Robert Carter

Executive Vice President & CIO, FedEx

Robert B. (Rob) Carter, is Executive Vice President and Chief Information Officer at FedEx Corporation. Carter also serves as Chairman of FedEx Kinko's and CEO of FedEx Customer Information Services. FedEx Corporation, with revenue of $34 billion provides the transportation industry's broadest range of services.

Carter is responsible for the corporations' key applications and technology infrastructure. FedEx applications, advanced networks and data centers provide around-the-clock and around-the-globe support for the information intensive transportation, logistics and business related product offerings of FedEx Corporation.

In his role at FedEx Customer Information Services, Carter is responsible for Customer Service, Billing and Revenue Operations. Fedex call centers are one of the premier customer service organizations in the world and provide instant access to the great people and technology that support Fedex customers worldwide.

Carter joined FedEx in 1993 and has nearly 30 years of systems development and implementation experience utilizing a wide variety of technology. Carter earned his bachelor's degree in Computer and Information Sciences from the University of Florida and his MBA from the University of South Florida.

Professional Awards Include:

• Information Week Chief of the Year Award (2000, 2001, 2005)
• Network World's 25 Most Powerful People in Networking (2001, 2005)
• CIO Magazine 100 Award (2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004)
• CIO Magazine 20/20 Vision Award (2002)
• Business 2.0 "20 Rising Executives" (2002)
• ComputerWorld Premier 100 (2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004)
• Salomon Smith Barney CIO of the Year Award (2001)
• InfoWorld Chief Technology Officer of the Year (2000)

Mr. Carter serves as a member of the Saks, Inc. Board of Directors and the University of Florida Foundation Board of Trustees.

Mr. Carter is very active in the Memphis community serving as Chairman of the Capital Campaign for the University of Tennessee Hamilton Eye Institute, and is a member of several civic boards including the Memphis Riverfront Development Corporation, and The Life Blood Foundation.

Al Nugent

CTO, CA

As executive vice president and chief technology officer, Al Nugent leads CA's Office of the CTO and defines the company's technology vision and strategy while working closely with the business units to ensure common technology architecture and services across the company's solutions and products. He is also focused on creating a common set of software engineering methodologies to ensure consistent and predictable delivery of the entire CA product portfolio.

Prior to his appointment at CTO, Al was the senior vice president and general manager of CA's Enterprise Systems Management (ESM) business unit, responsible for CA's award-winning Unicenter brand of management solutions. Under his leadership, the business unit grew at twice the market growth rate. ESM also delivered over a dozen new products and solutions including the flagship Unicenter r11.

Before joining CA in April of 2005, Al was senior vice president and CTO of Novell, where he was the innovator behind the company's moves into open source and identity-driven solutions. Earlier, he was executive vice president, CTO, and CIO of Vectant, Inc., responsible for all technology design, acquisition, and deployment for all of the technology company's business units, as well as for all internal support systems and infrastructure in the U.S. and Japan.

Al was also consulting chief technologist and chief software architect for BellSouth Corporation where he was a key contributor on a wide variety of technology issues, including the Web Services and eCommerce, enterprise application architecture and integration, software engineering process and data delivery products and services. He also served as senior vice president, CTO, and CIO at American Re-Insurance Company, vice president of software development and CTO at Xerox Corporation and began his 30-year career at Hewlett-Packard Company.

Tom Malloy

CSO, Adobe Systems

As senior vice president and chief software architect, Tom Malloy leads Adobe's Advanced Technology Labs, part of the company's Office of Technology. Spearheading Adobe's long-term research and development initiatives, he leads a team of computer scientists who are delivering the next generations of Adobe software innovations.

Malloy is responsible for defining Adobe's technology strategy as well as overseeing multiple R&D focus areas including Adobe's Advanced Graphics Technology Group, the Document and Enterprise Technology Group, and the Publishing Technology Group. His organization also takes a leading role in incubating new projects, championing industry standards, facilitating collaboration with universities, and seeding new products.

Malloy previously headed Adobe's Advanced Technology Group (now part of the Office of Technology) for nine years and held a variety of other senior engineering roles in the organization. Some of his most significant contributions have included the expansion of Adobe's products to the Windows® environment, development of advanced document security technologies, and the extension of Adobe® PDF as a de facto industry standard for automating document–based enterprise processes.

Prior to joining Adobe in 1986, Malloy worked for Apple Computer, where he helped drive software development for the Lisa computer, the precursor to the Macintosh. Previously, Malloy worked at Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), where he was the lead engineer of the Bravo document processing system for the Alto computer.

Malloy sits on the board of Aklara, an electronic auction firm, and is a member of ACM and IEEE. He holds three patents as well as bachelor's and master's degrees in computer science from Stanford University.

Paul Mankiewich

CTO North America, Alcatel-Lucent

As Chief Technology Officer and Chief Architect for Lucent Technologies, Dr. Paul Mankiewich is responsible for the technology direction of all Lucent products including mobile, optical, switching and data networking solutions, IP multimedia subsystems (IMS), and end-user applications. Dr. Mankiewich is also charged with directing all of Lucent's activities relating to the development of industry standards.

