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Message from a recent Advisory Board Member
"...it would be an honor to serve in any capacity that brings me in close touch with your organization. There are several reasons why I feel this way about your organization based on my experience with it through the SIM events. Like other similar companies in your space, HMG Strategy has great organizational skills and experience. However, HMG has a few other unique capabilities that set it apart from all the others: the human touch, where people are treated with professionalism and respect. There is also a caliber of people invited to the events HMG organizes. Finally, your direct hands on involvement with every event ensure top quality results"
Peter Logothetis, Head of Technology Services, QBE the Americas |
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 "Your use of leading IT Executive Recruiters was acclaimed by everyone and provided interesting insight and relevant perspective into out IT industry and the evolution of the CIO role itself."
Michael Dreiling, VP & CIO, Friedkin Companies
"Engaging with thought leaders in our profession in a roundtable setting was a unique and value adding experience. Most conferences are large and speakers talk at the audience not with it."
Thomas Cahill, Director Global Information Technology, FMC Technologies Inc.
"This is the first conference that I participate in where all topics and speakers deliver a vast wealth of information that can be directly applied to my job. The speakers were outstanding in sharing experiences in dealing with complex situations while providing an insight to their leadership and management techniques."
Antonio Marin, VP Information Management, Gexa Energy, LP
"[I] was impressed with the level of engagement and caliber of speakers."
Biren Kumar, Senior VP & CIO, Dynegy
"The presentations from Disney and Shell were exceptional. I found great value in understanding their challenges and how they were able to overcome them."
Darwin MacKew, VP & CIO, Igloo Products
"This was a marquee event and the quality of the attendees was evidence of this fact. The "all CIO" audience quality was very strong."
Steve Kendrick, President, KER Partners
"Without a doubt...excellent value and well worth the time."
Mike Pavlich, IT Manager North America, Repsol
"The conference was perfect. It had the right mix of topics, speakers, breaks and networking opportunities. It was well done and well attended."
Ashwin Ballal, VP & CIO, KLA-Tencor Corp.
"[I] always look for conference to deliver 1-2 new executable ideas - this delivered."
Bill Haser, VP & CIO, Tenneco
"I was looking for direction in IT along with great networking opportunities. I found both."
Nathan Langston Enterprises
"I just wanted to congratulate you on running a top notch event yesterday. The growth and progress of HMG Strategy is obvious and you folks ran a great event. Thanks for inviting me to be a part of this exciting summit."
Larry Bonfante, Chief Information Officer, United States Tennis Association
"The CIO Summit of America was a world-class event with top CIO speakers and panelists covering technology innovation and business leadership issues as well as career management."
Mark Polansky, senior client partner and managing director of the information technology officers practice at Korn/Ferry International.
The June 8th event "provided an open and honest forum for Chief Information Officers to connect and discuss their most pressing issues in respect to innovation and genuine business value creation."
Shawn Banerji, managing director at Russell Reynolds Associates.
"The summit gave me the knowledge of current issues and trends. This information is critical to deliver quality service and solutions to the business".
Tony Farah, CTO/VP, Price Chopper Supermarket
"Great combination of practical, real world experiences and thought leadership!"
Fran Daly, Vice President of IT, Revlon
"Thanks for helping us put on a great Strategy Series event. It was the kind of high-quality experience that SIM Memphis is proud to host, as it successfully extends our twenty-year history of bringing together local IT and business professionals once a year to talk with each other and hear ideas, case studies and lessons learned from both national and local thought-leaders and practitioners. Thanks for all the heavy lifting your team did in planning, organizing, selling and executing. Your attention to detail was evident in the numerous extra touches that our attendees experienced. Great job."
John Oglesby, Director IT Strategy, ACH Food Companies, Inc.
[Most valuable aspect of the event was]…"Gain an understanding of what/where CIOs are focused. Challenges for adapting new technologies - these were articulated very well - In short took away many"nuggets".
Paul Gubitosa, Director IS, The Dannon Company
"I personally found that the content really resonated with the needs of today’s CIO’s and heard many similar comments from other participants. The panel discussions were engaging, the keynote sessions insightful, and the venue was accommodating. I know how much effort it takes to put together a CIO Summit and believe that you truly held a quality event and should be proud of your efforts."
Global CIO, Commercial Real Estate Corporation
"It was a wonderful event with lots of interesting presentations and great chances for people to interact. Everyone I spoke with was impressed."
"This was my first time at a SIM meeting. Everyone is open and friendly, great networking and the information in the sessions were very pertinent."
Sharon Dewitt, Sr. Director Acquisition Integration, Zebra Technologies
"This event was excellent. The content was very practical and clearly communicated. The format led to an open, intimate dialogue of the real challenges and solutions we're dealing with as a group.
"In today's challenging economic times we owe it to our organization and customers to look at others successes and where possible bring these home, translate as necessary, and realize similar improvements in our companies."
Frank Kovacs, Vice President Global Technology, Planning and Sourcing, The McGraw Hill Companies
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