Fox IT Symposium Panelists

Enterprise Systems: Can They Deliver Value in the Long Term?

Cristóbal I. Conde
President and CEO
SunGard Data Systems Inc.

Cristóbal I. Conde is SunGard's president and chief executive officer, and a member of its board of directors. SunGard is a Fortune 500 company, headquartered in Wayne, Pennsylvania. With annual revenue of approximately $5 billion, SunGard is one of the world’s top twenty leading software and IT services companies. Conde was elected chief executive officer in August 2002 and has been a board member since August 1999. He served as chief operating officer between 1999 and 2002 and previously headed up SunGard's Trading Systems division, which he started in 1990. Under Conde's direction, the Trading Systems division expanded to four groups comprised of twenty-two operating units employing over two thousand staff. In August 2005, Conde was instrumental in turning SunGard private in a leveraged buy-out (LBO) valued at $11.5 billion – at the time the second largest LBO ever. SunGard is now the largest privately held software and IT services company. Prior to joining SunGard, Conde co-founded Devon Systems International, Inc., which was acquired by SunGard in 1987. At the time, Devon focused on providing systems for the interest rate and currency derivatives markets. Born in Santiago, Chile, Conde holds a B.S. in Astronomy and Physics from Yale University.

Matthew Charles Mullenweg
Founder, Chief BBQ Taste Tester
Automattic, Inc.

Matthew C. Mullenweg is an entrepreneur who is the founding developer of WordPress, the blogging software that is used by thousands of bloggers and read by millions around the world. Mullenweg is also the founder, primary developer, and Chief BBQ Taste Tester of Automattic, a privately held firm that is responsible for WordPress.com, Akismet, an anti spam service, and other tools. Previously, Mullenweg worked at CNET on blogs and new media offerings. WordPress was started in 2003, and since then Mullenweg has worked on developing the open source software and several related tools. He also co-founded the Global Multimedia Protocols Group, which was an effort to represent human relationships on the web. Later, he co-wrote Ping-O-Matic, a blog notification tool. More recently, he worked on releasing Akismet, a distributed anti spam service. Mullenweg is frequently cited by the media on Web 2.0 and the open source movement and is a frequent speaker at conferences. He was one of the keynote speakers at BlogWorld Expo 2007. In March 2007, Mullenweg was named #16 of the 50 Most Important People on the Web by PC World. He also serves as an advisor to Sphere and WeGame. Mullenweg is an avid Jazz musician, photographer, and of course blogger.

Joe Weiss
Chairman
Electronic Ink

Joe Weiss is Chairman of Electronic Ink, a leading international design firm. Electronic Ink improves the design and usability of software applications, enterprise software and browser-based applications. As Chairman, Weiss provides leadership for Electronic Ink’s operations including business development to process improvements. Previously, Weiss was the Chairman-CEO of Packard Press, Inc., the region’s leading financial, legal and commercial printing company. For two decades prior, Weiss practiced corporate law, representing major corporate clients in banking, media and professional sports. In broadcasting, he owned and operated three radio stations, and in print, he previously published The Legal Intelligencer and the Pennsylvania Law Journal. Weiss was also a partner in a film production company that in the 1970s produced films such as The Buddy Holly Story and Under the Rainbow. Weiss has held volunteer leadership positions in notable organizations including serving as President of the Temple Law Alumni Association, and Member of the Board of Directors of The Bridge Therapeutic Center at Fox Chase. Weiss currently serves on the boards of the Greater Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce, Friends of Rittenhouse Square, Marian Anderson Award and the Central Philadelphia Development Corporation. Weiss earned his bachelor’s of science in Business Administration from the Fox School, and Juris Doctorate from Temple Law.

