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CIO Executive Council

A Peer-Advisory Service and Professional Association for CIOs

Webcast: In the Google Apps Cloud: How to Achieve Your Business Objectives

Dec 3rd, '09, 1 - 2 pm US/Eastern (GMT-5)

Join Council member Brent Hoag, Director, Global IT, at JohnsonDiversey, as he discusses the adoption of Google Apps which has helped meet four corporate goals; sustainability, simplification, increased employee productivity and global collaboration.

Webcast: Collaboration Initiatives: Benchmarks & Best Practices

Dec 15th, '09, 4 - 5 pm US/Eastern (GMT-5)

Join Council members Ruth Thorpe, VP & CIO at the U.S. Pharmaceutical Operations of Sanofi-Aventis, and Gary Kuyper, CIO at Bethany Christian Services, as they speak about their collaboration initiatives and experiences in how and why they chose the social networking and collaboration tools they are using and their business goals for collaboration, and facing culture change challenges.

Data Overview: Collaboration Initiatives Field Guide: Benchmarks & Best Practices

This appendix to the Council Field Guide provides an analysis which discusses benchmarks for collaboration IT implementation costs, adoption rates and payoffs. The overview identifies top IT and business goals and satisfaction rates for collaboration initiatives as well as best practices and lessons learned for implementing collaboration IT.

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Executive Career Counselor Bio: Eric Sigurdson

Eric Sigurdson is CIO Practice Leader at Russell Reynolds Associates, a global executive recruitment and management assessment firm.

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Eric Sigurdson is CIO Practice Leader at Russell Reynolds Associates, a global executive recruitment and management assessment firm.

He leads the firm's Information Officers Practice and is a member of the firm's global Technology Sector. Based in Chicago, he has experience recruiting both technology professionals in non-technological industries and senior executives for technology-based companies. Eric's clients have included hardware, software, services and telecommunications companies. He specializes in executive searches, including for CEOs, presidents, COOs, CIOs and division general managers as well as for functional executives in sales, marketing, finance and business development.

Prior to joining Russell Reynolds Associates in 1995, Mr. Sigurdson spent 11 years with the IBM Corporation, where he held a broad range of positions in marketing, sales and management, with his last four years spent leading a software sales organization in the Midwest.

Mr. Sigurdson is a member of the Board of Directors of Chicago Sheet Music Corporation. He also co-chairs the Nominating Committee for the Chicago Economic Club. He received his B.S. in computer science and mathematics from the University of Illinois and his MBA from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business.