100 Most Influential People in IT - Nos. 51-75 (
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51. Michal Zalewski
Information security engineer, Google
Before joining the search company, Zalewski launched an all-out assault on the
security models of modern Web browsers, exposing critical vulnerabilities in
Microsoft’s Internet Explorer and Firefox. His public disclosure of those flaws
went a long way toward hardening the browsers.
52. David Barnes
CIO, United Parcel Service
Barnes is getting real efficient with the UPS fleet.
53. John Pescatore
Vice president and research fellow,
Gartner
In many ways, Pescatore’s work determines enterprise spending at a very
high level, influencing the delivery of Internet-facing products.
54. Robert Samson
Vice president, Worldwide Systems
Sales, Systems and Technology Group, IBM
Samson is responsible for worldwide sales of IBM’s servers and storage
products, as well as retail store solutions.
55. Faisal Hoque
Founder, Business Technology
Management Institute
Hoque champions a form of management science called Business Technology
Management, which aims to ensure that sustainable business value can be
delivered through technology.
56. Bob Willett
CIO and CEO, Best Buy and Best Buy
International
Willett is a forerunner of what we call “the hollowing of big IT”—where IT
organizations of the future will be composed of managers and analysts with most
specialty work outsourced.
57. Jimmy Wales
Founder, Wikia
Co-founder of that fount of shared knowledge, Wikipedia,
Wales is now looking to
apply the wiki model to search with Wikia Search.
58. Bruce Schneier
CTO, BT Counterpane
Schneier is a
leading cryptology expert and a voice for common sense in security policy.
59. Charles Phillips
President, Oracle
Larry Ellison makes the plans, and Phillips has to fuse his boss’ big
thoughts with reality.
60. Stefan Esser
Security researcher
Esser’s “Month of PHP Bugs” project thoroughly exposed the insecure nature of
the widely deployed PHP language and forced a rethink of security in the
open-source world.
61. Martin Roesch
CTO, Sourcefire
The inventor of the open-source Snort, Roesch is a noted expert in the area of
intrusion prevention technology.
62. Ann Livermore
Executive vice president, Technology
Solutions Group, Hewlett-Packard
Livermore has tremendous influence over the types of products HP offers its
enterprise customers, as well as the small and midsize companies HP has begun
to pursue.
63. John Doerr
Venture capitalist, Kleiner Perkins
Caufield & Byers
In tech, it’s all about making the right venture capital bets.
64. Angela Merkel
Chancellor,
Germany
The first
female chancellor of
Germany, Merkel is a physicist
by training and has the strongest understanding of technology of any world
leader.
65.
Ravi Marwaha
General manager, IBM Global Business
Partners
The partner program Marwaha oversees actively networks with solution providers
from different disciplines to develop innovative solutions that solve
real-world customer problems.
66. John Glaser
CIO, Partners HealthCare
Leader in the strategic application of IT in the health care industry.
67. Bill Hilf
Director of platform strategy,
Microsoft
Hilf is a key player in Microsoft’s evolving strategy to reach out to the
open-source community.
68. Mark Shuttleworth
CEO, Canonical
The leader of the Ubuntu distribution is mainstreaming Linux on the desktop.
69. Randy Mott
CIO, Hewlett-Packard
Formerly CIO
at Wal-Mart and Dell, Mott is responsible for HP’s IT strategy and assets.
70. Thomas Davenport
Author
“Competing on Analytics” is an important book at a time when business
intelligence is in its ascendancy.
71. Gary Hamel
Author
His ideas in “The Future of Management” validate and expound new ways of
working and using IT.
72. Simon Crosby
CTO, XenSource
Crosby is a leading proponent of open-source virtualization with the Xen
hypervisor. (XenSource was acquired by Citrix in 2007.)
73. Edward Markey
U.S. Representative, D-Mass.
Markey serves as the chairman of the House Subcommittee on Telecommunication
and the Internet, and is a major advocate for net neutrality.
74. Ross Mayfield
Co-founder, SocialText
As
SocialText’s chairman and president, and former CEO, Mayfield is a thought
leader in the burgeoning Web 2.0 collaboration software market.
75. Stan Shih
Chairman, Acer
Shih started Acer—which snapped up Gateway in 2007—and is still the company’s
top tech visionary.
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