Center For Digital Strategies

Adam Golodner is the Director, Global Security and Technology Policy for Cisco Systems, Inc. Adam works collaboratively across Cisco to help direct Cisco's public policy for security with governments, thought leaders, partners and others. He helps advance Cisco's strong commitment to security, and works on a strategic focus for security as a means of enhancing productivity, efficiency, and competitive advantage for Cisco's customers.

Before joining Cisco, Adam was the Associate Director for Policy of the Institute for Security Technology Studies at Dartmouth College, where he focused on security and technology, and public policy at the intersection of technology, economics and law. He is also the former Chief of Staff of the Antitrust Division of the United States Department of Justice. As Joel I. Klein's Chief of Staff, he worked on mergers, enforcement matters, and competition policy -- focusing on technology, telecoms, media, regulated industries, international and intellectual property issues. Adam has served on: the President's E-Commerce Working Group; the Vice President's National Information Infrastructure (NII) Task Force; the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC) Telecommunications Committee; the U.S. Delegation to the WTO, Seattle Round; and the Department of Justice's Privacy Council.

Prior to academia and government service, he was a partner in a Denver, Colorado law firm and practiced corporate law. Adam graduated from The Colorado College, with honors, and the University of Colorado School of Law, where he was Articles editor of the Law Review.

Edward G. Happ is the Global CIO of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), based in Geneva, Switzerland, and Chairman of NetHope (www.nethope.org), a U.S. based consortium of 31 leading international relief, development and conservation nonprofits focused on information and communications technology (ICT) and collaboration. Prior to this position, he served as the chief information officer at Save the Children, where he worked for seven years. During his first year at Save the Children, in March 2001, he presented a paper to Cisco on "Wiring the Virtual Village," which became the basis for NetHope, a consortium of 20 international relief, development and conservation nonprofits focused on communications technology and collaboration, which he chairs. Before joining Save the Children, he was a senior partner and founder of HP Management Decisions Ltd., a management consultancy, and has held a variety of corporate management positions, to the senior vice president and general manager level, with Wall Street data providers, service and software product companies.

His thirty years of professional experience include all facets of managing information services and high technology businesses, including general management with P&L responsibility, operations, product management, sales, marketing, customer service, human resources management, technical consulting, manufacturing, and both software and hardware development.

In 2007, the editors of eWEEK, CIO Insight, and Baseline selected Ed as one of the Top 100 Most Influential People in IT and one of the Top 100 CIOs.

Sam Kinney brings a history of innovation and success to Right Hand Manager. He was co-founder of FreeMarkets, Inc., the company that "marketized" industrial sourcing through the use of online negotiation technology, beginning with real-time online purchasing auctions. In his tenure with FreeMarkets, he participated in technology development, strategy, marketing, customer service, and helped to lead its record-setting IPO in 1999. He was a frequent expert lecturer at industry conferences, government hearings, and academic gatherings. He is co-inventor of numerous patented and patent-pending technologies at FreeMarkets. Prior to FreeMarkets, he served as a budget director for a manufacturing firm, and twice as a management consultant, with McKinsey & Company and Booz-Allen & Hamilton.

Sam holds an MBA with highest distinction from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College.

Blair LaCorte joined XOJET as president in 2009 and was named interim chief executive officer in 2010. In 2011, Mr. LaCorte became the full-time chief executive officer. He is also a member of the company's board of directors. Mr. LaCorte is responsible for the overall strategic direction and management of XOJET. Mr. LaCorte also serves as senior advisor at TPG, a leading global private investment firm with over $45 billion of capital under management. Prior to TPG, he was the executive vice president of Business Development and Marketing at Savi Technology, a private, venture backed network solutions provider. Savi is a world leader in developing RFID technologies to track and manage assets throughout the global supply chain. Blair founded Savi's Network Services Business and created the Smart and Secure Trade Lanes (SST) initiative, the largest industry sponsored global container tracking and security network. Savi was sold to Lockheed Martin.

