CIO Panelists:

Don Olender
Executive Vice President & Chief Information Officer
Wells Fargo Capital Finance

Don Olender is Executive Vice-President and Chief Information Officer of Wells Fargo Capital Finance, a multi-billion dollar commercial financing subsidiary of Wells Fargo’s Wholesale Banking Division.

Wells Fargo Capital Finance offers traditional asset-based lending, specialized senior secured financing, accounts receivable financing, purchase order financing and supply chain financing to companies in a wide range of industries. Wells Fargo Capital Finance delivers these secured financing options to middle market businesses through its 30+ domestic offices, two Canadian offices (Toronto and Montreal), and its newly-acquired London business, Burdale Financial, LTD. Wells Fargo Capital Finance is based in Santa Monica, California.

Olender has been with Wells Fargo Capital Finance for 17 years and has served as its CIO since 1997. Throughout his career, Olender has served in technical management positions working previously as an application development manager, a senior project manager and programmer/analyst at Providian Bancorp in Northern California for eight years, and as a senior project manager and computer operator at Bank of America in their card services division for 13 years.

Olender is a current member and former Board Chair of the UCLA I.S. Associates. He is also a member of the Southern California Chapter of the Society of Information Management (SIM) and is the founding chairman and member of the Commercial Finance Association’s Technology Committee. He earned his B.A. in Business Administration and Human Resource Management from Golden Gate University, San Francisco, graduating magna cum laude.

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James A. DiMarzio
Chief Information Officer, Information Technology
Mazda North American Operations

James A. DiMarzio is Chief Information Officer, Information Technology for Mazda North American Operations. In this position, he guides the IT team in setting the strategy and plans for systems, technology, and support of the US, Canada, and Mexico operations.

Since joining Mazda in 2001, DiMarzio has helped to set the strategy to implement a partnership with the business areas to ensure alignment of information technology projects with the company’s business strategy and goals. This strategy also promotes the search for opportunities to improve the efficiency of business operations through the use of cost-effective new technologies.

DiMarzio has spent over 25 years in Automotive IT including positions at Subaru of America and Land Rover North America. He has a bachelor’s degree in Mathematics from Franklin and Marshall College, and an MBA from Rutgers University.

Sue-Jean Lin
Senior Vice President & Chief Information Officer
Allergan

Sue-Jean Lin is Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer for Allergan, a multi-specialty pharmaceutical company headquartered in Irvine, California. The company discovers, develops and commercializes innovative pharmaceuticals, biologics and medical devices that enable people to live life to its greatest potential. Allergan has more than 9,000 people worldwide and operates state-of-the-art R&D facilities, world- class manufacturing plants and is present in more than 100 countries with revenue over $4.5 billion in 2009.

Lin is a senior business leader with over 25 years broad based management experience in both Financial Management and Information Technology. She joined Allergan in 1989 and has held a series of positions, each succeeding position accompanied with growing responsibilities, including Finance Manager, Senior I.S. Project Manager, Finance Director for the North America Shared Service Center, Assistant Corporate Controller, Global Application Development Director, and for 7 years as Vice President and Controller of the Europe/Africa/Middle East Region based in London, England. Since March 2007 she has been the CIO. In her current position, she oversees global information technology function, serving thousands of employees around the world, connecting global businesses through system applications and network infrastructure, most importantly aligning technology investment and resources allocation in order to support the growth strategy of the company.

Prior to joining Allergan, Lin worked for Sierra Pacific Power Company in Nevada and Northrop Grumman Corporation in California.

Lin attended the University of Nevada, Reno, where she completed a Bachelor of Science degree and later, a Master’s of Business Administration degree. She is a certified management accountant.

Jennifer Sepull
CIO, American Honda Motor Company, Inc.

Jennifer Sepull is Vice President (VP) of the Information Services Division and Chief Information Officer (CIO) for American Honda Motor Co., Inc (AHM).

As VP & CIO, Jennifer emphasizes the importance of thought leadership, innovation, communication, teamwork, and the value of a strong partnership between the Information Systems Division and Honda business units. She is responsible for leading Global enterprise strategy and solutions for business applications/technology, IT operations and assets worth over $1 billion, information security, dealer systems, and Business to Consumer (B2C) systems for AHM’s 14 business divisions and supporting 23 Honda Companies.

Jennifer is an officer of the company, and serves as the Leader of North America Information Systems (NA-IS) and is a Governing Member of the Honda Global Information Systems Management Board (GISMB). Jennifer is a member of the American Honda Ethics Committee, and on the Board of the Honda Patent & Trademark Company. These committees help Honda to collaborate and leverage Information Services across Honda’s Global Enterprise.

Jennifer has worked in the Industrial Sector for over 23 years. Jennifer also brings a significant amount of technology and consulting expertise to her position as VP and CIO of Honda’s Information Systems Division. In addition to her experience, Jennifer is recognized as an innovative global IT leader with credits such as:

• 2012, CIO 100 Award – Recognized as one of the top 100 IT organizations that create business value through the innovative use of IT.
• 2010, 100 Leading Women in the North American Automotive Industry – Recognized by Automotive News as one of the top 100 industry’s most accomplished women.
• 2010, Top 10 Break Away Leaders – Recognized as one of the top 10 CIOs who have shown the ability to most effectively adapt, innovate and capitalize during challenging of economic times.

Jennifer is accredited with a Law Degree from Chapman University. Her educational background also includes attending Cambridge University in England with a focus on International Legal and Business Studies and a Bachelor of Arts in Criminal Justice from Chapman University.

Moderator

Joel Manfredo
Chief Information Officer
Acies Consulting Group

Joel is a multi-disciplinary executive offering leadership and vision based upon over thirty years of experience working for major organizations in a broad spectrum of functions. He’s spent the last 16 years in transformational Chief Information Officer roles and the prior 18 years in many functions in commercial real estate including leasing, finance, development, operations, marketing, securities, construction, energy and utilities. He is known for the 3Ts: Transformation, Turnaround and Technology.

As the Chief Technology Officer of the County of Orange, Joel ran an IT Service Delivery business for the central shared service IT function. Results included increasing customer satisfaction by a sustained 16% over three years and achieving a top 10% industry benchmark for IT operations while simultaneously reducing costs by 27%. Operationally, he improved the Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) of the County’s 66,000 square foot data center by 10%… In the CIO role at The Irvine Company results include managing hyper growth while quadrupling output and achieving technical reliance on system-generated financial statements… At The Rouse Company, Joel executed a five year IT transformation including ERP, CRM, Business Intelligence and e-Learning; the program was delivered under budget, on time and on scope with hard cost savings twice the pro-forma realized one year ahead of schedule.

Also at The Rouse Company, he orchestrated a $9.1 million turnaround of a large commercial real estate business including executing energy saving initiatives that resulted in $4.0 million in annual energy cost savings and $3.0 million in utility company rebates. Joel consulted with the EPA in the early 1990s and was instrumental in the applicability of the EnergyStar program to commercial real estate; he had one of the first EnergyStar buildings in the US. He was named one of the top 100 CIOs in the US acknowledging work in Green Technology and received a Digital Impact Award for lifetime technology achievement in real estate.

Joel currently serves on 5 Boards: Society of Information Management, Technology Business Management Council, CleanTechOC, Corporate Committee of the Dean’s Leadership Circle at UC Irvine and the Trojan Club of South Orange County. He is also a mentor in the Executive MBA programs at UC Irvine and Chapman University. He frequently lectures at professional events and at academic institutions.