Contributors

Andres Ramirez

Chief Strategic Architect at Workato

Andres Ramirez is VP, Chief Strategic Architect at Workato, where he advises some of the world's largest enterprises on AI infrastructure and integration architecture. He has more than 20 years of experience in enterprise architecture across Oracle, MuleSoft, and Salesforce. He holds an M.S. in Software Management from Carnegie Mellon University.

Ann Dunkin

CEO of Dunkin Global Advisors

Ann Dunkin is a Distinguished Professor of the Practice at the Georgia Institute of Technology and CEO of Dunkin Global Advisors, where she advises organizations navigating complex technology decisions. She served as CIO of the U.S. Department of Energy under the Biden-Harris administration, managing a $5 billion IT portfolio, and as CIO of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency under the Obama administration, with earlier leadership roles at Dell Technologies, the County of Santa Clara, and Hewlett-Packard. She is the author of Industrial Digital Transformation and a licensed professional engineer.

Carter Busse

CIO at Workato

Carter Busse is the CIO of Workato, where for the past five years he has led business technology and internal use of Workato's agentic orchestration technology, including enabling customers to build their own AI agents. His expertise spans AI, orchestration, business technology, security, and IT operations, built across a career with three IPOs at Excite@Home, Salesforce, and MobileIron, where he was employee number 70 and the first IT leader hired. He also founded a CIO Council forum that convenes 50 to 60 VP- and CIO-level leaders to discuss practical frameworks for AI transformation.

CIO News Desk

CIO News Desk

CIOnews (cionews.com) is an independent publication for AI-era technology leaders. We feature CIOs, CTOs, VPs of IT, and enterprise architects at mid-to-large enterprises — their perspectives, decisions, and strategies in their own words, not filtered through analysts or vendors.

Eli Potter

VC/PE Executive Advisor

Eli Potter is a Silicon Valley technology executive and advisor to more than 150 companies on human values and converting technology into economic value. She is the author of Role Modelship: Multiply Your Impact to Influence AI.

Margaret Minter

CIO at Bazaarvoice

Margaret Minter is the CIO at Bazaarvoice, supporting 1,800 employees across ten business units. She has more than twenty-five years of experience across manufacturing and SaaS, spanning IT, product management, operations, and customer experience.

Massimo Pezzini

Head of research at Workato

> Independent strategic advisor and Workato Head of Research, formerly a Gartner analyst specializing in integration, APIs, cloud computing, and composable business. Provides strategic IT advice to global organizations and is a frequent speaker on integration technologies, architecture, and industry trends. Fluent in English and Italian, with interests in food, wine, music, history, art, and travel.

Motti Finkelstein

Founder of EMDO Inc

Motti Finkelstein is the Founder, Chairman, and CEO of EMDO Inc, leading corporate-wide investment, advisory, incubation, and board engagement activities across global affiliates, focused on supporting next-generation market leaders through operational expertise, strategic guidance, and long-term value creation. He previously served as Corporate Vice President and CIO at Intel Corporation, where he led global IT through the company's IDM 2.0 transformation and sponsored Intel Forge, a centralized GenAI governance platform. Earlier in his career, Motti was Chief Technology Officer for Capital Markets at BMO, a Senior Advisor at McKinsey, and held senior technology roles at Citi. Motti is a 2026 CIO Hall of Fame inductee, a 2026 National ORBIE Super Global CIO finalist, a 2024 NYCIO ORBIE Super Global Award winner, and a Forbes Technology Council contributor. ‍

Scott Smeester

Founder at CIO Mastermind

Scott Smeester is the founder of CIO Mastermind, which helps CIOs and senior technology leaders with executive alignment, decision-making, and turning technology investment into business value. He started his first technology company in 1995 and has spent the decades since building companies and translating between the executive suite and the IT organization. https://www.ciomastermind.com/

Stuart Evans, Ph.D.

Retired Distinguished Service Professor at Carnegie Mellon University

Stuart Evans, Ph.D., recently retired as Distinguished Service Professor at Carnegie Mellon University's Integrated Innovation Institute, where he taught innovation and entrepreneurship for 17 years. His research on super-flexibility and dynamic adaptation draws on a career across SRI International, Stanford Graduate School of Business, Bain and Company, Sand Hill Venture Group, and Shugart Corporation (Xerox). He previously taught at Cambridge University's Judge Business School.

Todd Mazza

CIO / CTO | Enterprise Technology Transformation

Todd Mazza is the former CTO of Factory Mutual Insurance Company. He has also held leadership roles at Rockwell Automation, Workday, AECOM, Levi Strauss & Co., MGM Mirage, and NBC Universal.