Immediately prior to assuming his current roles, Dr. Mankiewich was the Chief Technical Officer for Lucent's Mobility Solutions group, and also served as Senior Vice President of Networking Research at Bell Laboratories, playing a critical part in the commercialization of 3G mobile networking technologies (both CDMA2000 and UMTS). He also took a leadership role in the development of Lucent's vision and strategy around the development of next-generation, all-IP networks.

Throughout his 24-year career with Lucent, Dr. Mankiewich has held a variety of key positions in research and development, having managed Bell Labs' Networking and Services Research, Wireless Technology Research, Wireless Components, and Packaging Research units. He also led the Wireless Advanced Technology, and Wireless Research Hardware and Architecture units for Lucent's Mobility business. Dr. Mankiewich began his career in cellular wireless in 1988, and has contributed to all aspects of wireless system design for Lucent's CDMA, GSM, UMTS and TDMA systems as well as numerous proprietary systems.

Dr. Mankiewich has authored and published more than 80 papers on topics including fundamental physics, semiconductor, device technology, and wireless networking. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of 3G Americas, the trade association devoted to promoting the UMTS and GSM family of technologies. Dr. Mankiewich is also an active member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), and has served on the IEEE's Administrative Committee and on the editorial board of The IEEE Journal on Applied Superconductivity. Among other honors, Dr. Mankiewich has been a recipient of the IEEE Electron Device Society's Paul Rappaport Award.

Dr. Paul Mankiewich holds a doctorate of philosophy degree in applied physics from Boston University; a master of science degree in physics and material science from Stevens Institute of Technology; and a bachelor of science degree in physics from the State University of New York.

Dr. Bernard S. Meyerson

IBM Fellow, Vice President Strategic Alliances and Chief Technologist,
Systems and Technology Group, IBM

Dr. Meyerson is Vice President for Strategic Alliances and Chief Technologist of IBM's Systems and Technology Group. Dr. Meyerson joined IBM Research as a Staff member in 1980, leading the development of silicon:germanium and other high performance technologies over a period of ten years. He then led a series of development organizations within IBM focused on communications and semiconductor technology, creating from that work a number of major business endeavors encompassing applications spanning the range from pervasive wireless enablement (802.11x) to high end data transport.

Dr. Meyerson was appointed Chief Technologist of IBM's Technology Group in 2001, in 2003 assuming operational responsibility for IBM's Semiconductor Technology Research and Development as head of the SRDC (Semiconductor Research and Development Center). In that role he led the world's largest semiconductor development consortium, members being Sony, Toshiba, AMD, Samsung, Chartered Semiconductor, and Infineon. In December 2005, he was appointed as Vice President for Strategic Alliances and CTO of IBM's System Technology Group.

In 1992, Dr. Meyerson was appointed an IBM Fellow, IBM's highest technical honor. He is also a Fellow of the American Physical Society and the IEEE. Throughout the years Dr. Meyerson has received numerous awards for his work including: the Materials Research Society Medal, the Electrochemical Society Electronics Division Award, the IEEE Ernst Weber Award for the body of work culminating in the commercialization of Si-Ge-based communications technology, and the IEEE Electron Devices Society J. J. Ebers Award.

He was cited as "Inventor of the Year" in 1998 by the NY State Legislature, and was recognized in 1999 as "United States Distinguished Inventor of the Year" by the US IP Law Association and the Patent and Trademark office. In 2002, he was elected to the National Academy of Engineering.

Dr. Meyerson and his team have also been the subject of a long-running study on the topic of innovation in large organizations, culminating in the 2001 Harvard Business School Press publication titled "Radical Innovation; How Mature Companies Can Outsmart Upstarts".

Frank Abagnale Jr.

Special Guest

Frank W. Abagnale is one of the world's most respected authorities on forgery, embezzlement and secure documents. For over 30 years he has worked with, advised and consulted with hundreds of financial institutions, corporations and government agencies around the world.

Mr. Abagnale's rare blend of knowledge and expertise began more than 40 years ago when he was known as one of the world's most famous confidence men. This was depicted most graphically in his best-selling book, Catch Me If You Can, a film of which was also made, directed by Steven Spielberg with Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Hanks. Between the ages of 16 and 21, he successfully posed as an airline pilot, an attorney, a college professor and a pediatrician, in addition to cashing $2.5 million in fraudulent checks in every state and 26 foreign countries.

Apprehended by the French police when he was 21 years old, he served time in the French, Swedish and U. S. prison systems. After five years he was released on the condition that he would help the federal government, without remuneration, by teaching and assisting federal law enforcement agencies.

Mr. Abagnale has now been associated with the FBI for over 30 years. More than 14,000 financial institutions, corporations and law enforcement agencies use his fraud prevention programs. In 1998 he was selected as a distinguished member of "Pinnacle 400" by CNN Financial News – a select group of 400 people chosen on the basis of great accomplishment and success in their fields. In 2004 Mr. Abagnale was selected as the spokesperson for the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) and the National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA). He has also written numerous articles and books including The Art of the Steal, The Real U Guide to Identity Theft and Stealing Your Life.