Advisory Board

Dr. Richard Reiner
Chairman & CEO, Enomaly

Dr. Richard Reiner serves as chairman and CEO of Enomaly, a pioneer and leader in the cloud computing space. Prior to Enomaly, Dr. Reiner founded Assurent Secure Technologies, a SaaS company in the IT Security space that was acquired in 2006 by TELUS, a Global 1000 corporation. As chief security and technology officer of Assurent, Dr. Reiner led the creation of the world's leading threat intelligence capabilities. Subsequent to the acquisition of Assurent, he served as chief security and technology officer at TELUS, ensuring the success of the Assurent acquisition and playing a key role in several breakthrough multi-hundred-million dollar wins for TELUS. For the past four years, Dr. Reiner has served on the boards and advisory boards of many highly regarded early-stage companies in the IT infrastructure, security, and SaaS sectors, such as Veracode, Enomaly, Netclarity, Virima, Stonewall Software, and Fonolo. He holds multiple patents in the field of software security.

Sandra C. HofmannTop
Former CIO, Mapics

For the past four years, Sandra Hofmann has served as "Chief Information Officer-in-Residence" with the Advanced Technology Development Center, a nationally recognized science and technology incubator headquartered at Georgia Tech that helps Georgia entrepreneurs launch and build successful companies. Most recently she was chief operating officer at Closets and More, the Southeast's largest custom closet design, installation, and manufacturer. Prior to that, Hofmann served as executive vice president and COO for Turknett Leadership Group, a character based management and consulting firm. Over 14 years, Hofmann held various executive management positions at IBM within the application development area as well as senior executive positions in customer service and support with several manufacturing software companies. She was also the first woman executive at Simplex where she served as vice president of technical services. Hofmann's influence reaches beyond her professional undertakings and she is very engaged in her community with the promotion of technology and ethical leadership. She serves on the Board of Directors for AAA Auto Club South, TechBridge, Women in Technology, and is the past chairman for the Board of Directors for Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM-Atlanta chapter) and past compensation committee chair for the AkroMetrix Board of Directors.

Jigesh SahebaTop
CTO & Vice President Infrastructure, ADP Pre-Employment Services

Jigesh Saheba currently serves as CTO and vice president infrastructure of ADP Pre-Employment Services. With over 18 years of experience in the IT industry, Saheba has successes in achieving bottom-line results while formulating and implementing advanced technology and business solutions to meet a diversity of needs. Prior to ADP, Saheba founded a technology startup specializing in B2B technologies. He served as the vice president of research and technology for VerticalOne, a successful Internet startup company. Saheba previously worked as senior java architect for the Java Design Center of Sun Microsystems. He began his career at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston designing and programming space shuttle navigation software.

Mark RyanTop
Former CIO, Matria Healthcare

Mark Ryan previously served as senior vice president and CIO of Matria Healthcare. He was responsible for the leadership and business success of multiple organizations: data and network operations, architecture, data acquisition and standardization, clinical workflow engine delivery and development, call center design and operations, data security, application development, data warehousing and BI.

Prior to joining Matria Healthcare, Ryan was CTO and served on the Board of Directors of Vodafone Global Content Services, the world's largest mobile cellular phone service provider. During his time at Vodafone, he oversaw nine technology organizations including operations, architecture, application development, across eight European countries. Previously, He served as CTO of Weather.com/The Weather Channel, where his high-tech web site initiatives stabilized the company's web presence, improved customer satisfaction during severe weather situations and propelled Weather.com to be the world's most highly-accessed weather website. Ryan has also assumed the role as CTO for eBay, where his leadership resulted in the improvement of the company's web site stability, availability and overall quality. He spent 18 years with IBM prior to joining eBay and was an executive-on-loan to the 1996 Atlanta Olympics Games as the chief integration architect.

