Farnam Jahanian,Kathleen Hogan,Debbie Guild,Daron Green
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Nina Johal Nina joined Amazon in May of 2019 as the Talent Acquisition leader for the technology teams in Worldwide Operations. She is directly responsible for strategy, sourcing, and hiring of technical talent for over 10 North American development centers spanning seven distinct business units. She also liaisons with global counterparts to ensure the strategic delivery of regional technical recruitment needs. Nina has deep HR experience both domestically and internationally and has held a variety of roles throughout her 26-year career at Microsoft. In her most recent role at Microsoft she was responsible for all Executive level recruiting across the company. Nina is Canadian and lives in Bellevue, Washington with her husband and son. She enjoys family time, traveling, working out, fine wines and reading. First Name Nina Last Name Johal Organization Amazon Position Talent Acquisition Director, Operations Technology Farnam Jahanian Farnam Jahanian was appointed interim president of Carnegie Mellon University by its Board of Trustees, effective July 1, 2017. As provost and chief academic officer beginning in 2015, Jahanian had broad responsibility for leading CMU’s schools, colleges, institutes, and campuses and was instrumental in long- range institutional and academic planning, including efforts to enhance the CMU experience both within and outside the classroom. Before being named provost in May 2015, he previously served as the university’s vice president for research, nurturing excellence in research, scholarship and creative activities. Prior to coming to CMU, Jahanian led the National Science Foundation Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) from 2011 to 2014. He guided CISE, with a budget of almost $900 million, in its mission to advance scientific discovery and engineering innovation through its support of fundamental research. Previously, Jahanian was the Edward S. Davidson Collegiate Professor at the University of Michigan, where he served as chair for Computer Science and Engineering from 2007 to 2011 and as director of the Software Systems Laboratory from 1997 to 2000. Jahanian has been an active advocate for how basic research can be uniquely central to an innovation ecosystem that drives global competitiveness and addresses national priorities. His research on Internet infrastructure security formed the basis for the Internet security company Arbor Networks, which he co- founded in 2001 and where he served as chairman until its acquisition in 2010. His work on Internet routing stability and convergence has been highly influential within the network research and Internet operational communities. The recipient of numerous awards for his innovative research, commitment to education and technology commercialization activities, Jahanian was most recently presented with the Computing Research Association’s 2015 Distinguished Service Award. Farnam holds a PhD in computer science from the University of Texas at Austin. He is a fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery, the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. First Name Farnam Last Name Jahanian Organization Carnegie Mellon University Position President Kathleen Hogan As Chief People Officer and Executive Vice President of Human Resources at Microsoft, Kathleen Hogan empowers more than 175,000 global employees to achieve Microsoft’s mission. In her role, she focuses on making Microsoft an exceptional place for employees to work, and ensures that the company is creating a culture that attracts and inspires the world’s most passionate talent. Hogan previously served as Corporate Vice President of Microsoft Services, a team dedicated to helping businesses and consumers maximize the value of their investment in Microsoft technologies. Prior to joining Microsoft in 2003, Hogan was a partner at McKinsey & Co. and a development manager at Oracle Corp. Hogan earned her bachelor’s degree in applied mathematics and economics, magna cum laude, from Harvard University. In addition, she holds an MBA from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business. She sits on the Board of Directors of Alaska Air Group and the National Center for Women & Information Technology. First Name Kathleen Last Name Hogan Organization Microsoft Position Executive Vice President of Human Resources Debbie Guild Deborah Guild is Executive Vice President, head of Enterprise Technology and Security, and the Chief Security Officer for The PNC Financial Services Group. In this capacity, she serves as the Chief Information Security Officer responsible for aligning all aspects of PNC’s security program, including cyber and information security, security operations, enterprise fraud, security operations architecture, physical security, and governance. In addition, in November 2020 she assumed responsibility for leading Enterprise Technology, which includes engineering, enterprise hosting, enterprise response, technology risk management, enterprise architecture, enterprise data management and technology transformation and integration. Guild was named Chief Security Officer in February 2017. Previously, she served as PNC’s Chief Technology Officer responsible for infrastructure, technology operations, information security, cybercrime, and IT service management. Prior to joining PNC in October 2013, Guild spent 21 years at Bank of America, where she most recently served as Chief Technology Officer of Enterprise Functions and End User Computing. She also served as the Global Integrated Business and Change Management Executive. Guild previously served as senior network engineer at Intel Corporation. Guild serves on the board for The Financial Services Information Sharing and Analysis Center (FS-ISAC), the National Center for Women and Information Technology (NCWIT), and Pittsburgh Three Rivers Marathon, Inc. (P3R). She earned a bachelor’s degree in computer science with a minor in mathematics from the University of North Florida. First Name Debbie Last Name Guild Organization The PNC Financial Services Group Position Executive Vice President, Head of Enterprise Technology and Security, and Chief Security Officer Daron Green As Chief Scientist, Dr. Daron Green is responsible for Autodesk’s scientific research teams including AI, Robotics, HCI, Visualization, Simulation, Optimization, and Systems. Their fundamental research helps innovate across Autodesk’s tools, platforms, and services bringing radical changes to the way design, manufacturing, construction, and entertainment industries work. Before joining Autodesk, Daron spent more than four years at Facebook and was responsible for strategic oversight and operational delivery across all external research engagements and collaborations. He worked with Facebook research leadership to ensure that their strategic goals can be realized and that Facebook actively partners with the academic research community in open, collaborative and mutually beneficial research engagements. Prior to this, for nine years, Daron led Microsoft Research’s Outreach activities and was responsible for their global collaborative research investments. He was also General Manager of Microsoft’s Technology Policy Group, responsible for identifying business opportunities and innovations likely from potential disruptive technologies. In that role, he provided oversight for key mechanisms for Microsoft’s internal processes of innovation and ideation, such as ThinkWeek, and external efforts, such as Microsoft’s Cloud Research Engagements and Microsoft’s Environmental Sustainability program. Prior to this, he was general manager for Microsoft Research’s external engagement and investment strategy, with a global portfolio which included diverse topics such as Health and Wellbeing, Education and Scholarly Communications, Computer Science, and the Environment. Daron’s initial research background was in molecular modeling and equations of state for fluid mixtures—his BSc is in Chemical Physics (1989, Sheffield) and PhD in molecular simulation of fluid mixtures (1992, Sheffield). He went on to do post-doctoral research in simulation of polymer and protein folding (1993–4, UCD). He then moved to Southampton University to work on application porting and optimization for large-scale parallel and distributed computing in a range of application domains including computational chemistry (molecular dynamics and quantum mechanical codes), Radiography, Computational Fluid Dynamics, and Finite Element analysis. Daron then moved more fully into HPC and was responsible for some of Europe’s largest HPC Framework V programs for the European Commission, major HPC procurements in the UK for the UK Research Councils and UK Defense clients; he also led detailed investigations into the maturity and adoption for European HPC Software tools. From there, he went to work for the SGI/Cray—helping to set up the European Professional Services organization from which he spun out a small team to establish the European Professional Services for Selectica Inc. Selectica specialized in online configuration/logic-engine technologies offered via web services. Given an HPC/distributed computing background and familiarity with the then embryonic area of web services, IBM invited Daron to help establish its Grid Computing Strategy and emerging business opportunity (Grid EBO) team. He subsequently moved to British Telecom to head up its Global Services business incubation and, as part of this, in 2007 he established and launched