictions, and best practices from leaders at American Express, GE Healthcare, the Federal CIO of the United States OMB, and more! In this first episode, Syniti’s Chief Data Officer, Chris Knerr sits down with Suzette Kent former Federal Chief Information Officer of the United States. She was the fourth person to formally hold the job of Federal CIO, which was created by the E-Government Act of 2002.

Known as the CFO Whisperer, David Axson has worked in strategy, finance, and technology for more than 35 years advising CFOs and businesses in more than 50 countries across multiple industries. He has served as a global leader – driving global Mergers, Acquisitions, and Divestitures at a number of organizations including, Bank of America, Accenture, and Hewlett Packard. He was a Cofounder and Chief Operating Officer of The Hackett Group and is a coveted keynote speaker and author.

Paula Tolliver, former Corporate Vice President and CIO and CDO of Intel Corporation and former Corporate Vice President of Business Services and CIO at the Dow Chemical Company. Paula was instrumental in a number of key mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures at Intel and Dow Chemical including the $15.3 billion acquisition of Mobileye by Intel and the $15 billion acquisition of Rohm and Haas ROH.N by Dow Chemical.

Josh Moffitt, founder, and president of Silverton Mortgage Specialists Inc. – a leading correspondent lender operating in numerous locations across the nation. In 2018, Josh oversaw the acquisition of Silverton Mortgage by Vanderbilt Mortgage and Finance Inc., a national home lender owned by Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc.

Ever wanted to get in the heads of some of the top CEO's in the country, and see just what they are thinking? Here is your chance. Welcome to the Syniti CEO TO CEO Podcast, designed to unlock the things business leaders cannot see and help them develop actionable M&A&D strategies to remain resilient during these times.The first podcast will feature Joe Tucci, former Chairman of the Board of Directors, President and Chief Executive Officer of EMC Corporation, now Dell EMC, and Chairman and Co-Founder of Bridge Growth Partners.

All businesses have goals, missions, visions and targets they aspire to. But what drives companies towards achieving those aspirations? Is there an elaborate data strategy that the entire company owns? Or is it just boardroom talk? Either way, it is a business outcome that needs to be achieved. Through the eyes of seasoned practitioners and consultants who have been on the ground with hundreds of businesses, global, regional, and across different industries, we find out how leading companies successfully converge business insights and data and their business aspirations. Pick up practical insights that you can take back to your boardrooms and achieve the same.

All businesses have goals, missions, visions and targets they aspire to. But what drives companies towards achieving those aspirations? Is there an elaborate data strategy that the entire company owns? Or is it just boardroom talk? Either way, it is a business outcome that needs to be achieved. Through the eyes of seasoned practitioners and consultants who have been on the ground with hundreds of businesses, global, regional, and across different industries, we find out how leading companies successfully converge business insights and data and their business aspirations. Pick up practical insights that you can take back to your boardrooms and achieve the same.

Improve access and affordability, create healthier communities, and put a healthy mind, body and environment within reach of everyone, everywhere. Why do companies have purpose statements? Why is having a purpose statement so important and a catching trend among corporations around the world? There is a growing acceptance and realization of the need for purpose to drive success. Research repeatedly shows that people deliver their best effort and ideas when they feel they are part of something larger than the pursuit of a paycheck. Purpose matters. Hear from the companies that own those purpose statements above. How do they see themselves as being a part of a bigger cause, one is more than just about top line and bottom line growth?

Informed and confident decision-making is often backed by right insights influencing strategy. Yet heaps of insights and knowledge lay trapped in data that your company may already own but not tapped. In this session, Rex Ahlstrom, Syniti’s Chief Technology Officer, will introduce the power of business and data convergence through Syniti Knowledge Platform, the industry’s first. Hear first hand how knowledge will make or break your data initiatives, your business objectives, and your career. Unlock deeper potential for you and your business.

If there is anyone who can lay claim to the title of data wizard, it would be Jeff Jonas. An internationally-acclaimed and highly sought-after data scientist, Jeff has been put in front of some of the world’s most complex business and big data problems for governments and companies. National Geographic has called him a Wizard of Big Data and not for naught. For more than three decades, he has been solving the world’s biggest data challenges, and tackled many high-profile challenges, including identifying potential terrorists, detecting fraudulent behavior in casinos, connecting loved ones after a natural disaster, and modernizing voter registration systems. Now is the chance to get up close and personal with Jeff as he helms Syniti’s virtual summit Unlocked Opening. Expect him to deliver a mind-bending speech about what he sees for 2020 and beyond.

What does it really mean to “start with the end in mind”? How do we move the data strategy conversation into the boardroom? Digital transformation is common corporate speak these days, but can there really be one when it is not backed by a data strategy? All three make up a top-rated gathering of the smartest chief data/digital officers to address those pressing questions and offer expert insights. It is time to embrace the new era, one where business should converge with data.

Digital transformation is one of the most used terms in boardrooms these days. Is it all talk, or is it really what every organization needs? Who better to tell us than a global leader whose job function is exactly that – digital transformation. Rahul Welde, who has been with Unilever for almost 30 years, invites us into his world to discover how Unilever, a global enterprise, has made digital transformation a business initiative, and not just a technological one. He will share important insights into what a genuine digital transformation looks like – and demonstrate how it is not a stopover but a journey.