Salil KulkarniTop
COO & CIO, Ivoxdata
Former CIO, John H. Harland Company

Salil Kulkarni was most recently the CIO at the John H. Harland Company. He has almost two decades of IT and management consulting experience. Kulkarni began his professional career at IBM as a software engineer, working both domestically and internationally. During his time with IBM, he expanded his knowledge of software development and management. From there, Kulkarni joined several technology companies in Silicon Valley and Chicago, where he managed multiple client engagements as a management and IT consultant. During his tenure at Accenture, Kulkarni was responsible for managing C-level strategy consulting engagements to companies within the communications and high-tech industry. Kulkarni was a vice president at Fifth Third Bank in Cincinnati, responsible for the B2C channel; and Equifax, where he served as chief information officer for the Personal Solutions Division.

Kulkarni holds three software patents. He graduated from The Speed School of Engineering at The University of Louisville with a Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering and holds a Master of Business from The University of Chicago with concentrations in finance, strategy and marketing.

Kas NaderiTop
CIO, CompuCredit CARS division

Kas Naderi currently serves as CIO of CompuCredit's auto subsidiary. Naderi joined CompuCredit to establish and grow its presence in subprime auto financing. He lead the integration of Wells Fargo Financial Consumer Automotive Receivable (CAR) and ACC Consumer Finance (ACC) into CompuCredit's auto subsidiary. Prior to joining CompuCredit, Naderi served as the CTO for AfterBOT, where he focused on leveraging Digital Receipt technologies to change how consumer good producers connect with their customers. He also served as CTO at MunicipalTrade where he led the design, development and operation of the first online Municipal Bond trading platform. Naderi was also the senior director of emerging technologies for Bass Hotels and Resorts. He was recognized by Computer World Magazine as one of the United States' top 100 premier technology leaders. Previously, Naderi held a number of leadership positions within IBM's development laboratory in Austin, TX, where he led the development for real time operating systems, data communication subsystems and mission critical middleware. He brings more than 21 years of executive and management experience delivering business value and global enterprise solutions within large, medium and startup organizations. He is a graduate of East Tennessee State University with Bachelor of Science in both Computer Science and Math.

James D. Lester, IIITop
Former Global Technology Strategy Officer and CIO , Aflac Inc.

After 39 years in the information technology business, Jim Lester is enjoying semi-retirement. In his most recent position at Aflac Inc. of Columbus, Georgia, Jim served as senior vice president, CIO and later global technology strategy officer. Lester created and embarked on a successful multi-year strategic plan to renew information technology at Aflac's US and Japanese operations. In 1999, Aflac acquired his software company, Portable Systems Technology (PST) where Lester and his staff created Smithsonian award-winning software for field force automation. Before starting Portable Systems in 1992, Lester founded Advanced Business Systems, Inc. (ABS), a software provider for the insurance industry. Lester sold ABS to a large mid-western insurance company in 1990. Lester also served as chief information executive at Scientific Atlanta, Medical Investment Corporation and Seabrook Foods, a division of Springs Mills. Lester is a past member of the Georgia CIO Leadership Board and currently on the advisory board of the Columbus Regional Technology Center. He received his Bachelor of Arts from Emory University in Mathematics and his Master of Science in Computer Science from Georgia Institute of Technology.

Darryl LemechaTop
Senior Vice President & CIO, Vertafore Inc.

Darryl Lemecha joined Vertafore, Inc. as senior vice president and CIO. He is responsible for leading corporate information technology strategy and hosting services for all Vertafore's business units including AMS Services®, BenefitPoint®, ImageRight® and SilverPlume®.

Prior to joining Vertafore, Lemecha held the position of CIO at ChoicePoint where he was responsible for technology shared services, security and risk management, customer support and implementation and customer credentials management. In his role as ChoicePoint CIO, Lemecha received numerous accolades including being named one of Computerworld's Premier 100 IT Leaders, Oracle CIO of the Quarter and a finalist for the Georgia CIO of the Year.

Before ChoicePoint, Lemecha was senior vice president and CIO of Insignia Financial Group. At Insignia, Lemecha directed the firm's strategic and emerging use of information technologies worldwide.