Rajiv Banker
Merves Chair and Professor
Temple University

Rajiv D. Banker is the Merves Chair and Director of the Center for Accounting and Information Technology at the Fox School of Business, Temple University. He also holds a secondary appointment in Management Information Systems. Previously, Dr. Banker has served as the Anderson Chair and Dean at the Anderson School of Management at the University of California, Riverside, the Ashbel Smith Chair in Accounting and Information Management, Director of Accounting and Information Management Programs, Director of Center for Practice and Research in Software Management and Director of Center for Excellence in Asian Management at the University of Texas at Dallas (with joint appointments in the accounting and information management, and information systems and operations management areas), Professor of Accounting and Management at Carnegie Mellon University (with joint appointments in the schools of public policy and management, and industrial administration) and the Arthur Andersen Chair in Accounting and Information Systems at the University of Minnesota (with joint appointments in accounting, information systems and operations management departments).

Dr. Banker received a Bachelor of Science degree with Highest Honors from the University of Bombay concentrating in Mathematics and Economics. He received several academic awards, including those for standing first at the Bachelor of Science examination at the University of Bombay. He received a Doctorate in Business Administration from Harvard University concentrating in Planning and Control Systems. He qualified as a Cost Accountant and as a Chartered Accountant in India, securing several awards including those for standing first and third respectively at national examinations of the two institutes.

Dr. Banker is internationally recognized as a leader in interdisciplinary research in management. He has received numerous awards for his research, including awards for Notable Contribution to the Management Accounting Literature and Notable Contribution to the Governmental Accounting Literature by the American Accounting Association, and best paper awards at international conferences in information systems and in accounting. He has published more than 100 articles in prestigious research journals including Management Science, Accounting Review, Journal of Accounting and Economics, Journal of Accounting Research, Operations Research, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, MIS Quarterly, Information Systems Research, Communications of ACM, IEEE Transactions in Software Engineering, Academy of Management Journal, Strategic Management Journal, and Econometrica.

His research articles are cited over 100 times each year by other researchers in a wide range of disciplines. One of his papers is ranked fourth highest in citations in the 50-year history of Management Science. He is recognized by the Institute for Scientific Information (Web of Science) as one of only 243 most highly cited researchers in economics and business worldwide (comprising less than ½ of 1% of all publishing researchers in the past two decades) that have made fundamental contributions to the advancement of science and technology.

Dr. Banker’s research interests range from analytical modeling to statistical analysis of data collected from different companies to address complex or emerging problems of importance to managers. His research on information systems explores issues of e-business competitive strategy, investments in information technology, software productivity and quality metrics, and management of software development and maintenance. His research in accounting addresses questions pertaining to performance measurement, incentive compensation, strategic cost management and public accounting industry analysis. His research in management science includes the development of new analytical methods for productivity and efficiency evaluation. His research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the Financial Executives Research Foundation, the Institute of Management Accountants, and several leading corporations.

Dr. Banker has chaired and served on committees of several professional institutions. He has served as editor and on advisory boards of leading research journals in information systems, accounting and operations management. He has consulted extensively with many organizations and served as an expert witness. He has been invited to lecture to executives and academics at leading institutions around the world.

Dr. Banker has supervised many doctoral students placed at prestigious research universities. Six of his doctoral students have won awards for best dissertations and three others have received runner-up awards. He has been the recipient of three teaching awards voted by graduate and undergraduate students. Dr. Banker has co-edited a book on Strategic Information Technology Management and co-authored a textbook on Management Accounting that has been translated into seven languages.

Ram Mudambi
Professor and Perelman Senior Research Fellow
Temple University

Professor Mudambi's research focuses on strategic decision-making in a variety of contexts including knowledge management, IPO-related issues and political institutions. His research has appeared in the Strategic Management Journal, the Journal of Political Economy, the Journal of International Business Studies, the Journal of Business Venturing and the Journal of Applied Statistics, among others. He serves on the Editorial Boards of the Journal of International Business Studies, the Asia Pacific Journal of Management and the Journal of International Management. He has been a Guest Editor for the International Business Review and the Journal of International Management. Prior to joining Temple, he taught at Case Western Reserve University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He taught in Europe for seven years at the University of Reading and the University of Buckingham. He completed his Master?s degree at the London School of Economics and Political Science, England and his Ph.D. at Cornell University.

