More than $1 trillion in assets under management.

EVP and CIO, Fannie Mae; VP for information systems, Marriott International; principal, Arthur Young & Co.

B.A. in English and political science, University of Michigan; M.B.A. in finance, Florida State University.

The first was my boss at Arthur Young, Jim Zucco. He really stretched me. He referred to a famous quote from Nietzsche: What doesn't kill you will make you stronger. It was good advice as he gave me more responsibility and opportunity. Bill Kelvis, a partner at Nolan Norton, a technology strategy company in Boston, came to Fannie Mae as CIO and brought me in from Marriott. He was one of the most strategic thinkers I have ever met. He understood how to manage technology and exploit technology for competitive advantage.

My last experience at Fannie Mae, which was going through a challenging regulatory situation at the time. It required the executives to come together as a team to steer the company through a very tough time, and I learned more doing that than anything else.

MOBILE, SOCIALIZATION, Web 2.0, access to information and wireless are huge. Because of that, there will be a big focus on re-engineering and simplifying the user experience. The challenge for people in a corporate technology environment is that users have way cooler stuff at home -- we need to replicate that experience and deliver it in a business arena. Because Capital is global, unified communications and collaboration is interesting. So is going green in IT, since we have a large data center footprint, and power and cooling is a huge percentage of our costs. We'll also continue to look at how to promote globalization through technology.