Former IBM Exec Lands at CIBER
CIBER, an information technology consulting firm, has appointed Richard Bianco as the new leader of the North American Retail Practice. He comes to CIBER from NetServPro, where he served as President & CEO. Prior to CIBER, Bianco was a Partner at the MIT Consulting Group and IBM Global Business Services. He was also the Founder and President of TNG Consulting, a strategic business and technology consulting firm which was sold to Value Trader.
New CEO at Mobile Technologies Company
MacroSolve has appointed Steve Signoff as the new CEO and Director of the company. Most recently, Signoff was the Chief Sales and Marketing Officer of One Communications, the largest privately-held, multi-regional integrated telecommunications solutions provider in the US. Prior to One Communications, Signoff served as the VP of Marketing and VP of International Business at Sprint Nextel. In the past, Signoff has been on the boards of Vumber, Intelig, Barak, The Kansas City Zoo, The Sprint Foundation, and CASA.
Date range: August 3rd - August 30th
Wednesday, 31 August 2011 10:06
IT Services Exec & Board Appointments August 3 to August 30 2011
Written by Dora VellIntelligence Community Veteran Joins SAIC
Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), an engineering and technology applications company, announced that Robert Zitz has joined the company's Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) Group as SVP and Chief Systems Architect. Prior to SAIC, Zitz was the Deputy Director of Mission Support for the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO). In the past, he has served as the Deputy Associate Director for the U.S. Secret Service and as the Deputy Undersecretary of Preparedness for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
Dora Vell
Dora Vell is the Managing Partner of Vell Executive Search, a boutique executive search firm in Boston focused on recruiting technology executives and board members. Vell has successfully completed numerous board member and C-level executive searches, including CEOs, COOs, CIOs, and Vice Presidents - at both public and private companies.
Prior to founding the firm in 2005, Vell was a Partner at Heidrick & Struggles' Technology practice for seven years. Before her career in executive search, she worked at IBM for 11 years, managing software engineering organizations of 100 people and software sales organizations with revenues of $150 million. She has also served as an executive assistant to the CEO of IBM Canada for one year.
Vell holds seven worldwide software patents. She has published several Business of Leadership reports on governance and leadership and has been quoted in numerous articles including The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Business Week, Fortune, Agenda Week, MSNBC, Mass High Tech, the OPUS for the World Economic Forum, Boston Business Journal, The Globe & Mail, CIO Magazine, and IEEE. She also has been a featured speaker on leadership at numerous conferences and at Columbia University's MBA program.
Vell is a member of the National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD), the Boston CEO Roundtable. She has served on the boards of Framingham State, Entrepreneur's Organization, Goodwill, Mary Centre for developmentally handicapped adults, garage.ca, and RBC Capital Partners.
She has received an MBA from the University of Toronto, a Master in Computer Science from the University of Waterloo, and a Bachelor in Computer Science from Carleton. She has also completed the MIT Entrepreneurial Master’s program.
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