Youngjin Yoo
Associate Professor and IBIT Fellow
Temple University

Youngjin Yoo is Associate Professor of Management Information Systems and IBIT Research Fellow at the Fox School of Business and Management at Temple University. He is also the director of PhD program in Management Information Systems. Previously, he was Lewis- Progressive Chair of Management at the Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University. He holds a PhD in information systems from the University of Maryland. At Case, he was a recipient of Walter Nord Grant and Glennan Fellow, both of which recognize his unique and innovative approaches to management education. He was a summer research fellow at NASA in summer of 2001 and spent a year as a research associate in 2003 – 2004 at NASA Glenn Research Center. He was also a visiting professor at Hong Kong City University and Tokyo University of Science in Japan.

Professor Yoo’s research which focuses on IT-enabled innovation and organization transformation, and the integration of design methods and principles to information systems has been published in leading academic journals such as Information Systems Research (ISR), MIS Quarterly (MISQ), Organization Science, the Communications of the ACM, and the Academy of Management Journal. Professor Yoo has also edited two books on ubiquitous computing and written several books chapters. He also organized several research conferences including serving as program chair for an international conference on mobile business and co-chair for a conference on ubiquitous computing. At Temple, he is initiating a research program exploring the design and the use of novel computing services in everyday life -- a phenomenon he calls experiential computing. In particular, he is studying the digital transformation of urban experiences through the lens of experiential computing. Previously, he has studied the diffusion of wireless broadband in South Korea, funded by Korea Research Foundation, and is currently editing a book on the mobile business and technology in Asia-Pacific region. Professor Yoo also studied the design practices of leading architect, Frank O. Gehry and his use of 3D CAD tools. This work was funded by National Science Foundation. In a follow-up study, which is also funded by National Science Foundation, he is studying the role of ubiquitous information environments in the emergence of distributed innovations. Through all of these works, he constantly seek to understand the power of digital technology in transforming our experiences.

He teaches students and executives on how to integrate design thinking and methods in organizational practices, innovation and the use of information technology. He worked with organizations including HUD, Accenture, E&Y, Alcoa, Bendix, Kirkland Capital, and Moen. He is a senior editor of Journal of Strategic Information systems and an associate editor of Information Systems Research. He also serves on the editorial board of leading journals including Organization Science, Information and Organization, and Journal of AIS.

Munir Mandviwalla
Associate Professor
Temple University

Associate Professor Munir Mandviwalla, founding chair of the Management Information Systems department, and Executive Director, Institute for Business and Information Technology, Fox School of Business, Temple University holds a BSc in Systems Engineering from Boston University, a MBA from the Peter F. Drucker School of Management at Claremont Graduate University, and a Ph.D. in Management Information Systems from the Programs in Information Science at Claremont Graduate University. His current research interests include communication technologies, globalization, and the use of prototyping for theory development. Dr. Mandviwalla’s teaching focuses on information systems management.

Dr. Mandviwalla has published more than 40 articles in scholarly journals and international conferences. His most recent work in 2007 includes identifying and defining the concept of municipal wireless networks (published in Communications of the ACM). He is currently working on a case study of global integration by analyzing the global IT implementation strategy of a major pharmaceutical company. His publications have appeared in Management Information Systems Quarterly, ACM Transactions on Computer Human Interaction, Journal of Organizational Computing and Electronic Commerce, Decision Support Systems, Small Group Research, Communications of the Association for Information Systems, and Information Systems Journal. His work has been supported by grants of more than $2 Million from the National Science Foundation (NSF), Bell Atlantic, IBM, Microsoft Corporation, CIGNA Corporation, Advanta Corporation, Lotus Development Corporation, and Lilly Endowment, Inc. In 2000, IBM selected him for their Faculty Partnership Award in recognition for contributions to E-Business teaching and research. In 2002, The Claremont Graduate University recognized him with their Alumni Hall of Fame award.

As executive director of the Institute for Business and Information Technology, Mandviwalla leads a full service institute that engages with industry at multiple levels including research and human capital development, and provides faculty and students with funding, scholarships, contacts, and professional development. As the founding chair of the department of Management Information Systems, Mandviwalla leads the research and teaching activities related to information systems for the Fox School of Business.