Prior to Savi, Blair was senior vice president of Strategy and E-commerce at VerticalNet. He was also an EIR at Internet Capital Group, which became one of the first publicly traded venture funds. Prior to that he was President of CADIS, a private venture backed Software Company focused on electronic publishing and procurement in the B2B markets, and held various executive positions at AutoDesk, the largest CAD and visualization Software Company.

Blair received a bachelor's degree from the University of Maine, and holds an FMP degree from General Electric and an MBA from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College. Blair has been honored with numerous industry awards, including being named "Top Ten Business Marketers" by Business Marketing and Advertising Age. Blair sits on the Board of the Graduate Business Foundation as well as the MBA Board at Dartmouth College.

Explore the recent NYT article as Blair talks about his career and Tuck.

Mark Lange is a technology and investment firm advisor with three decades of public sector, private equity and venture development experience. He provides executive and advisory services to public and private companies, venture and private equity funds, international humanitarian agencies and non-profits.

Mark advises executives and boards on high-growth business strategy and go-to-market, private equity, M&A, placements, sales and marketing, product strategy, positioning, channels and business development.

He has launched and grown innovative web, SaaS and cloud ventures in talent management, social e-commerce, consumer health information and IT management, two of which were acquired for over $200 million. He has also accelerated large enterprise software businesses for major technology companies, including PeopleSoft, SAP and CA Technologies.

While a student at Dartmouth in 1982, Mark began his career as an analyst in the U.S. Treasury Department. He was appointed to the White House as speechwriter to the President in 1989, focusing on economic and foreign policy and writing the 1991 State of the Union address during the first Gulf War.
After an MBA from Stanford, Mark ran acquisitions for a KKR private equity fund, where he led $586 million in deals for information and database companies. He has led or seconded a total of nearly $1 billion in transactions.

Mark’s opinion columns on business, workforce policy, health care and job creation have run in the New York Times, the International Herald Tribune, and the Christian Science Monitor, where his work was awarded “Best Series” by the National Association of Opinion Page Editors, and was entered by the Monitor for a Pulitzer Prize in 2008.

Dave Margulius is an analyst and consultant focused on the enterprise technology marketplace, specifically CIO priorities and how organizations are creating business value with information technology. His firm, Enterprise Insight, is based in San Francisco.

A frequent moderator of CIO roundtables and speaker at industry events, Dave is a member of the Board of Directors of Silicon Valley's Churchill Club, and a regular contributor to IDG's InfoWorld.com. He's also involved in a number of new technology ventures as co-founder, advisor, or board member, including The Collectors Weekly and Merced Systems. And for the past several years, he has worked with the Center for Digital Strategies in developing and facilitating its Roundtables on Digital Strategies series.

Before founding Enterprise Insight, Dave held management and marketing roles with several Internet-related companies including Netscape, Evite Inc., and Kontiki. He also co-founded The Boston Globe's internet subsidiary, Boston.com, now one of the top ten newspaper sites. Dave holds an MBA from Stanford Business School and a Computer Science degree from Brown University.

John Marshall has spent the last 14 years advising CEOs and CMOs of the Fortune 500 in transforming their marketing and customer strategies. As EVP and Global Head of Strategy at Digitas, the largest independent marketing services organization, John developed and grew the company's 200 person marketing and technology strategy group. At Digitas, as well as a partner at Mercer Management Consulting, John has been responsible for developing strategies at companies such as Microsoft, Fedex, Brunswick, LL Bean, American Express, and Whirlpool. His particular area of expertise is the role of technology in transforming the marketing function. A former venture capitalist and technology analyst, he has significant experience in capital markets, new technology venture development, and value-based management. He is the author, with David Kenny, of "Contextual Marketing: The Real Business of the Internet," which appeared in the Harvard Business Review, as well as "The Digital Enterprise" and, published by the "HBR on Marketing."

A chartered financial analyst and a graduate of Princeton University, John earned his MBA with Distinction from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College, where he was an Edward Tuck Scholar. He is a frequent speaker at industry conferences and moderator of industry panels. He has moderated two roundtables in the center's Thought Leadership roundtable series, "Channel Management Strategies" in 2002 and "Enabling a Customer-Focused Organization" in 2003.