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Executive of the Year Award Established in 1991, the Lattanze Executive of the Year Award—formerly the Lattanze CIO of the Year—recognizes leaders who have distinguished themselves in the strategic application of information technology to achieve organizational objectives. The nominating committee consists of senior executives and professors of business in the Baltimore area. Previous recipients have included David Norton, MBA '96, senior vice president and chief marketing officer at Ceasars Entertainment Corporation; LaVerne Council, corporate vice president and chief information officer for Johnson & Johnson; David Barnes, senior vice president and chief information officer for United Parcel Services; and Charles Geshke, chairman of the board and co-founder of Adobe Systems. See a list of past recipients.
Phyllis Schneck, Ph.D., is chief technology officer for public sector at McAfee, Inc. In this role, she is responsible for the technical vision for public sector applications of security and global threat intelligence, strategic thought leadership around technology and policy in cybersecurity, and leading McAfee initiatives in adaptive security and intelligence in networks for critical infrastructure protection and cross-sector cybersecurity. For more than 14 years, Schneck has had a distinguished presence in the security and infrastructure protection community. She has been named one of Information Security Magazine’s Top 25 Women Leaders in Information Security and advised many world governments on cybersecurity issues. Schneck holds three patents in high-performance and adaptive information security. Schneck received her Ph.D. in Computer Science from Georgia Tech. Award Presentation Thursday, April 19, 2012 The 2011 Lattanze Executive of the Year Award will include a formal presentation by the honoree, beginning at 5:30 p.m. at the Timonium Graduate Center, immediately followed by an award ceremony and cocktail reception. The event is sponsored by the Sellinger School of Business in conjunction with GP Strategies, System Source, Johnson Mirmiran & Thompson (JMT), McCormick and Co. and Mind Over Machines.
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The 2012 Lattanze Executive of the Year
