Cloud Sourcing Summit for CIOs Delivers Success in Chicago

Alsbridge Inc. hosted the second Cloud Sourcing Summit in Chicago, IL. on April 12, 2011. This successful series of summits is rapidly creating a superior network of cloud adopters for IT executives to share best practices and garner knowledge from their peers.

The four-city series will continue with roundtables planned in Toronto on October 18, 2011 and New York City on December 9, 2011. For more information and to register visit: www.cloudsourcingsummit.com.

All participants were provided a research report on the day’s learning and given access to the Alsbridge cloud service provider database.


Key leaders for the summit in Chicago included:

• Lee Coulter, SVP, Ascension Health, CEO Ascension Health Shared Services
• Jeff Cohn, SVP, Technology & Facilities, Playboy Enterprises, Inc.
• Mike Sandler, CIO, Enova Financial
• Charlie Curnow, former VP of IT, at A.H. Belo
• Shirley Cooper, VP of IT, Service Delivery, Hallmark Cards, Inc.
• Dean Demos, CIO of Combined Insurance
• Jose Ignacio Sordo Galarza, VP, IT, Millercoors
  

“As innovations in cloud computing continue to develop and evolve across the enterprise, it is vital for IT executives to stay ahead of the curve. This summit is a valuable learning opportunity that gave attendees the chance to garner knowledge from their peers. The time is now for IT leaders to radically transform their value proposition to the business, and they must seize it with both hands,” said keynote speaker Ben Trowbridge, Alsbridge CEO.


About Alsbridge Inc.

Alsbridge provides world class sourcing advisory and benchmarking services for IT, finance and sourcing executives.  With over 150 consultants located globally, we’ve helped hundreds of companies reduce costs and get more value from their vendors.  Our experienced consultants leverage proprietary tools and information databases to identify and engage the optimal vendors for your situation, negotiate best practice terms at fair market prices, and improve the way you work with your vendors.  Alsbridge clients utilize the most cost effective and value added sources globally for IT infrastructure services, hardware and maintenance, network services, software and maintenance, application support and development, business processes and cloud services.  Our commitment to delivering value to our clients has made Alsbridge a distinguished member of the 2010 Inc. 500 fastest growing privately held companies in America.