CIO, The Dana Foundation
His responsibilities include providing strategic planning for information and technology management and overseeing all back office technology operations necessary to support the Foundation. Jim is an early adopter of cutting edge cloud security solutions, having led Dana through a complete cloud transformation three years ago. Jim has frequently spoken to peer organizations on corporate cybersecurity strategy and risk management, and also advises early stage technology companies on their sales strategy to the financial and healthcare sector.
Jim is a graduate of Stetson University, where he received a B.B.A. degree. He has 20 years of technology experience (spanning financial, healthcare and pharmaceutical sectors) and has been at Dana for six years. Jim has presented at the most recent CSA Summit in Manhattan in 2015, and has been quoted in the Wall Street Journal for his view on mobile security and governance. Jim is a board director and Vice President of Technology Affinity Group (TAG) and is a member of Society for Information Management, SIM Foundation of NJ, CIO4Good, as well as a founding advisory board member of BWG Strategy LLC, a Work-Bench Venture Capital Mentor/Advisor, and also serves on the advisory boards of Vera, Okta and Lightspeed Ventures, a Silicon Venture capital compan