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Mantas is the IBM executive responsible for Global Business Services
to mid-market companies in the Western US. In his role, he is responsible
for all aspects of the consulting business, including marketing,
sales, delivery, training, finance and operations.
Mantas has 20 years of professional services and industry experience.
He has spent over 12 years managing US-based and multinational client
relationships, and delivering quantifiable value through strategy,
transformation and technology implementation programs.
Prior to this role, Mantas was the Global and Americas executive
leading IBM Wireless Business Consulting Services. He is one of
IBM’s thought leaders in mobile services into the enterprise,
and has been a featured keynote speaker and writer in numerous events
and publications.
In addition to his executive leadership position, Mantas maintains
management responsibility for the IBM consulting relationship of
a number of clients, where he actively contributes as executive
sponsor and steering committee member. He holds graduate degrees
in Telecommunications and Software Engineering, as well as a degree
in Business Administration. Jesus is originally from Spain and he
currently lives in Orange County, CA. with his wife Cristina.
Phaneesh Murthy is the Chief Executive Officer & Managing Director
of iGATE Global Solutions, an integrated consulting, technology
and operations company. Murthy was formerly a member of the Board,
Worldwide Head of Sales and Marketing, and Head of Communications
and Product Solutions group for Infosys. He was responsible for
ramping up Infosys from around $2mn in 1992 to around $700 mn in
10 years. He founded Quintant, a pioneer of Business Services Provisioning
with a global services model in 2002. Murthy has considerable expertise
in growing large organizations, and putting in place the infrastructure
to scale. He brings over a decade of experience in structuring and
managing large outsourcing deals for Fortune 500 companies.
Murthy worked in the product space in Sonata prior to Infosys and
is a graduate of Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad and Indian
Institute of Technology, Chennai.
Karen Salem is senior vice president and chief information officer
of Ingram Micro Inc. She responsible for ensuring the company’s
business systems create an effective platform for profitable growth.
She leads a worldwide information technology organization that supports
operations in 39 countries generating hundreds of thousands of transactions
per day.
Salem joined Ingram Micro in February 2005 and brought with her
nearly 20 years of experience advising corporations on technology
systems and business solutions. She was most recently senior vice
president and chief information officer at Winn-Dixie Stores, Inc.
in Jacksonville, Fla., where she led an IT organization of approximately
500 people supporting more than 1,000 stores throughout the United
States. At Winn-Dixie, she led a corporate-wide governance process
to prioritize and manage projects, and developed a more efficient
technology infrastructure that reduced expenses while enhancing
service and productivity. Before joining Winn-Dixie, she was the
chief information officer at Corning Cable Systems, a fiber optic
cable and equipment manufacturer in 20 countries, and at AFC Enterprises
in Atlanta, Ga., which owned several quick-service restaurant brands.
Salem earned a bachelor’s degree in industrial engineering
from Pennsylvania State University and an MBA from the University
of Cincinnati.
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