Our topic: Integrating Acquisitions – Lessons Learned
Many companies in the Consumer Goods industry have grown by acquiring brands and products.
For the J. M. Smucker Company, this strategy has been a primary growth driver and has helped propel the company from a $650 million organization in 2002 to a projected $4.5 billion enterprise in FY2010. In this session, CIO Andy Platt will discuss how the company integrates acquisitions from a business process and technology perspective while preserving the company's unique culture.
Our speaker – Andy Platt
Andy Platt is VP of Information Services and CIO for The J.M. Smucker Company. In this role, he is responsible for the Company’s information services and technology related activities. Prior roles in his 27 year career with Smucker include Logistics and Financial roles as Director of Customer
Service, Business Area Controller and Manager of Internal Audit. Common to all of these assignments has been initiatives that combine the assimilation of People, Process and
Technology.
Prior to joining Smucker, Platt attained his CPA certification with Peat, Marwick Mitchell & Co. (now
KPMG). He received his B.S. in Accounting and MBA in Finance from The University of Akron, where he has previously served as President of the Alumni Association and is currently Vice Chair of its College of Business Advancement Council. He also serves on the Advisory Council for
WAPS 91.3 The Summit radio station. Andy resides in Green, Ohio with his wife and 3 daughters.
Ned Parks, President of New Directions Learning and Development presented “Ready – Fire – Aim
How to Confuse and Frustrate Your Team”. Ned led an interactive session that discussed the difference between a team and a group and how a team has a common goal and everyone knows what it is. Ned believes simple is king when it comes to goal statements and provided some well known company examples. Ned discussed his background as a US Army helicopter pilot and rounded up a group of volunteers to participate in an exercise on teamwork and trust.

For the 2010 CIO Forum on June 17th & 18th, we are looking forward to an excellent line up of topics and speakers. Kicking off the conference will be Keybank, EVP of Technical Services, Al
Coppolo. Topics include:
Emerging Technologies – What’s Next?
Benchmarking - The Next Top 10 Trends in IT Organizations
Business Innovation and IT Alignment
IT Leadership
IT Strategic Planning
Attracting & Keeping The Next Generation Workforce
Cloud Computing
Infrastructure –Future Directions & Trends
Document Management/Email Central Archiving/E-Discovery
Information Security
This year's planning is slightly ahead of schedule with many vendors showing interest and more locking in earlier than usual. Some of our vendors include IBM (on Social Networking), BMC,
CDW, Citrix, Hitachi, Acuvan, Sales Force (on Cloud Computing), Accenture, Cisco, Xerox, Logos,
TimeWarner Cable, Numara Software, Bluebridge, Citrix, Compuware, DP Sciences, Net Scout,
Kelly IT (sponsoring the registration desk), Park Place International, Mainsail, Expediant, Vmware,
XO Communications, Sprint,Oracle, Iron Mountain, CA, Hyland Software, and Verizon. Not only are vendors locking in early, we have more attendees registered than this time last year. If you are not already registered, contact Alex Kaneen at alexk@premiertce.com.
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President
Troy Thomas
KeyBank troy_d_thomas@keybank.com
1 st Vice President
Larry Cuy
Federal Reserve
Bank of Cleveland larry.cuy@clev.frb.org
2 nd Vice President
Jerry Kozik
The Sherwin-Williams
Company jnkozik@sherwin.com
Secretary
Tom Wojnarowski
RITA twojnarowski@ritaohio.com
Membership
Dave Crain
MAGNET dave.crain@magnetwork.org
Programs
Laura Pettit Rusick
OPT Solutions laura.rusick@optsolutionsinc.com
Treasurer
Jennie Zamberlan
Avantia jzamberlan@avantia-inc.com
SIM Liaison
Chuck Mackey
Corporate College charles.mackey@tri-c.edu