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ITsmiths: Dennis Keane, CIO and VP at Red Wing Shoes

Dennis Keane is the Chief Information Officer at Red Wing Shoes. A company with (not only great shoes), but over 1,000 employees and more than 600 retail stores. Since he was a young boy, living in Ireland, Dennis had a

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Mike Madden – IT Executive for Cardno

Three years ago, Mike Smith and his wife were at an auction for the McKenna Claire Foundation, a charity that benefits the fight against pediatric brain cancer. At the event, they were introduced to Mike and Marla Madden, whom also had

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ITsmiths: Dennis Leber, CISO for the University of Tennessee Health Science Center

Are you doing the same job now, that you knew you wanted to do when you were 18? Dennis Leber had the same problem. As you’ll hear, Dennis didn’t find his true career calling until he was in his mid-thirties. After

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ITsmiths: Doug Saunders, VP and CIO at Advanced Disposal Services

Have you ever told someone: “I’m only hard on you because I know you have the potential to do great things.” Maybe you’re like me and say that to your kids, or maybe you say that to your employees…. Well,

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ITsmiths: Thomas J. Sweet – Vice President of Cloud Services for GM Financial

Have you ever been interviewing for a job, and had the person across the table give you some strong, constructive criticism about your qualifications? Well, that happened to Tom Sweet, very early in his career. Tom is now the VP

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ITsmiths: Vishal Gupta, Global CTO and SVP of Technology at Unisys

Way back in 1993, Vishal Gupta was a young, extremely talented computer scientist, who actually created one of the first search engines, that used Artificial Intelligence. The only problem was that he didn’t know the potential of it, and walked

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ITsmiths: Ryan Johnson, VP of Operations at Keap

A while back, I sat down with Ryan Johnson, who at the time was the head of IT for Keap, a fantastic CRM and marketing automation software company. Since that time, Ryan has continued his career climb and is now

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ITsmiths: Ron Herardian, Senior Director of Technology at Capgemini

As you’ll hear, Ron Herardian, Senior Director of Technology at Capgemini, and long-time IT startup veteran, learned, at a young age, to be comfortable with change. And being comfortable with change (and loving computers), were good traits to have if

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ITsmtihs: Nikk Gilbert, CISO for Cherokee Nation Businesses

As a CISO, you have to be the strategic leader of Information Security with your organization… that’s obvious. But what isn’t obvious is that in order to lead effectively, you have to work well with the other C-levels within your

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ITsmiths: Jeffrey Brandt, CIO of Jackson Kelly

Jeffrey Brandt got his first CIO role at a law firm, around 25 years ago. So, that would make him probably around retirement age, with kids that have families of their own, etc. … right? Well, not quite. See, he

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