Organizer  
HYSTA Global Services chapter (GS) 

Speaker
Bernard F. Mathaisel, CTO of Achievo

Sponsor
Fenwick & West LLP (http://www.fenwick.com/)

Language
English

Date
Saturday, June 12, 2010

Agenda
2:00 pm – 2:30 pm     Registration and Networking
2:30 pm – 3:30 pm     Seminar
3:30 pm – 4:00 pm     Q&A
4:00 pm – 4:30 pm     Networking

Venue:
Fenwick & West LLP, 801 California Street, Mountain View, California 94041

Admission
$10 online
$20 walk-in
Free for HYSTA GS/CGSA members (coupon code will be sent out separately)

 
Event Description
Join distinguished speaker from Achievo Corporation to learn about using the cloud to reduce IT spending without sacrificing reliability or scalability. Cloud computing represents a tremendous opportunity for large and middle-sized enterprises to increase the pace of innovation within their organizations. This event is designed to provide insight into the state of cloud computing technology today, guide you on assessing which projects are ideally suited for cloud computing, and illustrate best practices for managing cloud deployments.

 
Bud Mathaisel is CIO and Chief Operating Officer - North America and Europe of Achievo Corporation, a Global leader in Software and Outsourcing.  He is responsible for the vision, strategy and implementation of the company's operations, policies and programs in North America. Bud will be speaking about Cloud Computing - Highlights of Opportunities and Issues.

Speaker Biography

Bud Mathaisel is CIO and Chief Operating Officer - North America and Europe for Achievo Corporation, a Global leader in Software and Outsourcing. In 2007, Bud joined Achievo as Senior Vice President and CIO, and was assigned in 2008 to his current position. His responsibilities include North America and Europe Operations, IT (as CIO), Business Development, Marketing, Corporate Communications, and Public Relations.

Bud is a Director on the Board and member of the Audit Committee of e2open, an LLC which provides collaboration and supply chain software and services for the electronics and aerospace industries. He is an adviser to Price Waterhouse Coopers on technology strategy, and a technology consultant/adviser as part of GLG Group. He served for years on the Editorial Advisory Board of CIO Magazine. He has been a McKinsey reviewer for the Harvard Business Review.

Bud also provided executive consulting on information technologies and IT, both for large companies and for start ups. Bud also has served on the boards and audit committees of Packeteer, QD Technologies and AcXess. Previously, for seven years, Bud was Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer for Solectron, with global responsibility for information technology and business process re-engineering worldwide.

Before Solectron, Bud was the global CIO for the Ford Motor Company, and global CIO of the Walt Disney Company. Earlier, Bud was a Partner and the founding Director of Ernst & Young's Center for Business Innovation (CBI) in Boston, a group dedicated to the conception and development of leading-edge ideas and management approaches for business innovation.

He received both Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees from the Engineering School at MIT, Cambridge Massachusetts, with high honors. He is a native of Boston, Massachusetts, currently living in California.

About HYSTA and HYSTA Global Services(GS)
HYSTA (Hua Yuan Science and Technology Association, www.hysta.org) is a leading Chinese professional association in US. Founded in 1999 by a group of successful Chinese entrepreneurs, HYSTA aims at nurturing entrepreneurship and career development among Chinese technology and business professionals and facilitates networking and the exchange of business ideas between Silicon Valley and China.

HYSTA Global Services (GS) Chapter was formed to serve the needs of China-based global companies and professionals in the outsourcing industry. GS’s goal is to provide a neutral platform to promote the common interests in the global services industry, assist partnership between services providers and buyers, and ultimately help the growth of the China outsourcing industry.